It has been three days since the second batch of deep space probes launched into the universe, because we don’t know what the God’s Forge looks like, and we don’t know if it is a more conspicuous space entity, so these probes are different from the first batch of probes. They are all searching the universe in low-speed mode, but even the "low-speed mode" is for Xiling Technology-three days have passed, and even the nearest detector has almost reached the boundary of our galaxy. This place is almost 170,000 light-years away.
The low-speed probe's meticulous search step by step finally yielded results: in an unusually desolate and empty place on the border of the Milky Way, they found traces left by an artificial energy source, and the "level" of this energy source is quite high, although it is not Psychic energy, but it is definitely some kind of extraordinary power on the same level as psionic energy. If the forge of the gods is really related to the locked state of this universe, then this energy source is very likely to be the forge of the gods. Anyway, we haven't found a more advanced artificial energy than it yet.
It seems that it will take a day or two for Celine to get permission to meet the Pope (if the heresy happened here really reaches the level that the Pope needs to intervene), then Sandora and I just have the opportunity to go to the border of the galaxy to see Depending on the situation, anyway, with teleportation technology, running around in the universe is also a matter of blinking.
Before I left, I made up an excuse. For example, I accidentally dazzled my eyes yesterday when Sandora Ball was comparing brightness with the sun. Today, I want to find a place where no one is around to recuperate my body and mind. I may spend the whole day in the forest After a while, Celine didn't have any doubts about us, the great hero who reported the heretics. She just reminded us not to spend the night in the forest, and then continued to work hard to weigh the rags picked up by a group of adventurers.
We first teleported to the Admiral of the Empire, and we mainly came here by the way to see the situation of the technology revivalists, and to see if the consciousness of the two special patients has fully recovered.
This huge space castle with hundreds of kilometers is now ushering in the most deserted historical period since it left the factory. Apart from the visitors, the "residents" on the spaceship are only a bunch of self-discipline machines, empty and quiet like a ghost town , The technological revivalist prisoners who were captured here woke up in the prisoner-of-war camp, and what they faced was such a cold, silent, weird and empty world. Although they live in prison cells, everyone knows the space expansion technology of the empire, and we may have to put all kinds of strange species in the prison, so the prison wardens of the empire never refuse to make the cell space wider , so even those ordinary isolation areas piled up with superalloys are almost as large as small towns, and each "guest" gets a separate room. If they are at both ends of the room, the distance between two people It's almost to the point of needing to semaphore (if they can see through the alloy wall of the cell)... I still think that idiot Alaya didn't think twice when he assigned the room.
Destroyed by the "fear of disaster", I was taken to a strange place in a daze. After waking up, I only saw the cold alloy world in all directions. No one explained the cause and effect to myself. Trapped alone in a metal box that seems to be built by a giant, except for the regular meals that appear in the food trough every day, there are only monster-like robots (insert a word, actually I think self-discipline machines are quite cute) Occasionally appear in In front of me, instructing how to use the various facilities in the cell in a rough and blunt way-this experience is absolutely stressful, so when Sandora and I appeared in front of the "leader" again, the other party was curled up in the corner, The frightened appearance made it almost impossible to see that she was a slightly heroic female leader a few days ago.
I feel a little sorry to see this sister's terrified appearance. I and Sandora have been busy contacting the detector group or researching various information obtained from Celine for the past two days, and have hardly paid attention to the information on the Empire. The general's situation, although he has not forgotten that there are still people locked up here, but it is almost forgotten. This shows the disadvantages of insufficient manpower: usually tens of millions of people live on the Admiral of the Empire, and even the unlucky ones thrown into the prisoner-of-war camp can get in touch with others. A lot of machines have been thrown into the corner for several days without paying attention, and now the apostles of Xiling in the entire universe are just me and Sandora, including a dumb cat angel with a bad brain, and A dark little doll who sleeps in the spiritual world all day long, and the two behind him add up to barely half—the manpower is really too busy. Moreover, Sandora and I are not used to taking care of these minutiae things personally: let alone my carelessness, has Her Majesty the Queen personally been responsible for providing humane care to prisoners
I almost "traveled" from the door of the cell to the female leader, and while thinking about whether to order a redesign of this type II cell, I greeted the other party: "Hey, we came to see you, it looks like you're afraid." Has the aftermath of the disaster been completely eliminated?"
The female leader looked up at me and Sandora, her first reaction was... no response, she blinked vigorously, then rubbed her eyes for a long time before finally confirming that she was not hallucinating, then "Teng" jumped up all of a sudden: " Ah! the living!"
I:"… "
Suddenly feel that the previous apology was a waste of feelings, how can I break it? !
