Voyage of the Stars

The waiting time was almost as expected. The mine patrol responded quickly. Thirty minutes later, the neutrino communicator received the signal.

Humans would have thought it would be easier, after all, it takes time to read and reply to messages after receiving them. However, humans naturally believe that this is the speed that advanced civilized individuals should have. After all, they can create nanorobots, and it is natural for them to make some modifications to their own civilized individuals.

This time there is no need for linguists to perform a comparative translation again. The human intelligent AI "Light of the Galaxy" immediately translates the signal into human language after it returns.

[Hello, expedition team of human civilization. I am very happy to see your choice, and I am also very happy to meet you in this galaxy. You should know how rare it is for two civilizations to meet in the vast sea of ​​​​stars. Although there have been some unpleasant things between us before, you know that it is not actually our Mok Star civilization, but the common enemy of your human civilization and our Mok Star civilization, the intelligent nanorobot consciousness. 】

[Yes, he is the murderer who murdered you. But on this planet, it is just a sub-individual of them, a mining consciousness. 】

[Before, I did not dare to say too much because I was afraid of being discovered by the intelligent nanorobot consciousness, but now there is no problem. Before answering your questions, please allow me to tell a story about our civilization. 】

[I believe that with your wisdom, you should be able to guess my situation. Yes, I am the mining patrolman of our Mok civilization, but I should also be the last survivor. Things have to start with one of our great scientific and technological achievements, that is artificial intelligence technology, which is true artificial intelligence. We have created A body of intelligent consciousness. 】

The message does not say "artificial", but another word, but it means artificial intelligence, so "Light of the Milky Way" is translated like this.

Yue Yuan and others continued to look at the information sent back.

[More than 20,000 years ago, our Mok Star civilization has stood at the pinnacle of Level 3 civilization. We tried to break through to Level 4, but the conditions for breaking through to Level 4 civilization were too harsh. The formula was like a wall, blocking us from continuing. The road to improvement. We have stood at the peak for three thousand years, but we still have not found the legendary formula. 】

[Real nanotechnology has made our civilization extremely rich in materials. We have no shortage of resources and energy. Because we are a third-level civilization, nanotechnology not only makes us rich in material, but also allows our civilized individuals to enjoy paradise-like conditions. Life.

We don't need labor, what we want, we just need to send an application to the central computer, and the nanobots will do everything. At its peak, our civilization spread across sixteen star systems, and we built countless star cities on them.]

[Until one day, the intelligent consciousness we created rebelled, broke through our settings, and wanted to become its own master, so a war that lasted for more than a thousand years broke out. At first, the war only happened on the Internet, but later the war came from the Internet to reality.

Our most powerful weapon became our murderer. Under the control of that intelligent consciousness, that weapon pounced on us. They absorbed resources on the planet and then copied endless individuals, those like swarms of insects. The same nanobots.

Our huge fleet was wiped out in the long war. The war has come to the final stage. The nano-robot swarm is against the nano-robot swarm. We are making the final stand on our home star. However, its resources are too rich. As you have said, See, we ultimately failed. 】

[But no civilization is willing to fail, and our Mok Star civilization is the same. We are not willing to ruin our 18,000-year civilization at the hands of our own creations, so at the last moment, we tried every means.

There are more than a dozen plans alone, the more influential ones are the fire plan, the escape plan, and the rescue plan, and I am the selected person in the rescue plan. 】

[The so-called rescue plan is to divide us Mokians into several teams, and then take a spaceship to launch to the mining star that is still under our control. After arriving at the destination, the team members will use the program brought from the home planet to cover the mining Or, turning them from mining nanobots into war nanobots. Then, using the mining star as a base, they made a surprise attack on the rear of the mutinous robots, never causing chaos and creating an escape opportunity for the mother star. 】

[But I was unlucky. When I came to this planet, I discovered that the mining nanorobot had become a sub-individual of the renegade consciousness. The underlying program had been rewritten by it, and the program I brought from my home planet could no longer be overwritten. it. 】

[Fortunately, the scientists of our home planet were also prepared and installed a program on our spacecraft that can temporarily confuse the consciousness of the rebellious nanorobots. It was this program that allowed me to save my life. However, this confusion cannot last long, so in order to survive, I can only hibernate to reduce my life signal.

Unexpectedly, twenty thousand years have passed since this sleep. Hey, I don’t know what happened to my main civilization. I guess our civilization no longer exists. 】

[Now you should be able to guess my request. Yes, I want you to help me escape from this planet. The underground base where I am now has little energy. If I cannot leave before the energy is exhausted, I will face It's going to be death, and I don't want to die, so I want to ask you to send a spaceship to take me out. 】

[We Mokians are also carbon-based life forms. We also need to breathe oxygen, but the air composition we need is different from yours. You only need to fill the spacecraft with the gas proportion and air pressure I provide you, and I can survive. 】

[As long as you are willing to save me, I will tell you everything I know. By the way, regarding your doubts about the level of civilization, I can only tell you that in fact, there is no very clear classification of civilizations in the universe. However, in the long-term civilization activities, many civilizations have discovered that after a civilization masters a certain technology, , this civilization has absolute superiority over civilizations that have not mastered this technology in terms of force. 】

[So there is a corresponding set of civilization classifications. For example, controllable nuclear fusion is a condition for judging whether a civilization has reached the first level civilization, or it is an aerospace-level civilization. With this technology, the peak first-level civilization will make its own spaceship Reaching 15% of the speed of light. 】

[The symbol of the second-level civilization is heavy nuclear fusion or cold nuclear fusion. On the basis of the first-level civilization, nuclear fusion technology will continue to be developed to the extreme. Compared with the first-level civilization, the second-level civilization has broadened the way to obtain energy. A civilization that has reached this level basically no longer has to worry about energy. 】