Young New Generation Civilization
"Commander!"
"Commander Yue!"
"Hiss, what is this Rhomboid Crystal?"
"Is this what it is?"
As soon as they arrived at the Command Center, everyone started whispering among themselves, but no one dared to step over Yue Yuan and touch the Rhomboid Crystal two meters away.
"Watch these two videos first." At this moment, the First Mate of the Lyra pointed to the large screen as before, showing them the scenes of the Rhomboid Crystal disappearing and appearing.
At the same time, he signaled everyone to steady themselves, because the Lyra and its First Fleet were about to change course. Although everyone was in good physical condition and there was no worry about being thrown into a daze by the inertia during this minor turn, it would be bad if they were accidentally thrown into the instruments and equipment in the Command Center.
So everyone quickly sat down in the makeshift buffer seats, watching the video and listening to the First Mate recount what had happened.
"It's turning with us?" Liu Miyan in surprise, clearly feeling the pressure from the Lyra's turn. His eyes widened as he discovered that the Rhomboid Crystal in front of him remained motionless, suspended in mid-air in the Command Center as the Lyra turned.
"It seems so. What's the principle behind this? Spatial locking? But that doesn't make sense either. The Lyra doesn't turn with the air inside it. How does it manage to stay so stable and fixed? It's like..." Computer Expert Li Zenglu exclaimed incredulously.
Yi Kai picked up the conversation. "It seems to be part of the Lyra."
"There's nothing strange about it. It was about 50% of the speed of light relative to us back then, but it was able to synchronize with us after disappearing and reappearing," said the First Mate of the Lyra.
The Lyra was only turning, not slowing down, so it was still quite fast. After it completed the turn, everyone left the buffer seats and gathered around Yue Yuan again.
Everyone seems to be waiting for him to make a statement.
Yue Yuan remained silent for a moment, then glanced back at the flight path display screen. After seeing that the Second and Third Fleet and the Residential Spaceship Cluster had all moved a distance away, he looked around and shook his head, saying, "We don't know what it is, but it seems to have latched onto us. You guys take a look."
Everyone nodded, but none of them rushed forward to touch it. Instead, they took various instruments from their hands or from outside the Command Center to observe the Rhomboid Crystal.
Yue Yuan said to take a look, but he didn't mean for them to actually look with their eyes; everyone knew that.
As everyone fiddled with the equipment, it was set up in the Command Center. The previous silence was broken, and everyone started fiddling with the equipment, using every means imaginable to observe the Rhomboid Unknown Object.
At this point, their initial amazement and shock had turned into pure curiosity. After all, even if this thing was dangerous, the worst that could happen was death.
The human Great Fleet has already traveled some distance, so there's no need to worry about triggering any mechanisms that could cause a disaster. Under these circumstances, it's only natural to satisfy one's curiosity.
However, to everyone's surprise, their attempts to observe the objects did not satisfy their curiosity; instead, the more they observed, the more confused they became, and the more questions arose in their minds.
"The Neutrino Detection shows it doesn't exist," a scientist said, glancing at one of the instruments.
"This infrared detector shows its temperature... wait, it can't detect it?" Another scientist frowned, glancing at the instrument in disbelief to confirm it was working correctly, then glancing at the Rhomboid Crystal a few meters away.
He had assumed the infrared detector readings were from Rhomboid Crystal, but it turned out they were detecting the temperature of the inner wall of the Lyra spacecraft. In other words, the infrared radiation had passed directly and undamaged through the Rhomboid Crystal.
"Using an electron microscope, magnify it a million times!" a scientist said.
If the human eye can see it, it means that the object is not completely transparent and has optical reflectivity, so a microscope can definitely see it.
When he said this, Yi Kai, who was Zero Zero Generation, was obviously stunned for a moment, because some memories came to mind with those words.
"They're probably going to use the geological hammer later, aren't they?" Yi Kai muttered casually.
"What?" Liu Miyan, who was next to him, asked.
"It's nothing, just some scenes from a novel." Yi Kai shook his head. At this moment, he felt that he had seen this kind of scene in his dream before, as if it were familiar.
"It probably won't happen," Yi Kai thought to himself.
For some reason, as the staff pointed the electron microscope at the Rhomboid Crystal, he not only recalled the plot of the novel, but also unconsciously recalled some memories of the Earth Era.
In Earth Era, there was a writer named Arthur Clarke who described a black defensive structure left on the moon by a super-civilization in his science fiction novel "2001: A Space Odyssey." The explorers measured the three sides of the monument with an ordinary ruler, and the ratio of its lengths was 1:3:9. No matter what more precise method was used to measure it, even with the highest precision of measurement technology on Earth, the ratio of the three sides of the monument remained exactly 1:3:9, without any error.
Arthur Clarke wrote: That civilization, in this way, arrogantly displayed its power.
Perhaps now, humanity is facing an even more arrogant force.
As Yi Kai was thinking this, the electron microscope quickly produced the results, and a tester reported them out.
Nothing is absolutely smooth.
This result relieved Yi Kai, because it didn't match the memory in his mind at all.
But what the tester said next made him gasp. Although he wasn't a physics major, he understood what the tester meant.
"Its surface has many lattice collision results, very regular. Wait, no, it seems irregular. You see, its surface looks like this, it doesn't seem any different from the crystals we find in our daily minerals." The tester stated the observation results from the electron microscope.
In fact, one million times is not the limit of human electron microscopes. With current human technology, the magnification of microscopes can be increased to nearly seventy million times.
However, upon hearing this, the scientists did not allow the operator to continue magnifying the electron microscope, because they clearly remembered the effect of the Rhomboid Crystal being bombarded by human laser cannons—it had been completely penetrated.
Logically, an electron microscope should not be able to detect anything from Rhomboid Crystal like this, but now it appears to be just an ordinary object.
But how is that possible? How could an ordinary object 'Teleportation' to the Lyra in an unknown way?
Magnifying it a million times revealed it to be an ordinary object, and further magnification yielded the same result. Undeterred, the scientists had the operator magnify it even more, but the result remained the same. This proved it was indeed an ordinary object, its surface structure identical to that of crystalline minerals.
Because it has demonstrated something extraordinary, the more ordinary it appears now, the more it reveals the immense power of the Creator.
For a time, those who understood were all heavy-hearted.
"Could it be some advanced civilization declaring its immense power to us?" At this moment, even the emotional Yi Kai appeared extremely solemn.
Human exploration has revealed that nothing has been detected.
However, as soon as the words were spoken, people were surprised to find that the rhomboid crystal moved. Its surface seemed to become rounder and more translucent, just as if it were a real crystal.
At the same time, a voice echoed in the Lyra Command Center: "Hello, young New Generation Civilization. I never thought that a civilization would actually be found. Time is truly the most wondrous thing in this universe."