Chapter 850 The Crooked Nebula
There was a flash of light in the vast space, and the silver-white spaceship jumped out of hyperspace and entered the universe as if it was condensed from the light.
"Navigation ended."
Nolan's voice reminded everyone that they had arrived at their destination. Hao Ren immediately raised his head from the dazzling information and looked at the picture coming from the external monitor of the spacecraft. I saw that the spacecraft had arrived at the edge of a bright nebula, and the state of the nebula was obviously very strange.
It was a lavender gas cloud structure, and the data showed that it was more than twelve light-years in size. The entire nebula was radiating, and its core was brighter. Judging from the shape, this seems to be a small part of a star-making cloud cluster that remains after it is torn apart. The bright light may be the original material that failed to successfully evolve into stars. In the thinner and fainter areas of the nebula, you can see some bright points of light, where smaller stars are shining.
"The shape looks a bit weird..." Lily lay in front of the holographic projection and shook her tail, "It seems to be distorted by a magic mirror?"
Hao Ren nodded: "It may be gravitational interference. There is probably a black hole or something in the sunken place."
What they were talking about was the strange shape of the nebula: the nebula was not regular, one side of it was obviously "sunken", and all the surrounding matter, including light, was tilted toward the sunken point, making its entire structure It's like a canvas being pulled and torn, or like there's a hole in the universe, and this nebula is leaking through the hole into another space. If you observe carefully, you can find that the entire lavender nebula is affected by this "skew point", as if a huge gravitational source is slowly pulling it in.
At one end of the lavender nebula, that is, the side closer to the "skew point", obvious traces of fracture can also be seen. All matter disappears abruptly in that area, leaving a clearly defined cutting strip, just like It was as if the originally erratic and formless clouds had been slashed by some invisible force - or perhaps some optical phenomenon had blocked the scene there.
"It's so strange..." Lily murmured to herself. Don't look at her. She is the female student with the highest academic qualifications in the team. The scene in front of her is not just a mere spectacle. "The phenomenon of skewed starlight can be used Black hole explanation, what about the nebula material that suddenly broke off over there?"
"No, we can't even explain the skewed starlight." Hao Ren glanced at the data on the instrument and suddenly frowned, "There is no black hole there."
"There is no black hole?" Lily's ears twitched, "Then why is the light skewed?"
"It has nothing to do with gravity." Before Hao Ren could say anything, the data terminal took the initiative to explain. At the same time, a set of holographic images were displayed. The images showed the spatial structure of the lavender nebula, which was like a piece of cloth being pulled. "The space itself is skewed, and the starlight is just distorted in our sight, but they are still straight in their own space. This is a weird place. There is no strong gravitational source to interfere, but the curvature of space itself occurs." Changed.”
Yzaks murmured in a rough voice: "It must be the big explosion of the God-killing War that tore apart the space structure here."
Hao Ren let the spacecraft move closer to the skew point of the nebula at sub-light speed, and at the same time connected the communication with Gnaku - Mulu was waiting there: "Mulu, I will transfer the picture to you, you see this is Sulu The door of grace?"
He sent the sight of the "Crooked Nebula" to the Guardian Giant, and the latter's voice came after a few seconds, with a sense of surprise: "This... does seem to be part of the galaxy where the Sulun Gate is located. , but how did it become like this?”
"We don't know that there are spatial anomalies in those places where distortion occurs. The space itself is curved and is incompatible with the surrounding universe," Hao Ren explained. "Now we are heading towards the most severely distorted area. Do you know what the specific signal is? From which celestial body did it come?"
Mulu suppressed the doubts and uneasiness in his heart, and at the same time searched his memory and looked for the familiar celestial structure from the severely distorted nebula: "Crooked point... go a little further, you see this thing that looks like it has been Is it the place where it was cut off? There is a solitary point of light here, which is a star. There should be a rocky planet around it. That planet is the fortress of the Sulun Gate, and its name is Sulun. Signal That’s where it comes from.”
