Walk alone in the abyss

'Pioneer No. 1. '

Yang Ming almost exploded into trouble and restrained the old man in front of him.

But reason made him restrain himself. The rows of high-performance firepower devices he saw on the road made him choose to be calm.

Yang Ming remained calm, showing a puzzled expression, as if he was asking what the old man was talking about.

He couldn't judge where the old prince in front of him got the information.

At this moment, he thought that the Empire's total defense system had invaded the Dongfeng, and thought that this might be a blackmail, and that other pioneers contacted the Empire officials to try to suppress him, the white ghost... and so on.

In the worst case, the fifth forerunner became Faya's favorite, the old prince in front of him who controlled the empire's dimension-ascension laboratory.

"Your expression is really good now, which fully proves that you are a person who is good at thinking and restrained rationally."

Director Yinuo laughed, and raised his hand to pat Yang Ming's arm.

His originally hoarse voice became much smoother now because of his ease of mind.

"You're wondering why I know? How can I explain this to you? Because the Empire should have known. How long do you think the game of Faya lasted? It's cyclical. It happens once every thousand galactic years on average. There will be a large number of interstellar refugees.

"Don't you think that the ones who really control the empire are those drunken nobles?

"Then the empire would have ceased to exist long ago."

Yang Ming was startled.

He suddenly realized that he had overlooked one thing.

Forerunner No. 4 got a lot of Faya's game information in the United States of Freedom.

The empire has existed for tens of thousands of years, and there must be relevant mechanisms sealed in it...

Moreover, the information held by the empire must be the most and most detailed among all the current regimes in the Milky Way!

Yang Ming was suddenly relieved, and then burst out laughing, a bit of confusion appeared in his eyes, and he regained consciousness quickly.

He thought the biggest secret was actually transparent in front of the empire.

Director Ino smiled and said, "Come here, let's talk while walking. The road is very long, and I want to tell you a lot."

Yang Ming nodded, put his hands behind his back and followed Director Ino, and asked, "Did the empire know my identity a long time ago?"

"No," Director Ino said with a smile, "At present, I am the only one who knows about this and the special existence of the Forerunner...Are you surprised?"

"Um."

Director Ino said slowly:

"Because this is nothing to the Empire, the Milky Way is the petri dish of the Fayas, and the Fayas have too many, too many secrets.

"For the empire, Faya's game is just to provide a batch of low-cost labor to supplement the population. A series of news will appear every time, but such news will be quickly forgotten by people.

"More than a thousand galactic standard years, this span is really too long.

"Moreover, the authorities of all camps will choose to suppress this news, and dare not let the people know the truth of the world and the fact that high-dimensional beings continue to interfere with us, which is not conducive to the stability of the political system.

"Would you mind taking a ride on this suspension seat? My legs and feet are not very convenient."

Yang Ming and Director Ino sat in a device similar to a suspended wheelchair, floating across the busy and silent laboratory below.

Yang Ming asked: "Your Majesty asked you to use this to persuade me?"

"You think too highly of him," Director Ino laughed, "He gave me a group of ancient god's cells and told me that this is your weakness."

Yang Ming: ...

"But I retrieved your information, analyzed your motives, and found that what you want most is not personal force, but imperial power."

Director Ino continued:

"Maybe before you defeat the Valkyrie, you will long for this mass of cells, but now, you should have no pressure from the Valkyrie.

"This is part of the information I found in the database of the Empire's total defense system.

"I was still wondering what your desire for power came from, and then I used an idle supercomputing cluster to search the backup of the Imperial network, and quickly found some information related to the 'Greenhouse Civilization'.

"The No. 2 forerunner in Minter City thought that the existing civilizations in the Milky Way were fools.

"He is a fool, that guy has long been selected by those old men who control the new federal parliament, using his so-called foresight to do something that they think is beneficial to the new federation.

"In the empire, there are no more than five people who have the authority to read the relevant materials of the forerunners, and the others didn't pay attention to it.

"Especially our lovely Emperor, he actually asked me to threaten you with a mass of cells. If you are as smart as you, you will definitely make an expression of grief and loss of love, and then go to my nephew to ask for more benefits, right? ?”

Yang Ming laughed.

This old man can read minds or something.

"When I said that the Sherman family chose to train you, I didn't mean that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to train you."

Director Ino looked at Yang Ming:

"You should know the weight of the five words of the Sherman family."

"Probably know some," Yang Ming nodded, "but I don't understand, why?"

"Why? Hehehe."

Director Ino looked at Yang Ming: "Because you used your foresight to help the empire get rid of the insect plague."

Yang Ming frowned lightly.

Just because of this?

Director Ino said softly:

"The defense system of the whole empire is not omnipotent. The territory of the empire is too vast, and she can only interfere with the administrative planets where the network exists.

"There are holes in many corners of the empire's borders, allowing these mice to crawl around.

"And for some reason, we were unable to use the Empire's total defense system at a high intensity, which led to the fact that the Empire was really on the verge of a great recession.

