Chapter 132: The “Seen” Sound

Chapter 132: The “Seen” Sound

Chen Feng laughed. “Alright. Before I arrived, no one here was ever overly sentimental. What did you call me over for? Spit it out quickly. I need to hurry to the lab over there. They said the mental states of our thirty thousand passengers have been a bit strange lately. I have to go check.”

“I wanted to talk to you about this very thing. You know a blind person’s hearing is much stronger than a normal person’s, right?”

Chen Feng nodded. “Yes, because they lose their sight, the auditory centers in their brains gradually revive and become more developed than an average person’s.”

“I currently have no hearing, smell, touch, sight, or taste. My five senses have been completely stripped away, leaving only my thoughts. I discovered my brain has also changed on another level, becoming exceptionally active. Since yesterday, my brain has faintly been able to ‘hear’ some strange sounds. I suspect this is related to the passengers’ mental states outside, and also related to the Invader’s thought infiltration you’ve always emphasized.”

Chen Feng shot to his feet.

“This is true?”

“It’s real. At first, I thought it was my own imagination and wasn’t sure. So I observed for a day. As we get closer and closer to the Invader Barrier, those thought-sounds matching special frequency bands have become clearer and clearer. I’m certain now, so I’m telling you. I believe this is a special kind of radiation microwave that humanity has never encountered before. Its mechanism of effect should be precise and widespread Quantum Entanglement. This Quantum Entanglement isn’t entanglement at the electron level. The energy level of this quantum is far lower than a Quark or an electron, more profound than the limits of our current technological level, but it objectively exists.”

Chen Feng fell into deep thought, trying to fully comprehend Lin Bu’s words.

Not long after, he gave up.

He indicated that even though he had read many academic books from the Escape Faction, he still couldn’t understand and completely couldn’t construct or imagine the concept Lin Bu described based on his own scientific worldview.

Lin Bu asked another question. “Earlier, did you have someone fire a missile?”

“Yes.”

“A neutron fission missile?”

Chen Feng was slightly surprised. “Yes. How did you know?”

The Spacecraft carried a full eighteen types of missiles. Neutron fission bombs weren’t commonly used.

If Lin Bu guessed, it was too much of a coincidence.

“Because I ‘saw’ it.”

“Huh? Saw?”

“The moment the neutron fission missile was disassembled, I ‘saw’ the process of those fundamental particles dispersing. This ‘seeing’ of mine is in quotation marks.”

“Okay. I’ll call everyone over immediately. You form a task force. You must figure out what this radiation wave you captured is within the next month or so. Even if we can’t fully grasp its nature, we at least need to understand its content!”

After speaking, Chen Feng picked up the communicator and started calling people.

He really was a poor student.

But it didn’t matter. Now he had many top students around him.

Ou Qinglan’s level went without saying.

Dr. Ouyang and Scott were also no ordinary people.

The Escape Faction also had many professional technical experts.

Not long after, Chen Feng made a new decision.

Suspend the research on the Spacecraft passengers’ psychological problems. Form a project group with Ou Qinglan as the lead, fully cooperating with Lin Bu to capture information.

At the same time, the Spacecraft continued to slow down. Over the next month, it would approach the Invader Barrier little by little at an appropriate speed.

After Chen Feng finished arranging things and everyone was in position, Tang Tianxin pulled him aside to a corner of the Command Cabin, seeming to hesitate to speak.

Chen Feng, however, looked at her abdomen with great interest.

She said irritably, “What are you looking at? It’s only been a little over a month. What are you thinking?”

Chen Feng said sheepishly, “Right.”

Tang Tianxin asked, “So you’re stopping the entire psychology project?”

Chen Feng nodded. “Yeah. This long march of ours is almost at its final step. Other issues are just minor details now.”

“But I don’t think it’s meaningful. Since Lin Bu said it’s a radiation wave from a level humanity has never contacted, how could we possibly analyze its content?”

Chen Feng countered, “Five thousand years ago during the Xia Dynasty, people didn’t understand the principle of sound waves, but they created chime bells and wrote musical scores. So, whether we understand this wave or not doesn’t prevent us from possibly understanding its content.”

Tang Tianxin was taken aback, then realized. “That makes sense. I’m still a bit worried though. You rarely go to the residential areas at the back, so you don’t understand the situation at the grassroots level. Judging by my experience from learning in the Military, the situation is severe. A major incident could happen at any time.”

Chen Feng thought for a moment. “It’s fine. Don’t we have you, a genuine Lieutenant General here? Even over in the Military, you’re a high-level leader. Can’t you manage a crowd of a mere thirty thousand people? Besides, there’s still me, right?”

“I just have a gut feeling of danger. Wouldn’t you have me trust my own intuition?”

“Then I’ll put on the Azure Star and go with you to check the living area. That’ll ease your mind, right?”

“Okay.”

Not long after, the two of them took a shuttle elevator to the middle section of the Spacecraft.

The design of the entire Spacecraft still followed the World Government’s concept, basically taking a spindle shape.

But to maximize energy capacity, the tail of this spindle was made especially large, making the overall Spacecraft look very much like a large rocket from a thousand years ago.

The living and production areas in the middle section were two cylindrical structures rotating in opposite directions.

The rotation speed wasn’t fast, similar to the commemorative rotating restaurant atop high-rise buildings in some large cities on Earth.

The purpose of the rotation wasn’t to simulate Earth’s gravity; gravity had a dedicated force field system.

The rotation was simply to maintain the basic physiological adaptation of the human cerebellum’s spindle, avoiding disorientation effects.

At the same time, the two segments rotating in opposite directions also helped the Spacecraft maintain straight-line travel and center-of-gravity stability.

Now, Human Cryopreservation Technology was stable, advanced, and reliable enough. According to the design concept, after leaving the Solar System, passengers and key personnel could choose whether to undergo cryogenic sleep.

But before successfully breaking through the Solar System, people remained active.

Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin arrived at the living area.

Order remained normal here.

Adults occasionally brought children to play.

The Bar was still open, the internet cafe was bustling, and basketball games were still fiercely contested on the courts.

Chen Feng asked Tang Tianxin beside him, “Doesn’t this look fine?”

Tang Tianxin shook her head. “No. Look closely at each person’s expression. Their micro-expressions. I’ve recently restudied many psychology books, especially ones from five hundred years ago.”

With Tang Tianxin’s prompting, when Chen Feng looked again, he spotted the problem.

It was hard to describe, but it gave him an instinctively creepy feeling.

Everyone’s demeanor seemed mostly fine, but there was a strange, sinister undercurrent in the details.

Each person seemed like a computer exhausting its capabilities to mimic a human.

This reminded Chen Feng of a famous theory he learned watching 3D photorealistic movies in the 21st Century: the uncanny valley effect.