Chapter 171 Within the horizon
Li Wenyuan entered the "horizon", and as he expected, it was a journey with no return.
After all, the anti-gravity principle of the matter decompressor cannot drag the spacecraft away from here intact. Compared with infinitely compressed matter, it is still too difficult to drag away a precision object as large as the spacecraft.
He could go out now, but he knew that the moment he left the "event horizon", the spacecraft would completely disintegrate due to its own anti-gravity system and turn into a ball of fine elementary particles.
This doesn't fit his needs.
So the moment he entered the "event horizon", he decided to let the spacecraft stay within the "event horizon" forever.
At this time, there is only darkness within the "event horizon". From a sensory perspective, the black hole seems to be another universe, but here there is only complete darkness and deathly silence.
The outside universe can still be seen within the "event horizon", which appears as a sphere. Just like observing a black hole in the outside universe, the "universe" in the black hole is also observing the outside universe.
At this moment, Li Wenyuan seemed to feel that he had seen the entire universe. The incredibly huge super galaxy cluster was only an insignificant pixel in that "cosmic sphere".
The Milky Way is a color patch that cannot be distinguished within this pixel.
This feeling of "looking at the whole universe" gave Li Wenyuan a sense of shock. Although he had been prepared for it, at this moment he felt that the universe was too huge as never before.
He has not even been able to fully explore the current Milky Way, which is only a small part of the universe.
But just here, so many fresh lives can be born, creating one magical story after another.
"...Have humans ever been to a black hole, and after seeing this scene, did they decide to enter the real 'sea of stars'?"
Li Wenyuan inevitably had this idea. After truly seeing the vastness of the universe, he could understand that the Milky Way was never a place worth staying forever.
Curiosity is the nature of living things, and yearning for and exploring the unknown is always the driving force for progress.
This strange scene in the black hole also aroused Li Wenyuan's "human" passion.
The sphere representing the "universe" is gradually moving away as the spacecraft falls, which means that the spacecraft is approaching the "singularity".
This is the end point of the black hole, a point where the density tends to infinity.
But the rules of space and time here have changed due to the incredibly huge gravity. The spacecraft will always fall towards the "singularity", but it will never enter the singularity.
Soon, there was only silence and a spaceship that was always in a "falling" state within the horizon.
The anti-gravity system is still working tenaciously, which allows Li Wenyuan to preserve the mechanical consciousness here and think about the secrets here.
He entered the black hole, but he found nothing there.
Maybe the ultimate secret will be hidden in the "black hole singularity", but there is no way his spaceship will one day crash there.
Except for the "singularity" and the "cosmic sphere" that is no longer visible, there seems to be nothing in the black hole.
There is no "end of time" as the "professor" said, nor is there any "ever-ending cycle".
Just like the implication of a black hole, this is a place of death and silence that ends everything.
"...Why? Is it because I haven't been 'named'?"
Li Wenyuan thought about possible situations and guessed whether a necessary step was missing.
Among the messages left by the "Professor", it was mentioned that more than ten warriors from mankind have received the "Nomination" and entered the black hole.
There seems to be some unspeakable existence in the black hole. It looks at the "universe" and sends an invitation to the warriors to come here.
It's hard to say whether coming here is a good thing or a bad thing, but Li Wenyuan knew that there must be enough amazing secrets here.
Even if he just knew that "something" existed inside the black hole, and that this "something" had an unknown relationship with humans, this in itself would be enough for him to gain something.
"What I have to consider now is how to receive the 'nomination'..."
He thought of Gray Feng and that inexplicable "auditory hallucination".
Based on this experience alone, he was completely unable to summarize the conditions required to receive a "nomination."
Although he also tried to let Gray Wind continue to stay in this galaxy, it turned out that the incident was really like an "auditory hallucination", and no matter how many times he went in and out, he could not get a new "name".
"...In the end, do we still need to continue searching for clues in the galaxy?"
Everything seemed to be back to the beginning, and the trip to the black hole helped him reaffirm what he should do now.
Although it is not without gain, at least his current pursuit direction has returned from the existence in the black hole to the Milky Way, but Li Wenyuan is still a little unwilling.
So after thinking about it, he tried to open the technology tree, and then he was suddenly stunned.
Because he discovered that the research progress bar of the ten-level "strange cycle" of technology that would take him tens of thousands of years to research and might not be successful was actually slowly advancing.
