Walk alone in the abyss

The back door is still working.

Yang Ming remained calm, at this moment his body - the virtual thinking body in the City of Light, sat motionless behind the desk, just letting the picture in front of him change constantly.

He connects to a world that is both familiar and strange.

It feels familiar because every time he faces the space Zerg, he will see this piece of light and shadow, and see these starlights.

Yang Ming sensed the existence of Po Suo, and Po Suo was also observing here curiously.

They're pretty close, they just can't see each other directly.

There were lights flickering among the stars, and three transparent figures appeared in front of Yang Ming's eyes.

Faya.

They have a figure close to that of a human being, but they are just a transparent group of light.

Different from the previous two meetings between Yang Ming and them, the Faya people who appeared in this space had a mass of intertwined rays of light inside their bodies, either on their chests, or on their necks or brains.

The real Faya individual is formed by the collective ascension of a biological civilization, covering the entire large galaxy cluster.

The Faya people that appeared in front of Yang Ming's eyes were just three fragments of thinking that were differentiated by this individual, responsible for three projects, so they were also called Faya people for easy understanding.

The three Fayas spoke at the same time:

"Hello, Pioneer One."

"Hello, the controller of the Luofeng Alliance."

"Hi Yang Ming."

Apparently, one of the Fayas met Yang Ming for the first time, and replaced the one who used Hera to "give the Zerg emotion experiment" before.

The Faya in the middle introduces himself:

"We met for the first time. I am mainly in charge of the government regulation project of the human civilization plate in the Milky Way. This is the passage I opened for Levi Sherman back then. Because I saw that you would arrive here at this point in time, I kept this channel, to communicate with you."

Faya on the left said:

"You must have a lot of doubts now, forerunner, in fact, you have interfered too deeply in the human civilization of the galaxy, which has affected the normal development of the greenhouse civilization trial project.

"I must remind you that you need to get rid of Levi Sherman's headache-provoking mechanical thinking body as soon as possible, and then prepare to do your own job—the first mission."

The Faya man on the right smiled and said:

"I won't give you any extra hints!

"Because of the unauthorized contact with you, I have been warned that returning to the main thinking body and redifferentiation is not a reward."

Boss Yang, who had always been stern, suddenly showed a bright smile.

"Actually, I just tried it out of curiosity, but I didn't expect to be able to communicate with everyone... Well, here you are, I have a few questions."

"We choose to communicate with you to answer your doubts."

Faya in the middle said:

"I can see that you are a little confused right now.

"From your point of view, Levi Sherman's legendary life is indeed enough to make you feel admirable.

"But in fact, all his actions are to satisfy himself, to satisfy his self-interest.

"He never thought about the collective, he didn't have the quality of self-sacrifice when the collective needed it, and that was the root cause of his failure.

"In addition, I can explain to you a fact that does not need to be explained to you. It was Levi Sherman who provoked us first before being expelled by us, forcibly reducing dimensionality, and making his mecha lose its space-time resonance Ability."

Yang Ming nodded slowly: "I actually have a hunch about this. Levi Sherman is used to being an emperor, and he wants to conquer the places he sees, including high-dimensional civilizations."

"It can be understood in this way."

The Faya in the middle continued:

"But in fact, Levi Sherman also showed qualities worthy of our admiration, but these qualities are too insignificant for a civilization."

"From the perspective of the universe, there is only the survival and destruction of civilizations, without the development and feelings of individuals."

Yang Ming asked: "Then now, all I need to do is find Levi and release the butterfly that everyone gave me. Is the task complete?"

Faya in the middle said: "Yes, it's very simple. Li also wants to kill Levi. Levi doesn't have much desire to survive."

"I have a question," Yang Ming said, "Levi is dead, and Li breaks free from the shackles. The Levi fleet and the mechanical thinking body with a scale of hundreds of billions under the control of Li will invade the entire galaxy human civilization, and Li Wei will take crazy revenge, right? ?”

The three Fayas nodded at the same time.

"On the various event lines we can see, the probability of this event is close to '1'."

"So, what are you going to do to stop her?"

Yang Ming said:

"I actually know where Levi is, he is not far from me, that bald uncle, that teacher Bardoli who appeared in front of me at a delicate time and tried to guide my thoughts thirty-nine times, he That's Levi.

