After careful consideration, Academician Zeng decided to prioritize research on sailing speed and space compression. Sailing speed is what the fleet needs most, while space compression is most conducive to research in this airspace. The other three research projects will not be stopped, but resources will be tilted towards sailing speed and space compression.
Travel speed has been stuck at a thousand times the speed of light. This is not only the case for humans, but also for all the warships of Advanced Star System-Level Civilization analyzed this time. Their maximum speed is a thousand times the speed of light. It seems that the entire universe is the same. The travel speed of Star System-Level Civilization is firmly blocked outside the high wall of a thousand times the speed of light.
Academician Zeng picked up the old manuscript on space density once again. It was clear that the method of changing space density by warping space with a warp drive had its limits. If we wanted to break through these limits, we had to think of other methods, such as destroying or creating space. Whether we created space in front of the spaceship or destroyed space behind the spaceship, we could achieve the goal of making the spaceship move forward. However, we still had no clue about the nature of space, how to create and destroy it.
Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Nebula Main Consciousness inquired about the progress of the liberation research once, and of course, the answer was that it was under research. After that, Nebula Main Consciousness made no further move.
The research team led by Academician Liu Bo has already circled the outside of the Nebula Region several times and confirmed that the spacecraft will immediately reach a speed of a thousand times the speed of light once it leaves the Nebula Region. It seems that the initial conjecture was correct, and the spatial density of this Nebula Region has indeed increased by two times as a whole.
What exactly caused the overall density of this space to double? Academician Liu flew around the outer edge of the nebula again and again, even flying hundreds of light-years away to observe the overall appearance of this nebula, hoping to find some clues, but the reason, like this Nebula Region, was hidden by a thick fog.
Academician Liu Bo felt that not only this Nebula Region, but the entire Milky Way and the entire universe were shrouded in a veil. The reason why there are differences in the levels of civilizations is not mainly because of what they have invented, but because of what they have discovered. The more they discover, the higher the level of civilization.
A hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye. Academician Xiao has finally produced a giant creature that is over two hundred meters tall. This creature is based on the Tyrannosaurus Rex from Earth's era, with some biotechnology modifications. After sending this giant creature into space, Academician Xiao planned to let the Nebula Main Consciousness these nebulae take refuge in it. He originally thought that these Main Consciousness would rush to try it out, after all, this is an opportunity for liberation. Whoever tries first will be the first to be liberated.
Strangely, none of these Main Consciousness Main Consciousness were willing to be the first to conduct the experiment. They simply surrounded Academician Xiao and the organism. Were they afraid of the experiment failing and being unsafe? It didn't seem so. In the end, the Main Consciousness actually moved away from the area, leaving Academician Xiao at a loss. Several hours later, the thick clouds returned to the area. The Main Consciousness No. 1 spoke up, telling Academician Xiao to gather seven organisms at once before conducting the experiment. Upon hearing this, Academician Xiao broke out in a cold sweat.
If it weren't for the good concealment, these Main Consciousness would probably have discovered something, but Academician Xiao still pretended to know nothing.
"Gentlemen, I've spent decades developing this, and you won't even try it out? You want me to bring over six more? Do you think this is something that can be made casually? It requires controlling the combination of individual molecules or principles, and it took countless human and material resources. What if it doesn't work? Wouldn't all our work have been for nothing? This doesn't conform to the principles and basic operations of scientific research."
"Don't try to fob us off with those words. If you were Stellar-Level Civilization, facing an astronomical number of atoms might be difficult, but you are already Star System-Level Civilization. Controlling particle movement and combination through fields is a simple matter for you. You can create one in ten years at most. As long as you allocate more manpower, creating six more within ten years is absolutely no problem."
"Our agreement needs to be renegotiated. Your approach will take us at least another two hundred years. We've only achieved this much after a hundred years, and even that's not guaranteed to succeed."
"Impossible. It's only two hundred years. If you haven't completed the mission by then, we will ruthlessly destroy your civilization. However, I feel your organism is acceptable this time, but the success rate is less than ten percent. You need to produce the remaining six as soon as possible. We will tell you the specific reasons for the experiment's failure and where improvements are needed. In addition, I suggest you simultaneously improve the design and produce seven at once, otherwise you'll be wasting your own time."
"You!!!"
Academician Xiao pretended to be very angry and shut down the holographic projection in the air. He immediately rushed to a secret room in the Science City to meet Hu Yu and others. This secret room was specially built to prevent the Main Consciousness from eavesdropping. It had more than 20 layers of strong magnetic and electric isolation layers, making it impossible for any signal to be transmitted.
" Academician Xiao, what's the matter that's so urgent? Did the experiment fail?" Hu Yu asked.
"General, it's neither a failure nor a success. Something's wrong. These Main Consciousness will never let us go. Regardless of whether we help them achieve liberation, they will destroy us."
"Didn't we expect this? These guys are unlikely to keep their promises."
"General, it's not just unlikely, it's absolutely impossible! Today I gave them the organisms I created to test, but they didn't want to try any of them. Instead, they want us to continue creating seven to test together."
"I'm really sorry to have troubled you."
"No, this is nothing, General, Academician Zeng. Think about it, why are we conducting experiments together? Isn't that strange?"
"Are you afraid the experiment might be dangerous?"
"Of course, but not because I'm afraid of the dangers during the experiment, but because of the dangers after the experiment, especially the dangers after the experiment is successful."
How so?
"I believe that once the Nebula Main Consciousness is released and fixed within a living organism, it will be impossible for it to leave again. In other words, they will become ordinary biological individuals. Since they are ordinary biological individuals, killing them would be an easy task. If you were in their shoes, what would you do?"
" The Main Consciousness have never been able to coexist harmoniously. If one Main Consciousness successfully breaks free first, it will definitely be killed by the other Main Consciousness, Academician Xiao. That's why they requested to conduct the experiment together, right?" Wen Zhonghua said from the side.
"Chief of the General Staff, you're only half right!!!"