"Nonsense, of course it's a living person!" I didn't say a word, but Sandora spoke first, "The sequelae of 'disaster fear' are not that serious, you should almost recognize our two faces by now."
The female leader squeezed her arm, then quickly looked around at the cold alloy walls, and then looked at me in disbelief: "You brought me here?! What is this place, you... who are you! ?”
Then she suddenly took half a step back and made a subconscious defensive posture: "Are you a heretic? Which ancient palace is this?"
"Sometimes I appreciate your brain power, but sometimes your brain power is really annoying," Sandora said dissatisfiedly, "You and your men are indeed locked up by us, but we are not as good as Lost. It doesn't matter if you are religious, this time I am not here to continue the interrogation, just to see the situation here, so as to prevent you from scaring yourself. Is it okay to live here?"
The female leader looked at the Sandora ball in my arms in astonishment. She might finally recall the horrible moment in her mind that she didn't want to recall, and then said something special from the bottom of her heart while her heart was shaken. : "Is there a speaker in this light egg? Is it your communication equipment? Are you responsible for moving the sound? Why doesn't this woman show up in person?"
"Sandora, calm down! Impulse is the devil!" I hurriedly hugged my wife in my arms, "If you die, you have to be resurrected!"
In the end, I was worried in vain, and Sandora didn't seem to take it to heart at all: "I am the queen, is it necessary to be serious with her?"
"Um, well," I twitched at the female leader, "Congratulations on escaping. Our identities are complicated, and you probably can't understand them. As for this place... it can only be called a prison, but it's not a prison. I won’t detain you for too long, now I want to get some information from you, so I will temporarily detain you in this place, let me explain a little bit... "
Next, I probably let the other party know her own situation, because there is no need to mention the Xiling Empire at this time, so I generally said that I and Sandora came from a very distant advanced civilization, anyway, how advanced it is. Advanced, the degree of power can be infinitely improved depending on the needs of the plot. In short, this is not the point. The point is that there are countless passionate battle nuns and battle monks in the Lost God Church who are wandering around carrying particle rifles and pulse guns. They are searching for technology all over the world. These "heretics" of the revivalist are always ready to collapse first and ask later. If the female leader and her subordinates are handed over, it will be a rhythm that no one will be left alive from the top to the leading cadres to the prosperity and Xiaoqiang. Therefore, from the side It seems that staying in this prison has temporarily saved the lives of many people here.
I believe that the extreme conflict between the church and the technology revivalists will not last long. If I and Sandora figure out why the tree elves want to block technology and solve this problem, then the conflict between the technology revivalists and the church will actually It's gone, and the rest are purely criminal cases that are not based on conflict of beliefs. One of the reasons we go to such lengths to protect these revivalists is this: their motives for reviving technology are entirely good, and even though many of them are extremists, nearly half of them are just scientists and They are just inheritance scholars, I really don't want to watch these simple and passionate guys fall on the night before the technological revival.
Oh, this statement the night before is not literary enough, it should be said that the last night before dawn... seems even less literary
"The situation is like this," I explained the situation on the surface in a simple way, "In short, you will be safer here. Most of the people in the technological revival faction have never committed any crimes. There is no need to rush to die in the last few days. Religious vendettas are such a shitty thing, so I 'protected' you. Of course, you should also know that many of your subordinates are... Hehe, let them take a reprieve here. To be honest, you make me feel very sad Contradictory, your revival activities make me and Sandora happy from the bottom of my heart, which shows that a civilization is very salvageable, but why do so many of you slowly become like terrorists?"
The female leader doesn't seem to be able to accept the concept of "extraterrestrial visitors", so she listened to Sandora and me explaining the situation in a daze, and didn't even know where to start, until now I shifted the topic to technology. She only showed some weird expressions on the revivalists, and she seemed to be a little emotional in her words: "Any large-scale organization cannot maintain purity, and no amount of high ideals can stop the corruption of individual people, and if you have been in contact with Negligent Religion, naturally you should know how strict their blockade of knowledge is. In such a high-pressure environment... people can change their minds, and such a large organization will inevitably mix in extremists. By the way, you really come from... "
"Don't worry about this, the answer is the same after asking several times," I waved my hand at the other party, the female leader's face was full of doubts that could not be resolved, and ordinary people are always full of suspicion. It's even more impossible to dispel the barriers in the heart of such a "heroine" head-ranking figure in a few words. Now I can't torture her with "fear of disasters" again, so I don't plan to tell her too much to challenge the three views "In short, we intend to solve the problem of technology blockade in this world. Now that you have recovered, can you tell us what is going on with this technology blockade? You technology revivalists have been dealing with Lost God Cult for so many years. You should Know some secrets of the other party."
