The People of the Stars—that's what humans call these mysterious beings from the depths of the stars, and in Holleta, the ancient magic emperors called them "Allies among the stars." The real names of these mysterious beings have other names, but due to the weird language and vocabulary structures they use, it is difficult for ordinary races to accurately restore their racial names, whether it is transliteration or free translation, so those who have been in contact with these mysterious beings The race finally chose its own customary way of addressing.
The image of the people of the starry sky is a group of shapeless bright light, and there are dots of stars and lightning in it. Some people believe that these creatures are formed by the most primitive and pure light in the universe, representing the purity of this world. bright side. They have weird technology that humans can't understand—it may be magic, and they can cause all kinds of miracles. Some people even believe that they have some kind of power beyond the material world, so they can affect illusory things like fate and cause and effect. . The people of the starry sky initially communicated with humans on this planet through a spiritual connection, and then they came to this planet through a strange optical phenomenon that does not conform to physical common sense, and soon demonstrated its incredible strength and great quality.
The people of the starry sky warned the locals about the awakening of the eldest son, and told a disaster beyond the imagination of ordinary people, which almost overturned the entire universe. At first, the humans on this planet did not believe these warnings, but the people of the starry sky soon confirmed everything through a series of accurate prophecies and the tentacles of the eldest son dug from the depths of the ground. They helped the natives prepare for the apocalypse, including plans against the Firstborn and special shields to protect the planet after a solar eruption—all from the hands of these strange, shining creatures.
"That is to say, they came to this planet from the depths of the universe, gave you an early warning, guided you to transform the planet into an ark, helped you push your eldest son into the sun and detonated it, and also helped you build a serious planetary shield. Things beyond your technology tree," Hao Ren frowned after listening to the records about the people of the starry sky from the mainframe of the ark, "...but it still failed in the end. The people of the starry sky didn't know that the soul of the eldest son Continue to survive after death, and even have the power to destroy the entire ecosystem. So what will happen to those people in the starry sky?"
"They returned to the light." The mainframe of the Ark replied in a flat and emotionless voice, and displayed the record of the planet's last moments on a machine next to it. Hao Ren saw that the earth was shrouded in a thin layer of dark red light, and the distant sun was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye and gradually torn apart. The people on the surface seemed to be holding some kind of celebration ceremony, but when the sun expanded to three points One of the sky time. The celebrating crowd began to collapse.
And at this moment, a few groups of strange lights burst out from the crowd, they were like tangled and twisted lightning and jelly, and there were dots of bright light inside, the scale of which was like a house. These rays of light twitched violently against the sky, and finally turned into huge beams of light and disappeared suddenly.
Those light clusters should be the people of the starry sky, and Hao Ren thinks that the last beam of light is the scene of their death.
Allies among the stars—the ancients of Holletta firmly believed that these mysterious creatures from the depths of the universe could help them fight against the Firstborn. And the latter do seem to have powers beyond the mortal races. At least they have a way to successfully destroy the body of the eldest son. But it turns out that this level of strength is still not enough, and the people of the starry sky finally died on this planetary ark.
The picture was frozen at the moment when the beams of light disappeared, and Vivian looked at the screen thoughtfully: "These light-like races should be rushing to help everywhere in the universe. Their space technology is very advanced, so they probably have the ability to chase after the eldest son." Killing yourself to protect yourself, but trying to help other races . . . is less successful."
Hao Ren sighed, and asked a few more questions to the host of the Ark, and finally the truth of what happened back then came to light.
The original plan of the people of the starry sky and the natives of this planet was to leave here in an ark after destroying the eldest son with the sun, and look for a place with a suitable star again. But on the day of the Ark ceremony, the civilization on the planet was instantly extinct. For more than 10,000 years after that, this planet was quietly sleeping in its parent star system, as if dead. But there are still "living" things on this planet-the machines left by humans are still waiting silently in the dark, they have never forgotten the purpose of their creation, and have never given up on the ancient plan formulated 10,000 years ago .
