Containment Control Starts With the Umbrella

"Is the Milky Way a special case?"

William repeated in a low voice, his expression softened, and he asked Halsey again: "What about the number of Level 4 civilizations?"

"The number of fourth-level civilizations is very small. If you use a Chinese sentence as a metaphor, it is like a 'rare' existence."

Halsey replied without thinking, and continued to explain to William:

"Because according to our human understanding, the civilization level can only be calculated to 'three' at most, and there is no specific explanation for the fourth-level civilization until now.

But one thing I can know is that in order to develop into this kind of civilization similar to a real god, it needs to exist at least during the cooling period after the Big Bang. "

"The cooling-off period after the Big Bang..." William thought for a while before suddenly saying:

"Catherine, are you saying that not long after the birth of the universe, those civilizations existed in this world?"

"That's right." Halsey nodded without denying it, and said:

"We must know that there are many civilizations, but the number that still exists is much less than the result calculated by our formula.

There is also a civilization screening mechanism in the universe.

That is to say, this civilization was destroyed due to some major change before it could develop into interstellar colonization.

Such as asteroids, natural disasters on the parent planet, or civil wars in civilizations.

Like us human beings, if there is no sailing to the dawn plan, or if we have not been invaded by the Reaper civilization, it is very likely that we will destroy ourselves.

This probability is not zero, but very high, so it seems that the number of technological civilizations we had twenty years ago can reach infinite.

But the technology that we have reached our Human Elite Alliance is considered a rare existence in the universe. After all, the Milky Way in the future will be our world.

Third-level civilizations like pioneers and ancient humans are even rarer, let alone fourth-level...or god-level civilizations like pioneers.

And..." Halsey said here, and manipulated her ultra-thin mobile phone again.

Afterwards, a thumbnail image of the universe appeared on the holographic screen, and an area in it appeared abnormally dark without a single point of light.

At this time, Halsey said: "And William, look at this picture, those stars emitting different colors are actually galaxies similar to the size of the Milky Way."

"The size of the galaxy?!" William was stunned for a moment, then pointed to the completely dark area on the picture, and couldn't help but say in amazement:

"This also means which regions are hundreds of times larger than galaxies?!"

"That's right." Halsey also looked at the completely dark area and said:

"Even if there is a black hole the size of the Milky Way, it is impossible to cause such darkness. You must know that we humans can photograph black holes through light.

At the same time, it is unrealistic that such a large area cannot be free of any matter.

So after listening to your "Three-Body Problem", I thought... Is it possible that these areas are super interstellar wars between those god-level civilizations, resulting in the appearance of these dark areas.

For example, the two-way foil dimensionality reduction weapon you mentioned is the most likely to cause such an effect in a star sector, which is why I want to meet that writer. "

"You mean..." Hearing this, William showed astonishment, and said in a stuttering voice:

"In our world, do there exist... dimensionality reduction weapons like Erxiang Foil?".

Halsey did not answer directly, but first locked the screen of the phone and turned off the storage of the holographic screen.

Then he shrugged and said indifferently: "That's right, but that area is about 6.5 billion light-years away from us, which means it happened in 6.5 billion years.

Sixty-five billion years is enough time for a god-level civilization to end the war, and it is also enough for the victor to control the entire universe.

But now?

We're still fine.

What's more, the civilization that reaches that level is not something that we humans can speculate, and the morality and way of thinking are all above us, the Sangheili, and even the existence of the forerunners.

They may have discovered that two or more wars would lead to the premature destruction of the universe, thus stopping this ancient and barbaric practice.

The law of the dark forest mentioned by the author of "The Three-Body Problem" is applicable to civilizations of the third level and below, and may not be applicable to the god-level civilization.

So don't worry too much about those former neurocivilizations.

For example, the most similar or closest to the god-level civilization in our cognition is the pioneer.

According to the description of Gobekli Tepe, the pioneers came to the Milky Way to spread life, "coming", it means that the pioneers visited other galaxies or nebulae before this.

It can be seen that after the super-galaxy-level war billions of years ago, all god-level civilizations tacitly abolished the act of war, and went to various galaxies in the universe to create or support weak civilizations.

For example, the detonation of a quantum bullet is enough to attract the attention of a god-level civilization. If we want to kill us, then we will be wiped out the moment the quantum bullet is detonated. "

"Hum... I hope that the fourth-level or god-level civilization is really like what you said."

After listening to the explanation given by Halsey, William finally got rid of the shadow brought by the two-way foil.

The demise of himself and Umbrella is a small matter, but if it rises to the entire human race or the Milky Way, he has to worry about it.

Digested for a moment.

"Hehe." William finally showed a relieved smile, raised his arms around Halsey's waist, and couldn't help sighing:

"With your miraculous lady, I think even if you encounter a god-level civilization, you should be able to resist for such a period of time."

"You think too highly of me." Halsey said so, but there was still a proud smile on his face.

"That's right." But Halsey's smile was fleeting, and he pinched William's side lightly, and said with a little seriousness:

"There is no need to worry about god-level civilizations, but third-level civilizations must be guarded against. Don't forget the war between ancient humans and the forerunners.

And the sword-bearers in "Three-Body Problem", especially the Luo Ji you mentioned impressed me deeply, they either live together or perish together.

If our human and elite alliance encounters a third-level civilization before we control the entire galaxy, or in the next hundred years, we also need a weapon that can shake the third-level civilization. "

When Halsey said this, he raised his head to meet William's gaze, and showed a slightly deep smile again:

"My husband, you have worked so hard to master the technology of the Ark, Halo or Shield world, that's why."

"Of course." William said without denying:

"The pulse wave released by the halo matrix is ​​enough to 'reset' the entire galaxy in an instant, and everything returns to the initial stage.

If we encounter an attack from a third-level civilization, then we have a bargaining chip, and even a winning chip.

That's why I must gain control of the Ark. "