"You resolved this crisis with your own strength, so that the empire can continue to survive. Isn't that enough?"

Yang Ming smiled wryly and said: "The empire didn't say much before, I thought that the only reward for doing this is the title of hero."

"That's because they don't understand your value," Director Ino smiled, "Did you kill Noyce?"

"Yes."

"Why don't you answer that this is His Majesty's order?"

"It doesn't make any sense," Yang Ming shrugged.

"There are fewer scumbags in the family, which is good for the family," Director Ino said softly, "Do you know why the emperor is suddenly so radical?"

Yang Ming immediately shook his head.

"He's so boring."

"boring?"

"Yes, he is too boring. The position of emperor is the most exhausting of human nature."

Director Ino sighed softly:

"So I respect him very much, and respect every emperor. When their lives ascended to the throne, they were doomed to lose other possibilities, because he can only become the emperor of the empire.

"You should have heard one thing, every emperor of the empire is a relatively inconspicuous existence among the heirs of the previous emperor.

"Do you know why? Because the truly outstanding talents of the Sherman family need to control the operation of the empire from a position that the emperor cannot see.

"The military department is the most important, followed by the legion directly controlled by the emperor. The latter has one-third of the military power of the empire, but remains loyal to the royal family. Why is this? Because every link is firmly established by our family. Take control.

"Then there are these confidential research institutes, each of which has a dedicated clan supervision behind it.

"My dear nephew of the emperor, after being stimulated by the Empire's total defense system, his self-esteem was damaged, and he started his tossing road... Let him toss, with us watching, he won't make too much of a toss trouble."

Yang Ming murmured: "The powerful family behind the imperial power."

"Okay, you can learn about these later, and you will soon become a non-staff member of our family, if you want."

Director Ino changed the subject:

"How much do you know about the Faya civilization?"

"Not many," Yang Ming said, "I have had contact with them a few times, and I know that the entity that wraps the Milky Way is a Faya individual. I have contacted a fragment of it, and I heard them say that there are many experimental projects. There are probably hundreds of them in the Milky Way. Experimental items...these."

Director Yinuo turned his head to look at Yang Ming, with some doubts in his eyes.

"direct contact?"

"Well," Yang Ming said with an innocent face, "It's a similar spiritual communication with them, probably because my life base is the life form of an ancient god."

"Oh! This is incredible!"

Director Ino leaned over, staring and asked:

"What did you communicate with? How did you communicate?"

Yang Ming smiled, concealed his entanglement with the Valkyries, and how to elicit individual fragments of the Faya civilization thought body, and briefly talked about his chat with the Faya people.

Non-interference between experimental project teams, fragments of thinking, and a huge thinking body that spans the galaxy...

Director Ino was very absorbed in listening, nodding or expressing emotion once or twice from time to time.

"This is simply a miracle. How on earth did you manage to make a fragment of Faya's mind willing to operate in violation of the rules and communicate with you."

Yang Ming smiled shyly: "It just happened to drive that old brother to a corner."

"Fortunately, we decided to cultivate you instead of destroying you, otherwise this will cost us so much precious information."

Director Ino's face was full of lingering fear.

Yang Ming: ...

Feelings, the possibility of destroying him before is quite high?

They found a suitable topic this time, and even started a little academic discussion around the Faya civilization.

When director Yinuo looked at Yang Ming, apart from admiration, he also had some emotion in his eyes.

"Handon, do you know? What is the meaning of existence here?"

Yang Ming looked back, and what he saw were busy figures everywhere, and things he couldn't understand.

Yang Ming asked: "Explore the way to ascend the dimension?"

Director Ino laughed: "It can be right or wrong. To be precise, it is to explore the possibility of the ascension of the original human species. You mentioned just now that the Faya people are thinking ascension. What do you think of the ascension of thinking?" understand?"

"That is, the thinking body survives without the body," Yang Ming thought carefully, "Since the ascension of thinking and mechanical ascension are opposites, the forms of the two should be obviously different."

Director Ino nodded slightly, and said softly:

"The ascension of Faya civilization is collective.

"You should know the communication mechanism of space Zerg, high-dimensional microorganisms, across space, and use quantum effects to communicate directly.

"When the Faya civilization developed to the threshold of the fourth-level civilization, it also fell into a difficult choice.

"At that time, they had already lost their human bodies and evolved into forms that you can't imagine. What we can know is that they can freely change the shape of their bodies and can communicate information across the galaxy."

Yang Ming was obsessed with listening, and some forms of mimic life emerged in his heart.

Director Ino said slowly:

"Are they human? Think so, because they're a human civilization that developed on a tiny planet.

"There was a brighter human civilization before them, they are not the beginning of human civilization, but what is certain is that they are a possibility of human civilization.

"After a long period of time, maybe hundreds of millions of years of attempts, they finally gave up on mechanical ascension, gave up the ascension of the body they had been obsessed with, and turned to the other extreme.

"The collective mind soars."

"Collective?" Yang Ming asked, "What does this mean?"

"Empower society with thinking, sacrifice the individual, and gather the collective will!"

