I Really Didn’t Want to be a Savior

In 2760, this group of non-returners set off from the planet at the edge of Barnard's galaxy. By 2950, ​​they had advanced to a distant deep space nearly 160 light-years away from the solar system.

They discovered a lonely asteroid floating in the universe, not orbiting any star.

After landing, the detector began to continuously receive electromagnetic wave signals with obvious regularity.

After several years of research, the No Returners discovered that the asteroid was actually a long and ancient rock life.

This rock has a lifespan of at least two billion years.

The consciousness of rock life was born alone in the rock structure that was fused with some metals, and existed in a way that was completely inconsistent with the cognitive logic of people on earth, and also completely inconsistent with the earth's definition of life.

Its main consciousness is not a complete logic constructed in the brain of carbon-based life, and there are no neurons or nerves in its body.

But the wonderful thing is that the protons, neutrons, and even the huge structure of atoms and molecules that make up this asteroid form a wonderful whole.

Electrons and ions float among them, transmitting information at a slow speed and forming a closed cycle, forming a huge slow intelligence that is similar to carbon-based life, but completely different.

Carbon-based life, especially humans, relies on the flow of charged ions to transmit information, and relies on quantum changes in phosphorus atoms within the microtubule structure of neuron cells to produce consciousness and store memory.

Rock life relies on larger scale but slower low-speed chemical reactions to transmit information. It also relies on quantum collapse changes in the various compounds within it to produce consciousness and memory.

The prerequisite for everything is that by chance with an infinite denominator, the quantum changes in this asteroid form a pattern and combine into a whole.

The process of its birth was too accidental.

It has no likeness.

Even if there are other rock life forms in the universe, they are not of the same species as it.

Normally, its thinking speed is very slow, and a human life may be just a short memory for him.

It is not smart, has no inventions, and does not even have a level of civilization.

But it is still truly "alive".

It can memorize and repeat simple information continuously.

After the information is memorized by it, it will be forgotten at a slow rate as it "ages".

When all memories are forgotten, it means it is "dead".

At that time, the more than 20 non-returners who only had more than ten years left to live had no chance to read its message.

But fortunately, when humans come into contact with it, it will soon reach the end of its life.

The gravitational effect within its body begins to take effect, and the quantum collapse that originally never stagnated is gradually stagnating due to particle settling.

When everything falls into silence, it will become a real cosmic rock, which may be captured by a star or planet countless years later.

As a lonely life that has witnessed two billion years of time, it may be a little unwilling after all.

At the same time, precisely because the quantum state gradually tends to settle, the frequency of small-scale collapse in its body has accelerated countless times.

Its thinking became faster, and it began to release an image signal that was about half an hour long in a year.

The electromagnetic wave signal is the last image it wants to convey to humans.

Before they grew old and died one after another, the non-returners finally deciphered this message. It was an extremely grand three-dimensional projection of the universe.

It tells a story to humans.

The content of the story is a war that took place millions of years ago.

The war lasted for thousands of years, with the warring parties disappearing and reappearing from time to time.

Of course, the rock life has seen more than just the scenes in this video, but it has long forgotten things from a longer time ago.

Moreover, in its consciousness, everything it experienced in the long 1.9 billion years of its "first half of life" was only endless loneliness and absolute boredom. It was not until the last million years of its life that everything it experienced before it experienced such magnificent changes.

This experience that has lasted for thousands of years is the most precious wealth in its heart.

Even if it is about to die, it hopes that its wealth can be passed down.

Rock life compresses thousands of years of time into a video of only half an hour, making deciphering extremely difficult.

But the Unreturner succeeded in the end.

The two warring parties are the Lost Tribe and the Compound Eyes.

At that time, the battleships of the Compound Eyes were not the prismatic structures they are today, but small spheres one after another, exactly one million in number.

The compound-eyed civilization had the upper hand from the start.

As the war progressed, the battleship form of the Compound Eye Civilization gradually changed and its performance continued to improve.

This means that the technology of the Mi clan is being digested and absorbed.

Eventually, the war ceased.

There has never been a confrontation of the same intensity in the memory of the rock life.

At this time, all the millions of warships of the Compound Eye Civilization have been transformed into prismatic structures.

The number one million is subtle.

Because Chen Feng saw from the battlefield intelligence that the exact number of prismatic battleships in front of him at this time was 999,996.

The four missing ones should be the controllers of the spherical battleships, each responsible for patrolling a ninety-degree sector of the Milky Way.

This is both eerie and terrifying.

This means that for millions of years, the true number of compound-eyed invaders has never decreased or increased.

This is horrifying and shows that the compound-eyed people have found a way to possibly live forever.

Chen Feng could roughly guess what the solution was.

Clone and copy and paste the consciousness, and then continue to cultivate the gu to screen new personality subjects.

