Star Empire

"This war occurred at the end of the Renaissance Era. The cause was that an exploration fleet of the empire at that time accidentally touched a "mother world" of Σ. And that mother world contained multiple universes and the ether sea. .It is essentially a node in the "Great Wall of Void"."

"The Great Wall of the Void. Then Kryz, tell me in more detail what you can see." Vidoville said while instructing everyone who was listening to this report that spanned history to record it in detail. .

"Since we have not obtained a systematic Σ historical data database, we can only speculate on the various details of Σ civilization that we want to know from countless fragments and vast phenomena records. We have deduced that Σ civilization will have some kind of A system that can broadcast information to the entire civilized territory in an instant and roughly determine its basic scale, but we have never seen this system clearly." Kriz noticed that the light behind him suddenly dimmed a bit.

"If there are no big mistakes in our previous arguments, the Great Wall of the Void has brought two disasters to the empire and ended two eras."

"Yes, Your Majesty." At this point, helplessness and sadness emerged in Kriz's heart: "Both the Renaissance Era and the Leap Era were ended by this "Great Wall of Void". In the middle and late stages of the Leap Era, the empire's borders were intermittently A series of large-scale abnormal information activities occurred, and what caused these abnormal information activities was the "ignited" Σ Great Wall of the Void. This Great Wall of Void broadcast a command, and the content of the command itself cannot be restored. But I can It is certain that the purpose of this order is to catalyze and experience the weight civilization and accelerate their growth."

"This order attracted an entire decisive battle flagship team."

"And at that time, except for the Doomsday-Genesis that caused the outer structure of the Lieyang to be detonated, the decisive battle flagship team did not kill Kryz at all. Please tell me the specific details of the Great Wall of the Void first. This I’ll leave some of that for later.”

"Yes, Your Majesty Vidoville." Kriz began to quickly construct the stories he saw, and tried his best to convert the key parts of them into a universal mathematical model that could be directly understood by the empire: "This Great Wall of the Void Spreading across twenty-six quadrants and spanning 333 sky regions of Σ. The Great Wall of the Void is composed of countless nodes, and the entities of these "nodes" are the "mother world" with this relatively special structure. Your Majesty , this Great Wall is very likely to be specially used to issue this order after the "death" of Σ civilization."

"Issuing this order after "death"?" This sentence attracted everyone's attention.

"I am very sure - at least I am very sure that Σ did not consider using it while civilization was alive when building this 'Great Wall of the Void'." Kriz said very seriously.

"Although the exact image data at that time has been blurred, it is enough to have some traces of this data." Kriz directed some of the void survey radars to temporarily focus to ensure that his line of sight could accurately stay on " The key information of this period of history is contained in a series of entities of "observation target":

"The advance part of the exploration fleet noticed that the space where the "Node Trident" is located is filled with strange debris - these debris are the information fuel for "igniting" the Node Trident - Σ civilization is not at the Node A power furnace is installed in the trident.”

"The general operating mechanism of these "mother worlds" is as follows: fill the cosmic space within the mother world with a sufficient amount of civilization remnants or descendants of civilization entangled with a large amount of information, and bury enough civilization remnants or descendants in these remnants or descendants. The fire and tinder that ignited them. But this is not enough. The timelines inside these universes have been folded. The remains of civilizations and descendants of civilizations floating in space will accumulate massive amounts of information in the continuous cycle of time. ——Massive enough for the node trident to send out void broadcasts."

"However, this is not enough. After the node trident sends out a void broadcast, the information will not directly enter the void. They will be continuously reflected within the world barrier. At this time, the "ether sea" outside the universe and within the world barrier will The broadcast of the node trident will be amplified twice - as a special medium that can continuously enhance the intensity of information activities, they can ensure that the information broadcast by the node trident is continuously reflected and the intensity is also continuously increased. This The process will continue until the world barrier is completely broken.”

"This is a one-time system with no possibility of repair. It can receive commands from the outside world, but the connection structure between them is special - it is very similar to the one-way system we use now. The fuse safety measures, and these one-way fuse measures all point to the "center" of Σ civilization. The parent worlds seem to be separated from each other, and they are not connected to each other."

"One-way fuse measure." Vidoville thought about what message this thing might convey:

The function of the one-way fuse node is to control the information flow. If the information flow flows normally in a predetermined way, it is as strong as an ordinary energy-guiding structure. However, if the information flow direction is abnormal and reaches a certain level, it will immediately A circuit breaker occurs and blocks the flow of information.

