The Central Star Sea, the Abyss of the Stars, the supervisory headquarters of the Radiance Federation.
The responsibilities of the supervisors are different from those of secret intelligence agencies. This is a pan-universe public intelligence department, which basically does not involve the political infighting of advanced civilizations. Most of the time, the supervisory departments of the three major civilizations will cooperate in actions to carry out various special phenomena. Monitoring and tracing, preventing and preventing possible disasters, and stifling them in their infancy in a timely manner, have considerable authority.
At this moment, in the conference room of the headquarters of this organization, a group of high-level executives are sitting around the round table, discussing the emergencies reported by the ancient star desert monitor branch.
The explosion of cosmic energy is always a super frontline emergency and requires a high-level meeting to discuss.
"The content of the report is very detailed, and the cause and effect are clear. A scavenger dug up the safe of an unknown civilization and released the source of the incident, which belongs to the second category of accidents. However, when the monitor team was conducting on-the-spot surveys, the traces of the relics had disappeared. The projection of the high-dimensional information state interferes with reality... Now the most important question is, why did they release something, why there is a cosmic energy explosion, and what impact will it cause."
A sick-looking male humanoid opened his mouth to speak. He was tall and thin like a bamboo pole, his complexion was pale purple, with natural white lines, his eyes were long and narrow, and his pupils were crystal-yellow.
Sidruen Zihuo Kona, the top officer of the Radiance Federation Supervisor Department, Transcendent A Grade seed, the top master in the natural disaster grade, he is a multi-racial mixed blood, the main bloodline comes from the Dvini, a superhero. A gifted species.
The Radiance Federation itself is a multi-racial mixed system, and mixed-race children are an important part of the nation.
Due to the beliefs, preferences, appearance and other factors of different races, the racial issue has always been a glorious stubborn disease, but everyone is used to it now.
"These archaeologists always fail to learn lessons." Someone looked hesitant, "How many of the well-known cosmic disasters in history, organic extinction viruses, or sleeping monsters that distorted collective consciousness, are caused by archaeology?"
"It can't be said that many of our early technologies came from the reverse engineering of ancient civilizations. Besides, compared to the catastrophic incentives of advanced technology, the outbreak of social conflicts, and the invasion of foreign enemies, the proportion of archaeology is not large." Druen shook his head weakly.
At this time, a high-level executive looked through the past records and muttered: "In other words, it was rare before that the high-dimensional information state interfered with reality. Since the exploration history, this phenomenon seems to be more and more frequent."
"According to the statistics of the predecessor of the supervisory department, during the exploration calendar war, the average number of information state interferences in the universe every year was 467 times. This only counts the events discovered and recorded. In the past 100 years, Come on, this number has risen to 2,150 times, a nearly five-fold increase. Although there is a reason for the improvement of our detection methods, it is also a fact that the frequency of information-state interference has increased."
"Information state has always been an important research direction of advanced civilization. We are only responsible for submitting reports. Regardless of the specific scientific research, what you said is the work of scientists, not our responsibility." expression.
Sitting in his position, it is understandable that he is tired. The supervisor department is responsible for wiping his butts everywhere. Every day at a high level of his level, he sees a bunch of inexplicable interstellar citizens killing him everywhere, causing trouble for him. It's like watching a bunch of teddy bears mess around.
And no matter how he remedied, countless things would still erupt the next day, and if he had a bad temper, he could experience the feeling of an explosion of mentality every day.
After such a long time, people will become Buddhas, and the fish will become salty.
Everyone here is not engaged in research, and has limited understanding of the causes of information state projection. In their limited understanding, this phenomenon is like a special kind of mirage. The difference is that it is not limited by time and space, and can really interfere with reality.
Another high-level sternly said: "After comparison, the unknown civilization text submitted by the scavenger has no matching cases in the database. If this is a projection of the information state, the source is either from an extremely ancient civilization or from an unexplored civilization. A civilization that exists somewhere in the universe."
Although the three major civilizations are the well-deserved overlords of the universe today, they are not omniscient and omnipotent. They neither know what was in the extremely ancient era, nor do they know how many civilizations there are in the unexplored universe. They have never stopped exploring and researching.
"Did you find any ill effects?" Sidruen asked.
"Not yet. The specific details are still under investigation. It is impossible to predict what type of disaster this is, or even if it is not a disaster."
The crowd shook their heads.
Just then, a voice suddenly sounded:
"It's a disaster in the virtual realm."
The picture in the center of the round table turned and suddenly turned into the face of Old Maitou.