At present, humans are unable to transfer consciousness because the quantum thought storms in the human brain are too complex, but it does not mean that people with compound eyes cannot do it.

Maybe people with compound eyes have relatively simple thinking?

In addition, the reason why Chen Feng said it was "possible eternal life" rather than confirmed eternal life.

That's because there may be a limit to the number of times you can clone and copy-paste.

After a certain number of times, even if the body is still alive, the mind may collapse and gradually distort into another personality.

Or the consciousness may directly collapse, leading to physical survival and complete psychological death.

For example, are the one million compound-eyed people today and the million compound-eyed people one million years ago still the same person in a one-to-one correspondence?

Chen Feng didn't know, and the compound-eyed man himself might not know either.

That is the ethics of the universe, and unless humans can master perfect thought transfer, they cannot understand it.

In addition, another important information Chen Feng obtained, the positioning of spherical warships as patrol ships in the compound-eye civilization, also came from the difference between the number of one million and 999996.

This is a definite answer.

After the Compound Eyes occupied the Milky Way, they should have gathered in a certain galaxy near the center of the Galaxy. Then they divided the Milky Way into four sector-shaped areas, and patrolled them with four patrol ships, with a frequency of one way every thousand years and a round trip every two thousand years.

Approximately every time the patrol ship returns, there will be a different group of people.

Humanity's luck is both good and bad. When the solar barrier arrives, the spherical warship responsible for patrolling this area needs to fly 500 years from the solar system, leaving at least 500 years for mankind to develop.

Of course, these five hundred years may also be left to humans intentionally by those with compound eyes.

Since the Compound Eyes can absorb the technology of the Lost Clan, of course they can also absorb the technology of humans.

In a sense, the sun barrier is also an important means by which Compound Eye can allow low-level civilization to develop in a cage with absolute safety, and then completely annihilate it and erase its traces at the right time.

As for why the two major colonies failed to discover the remains of high-level civilization in the Orion Arm, and all they encountered were low-level civilizations?

Maybe it was bad luck and not found, or maybe the compound-eyed person's hands and feet were too clean.

Assuming that there is still a kind order in the universe, then compound-eyed people need to clean up the battlefield carefully to eliminate high-level civilizations, but it does not matter when they eliminate low-level civilizations.

It's as if a gangster needs to destroy the body to eliminate traces of a murder. If he tramples a grasshopper to death on the road, he will naturally leave his body alone.

In this timeline, in addition to the spherical battleships, the new enemy's prism fleet sets out from the galaxy near the center of the galaxy and pounces on the earth.

The prismatic battleship travels slightly faster than the ball ship, and may be farther away, but it only reaches the solar system less than twenty hours later.

Why are the spherical warships used for patrols larger than the war machine prismatic warships?

To understand it from a human perspective, you can think of it this way.

How would it feel for a person with eternal life to go on a mission that would take two thousand years to go back and forth?

Even if there is a super-light quantum network that can keep in touch with one's own species, it still cannot avoid emptiness, loneliness and coldness.

When technology has developed sufficiently and energy is almost inexhaustible, should this "brave" who performs patrol missions be given the highest material treatment?

Of course it should.

Building a huge patrol ship, increasing its activity space, creating the best entertainment and living conditions for it, and improving the fun of its mission have become one of the basic guarantees.

In addition, it must be given a means to ensure the continuation of its life, which is cloning and replication.

The "patroller" who died in Chen Feng's hands must have particularly loved the number 55.

The above conjectures and conclusive arguments are the standard answers obtained by Chen Feng and other solar system scholars after integrating the knowledge of the two colonies.

Chen Feng believed that his conjecture was basically close to the truth, and it was also consistent with every conjecture and every intelligence detail he had made in the past.

In fact, the situation has not changed. This time the defeat is doomed, but Chen Feng is not sad, but rather proud.

Compared with other annihilated civilizations in Orion's arms, and even compared with the once powerful civilization of the lost tribe, he has done well enough.

Since the Compound Eye Civilization invaded the Milky Way, God knows how many wars they have fought, large and small, but never a single individual has died.

According to the analysis of the Mizu escape ship by Proxima Centauri scientists, the technological level of the annihilated Mizu at that time should be similar to that of today's solar system, and even slightly superior in materials science.

But the result was that not only were the Mi clan completely defeated, they were even completely absorbed by their opponents during the war.

Now, mankind is facing a more powerful enemy that has taken root in the Milky Way and developed for millions of years, has absorbed and transformed all the technology of the Lost Tribe, and has sucked a lot of blood from more low-level civilizations.

But humanity, which rose to prominence in its twilight years, died only seven times and experienced seven thousand-year technological accelerations. From a humble and insignificant level 0.7 civilization to today, it successfully killed a human being. Those with compound eyes.

Chen Feng didn't feel so proud before, but now he feels a little more gratified.

In addition, he gained a new understanding of the classes of civilization.

