The Death Knell

After seeing that the artificial intelligence did not attack many people and was very cooperative, Doom communicated with it for a while and tried to analyze its intelligence from a logical aspect.

As a result, if it hadn't looked like a building, Doom would have thought he was talking to an extremely intelligent living being.

It is not just as simple as learning English, it has even learned the customs and language habits of the earth.

So everyone heard the general story of what happened from it.

The people of Taiyana live in Paradise, and this AI is ‘Paradise’. It is an artificial will of the planet, and there is almost nothing it can’t do on this planet.

The story begins with a tourist.

It doesn't matter what the name of that individual is. All you need to know is that he went to the negative space to find the missing spacecraft that was used to seed the spores.

Of course, this is a good thing. After all, there are compatriots who died on that ship. It would be great if they could be taken home. Every Taiyana person has a deep attachment to their home planet, and the return of the deceased is the most important thing.

The traveler said goodbye to his relatives and set off. About a few years later, one day a month ago, he came back.

He brought back most of the relics from his target and became a hero to the public.

People asked him about his journey, and he told a story. Back then, the spacecraft crashed on a planet not far from the big black hole, which is now the territory of the annihilated Zerg. The traveler searched for it for a long time, but did not expect the spacecraft. In fact, it’s not far from everyone’s new home.

He searched for several years in the vast negative space and finally found the clues, so he drove his new spaceship to negotiate with the bugs.

The wreckage of the seeding spacecraft was in the hands of the insect swarm. Many of the technologies used to annihilate the insects came from reverse-engineering the biotechnology in the spacecraft. Under the negotiation of the travelers, the insect king returned the wreckage of the spacecraft and the corpses inside, but the cosmic control rod It doesn't want to give it back.

"I can pay you back everything else, but not the stick. I need it to make me live forever."

These are its original words. The Insect King uses the extremely powerful control rod as a prop to extend his life.

The average life span of the Annihilation Zerg is only 6 months. Except for the parasitic insects, the Zerg in the negative space are generally short-lived species, so the Zerg King is very afraid that he will die of old age like his kind.

When it was young, it accidentally discovered the wreckage of the Tyana spaceship, and after getting the cosmic control rod from it, it made a wish on the rod to extend its life.

The wonderful prop that is essentially a negative space cosmic cube did it. King Annihilation Bug has lived for more than three hundred years. This lifespan is unimaginable for Annihilation Bug. He became a legend when he lived for 12 months. character and proved his strength to become the king.

Handing over the cosmic control rod would mean killing it, so it is willing to return other things, but is unwilling to hand over the rod.

If the travelers insist on getting back the control rod, the annihilation bugs will immediately launch a wave of annihilation bugs towards the big black hole, and the Tyana civilization that created it will be destroyed.

The Tyana hate war and violence and have no desire to go to war with any civilization.

Besides, maybe the cosmic baton is a good thing for the bugs, but if the Tyana people are willing, they can create another one at any time.

So both parties reached an agreement that the cosmic baton was no longer needed. The travelers dragged back the wreckage of the spacecraft of their predecessors and brought back their bodies.

After he returned home, the people of Tyana celebrated and held a grand funeral. Then they began to dismantle the spaceship, count the cargo inside, and try to study how the spacecraft crashed that year.

Most of the things are outdated for today's civilization, but there is one thing that no one has ever seen.

It looks like a translucent sphere about the size of a palm, but if you touch it carefully, it is a black polyhedron with red stripes and many irregular planes on the surface.

The material that makes up the crystal has never been seen, and how it was carved into strange shapes is difficult to understand, because it is completely indestructible, and even the tools of the Tyana people cannot leave even a scratch on it.

It was placed in a transparent box, held in place by circles of metal wire, and wrapped tightly, as if afraid of something inside escaping.

In order to study its properties, the Taiyana people removed the metal wire and it after confirming that it was not a whole, and conducted a comprehensive study with various equipment.

But since then, strange things have begun to happen one after another on the home planet.

As the 'Paradise' that controls the information processing of the entire planet, it has some video data from that time. It played the information for Deathstroke and others to watch. Su Ming raised an eyebrow with interest.

There were a lot of videos and the playback speed was fast, but it was enough for him to see clearly.

For example, some Taiyana people mysteriously kowtow to the crystal in the middle of the night, for example, some shadow-like smoke appears on the street and will attack lone pedestrians and make them disappear directly, for example, the crystal spreads out regular unknown signals, etc. .

A few days have passed, and many Taiyana people are gradually going crazy. They claim to have seen the dark truth of the universe!

They are just experimental subjects abandoned in the negative space, and the main dimension is the paradise of life!

Jealousy, hatred, anger, all kinds of emotions that were excluded by reason in the past, have returned to their minds after tens of billions of years.

They wanted to know why, if there was a greater being who created the entire universe, why were the Tyana people kept in the dark as guinea pigs? They want the answer!

As a result, more and more people began to worship that crystal.

Although 'Paradise' did not find any behavior of the crystal communicating with believers, everyone who knelt in front of it would have a relaxed and comfortable smile on their metallic faces, as if they had seen something beautiful. .

A few days later, the civil war broke out. This was not a battle aimed at exterminating the same kind. The Taiyana people still retained the nature of not wanting to kill. They only captured their compatriots, those compatriots who were unwilling to kneel down and worship the crystal. Send them to it and let them feel its true grace.

No matter how staunch the opposition is, they will turn into crazy believers when they see the crystal, and then go to arrest the so-called ignorant people.

Some people escaped and fled into the infinite crossroads, but they were accustomed to the dimensional teleporter and had no idea how to move there on their own.

But more people have been transformed into madmen.

They occupied the planet and began to prepare sacrifices, hoping to summon the 'real master' they called through the shining Trapezohedron.

But they lost their minds and forgot one thing. In the past years, in order to prevent their planet from being occupied by the enemy, they, the peace-loving people, used technology for evil purposes, leaving behind the means to perish together with the enemy in the end.

They don't want to kill people, but AI can.

After 'Paradise' confirmed that everyone on the planet had lost their minds and been transformed into slaves of an unknown existence, it determined that its mission to protect the Taiyana people had failed and the entire civilization had perished, so the super AI launched its final trump card.

It overloaded all the planet's thrusters and put a small amount of positive matter into them, causing the negative ion spark to explode. High-energy radiation swept through every inch of the ground, including the folded space, annihilating all life on the planet, and at the same time causing trouble for itself. A self-destruct program was executed.

This is why when Deathstroke and others arrived, they only saw an empty city. This urbanized planet was a floating tombstone commemorating the lost civilization here.

"Hey, cousin, are those slippery tentacles doing something weird? This big-faced computer is a bit pitiful." Wade took out a floral handkerchief from nowhere, blew his nose hard, and then wiped his eyes.

Su Ming had no expression on his face. He just lowered his head and lit a cigarette and whispered back: "It has nothing to do with us. Find what you need and get out of here quickly."