No one knows how many expeditions will reach their destination.
It makes no sense for those who stay in the solar system to tell others not to look back after they leave, and that they themselves will no longer look up at the stars casually.
People will only occasionally stop in their spare time when they are busy studying and working, and silently think of the faces that have gone away.
I wish you all the best in the distance.
At midnight on January 1, 2500, seven days after seeing off the last colonial ship, some changes quietly occurred.
As if with the precision of a second, the large radio telescope located in the Pluto settlement was the first to capture some changes.
Scholars quickly calculated their conclusions.
Just now, the speed of light in vacuum dropped slightly by one-ten millionth compared to the past standard value.
This sudden change was very subtle. If the current equipment was not sensitive enough and everyone was on high alert, it would have been impossible to detect it so quickly.
This change is very small and does not affect people's daily life and work at all, but it makes physicists' hair stand on end.
The physical rules in the solar system have undergone slight changes that people on earth cannot understand.
What happened next was no different from the past.
The existence of a huge solar system barrier has been discovered, and this barrier continues to shrink at a not too slow rate, compressing the space of the solar system.
This kind of space compression will distort the rules of the universe to some extent, and may block the path forward for theoretical knowledge after the technological level of human civilization reaches a certain stage.
Combining the instantaneous changes discovered by previous scholars, the scientists concluded that humans were locked up in perhaps just an instant, just a billionth of a second.
Master Chen Feng's "The Crisis of the Compound Eyes" is not a story, but a prophecy.
Now his prophecy has come true.
Fortunately, we believed his prediction thirty-two years in advance and took decisive action.
Leaders around the world feel twisted.
It feels like a big stone in my heart has finally fallen to the ground, but it's also so heavy that I can't breathe.
In the past timeline, every human civilization has experienced this stage of excessive mentality.
Human beings will always have fear when facing the unknown. This fear will bring chaos, and it requires difficult and painful self-adjustment to accept the reality bit by bit and adapt to the new situation.
But this time it was slightly different. The leaders' trust in Chen Feng's prediction was unprecedentedly high, and they knew more things.
Things have happened, we had expected them.
Since we gave up leaving and chose to stay with more than 37 billion people, there is no regret in our dictionary.
Master Chen Feng's portrayal in "The Crisis of the Compound Eyes" is clear enough.
Since this prophecy is accurate, then his description of the invaders who will arrive five hundred years later should also be accurate.
In the movie, the protagonist Zheng Feng finally breaks through the invader's warship, rushes in, and kills one person.
Master Chen Feng will not lie, let alone brag!
He must have "saw" that day.
Moreover, Master Chen Feng had already started preparations five hundred years in advance.
The game he created has this meaning!
Although our current technology is far from the level he portrayed in the movie, it doesn't matter, we still have five hundred years.
We can reach or even surpass the technological level in "Crisis of the Multi-Eye".
We will master the warp-like engine, master the unified force field shield, master the gravitational wave equipment, master the enemy's weird bombs, and even master the black hole bomb!
Humanity must be able to fight!
Just start now and keep moving forward!
This time, it only took one month from the establishment of the world government to the gradual announcement of the news to all mankind!
Half a year later, more than 37 billion people in the entire human race have accepted this reality.
Someone is crying.
Some people are pessimistic.
Some people are desperate.
But more people are looking up at the huge statue that is rapidly rising from the ground in the center of the city.
That was a man with a resolute face.
Hundreds of years ago, he struggled and dedicated his life.
His last words echoed repeatedly on the radio.
"I have only one request for you, don't stop my unfinished business and keep moving forward."
People used to not quite understand what he meant by the unfinished business.
create?
Construction?
struggle?
To benefit future generations?
Now people know.
All these seemingly great and lofty speculations are inaccurate.
His unfinished business is simply two words.
exist.
No matter how much we pay, no matter how many years we have to continue fighting, no matter what enemies we face, we have only one pursuit.
Human existence cannot be erased!
The crying people retracted their tears, the pessimistic people gave themselves a slap, and the desperate people stood up again with desperate fighting spirit.
