Chapter 532

"A thousand years?" although he had a hunch, Aoki was shocked. After all, he had seen this man not long ago. Why did he suddenly become a mummy a thousand years ago?

Situ explained: "we know too little about ramra's spatial structure. Maybe there are some spatiotemporal static areas where space will not flow and the speed of matter will slow down."

"If material movement slows down, shouldn't people live longer?" petru said.

"No, the metabolism of the human body will not change, otherwise people will die. The decay speed of particles in the static area of space and time will not decrease, but the moving speed relative to space will slow down," situ said.

"It's still hard to understand." Boris went to Halsey's body, bent down and looked carefully at the face of the terrible mummified body.

"You are all at sea all year round. Do you know the shadow of death at the bottom of the sea, where the sea water is not flowing?" situ asked.

"Yes, at a depth of about two to four thousand meters under the sea surface of the North Pacific north of 32 ° south latitude, there is a shadow zone stretching thousands of kilometers. It is said that the sea water there has been trapped for thousands of years," Ivan said.

Boris was about to reach out to touch Halsey's clothes. He was stunned when he heard Ivan's answer. As a submarine veteran, he was naturally very familiar with the situation at the bottom of the sea, but he had never heard of it.

"Hey, Ivan, where do you know these strange stories? I'm sure the instructor of Kuznetsov naval academy has never taught this, and our submarine can't drive two thousand meters deep."

"You should read more nature magazines, Boris," Ivan said. "Mr. stone, I don't think it should be called the shadow of death, because there are a small number of organisms there, but the oxygen content is very low."

Situ nodded: "You're right. Of course, species can reproduce there as long as they adapt to the environment there, but that's not the point I'm talking about. The point is that the sea water there is not flowing. Although it is integrated with the whole Pacific Ocean, it has an obvious boundary. For centuries, the sea water there has been static and almost no vertical movement. It is in its own It circulates in space and never exchanges with the outside sea water.

Oceanographers call it the shadow of death.

If a whale who likes to drift accidentally enters the sea area, it will always drift in that shadow unless it knows the direction and goes upstream to the sea. Of course, whales want to breathe on the sea, so such a thing will not happen. "

"Do you mean that there are such spatial shadows in ramra?" Aoki asked.

"In theory, such a space shadow must exist in the universe, but we can't visually distinguish such a place, because it is connected with other spaces, just like the death shadow on the seabed, but it has an obvious boundary, which is both connected and isolated from the outside world. It is a very magical place."

Situ walked slowly to the window and put his hand on the window. The blurred glass did not become clear, but left a scratch, like the word "one" written by a brush.

"Compared with the vast universe, human beings are only reptiles living on the earth and have never really left the planet's surface. Naturally, they have no chance to encounter such space shadows. When human beings begin to drive spaceships and conquer the sea of stars, they will often encounter 'still space'. Of course, at that time, human spaceships must be able to get rid of the constraints of stillness , as long as it has enough power and obtains accurate spatial curvature, but with modern technology - such as this warship - if it falls into static space, its power is not enough to get rid of this space, just as we can't get rid of the gravitational attraction of galaxies.

The space tunnel of ramra's ant nest has been twisting in the universe and may appear anywhere in the Milky way at any time. The probability of falling into static space will naturally increase. Once it happens, we can only wait until ramra throws us out. "

"Just wait for yourself to become a mummy?"

Ivan remembered the days and nights in the submarine - the narrow space, the cold machines, the silent radio waves and the endless waiting... All around was the sea water. Many officers and soldiers suffered from depression, and some committed suicide because they couldn't stand the eternal loneliness isolated from the world.

"Yes, they are lucky to become mummies, which shows that the environment of the still space is good," situ said, "Although people who enter the static space can't feel anything, as long as they have enough supplies and a normal environment, people can live as before, just like you live on a submarine. However, the key to the static space is the word 'static'. It is not affected by gravity, the change of space position is very small, there is almost no acceleration and deceleration, and the material inside and the outside world change The rate of energy exchange is very slow.

Therefore, although its internal time is normal, when we are observers, its time will shrink to a minimum, because we often accelerate or decelerate relative to it. When we meet it, it may have been decades, but we have only been a few hours.

We don't have any instruments on hand. We don't know if it was once in a special radiation field, but judging from the changes of Colonel Halsey's body and clothes, even in places with abnormal radiation, it will take at least hundreds of years to become what it is now.

From the surface of the hull, it is not subject to the electrochemical corrosion of seawater, and the cabin is not wet at all, indicating that the ship has been far away from the sea for a long time.

Its surface is more like a weathering phenomenon, but the trace is not obvious, indicating that the air velocity there is not fast or the particle radiation is not strong, which is completely the silent damage caused by time. So when we look at it with a telescope from a distance, we can't see anything wrong with it.

The ship must have accidentally fallen into the static space-time. After thousands of years of space-time drift, it was captured by a space-time string or space tunnel of ramra and pulled out. "

"So this ship is definitely useless?" Boris thought it was a pity, especially the two Apache. He had driven submarines for many years, but he had little chance to touch planes. He didn't fly Mi-2 until he retired from a customer. He always wanted to try the mi-4 or higher helicopter.

"The energy must be exhausted. You'd better not touch the weapons on board. It's not safe," situ said. "But such a large ship can serve as a base for us, which is much better than living in the open-air woods. Ivan, go and see if the gangway is rusted. Can you put it down manually and climb the rope every time?"

Ivan promised and took Boris out of the command room.

"We'll go out too," said situ.

"Why don't you go to another cabin?"

"There is no power supply. The lower cabin is very dark and invisible. We need to find some torches."

They came to the side of the ship and leaned against the railing. When they came, the lifeboat was below. The people on the boat were looking forward to the news with their necks up.

"Don't worry, madam, we're trying to get you up!" petru shouted to the boat.