When the technical level is not high, Kardashev civilization classification has relatively good adaptability.

But when the level of science and technology exceeds a certain limit, the class gap between civilizations cannot simply be measured by the amount of energy used.

For example, if humans fall into an eternal technological bottleneck after the invention of the Dyson membrane and make no further achievements, as long as the earthlings are given time, the earthlings can still spread their footprints all over the galaxy and destroy every star in the galaxy. If used, it is not even impossible to covet the silver heart and slowly climb up the ladder of third-level civilization.

But at this time, people on Earth still cannot leave the Milky Way and go to extragalactic galaxies. When facing the invading Compound Eyes, they still have to lose the battle.

Even if the opponent only sends a million warships, and the total energy they possess together is less than one billionth of the entire galaxy, they can still win.

The gap in energy utilization that can be smoothed out by time is of no value.

The value of technology will be more in quality than quantity.

For another example, suppose that today's human beings suddenly master a high-speed mobile technology that is independent of bends and gravitational line curvature flight, and can support a group of people to rush away from the Milky Way to the other end of the Laniakea supercluster, then the extinction of humankind will be Fate was reversed in an instant.

Chen Feng thought of his next direction of struggle.

Continue to seek deeper technological explosions and obtain new power that can overwhelm the Compound Eyes in some aspects. At that time, humans will either gain super mobility to escape, or gain super warfare capabilities that can defeat the Compound Eyes' million-sided warship fleet head-on. .

No matter which one it is, it can completely change the future.

Now he understood the truth, but as the war progressed, his mood did not change particularly.

First, he found that no matter how hard he tried to imagine and speculate, he could not find a way to stably stimulate the explosion of deep technology.

He also informed Ou Qinglan and others of his idea, hoping that more scientific workers would work together with him, but the results were still very disappointing.

Secondly, it is always painful to see one's own kind die group after group in the confrontation with foreign races.

The three human fleets were still dying very quickly.

After the Compound Eyes quickly figured out the path between the Proxima Centauri fleet and Barnard's fleet, the battle damage rate became even faster.

Unconsciously, another half hour passed, and Chen Feng gradually felt exhausted both physically and mentally.

He couldn't come up with any ideas. So many smart people and such a huge artificial intelligence couldn't come up with any ideas. The direction of the war was so clear, which made him very confused and painful.

He now doesn't know how long this road will take, which makes him extremely troubled.

He vaguely forgot one thing.

Until now, the players in the solar system are still playing "Morrowind" at the highest power without stopping for a moment.

The vast majority of people no longer enjoy the emotional blessing of "Morrowind". Instead, their thinking has changed logically under the influence of "Song of the World", and they no longer feel emotional even when they die generously.

Although people whose arousal level exceeds 35% can resist, their mood will be affected to some extent. However, only Chen Feng is completely immune to "Song of the World".

But he will be affected by "Morrowind", and his emotions are quietly becoming more active.

It's obviously just a small mood fluctuation, but after it is continuously amplified beyond a certain limit, it will cause drastic changes in his state of mind.

Another half hour passed, when Tang Tianxin's command ship was attacked and torn apart by eight blade beetles, Chen Feng's perfect judgment showed a flaw.

This time, the child's mother had no chance to leave him any last words. In an instant, she was turned into cosmic dust in a violent explosion.

At the same time, the continuous bombardment of the human fleet finally opened a gap in the grid hole.

The bombardment of layers of energy weapons and missile shells seemed to have finally exhausted the dark black mass and physical toxins in front of the space, and also consumed a lot of the white plasma in the grid.

The first missile crossed the grid perfectly.

The blade beetle patrolling nearby also revealed a flaw, leaving a large passage.

In the next moment, Chen Feng made a decision and followed the missile's path and rushed towards it at the speed of light.

He was fed up with the feeling of being locked up in a cage, having to fight with other people's swords, guns, swords and halberds without being able to touch a single hair of his own.

But when he just crossed the grid and entered the area between the grid and the prism array, he saw the energy changes behind him and also saw the battlefield intelligence.

The energy of the link grid has not weakened, and the missiles and energy cannons behind it are still unable to blast out.

On the prismatic battleship directly in front of him, countless long beards were spreading out.

He had seen this long beard.

It is the method used by the spherical battleship before to freeze space.

At this moment, like a basin of cold water pouring over his head, Chen Feng woke up with a start.

Fell into a trap.

The man with compound eyes wants to capture himself alive.

No wonder he always seemed to be in danger just now under the siege of hundreds of blade beetles, but in fact he was able to do it with ease.

It’s not that he is incredibly strong, it’s that the Blade Mantis is deliberately showing off!

Chen Feng is not sure whether his ability to travel through time has been revealed, but the man with compound eyes must have discovered his specialness!

It's over.

He suddenly had only one choice left: die early.