Starting from Zero

The news that the pilgrim leader told us is absolutely very important. It is important information related to the success or failure of our immigration.

If we do not know such information and rashly bring all mankind into the universe, then the consequences will be very terrifying. Imagine that when the immigrant fleet carrying hopes for the future of mankind enters a lonely deep space of the universe, and loses the cover of the huge planetary gravitational waves, we will be completely exposed to the induction of the insect race, and at this time, the insect race Instinctively will launch an attack on our fleet.

Our immigrant fleet itself does not mean that it is not equipped with any weapons. After all, even if no one attacks us, meteorites flying around in the universe are quite dangerous. Therefore, deep space vehicles in the universe must be equipped with interception weapons. However, these weapons may be no problem with meteorites, but insect race is not a meteorite, they will change the navigation posture. And the number of insect race is definitely not comparable to meteorites.

Although there are many meteorites in the universe, normally, unless they encounter a large group of meteorites, they are usually sporadic meteorites passing by. For these floating meteorites, it is actually very easy to intercept. But the insects will definitely not only come with one or two, and even if at first there are only one or two insects, after we have eliminated them, won't the remaining insects do anything?

If we are attacked by some animal on Earth, we can still run if we can’t fight, but the immigrant ship itself doesn’t carry much fuel and can’t be used for air combat. If it’s wasted to avoid insects More fuel, that means we may not have enough fuel to slow down. Of course, the super-electromagnetic engine does not use fuel. Even if we ran out of fuel in the rocket booster in advance, we can still slow down with the super electromagnetic engine. However, the output power of the super electromagnetic engine is very low, which means that we are impossible to complete the deceleration in a short time. Therefore, if we still start to decelerate according to the scheduled time node, the fleet will rush over the target and fly to a place where we don't know. So if we plan to rely only on super-electromagnetic engines to slow down, then our only option is to slow down in advance.

Slowing down in advance allows us to slowly reduce the speed for a longer period of time, so that we have enough time to complete the deceleration, but the result of this will be to extend our entire immigration time.

In fact, the immigration plan currently under calculation has taken as long as two thousand years. In the process, we are still not sure whether our immigration ship can last that long. The reason why there is a plan to reduce the population during the journey and then dismantle part of the spaceship for use as spare parts is because we have estimated that most of the spaceship impossible will last for two thousand years. Therefore, if we slow down early, it means that our voyage may be more than two thousand years.

Everyone knows that there may not be much difference in the degree of fatigue between running 50 meters and running 100 meters. Although the distance between the two is doubled. However, running 10,000 meters and 10,100 meters, the fatigue gap between the two is very exaggerated. Because you are exhausted after running 10,000 meters, let alone running another 100 meters at this time, you will find it extremely difficult even if you take two more steps.

Our immigration ship is the same. If you only plan to use it for a hundred years, then there is definitely no major problem with overdue service for 50 years. However, our current plan is that these spaceships will need to be used for two thousand years. If the service is overdue for more than a hundred years, the result will be difficult to predict.

Once the spare parts are exhausted, then this immigration fleet may have problems at any time, and no matter what goes wrong during the immigration process, it will be a disaster for us, because we have no excess at all. Time and ability to solve these problems.

Anyway, the news that the pilgrim leader told me was absolutely nuclear bomb level, but I didn’t plan to notify those heads of state so soon, because I still need to deal with the pilgrim leader’s matter first. OK, and then we can explain the issue of this insect clearly at one time.

I digested what the pilgrim leader told me and asked: "Then, apart from the issue of insect, is there anything else we need to pay attention to?"

The pilgrim The leader shook his head and said: "If your technology can solve the problem of the insect race, then there will be no problem. Of course, the premise is that your immigration ship can really last that long. Knowing time is the easiest way to make everything happen. The existence of change. Even if there is no problem on your side, the planet over there may not be problematic. Just like the planet you live in now, if a group of alien immigrants arrive at Earth at this time, and then learn about Earth immediately The end of the world is about to happen, how do you think they will react?"

I was completely confused by the pilgrim leader’s words, but I quickly became relieved. If this kind of thing really happens, you can only recognize it as bad luck, because even if you know it, you can't take preventive measures in advance, so you simply can't deal with this kind of situation except try one's luck.