Hao Ren nodded and asked Nolan to speed up towards the planet. At the same time, he opened the data link for the detection drone group and retrieved the monitoring records of a drone here a few days ago.
A few days ago, a drone flew over this area and turned its camera in the direction of the nebula in front of Hao Ren. But the image records at that time showed only a void here, with sparse starlight tens of thousands of light-years away dotting this desolate and desolate place.
Hao Ren raised his head and saw a magnificent, skewed and strange lavender nebula.
The Suluen Gate appeared suddenly, without any warning, and just appeared out of thin air in the universe. The key question is why does it appear?
Nolan quickly approached the skew point, and soon the distance was so close that he could not see the entire nebula with an external monitor. Hao Ren only saw that the spacecraft was approaching an increasingly bright star, and almost close to the star, an obvious "fracture zone" could be seen. The fracture zone had a momentum that almost penetrated the universe (visual (as shown above) extends out to both sides of the star.
The fracture zone is the boundary that I saw when I observed the lavender nebula in the distance. It seems to be cut off by a knife. It neither emits light nor has an obvious color. However, because the entire cosmic background is incompatible with the background of the nebula itself, , coupled with the fact that all the starlight from other places is blocked on the fault zone, making this boundary very conspicuous.
"It feels as if the Suluen Gate was cut off from a bigger piece," Lily pointed at the fracture zone next to the star, "We are flying towards the edge of the knife!"
Nolan's holographic projection suddenly popped out of the air, akimbo and glared at Lily: "Don't talk about such a scary topic, it's me who's flying over there, and I'm watching from the first-person perspective!"
Hao Ren subconsciously glanced at Nolan and said to himself that as she spent more and more time as a ship, the character of this once cold and distant "female mercenary" has become closer and closer to a normal person. But this change should have nothing to do with changing the ship. The most important thing is that Nolan finally came into contact with "reality." Now, she doesn't have to worry about everything in front of her suddenly disappearing like waking up from a dream, nor does she have to worry about the people around her turning into strangers in an instant. She lives in a new environment that is truly believable, so What is being released now is probably her true nature.
And just when Hao Ren was thinking about these nonsensical things in his mind, Nolan's expression suddenly changed slightly, and then the speed of the Giant Turtle Yantai suddenly dropped, and the ship's host computer also sounded an alarm at the same time: "Time and space anomaly, stop pushing. Detection, spatio-temporal anomalies, stop push detection..."
Elizabeth immediately jumped up and said: "What's going on, what's going on?"
"There is space-time distortion ahead." Nolan's image suddenly became thinner. She was transferring more computing power to the performance of the ship's host machine. "...There is a problem with the time flow rate at the skew point."
Elizabeth scratched her horn: "How fast does time flow?"
It seems that the little devil has not learned such a profound lesson.
The holographic projection on the console shows images of celestial bodies within a certain range nearby, and the planet named "Sulun" is located in the center of the image. It is marked in eye-catching red, and can be seen around Sulun. A red halo that spreads out in circles and gradually fades in color. This is a vortex that represents the intensity of a certain phenomenon, and Su Luen is at the center of this vortex.
"Time is distorted along with space, and Suluen is at the most severely distorted place," Nolan pointed at the planet Suluen and explained quickly, "From here on, the closer you get to Suluen. Where time passes more slowly.”
The scene suddenly became quiet, and Hao Ren and the others looked at each other.
They knew this place was weird, but they didn't expect that the weirdest part was the flow of time - it was different from any problem they had ever solved.
"Similar clock slowing effects will also occur when approaching a black hole, or other forms of super-light travel without stabilizing space and time will also produce this phenomenon," Nolan said. She may not have had this knowledge originally, but she now He has a database, so he knows everything. "There are neither black holes nor super-light motion here. The main reason for the change in time flow rate may be space skew...or other deeper reasons, such as the God-killing War that blew up this place." laws of the universe and so on.”