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Chapter 1228 light years away

The starship on which the Siren came to this planet...

Listening to Tyr's last half of muttering, Gao Wen immediately thought of the interstellar spacecraft that was still stranded in the depths of the endless sea, and its scale was said to be larger than the Gondor imperial capital back then. To be fair, even if an advanced civilization like Tallond appeared on this planet, the spacecraft that the Siren was riding on was still the most outrageous thing on this planet - a spaceship! It was a spaceship that could conduct interstellar colonization!

It’s really a pity that when I first crawled out of the grave, I thought it was a world of swords and magic...

Gao Wen shook his head and threw those irrelevant associations out of his mind. At the same time, he looked at the caterpillar who was lazily putting his upper body on the bench and his tail spread several meters away: "Where has your spaceship been repaired now? I remember you told me not long ago that your engineers have made unprecedented progress in the core of power or core..."

"It's the core fusion tower, which is used to draw energy from negative space tides and power the transition engine - after forcing the landing on this planet, the thing was shut down. The deepwater technicians tried their best to reignite its first-stage drive furnace," Tyr shook his tail tip and said with a very understanding look. "Now we finally figured out what magic is, and we calculated the 'deviation' amplitude that the core fusion tower encountered during the startup."

Speaking of this, she paused, as if she was thinking seriously about how to explain it next, and then spoke again: "It is said that the deep water technicians have given up the plan to repair it as it is - the environment of this world is too different from our hometown, and the key structure of the core fusion tower is completely unacceptable in the new environment, so they decided to directly remove the core area of ​​the core fusion tower, replace the driving part with the rainbow focus matrix, and then use the force field coil and phase transformation shunt on the outer edge of the fusion tower to redistribute the energy flow. In fact, they have tried this and replaced a small part...the effect seems to be very good."

"Rainbow...you stuffed that thing directly into the power furnace of the spacecraft?!" Gao Wen was stunned. He knew that the Siren was trying to find inspiration to repair the spacecraft's energy module from Cecil's rainbow generator, but he didn't expect that the group of bold deep-sea salted fish would directly stuff the rainbow device into the power furnace, and it sounded like one or two were stuffed into it - they stuffed a matrix into it!

That thing is usually a giant cannon used to attack cities and draw villages! It's so scary! Are those fish spirits burning nuclear warheads in the boiler?

Tyre felt inexplicably at Gao Wen's reaction. She looked up and looked lazily, and her voice seemed to be asleep at any time: "What's the fuss? Our deep water technicians have always had a very broad idea - of course, there are still some problems, mainly because the energy output from the irradiation device is not enough. Even if the technicians over there have improved the power density of the focus matrix as much as possible, it is only enough for the fusion tower to barely operate at the lowest power. Usually, Antaweien's main energy still has to rely on burning squids... But this is an amazing progress for us who have been stagnant for many years."

Listening to Tyr's indifferent muttering, Gao Wen's original shocked expression finally turned into a dark place. He looked at the caterpillar lying on the bench with an expressionless face, thinking that this is truly the interstellar civilization. In addition to the common pitfalls in his brain, this race can only be looked up to on this planet...

Tyre didn't know what Gao Wen was thinking. She just yawned and recalled the recent contact with her hometown, and continued with uncertainty: "By the way, there is still a result in the restoration project on our side... You may be interested."

"What is interesting to me?" Gao Wen was a little surprised, "What is it?"

"Antawayen's superluminal communication array," Tyre stretched out his long and long laziness, and carefully rolled himself into a lump next to the chair, "that is, the antenna system."

"Super-light speed communication array..." Gao Wen blinked and finally recalled, "I remember you mentioned to me... Wait, you have fixed that thing?!"

"It's not a good idea to repair it. The resonant crystal of the sending unit is damaged too seriously. Now we haven't found a suitable replacement, but we have found a way to repair part of its receiving module," Tyre said, with a sudden sigh in his expression. "We have not received the contact information from other immigration spacecraft, but we have received the signal you received in the monitoring station... and have successfully achieved precise positioning."

The news came so suddenly that Gao Wen didn't react for a while. He blinked a few times and the corresponding information came to his mind: He knew that the Siren tried to repair the antenna array of the spacecraft, and he also knew that the Siren launched not only Anta Vien when they fled from their hometown. It is said that several other spacecraft set sail from their home planet, but now they have all been scattered in the depths of the starry sea.

Even though so many years have passed, Tyre's compatriots seem to believe that the compatriots on other ships are still alive, hoping to repair the communication system of the ship to reconnect with those who had lost contact millions of years ago.

On the other hand, he knew what the "signal" that Tyre mentioned was, which was heard by the Solin Hub, the Northern Hub and the Ancestor Peak Hub, and the mysterious information from the vast universe. Those signals convey basic mathematical knowledge and language and words that no one can understand, as if they were showing their existence to other civilizations and sending greetings. He had confirmed from the Dragon God that those signals came from intelligent creatures on other planets. However, due to technical limitations, even Cecil's most advanced magic network hub can only occasionally receive those signals unilaterally, but cannot lock its specific transmission source, nor can it crack the technology used by the other party to transmit signals.

As for the deciphering of the mysterious "alienable characters"... Cecil and the Tifeng Empire organized a large team of cryptographers and writing experts a long time ago, and even delegated the deciphering work to the public to brainstorm. However, after so long, the progress of all work is still minimal.

He didn't expect that the sudden breakthrough point would come from those sirens who were close to the alliance.

