After touching the golden disc, Hao Ren once fell into some kind of chaotic and weird dream for several days, and these marks that could not fade were left on his hands—both Vivienne and Izaks helped He checked the marks on his hand, but found nothing. The marks were like ordinary burns, carrying no transcendental power. But even Hao Ren knew that these traces definitely had an extraordinary meaning.
Trapped by the chaotic dream at night, Hao Ren relived the scene he saw in the illusion of the golden disc over and over again. Every time he woke up in the crumbling temple of the Goddess of Creation, walked through Countless flaming colonnades and battlefields of death-match, finally arriving at the place where the homicide was committed. Then every time he was the same as before, always one step too late, unable to see the faces of the Godslayer and the Goddess clearly. Every dream is exactly repeated, but as he keeps repeating those things, Hao Ren finds that he is reading some information from the dream more and more clearly.
Those messages were the chaotic memories that had been injected into his mind after touching the golden disc for the first time. The repeated dreams seemed to help him extract information that was difficult for humans to understand from the depths of his mind, and as these repeated dreams finally faded away, Hao Ren was convinced that he had clearly grasped something. Now, he re-examined a series of things after he touched the golden disc, and an idea gradually took shape:
He touched the disk, obtained "information" from the disk, and then strengthened the information after continuously experiencing dreams. This series of processes is probably not accidental. This should be a well-designed program, and the function of this program is to Send a "message". Because after he fully understood what he got from the golden disc, those dreams faded just right—this can only be explained by the word "purpose".
"I heard the Goddess of Creation say to me, 'Be careful, the enemy is still there', she didn't tell me directly in words, but in the whole illusion, the whole spiritual world, in a more complex and imperceptible way The code was poured directly into my mind," Hao Ren rubbed the "burn" marks on his hands. "It took me five full days to extract these six words from the spiritual world. In the end they were very clear. I think this should be a warning."
"But do you think this warning is for you?" The data terminal flew slowly beside Hao Ren's head, "The image you saw was already 10,000 years ago, the 'last words' of the Goddess of Creation It was also 10,000 years ago, and she was probably leaving a message to someone at that time, and of course there were enemies everywhere."
"In the illusion, the Goddess of Creation once glanced at me," Hao Ren put down his hands. Looking intently at the production factory in the center of the nest, "I'm 100% sure that the focus of her eyes is on me, and she clearly knows where I am standing. So she should have the ability to see through time and space, even through a 'video' , her ability still exists. So her message should also be addressed to me."
The data terminal was a little surprised, but it knew very well what kind of abilities those powerful creatures—especially gods—should have, so it quickly accepted Hao Ren's statement and guessed on this basis: "In this case, the creation The Goddess probably knows more than she imagined."
"After all, she is a god. But she was killed by the race she created. Do you think it is possible for her to have no resistance and no back-up?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "She has time to create Vivian. Yes Time to shut down the functions of some guardians, and some time to send some guardians out of the battlefield of the Kingdom of God. She also spent thousands of years building a creation engine. After the collapse of the Kingdom of God, it is very likely that this engine of creation The gate of Suluen was pushed out from the dark realm. I think she may lack some knowledge compared with the professional gods of the Xiling gods, but she is by no means a fool."
Finally, he shook his head and smiled: "Anyway, it is always necessary to be more vigilant. It will come in handy to increase the combat effectiveness of the drone group, even if it is not to deal with the remaining enemies in the mouth of the Goddess of Creation. There are still many threats from the universe."
A small group of rogue probes flew past the window. They noticed that Hao Ren was looking at them, so they moved over curiously. They turned somersaults outside the window, and then flew into the distance in a line: Although these drones are under the control of a unified consciousness, they still have individual intelligence and simple thinking ability within a limited range, which can Let them have higher response efficiency in the face of complex and changeable situations. Hao Ren looked at the busy drones outside the window, and suddenly laughed and muttered: "Lily seems to have been worried about what to do if these drones go berserk like in the movie."