If you put it this way, Σ must be able to ensure that the way in which its commands are issued is grand enough so that all "mother worlds" can receive them almost simultaneously. Judging from the rationality of the story and the direction it has been pushed, this "disposable Great Wall" is not a product used under normal circumstances. If we further consider the symbolic and specific technical details incorporated into the production of ΣCivilization, the result will only go more in this direction.

". It seems that before causing that large-scale death wave disaster, Σ civilization had a deeper understanding of the impending disaster than we once thought."

"Your Majesty, I need to add something." Kriz suddenly said: "I just talked about the Great Wall from an overall perspective. If it is specific to one or several worlds, they may show different effects. ——For example, this one brought disaster to the empire during the Renaissance. It directly broadcast the order to "activate the ancient solemn protocol", and this order came from the Dark Star Fortress in the home world of Xingming Civilization. The Dark Star Fortress sent this message to this mother world. And the aftermath it sputtered was transformed into the burst of information recorded when the Ark fleet passed through the world barrier."

"Before and after the summons, there was a delay of almost 120,000 years."

".Apply, I need to take a closer look at the Σ wreckage fragments recovered by the empire. During this process, uncertain anomalies may occur in some observation areas." Kryz suddenly felt that the span of "120,000 years" It seemed to contain other secrets. After thinking about it again and again, he made his application.

"The application has been confirmed, and the Narrative Singularity will be subject to special observation. All teams accompanying the void survey radar for real-time recording are ordered to pay attention to possible anomalies. All rapid reaction forces are ordered to be prepared and ready to respond to various unexpected dangerous situations at any time! "

"Inform the mission headquarters of each sky area that special observation will be carried out at the Narrative Singularity, order all teams accompanying the void survey radar to conduct real-time recordings to pay attention, and order all rapid reaction forces to be prepared to deal with all dangerous situations!"

"The Third Day District Command ordered that special observations will be carried out at the Narrative Singularity. This activity may lead to abnormal phenomena. All teams conducting real-time observations with the Void Sky Survey Radar are ordered to pay attention, and all rapid reaction forces are ordered to be prepared to deal with all dangers. !Issue a temporary void navigation control order: If there are Σ creation debris in the observation target selected by the observation point, the void navigation control range corresponding to the observation point will be expanded by 100%."

"Sixth day district. Seventeenth day district. First day district. Twenty-sixth day district. Thirty-third district."

".Report that all adjustments have been implemented and the total time taken to complete all actions is less than eleven hours."

"Kriz, you can start."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Kriz nodded, and the story contained in him expressed surprise at this: It took less than eleven hours to coordinate all observation points and change the deployment, such speed and such accurate action Sex is rare, not to mention the vast majority of civilizations I have ever recorded, and even the empire itself has not been able to achieve this level for a long time.

As the layers of fine rings in his eyes, nested with complex patterns, formed an array of concentric circles that continued to extend deeper into the story, the power released by Kriz began to increase. These powers flowed through the eyepieces and objective lenses he had built, and through the pipe network in the "monster's" body that had witnessed drastic changes and flowed countless information.

His power was rapidly amplified in the process, and the "monster" let out a deafening roar. These information flows carrying Kriz's vision and will "bombarded" the boundaries of the order field at countless observation points like heavy artillery. superior. Waves of weird and distorted "sounds" came, and the huge mesh receiving antennas of the void survey radars struggled to resist this sudden increase in power under the invisible weight. At the source, the "waste" produced in this process surged out, pulling out a short but bright prominence in the sky of the blazing sun in the void.

The invisible focus points to the black fragments, and the parts with the "Σ" symbol engraved on these black fragments receive more care. The gazes of countless pairs of eyes are like using countless convex lenses to focus all the blazing sunlight on the same point of the ice cube. Just like the ice cubes will melt under the focused sunlight, these fragments are watched by so many focused eyes. There will also be partial "melting" below. However, what is released when these special fragments melt is not water, but the historical information and historical traces frozen in them.

"The "abnormal situation" in the notice should have appeared." Seeing the information flow floating around the black debris like steam, Kryz briefly thought about what those beings sitting in the void survey radar would see. , they may see black mist floating out from those fragments, and many symbols and words will flow out of these black mist, which will be randomly spliced ​​and combined to form a scene like ghosts dancing wildly.

