After the concert in Pearl Islands, the three of Lorraine Hill returned to the Western Continent, and their last stop was the Emerald Forest.
The scenery here has not changed much from the past. Among the beautiful and tall forests, scattered houses are scattered and integrated with the surrounding environment, like mushrooms clustered at the foot of the big trees.
Sitting in the courtyard by the Tear Moon Lake, Lorraine Hill in a white summer dress was sitting on the swing, Keti was standing next to her asking the name of the flowers she was holding, and Wei Miya was kneeling on the grass.
On the cloth, she closed her eyes and played a small harp. The former Elf Queen Aiqinweila was currently lying on her side on Bu Mansha's lap, sleeping very sweetly. Vestina and Ixeglin were sitting on the bench.
above, talking about some recent current events, the sun was shining brightly in the courtyard, and during the quiet afternoon, a few yellow birds emerged from the branches, chirping happily.
Bu Mansha gently stroked Aiqinweila sleeping on her knees with one hand, and fed the Daidai squatting on the square cloth in front of her with the other hand.
One of them, Dai Ju, was obviously larger and seemed to be the role of a parent. The five smaller ones around it were covered with fluffy down and had not fully grown up. Their immature beaks pecked at the broken fried popcorn in Bu Mansha's hand, making a chirping sound.
A faint cry.
Such a quiet and beautiful afternoon is like a peerless painting, frozen and slowly settling.
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After the first chaos disaster ended, everything began to develop rapidly, and people gradually walked out of the earth and re-entered the galaxy era.
Over the past fifty years, more than a hundred space outposts have been gradually established in the Ivar galaxy for experiments, observing the starry sky, and exploring possible artificial ecological environment creation in the future.
In 1852 of the Third Age, a signal came from space about 30 light-years outside the Ivar galaxy, which was initially determined to be a signal from intelligent creatures.
In the same year, an external response system was established. Without knowing whether the opponent was an enemy or a friend, the Ivar system gradually increased its alert and began to develop new space weapons.
In 1860 of the Third Epoch, the signal began to change and get closer. According to speculation and simulations, it is expected to reach the outer reaches of the star system in two years.
In 1862, under the watchful eye of the intensely alert Star Fleet, a special space ship appeared on the radar.
Its shape is similar to some kind of stick water insect, with wide and transparent membrane wings on both sides of its body. It seems to move its wings slowly in space, but it is almost as fast as the speed of light, so that every time it moves its wings, its speed is too fast.
It's an illusion of teleportation, like a water bug flying from the surface of the water to another point.
When arriving at the outskirts of the star system, the other party seemed to have observed the star fleet that was waiting for them, so it stopped temporarily.
The complex signal was transmitted again, but it was difficult for humans to understand. No matter whether it was based on ancient people, the Sun of Divine Wings, or the decoding device on the Deep Sea United Homecoming, it could not be translated and understood.
In this way, a few days later, this special ship released several tiny airships like fireflies, flying towards the stellar fleet in a blink of an eye.
In response, the humans also sent five small special fighters to receive them.
The two sides slowly converged toward the center of the airspace, and then slowly slowed down.
Afterwards, these five insect-like airships hovered in space, and the hanging branches below hooked with each other. A projection screen was formed under the airship, and the screen began to play. It can be seen that the opponent has capabilities that are not inferior to humans, or even higher.
scientific technology.
In the picture, a planet full of plants and flowers slowly appears. There seems to be no other animals found on this planet, only various types of insects. And they also have their own prosperous civilization, and various buildings have reasonable engineering aesthetics.
It's like a world where metal and plants perfectly blend.
After that, the picture was further enlarged, and the civilized individuals were also revealed one by one. In the larval state, this race is like a round, short and stubby bee pupa, which can only move forward by crawling. However, in a civilized and developed society, they all have their own nanny cars.
The larvae can maneuver such a car through their tender forelimbs, which are as small as saw teeth.
In childhood, they will study and play with their peers. When they enter adolescence, they will differentiate for the first time. At this time, everyone's appearance will undergo huge changes and there will be various differences.