Li Wenyuan's current technology tree progress is still generally at a level where most of the seven-level technologies are moving toward eight-level technologies, but this does not mean that he can directly study the tenth-level "strange cycle" across two levels.
He originally thought that he would have to wait until he had at least those "super megastructures" that were far beyond ordinary megastructures before he could try level 10 technology, but the strange situation in the black hole made him a little unbelievable.
According to this progress, it will only take about a hundred years for the "Strange Cycle" to complete a cycle. This speed is undoubtedly an extremely efficient rate compared with the results brought by the "Strange Cycle".
For a time, a lot of speculations emerged.
Li Wenyuan kept sensing the surrounding black hole environment, trying to discover something, but all he could see was dead silence.
"...Have humans ever encountered a similar situation? If this is the case...then was it under this situation that they understood the 'strange cycle'?"
The level of "Strange Loop" is so high that it is hard to believe that this is a technology that should exist in this universe.
He had tried his best to imagine the beings in the black hole to be omnipotent. Perhaps only in this way could he explain all the anomalies in the black hole.
In the end, Li Wenyuan switched his main consciousness outside the black hole with thought.
His consciousness data link does not use "transmission" to interact with data at different distances, and this time he fell into a black hole, and he confirmed that that part of his consciousness was not lost.
It seems that being inside a black hole is not as scary as imagined, except for the fact that you can never come back.
However, the previously backed up consciousness data is no longer of use. Now Li Wenyuan can switch his main consciousness to the ever-falling spaceship in the black hole at any time.
The flow of time there becomes very slow due to the black hole, and that part of the consciousness will be equivalent to being "imprisoned" and cannot be freed.
But compared to the gains in the black hole, this loss of consciousness is nothing.
There is only one thing you need to pay attention to, don't indulge in the black hole space for too long.
In fact, the moment he entered, he realized that time outside the black hole was passing rapidly.
The differential flow rate of time causes the consciousness data in the two places to have varying degrees of abnormalities. After the consciousness switches back to the normal universe, it needs to be temporarily corrected.
In his opinion, this "black hole journey" only lasted a few minutes, but several years have passed in the outside world.
From the perspective of interstellar civilization, this time dimension is far from being called "a vicissitudes of life", but it is still extremely long for an individual's life.
The scientists who have been observing black holes have changed a lot, and not everyone can bear the hard life on a dead planet.
Although the new scientists are also observing the black hole, unlike the previous scientists, they are more concerned about the dead planet itself and have no reaction to the image of the spacecraft that is stagnant outside the "event horizon".
The passage of time has no effect on Li Wenyuan. He himself is a series of data that will never die of old age.
Although the situation in the galaxy has undergone major changes during the period of time when his consciousness switched, in the absence of the "galactic threat", Li Wenyuan put most of his focus in another direction.
The trip to the black hole has confirmed that the time has not come yet, but it has also helped him rule out a direction for the time being.
The exploration of unknown areas of the galaxy will continue, but in parallel with this blanket search, there is another process that has been "pending" for a long time.
That was what happened when he first came to this universe, the core database that had always been on the earth and was in a "lost contact" state.
You know, until now he has actually used a "universal database".
The core database, which obviously held huge secrets, had long been listed as a "key target" by him.
Since the "Level 4 Singularity", he has begun to repair all facilities on the earth.
He has already completed most of them, but this core database is the only one that is very strange.
A cluster of small buildings that seems to occupy a small area, less than one-tenth of an ordinary metropolis, requires an incredibly terrifying amount of energy consumption.
The "Dyson Sphere" and "Level 4 Singularity" that can supply the energy consumption of all his buildings, giant structures, and fleets so far cannot meet the needs of supplying the core database at all.
Li Wenyuan couldn't understand why a building cluster of this size needed to consume such a huge amount of energy.
In order to ensure the security of the galaxy and improve his own strength to deal with potential threats, he had to temporarily put aside the matter of connecting to the core database and instead strengthen himself first.
But with the information about "himself" that the Ether Dragon inadvertently mentioned this time, and after experiencing this trip to the black hole, he felt that he must continue to follow this route.
Since one "Dyson Sphere" is not enough, let's get a few more. He already has a plan for the "Super Dyson Sphere", which this time will fully meet the needs of the core database.
He believed that there would be no gains this time.
Things at home are a bit complicated during this time, but the unstable updates are my fault, so I'm sorry everyone.
This is for yesterday, there will be more tonight, sorry.
Chapter completed!