Star Empire

"Not every story is..."

"Kid, this is easy to understand. For my species, me standing here actually represents some kind of "bad outcome"."

Feeling that the body in the armor gradually calmed down, the golden tentacles also loosened, "You are the best-conditioned individual among the few newborns in the entire history of your civilization. Therefore, You actually have a part of the soul of the former leader of your civilization in your body, but at present... think about it, what were you like in that era long ago, and what were my children like?"

"In the past, your fleet and my insect swarm could cover the sky. The war between us even caused several great cosmic walls made of debris to appear inside some universes. But now... we are walking on the planet .”

"It's just us... We're still here, but this fleet contains much more than just us, and much more than the lives we still have access to."

"Yeah yeah……"

In the slight sigh, more memories seemed to become colder and paler with the tranquility of the surrounding environment.

In my memory, civilization used the remaining warships to evacuate survivors, because even they could not build a decent ark in such a short period of time.

In memory, excluding the void area corresponding to the terrifying gap, the remaining fleeing fleets centered on the remains of civilization and fled to all directions in the void.

In my memory, the fleets that could still locate each other even though they were separated by the void lost their response one after another in the weak routine communications. Later, some fleets that could still find each other had to merge or even "devour" each other to protect themselves. Survive to ensure that your information furnace, which makes all kinds of howls every day, will not completely wipe you out because of an explosion. Routine communication was first banned, and then lost its meaning of existence...

It became dark behind me, but it seemed more like it became empty.

In my memory, the complete or broken ships of many races have been connected to the order field of the fleet, but there are also many races that will choose to leave... In the past, there have been wars in the order field, many wars, many absurd but helpless. Stop, the war that must determine life and death...

"The equipment group inspection is completed. My ability to determine the scope is limited. I can only confirm that these data and related information environment descriptions can correspond to the previous results, and the distortion value is very small." At the end of the corridor, facing the huge space At the gap in the stasis field, next to the ancient terminal that was connected to more and more relay equipment and induction arrays, the "light ball" drilled out from a certain gap in the hollow wall.

What about "them"?

"There is no change, or in other words, there is no change that we can notice." The light ball shook a few times, as if to express its helplessness, "You know, they have the function to reverse our equipment from the root cause. A strong reality warper, if it doesn't want to, we can't make the slightest change in that room, and this is just one of them."

"...Let's go, child, everything that can be done here has been completed, there is no point in staying here anymore." The huge body extinguished the runes that required the use of thought and power to assign information, and then slowly walked along the corridor Find the location of the elevator.

"...Let's go. This place is far enough away and the surrounding area is empty enough. In any case, since so many survivors have come here, we can't be idle now."

"yes……"

After the whispers in the soul ended, the elevator car slowly started, leading the small team back to the surface.

Ten billion years.

To say it is long, compared to the various universes in my memory, it cannot be said to be incomprehensibly long. The change dates and mass dates of many stars are much longer than such a time period.

To put it simply, this time is enough for life to reproduce many times, enough for places that may breed life to give birth to the first fireworks through probabilistic collisions, and enough for many stars to go from birth to destruction...

At least for the various lives currently in the fleet, 10 billion years has even far exceeded the longest time span corresponding to the "third type of death" of the civilization they once belonged to.

However, many lives have forcibly relied on various factors and paid all kinds of terrible and huge prices, and have come here step by step since then.

…

Although it is impossible to compare this place with the territory of ancient civilizations that can be fully informatized, the technology used in the facilities here has not decayed to the point that it needs to be restricted by local physical laws.

However, there seems to be a huge overload inside such a closed elevator car that can guarantee that it can remain in a super-quiet state for a period of time even if it falls into the void.

Going up, there are layers of strata that are constantly being crossed, as if the thick historical records and memories accumulated over tens of billions of years are being turned over page by page.

And downwards, there is bottomless darkness, like a giant beast, which may swallow everything around it at any time...

The body in the light armor couldn't help but shrink - as if it was not rising to the surface, but falling into the melt hole, as if...

All of this will really be swallowed up by the shadows from the past and the darkness of the unknown.

…

"This is unfair! Why do you have such a huge development foundation!" Accompanied by harsh roars and soul-piercing screams, the sound of slaps exploded on the table, "Look at us! Our technology is almost there. We are too weak to cross the world barrier! If we are not allocated more resources, our civilization will perish! You are the murderers!"

"(Psychic Scream) According to you, what about us?!" Between the exchange of words and the clash of psychic storms, the specific sounds in the noise gradually became apparent, mixed with some sharp explosions of unknown origin. , "You need the space and entity here just to live a better life! But if we are no longer allowed to carry out material supplies, we will die! The fact that you can survive until now shows that you have been transformed long ago, let alone the star flashing cycle Well, just wait a few more rounds, a few revolutions, even a few years, a few hundred years! You should wait for the subsequent universe!"

"(Zizi——) You need to have a foundation to restart Infinite!"

"You are not qualified to speak. How many life resources and historical resources does your civilization rely on to sell to those civilizations that are still capable of making judgments based on agreements?! Your civilization is just an empty shell with no inner content!"

"I will remember these words, and every being in civilization will remember them..."

"Is this a threat??"

"(Fluttering wings) Otherwise, you can try to build an order field by yourself. Build an order field that is huge enough to accommodate all the power furnaces, all the ships, and all the people. You can Let’s see who comes first, the dark bombing, or the ruling conference that kills you first?!”

…

"well……"

"How should we evaluate...why did they have such a quarrel? Is there something wrong with our prediction system, or is there some other reason in the void, or maybe we have overlooked something or made a mistake?"

