Everyone's playing Red Giant? I, Black Hole, devour everything!

Chapter 153 "Seeing" Dark Energy

Lin Tian is analyzing data on the collapse of the wormhole next to the observation chamber.

Just then, the door was pushed open.

Zhou Haiming stood at the door, his gray hair somewhat disheveled, his glasses perched on his nose, and his chest heaving violently.

"Professor Zhou?" Lin Tian looked up, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

"Lin Tian... I... I've discovered something." Zhou Haiming placed the data panel in front of Lin Tian, his fingers rapidly tracing patterns on the screen. "Look at these two curves."

Lin Tian's gaze fell on the light screen.

Those are two sets of dark energy fluctuation data.

One set belongs to him, and the other set belongs to Su Li.

Lin Tian suddenly froze.

"Did you see that?" Zhou Haiming's voice was very low. "Right here, the time window for the wormhole to bud, which lasted about three seconds. During those three seconds, Su Li's dark energy fluctuation curve... underwent a significant change."

Lin Tian stared intently at the two curves that almost completely overlapped.

The time difference between the peak and the trough does not exceed 0.001 seconds.

The amplitude ratios are highly consistent.

The waveform trends are almost identical.

This is no coincidence.

This is not a detector error.

This is not background noise from a dark matter halo.

"She...gained an affinity for dark energy."

"Yes!" Zhou Haiming almost shouted, "Although it only lasted three seconds! And although the intensity was far less than yours! But she did win!"

"Lin Tian, dark energy affinity can be transferred!"

The lab suddenly fell silent.

The two looked at each other, neither of them speaking.

But the same emotion was surging in their eyes.

They saw entirely new possibilities.

……

Su Li was awakened by Lin Tian's communication.

She has been on standby near the observation module for the past few days, constantly monitoring the condition of her quasar.

Although the wormhole experiment failed, she did not remain depressed for long.

Lin Tian is right. He almost reached the threshold on his first try, which is much better than expected.

What she needs to do now is not wallow in self-pity, but to improve the quality as quickly as possible.

If one million isn't enough, then two million; if two million isn't enough, then five million.

One day, she and Lin Tian will open that door together.

When she entered the research room, the first thing she saw was the light screen in front of Lin Tian.

"What is this?" Su Li tilted her head and looked at it for a while, but she didn't understand.

Her understanding of dark energy affinity was limited to the basic theories Lin Tian had taught her.

She knew that this was a unique ability bestowed upon Lin Tian by the will of the universe, that he could sense the omnipresent dark energy in the universe, and that it was crucial to the wormhole experiment.

But she never imagined that this thing would have anything to do with her.

It wasn't until Lin Tian recounted Zhou Haiming's discovery from beginning to end that things got interesting.

"You mean..." Su Li's eyes widened, "that in three seconds, I also gained dark energy affinity?"

"right."

"And this thing... can be transmitted?"

"right."

Su Li remained silent for two seconds.

Then, she sprang up from the chair.

"Doesn't that mean—I can help you stabilize the wormhole too?!"

"Yes."

"When do I start?" Su Li's tone was already tinged with impatience. "Now? Right now? Tell me what to do, and I'll cooperate!"

"Don't rush." Lin Tian raised his hand, gesturing for her to sit down first. "This discovery is only in its initial stages."

"We only know that dark energy affinity can be briefly transferred during quasar resonance, but the specific mechanism of the transfer, the duration, and how much affinity the receiver can retain have not yet been systematically verified."

"So the next step is to suspend the wormhole experiment."

Su Li was taken aback: "Pause?"

"Yes, it would be pointless to conduct another wormhole experiment before we understand the mechanism of dark energy affinity transfer."

"Because the stability of a wormhole requires two observers to have dark energy affinity at the same time, and you can only obtain it within the brief window of resonance, which is too short and not strong enough."

"If we can make this transmission process more stable and persistent, the success rate of the next wormhole experiment will be greatly improved."

"So what do we do next?" Su Li asked, her tone unusually devoid of any playful joking.

"Let's resonate together again."

"it is good."

……

The preparations for the second resonance experiment were much simpler than those for the first.

There is no need to deploy a gravitational wave monitoring array, no need to mobilize hundreds of black holes to build a resonance network, and no need for a team of scientists from the United States to observe from the sidelines.

This time, it was just Lin Tian and Su Li.

The two quasars slowly approached each other in the core region of the super dark matter halo.

"Are you ready?" Lin Tian's voice came through the communication channel.

"Ready." Su Li's voice sounded calm, but she knew how fast her heart was beating.

Last time, she held Lin Tian back.

This time, she wants to prove that she is not a burden.

"Let's begin."

The gravitational wave frequencies of the two quasars began to gradually tune.

Having learned from her previous experience, Su Li adjusted much faster this time.

Although her eigenfrequency is still drifting, she has figured out the pattern of the drift.

"The frequency has stabilized." Lin Tian's voice carried a hint of approval. "It's much faster than last time."

"That's right, I'm your chief disciple." Su Li said smugly, but her hands didn't relax at all.

The intensity of gravitational wave resonance increases dramatically as the frequency approaches the maximum.

The singularities of the two quasars began to develop a weak quantum entanglement.

Su Li had already experienced that feeling last time.

It was as if an invisible string was gently plucking her singularity and Lin Tian's singularity onto the same frequency.

But this time, the resonance did not stop at the singularity entanglement stage.

Lin Tian's voice rang out again: "Next is the tuning of the dark energy fluctuation curve. Su Li, you need to try to sense the flow of dark energy. It's all around you, everywhere."

"But I can't sense it..." Su Li's voice was tinged with helplessness. "I have no affinity for dark energy, and the dark energy data on my detector is always blank."

"Then don't use the detector," Lin Tian said calmly. "Use your intuition."

Su Li was taken aback: "Intuition?"

"Yes, dark energy affinity is not essentially a property that can be captured by detectors; it is a perception, an intuition about the structure of spacetime itself, and you need to feel it."

Su Li nodded and slowly closed her eyes.

Her consciousness slowly sank into the core of the quasar.

The roar of the accretion disk gradually faded into the distance.

The energy fluctuations of the bipolar jets gradually faded.

All she could feel was that invisible string—the gravitational wave resonance that connected her and Lin Tian.

The string is vibrating.

Then, she suddenly sensed something different.

It was so light that she wouldn't have noticed it at all if she hadn't focused all her attention on the string.

It is also very heavy, so heavy that it seems as if the entire universe is contained within it.

"I...I can feel it." Su Li's voice trembled slightly. "Is it dark energy?"

"Yes." Lin Tian's voice carried a hint of amusement. "You sensed it."

At that very moment, the dark energy fluctuation curves of the two quasars began to slowly converge.