Exploration Yielded Nothing
Humans who had not found anything from the exploration could have simply left, but they could not resist their curiosity, so after some discussion, they decided to carry out further exploration and research experiments.
It was also part of a capture and research program by scientists who believed it to be some kind of creature.
They originally intended for the Probe Spaceship to capture them directly, but during subsequent observations, humans discovered that the so-called luminous sources were not diffuse matter at all. Moreover, it was difficult for human Probe Spaceship to capture the luminous points because they would disappear and reappear in another place once they got close to them.
Although the places where it disappeared and reappeared were not far apart, the speed of its movement was so fast that it was almost instantaneous, making it difficult for humans to retrieve and observe it.
Therefore, humans had to find other solutions.
First, scientists believe that this flashing phenomenon is unique to this Nebula, and whether it is caused by some kind of organism or a natural phenomenon, it depends on the Nebula for its existence.
If this conjecture is correct, then humanity need not worry about the dangers of the subsequent capture plan. After all, for humans at present, these flashing spots of light are unknown things. To study them, we must first have some understanding of them, at least to know whether they are dangerous.
This is how we determine whether they exist dependent on Nebula. If they do exist dependent on Nebula, then in subsequent research on them, humans can prevent their spread through Vacuum Zone isolation, thereby avoiding unknown dangers.
So the so-called bold plan is quite obvious: humanity intends to deploy a batch of Engineering Ship and use the force field generated by the Force Field Generator on the Engineering Ship to push or cut a part of the Nebula apart, and see if those light spots can still disappear from the cut-out Nebula and run into the larger Nebula.
Without hesitation, humanity anchored its Great Fleet about one light-year away from the Nebula and began executing the exploration plan.
A large group of Engineering Ship lined up in a specific formation, and then, like snowplows, slowly cut into a section of the Nebula, absorbing the dense Nebula into the Engineering Ship and compressing it. Like gophers digging holes, they dug out winding channels in the Nebula, and finally, by connecting all these channels, they had successfully isolated a part of the Nebula from its main body.
Humans have long had the ability to extract elements such as hydrogen and helium from the surfaces of Gaseous Planet, so clearing out these Nebula is not actually difficult. After clearing out and isolating a small Nebula, humans continue to use this method to reduce the size of this small Nebula, further reducing the range of activity of the isolated light spot, and ultimately achieving the goal of capturing it.
The target has been identified: at the very edge of the vast Nebula, where a cluster of light has been detected. The area that needs to be isolated is not large, roughly a few thousand kilometers in radius, which is easily achievable with current human technology and will not require much time.
In less than half a month, humanity successfully "cut out" this star field, and then immediately began the work of "shrinking" it. During this process, human Probe Spaceship also surrounded it, and all probes were pointed at the area where the light spot gathered.
This method is like catching fish by cutting off water; it is very reliable.
The effect was also remarkable, because humans were surprised to find that the clusters of light spots, as before, exhibited the same behavior of avoiding danger and staying away from the human Engineering Ship's work area, but they did not disappear as before.
This discovery has greatly excited scientists, as it has, to some extent, confirmed the hypothesis that the light spots are actually some kind of unknown organism, and that their movement is highly dependent on the Nebula.
As the fragmented Nebula grew smaller, the clusters of shimmering spots were "seen" by humans for the first time.
The separated Nebula has shrunk to a sphere only a few hundred meters in size, and the area occupied by this cluster of shimmering spots is only about a hundred meters wide. At this distance, the detector can clearly capture the appearance of the shimmering spots.
The discovery of these light spots seems to have appeared out of thin air, leaving scientists utterly baffled and finding them simply unscientific. Even now, with close-up observations, humans still can't determine what they are, nor do they understand their luminescence mechanism.
Human scientists were naturally unwilling to accept this, and even requested the New Government to send Research Ship to investigate the separated small Nebula, but this was refused. Humanity did not want to repeat the mistakes of the Silver Mist Incident, and until they figured out what these glowing points were, they absolutely forbade humans from approaching them, let alone having personnel leave the Research Ship to investigate after its arrival.
Learning from past mistakes, humanity would rather abandon research on this phenomenon than take the risk again.
Science is very dissatisfied with this, but can only continue to observe it through unmanned Probe Spaceship in the hope of discovering some different phenomena.
And they actually found it.
After observing the clusters of flashes within the separated section of the Nebula for some time, researchers discovered that the light from these clusters gradually weakened and eventually disappeared. Since then, the separated section of the Nebula has never again exhibited any flashing light.
At the same time, humans have not observed any phenomenon of this flashing spot appearing to Teleportation in space, nor have they found it in any large Nebula. This phenomenon gives the impression that the fragmented light spots have died due to the lack of some element.
This makes it even more puzzling.
Following this, humans continued to observe the area where the light spot disappeared for an extended period, with the same result. Unable to give up their research, humanity turned their attention once again to another shimmering point at the edge of the Great Nebula.
This time, after separating a portion of the Nebula again, instead of waiting to observe as before, humans launched a small probe directly at the spot of light, intending to make close contact with it.
The contact left humans even more bewildered, because they observed that the light spots stopped moving once they had nowhere else to go, yet the spatial location of the light spots changed with the flow of Hydrogen Element in the Nebula. When a small probe rushed into it, the light spots did not inexplicably spread into the probe's interior, but remained within the hydrogen cloud.
This small detector also swept a portion of the Hydrogen Molecular Cloud into the storage device as requested by humans. However, the light spots disappeared after the Hydrogen Molecular Cloud entered the detector's hydrogen storage device, and the Hydrogen Molecular Cloud turned into a normal Hydrogen Molecular Cloud.
Human scientists, a light-year away, have determined that the light spot was some kind of Space Creature residing in Hydrogen Molecular Cloud, and that a series of human actions altered its environment, leading to its demise.
As for what kind of creature it is and what its characteristics are, scientists cannot answer. Of course, there are all sorts of speculations. For example, when in doubt, some people use Quantum Mechanics to say that this creature is some kind of Quantum Life. This explanation even describes its movement, saying that this quantum life uses the spatial Gravity differences caused by Hydrogen Molecular Cloud in a vacuum to achieve instantaneous movement, a displacement completed in the Quantum World.
This explanation is not mainstream because it's a limitation of human cognition and there's no way to study it further. Another explanation is the natural phenomenon theory, but because there's no way to explain it, it has even fewer supporters.
Subsequently, humans continued to observe and study these light spots using various methods, but still found little evidence to explain what they were, with virtually no further progress. Scientists attribute this to the inadequacy of human scientific and technological advancements.
Helpless, humanity had no choice but to abandon further research and turn to star charts once again.
Before leaving, humans naturally recorded the location of this Nebula on a star map, hoping to return and explore it again if any relevant clues came up later.