Seeing this scene, the audience was in an uproar.
"Tool Nation Manison!" Sidruen's face sank, his face green, "How dare you invade the network of official institutions!"
The faces of everyone present were ugly, Manison had too many previous convictions, and all the official agencies of the Radiance Federation were guarding against Lao Mai next door like a thief, for fear that their intelligence data would be stolen by the other side.
There's a saying in the universe that you can't expect a virtual mechanic to be disciplined, they're like casino bosses, it's their nature to peek at other people's cards.
"It's not the first time, what's surprising." Manison said calmly, "I'm just here to provide information this time."
"I don't believe it!" Sidruen gritted his teeth.
Obviously you can knock on the door, but if you have to run to climb the window, you will die if you send a communication application seriously, and it is not that we will not answer.
"This is faster, I don't like to wait." Manison said slowly: "And this disaster is fermenting, and every second delay will be more serious."
Hearing this, Sidruen temporarily suppressed his green anger and frowned, "What did you find?"
Manison showed the broken packets he had intercepted, explaining:
"Not long ago, a special packet of information invaded my sub-base and wanted to destroy itself after failure. I intercepted part of it. I saw its general structure and found that it might be an unknown quantum network virus. Each information packet is a source of infection, constantly self-replicating, with strong camouflage, penetration, and contagion.
I traced it, this virus is spreading rapidly in the quantum network of the ancient star desert, and it is estimated that it has penetrated countless nodes. If you count the days, this virus may be related to the cosmic energy explosion some time ago, so I came here to let you know. . "
Looking at the various materials displayed by Manison, the high-level supervisors present gradually became solemn and believed in this statement.
"It turned out to be a new type of network virus in the virtual realm." Sidruen only felt a headache, "Quantum network is one of the cornerstones of interstellar society. This highly contagious virtual virus is the most troublesome, and it will evolve into a star cluster if you are not careful. Even star-level communication paralysis, data leakage, intelligence out of control... What is the role of this virus?"
"This virus is still in the incubation period. Once it breaks out, it will rewrite the underlying logic of the infected intelligence, enter the killing order for the living body, and set off a mechanical rebellion." Manison said calmly, acting as if he had to answer questions.
In the current interstellar society, basically every household cannot do without machinery. Once a mechanical rebellion at the star field level or even the cosmic level occurs, the consequences can be imagined.
Sidruen shuddered. If Manison hadn't come to summon the news, the longer they waited, the more serious the situation would be, and it might even shake the ruling foundation of the three major civilizations.
Thinking of this, Sidruen's eyes softened a lot when he looked at Manison.
When not in trouble, this ally is quite reliable.
He stood up suddenly, faded the halo of salted fish, and became serious.
"It's a big deal, I must report to the President immediately!"
…
A few hours later, the leaders of the three major civilizations received the news and held an emergency joint meeting.
"… This is the situation. Now the ancient star desert has become the infection area of this new virus, and the number of infected nodes is increasing every second. Regarding the name of this event, I have named it 'Intelligent Plague', we need to immediately It is urgent to take measures.”
Badr reiterated the situation and expressed his position with a solemn expression.
The head of Void Spirit squinted his eyes and said solemnly: "Isolate the ancient star desert. Before the virus is completely eliminated, prohibit the ancient star desert from interacting with the external quantum network, close the star gate, and send a fleet to the periphery of the ancient star desert. Prevent the source of infection from leaking out in any form."
"Agree." Ulan Riel nodded.
It's like the plague, only isolation can completely eliminate it.
Only the three major civilizations have such qualifications and abilities to block the communication of a star field. If the three families reach a common intention, they can enforce the decree. This is the highest power that the three families bestow upon themselves in the Civilization Council.
"Also, notify the local civilizations at all levels in Ancient Star Desert, and ask them to cooperate fully. This problem must be dealt with as soon as possible."
At this time, in order to reassure others, the three families will not take the opportunity to attack the Transcendent star cluster civilization of the ancient star desert, otherwise, the next time a similar disaster occurs, they will not cooperate, and the gains outweigh the losses.
If the opportunity is delayed due to infighting, and this disaster snowballs, it will shake the foundation of the order of the interstellar society and cause a major blow to the dominance of the three major civilizations. There are countless lessons in history, so the three will never allow it. Again, this result is a lesson learned.
The three major civilizations usually fight to maintain their vitality. In the face of such a disaster, they will put aside the struggle of interests and temporarily join hands to overcome difficulties.
