The world-devouring dragon

Galactic Calendar 3165, Eternal Star.

"Scholar Shi Nainai, the current time is 17863 hours, 4 minutes and 75 seconds in the galactic calendar 3165, and April 36, the eternal calendar time 5376... Good Life AI is at your service. Your schedule today is..."

Opening his eyes, the mechanical arm built into the sleeping cabin has dexterously put on clothes for himself, and the sleeping cabin that restrains him opens smoothly. His boots step on the floor, and the small autonomous robot suspended next to him moves in time. Tell the time and prepare the itinerary for Inschnaina.

About seven thousand years after the destruction of the legendary human home planet, the scope of human activities is no longer limited to the small solar system, but has spread to more than 120,000 star systems within more than 5,000 light years, and the administrative planets have reached four More than 100,000 pieces, and the number is increasing every day.

Among these countless stars, some administrative planets have a population of only a few hundred people, with a very small number of scientific researchers and settlers in extremely cold and severe environments; some have a population of more than a billion, and the sky, The land is densely covered with buildings, and the population density has reached more than 1 million people per cubic kilometer.

"The ominous sword stood tall, the sky was torn open, and the sword pointed directly at the stars in the sky..."

In those planets called "urban worlds", human beings have maximized their use of space. The huge building complex tens of thousands of miles high is like a sharp sword thrust into the sky, coldly displaying the majesty of human wisdom.

The city is the planet, and the planet is the city.

Correspondingly, in order to adapt to this vast human territory, human life and political mechanisms have also undergone extremely drastic changes. Unable to exceed the limit of the speed of light, the huge human civilization can no longer be unified, and is replaced by various fragmented situations.

Among these stars, you can see medieval pastoral scenery as well as a highly mechanized urban world. Political systems range from commercial city-states, theocratic dictatorships, aristocratic monarchies, electoral republics, slave oppression... everything in human history All social systems and social structures that have appeared in it can be found in the stars in the sky.

Even the simplest way of recording time has changed.

People have retained the system of years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds as much as possible, but they have formed two calendars: the galactic calendar that is common to the entire galaxy, which roughly takes one rotation of the Milky Way as an epoch, and an epoch is divided into 100 million years, with 22,000 calendar years per year. hours, 60 minutes per hour, and 60 seconds per minute. The most basic minutes and seconds are as close to the original time scale as possible, except that the sun and moon are cancelled. The other is the local calendar used by each planet, which specifically sets the year, month, day and time according to its own different daily needs.

By mastering the galactic calendar, you can still grasp the time changes on an astronomical scale when traveling between planets; and by mastering the local calendar, you can know when the sun rises and sets.

On this permanent star, as one of the most famous scientific research planets in the entire galaxy, Inschnaine is also one of the most famous scholars.

"The Great Scholar of Schneinai..."

The great scholar had a cold face and hurriedly walked, ignoring the crowd of people greeting him, calling for the autonomous machine, and then flew on the machine like a Frisbee on this planet full of magnificent buildings.

In front of him, those densely packed and grand buildings inserted into the sky even obscured the traces of stars, and the clouds only reached half of their waists. In fact, the residents of Eternal Star had not seen stars and space for two thousand years. , hundreds of kilometers of buildings have completely blocked the sky.

However, there is no need for the sun. The weather changes and light regulation of the entire planet are completely in the hands of humans. There is a specialized agency on this planet to manage all of this. And deep in the planet, the fiery core has even become one of the energy supply sources for mankind.

Rain and shine, thunder and lightning, all natural phenomena that were once regarded as the authority of gods, are no more difficult for humans today than turning on a light.

This is an extremely glorious era. Humanity stands at the top of the galaxy, and the children of the stars are growing into the masters of the stars. But for this great scholar, mankind is still a little short of the path to the Creator and God of Creation, and this is about to be made up for by him.

"Please accept authorization..."

"puff!"

Facing the AI ​​machine that was trying to check the authorization, the scholar didn't even look at it. He just casually let the AI ​​machine, which had been invaded by the massive amount of data and information, retreat to its core.

"Bang!!!"

Relying on his body that had been genetically modified many times, he forced open the safety door in a barbaric manner that was extremely unbecoming of his status as a university scholar. After the ground was covered with debris, in front of a university scholar, a scholar who was doing his own scientific research appeared. Looked up.

Looking at the broken door, he didn't seem surprised.

"Oh, Yinshinainai, why are you here..."

"I solved it!"