Some have many flexible limbs, some have wings on their backs to fly, some are covered with thick carapace, and some have become more adapted to life in liquids.
Different forms are suitable for different jobs. They take work as an honor, strive to show their own value in the group, and gain happiness and certain material rewards. If they are not recognized by the group, they will feel lost and uncomfortable.
At this time, if some of the individuals are extremely outstanding, after entering the extraordinary sequence 8, they will undergo a third transformation and become even more special. For example, the huge battleship flying in space is actually a sequence 9 individual of this ethnic group.
, he relies on his own special extraordinary core to stir the microwaves of the universe and move forward through the ripples of space wrinkles. When used at full strength, he can even briefly exceed the speed of light.
At first, the people in the conference room on the human side were amazed and silent when looking at those pictures. Until one of the pictures flashed by, countless people stood up and exclaimed.
"This! How is it possible?" They recalled the video and froze in that scene.
That's a snippet of the genetic map analyzed on the display of the group.
Some biologists present looked at this familiar genetic map and were almost 100% sure that it was highly similar to the human genetic map, as if it came from the same source.
In a friendly and cautious manner, the humans also put the cut and prepared videos onto the three-dimensional image in front of the fighter plane.
The picture shows the development process of the earth from ancient times to modern times, the rise of human beings, entering space, etc., but the things in the twilight era are hidden. After all, it is too complicated to explain this, and it is a bit uneasy.
The other five airships also fell into silence after watching the human image. After a long time, a response finally came from the other side.
The projected screen displays information in skewed and less-than-standard fonts.
"Welcome, ancient humans, another branch of our origin."
"On behalf of Her Majesty the Chief Bee, Marlenona, we would like to say hello to you."
"welcome……"
Looking at the subtitles on the other side's screen, which are spelled out in the languages of the past, humans on this side of the earth have complex emotions, including excitement, expectation, panic, uneasiness, anxiety, curiosity, etc.
Why does this race have a similar genetic map to our own, and may even have the same origin? What is their origin?
"You don't seem to know everything that has happened in the Return Star-A4 sector in the past ten thousand years. We can tell you some things out of friendship. At the same time, please allow us to know the information about the three crowns in the past."
It seems that the other party has observed the mutation that occurred in the Ivar galaxy decades ago and the traces of the crown.
On Earth, everyone in the coalition government was discussing quietly and nervously. Some people thought this was an opportunity, but others thought it was dangerous.
"We cannot be sure that what the other party said is true or false. Even the pictures the other party gave me may have been fabricated and cannot be trusted. And using these things that cannot be determined to be true or false in exchange for our most precious information, even the survival of civilization,
It’s really too dangerous!”
"That's true. However, even if we conceal some things, we may not be able to keep them completely secret. Since the other party has found this distant galaxy, if it offends the other party and triggers a dispute, we may not be able to bear the result."
Many committee members discussed it, but most people still disagreed with informing them directly.
"Sorry, we cannot accept such a proposal for the time being. We need further understanding or other factors to improve it."
Such words echoed on the screen projected by the fighter plane.
The opponent's five airships hovered in silence for several minutes before starting to return. Only one of them left a small black box in space.
"This is a gift from us. Although we did not reach cooperation this time, I believe that one day we will still be in contact in the future." After that, this special space ship gathered up the released airship, changed its direction, and gradually disappeared from the radar exploration range.
The end.
"The other party just left like that?"
"It's surprising and puzzling." Everyone on the earth also had mixed emotions at the moment, and then asked the fighter plane to carefully collect the black box and bring it back to a nearby space observation station for study.
Tens of days later, the news came.
"Reporting to all members, there is now a report from the H-281 monitoring station. The black box has been studied. It describes many events at the end of the Twilight Era and the general origin of their race."
"Oh, this is it?" Everyone looked at the decoded message.
According to the information in the black box, the name of this race's civilization can be translated as 'Skilled Bee'. It originated from an experiment after the ancient people entered the glorious era. In the experiment, a high-level researcher of the Mechanical Council conducted human genes.
