Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 28: Energy Intelligence

After Zhou Yuan and Wei Shan (who had always acted as Zhou Yuan's bodyguard) were awakened, it took them nine days to adapt to the environment and regain their senses. On the tenth day, they arrived at the Sirius Fleet through a portal.

The entire Sirius fleet held a welcoming ceremony to warmly welcome the two.

They were also among the first humans to travel to another star system via a man-made portal, a journey that took only about a day.

Humanity on Earth was plunged into a sea of ​​joy. Interstellar travel was no longer a dream; as long as humanity sent the portal far enough, other humans would follow.

While expressing his joy and gratitude, Zhou Yuan also spoke candidly about his thoughts.

The idea proposed by Academician Poirot to use a teleportation portal to transmit energy as a targeted weapon is indeed feasible. However, the two systems of magnetic pole spin adiabatic and quark freezing in the teleportation portal cannot be overloaded, otherwise the portal itself will self-destruct. Therefore, if we want to transmit ultra-high energy like an ultra-powerful gamma-ray burst, humanity cannot do it yet, but destroying a planet or the sun is no problem.

The "Light-Descending Civilization" detonated the superstars of the Sirius binary system, then focused the energy to launch a powerful gamma-ray burst, instantly destroying the Martian civilization. This demonstrates that the "Light-Descending Civilization" skillfully controlled energy, enabling them to strike at faster-than-light speeds. They also possessed the light-speed barrier weapon that later trapped the solar system. These three points illustrate the "Light-Descending Civilization's" profound understanding and mastery of energy and the speed of light.

As for how the "Light-Descent Civilization" would gather the energy after a star explodes, Zhou Yuan also offered his opinion.

He said, "I remember back in the Earth era, in 2022 AD, when the solar system's light speed barrier was still in place, Academician Mei Fan and I were summoned by the then-leader of Earth's Country C to carry out the barrier-breaking plan. One of the leader's questions was about the meaning of civilization's existence. I remember Academician Mei Fan mentioning the life forms of civilized beings. He said, perhaps, there exists an energy-based life form in the universe, and these energy-based beings have self-awareness." Everyone was captivated by Zhou Yuan's speech, and the entire conference room seemed to be muted.

"Therefore, I personally believe that this 'Light-Descending Civilization' first detonated a star, and then, through some means, imbued the energy from the explosion with a certain degree of self-awareness, or rather, intelligence. Just as we humans created replicants and used them to destroy the divine messenger warship, we endowed metal alloys with a certain level of intelligence. Similarly, the 'Light-Descending Civilization' created intelligent energy bodies. Once these energies possess some kind of intelligence, it is obvious that they can launch targeted attacks. Because intelligent energy bodies carry a large amount of energy but have a small mass, according to the Civilization Director's law of the speed of light, the density waves of intelligent energy bodies are very large, making a superluminal instantaneous attack highly possible. In short, my personal guess is that intelligent energy bodies instantly and directly destroyed the Martian civilization. Of course, the 'Light-Descending Civilization' accomplished all of this!"

Everyone seemed stunned.

"Dean Zhou, what should we do?" Roland's question represented everyone's concerns.

"It's simple, we'll go deep into the wolf's den!"

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"Just kidding, folks. What I mean is, if the 'Descent of Light Civilization' really created intelligent life forms, there might still be intelligent life forms on this Sirius companion planet, or maybe even unfinished intelligent life forms or something. Who knows?"

"You mean we want to go inside this companion star? How do we get in? Its surface temperature is over 25000 degrees Celsius."

"No need, we'll use the portal to perform surgery on Sirius's companion star."

"Just tell me straight, stop beating around the bush," a group of people shouted.

A few days later, four large portals were placed between Sirius's primary star and its companion star. Portal A was closer to the primary star, portal B closer to the companion star, and portals C (closer to A) and D (closer to B) were placed close together, positioned between portals A and B. Of the fleet's 20 sniper ships, 8 remained, while all other warships were evacuated to a safe distance from the two stars and placed on standby. Of the 8 sniper ships, 2 were aimed at the primary star, 2 at the companion star, 3 at portals A and B respectively, and the close-up portals C and D, with 1 reserved for maneuver.

The time has come to perform surgery on Sirius's companion star.

Portal D dials to Portal A, while Portal C dials to Portal B.

Thus, the primary star's energy is transmitted through portal A to portal D, and the companion star's energy is transmitted through portal C to portal B. In this way, the primary star's energy and the companion star's energy quickly form an energy channel through the four portals. The companion star absorbs the primary star's energy, and the primary star absorbs the companion star's energy. This energy absorption occurs at faster than the speed of light. Soon, due to the primary star's strong energy absorption, the companion star's absorption of the primary star's energy gradually slows down, while the primary star's absorption of the companion star's energy rapidly increases.