The scholar put down what he was holding and was about to say something, but Inschnaina interrupted him rudely.

solved?

The scholar was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted with a surprised look on his face.

"you mean……"

"right."

"I actually found a way???"

Because Schneinai didn't speak any more, there was deep pride in his cold eyes.

The scholar who knew Inschnaine's character well did not question it again, because he knew that the guy in front of him was a complete perfectionist. He would never tell the outside world without testing the theoretical model dozens of times to ensure it was flawless. .

"That's incredible...are you going to discuss this at the Peripheral Star Science Conference?"

The scholar was surprised and asked immediately.

"Eternal Star Science Conference? Ha, my result cannot be decided by the Eternal Star Science Conference. You should understand this."

"Then what do you mean..."

“Scientific Conference on Human Supremacy.”

"You want to build it?"

"Otherwise? Why would I spend forty-three eternity years designing it?"

The scholar who was frightened by Schnener's ambition was dumbfounded and couldn't help but ask, but the famous scholar obviously couldn't say the wrong thing. There was only enthusiasm and ambition in his pupils.

The scholar was silent for a moment, took a deep breath and said.

"Well, we can try our best to win over the scholars of the entire Eternal Star. If all the scholars of the Eternal Star recognize it, then the possibility of it being passed at the Human Supreme Science Conference will be much greater."

Listening to his friend's words, the great scholar named Inschinai raised his lips.

…

About 3,000 galactic hours later, a new human supreme scientific conference began.

More than one million scholars from more than 400,000 administrative planets gathered here. Each scholar is an absolute authority on his or her respective planet, and is a big figure that only exists on average among every trillion people. But on this galaxy's proud Eternal Star, their glory is just that.

Here, scholars from all over the galaxy will exchange opinions. In this era where science is respected, the decisions they make unanimously are enough to subvert any interstellar regime.

But here, one person's issue has taken away the glory of almost everyone.

"My companions, our science has come to a standstill!"

In the spiritual network that transmits information at nearly the speed of light, a surly scholar yelled. In front of him were millions of scholars.

"No matter how many times we hold such scientific meetings, it will not help. In this cold void where the speed of light cannot exceed, our science has stopped. We can't do this anymore, we must change this reality!"

Because Schnener's speech is just like his character, he is always so rough, wild and stubborn, but his wisdom is enough to convince everyone.

However, apparently not everyone thinks so.

"No, I don't think so. I think our science is still making progress, at most it's just a little slower."

Within this spiritual network where spirit can be materialized, a scholar shook his head and objected.

Looking at the rebuttal scholars, Inschnainai did not refute directly, but asked a question first.

"Scholar Uununomo, can you first tell everyone which planet in which star field you come from?"

"Twenty-seven star area, green swamp planet."

"How far is it from Eternal Star?"

"62.8 light years, Scholar Inschnaina."

The scholar known as Ununomo was polite and answered Inschenay's questions fluently.

Inschnaina nodded.

"Scholar Enpuhum, can you tell everyone which planet in which star field you come from? How far is it from the Eternal Star?"

"Sector seventy-six, broken diamond planet, 185.6 light years away, scholar."

"Scholar Ziazan, can you tell everyone which planet in which star field you come from? How far is it from the Eternal Star?"

"Eighty-three-star district, Yellowstone planet, 171.2 light years, scholar."

"..."

"One hundred and fifty-nine star sectors... 288.3 light years, scholar."

As Inschenay asked questions one by one, the distances of many scholars varied, some were a few light years, some were hundreds of light years, but many of them took nearly a hundred years and a long period of dormancy to get there. Go to Eternal City and participate in this scientific conference that happens every hundred years.

And finally, the most distant scholar in the entire scientific conference appeared.

"One thousand five hundred and eighty-eight star sectors...1357.6 light years, scholars."

Among the many scholars, a calm scholar bowed.

Even Inschnaina stopped talking.

1,357 light-years, which is an extremely long distance, means that it took the scholar more than a thousand years to reach the permanent star.

"If I remember correctly, the Human Supreme Science Conference was only announced 2,900 galactic years ago. Even if the news continues to spread to you, it will take 1,357 galactic years."

"Yes, scholar, you are right. About 1,450 years ago, the 1,588th sector received the news of the convening of the Human Supreme Scientific Conference. Our sector spent nearly a hundred years collecting the entire All the scientific and technological achievements of the 486 administrative stars in the sector, and appointed me to attend the Human Supreme Science Conference. However, it seems that many of the scientific achievements we have summarized are out of date, and it is a pity that we cannot help you."