During the 10,000 years when the planet was sleeping, the main engine of the Ark maintained a minimum operation, and scanned the life response of the entire planet over and over again—it was constantly looking for survivors on the planet under the guidance of established procedures, even if only one person survived , the existence meaning of the Ark will also be continued.
If human. It must have been abandoned, but these machines, from the day they were made, did not know what abandonment was.
Vivienne figured everything out: "The Nangong couple restarted the Ark agreement?"
The Ark host confirmed her guess.
"So those TVs, newspapers, advertisements, names of people and places in the city... All human societies are actually simulated by you?"
The answer of the Ark mainframe is only one sentence: "The civilization of the creator cannot be cut off."
Hao Ren felt that there seemed to be some problems with the host's understanding of "civilization", but he opened his mouth a few times and didn't know if he had the position to correct this "problem". The machine in front of me is just using its own mechanized logic to complete its mission. It may not really understand what civilization is, nor what exactly the creators want to preserve. It is an abstract thing that carries human will Yes, things that are difficult for AI to understand, the Ark host does not understand these.
But it is still obstinately fulfilling the instructions of 10,000 years ago-in the machine's own way.
"So you don't let the people in the city leave," Hao Ren sighed, "but you also know that we are not your creators—it doesn't make much sense for you to take us away."
The host of the Ark was silent for a long time, and finally repeated in an emotionless voice: "The civilization of the creator cannot be cut off."
"Then what is your next plan?" Vivian asked, "You let us come here, which proves that you are also hesitating. You understand that this deadlock cannot continue. A meaningful play."
Hao Ren also stared fixedly at the giant computer in the center of the hall. Although he couldn't see any emotional factors from the steel body of the opponent, he vaguely felt that this AI was also confused like a human being. There was something in it that didn't belong to the program, which was prompting it to seek change.
After a long silence again, the host of the Ark asked a question: "Where are you from?"
"You have antennas on the surface, right? Point them into space, and there's a silver-white spaceship there," Hao Ren said while connecting with the data terminal in his mind, "Terminal, to this planet Broadcast, tell it about the Space-Time Administration."
The lights on the surface of the mainframe of the Ark were flickering, quietly listening to the broadcast from space, while Hao Ren and Vivian waited patiently beside them. A few minutes later, a human-like sigh came from the host: "I see."
Half an hour later, Hao Ren led everyone back to the giant turtle rock platform in space.
He only brought back two things from Planet Ark.
One of them is a square black metal box, as tall as half a person. It is a library, which stores most of the materials of the Ark civilization. The Ark mainframe did its best to try and understand what "civilization" really meant, and it ended up making this database in the hope that someone would take it far away. Just like most civilizations - facing the end, the Ark chose to leave its own message, which is the only way to commemorate its creator.
The other thing was a transparent jar more than one foot high, which contained some gray-green substances. This was the second thing the Ark host wanted Hao Ren to take away: they were moss scraped from the condensation pipe.
Samples of life on this planet.
The main engine of the Ark explained: "Some scholars among the creators have deduced the failure of the whole plan, so they imagined some backup plans: if humans cannot be preserved, some animals should be preserved; if animals cannot be preserved, some plants should be preserved; Nothing can be saved, just save some cells. Please take these away, let them survive and spread, and my mission will be completed."
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace slowly left the orbit of Planetary Ark in a blue light package, and the off-white wandering planet gradually faded away in the field of vision.
In the refuge of Planetary Ark, the lights are dimming one by one. The day is over, and after dusk, another civilization falls into darkness. The unmanned cars slowly parked on the side of the road, and the robots also stopped working one after another, and began to turn off their power one by one. On the advertising screen of the roadside building, a middle-aged man with a neat uniform and gray hair watched Empty cities say their last good night to the world: "Citizens, shelters are closing, thank you all, goodbye."
When the last ray of light in space was blocked by the warped space, everyone turned their sights back from the holographic image. "Roll" looked curiously at the black metal box that Hao Ren brought back, went up and nodded his head: "It's so heavy."
Hao Ren sighed: "Yeah, it's pretty heavy." (To be continued~^~)