Chapter 378: Secrets of Celestial Technology

Du Qiu later understood that this was a pet-like, semi-intelligent creature created by the Pleiadians. It could substitute for the Pleiadians in certain tasks because many of them did not like using robots.

However, these little grey beings were few in number.

The small spaceship originally uncovered by the United States was actually piloted by these little greys. The Americans mistook them for aliens arriving on Earth.

Over time, this image spread widely across the internet and in movies.

It was from a warship of the Ge Ya Civilization that the little grey beings were first discovered—affirming that the Ge Ya Civilization was in fact the original Pleiadians, albeit under a different name.

From the wreckage of this warship, Du Qiu salvaged a complete bio-safety inspection system, which he adapted into Dream Technology’s safety protocol for outer space.

Consider this: the Ge Ya Civilization had roamed the cosmos for countless ages, interacting with myriad intelligent species. Their bio-safety systems were undoubtedly impressive.

Unfortunately, the warship’s central brain had been completely obliterated; otherwise, it might have shed light on the origins of the Ge Ya Civilization and its feud with the Dominant Civilization.

Du Qiu had already planned to obtain a warship from the Ge Ya Civilization, for he had also discovered a consciousness-upload component within the wreckage.

There was no doubt that the Ge Ya and Dominant Civilizations shared a common origin, yet Du Qiu couldn’t understand why both safeguarded their consciousness-upload components.

He could comprehend the decision on the part of the Ge Ya Civilization—after all, they were still led by biological intelligences, and perhaps their society required consciousness uploads to control smart machinery.

But it perplexed him that the Dominant Civilization, being entirely AI-driven, still clung to this technology.

In his confusion, Du Qiu hoped for another opportunity to infiltrate a secondary base of the Dominant Civilization to seize the creators of intelligence and access even higher-level AI.

He believed that within advanced AI databases lay all the details of the longstanding feud between the Dominant and Ge Ya Civilizations.

At that moment, after listening to Lin Feng’s instructions, Ding Shaoqiu could only wait patiently.

Given the sheer scale of the massive warship, having all the robots complete their inspections would take an extensive amount of time.

But Lin Feng had a different idea.

He deployed additional robots, directing them straight to the warship’s engine compartment.

Although the Tur Civilization’s warship design was peculiar—with its many branches and layers making it hard to determine front from back—

several exhaust nozzles provided clues to the engines’ location.

The robots soon found numerous power engine compartments connected to these nozzles and, following the energy circuits, quickly located the warship’s energy bay.

There, after thorough inspection, it was confirmed that the Tur Civilization was indeed a Level 4 civilization, utilizing elemental decay technology for energy production.

After perfecting a unified theory, Dream Technology’s Energy Research Institute discovered that by weakening the strong interaction between quarks while boosting electromagnetic force, the quarks would suddenly disperse; then, by reversing the process—increasing the strong force while reducing electromagnetic force—they would violently collide once more.

At that moment, the quarks reassembled into protons and neutrons, which then merged into atomic nuclei that captured electrons to form atoms.

The end result was that, regardless of the original element, everything would transmute into hydrogen.

Essentially, this process breaks matter apart at the quark level and then reconstructs it.

Its efficiency in converting mass to energy is at least ten times greater than that of controlled nuclear fusion.

In fact, simulations by AI Nebula indicated that nearly half the mass involved in the reaction would be transformed into energy!

The Energy Research Institute’s current focus was on two key areas: controlling energy from elemental decay and researching the controlled reactions between antimatter and matter.

Both were aimed at harnessing energy far more potent than nuclear fusion.

Du Qiu was well aware that without achieving a Level 6 civilization, the latter topic would remain unsolvable.

He had conducted extensive studies on the antimatter reactor of the main warship using the warship database, but lacking access to the intelligence creators’ database, he only had conceptual data—insufficient to construct an antimatter reactor.

This also explained why the warship Du Qiu managed to replicate within the solar system could never reach Level 6 standards; its fundamental energy sources could not be reproduced.

Thus, Du Qiu instructed the Energy Research Institute to focus its efforts on elemental decay energy control, believing that only with this technology could Dream Technology’s warships truly surpass Level 4.

With such energy, Dream Technology’s warships would see tremendous improvements in both endurance and speed.

Imagine this: one kilogram of matter, after passing through an elemental decay engine, transforms into 500 grams of hydrogen, which can then be further converted into nuclear fusion energy.

Most importantly, elemental decay technology works on any element—unlike nuclear fission, which is limited to heavy elements like uranium or plutonium.

This means that during interstellar voyages, if fuel runs low, parts of a ship could be dismantled to fuel others.

When Dream Technology’s grand fleet once again exited superluminal travel to deploy meteor detectors, Du Qiu received a report from Lin Feng.

Upon learning that the Tur Fleet was indeed a genuine Level 4 civilization fleet, he immediately ordered Lin Feng to scan and transmit all details of its elemental decay engine structure.

This exploration of the Tur Fleet was valuable solely for acquiring this energy technology.

Moreover, a Level 4 civilization fleet was an invaluable treasure for Dream Technology, which had just stepped into Level 4.

After all, many of Dream Technology’s technologies were on the verge of breakthrough, and securing tangible samples from this fleet would undoubtedly lead to a significant technical leap.

Fortunately, Ding Shaoqiu’s research team was well-rounded; even if one discipline was slightly lacking, mutual discussions filled in the gaps.

After Lin Feng meticulously cleared the area, Ding Shaoqiu’s research team was finally granted access to the flagship of the Tur Fleet.

From the Energy Research Institute, only three people had arrived. They immediately immersed themselves in the warship’s energy bay, conducting a comprehensive survey of the elemental decay engine.

The collected data was transmitted back to the grand fleet without delay.

The grand fleet’s Energy Research Institute then mobilized a large team to further analyze the information.

Although they could not yet replicate the elemental decay engine, they had already gained a clear understanding of its operation.

This operational method was quickly relayed back to the Tur Fleet flagship research team at the front.

The rest of Ding Shaoqiu’s R&D team was busy as well, particularly the experts who had long mastered the Tur language using earlier radio transmissions.

They translated many of the ship’s signs and texts.

Combining this with the method for using the elemental decay engine transmitted from the rear, the R&D team swiftly devised a plan to restart the Tur Fleet’s flagship.

Considering the massive ship’s central position in the fleet, and to prevent a chaotic startup that might damage surrounding warships, the plan was divided into two phases.

First, partially activate the energy bays to restore internal power across the ship.

Then, after further acquiring details about the main brain, fully launch the warship to bring the giant vessel to life.

This plan was possible thanks to the peculiar attack method of the Dark Matter Lifeform on the Tur Fleet—a method that only drained energy from machinery.

As for why the intelligent beings perished so suddenly, autopsies on Tur beings revealed that their energy organs were instantaneously paralyzed, ceasing function and thereby ending their lives.

However, this method meant that virtually all ships in the Tur Fleet remained intact, with only their machinery and robots losing power; once energy was restored, they could function again.

Following the plan, Lin Feng restarted the engines by loading the prepared elemental decay reaction fuel into the corresponding reactors.

After nearly twenty silent years, the flagship of the Tur Fleet roared back to life as engines in every energy bay resumed operation and all internal electrical systems were re-energized.

Immediately, alarms began to sound urgently!