"The ideographic ability of all things. Σ civilization has used a lot of technical means to shape its own new unified characters. These unified characters contain a variety of information structures. They can express the constant meaning corresponding to their arrangement, or they can also be based on The expectations of readers who read them will respond accordingly and provide answers to other questions. The Empire is also trying to achieve this, but it currently seems that this plan is still far from the ultimate goal."

Kriz murmured in a low voice as he began to combine the Σ "words" floating out of the black mist, "One hundred and twenty thousand years. One hundred and twenty thousand years should be synchronized with the "year" specified by Σ. There are only twenty-four A letter? It’s strange, why is there another line connected to it?”

"Your Majesty, I need to report something new."

"What did you find?"

"First, our sense of time is consistent with that of Σ civilization at that time, so our 120,000 years are also Σ's 120,000 years. Based on this, Your Majesty, Σ civilization did not cause the death wave disaster after Instead of an immediate collapse, the remaining wisdom and consciousness in the Σ civilization - they should have struggled and tried to save themselves and their civilization, but their efforts were fruitless."

"They lingered in the ruins for 120,000 years before completely collapsing and perishing. And this happened very close to the time when the war that ended the Renaissance Era broke out." Kriz said seriously.

"So, is this one of the reasons why the Σ fleet that invaded the empire was so chaotic and disorganized?" Hearing this, Vidoville became more serious: "The History Department once came up with such a hypothesis, But the hypotheses coming from us are the same as what Σ himself told us. They also feel completely different."

"It is very possible that there is no problem from the perspective of the coordination and completeness of the story." Kryz replied, "That battle was indeed chaotic, and the organization and battle formation of the Σ fleet were completely disrupted. . And when the "Decisive Flagship" unit appears alone, it will involve a lot of debris. They should always operate in teams. In short, Your Majesty, the Σ at that time was really chaotic. Just looking at their wreckage like this makes me confused. You can feel it.”

"Another important time node in the history of ΣCivilization has been confirmed. Kryz, do you have anything else discovered?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's related to words -" Kriz stretched out his hand to grab the line connecting the Σ text with the empire: "Your Majesty, the words Σ use have a total of twenty-four symbols, and Σ uses They named the Void Quadrant."

"Name the Void Quadrant with twenty-four letters?" Vidoville was stunned for a moment, "Twenty-six of the Void Quadrants have been discovered more than 111 billion years ago."

"Yes, Your Majesty, but that's not the point." Kriz shook his head, "For the Σ civilization, the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth quadrants seemed to be discovered quite late - before that, The Σ civilization used twenty-four letters corresponding to the twenty-four quadrants, and combined it with a large number of technologies to create characters with the ability to represent all things. This kind of characters once had a special name, that is, "Quadrant God" arts"."

"When such words are finally completed, they will be sufficient on their own to describe everything seen in Σ civilization. New questions in the new quadrants will not require additional letters to be added to them. At most, they will only need to slightly adjust the original letters. Arrangement and combination, this is what I saw. But Your Majesty, the point is not the writing itself. I noticed that this writing has a relatively clear connection with our civilization, you see."

Kriz showed Vidoville the connection line he held in his hand: "But Your Majesty, you seem to know nothing about this, and you don't seem to recognize these words at all."

"We have indeed never seen this kind of writing system at all." Vidoville seriously denied, "If I remember correctly, when we received the information sent by Σ, we immediately began to compare and decipher this kind of writing system. Words, but at that time we got nothing.”

"Your Majesty, perhaps the Ark Fleet was too eager to travel at that time, and the relevant contents were not properly preserved."

"Such a situation should not happen." This time, Weisrifan, who had been listening in, spoke up: "I tried my best to recall the relevant content. During the Federation period or even the period before the Federation, civilization had Research work on various types of characters has always been carried out, and the habit of setting up Rosetta facilities and font libraries has never been completely discontinued."

"Even if the characters are no longer in use, even if the characters are withdrawn from circulation, their basic samples will be preserved. Such samples at least include all the characters used in this script and some simple characters that can be "physically translated". More and more phrases. I later saw specifically that the knowledge materials preserved by Ark also contain character comparison libraries - many of which can be traced back to the earliest ancestors of civilization."

