After finishing the concert in the Pearl Islands, the three of Lorraine Hill returned to the Western Continent, and the last stop was the Emerald Forest.
The scenery here has not changed much from the past. Among the beautiful and tall forests, scattered houses are scattered, and they are integrated with the surrounding environment, like mushrooms clustered at the foot of big trees.
Sitting in the courtyard by the Lake of Lacrimal Moon, Lorraine Hill in a white summer dress was sitting on a swing, Keti was standing beside her asking the name of the flowers she held in her hand, and Vimiya was kneeling on the grass On the cloth, she closed her eyes and played the small harp. The former elf queen Aiqinweila was lying on her side on Bulmansha's lap, sleeping very sweetly. Vestaena and Yin Xuegelin were sitting on the bench On the bed, talking about some recent current events, the courtyard is sunny, and at a quiet moment in the afternoon, a few yellow birds emerge from the branches and sing happily.
With one hand, Bu Mansha gently stroked Aichenweila who was sleeping on her lap, and with the other hand, she fed the Daijus squatting on the square cloth in front of her.
One of them, Daiju, is obviously bigger, and seems to be the role of mother and father, while the five little ones around are covered with fluffy fluff and have not fully grown up. Their immature beaks lightly peck at the fragments of fried popcorn in Bu Mansha's hand, making a chirping sound. faint cry.
Such a quiet and beautiful afternoon freezes like a peerless painting and slowly settles down.
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After the end of the first chaos disaster, everything began to develop rapidly, and people gradually walked out of the earth and re-entered the age of the galaxy.
Over the past 50 years, more than 100 space outposts have been gradually established in the Yinvar galaxy for experiments, observation of the starry sky, and exploration of possible artificial ecological environment creation in the future.
In 1852 of the Third Epoch, a signal came from space about 30 light-years outside the Invar galaxy, and it was preliminarily determined to be the signal of an intelligent creature.
In the same year, the external response system was established. Under the condition of not being sure whether the opponent was an enemy or a friend, the Invar galaxy gradually raised its alert and began to develop new space weapons.
In 1860 of the Tertiary Epoch, the signal began to change and approach. According to the speculation and simulation, it is expected to reach the outer reaches of the star system in 2 years.
In 1862, under the watchful eye of the star fleet on alert, a special spaceship appeared on the radar.
Its shape is similar to some kind of stick water bug. It has large transparent membranous wings on both sides of its body. It seems to move its wings slowly in space, but it has a swiftness close to the speed of light, so that every time it moves its wings, its speed is too fast. An illusion of teleportation, like a water bug flying across the water to another point.
When they reached the outer reaches of the star system, the other party seemed to have observed the star fleet waiting in full force, so they stopped for a while.
The complicated signal was transmitted again, but it was difficult for human beings to understand, whether it was based on the ancients, the Sun of the Winged God, or the decoding device on the Deep Sea United Homecoming.
In this way, a few days later, this special ship released several tiny airships like fireflies, flying towards the side of the star fleet.
In response, the human side also sent five small special fighters as a reception.
The two sides slowly converge towards the center of the airspace, and then slowly slow down.
Afterwards, these five insect-like airships hovered in space, and the branches hanging down from below hooked each other, and a projection screen was formed under the airship, and the screen began to play. It can be seen that the other party has an ability that is not inferior to human beings, or even higher. scientific process.
In the picture, a planet full of plants and flowers slowly appears. There seems to be no other animals found on this planet, only various types of insects, and they also have their own prosperous civilization. Various buildings have reasonable engineering aesthetics. It's like a world where metal and plants blend perfectly.
Afterwards, the screen was further enlarged, and the civilized individuals were also revealed one by one. In the larval state, this race is like a fat, short and thick bee pupa, and can only move forward by wriggling. However, in a civilized society, they all have their own nanny cars. Larvae can move around by manipulating such a cart with their tiny, sawtoothed forelimbs.
In childhood, they will study and play with their peers. When they enter adolescence, they will undergo the first differentiation. At this time, everyone's form will undergo a huge change and there will be various differences.
