Chapter 372 Sword of Damocles
"Southern Hemisphere... Use our satellites and submarines to search the southern hemisphere!"
While everyone was discussing, Yu Yifeng decisively issued several instructions to the headquarters.
"Second, ask the Dig general to confirm the authenticity of the incident again! Let some psychology experts go over to rule out the possibility of deliberately misleading us!"
After issuing these two orders, the meeting room gradually became silent. Almost everyone was looking through the materials or thinking hard in a panic.
A flying saucer... Are there really aliens hiding on this planet?
As for the ocean search... People feel that it is unlikely to find anything immediately.
The ocean is so big that it is almost impossible to monitor everything in all directions based on the current investment. If everything about the other party is quietly hidden in a corner of the deep sea...
"Wait, the flying saucer flew away?!"
Why did it fly away from the ocean? !
This is also what people are puzzled about.
But soon, people thought of a creepy explanation:
Because... the curvature engine!
Normally, the speed of information transmission is the speed of light. Whether it is electromagnetic waves, neutrinos, or gravitational waves, the maximum transmission speed can only be the speed of light!
The movement of any matter cannot exceed the speed of light... This is the limitation of relativity.
But for interstellar civilization, there is another expensive means of information transmission that can far exceed the speed of light!
That is... Use the curvature engine of the spacecraft to fly over at superluminal speed and personally deliver the information!
The expansion speed of space can theoretically exceed the speed of light, because the current known volume of the universe has a diameter of 93 billion light years, but the age of the universe is only 13.8 billion years.
In other words, in a certain period of time, the expansion speed of the universe is greater than the speed of light. Therefore, the "superluminal speed" of the curvature engine does not violate the theory of relativity, and it is also a similar principle.
"... a small flying saucer was unable to catch the Gaia creature, so it flew away to call for reinforcements. Because using a curvature engine is faster and more time-saving than sending radio signals!"
This conjecture made everyone's heartbeat speed up, and adrenaline began to be secreted involuntarily, as if they were stunned...
This conjecture is more terrifying than the alien life in the ocean... It means that in the future, a team of alien fleets will come to the planet Dig 114.
The entire conference room was extremely quiet, and people even held their breath.
If this conjecture is true, the subsequent reasoning can be thought of by a fool... The flying saucer flew out to call for reinforcements!
The reason for calling for reinforcements is, of course... Gaia creatures!
If the interstellar civilization that ran over excitedly from behind discovered the "Deep Space" and discovered the humans who were educating "Gaia creatures"...what would it do?
It must be a ruthless attack!
The value of a Gaia creature is enough to cause an interstellar war! Yes, enough!
The means of light-speed attack may already be on the way, but humans don't know it yet. Because objects moving at the speed of light cannot be detected, except at the moment of being hit.
Even, people may be hit in the next moment... the next second!
Just thinking about it, everyone felt an incomparable chill in their hearts and fell into a huge chaos. When they thought... various light-speed weapons were already overhead, and it might only take a few seconds, many people began to shiver subconsciously.
12 years is too long, how far can they fly through the curvature engine?
No one knows whether this alien civilization is more powerful than humans... Of course, it is likely to be more powerful than humans. Humans can achieve 3 times the speed of light, so what about them, 10 times, 20 times?
Their large forces are already on the way, are they already on the periphery of the star system, can humans still escape? If the other side bombs the Deep Space... How can people escape...
These subconscious thoughts made everyone fall into an ice cave. This sudden crisis is really too big, so big that it can directly kill people.
Dr. Rambo trembled his lips, and was so scared that cold sweat broke out on his back. He didn't know what to think. It's hard for people to really calm down in panic. This is human instinct.
Security Minister Xu Yunjin's pupils also dilated slightly, and he felt his whole scalp was numb. He was thinking about various scenes of interstellar wars... Just relying on this pile of garbage soldiers...
It's not just the two of them. Almost everyone was suppressed by the huge crisis and couldn't speak for a while.
Run, run, abandon everything here, don't catch Gaia!
Run back to the Deep Space, and then start superluminal navigation and run away. This is everyone's first thought.
If you don't run, the first real interstellar war is imminent!
If you don't run, you can't run away... Everyone knows that it takes a period of acceleration from the start of curvature navigation to exceeding the speed of light. It doesn't mean that you can exceed the speed of light by unfolding the curvature bubble!
The whole conference room was silent, with only violent heartbeats and slightly held breaths. No one spoke first, or people were so nervous that they didn't know how to speak.
In the end, Yu Yifeng was the first to recover. Although his heartbeat was very intense, he knew that he couldn't let this panic spread endlessly... This crisis might be the biggest crisis faced by mankind in the past hundred years!
What we need to do now is to calm everyone down first.
From a certain perspective, the other party has been gone for 12 years. Is there still a few minutes of discussion time? ! The probability of various lasers overhead is very, very small.
He slammed the table hard, and with a "bang", everyone woke up from the state of confusion.
Yu Yifeng said with a sullen face: "Okay! Ladies and gentlemen, don't panic. The above are all our guesses. Although the reliability is very, very high... Whether it is an underwater civilization or an alien fleet, further verification is needed!"
"First of all, we must confirm the authenticity of the news with the Dig... If it is true, we have to say that because of this sudden incident, our entire civilization has fallen into a huge crisis, and our lives are in danger..."
"Facing an unknown powerful enemy, I'm sorry, everyone, if we really have to, maybe we need to leave..."
Here, his face was full of bitterness, and he didn't say anything for the time being.
Very unwilling, yes, very unwilling.
Watching the enlightenment of "Gaia Creatures" go very smoothly, humans will soon be able to complete a huge leap in productivity.
If we obtain this powerful biological factory, people may advance to L3 in a short time... We may even make a huge breakthrough in biology by studying Gaia organisms. Its structure is absolutely different from that of normal organisms.
But I didn't expect such a thing to happen...
The most terrifying thing is that the time when the enemy will appear is completely unknown. I don't know whether it will be the next second, tomorrow, or next year... This feeling is like the sword of Damocles hanging over my head. I don't know when it will fall and cut off my head.
Death from the unknown is definitely the most terrifying!
But rationally, for the continuation of mankind, as the supreme commander, he cannot gamble here... What is the probability of success and what is the probability of failure?
Everything is unknown. Once a war breaks out, there is a risk of all members being wiped out. Humanity's foundation is only this much.
"Do you really want to escape?"