There is a reason why this question was delayed until today: a few days ago, when Sandora just used "fear of disaster" to defeat the opponent's psychological defense line, we did ask about this aspect, but the soul under the attack of "fear of disaster" Although it is undefended, it is trapped in a state of excessive depression. This state causes the person concerned to answer questions honestly based on his own memory, and has almost no ability to use his brain to think for himself. In this way, we heard from the female leader The information about the technology blockade I received was very one-sided. Now that the other party has regained her senses, I want to hear her own guesses on this issue as an "experienced" leader of the rebel organization.
Maybe this kind of speculation can bring us closer to the truth, and it seems that we are about to contact the Pope of the Lost God Sect. Knowing more about the situation will also help us find a breakthrough in the negotiation at that time. After all, neither Sandora nor I intend to use violence to force the Pope to submit.
"The teachings of the Lost God Sect are very clear. Mortals abused technology to bring about the end, so the gods were furious and blocked knowledge. Now mortals need 'atonement', and the progress of redemption is in the hands of the Lost God Sect, so they logically control Knowledge," the female leader thought for a while, and felt that this question did not involve the secrets of her organization (in fact, she revealed a lot of secrets under the influence of "disaster fear" a few days ago), so she boldly opened up the chat box, " The Lost God Sect has held knowledge for tens of thousands of years. Elves are the core layer of this sect. They have enough lifespan to complete this long-term project. Taking the Lost God Cult for granted... tsk."
"It seems that you don't believe in the teachings of the Lost God Sect," I sat at the table opposite the female leader, and turned on the holographic projection system installed on the table, showing a top view of the planet, "This is your planet. Actually We have carried out some 'checks' these days, mainly to determine whether your planet has been destroyed by war - at the beginning we also believed in the legend of the Lost God, and felt that a high-tech war might have erupted on this planet. The war caused the survivors to block the technology, but by scanning 2,300 detection points, we finally determined that this planet has not suffered any global-scale disasters in the past 200,000 years. You know what that means."
The female leader looked at the projection in front of her in amazement, and her focus was completely distorted: "Ah! What is this?! Is this your display device? This...is this technology or magic? Amazing! This beautiful The small ball is our world? Sure enough, the earth model mentioned in those ancient materials is correct. The world is a sphere. This is really... No matter how much evidence there is to prove this, we have never seen the whole picture of our world! "
This is really sad, the space station you built tens of thousands of years ago is still hanging in the sky, but now the people on the surface have almost forgotten that the earth is a ball.
I knocked on the table and signaled the female leader who had climbed onto the table to get down quickly, at least not squatting on the table: "I will let you slowly study the holographic projection when I have a chance, now let's get down to business first, sister?"
"Oh, oh, I'm sorry for my gaffe, I'm very interested in these novelty things..." The female leader jumped down awkwardly, "What did you just say? Oh, by the way, you said that there was no... disaster in our world back then? "
At this time, I finally realized how much information I just said, and the female leader suddenly showed a look of horror.
Obviously, even the techno-renaissance faction believed in the legend of the ancient war, and they did not question the Lost Gods on this point, but now even this last common cognition is about to be broken.
"That's right, there is no trace of a world-class man-made disaster on this planet, no large-scale civil war, no signs of being attacked by external forces, not even a crater that can destroy a city," I said seriously "In other words: your ancient technology was not destroyed by violence or sabotage at all, but... inexplicably disappeared overnight, and then you began to live primitive lives without doubt and for no reason. , do you understand?"
"The Cult of Lost God can't do this kind of thing!" The female leader immediately exclaimed, "They... they are also the victims of the technology blockade, right. Many spies from our organization have infiltrated the high-level of the God Cult, and they can determine the technology of those heretics. No matter how high it is, it's just the skin of ancient civilizations, how could they have... silently wiped out the civilization that was so powerful back then?"
"Whether it will be obliterated or not is uncertain, but it is certain that the ancient people tens of thousands of years ago voluntarily gave up technology when the world was peaceful." All were evacuated from the advanced cities, turned off the reactors, locked the gates of the base, and then began to live the life of men farming and women weaving in the wilderness. Of course, we have not found convincing documents, we can only learn from some ruins The scanning map and the geological remote sensing map of the entire planet can be used to judge the situation of civilization dating in that year."
This situation was only known yesterday, and the discovery process was quite dramatic: neither Sandora nor I thought that there would be other secrets in the dating of civilization on this planet, but there was a probe that had just been assembled before departure. A "multi-subject scan" of the planet for testing purposes revealed a startling secret when it looked back: ancient ruins all over the planet were abandoned at the same time, and there was no sign of war ! RS