Some have many flexible limbs, some grow wings on their backs to fly, some are covered with thick carapaces, and some have become more adapted to living in liquids.
Different forms are suitable for different jobs. They take their work as glory, strive to show their value in the group, and reap happiness and certain material rewards. If they are not recognized by the group, they will feel lost and uncomfortable.
At this time, if some of these individuals are extremely outstanding, after entering the Extraordinary Sequence 8, they will undergo a third transformation and become even more special. For example, the huge battleship flying in space is actually a Sequence 9 individual of this group , He relies on his special extraordinary core to stir the microwaves of the universe, advance through the ripples of space folds, and when he exerts his full strength, he can even temporarily exceed the speed of light.
At first, the conference room on the human side was amazed at those pictures, and then fell silent. When one of the pictures flashed by, countless people stood up and exclaimed.
"This! How is it possible." They recalled the video and froze in that scene.
That's the fragment of the genetic map dissected on the screen of the group.
Some biologists present looked at the familiar genetic map and were almost 100% sure that it was highly similar to the human genetic map, as if it came from the same source.
Being friendly and cautious, the human side also put the cut and prepared video on the stereoscopic image in front of the fighter plane.
The picture shows the development process of the earth from ancient times to modern times, the rise of human beings, entering space, etc., but the events of the twilight era are hidden. After all, it is too complicated to explain this point, and I am not at ease.
The five airships on the other side also fell silent for a while after watching the images of humans. After a long time, there finally came a response from there.
Information is presented on the projected screen in skewed and non-standard fonts.
"Welcome, ancient humans, another branch of our origin."
"On behalf of the chief bee, His Majesty Malinrona, I would like to send my greetings to all of you."
"welcome… "
Looking at the subtitles on the other side's screen, which were made up of human languages and characters, the human beings on this side of the earth have mixed emotions, including excitement, anticipation, panic, uneasiness, apprehension, curiosity, and so on.
Why does this race have a similar genetic profile to their own, and may even have the same origin, what is their origin
"You seem to be unaware of everything that has happened in the Star Return-A4 sector for nearly ten thousand years. We can tell you some things out of friendship. At the same time, please allow us to know the information about the three former crowns."
It seems that the other party has observed the mutation and the traces of the crown that occurred in the Yinvar galaxy decades ago.
On Earth, everyone in the coalition government discussed quietly and nervously. Some people think this is an opportunity, but some people think it is dangerous.
"We can't be sure what the other party said is true or false, and even the pictures the other party gave me may be fabricated, which is hard to believe, and we use these things that cannot be confirmed to be true or false in exchange for our most precious information, and even the survival of civilization. It's too dangerous!"
"That's true, but some things, even if we conceal them, I'm afraid it's hard to keep them completely secret. Since the other party has found this distant galaxy, if we offend the other party and cause a dispute, we may not be able to bear such a result."
Many committee members were discussing, but most of them still disagreed with direct notification.
"Sorry, we can't accept such a proposal for the time being, and we need further understanding or other factors to improve."
Such words were echoed on the screen projected by the fighter plane.
The five airships on the other side hovered silently for a few minutes before returning home, and only one left a small black box in space.
"This is a gift from us. Although we did not reach a cooperation this time, I believe that one day we will still be in touch in the future." Afterwards, this special space ship gathered the released airship, turned its direction, and gradually disappeared in the radar exploration range. the end.
"The other party left just like that?"
"It's surprising and puzzling." Everyone on the earth was also in a complicated mood at the moment, and then asked the fighter to carefully store the black box and bring it back to a nearby space observation station for research.
Dozens of days later, the news came.
"Reporting to the committee members, the H-281 monitoring station has now sent a report that the black box has been studied, and it describes many events at the end of the Twilight Era, as well as the approximate origin of their race."
"Oh, this is?" Everyone looked at the decoded information.
According to the information in the black box, the name of this racial civilization can be translated as 'Seiko Bee'. It originated from an experiment after the ancient people entered the glorious age. Re-editing, hoping to develop a more intelligent artificial race that can replace machinery.