Hua Zhongyun, the first leader of the World Government, said: "Everyone, fight, it's still not too late, we still have five hundred years!"
In the summer of 2500, with the completion of statues of Chen Feng in major planetary cities, mankind quickly entered the next era - five hundred years of preparation for war.
On a winter night in 2519, 99.99% of all human beings stayed at home nervously. Only soldiers and medical workers, fully armed and completely wrapped in isolation armor, walked cautiously on the streets.
Be on guard.
Humanity has already completed universal vaccination and has antibodies.
But we are still on full alert, and everyone has been staying at home for three full months. It is now December 31, 2519.
It’s the last day of 2519.
At this time, everyone was holding a portable genetic detector in their hand.
The indicator lights of many genetic monitoring towers in major settlements are flashing with a glimmer of light.
No one knows where the enemy will come from or how they will arrive.
But everyone knows what kind of enemy they are waiting for, invisible to the naked eye, but as fierce as the devil.
The clock on the wall is ticking.
The father, who was wearing full isolation equipment, looked at the monitor beside him.
There were images of two rooms on the monitor, showing his wife and daughter who had also completed quarantine precautions.
From time to time, the man lowered his head to look at the genetic tester in his hand, and then looked at the fireplace not far away.
Behind the fireplace is a medium-sized atomic decomposition garbage recycling machine.
The father is thinking about a question.
Although medical scientists have said that in the early stages, there is more than 15% chance of curing this infectious disease.
But this disease is extremely contagious.
Bacteria have extremely strong survivability.
Even if the virus protection has reached the p7 level, it may still be leaked and contaminate a large area.
If after twelve o'clock, the detector in my hand alarms, it means that I have become a carrier for intruders to release S bacteria.
Then I would jump into the atomic disintegrator without hesitation.
I must not become a source of dissemination!
If it were my wife or daughter...
I just...
Go in with her!
bite.
Arrive at twelve o'clock.
The Gregorian New Year bell of 2520 is ringing.
Nothing happened.
At the end of January 2520, medical scientists and biologists held a large-scale online meeting and came to a conclusion after a comprehensive assessment.
S bacteria missed the appointment.
The prediction of the sage Chen Feng seems to be wrong.
Some people breathed a sigh of relief, but others were even more nervous.
After the consultations on the budding world government high-level meeting ended, Hua Zhongyun said in a heavy tone.
"We made a mistake. The reason why Master Chen Feng encrypted the S-bacteria information before and set it to be automatically unlocked on January 1, 2520 must have been his consideration."
"If we crack it in advance, we may be discovered by the intruder and cause the other party to change its strategy. Now we have indeed taken action in advance, completed the popularization of vaccines, and implemented isolation in advance. All of this has been discovered. So now we have to face
Yes, it’s an unknown crisis.”
"After all, we made a mistake out of kindness. I'm sorry to everyone."
In fact, there have been arguments and disagreements about this matter for a long time.
Scientists, soldiers, politicians and other leaders in various fields have different opinions. The conclusion of the debate is that even if Master Chen Feng has metaphors and considerations, most people are still unwilling to take huge risks that may lead to the death of at least billions of people.
As long as they can be saved, who is willing to watch their compatriots die indifferently?
Once people become greedy, they will easily make mistakes.
The price of making mistakes is a new crisis, mass extinction.
In January 2544, it was cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere and peak summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
A quiet change began.
We also don’t know how the compound-eyed people who control everything remotely observe the situation in the solar system and how much information they can obtain.
In short, the Compound Eyes discovered that "Song of the Outer World" was ineffective and the S bacteria had to face the antibodies from the beginning, so they changed their strategy again.
All controllable energy in the solar system barrier is activated again.
The Compound Eyes once again introduced a new type of bacteria.
This small individual bacterium is no match for the human immune system and has low reproductive capacity in the human body.
Therefore, this bacterium is completely harmless to humans and is safer than E. coli.
But it has a very strong ability to reproduce in animals.
The bacteria are not fatal to animals and can even coexist well with them.
This property is universal and applies to all animals, including invertebrates and vertebrates, except humans.
