At the beginning of the story, it was an ordinary world, an ordinary planet, and an ordinary beginning.
It is a small point in the endless starry sky, a speck of dust in the universe, just like every planet that gave birth to life, luck favored this solid planet composed of rocks, metals, and sulfur-rich minerals. After the storm blew the earth, charged particles and strong magnetic fields penetrated the surface rock layer, the first self-replicating silicon-sulfur macromolecules were coincidentally assembled from hot springs in the shallow layer of the planet's surface. This silicon-sulfur macromolecule became the most complex compound ever seen on the planet, and it also became the beginning of the whole story—it was lucky to survive the change in the hot spring material, lucky and precise to complete the first replication, and lucky to be in the hot spring. The spring maintains its own stability in the temperature change. In the slow and purely lucky "reproduction", it took tens of millions of years to cover the rock bottom of the hot spring, and then slowly spread outward. It gradually aggregates, mutates, and fuses with other surrounding substances or other mutated macromolecules. Symbiosis, struggle, compromise, the seeds of life take root and germinate. After hundreds of millions of years of simple replication, the first organism that can be called a "cell" evolves from these silicon-sulfur soups that are constantly replicating.
The original biosphere of the mother star started from underground.
It took another hundreds of millions of years for this cell, whose outer shell is made of polymer sulfide, to slowly "learn" how to combine with other cells to form a more complex organism that is more suitable for survival and migration, and for the first time freely Walk in the dark geothermal bisque.
The original underground hot springs have been on the verge of disappearing over time, but the subterranean "water" system of the parent planet is in a network structure, and the primordial creatures that have learned to move freely swim from the exhausted hot spring to the next nutrient-rich hot spring. , and slowly approached some shallow subterranean river leading to the surface, and finally these ignorant little beings settled in an ancient open-air lake, starting the next stage of complication and preparing for that fateful day. —stepping onto the surface—preparing them without knowing it.
The first thing that ran on the mother planet was a kind of small life crawling on the ground. Maybe they are a bit like squashed lizards, maybe they have tails with degenerated caudal fins, maybe they have sharp little nails to pick Live on smooth hot spring rock beds—even the ancestors can only rely on guesswork and restoration of remains to imagine what these ancient little lives looked like. They guessed that these earliest mother star creatures would have blue-white scaly skin, silicides made up their bones, and fibrous sulfides made up their soft internal organs. They hadn't evolved eyes yet, because dark hot springs and lake bottoms didn't This organ is needed—these blind reptiles have left ancient geothermal sources, underground rivers with increasingly scarce nutrients, and now lakes that have never changed: an epic adventure saga. They carefully grasped the dry surface rocks with their fragile limbs, and climbed up to the ground. The thick atmosphere of the original parent star rolled up the cold wind and blew on the somewhat moist skin of these small creatures—perhaps some timid individuals retreated, But thankfully, the brave among them raised their heads and greeted this unprecedented dry air flow. At this moment, two billion years have passed since the solar storm that seeded life on the parent star.
When these small creatures ran on the vast and desolate land of the original parent star, and gradually multiplied and spread to a considerable scale, a decisive turning point appeared: the ancestor Ansers called this turning point the Great Storm Chronicle.
The original parent star of the Xiling people is a huge planet. According to the data provided by the ancestors, it may be three times the size of the earth, and it has a liquid core with full power. The violent geological activities in ancient times caused its surface to spread all over the world. Mountains and rift valleys on a scale unimaginable on Earth: these mountains and rift valleys are endless, meandering across the entire crust, almost cutting the entire planet into several parts like corrugated paper in a divided breeding box , where the earth's crust is sunken as a whole, mountains and rifts cannot continue, but there are huge ocean barriers. In this way, the original parent star is naturally divided into several regions, and the natural environment of each region is completely different, the difference is the biggest Some places are even like two planets—this kind of high-drop surface will cause the atmosphere to accumulate too much turbulence, and with the overly active sun next to the parent star, this will bring about a violent turmoil on the parent star every once in a while. Climate change, as well as various super-large-scale meteorological events unimaginable on the earth, the scale and intensity of the typhoon on the original parent star are several times that of the earth, and a high convective strong wind can even spread to four-fifths of the planet—although every time The periods between such phenomena are long, but each time they occur, the planet is turned upside down.
But this time, an unprecedented storm was brewing on the parent star: the scale was greater than any storm in the history of the planet and since then—it swept across the world, causing worldwide rainfall and hurricane weather, and the largest storm ocean center on the parent star Part of it fell by tens of meters, and the impact tsunami caused devastated the surrounding continents. The flood flooded into the sky and rushed inland. It seemed that fate was going to give this planet that was turning upside down, so it caused a catastrophe in the place with the most mountains in the northern hemisphere. A large-scale collision of the earth's crust occurred: cracks appeared in the towering mountains, floods from the coastal areas**, coupled with hurricanes and heavy rainfall, this major reshuffle-like meteorological event lasted for nearly half a year on the parent star.