What the scholar said was calm, but the content was anything but calm.

Humans have only been using the Galactic Calendar for 3165 years, and the establishment of the Permanent Star only took about 1,500 galactic years. In other words, almost shortly after the establishment of the Permanent Star, in the distant starry sky, one of the most remote star regions was obtained. After hearing the news, he immediately dispatched the best scholars in his star region, bringing all his scientific achievements here to participate in this supreme scientific conference of mankind, which no one knew what the outcome would be.

"Scholar Mamugumitana... you don't actually need to waste your time."

Mamugumitana shook his head.

"No, Scholar Schneinai, I don't think my arrival is a mistake. Although many of the scientific research results I brought have been outdated, we have already thought of this before setting off. However, we firmly believe that in this Among the crystallization of all the wisdom of the 486 administrative stars, there must be humans in our star region and their own unique insights, which will definitely be able to help the scientific progress of mankind throughout the galaxy."

Inschnaina looked at him for a while, and then, this always arrogant scholar solemnly bowed to the scholar in front of him.

Mamugumitana did not evade, but calmly accepted Inshnaina's respect, because this respect was not given to him, but to the entire sector and all the diligent scholars he represented.

Then Inschnaina raised his head, looked at the many scholars in front of him, and said.

"Comrades, our science has stagnated. In this universe where the speed of light cannot be exceeded, we are forced to disperse. Scholars can only discuss their results within a very small range. The entire universe is full of repetitive research. , Waste. Not only scientific knowledge, even those ambitious separatist warlords cannot overcome this distant light-year barrier."

"My companions, my best friends in the scientific world, we should find a way to change all this..."

The speed of discussion in the mental network is very fast, nearly a million times faster than the verbal discussion in reality, but even such an efficient discussion speed still cannot reduce the passage of real time.

After three hours, this session of the Human Supreme Science Conference ended.

And under the decision of the entire human supreme scientific conference, all human countries within the communication range received a message that was half an order and half a threat.

Faced with this news, no human country will refuse. After all, in the face of those scientists who have mastered countless black technologies, no human country can withstand their retaliation.

After all, this is an era where science reigns supreme.

…

In a galaxy 23 light-years away from the permanent star.

The dazzling blue giant star is hundreds of times more dazzling than the sun. It is the brightest star in the universe, but its overly bright and hot temperature also makes it extremely easy to exhaust its own energy, and its life is usually very short. Only tens of millions of years old, extremely short-lived among stars that tend to live billions of years.

But for scholars, this kind of thing is not important at all. All they need is a star that is huge enough to support their goals. Anyway, they also have the method to maintain the lifespan of blue giant stars.

"Build a super artificial star that is enough to surround the entire blue giant, and is maintained by the blue giant's energy supply? Are those people at the Supreme Science Conference crazy?"

Looking at the news, many human countries feel that these people who are full of thoughts are finally collectively crazy.

But the Supreme Science Conference has its own detailed plans and engineering drawings, as well as technology specifically for the construction of this huge building.

"This super man-made object will be unprecedentedly huge, countless times larger than any building we have ever seen or known."

"A normal planet, even if it is built into an urban world, has a population capacity of only about 1 billion. This is basically the limit. Even a larger planet will not exceed a hundred or ten thousand times. This is the limit of the universe. The limit of the planet that exists naturally within it. This is the limit of the natural products that the universe can create."

"But since the power of the universe cannot create a more suitable planet than this, why don't we build one ourselves?!!"

"Look! A super artificial star with an area trillions of times larger than the largest administrative star in the human world! This star will be able to accommodate the entire population within five thousand light years!"

"If there are not enough planets in a galaxy to build, then we will use ten or a hundred. Even if we extinguish the stars and dismantle tens of thousands of planets, we will still build this unprecedented behemoth!"

In the spiritual network, facing millions of scholars, Inschnaina opened his arms and laughed wildly.

"Gentlemen! Let us be the creators!!!"

Some readers don't quite understand what this giant building is. They can search "Ring World" on Baidu or play with Stars.

It is roughly a space building built around a star, similar to a ring, except that the upper surface is much larger.

Imagine a round headband encircling the sun. It is roughly in this shape, except that the diameter of this round headband exceeds 10 billion kilometers, and its surface area exceeds one trillion square kilometers, which is one trillion times the area of ​​the earth. Then on this curved surface with a surface area of ​​more than one trillion square kilometers, there are oceans, atmosphere, mountains... and the living population.