"But this is strange." Kriz once again looked at the fragile thread in his hand: "Σ text. If we trace it back according to this line, this line should also be traced back to the one mentioned just now. That "ancestral period". There seemed to be a country that specifically used it? Or was it a culture? It also had its own name, called, um Ελληνκ·Δημοκρα? Or Ελλδκ? It's probably such a name. In our words If so, should it be called Greece or Sheila..."

"... In short, Your Majesty, you can't say you haven't seen it at all. The empire has used these words. They were once used to construct codes. At the same time, the same is true for Σ in Σ civilization. You shouldn't say you haven't seen it at all - —”

".I think this topic can be stopped for now, Kriz." Weisrifan said suddenly.

"His Majesty?"

"Kriz, I want to tell you a story. Can you bring yourself into it? Suppose there is a civilization that has just entered space. Can you bring your own perspective into an individual in this civilization?"

".Yes, Your Majesty."

"Then, the story officially begins." Weisrifan put a beam of sunlight to Kriz's ear, letting a subtle and almost imperceptible flow of information flow into Kriz's mind: "Now, there is this A situation - your civilization's aerospace technology is not advanced yet, and there is a dangerous target in space that can occupy half of the sky. It is already very close to your planet. You need to conquer half the world resources and one-third of the world's land, build a huge spacecraft and go to space to solve this problem. Assuming that everyone does not usually look up at the sky, the public has not noticed such a floating in the sky at this time Target, please tell me, how can you conceal the purpose of this spaceship when building it, or prevent the public from looking up to the sky after knowing all this?"

"This" Kriz shook his head, "This is unlikely."

"We are facing a similar situation." After saying that, the small ray of sunlight evaporated instantly, which made Kriz even feel that he was hallucinating just now - but he felt that both Vidoville and Vesrifan The person's serious and heavy eyes, Kriz knew that all this was beyond doubt.

"We will tell you everything we need to tell you later, but not now." Vidoville tapped Kriz's shoulder with his wingtip: "Continue to analyze. In addition, be nice to His Majesty Wheeler."

"After all, he's the one building the spaceship."

".Ah, yes."

At this moment, Kriz understood what the rows of giant pile-like anchor points and those mysterious pink lights that ran through history represented.

He originally wanted to ask the Majesties of these empires, why the history of the empire is full of redundancy and confusion, why there are a large number of weird and lengthy one-time phrases in the materials he came into contact with, and these messy There are obviously better and more concise replacement words for complex disposable phrases but the Empire does not use them, let alone why there are errors including various grammatical errors and typos all over the historical materials and even inscribed in the historical iterations.

Before, he wanted to ask "Your Majesty" after arriving in this era, why they clearly noticed that the brilliant culture and complete management structure of the civilization had been gradually evaporating since the late "Era of Origin" , but they didn’t devote much energy to research and explain it?

In fact, these "majesties" clearly knew that the state of the empire during the Restoration Era and Leap Era was speaking in an unpleasant direction, and they almost relied on relatively abundant resources to support a shell that was about to be hollowed out and was being beaten. But they didn't alert themselves to this. Now they know the "why" of all this.

Can't look up anymore.

Kriz calmed down the turmoil in his heart and then looked at the targets again. He finally allowed himself to calm down for a while.

"Your Majesty the Weight Creation, there should be more than one set of creations in the Weight Plan, but for us, the Weight Creation is these two ships and the Void Fierce Sun. But your majesties, I'm sorry, I can't see it from you. There are too many contents and details - there is a huge rift across these creations, cutting off all their connections with Σ civilization. There may be some small bridges in the middle that still maintain one-sided and weak connections, but they cannot be traced back as channels.”

"We know this - these creations have experienced strong existence attribute separation and correlation attribute separation. This makes us clearly know that they were built by Σ civilization on the one hand, but on the other hand we cannot find out that any Σ civilization built them details that can be used as evidence or vouchers. It is precisely because of this powerful "causal isolation surface" that the death tide pollution will not erode these powerful creations. Otherwise, the death tide would have followed this connection long ago Relationships burned all these creations away. But until today we don’t know how this huge isolation barrier looks and how effective it is in your eyes.”

"Causal isolation plane? This phrase is very appropriate." Kriz nodded.