"Decisions must be made as soon as possible. Now that the "pressure" has been lifted, many problems have now been exposed or even "exploded"."

"But the number of "hidden" devices is currently limited. Even if we can continue to expand this world, we simply can't keep going. New hidden devices..."

"The production line has been lost a long time ago. The current equipment was finally manufactured by combining the technologies of at least three civilizations. And..."

"We must admit that using the will in the soul to restore the information model and restore the equipment we need is a real unnecessary loss. In the past, it was even sinful. Souls should create greater value."

"This is not recognized and based on our experience we should stop the process."

"Sooner or later we have to face it, and even if we don't face it, we still need to face other civilizations waiting for our decision."

"well……"

Dramatic changes in the environment have brought these "gods" who could travel across the starry sky in an instant in the activated world back to the ground. They have to rely on their own memories and habits to reshape a body that is different from themselves. The soul matches the body and can resist various environmental abnormalities in the current environment...

The conference room was arranged in the dome hall of a certain battleship. This hall was located at the front of the battleship. The "top cover" covering the dome is the information gathering refraction prism and one-way partition armor of the battleship's original main gun. However, due to the construction needs of the prison on the border, the prism part and the entire main gun equipment group and the corresponding energy system It has been demolished.

Although this battleship has now lost its spear, its shield is still strong - it is very suitable to use it to carry out some missions that will only appear after "quieting down", such as serving as a hub or a conference room.

Except for a semi-permanent hard light barrier, there is almost no additional decoration here. Compared with before this place was recognized as a conference room, there is only an extra ring that can be considered as a "table and chairs".

Almost all the "spokesmen" and "wills" of civilizations who have a voice are here, and when the meeting is in progress, the hard film in the background will be layered with holographic displays, spiritual broadcasts and Space whispers masking.

"Now, we are very direct in expressing each other's opinions - and actually acting in the same way. This is the most suitable mode of action that we have finally confirmed over billions of years."

"...Indeed." A few "tables" away, another figure wearing a golden-red robe responded to the "worm"'s words after a moment of silence, "We have experienced dark times and strife. and annexation, and have also tried to deceive and extract, but reality has denied all actions one by one. Any single-sided action has failed, and even they have a large number of loopholes and derivative dangers... We can get to this point. , In fact, it looks like it was planned by Void.”

"It's just that our control and our ruling... are actually bad strategies, but the reality... without our restraint, there may actually be more disasters and deaths..."

With a slight thought, a large number of omnidirectional uniform projections spread out from the center of the conference table. The large number of runes and curves dancing in them indicated some less than "ideal" results.

"In fact, including us, many of our thoughts and understandings have actually undergone huge changes. In many cases, it would not be wrong to say that it was a "regression" - not because of exile and death, but because of crossing over, because Great unification.”

As a life form that has completely completed "mechanical ascension", its words seem to have a unique sense of disturbance, which also attracts a few more attentions——

"Will this happen to a civilization that has completely completed the evolutionary algorithm idea?"

"Of course, but the point I want to talk about is not my civilization, let alone us, although we may be very naive now... What I want to say is the leaders of those small civilizations who are arguing in the lower conference room. We and our representatives..."

The lead-gray iron hand slides gently on the table, and the pictures floating in the void switch at this moment, showing the creatures who are "quarreling" and their many unexplained "funny" action.

"The possible effects of the lifting of "suppression" include the reversal of the overall model of behavior and habits, which may be related to certain times of higher intensity. This will be the direct problem we have to face at the moment - we must give resources Help them rebuild, but now... this is just a universe after all, and it is too dangerous to activate it, and even if it is activated, it is impossible to take into account all types of life."

"But now, the suppression must also be lifted - this has far-reaching consequences, and also includes..."

"...I can only say that no matter what time comes, every civilization and every race will always have that pride. We..."

"Resource allocation and supervision are the most important and direct tasks. At the same time, we should deploy all remaining weapons into the world barrier and conduct a corresponding world blockade."

"Agree."

"Agree."

"Agree, measures should be taken."

"What follows...is the issue that we all feel is intractable...consciousness, and thoughts, and ways of thinking."

In silence, more screens are unfolded, and between consciousness, a complex network of connections between all points also unfolds with the continuous access of wisdom.

"...What can be confirmed is that after the confirmation of the unification of information, there is an almost fixed realistic trend, which is..."

"The scope of cognition will expand. What is currently confirmed is that the understanding of finite properties will transform into infinity - this type of transformation may occur before the void exploration ship enters the void, or may occur with the simultaneous progress of exploration. There are many types of transformation, etc. At present, we can distinguish more than 390 basic reasons, and there are more than thousands of representative models."

"This type of model shows the necessity of type conversion and the corresponding impact. In order to avoid splitting and avoid some predictable effects, the way of thinking that was previously within a limited range will be converted to an infinite range in a semi-forced manner. Some emotions , some ways of thinking may shrink to a small range. This part of the thinking that remains may evaporate after a period of time, or it may have backlash..."

"But now, we need some ways of thinking that can be self-interested and self-protective in such an environment...Compared to them, many individuals today may actually be just transformed and have not yet made any logical completions. Just like the physical life infused with personality, they are almost unprotected from any problems."

"This is another layer of separation..."

"Match the corresponding information guidance model as soon as possible, we don't have much time."

During the conversation, the world seemed to shrink, filled with spaces filled with various windows that were constantly being refreshed, and the light screen seemed to be pressing down on the surrounding table.

…

"Many models are actually too idealistic...why do they end up with similar results no matter how superimposed the influence coefficients are..."

"In this case...perhaps we can try to push the result back even further——"

"Perhaps...compared to the current allocation and discussion, we should consider a more ideal and thorough union."

"……joint?"