History seems to be a cycle. In the past era, people replaced humans with machines, and then replaced machines with artificial races.
Compared with rigid and weak mechanical AIs, specially-made artificial races are more efficient. They are born like bee swarms in training cabins one by one, and then differentiate into different forms according to needs, and can freely choose to express certain genes fragment.
In the experiment, the artificial race has removed many unnecessary and superfluous emotions for the work of human beings. In this new race, they will spontaneously love labor and gain a great sense of accomplishment from it.
Moreover, compared with human beings who have the difference between the rich and the poor, the "Seiko Bee" was bred and born in a unified way, and received the same education after birth, and finally chose the suitable work form by themselves.
They don't need to fall in love, and they don't need to form a family to reproduce. They will have familiar and good friends, and they will also have their own small hobbies. The population is controlled by the country or the center of civilization.
Different from the previous machines, such an artificial race, the transcendent human beings at that time only need to explain the general order, and they can spontaneously complete the design, material selection, frame building, repair, filling, and even the final iterative perfection and so on.
They are more tools than tools, more efficient and smarter than machines.
Doesn't this project sound great and amazing, but in that most glorious era, it was still just an inconspicuous existence among the many projects of the Transcendents.
It may be better, but there is nothing and nothing will be missing.
After owning the two crowns, the transcendent civilization is close to the gods in people's imagination. They conquer the galaxy, help their former opponents, explore the secrets of higher dimensions, have almost eternal life, etc., but build the last star The crown was the one that attracted much attention at the time.
Compared with an easy-to-use small 'tool', the center of people's eyes is always the more mysterious and unknown law of causality. When the 'string' of the universe is pulled, what kind of 'ripples' will appear? Human technology at that time has already Metaphysics that is almost beyond cognition, it is difficult to see the whole picture.
Compared with the glorious era of transcendents, the God Winged Sun organization has not been able to escape the shadow left by that stalwart era in its entire life.
When human beings are fearful and uneasy about strange races, the other party is also cautious. They are also uncertain to what extent human beings can activate the crown and manipulate the power of the star system. After the initial and cautious contact between the two parties, In the following decades, the earth civilization never saw the message from this race again.
In this way, time slowly came to the second disaster of chaos.
Tertiary 1902.
After nearly a hundred years of development, today's civilization is moving forward again, and the phantoms of chaos that were once quite a headache disappeared under the overwhelming gunfire of space battleships.
With the assistance of the power of the crown, the civilization on the earth has become more and more adapted to fighting against the phantoms of chaos. The development of various isolation and closed technologies has also made it difficult for the phantoms of chaos that once surged like ghosts to invade.
After battles and baptisms, the self-confidence of human civilization has been restored, and at this time, it has finally come into contact with other civilizations in the universe.
"Actually, we also came to this distant galaxy by observing the drift and movement of these chaotic seas."
In the lifelike projection screen, there are astonishingly beautiful races swimming in the transparent liquid, the gorgeous red and blue fish tail sways gently, and the curves of its figure convey a certain rhythm.
Mermaid family of 'Deep Sea Union', one of the branches of human beings.
"It's surprising that there are warships left by our race in the Yinvar galaxy."
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"It's a pity that we haven't received the signal from this battleship over the years, perhaps because these chaotic sea model lakes swimming among the nebula have distorted the information."
"The world is far more than what you see, and the Milky Way today is not absolutely peaceful."
"The war has been going on. The remnants of human races, the self-disciplined AI groups left over from the glorious era, the alien races, the chaotic phantoms that wandered and turned into natural disasters, etc., you will gradually know all about it."
"Finally, let me send my blessings to you again."
"Welcome back, one of the branches of the ancients, our brothers and sisters, and future comrades-in-arms, new members of the interstellar community."
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"Thank you for your notice."
"The Coalition Government officially declares that the Third Era ends today."
"The fourth era, the age of the galaxy, has officially opened."