More on that. The current situation of mankind is said to be emigration, but in fact it is fleeing. When fleeing, there is no choice. Think about the refugees who fled from the war zone on Earth. Do they expect to have professional cruise ships to pick up and drop off the luxurious presidential suites? As long as they can run out, even in the harsh environment where hundreds of people are crowded in a container, they still have to rush to board the ship, because they simply have no choice.

The current situation of mankind is the reality of those refugees. They are fleeing. All that can be done is to choose a good target and rush forward bravely. Success is luck. If you die, you can only accept bad luck, because you will die if you stay, and there is a glimmer of survival if you rush over.

"I understand that the probabilities you mentioned are possible, but we really don’t have a choice now."

The pilgrim leader nodded and said: "It's a pity Our civilization is not here, otherwise it would not be too much trouble to help you solve this problem. In fact, the galaxy killer of that quality is not a problem for us at all, as long as there is a large mining ship can solve it. But unfortunately, my men are now Only these people are left, and I can’t reach the local area. So I can’t do anything."

"That’s right. Just talk about us, you haven’t said the questions you asked before. What do you guys have? Are you planning? We and humans are about to leave this planet, what do you plan to do? Find a way to get a small spaceship and leave by yourself or with us? It's definitely not possible to stay on Earth. This will soon become purgatory. "

The pilgrim leader said after a little thought: "I personally prefer to leave with you, but we pilgrims are a race that pays attention to equality. Although they are all my subordinates, they are I can’t rashly represent them in the decision to decide the future path. I need to ask everyone’s opinions."

"It’s okay, I can wait, but you’d better be as soon as possible, because we are also very Busy, in order to escape, everyone is busy spinning around."

"I know this." The pilgrim leader said: "Wait a minute, I will connect with them through the spiritual network, and it will be fine soon. "

The pilgrims are as committed to the spirit net network as we Dragon Clan, but they are called the spirit network, but I think they are actually the same thing. After all, we were connected to the network before and succeeded. . Explain that the two are completely one thing.

With the existence of the spirit net network channel, the communication speed of the pilgrims is also quite fast. The other pilgrims over there did not move, they just started the discussion after connecting to the spirit net network in place, and then completed the exchange in less than five minutes.

The pilgrim leader moved his attention from the spirit net network to my body and said, "We have reached an agreement. Before spaceship, we should not be separated from you. After all, your overall strength now exceeds ours by a lot. With you, our technology can be used to a certain extent, plus your own technology and resources, we can obtain self To protect your ability, if you separate from you, it would be too dangerous to rely on ourselves. If we run into an insect race in the universe, we will definitely be finished."

I nodded and said: "Understood, Then I will arrange for you to leave with us. However, I have a few things to confirm with you."

"Please tell me." The pilgrim leader said politely.

I didn’t go around the corners, and asked directly: “When I was connecting with the Spirit Net network, I seemed to find that you have been here for thousands of years, which means that you have lived for thousands of years. Is it?"

The pilgrim leader nodded and said: "Yes, according to your timekeeping method, I am more than 7,900 years old. But don’t worry, I’m only middle-aged, and I’m not dead. It’s still very far away."

"Are you almost eight thousand years old or middle-aged?"

The pilgrim leader said disapprovingly: "Yes! The average age of our pilgrims According to your time calculations, I’m over 15,000 years old, and I’m less than 8,000 years old, and it’s still early to die. Moreover, if I can comprehend the true meaning of the void in the last moments of my life, then I can be reincarnated as a hero. , Then I will have unlimited lifespan."

"Heroic?" My jaw almost fell. "You can be born again?"

"no no no, not rebirth, but rebirth. Our body only has more than ten thousand years of lifespan. At that moment, life will end, but our mind and soul It may not necessarily be eliminated. We will return to the mother planet when we are about to reach the limit of lifespan, and then lie quietly around the void crystal and wait for the end of life. If we can understand the true drop of the void before death, the soul will be Will enter the Void Crystal with our memories and our thoughts. Later, the people will build a mechanical body for us, and we will transfer ourselves to a part of the Void Crystal. As long as the people cut off this part, they can let We separated from the Void Crystal, and then we became the Eternal Existence. Even if the piece of Void Crystal we were in was destroyed, we would not necessarily die, but there was a high probability that we would return to the Void Crystal matrix again. As long as we cut off a small piece of void crystal, we can be reborn again."