"The origin of those signals is not far from your original speculation," Tyre saw the change in Gao Wen's expression, and she did not keep it in the air. "It is indeed from the direction of Frost Sky. At the bottom of Frost Sky, there is a dim star - there may be some other small objects, but our observation equipment is damaged and cannot be confirmed for the time being. After precise tracking of Antavern star orbital, the signal came from near that star."

"Does that star have a name?" Gao Wen asked subconsciously.

"We call it SK-32-A, but in your human world, the magicians and astrologers seem to have given it a pretty good name, "Cangxing"," Tyre shrugged and said, "It's not easy to confirm this. I have been rummaging through your messy and lacking precision astronomical charts for a long time, and compared it with Antavern's astronomers several times before they dare to confirm that our SK-32-A and the 'Cangxing' that you humans call..."

Gao Wen interrupted immediately without waiting for her to finish her words: "Switch the salt in your pool to refined sea salt starting tomorrow."

"Okay!" Tyre nodded instantly, and then continued to talk about the serious matter, "Then go back to the 'Cangxing' - we measured the distance between it and the planet under our feet, which is about 6.12 light years. It should have at least one large-mass gaseous planet and two solid planets orbiting it, but we cannot confirm for the time being that signal was emitted from near which planet...

"In addition, our antenna system tracked the signal for a long time and confirmed that the signal was continuously transmitted in a period of about 3.35 days. Each time it lasted for 16 hours from the occurrence and disappearance of the signal. It is not yet certain whether this period was intentional or affected by the universe environment along the way..."

Gao Wen's expression was unprecedentedly serious. He remembered every word Tyre said in his heart and repeated the special name softly: "...Cangxing..."

Tyre glanced at Gao Wen, seemed to be hesitant. After thinking for a few seconds, she continued: "There is one more thing in the end..."

"You said." Gao Wen said immediately, the urgency in his tone even scared him.

"...Most humans should not understand what this means, but from what I understand, you should be able to understand what I am talking about," Tyre shook his tail slightly, his expression becoming very serious. "After the analysis of the communication array, we found one thing - that signal... is propagating at super-light speed."

Gao Wen frowned in an instant: Tyre's words were very short, but the amount of information revealed in it was extraordinary.

"Super light speed..." He couldn't help but mutter softly, "That is,..."

"Although it is 6.12 light-years away, those signals are not 'outdated information' sent six years ago. What we receive is instant communication from Cangxing, and this information sending technology is very clever - it can be captured by our super-light speed communication array or enter a conventional antenna system like the Magic Net Hub. This shows that it was to send intelligence to as many 'targets' as possible at the beginning of modulation," Tyr nodded, "and if we have equal sending technology, we can even realize real-time communication with Cangxing now... across a distance of 6.12 light-years and establish communication with smart creatures on another planet."

Gao Wenzheng was shocked by this sudden news and subconsciously asked: "Your super-light communication array cannot..."

"No," Tyre shook his head, "I just said that we have only repaired the receiving module of the array, and it is only part of it. The resonant crystal of the entire system is broken, and we have not found a replacement product yet."

Gao Wen realized that he was a little too excited and immediately forced himself to calm down, and said softly: "No matter what, 'Cangxing' is obviously a more advanced civilization than us..."

"They have at least advanced communication technology than ours - of course, it's not necessarily true after the Anta Vien is repaired," Till said, and then frowned, with a somewhat confused expression on his face. "But when it comes to this 'communication technology'... I have a sister who works in the communication technology group mentioned a suspicious place to me last time."

Gao Wen frowned: "Suspicious place?"

"Compared with cutting-edge transmission technology like 'super-light speed communication', the signals sent by Cangxing seem too simple and backward in terms of encoding methods and modulation formats," Tyre said slowly. She rarely talks about this knowledge to the people here, because most of the knowledge she knows is too difficult for humans, but she knows that the incredible "human" in front of her can understand what she is saying. "Under the same channel width, they could have stuffed more effective information and clearer graphics and text content, but they chose the most primitive and inefficient "coding table"...

"Can you understand the contradiction? If you landmen can understand the metaphor, it is like they have a magic device from the Gondor Empire, which is extremely sophisticated and advanced, and can still be used today. They tied a stick to the device to smash walnuts - although the final purpose was achieved, the process...

Tyr spread his hands, and Gao Wen quickly understood the meaning of her words. He thought of the information he had heard before at the Thorin Hub. He didn't think that there was anything at that time. However, now he knew that the signal was actually transmitted at a super-light speed, and the sense of incongruity behind the whole thing really came to his heart.

It's like in the fiber optic era, two people were using the most advanced computers and the highest-speed fiber optic network... to shoot telegrams with each other.

"Maybe this is just to make 'low-level civilizations' like us more easily crack the signal content they send," Gao Wen thought of a possibility, "More complex encoding methods may be more efficient, but obviously it will be more difficult to crack..."

"We also thought about this possibility, but there is a problem," Tyre shook his head. "If it is to take care of 'low-level receivers', they can send multiple sets of different codes at the same time, using different levels of compilation technology - so that no matter what level of 'receivers' they will have the opportunity to receive and crack those signals. If 'Cangxing' is really an advanced civilization with super-light speed communication, this kind of thing is absolutely easy for them."

Gao Wen's heart was completely calmed down, and his mind was running rapidly. The questions raised by Tyre were obviously worthy of his further thinking: "Maybe...their signals are just to send to 'low-level civilization'? Or maybe the senders of 'Cangxing' do not care about the efficiency of information transmission at all. They only need to send those basic 'greetings' to the entire star area, and the most primitive and simple encoding method can ensure that these information is reliably sent to every civilization capable of 'listening to space'..."

"This is also a possibility," Tyre nodded, "but what's the point of doing this?"
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