Later generations named it Z bacteria.
The definition of z is taken from wisdom.
Z bacteria are also called smart bacteria.
A single Z-bacterium does not possess intelligence, but when the number of Z-bacteria breeding in a certain body exceeds 10,000 individuals, the situation will change.
A certain number of Z bacteria will be concentrated in the central nervous system of these animals, attach to their neurons, and quietly complete parasitic assimilation.
By reusing the original neural links in the animal's central nervous system, Z-bacteria individuals form relationships with each other.
Subsequently, a kind of Z-bacteria group intelligence similar to human brain division, but much less complex, will sprout from this strongly related group.
The external result is that this life that was not originally intelligent has become an intelligent individual.
The essence reflected inside is the combination of countless Z-bacteria individuals to form group wisdom.
Even if the level of this intelligence is still very low, compared with various animals themselves, it is still a qualitative change.
After the brain wisdom changes, the changes do not stop.
It may be to match the consumption of the central nervous system after becoming intelligent, or it may be the genetic instinct of Z bacteria. The body structure of this infected individual will be reawakened to the instinct of rapid division and directional gene expression. The process is similar to that of Z bacteria.
The process from embryo to mature individual is much more complicated.
After completing this process, the infected animals will undergo drastic changes and exhibit characteristics that are impossible for earthly organisms.
Infected individuals may gain a larger size to support more Z bacteria and gain higher intelligence, or they may maintain their original size and only maintain basic intelligence.
This brand new animal is named an extinct animal.
When Chen Feng saw this description in the review of historical materials, the first thing that came to his mind was the invader's Dragonfly fighter jet.
Thinking of the lethality of that thing, his scalp felt numb.
Really lost it.
This time, the compound-eyed man magnified his moves and took out the stuff at the bottom of the box.
Let the people of the 26th century face the Dragonfly fighter jet?
Is it possible to win the battle?
No!
Just one Dragonfly fighter plane is enough to completely destroy the entire human civilization in the twenty-sixth century!
The technological generation gap between the two sides was so great that no human weapon at that time could cause the slightest harm to the Dragonfly fighter jet.
Perhaps a Dragonfly fighter plane cannot destroy the entire civilization instantly, but in the closed space of the solar system, it can be like a life-threatening death, sweeping away and harvesting cities, regions and planets bit by bit.
Give the Dragonfly fighter jet a few decades, and it can kill 37 billion people one by one.
There was nowhere to escape, and everyone had no choice but to kill at the neck.
Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief as he continued to read.
After all, it is a secondary transformation based on the original animals of the earth. There will be some improvements, but the potential is not enough to support the height of the Dragonfly fighter.
However, this should not be underestimated.
Extinct animals are both intelligent and have incredible biological weapons structures. Needless to say, they are lethal to humans.
What's even more insidious is that this time the intruder still used the idea of dormant outbreak and deliberately controlled the time node of the Z-bacteria outbreak.
At the beginning, the animals infiltrated by Z bacteria did not show any obvious changes in appearance or temperament. They just continued to quietly increase their range of activities and spread the bacteria silently.
This lurk is extremely hidden and insidious.
Z-bacterium disguises itself as a completely harmless ordinary bacterium.
Even if some biologists discovered the clues, they failed to realize its danger and only regarded it as a new species that evolved naturally in the biological world.
This disguise is not difficult. As long as the genetic information of the Z bacteria deliberately controls the population number within a single body to no more than 10,000, it will not show any intelligent characteristics.
Based on human biological knowledge, almost no one can imagine that there really is some kind of bacteria in the universe that can suddenly give birth to group intelligence after reaching a population of 10,000, and can even support a huge population of 20 billion.
, to form a complete wisdom that is not inferior to human beings?
Super biologist Lai Wenming discovered the existence of Z bacteria in a dragonfly as early as 2546, but even he failed to realize this.
He deliberately cultivated a small group of Z bacteria with a total population of tens of billions.
But Lai Wenming was also deceived by Z bacteria actor-level "pretending to be crazy and acting stupid".
Fourteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.