Edited again, hoping to develop a more intelligent artificial race that can replace machines.
History seems to be a cycle. In the past era, people used machines to replace humans, and then used artificial races to replace machines.
Compared with mechanical AI that is rigid and weak in adaptability, specially designed artificial races are more efficient. They are born like bee colonies in individual training chambers, and then differentiate into different forms according to needs, and can freely choose to express certain genes.
fragment.
In the experiment, the artificial race has removed many unnecessary emotions from human beings that are superfluous to work. Such a new race will spontaneously love labor and gain a great sense of accomplishment from it.
Moreover, compared with human beings who have different levels of wealth and poverty, the 'skilled bees' are uniformly cultivated and born, receive the same education after birth, and finally choose the work form that suits them.
They do not need to fall in love or form a family to reproduce. They will have familiar friends and have their own small interests and hobbies. The population is controlled by the country or the center of civilization.
Different from previous machines, with this kind of artificial race, the transcendent humans at that time only needed to give rough instructions, and they could spontaneously complete the design, material selection, frame building, repair, filling, and even the final iteration and perfection, etc.
They are more tools than tools, more efficient and intelligent than machines.
Does such a project sound great and amazing, but in that most glorious era, this was still just an inconspicuous existence among the many projects of the Transcendents.
It might be better to have it, but there is nothing missing if you don't have it.
The transcendent civilization with two major crowns has become close to the gods in people's imagination. They conquered the galaxy, rescued former opponents, explored the secrets of higher dimensions, had nearly eternal life, etc., but built the final star.
The Crown was the one that attracted much attention at that time.
Compared with easy-to-use small 'tools', the center of people's attention is always the more mysterious and unknown law of cause and effect. What kind of 'ripples' will there be when the 'strings' of the universe are plucked? Human technology at that time has already
It is a metaphysics that is almost beyond cognition, and it is difficult to get a full picture.
Compared to the glorious era of Transcendents, the Divine Winged Sun organization has been unable to escape the shadow left by that great era throughout its life.
While humans are fearful and uneasy about strange races, the other side is also cautious. They are also unsure to what extent humans can activate the crown and control the power of the star system. After this first and cautious contact between the two sides,
In the following decades, Earth's civilization never saw messages from this race again.
In this way, time slowly came to the advent of the second chaos disaster.
Third Age 1902.
After nearly a hundred years of development, today's civilization is moving forward again, and the phantom of chaos that was once a headache has completely disappeared amidst the overwhelming cannon fire of space battleships.
With the assistance of the power of the crown, the civilization on the earth has become more and more adaptable to fighting the phantom of chaos. The development of various isolation and closed technologies has also made it difficult for the phantom of chaos that once surged like a ghost to invade.
Battle after battle, baptism after baptism, the self-confidence of human civilization was restored, and at this time, it finally came into contact with other civilizations in the universe again.
"Actually, we came to this distant galaxy by observing the drifting and swimming of these seas of chaos."
In the lifelike projection screen, there are astonishingly beautiful races swimming in the transparent liquid. The gorgeous red and blue fish tails swing gently, and their body curves convey a certain rhythm.
The mermaid clan of the "Deep Sea United", one of the branches of mankind.
"It's surprising that there are actually battleships left by our species in the Ivar galaxy."
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"It is a pity that we have not received the signal transmitted by this battleship in these years. Perhaps it is because these seas of chaos swimming among the nebulae blur and distort the information."
"The world is much more than what you see, and the galaxy today is not absolutely peaceful."
"The war has been going on. The various remnants of humankind, the self-disciplined AI groups left over from the glorious past, the alien races, the wandering phantoms of chaos that turned into natural disasters, etc., you will slowly know all of this."
"Finally, let me send you my blessings again."
"Welcome back, one of the former branches of the ancients, our brothers and sisters, and future comrades-in-arms, brand new members of the interstellar community."
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"Thank you for informing me."
"The coalition government officially announces that the Third Era ends today."
"The Fourth Era, the Galaxy Age, has officially begun."
It can be regarded as a link between past and present. The story will unfold again in the distant future 0 0/