The original biosphere suffered heavy losses in this reshuffle, but it did not completely die out—miraculously, this became one of the reasons for the completely different civilization structure of the Xiling people later: primitive creatures were sent to all corners of the planet, and in Those who are so different from each other start to evolve again in an environment that is almost different from another planet. Silicon-sulfur-based life has tenacious adaptability, and its tolerance to temperature and humidity is often dozens or even hundreds of times that of carbon-based life. They survive tenaciously in every corner of the parent star, and eventually evolved more than ten kinds of incredible life system.
The difference between each life system is almost like an alien creature!
Then there is the story of the Xiling people—due to the previous "Great Storm Years", more than a dozen almost completely isolated lineages have evolved globally, and half of the lineages have successively produced intelligent life. This is the original Xiling People: That's right, the Xiling people are not a single race. They evolved independently in the weird environment of their mother planet, and what they gave birth to are several kinds of creatures with fundamental differences. Although they all have human appearance and walk upright, that is As a result of being disturbed by the information of the star field, if you put together the two Xiling people who belonged to different tribes in the parent star era, you will definitely think that they are aliens from two planets!
This may also be an ancient incentive for today's Xiling apostles to produce "branches".
Xiling civilization is a relatively rare "multi-species mixed civilization", that is, multiple completely different intelligent species originated on the same planet, and reached the stage of civilization successively, and finally formed a mixed civilized civilization. They are compatriots and the same Brothers and sisters in one civilization, but whose life forms have reached the point where they think each other is aliens - that's the exaggeration.
This kind of "multi-species mixed civilization" may be very novel in the conventional world view of people on earth, but for me, this concept is not the first time it has appeared. Look at the species composition of the Salvation Army: they all come from the same star. planetary. This is the case with the Xiling people. They are composed of several completely different intelligent species-these intelligent species are also the origin templates of the future Xiling apostles.
Like many common races, wars broke out between the major races on the original home planet when they first came into contact, and due to the fundamental differences in life forms, these wars were extremely tragic—when Ancestor Anses talked about this period of history Keep mentioning some names: Scorpio, Safa, Storm—these are the parent star groups in ancient times. Before Xiling civilization formed a unified whole, this planet was divided and occupied by several equally civilized species. , its divisions and antagonisms are far greater than even the most chaotic age on earth.
But just like those ordinary races who persisted until the cosmic era, after the initial war-integration, the Xiling successfully transformed from opposing ethnic groups into a unified civilization, and began to explore their universe.
"Multi-species hybrid civilization" has a unique advantage, that is, they develop faster in the fields of scientific research and exploration, so the Xiling people have mastered superb space technology in a relatively short period of time, and they can reach the limits of the material world Then they began to study how to jump out of their universe—and the disaster came suddenly at this time.
The abyss erupted in an inland colony, destroying this hopeful civilization almost instantly, and crossed the final defense line of the home planet in a short time.
This outbreak of the abyss is also the original source of the "origin hatred" of the Apostles of Xiling.
Although the Xiling people resisted tenaciously, they were not ready to compete with the enemy of the abyss with their strength. Coupled with the huge scale of the abyss power that the original home planet was facing at that time, the Xiling people finally had to accept a Fact: Their universe is slowly collapsing, and any fleet and artillery are ineffective against that nameless enemy.
The Xiling people used the last resources and the time they fought desperately to create an ark that could cross the void. On the day when the original mother star was completely covered by the abyss, they began to escape from their home universe: this is the time that the Xiling civilization has ever faced the abyss. The first and last time the whole family fled, and the birth of the Xiling Apostle was not long after that.
"We are retreating steadily in the process of fighting the abyss. It is an 'enemy' that cannot be explained by common sense. After finishing speaking, now he finally talked about the birth stage of Abyss War and Xiling Apostle, "We don't even know if it is some kind of definite evil enemy, or it is just an irresistible natural phenomenon in the universe, we only know that in the end everything becomes The enemy: The longer we fight against the abyss, the stronger the hostile forces we have to face, this is a battle that is impossible to win from the beginning, and finally the coalition government has to decide to abandon their homeland and jump out of the universe."
"It must have been a very risky move back then." Sandora nodded.
"Yes, adventure, extreme adventure," Ansers exhaled, "we haven't fully mastered the technology of jumping out of the world-about the precise model of the multiverse, the indescribable and dangerous environment between multiverses, and how Controllable navigation between worlds, these technologies are all in the exploration stage, we just know that there is a wider space outside our own world, and we just know how to use mathematical rate equipment to generate a space that allows us to survive in the void environment The order field, the war against the abyss has reached the stage where he has to flee.