From the outside observer's perspective, within the passage, the companion star's energy and matter gradually flow towards the primary star, causing the companion star to shrink in concentric rings, much like peeling an apple. To be precise, the companion star is being peeled away layer by layer by the primary star.

The companion star grew dimmer and dimmer. Thirty minutes later, suddenly, the human warship detected an extremely high energy flow. In the vicinity of the companion star, an incredibly bright sphere of light appeared, approximately 100 meters in diameter. This sphere suddenly shattered, releasing countless filaments of light. These filaments interconnected and drifted and spread throughout the sky, reaching a diameter of 10 kilometers within one minute. The portal had long since ceased functioning, and the human warship was already on standby near the primary star.

Zhou Yuan continuously emitted broadband modulated vibration light wave signals into the optical filament, and after four or five minutes, the demodulator actually received the signal.

"What more do you want from this unfamiliar carbon-based civilization?"

"What should I call you, intelligent energy being?"

"casual."

"Okay. I'd like to ask, how did you come into being? Where are you going?"

“We were created by our master. Our master gave us ‘life’ by the energy of this companion star. Our vessel is energy, and we have many complex light paths on our bodies.”

Optical path? Zhou Yuan thought for a moment, "Similar to the replicator's control circuit?"

"If I may ask, could you show us the light path on your body? This is very important to us."

"I'm sorry, my master has locked the light path; only he can unlock it."

"Where are you going?"

"We will soon perish, our master has abandoned us. At the beginning of our birth, we were different from other individuals because we had the consciousness of self-evolution. Our master set up a safety protocol in the light path. Once self-evolution is detected, we will be thrown into the core of the exploding star, forever trapped in the core by the gravity of the white dwarf, until we are destroyed by time along with the white dwarf hundreds of millions of years later."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Could you please tell your master more about the situation?"

“Our master is incredibly powerful, that’s all I can say.” The intelligent energy entity seemed to pause for a few seconds before continuing, “To be honest, we should thank you.”

"Thank us? Why? Didn't we hasten your demise?"

"You have no idea what it was like to be trapped inside that white dwarf. In any case, we were destined to perish sooner or later. Now, you have set us free, even if it's only for about half an hour. Look, the starry sky outside is so beautiful. Farewell, carbon-based civilization."

Goodbye, intelligent energy body.

The countless beams of light gradually thinned until they disappeared.

The next day, the concepts of intelligent energy body, light path, and light path lock were quickly and widely discussed and exchanged between Earth's humans and the Sirius Fleet. Earth's humans knew that these three concepts were probably child's play for the "Light-Descending Civilization." The road to defeating the "Light-Descending Civilization" was truly long.

However, there is still hope.

Through observation, the Federal Academy of Earth Sciences has found that there are many binary star systems, as well as three-star, four-star, five-star, or multiple-star systems in this Milky Way galaxy.

Zhou Yuan believes that if one of the stars in a multi-star system (binary star system) is a white dwarf, or if one of the stars in a multi-star system suddenly experiences a supernova explosion, it could be the work of a "light-dropping civilization" or other advanced civilization.

After removing all large portals near Sirius, the Earth Star Fleet continued its journey.

Of course, as with all previous long-distance voyages, most of the fleet personnel entered deep cryogenic "hibernation," with a few taking turns on duty, and the fleet was mainly driven by artificial intelligence.

The Earth Interstellar Fleet's target is Procyon, the closest large star to Sirius, approximately 19.2 light-years away (based on the speed of light in this space, 4c0).

Like Sirius before it, Procyon is also a binary star system, with a primary star and a companion star, and the distance between the two stars is about 430 billion kilometers.

Like Sirius before it, Procyon's companion star is also a white dwarf!

Galactic Era 82, Star Marker (1, 1, 3, 4c0).

The "Earth Interstellar Fleet" is stationed near the Procyon binary star system. Based on Sirius's experience, two sniper ships are positioned on each of the Procyon primary and companion stars.

The main star of Procyon is a subgiant star with a yellowish color, while its companion star is a yellowish-white white dwarf.

According to Zhou Yuan and others' conjecture, this white dwarf star is very likely also the work of the "Light-Descent Civilization".

The main problem now is how to enter the core of Procyon's companion star to conduct probes and understand the full picture of the intelligent energy entity. Because we want to know the original appearance of the intelligent energy entity, the "Earth Interstellar Fleet" cannot treat it as "barbarically" as it did Sirius's companion star.

Fortunately, the temperature of Procyon is much lower than that of Sirius, at just over 9700 degrees Celsius.

Starfleet scientists held a meeting to prepare to send a super probe into Procyon.

Three days later, a super miniature sniper ship equipped with various scientific instruments and controlled by a super artificial intelligence was completed. The super miniature sniper ship had a small teleportation ring at the front. This miniature sniper ship was equipped with advanced human technologies such as magnetic pole spin insulation, neutrino invisibility, quark freezing, long-distance communication, anti-gravity, and various weapon systems.