"You cut it like this, wouldn’t the matrix void crystal be quickly used up by you Now?"

"no no no, the void crystal is the essence of energy, she is alive. We are like her child, when we die, only the body will die, and the soul will be The mother body is recovered, but if we cannot understand the true meaning of the void, there is no way to return to the mother body with memory, and naturally cannot be reincarnated. But if we come back with the memory, the mother body will absorb energy, and then regenerate a crystal for us to replace it. The previous body carried our soul."

"Do you mean this void crystal matrix can grow?"

"Yes. When the matrix crystal was first discovered by us It seems that it is only the size of a mountain, but it has now covered more than half of the parent star. At this rate of development, in another five million years, our entire parent star will become a single piece of void crystal."

I shook my head to express that I couldn't understand, but I didn't ask carefully. After all, this matter has little to do with us. I turned the topic back to what we need to care about. "If your lifespan is very long, do you want to be able to enter the dormant cabin or stay awake during the entire immigration process?"

The pilgrim leader did not hesitate this time and said very surely "We hope to stay awake, because your immigration process is very risky. If we are awake, in case of danger, we can not only fight, but when we really can’t resist, at least we can leave by ourselves and increase our survival probability. ."

The pilgrim leader does not cover up like the Earth people do. They like to say what they have. Such things as he just expressed, human beings would never say that. What is for your own safety? Humans will do this kind of thing, but they will never say so publicly.

Of course, I like the way the pilgrims talk very much. It's much easier and more enjoyable than talking with those hypocritical guys. At least you don't have to be wary of the other party cheating you all the time. They just do what they want to do to you, and they never conceal it.

"Then I know, I will prepare space for you. But I still need to know whether you want to be an independent spaceship or be with us. If it is an independent spaceship, we probably don’t have it. The way to provide you with too much spaceship, because..."

I reached out before I finished talking about the pilgrim leader and stopped me from continuing. "I know that your current situation does not have any extra energy to control us at all, so we will not ask for additional spaceships. I am willing to use your large-scale spaceships, but if possible, I hope I can be on the same spaceship with you. During the voyage, we may be able to jointly develop some equipment to increase the success rate of immigrants. Although we are impossible to build large-scale equipment, sometimes even some small devices can play a big role."< /p>

Actually, I understand what the pilgrim leader means very well, because if he doesn’t say it, I’m going to ask in the next step. Although according to the information I got from the other party, the pilgrims and the creators are allied, but we Dragon Clan strictly speaking is not sure that it is the power of the creators, although we are designed and manufactured by the creators and the pilgrims. Artificial creatures, but we are like orphans. In fact, they just completed the primordial DNA sequence, and even our embryos were artificially synthesized based on sequence records and a little sample. In other words, the creators and pilgrims designed us, and humans are our builders.

According to this situation, we, Dragon Clan, don't actually think that we are part of the creator, at least we didn't have this idea until we got in touch with the other party. As for the pilgrims... I can only say that I think we have a good impression of them. This race is easier to get along with than humans. Developed technology does not mean that people are more cunning. In fact, the pilgrims are simple and unbelievable. IQ and EQ are really things that I don't want to do at all. In terms of IQ, these guys surrender a few galaxies to humans, but EQ is not the case.

Because we don’t think we are part of the creators, and we don’t think we are pilgrims, so we can only be regarded as passers-by, at best we can talk a little. The relationship is similar to the person you met sitting next to you on the way home during the Spring Festival. Everyone just talked about something casually and thought it was speculative, but that's it for the relationship.

Now human beings are fleeing, so is Dragon Clan. At this time, everyone is very busy. It is not only a matter of morality to bring a group of irrelevant people. However, I did not hesitate to directly plan to bring them, not because of that little goodwill, nor because of my cosmic fraternity, but because they are useful.

These guys have very advanced technology. We really don’t have time to learn and organize these things before the immigration starts, because everyone is busy with immigration planning, but once the immigration planning starts, we have nothing to do. It's up.

Speaking of which we are the navigator, but everyone knows the spaceship thing, it flies in orbit. Changing a course requires a lot of fuel. Even with a super-electromagnetic engine, we can stay still while flying. Therefore, after immigration begins, we will be completely idle. When the time comes, we can These pilgrims have learned the technology of the pilgrims. You must know that the level of technology of these guys is even higher than that of the creators!