Director Ino's eyes sparkled brightly:

"Can you imagine? Trillions of human beings use their bodies as the information processing unit of this collective thinking! They upload their consciousness and thinking to the network composed of their bodies, and finally aggregate into a real whole , This is simply the thinking born out of that human society!

"The low-dimensional collective has become a high-dimensional individual, and the high-dimensional individual contains this collective and endows this collective with new meaning.

"The super conscious body formed by the resonance of tens of billions of human consciousness finally got rid of the shackles of dimensions.

"The individual of the Faya civilization you mentioned is a human civilization that was once extremely complex. They have reached the limit of the current dimension in the fields of art, culture, etc., and finally abandoned everything to explore the essence of the universe.

"Such a Faya civilization is invincible in our dimension!"

"It's kind of crazy," Yang Ming felt his mind buzzing.

The so-called Faya individual is itself a civilization?

"Haha!" Director Ino patted Yang Ming on the shoulder vigorously, "This is the way of the Faya people, and the collective thinking soars!"

"Then," Yang Ming asked soberly, "Does this have anything to do with Emperor Star's Dimensional Ascension Laboratory?"

"Of course there is."

Director Ino smiled and said:

"Faya civilization should now have 300 to 400 high-dimensional individuals. That is to say, there used to be the same number of human civilizations at the level of large galaxy clusters. In the way of Faya civilization, the collective thinking soared, thus becoming the Faya civilization. a part of.

"Every high-dimensional individual holds a large galaxy cluster because they have extremely powerful computing power and control all the energy of the large galaxy cluster in our dimension.

"Do you think our current human civilization in the Milky Way is qualified to be part of the Faya civilization?"

"Of course not," Yang Ming shook his head.

"It's inevitable."

Director Ino smiled and said:

"The Faya civilization is not allowed either, because the Milky Way has already produced new Faya individuals about 60 million years ago, and this place has become the testing ground for the Faya civilization.

"We have always lived under the protection of the Fayas, but this protection is also a kind of cage, a kind of restriction.

"The most ironic thing is that the Faya people restricted us, but asked us to explore new possibilities, that is, the human body ascension experiment that they have been pursuing for hundreds of millions of years but failed to complete."

Yang Ming wondered, "Emperor Star's Dimension Ascension Laboratory?"

"It's just an experimental project of the Faya people."

Director Ino slightly raised his eyebrows:

"In the currently observable universe, this is the case for hundreds of galaxy clusters, and the Milky Way is just a testing ground.

"But the civilization of the Faya people is not invincible. The war in the high-dimensional world is even more cruel. They are trying their best to find new possibilities, so that they can obtain unlimited possibilities of evolution with limited resources.

"Faya's game—Greenhouse Civilization, Emperor Star Dimension Ascension Laboratory—ontology ascension exploration, are all for these three words—possibility."

Yang Ming leaned on the seat, fell into deep thought, and murmured: "In the final analysis, all the disasters we feel originated from the Faya civilization's exploration of possibilities."

"Don't think about it, you have to be grateful," Director Ino said indifferently, "The protection of the Faya people is the prerequisite for the continuation of our civilization. The monster-like race of the space zerg has a life level higher than ours by a few quantities. Level... Oh, by the way, do you know what an ancient god's lifeform is?"

"What?"

Director Ino smiled: "Human."

Yang Ming's whole body is Sparta.

"Humanity?"

"Yes, the projection of human beings in the high-dimensional world on the three-dimensional material world is the life form of the ancient gods."

Ino said softly:

"The super fighters that the Fayans tried to make in the high dimension are the life forms of the ancient gods. When they disappear in the galaxy, there is only one possibility... the frontline war is tight.

"It's amazing, isn't it?

"So, I wonder how you survived the secondary ancient god transformation experiment, Valkyrie, I understand, Kigrov exchanged his daughter with the Faya, you, I really can't understand?"

Yang Ming: ...

Is it amazing? Resurrection Armor changed.

And there must be a Faya who interfered in that transformation experiment.

However, Yang Ming naturally couldn't reveal that he no longer had resurrection armor, so he only answered three words:

"possibility."

Yinuo was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Yang Ming with a little more 'obsession'.

They had already reached the edge of the spherical building, the suspension seat fell slowly, and two alloy doors of the lounge appeared in front of their eyes.

"Choose, this is out of respect for you," Yinuowen said, "on your left is the mass of cells, and on your right is my grandniece... She is beautiful, but she has a cold temper. The most rare thing is She is self-loving and self-disciplined, and she is a family member that I focus on cultivating."

Yang Ming shook his head: "I actually have no choice."

He went straight to the portal on the right.

"It's wise not to disturb you young people, I have prepared dinner for you."

The old man Ino showed a sly smile:

"Actually, there are no cells in the left door at all, and some are high-dose hypnotic gas. My team respects you, but they also have great desire for your body."

Several black lines hung on Yang Ming's forehead.

He knows it!

It is impossible for the evil empire to really give him a choice!

On a pirate ship.