Time for us to go.

Almost instantly, the entire command room was like a machine, and every researcher and engineer sitting in it, like a gear on a hair strip, was running in order.

Tens of millions of kilometres away, in orbit around Mars, the two rings surrounding the black metal sphere, like the rings connected on the globe, are propelled by small electrical propulsion engines to control the direction of the sphere in the center of the circle.

Finally, a large hexagonal rivet-shaped bump aimed remotely at another Z particle clock floating in geosynchronous orbit tens of millions of kilometres away.

At the center of that riveted raised, complex and sophisticated optics were stormed as the housing covering the surface moved away. Deep in the air.

At the same time, a solemn and steady message rang in the ground command centre.

“Turn on the high power laser calibrator. ”

Orders issued.

The signal emitted from the ground command centre is received by the Alpha Z particle clock floating in synchronous orbit.

Almost simultaneously with the orders, an invisible infrared light is projected straight from the fruit-exposed laser calibrator to distant Mars and captured by the beta-Z particle clock floating in the orbit around Mars.

Like a bass with a bite, two spherical Z particle clocks surrounding the wheel circle, pointing at each other's emission interfaces under the guidance of a laser, create a bond in the dark, deep space that cannot be captured by the naked eye, but that really exists.

Looking down on the big screen, the two metal spheres connected by the red line, along with the changing orbital parameters displayed on the screen, and the hint of [successful calibration], Director Lee standing in the command room almost mentioned his heart to his voice eye, and not far away Rowenxuan, Edward Witten, and a group of physicists invited to the scene, didn't even consciously squeeze their hands.

The critical moment is coming.

Whether the hyperspace theory of an ark is true or false, it is definitely a moment that can be recorded in history.

Even CERN has never done such an expensive experiment, and even without calculating the cost of those launches, the sum of the cost of two Z-particle clocks and their accessories alone has approached the 500 million mark.

If they succeed, they make history, they make the future.

And if it fails...

This will probably be the most expensive fireworks ever unleashed in human history.

“Launch port open! ”

“Successfully opened! ”

“Prepare the core for ignition - ignition! ”

With a series of orders, after more than 200 seconds of waiting, two Z-particle clocks, tens of millions of kilometers apart, trembled slightly at the same time.

An emission array of hundreds of thousands of laser sources was lit in an instant, impulsive ultraviolet light with 13 million joules of energy, shooting almost indelibly from all sides to the ignition target at the center of the sphere.

Inside a huge hollow metal sphere filled with ultraviolet light instantly. Even without the light shining on the ignition target, the eight thousand pieces of titanium-phosphate-containing glass evenly distributed inside the ball shell were reflected and converged on a point.

It was also almost at the moment when the laser array lit, the shell of the fuel pellets located on the ignition target, about 5 mm in diameter, was instantaneously vaporized and ignited under that 100-million-degree high temperature broil, along with the internal deuterium fuel.

Comparable to the instant release of the star's energy, it pushes the lead core inside the sphere to collide, squeeze, vaporize and ionize, and in this constant friction and collision, the Z particles that sway in the high-dimensional universe are finally caught in the tail by this horrible force!

The ground command center, the researcher sitting in front of the job, suddenly shouted with excitement.

“Gravitational anomaly signal observed! ”

As soon as the report was heard, the Ark issued its final order with little hesitation.

“Start the photon source! ”

“Yes!”

With the help of an electric push engine, two intersecting wheel rings deadly fixed the spherical Z particle clock to its original position and, guided by that infrared beam, maintained the alignment of the photon source emitter and receiver.

Meanwhile, positive-negative electrons collide instantly in a photon source located at the front end of the beta-Z particle clock in the Mars orbit around it.

As a string of invisible sparks erupted, entangled photons burst in an instant.

One straightened forward along its original orbit, while the other was captured by the gravitational field disturbed by the Z particle oscillation and projected into the already disturbed gravitational field, following an almost coincidental but not identical trajectory, towards receivers tens of millions of kilometres away.

Time seems to be clotting at this moment.

Looking at the timer beating on the big screen, the ark's heartbeat almost synchronized with it.

Likewise, he stared at the beating seconds, and Director Li kept saying something in his mouth, like praying, waiting for the final results of the experiment.

And behind him, Secretary-General Ro, Professor Witten, Professor Wilzek, as well as representatives of the IMCRC's national councils and invited scholars, almost maintained the same motion, standing there like sculptures, throwing their gaze at that big screen, glued to death.

Finally, when the number on timer 1 jumped to 207.1s, the atmosphere inside the command center was like frozen and solidified there.

One second left, as long as a century.

And as it thoroughly crosses the past, then the continuously beating Timer 2, like an explosive LEI tube, completely detonates the freezing atmosphere in the Command Center!

The cheer sounded like a storm, and people shook their fists, waved their fists, or threw hats, documents, or even pens into the sky.

The boiling atmosphere almost overturned the ceiling.

People of different skin tones, speaking different languages, left equally excited and moved tears.

Looking at the second timer, which continued to beat and eventually stopped at [270.7s], the bow's throat moved gently, and the tight face finally soothed a relaxed smile.

Timer 1 is rated at 207.1s.

In other words, the first photons to reach the receiver went 65 million kilometers.

This photon “saves” at least 20 million kilometers relative to the linear distance of about 85 million kilometers between the two Z particle clocks!

With the principle of constant speed of light, there is only one explanation left for this photon reaching the “end point” in advance...

His conclusion was again demonstrated by the homologous photon control group immediately followed by the “end point", and by the reading seconds rated at 270.7s on timer 2.

And proved by a full 63.6s time difference!

At this moment, all doubts and controversies are instantly settled.

The oscillating Z particles disturbed the invisible but real gravitational bond between Earth and Mars, and thereby altered the curvature of space-time, straightening out the wrinkled space-time and opening a hyperspace channel beyond the three-dimensional space itself.

Perhaps this is not the best course.

Even it's fragile like a kid blowing soap bubbles into the sun, rugged like a mountain trail made of gravel.

Somewhere invisible, there must still be better ways in the universe to create a more stable, “straight” hyperspace channel that would allow that photon to reach distant Mars, even beyond the solar system, at the borders of the Milky Way, in a shorter period of time - even less than a second.

Its existence, however, remains so dazzling.

Just like a vast and long epic poem, the first note to be sung by the poet.

Perhaps in that myriad of notes weaving stories there will be myriad heroic greats in pink, but even then, even if they add up all their greatness, they cannot match the light that bloomed in the first moment.

Perhaps it is too far to talk about this now.

But there is no doubt about it.

That's the ark standing in this command center, proving him and his theory--

That's right!