After the first batch of Arks set off, there was no audio. The high-power communication antenna we equipped for them broke down after a short period of time in the void. The second batch of Arks used a new discontinuous communication technology. After leaving their hometown, they communicated with The base maintains a connection for a while, but soon loses audio as well - it seems that trying to jump out of space is tantamount to suicide, but there is no other way, we must keep launching the ark. There is no time to study a safe navigation plan, and there are not enough resources to launch more unmanned test ships. The coalition government has long since abandoned the defense circle of the parent star. In the last colony at the other end, watching the entire universe slowly collapse in front of my eyes, the starlight sent back by the deep space probe is getting dimmer every day, and the light and shadow between the nebulae are getting more and more distorted and crazy every day. We are in such an environment Build an ark with everything at hand, regardless of whether these simple things can persist in the void until they reach the next safe world, they must run out without hesitation... "
"The homeworld may be located at the dividing point of the Void Quadrant," Sandora said in a low voice suddenly, "The only difference between sailing within the quadrant and sailing across the quadrant is the communication method. The Void', so after crossing the quadrant, those arks just disappeared...don't worry about that, go ahead."
Ansers nodded, knowing that he probably couldn't understand Sandora's explanation: "Finally, the situation has finally improved—the pressure of genocide can make mortals collapse and go crazy, and it can also give us the explosive power to survive desperate situations. I finally figured out the key to navigating in the void, and made a crude navigation device—sounds ridiculous, right? The first Ark launched didn’t even have a navigation device, just like the primitives made without rudders and sails Like the original canoe, it can only drift forward in the void, this is the primitive ark."
Immediately after the new technology comes out, it becomes a manned spaceship: As I said just now, we don’t have the time and resources to conduct unmanned experiments. Batch of brave volunteers sent out. At that time, we couldn't grasp the law of abyss transmission. Its non-linear transmission may lead to a catastrophe every day, so we can only send people out whenever we have the opportunity to prevent missing the last 'safety window'. In the end, we felt that the time had come, that the destructive force was only half a light-year away from the final barrier, and there was no time to develop new navigation technology or build new ships - the coalition government decided to launch all the spacecraft that were built, full of energy. Everyone with them jumped into the void. "
With the experience gained by the pioneers in exchange for their lives, the last batch of arks barely moved forward in the void. We even got in touch with a few spaceships that were launched earlier and successfully merged with them, but more early spaceships still have audio Nothing—they are like floating balls thrown into turbulent currents to detect water potential, and have long been swept away by the void. "
From that day on, Xiling's hometown era ended, and the coalition government announced the reorganization. With the approval of the whole people, we gave up the moderate federal and parliamentary system, and the entire civilization turned into a monarchy—the Xiling Empire was established on the Ark. "
In order to survive, we decided to give up our individual interests, and arm our wandering civilization with absolute efficiency, obedience, unity, loyalty and bravery. Everyone knows that as a wandering civilization that may be capsized at any time, only this It takes an unkind way to survive. "
Although they escaped from their home planet, the vengeance of the Xiling people has never subsided. We remember the tragic history of the destruction of our homeland, and we have been trying to find out the truth of that disaster—scientists firmly believe that the collapse of the universe is not a natural phenomenon. The home world was destroyed by something abnormal and not belonging to our universe. After a long period of research, they finally determined that this thing came from outside the world, from the depths of the void, and encountered some After Cosmic Fragments, they determined that more than one world was destroyed by this force. The last point is very important: We thought that the destructive force would disappear after destroying the home world, but it still exists, and it is a common phenomenon in the multiverse, which makes Xiling people have a hard time There can be one constant dynamic in exile: revenge. "
Ultimately, scientists decided to call this force: the abyss. "
No one still knows the properties of the abyss, whether the pattern attached to the two-dimensional plane is matter or energy or something else, but at least the target of revenge has become clearer than ever before. At this time, other things happened. We found that many shortcomings of our mortals would make us unable to persist in exile for too long. We would fear, shrink back, and lose fighting spirit over time. Most people cannot do it. To be 100% frank with others, it is difficult to be absolutely trustworthy between people, and these shortcomings become more and more obvious as the exile continues-in this way, the combination of the two reasons of the characterization of the abyss and the face-to-face of one's own shortcomings, finally let The new government decided to create a brand new life form, input all the information of the Xiling civilization into these new lives, and let them take over the fire. "
"Actually, the plan of the Primarch has already started in the home world," Ansel paused, and mentioned more secrets, "That was when the home world was fighting the abyss, and we found that the abyss is more likely to infect those with weak wills. Ordinary people, so someone once proposed to create a ruthless combat weapon to replace ordinary soldiers to fight against the abyss. The name Primarch was also mentioned at that time, so it can be considered that the "Prime Body" was proposed in the era of the hometown project. It’s just that due to the rapid turn of the war situation, we didn’t have time to create this ideal life in the end. In the early days of exile, because survival was above all else, this plan was temporarily shelved. The Primarch's plan was restarted."
"This is the origin of the Xiling Apostle." Anses breathed out and said a little tiredly.
(It is said that the Xiling Empire Bar is organizing fan essays, interested apostles can go and have a look - it is on the home page.) RS