Earth Era

The star system has been transformed into a chaotic interstellar pinball battlefield, churned by trillions of robots. The continuous and extremely high-speed robot bombardment even changed the state of the red dwarf star. Its brightness began to rise rapidly, and strong solar wind blew from it, sweeping across the entire galaxy at a speed of thousands of kilometers per second. The poles of several planets attached to it appeared with extremely brilliant auroras, like long whips waving in the universe.

Auroras and meteors, smoke and explosions together create a strange and magnificent scene in this star system.

In the asteroid belt, a spy satellite disguised as an interstellar stone is also silently observing all this and transmitting this information and pictures in real time. After relay transmission, this information will also come to the earth and be received by the staff of the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network.

Not only in these two places, there are more situations like this happening in this dark and deep universe. Countless robots broke away from super-light navigation due to loss of power and entered a navigation mode dominated by inertia, becoming real interstellar wanderers. Countless robots approaching the stars transformed into cannonballs and hit stars or planets...

The endless robots are ice and snow, and the signal from the solar system is the midday sun in summer. Wherever the sun shines, the ice and snow melt quickly. Facing this blow that seemed to come from the depths of their souls, the robots had no power to resist. No matter how large their numbers were, no matter how tough their defenses were, no matter how powerful their attacks... it didn't matter. They would die immediately after being caught.

Countless spy satellites have seen scenes similar to this one. At that moment, data like a tide began to be transmitted in the deep space monitoring network. The signals transmitted at a speed of a hundred times the speed of light continued to crisscross between different communication equipment, communication nodes, and communication bases, and finally came to Arriving in the solar system, we arrived at the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Base.

The first signal to arrive was from the E7368 star field. Because the content contained in this message was too strange, the intelligent program of the deep space monitoring system automatically determined it to be SSS+, so this message was first presented to the staff.

"The robot group numbered 1621 has advanced to the E7368 star field. The spy satellite there has detected the change in space curvature caused by the robot traveling at super-light speed..." A staff member casually looked at the information in his hand. He said to his colleagues around him, "Hey, the E7368 star field is only less than two light-years away from the Luhrmann galaxy. According to this speed, they will arrive there in just a few months... "

The staff began to feel heavy in their hearts.

At the next moment, another piece of information with an importance level marked as SSS+ came here. The staff member pressed the receive button and began to read again: "Due to unknown reasons, the robot group numbered 1621 broke away from the super-light speed voyage at almost the same time and entered the normal navigation state... Hmm, what? ! Entering a regular navigation state? This is wrong. The E7368 star field is a void, and basically no macroscopic objects exist. What is the robot group doing there breaking away from super-light navigation? Is this necessary? "

This slightly weird message immediately caught the attention of the staff. People gathered around one after another, and after a moment, a thought appeared in the minds of the staff at the same time: "Is it because of the evolutionary trap?! Has the evolutionary trap plan finally taken effect?..."

The emergence of this idea made people's hearts skip a beat. It is very easy to verify this. After all, the transmission of signals takes time. Just calculate whether the area where the "harvest" signal is transmitted at this moment overlaps with the area where the robot group inexplicably escapes from super-light navigation. You can quickly figure out Conclusion - If the two events occurred at the same time, there must be a causal relationship between the two events and it cannot be a coincidence. The chance of such a coincidence happening is so low that it can be ignored.

Everyone knows this, but no one tries to verify it.

Because they also know...actually they don't need to verify it themselves. If the evolutionary trap plan really takes effect, the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network will soon pass on further news.

Everyone's eyes were focused on that instrument. Everyone is suppressing their inner excitement and waiting for further news. At this moment, the room was extremely silent, and people even breathed softly, as if they were afraid of disturbing something.

Just as people expected, further news soon came here. The staff member quickly opened the message, then lowered his voice and muttered: "Due to unknown reasons, the intensity of infrared rays released by the robot group is rapidly decreasing... As of now, it has been reduced by one percent."

"The intensity of the infrared ray source has decreased?" the staff member whispered, "What causes the intensity of the infrared ray source to decrease?"

"Obviously, only a drop in temperature will cause this phenomenon." Another staff member said, "And we know that the heat of the robot is generated by the continuous work of the internal instruments, because the instruments are always working, so There will be a steady stream of heat generated. Under the work of the heat dissipation equipment, the robot's body heat will be maintained at a constant level, neither decreasing nor increasing. But now...the temperature of the robot's body has dropped...is this mean……"

The staff member hesitated and did not express his guess. Although this guess was almost 99% confirmed to be true, it was so important that even if he was so sure, he would not dare to say it.

Another staff member said: "Obviously, this means that the inside of the robot's body has stopped generating heat. Without the supplement of heat, their body temperature will of course begin to slowly decrease, just like our human bodies will also decrease after death. It will gradually become colder. And...why does the robot's body stop generating heat? This...is there any other explanation besides the fact that the instruments inside the robot's body have stopped operating?"

Several staff members looked at each other and slowly shook their heads.

A bit of joy burst out from several people's minds. The staff member resisted the urge to cheer and kept his voice steady, but he still couldn't help but have a little tremor in his voice: "This, this, I think, we should notify our superior agency immediately , inform the head of state, inform Xiao Yun..."

"Okay, I'll go and notify you. You continue to observe here!" A staff member shouted, turned around and ran out of the monitoring room.

At this moment, two months have passed since Xiao Yun pressed the red button and broadcast the "harvest" signal into the universe. During these two months, Xiao Yun's life was not good. Not only Xiao Yun, but also the head of state, General Emerk, Xiao Muhong, heads of various government departments, scientists who knew about the matter, etc., everyone seemed to be in a state of trance.

People have a tacit understanding not to mention this matter, as if it has never happened. People are still continuing their work, the head of state is still dealing with heavy government affairs, and General Emmerk is still talking to his staff all day long. Discussing defense matters together, Xiao Yun is still in the Scientific Affairs Committee all day long. They seem to be working normally, but sometimes they will suddenly stop during the work and stand there blankly, as if their soul has left the body. .

Today is also a difficult day for Xiao Yun. At this moment, Xiao Yun is processing some data, but he can't calm down in his mind. There is always an anxious flame burning in his heart, which cannot be extinguished no matter what. After working hard for a long time, Xiao Yun finally sighed, pushed the documents in front of him away, and gave up on continuing to work.

"Success is not scary, and failure is not scary. What is scary is the wait before the outcome is revealed..." Xiao Yun sighed silently, "Faced with this gamble that determines the fate of mankind... I am afraid that anyone, even if they are mentally tough, can The Yuan Dynasty can’t calm down.”

Xiao Yun left his seat, walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the mountains in the distance, and once again fell into contemplation.

I don’t know how long I stood here, but suddenly, a harsh ringing broke the silence in the office. Xiao Yun frowned, walked quickly to the desk, and pressed the answer button.

A strange face appeared in the screen. Xiao Yun did not recognize this person, but through the epaulette of that person, Xiao Yun recognized that he was a staff member of the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Base. Then Xiao Yun's heart suddenly jumped up: "Is there any result of the evolutionary trap plan?"

"Chairman Xiao!" the staff member roared excitedly, "We have just received information from the satellite. We confirm that we have detected something unusual. Please come to the base immediately!"

Xiao Yun asked in a deep voice: "Have you notified the head of state?"

"We have been notified, the head of state will be here immediately!"

"Okay, wait for me, I'll leave now!" Xiao Yun said, turning off the communication image and quickly walked out of the office.

It wasn't until Xiao Yun sat on the high-speed rail car that he calmed down a little, but his hands were shaking non-stop and could not calm down no matter what. (To be continued ~^~)