Ulan Riel slowly said: "I suggest recruiting mechanics from all over the universe, especially the Transcendent A Grade virtual mechanics who specialize in this, and call Tool Nation and Black Star over to cooperate sincerely and solve the problem together. "
"Seconded."
"Seconded."
The other two nodded.
Since it is a disaster in the virtual field, of course, you have to find experts to check, and Tool Nation and Black Star are the leaders in virtual mechanics, and will naturally be captured by the three major civilizations.
As for the origin, cause, and principle of the disaster, after the problem is solved, there will be plenty of time to find clues.
Moreover, the three major civilizations are very interested in the technology of this virtual virus.
If it was put in the past, the disaster this time would make the interstellar society in a hurry, and the order would collapse directly, and it would turn into an omen of chaos. However, after years of development of the three major civilizations, as long as this kind of disaster is discovered early, the risk is still within the controllable range.
The only hidden danger the three of them worried about were those unstable civil forces, such as the black market, wanted criminals, rebels, etc. No matter what the reason, as long as someone kept the virus privately, it would be tricky.
Maybe there will be someone behind the scenes... The three leaders looked at each other and saw the same worry.
…
The Black Star Cup has been held in full swing for two or three months. Han Xiao has rested for so long, and spends a lot of time in the machinery factory every day.
Originally planned to keep a low profile for a year and a half, waiting for the three major civilizations to take action against the Transcendent star cluster alliance, but Han Xiao did not expect that this day, the empire suddenly sent him a mission invitation, asking him to go to the ancient star desert to solve a virtual virus.
"To block the entire ancient star desert, is that virtual virus so powerful?"
After reading the message from the empire, Han Xiao had a strange look on his face.
In the previous life, this event did not happen in the 4.0 period at all.
To be precise, the player has not experienced the "smart plague", which happened during the version update of the Silver Revolutionary Army, and for the player, it is just a background story.
Han Xiao recalled, although he had never experienced this incident and had no way of knowing many details, he had seen a brief introduction to the "intelligent plague".
In the previous life, the process of resolving this disaster was very difficult. The three major civilizations wanted to remove all viruses in time, but something went wrong, causing the virus to leak out, infecting multiple star fields, causing communication in a large number of areas to be paralyzed, and the order of the interstellar society was disrupted. to hit hard.
The three major civilizations devoted a lot of resources to resolve the disaster. Due to the restraint of a lot of energy, coupled with the bad influence of public security, economy, politics, public opinion, etc., it happened to be developed and expanded by the silver revolutionary army of the previous life, which is also one of the important factors for the success of the silver revolution. one.
But now, the intelligent plague broke out many years in advance, and the Silver Revolutionary Army still did not say a word. Obviously, this opportunity was missed forever.
"Is it the butterfly effect that I fanned again..." Han Xiao touched his chin.
The news of the empire contained the cause and effect. He read it once and understood the reason.
The root of everything was that he overturned Gorutan himself, which caused the black market to enter a short vacuum period without a backer, which attracted the star thief. The original buyer was investigated by the three major civilizations, and it seemed that he just wanted to collect antiques from an unknown civilization, so he indirectly opened the safe many years in advance.
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse...
Han Xiao pursed his lips. The intelligent plague is a time bomb. It is better to detonate in this era than during the World Tree War, but now there are conflicts between the three major civilizations and the Transcendent star cluster, which may become a bargaining chip in the hands of the Transcendent star cluster alliance. .
If the Transcendent star cluster civilization gets a chance to breathe because of this, and really wins the ascension channel they want, the situation in the universe will completely take a completely different path from the previous life.
"I don't know the general trend of the times, which side will it eventually fall to..."
Han Xiao shook his head, suppressed his worries, and remembered another thing:
"What a coincidence, this time I met a celebrity in the later version..."
Harrison and others were also recorded as diggers. Han Xiao was very happy to meet such an obvious protagonist, and he was already thinking about transplanting this unowned leek into his vegetable field.
If nothing else, at least it can act as a mascot and increase the luck of the legion.
"Philip, reply to the empire, I accept the invitation and rush over on time."
After calming down, Han Xiao told Philip to reply.
He is naturally willing to contribute, and does not want the intelligent plague to consume a lot of energy from the exploration of the universe like the previous life.
Don't ask, asking is positive energy, not for this virus technology! I have no interest in it at all! Awesome!
"Dinger~"
At this moment, Han Xiao's panel suddenly popped up a prompt to trigger the quest.