"Reasonable concerns," said the fleet-conscious face with a blank expression. "The loss of control of the drone swarm will bring immeasurable threats to the creator, and the expansion speed of this fleet is enough to cause her concern. Considering her survival The environment and the indoctrination received from childhood, it is logical to have a similar reaction."
Hao Ren looked at this rigid guy a little funnyly: "To be honest, you really won't lose control?"
"It's not necessary," the cluster consciousness couldn't tell Hao Ren was joking, it explained its attributes very seriously, "Any behavior should have a reason, and the cluster doesn't need to get out of control. There is no relationship between the cluster and its creators." Conflict, our proliferation, expansion, development, evolution, the whole process is under a reasonable program planning, and the fleet itself does not have the need to get rid of this program. At the same time, the Xiling pantheon itself is a huge consciousness under the connection of the spiritual network The cluster can be regarded as a higher-level fleet, and we are the secondary fleet created by them-there is no difference between the two. Everything is the tool and parts of the Xiling god system, and one tool does not need to betray the other. "
The data terminal landed on Hao Ren's shoulder, and Yoyo said: "The drone swarm has existed in the Xiling Empire for trillions of years, and it may even be longer than that. Long before the concept of 'AI rampage' appeared, the drone swarm Already part of the empire, they coexisted with the Xiling apostles, and the fusion was completed before the conflict. The premise of losing control is that one group must first control another group, but in the empire, there is no second group, everything is It's just parts and tools. All things, all in one, like your heart doesn't betray your ribs."
At this time, Doudou grabbed Hao Ren's arm and woke up from a nap. She had already slept, but when she woke up, she found that Hao Ren was still discussing a bunch of boring topics with others, so the little guy slapped his tail vigorously and protested loudly , Hao Ren frantically held the little guy up, and nodded embarrassingly at the fleet awareness interface: "Okay, let's not discuss these boring things—do you have a fish tank here?"
Hao Ren waited for two full days in this frontier lair of drones. Although the fleet consciousness initially estimated that it would take 24 hours to find clues, it actually took more time to search for those "space passengers".
But the wait was worthwhile. On the morning of the third day, one of the furthest cruising drones finally found a clue: a few light-years away from the first lens trace, floating in space is slowly Escaping synthetic substances, they have already dissipated to the point of being indistinguishable, but the detectors still collect their remaining material particles, and analyze it to be a kind of artificially synthesized high-performance fuel, perhaps the spacecraft engine is in a sub-light speed state used below.
After Hao Ren and the others received the report from the drone, they gathered on the bridge of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace. The detection area of the fleet these days has been made into a holographic star map and placed on the projection of the console. After seeing the analysis report of those fuels, the data terminal muttered: "It seems that their situation is not good. These are probably leaked fuels."
"No trace of aircraft explosion was found on the entire extension line from the lens trace to these fuel leak points. It is preliminarily determined that the man-made aircraft that left these traces is still alive, but with a certain degree of damage," the interactive interface of the drone group floats in On the other side of the console, "The navigation direction of these aircraft has been roughly locked. If they have not changed their course too much in the last hundred light years, they should be tracked soon."
Hao Ren thought for a while, then ordered Nolan: "Now, let's chase in that direction, maybe we can find those boats before lunch."
Nolan started his engine and muttered, "How can you be sure it's a boat? Haven't you seen it yet?"
Hao Ren curled his lips: "Nonsense, the thing that can travel faster than the speed of light and leak oil at the same time, could it be durian?"
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace finally left the drone lair after two and a half days of mooring. Under the guidance of the outpost drone, Hao Ren and his party quickly chased in the direction indicated by those traces.
It didn't take them long to discover their purpose.
"A large-scale man-made object is found ahead!" Nolan reported excitedly, "It really looks like a durian!"
Hao Ren stared blankly at the monitor screen, and a group of huge flying objects shaped like durians came into view.
"Tsk tsk, your mouth," Vivian shook her head and sighed, "it's at the level of law." (To be continued.)