"Your Majesty, when His Majesty Weisrifan sacrificed himself to attack the decisive battle flagship, it was basically a doomed thing for His Majesty Weisrifan to control the Void Fierce Sun. The amount of information in His Majesty's soul at that time contained the world The consciousness will not be overwhelmed by a large amount of information in an instant, and the Weight Creation has also recognized the star civilization after receiving a series of disturbances, so it is logical for His Majesty Weisrifan to control the Lieyang."

"For the entire civilization, this result would not have been achieved without everyone's hard work and persistence, but we must also admit that our ability to successfully turn at many dangerous turning points is inseparable from the support of seemingly incredible luck. If we had been a little more biased on those nodes, I am afraid that Star Civilization would not exist at all today.”

"Of course, Kryze, the Empire recognizes this, we ourselves believe so, and this view has never been overturned."

"The retreat of the Σ fleet will be left for joint analysis later. Then, Your Majesty, what about the year of the jump? What do you want me to find out?"

"Most of the historical data of the Ascension Era have been preserved due to the weight effect, so Kryz, we hope you will focus on analyzing the situation when the decisive battle flagship appeared in the Ascension Era. In addition, we hope to know the ending star Why did the Σ fleet in the era of the Empire's revival choose to retreat for no apparent reason? Is there any connection between their sudden retreat and the subsequent sudden re-invasion of the Σ decisive battle flagship?"

"Your Majesty, the decisive battle flagship that invaded the empire at the end of the Restoration Era is not connected to the subsequent story. I think it is more likely that it simply received the solemn call and responded, nothing more." Kryze After a long silence, he gave his opinion. "And its sudden retreat was guided by a new call from afar - the power of that call was so powerful that it caused a directional trend in the virtual information environment."

"The virtual information environment has also been affected?"

"Yes, it is indeed true. Your Majesty, at that time, the empire did not have a world barrier drilling team, nor did it have a corresponding concept of in-depth study of world barriers. In addition, after the war, the empire experienced huge changes, and many environments were tampered with by external forces. Yes, so you can't use your current understanding of disinformation activities to support my words. However, I have also seen some more clear "cracks"——"

"A clearer rift?"

"Your Majesty Vidoville, at least one of the "Monument Spaceships" you decided to launch completely disappeared after launch. Their traces after launch have never been found, even after the Empire began to use void survey radar. , they are still missing. However, even if they disappear so completely, we still remember them, which shows that its history and existence have not been erased. After meeting these premises, how to make something disappear completely There is only one kind.”

"It "traveled". It did not follow the established route we set. Instead, it was moved to a very, very distant place. It was so far away that the void survey radar array, which is good at finding clues in fuzzy information, could not find it. traces," Vidoville said.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Those monument spaceships do have the ability to navigate in the void, but their capabilities are not enough to support them in completing such actions. Natural causes can indeed cause some information bodies to cross worlds, but the strength of these "natural causes" It’s impossible to pull a body of information that contains so much information across such a long distance.”

"As for the possibility of Σ... taking into account the time difference between the retreat time of the Σ fleet and the launch of these monument spacecraft and the situation of the Σ fleet itself, the possibility of the monument spacecraft being captured and taken away by them is not high. Moreover, Most of the time, the Σ ship is surrounded by a powerful order-correcting wide-area fusion field, and the monument ship cannot exist stably in this dangerous protective structure. Therefore, the possibility that these crossings are caused by the Σ creation itself is extremely low. "

"...Virtual information guides their travel, and virtual information forms a powerful undercurrent in the void. With the power of these undercurrents, it is possible for ordinary creations to cross a distance that even a virtual point jump engine cannot cross in one step... ...and can form such a powerful appeal in the void. I know."

While communicating with Kriz, Vidoville and Vesrifan did not stop communicating with each other. While clearing away the fog of history, through the eyes of this rare life form, the empire once again saw the many hidden strengths of that powerful civilization that died hundreds of millions of years ago. However, if Σ is so powerful but still dies, then what kind of efforts will be needed for the future of the empire to avoid heading towards the path called "destruction"?

".Then Kryze, why did Σ's decisive battle flagship in the Leap Era come?"

"For." Kriz looked at Black Wing behind him: "Your Majesty, such words are very——"

"Say it, there's nothing hard to say, we are the winners now."

"Civilization of "smelting" weights. Your Majesty."

Part of the content in this chapter has been revised and reinterpreted for the "Colorless Green Incident".