Earth Era

"This is the escape plan formulated by our Institute of Extraterrestrial Civilization." Zheng Fanghai gently closed the virtual display screen in front of him, and then turned his attention to the many participants in the conference room, "Do you have anything to add? What?"

The president of the Academy of Sciences sighed deeply and said: "In any case, this plan is too illusory. It pins its hopes on super alien civilization... This, this..."

The dean of the Academy of Sciences murmured a few words, but the next words were never spoken. But anyone can understand the meaning of the dean's words.

Up to now, human civilization has not even had contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, has not discovered the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, and has not even discovered extraterrestrial life in a broad sense, even simple life.

But...if the evolutionary trap plan is really weakened or even completely ineffective, what else can we do if we don’t place our hopes on the illusory super alien civilization? Even if there are many risks in contact with super alien civilization, even if there may be no alien civilization at all, human civilization will not be able to find a resting place even if it escapes ten thousand light years, even if human civilization may be destroyed by the endless forces in the escape. Danger consumes all flesh and blood, and eventually dies in this universe... Human civilization must choose this plan, because no matter how elusive the hope is, it is still a glimmer of hope. If you stay here, there will be no chance at all.

The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely dull and depressing. After the somewhat sad words of the Dean of the Academy of Sciences stopped, no one spoke in the conference room for a long time. In the end, the head of state broke the silence: "So be it. I order that preparations for the escape will continue to be carried out. At the same time, the Lyra deep space monitoring network should also pay close attention to the movements around the solar system. If there are any abnormalities, report them immediately..."

Zheng Fanghai's escape plan was passed without a vote or anyone's explicit consent. Everyone knows very well that judging from the current situation, this matter leaves no room for discussion at all, and it is impossible for people to find other solutions. In this case, why bother to vote... to express agreement?

Xiao Yun was also one of the participants in this meeting, but Xiao Yun did not express any opinions during this meeting and just watched silently throughout the meeting. So does General Emmerk.

At the end of the meeting and leaving the conference room, Xiao Yun happened to walk with General Emerk. It's just that they haven't seen him for a while, and General Emerk seems to have aged many years, and his hair has even turned gray.

The two looked at each other, neither of them said anything, they just sighed at each other and walked away.

I don't know how far away from the solar system, in the deep and dark universe, a red star that is somewhat smaller than the sun has opened up a bright field here with its own light and heat. There are three planets orbiting around it. Among the three planets is a huge rocky planet. Although it has an atmosphere, its surface is still desolate, with no water, no life, and some are just yellow sky. Sand, and huge rolling dunes everywhere. Occasionally, there are deep ravines that are thousands of miles long and bottomless, like huge wounds on the planet.

Strong winds and yellow sand mean changeable terrain. A huge sand dune may disappear without a trace in just one night, and a sand pit as vast as a lake may be buried by yellow sand in the next moment.

For it, nothing lasts forever. Perhaps the dark red sun that rises every sixteen and a half hours is eternal, but it is more like an infinite repetition of machinery, and it obviously has no meaning.

This desolate and lifeless planet has maintained this situation for billions of years. But one day more than ten years ago, this unchanging situation was broken. Many robots have arrived here from outer space. Those robots are moving crazily on this planet and multiplying indiscriminately. When they are at their largest number, they even significantly change the entire planet. landforms.

But that all changed a few months ago. A sudden broadcast message harvested the lives of all the robots. As a result, the great and eternal force of nature once again took over the planet. The yellow sand that concealed the sky once again rolled up, sweeping away all the people who had been on this planet. The majestic robots on the planet are buried underground. Dust is still dust, and dirt is still dirt.

Those hundreds of billions of robots ultimately did not cause any changes to the planet.

This star system is not always peaceful and unchanging. When the robot group was still active, this was the world of robots. After the robots disappeared, interstellar stones from alien star systems began to enter this star system frequently. These interstellar rocks follow a preset orbit, usually making one circle in the star system and then leaving, but some will also choose a longer journey, and they will circle around the stars in the star system in turn. Three planets, you will not leave until you have explored all three planets.

Because they are not ordinary interstellar rocks, they are part of the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network, and they are responsible for detecting environmental trends around the solar system. This star system is obviously one of the monitoring targets of the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network. Judging from the number of probes that have reached this star system, this star system has received quite a lot of attention.

It is precisely because of this that when an abnormality occurs on the surface of the huge rocky planet, the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network will observe it immediately.

The so-called first time is actually not the first time in an absolute sense. Compared with the entire planet, a robot is too small. Even if the sensitivity of the Lyra deep space monitoring network is increased by ten times, the probability of detecting the movements of a robot is still very low. In fact, when the detection satellite orbiting the planet detected abnormal changes on the planet's surface, the number of active robots had increased to tens of thousands.

Perhaps at dusk, a surviving robot emerged from under the yellow sand. Under the cover of the complex terrain, it quietly began its reproductive journey. One after another, young robots emerged from its belly. Birth, then rapid growth, then reproduction again...

The robots eventually gathered into a huge collective. Due to collective collaboration, the reproduction rate of the robots increased again, and was eventually detected by the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network.

As a result, a signal was sent from the detection satellite and quickly transmitted to the network node satellite. The node satellite uploaded the information again. After dozens of signal relays, the signal finally arrived at the Lyra constellation above the earth. In the main base of the deep space exploration network, it was quickly reported to the head of state.

"The evolutionary trap plan has not received full success, and it has been confirmed that the robot group has slipped through the net." The head of state said in a somewhat heavy tone, "The Lyra deep space exploration network has detected clear information, and... The situation is worse than we imagined."

Absolute silence remained in the conference room, with no one speaking.

Everyone knows exactly what this means. Although surviving robots have only been found in one place at the moment, what this means is definitely not that simple. From zero to one is a qualitative change, but from one to a hundred is only a quantitative change. In other words, it is unlikely that there are only surviving robots in this place. The most likely thing is that... there are many surviving robots around the solar system, but because their current number is too small, there are no It was just detected by the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network.

"The evolutionary trap plan has not received full success. There are still surviving robots. This news is bad enough. What situation can be worse than this?" A scientific research expert said with some despair.

"Yes, the situation is indeed worse than we imagined." The head of state said with a wry smile, "This worse situation is... we ignored one point before, we forgot... Although the evolutionary trap destroyed most of the robots , but don’t forget that the remains of those robots are basically intact, and they only died because some key parts were damaged. This means that their body materials can still be used and survived Robots no longer need to mine the materials needed to replicate themselves in the natural environment. They only need to eat the corpses of their dead peers, and new robots will be continuously created..."

"Relying on devouring the corpses of dead fellows to replicate oneself is at least three hundred times faster than extracting raw materials from the natural environment to replicate oneself. Everyone...do you know what this means?"

The conference room was still quiet, and no one answered the head of state. The head of state was still minding his own business and said: "This means...the buffer time we originally speculated does not exist at all. The robot group will regain complete victory in the shortest time, and then start to surround our solar system again..."

"My compatriots," the head of state said with some sadness, "we have failed. The evolutionary trap plan has completely failed. Based on the current reproduction rate of robots, we do not even have the ability to launch an evolutionary trap attack on them again... There simply wasn’t enough time for us to guide them down the wrong technological path bit by bit... We failed completely..." (To be continued~^~)