"I just thought that he was Li's clone, or Li's subordinate.

"But later, he has been promoting the so-called cosmic truth investigation community, which gave me a strong hint and a sense of obsession. He tried to guide me to re-understand the Faya civilization, didn't he?"

"Yes."

Faya in the middle said: "You are smarter than we think, he thinks we are hegemons."

"It's too obvious what he did. Moreover, after I used the back door of the City of Light, everyone immediately showed up to see me. They probably wanted to guide me, or in other words, give me some vaccinations."

Yang Ming narrowed his eyes and smiled:

"If you have anything to tell me, just tell me, you know, I have to do everything for my hometown."

The Faya man in the middle suddenly laughed.

Yes, he expressed obvious emotions directly.

He laughed:

"Yang Ming, Lord White Phantom, I previously played the role of an old nobleman in the Sherman Empire. This is the privilege given to me by this experimental project. I can always appear in various political systems of human civilization in the galaxy.

"I have heard you say this more than once in order to deceive the dignitaries of the Sherman Empire—you know, I have the mission of the forerunner, and now I just want to gain a firm foothold in the empire and protect my hometown.

"Ha ha ha ha!

"I'm sorry, Yang Ming, but I think, you definitely don't want to gain a foothold in our Faya civilization, and then turn us away, right?"

"This!" Yang Ming pursed his lips, frowned, and shrugged his hands, "This is the funniest joke I've ever heard. Faya is a level 5.5 civilization. I'm just...to put it bluntly. to enter the Milky Way without taking the test, then I..."

"This is impossible."

The Faya on the left immediately said:

"Every pioneer has the same demands as you, but this is absolutely impossible.

""Faya's Game" is the core component of the Law of Civilization Seeding, which is one of our seven basic laws.

"The so-called basic laws are principles that we will never violate. If there is a conflict between non-basic laws and basic laws, we must first follow the seven basic laws. This is the content of the three original agreements."

Yang Ming sighed, "Can't we talk about this matter at all?"

"The probability of passing your home planet is very low, I suggest you lower your expectations."

"No." Yang Ming's expression was a little serious, "We are space-time bubbles that have been touched by mistake! Is it too rough to use the touch of time-space bubbles as a criterion? This mechanism itself has problems!"

Faya on the left said:

"No, the mechanism is sound. After touching the space-time bubble, our project's inspectors assessed your planet as meeting the minimum participation criteria for the Faya game project.

"The problem of your planet stems from the relatively primitive social system and the serious uneven distribution of resources. Every planet has a similar process on its development path.

"Also, you may have some kind of misunderstanding.

"We have always said that the competitiveness of the earth is too weak because of comprehensive considerations.

"First, your technological level has not yet reached the level of 'being able to make full use of all the energy of this planet', so after you access the trial space of "Abyss", the speed of accepting various information and technologies is relatively slow.

"Second, your social development is relatively lagging behind, and you cannot form an effective planetary coalition government in a short period of time. Similar to the existence of the planetary parliament, you need at least 20 years to build it. Educational attainment is highly uneven.

"Third, the previous two problems will seriously restrict the performance of Earth civilization in "Abyss", and each trial has a uniform time limit, and the competition is based on the ranking of points. When you first try to unite yourself, other greenhouses Civilization must interfere with you.

"We have already promised you a condition. The other four forerunners' replies to their own civilizations are to be put in at the time point of 0.5 standard galactic years before the start of this trial, and you can put it up to 1.5 years before the start of the trial." standard galactic year.

"This is the greatest help I can give you in view of your outstanding contributions to our various projects.

"Yang Ming, you have already done what you can do, so you don't need to add more to the snake."

Yang Ming was silent.

The Faya man on the right sighed: "We know that this is difficult to accept, but it must be accepted...and, Yang Ming, I can tell you secretly."

The Faya people in the center and on the left looked over at the same time.

"Just a little bit," the Faya man on the right muttered in Galactic language, "this is our powerful fighter against the Zerg. After he arrives in the high-dimensional world, he will grow, experience, and obtain real biological power. We should pay attention to him mental journey."

The other Erfayas nodded at the same time.

Faya on the right said:

"Yang Ming, the high-dimensional world will subvert your perception of the universe. When you look at the universe now, it looks like a sphere envelops you. In fact, when you step into the high-dimensional world, you will be in the thin film of this sphere. , what you see are countless spheres that rotate at the same time and are related to each other, time has no meaning to you, and you need to re-understand information and matter.

"Your family lives in one of these spheres.

"The sphere will not disappear, it will always exist, but the internal information will change.

"When you build enough feats, you can pull your family's information out of the frozen sphere and send it to a corner you think is safe."

Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.

"This is not a promise," said Faya on the right. "It's just something you can do after completing the dimension ascension. Of course, the premise is that you have enough energy."

Yang Ming smiled and said, "Well, buddy, you can always think of ways to convince me to be sincere to you, and I suddenly started to look forward to upgrading."

"Then," said Faya in the middle, "now, you just need to do the simplest thing, find Levi, and release the butterfly."

Faya on the left said humanely: "You must do this as soon as possible. We have completely given up on No. 5 forerunner, and we have arranged for No. 2 forerunner to assassinate her...We occasionally encounter this kind of particularly negative individual, which confirms that genetic diversity of hominids."

Yang Ming pondered a few times: "Let's go back to the question I asked at the beginning. After Levi's death, the reason for releasing the imprisonment... How do the Faya people want to deal with this third natural disaster?"

"This is a trial, a trial of human civilization in the Milky Way."

"This is also a punishment. Human civilization in the Milky Way has tolerated the Sherman Empire for tens of thousands of years without resolving it. The energy accumulated by the empire erupts outward, which is also a kind of energy cycle."

"Judging from all the event lines we have seen so far, this war will always break out. The difference lies in the loss. We will try to reduce human casualties as much as possible in the middle and late stages of the war."

"When Levi dies, we will give information on the top 20 regimes in the galaxy."

"If you can find a way to kill Li, it is equivalent to helping the human civilization in the galaxy. However, we will not have similar requirements for you. This is the subject of other project teams, and you already have too many projects. .”

Yang Ming sighed: "I don't know how many humans will die because of this."

"Civilization does not disappear."

"Individual life is just a form of matter. The precious thing is that life gives birth to thought."

"Do you have anything else to ask, Yang Ming?"

"I'm going to ascend the dimension, can I just hug Posuo?"

"Po Whirling has obtained a way to ascend the dimension, which is similar to the combination you used when fighting against the queen. You need to expand in the current dimension...you know what I mean."

Yang Ming leaned back: "Well, I still cannot avoid turning into a sarcoid monster."

After saying that, he smiled and waved to them, closing his eyes.

The light in the dormitory returned to normal.

Yang Ming sighed softly, stretched out his left hand, and a butterfly appeared in his palm.

In the space where Yang Ming just stayed, the three Faya thought fragments were exchanging information.

If their communication were translated into Galactic, it would roughly read:

"Aren't we telling Precursor One too much?"

"He is different from Levi. He is a very good individual. His thinking is biased towards collectivism, and his thinking background is similar to ours."

"Levy is just a blind and ignorant human individual, but Yang Ming is not. Po Suo also likes Yang Ming very much."

"You have poured too much emotion into Po Whirling, and your main thinking is almost being influenced by you."

"Oh man, Posa is so cute. Haven't you seen it? Especially when she really unfolds herself, that's the epitome of the ultimate life, and she's sure to be the most powerful bug fighter we've ever raised."

"Get ready to notify the regimes."

"Do you really want to notify? I have an energy indicator here, which requires about 62 billion human energy, and a reasonable counterattack can at least meet the indicator's needs."

"Do other plates have energy indicators? Is the recent space Zerg offensive too strong?"

"We can just take care of our respective projects, and we don't need to worry too much about these. Since we told Yang Ming just now that we will notify the various governments, we must do so, otherwise we will be lying. The thinking fragments of lying will be rehabilitated. "

"Hey, the mechanical thinking body itself is quite good. She has great potential, and it is entirely possible to be absorbed into our group. It's a pity."

"Pity."

"Pity."

...

In the dormitory, the butterfly imprint on Boss Yang's palm flickered slightly.

He slowly got up, turned and walked out of the dormitory.

Cut to the main line!