Chapter 1428 The Possible Truth

Two countries on the same planet still have innumerable suspicions and potential war risks, so what about the two planets separated by the vast sea of ​​stars? This is the real problem before the eyes of the three imperial rulers.

The vast starry sky hides too many secrets and possibilities. Gao Wen hopes that other intelligent civilizations in the starry sky will also have goodwill and virtue, but it is impossible to believe in such things unconditionally.

Before a civilization develops to the point where it can enter other planets and establish a "disaster backup" on other planets, its survival in the sea of ​​stars is always like a lonely boat, and any unexpected storm may lead to this lonely boat. This may be a natural disaster like the magic tide, or it may be an alien civilization with malicious intentions, and no matter which possibility it is, the countries on this planet today are betting against up something.

"...Before discussing whether to respond to this signal, I want to confirm one thing," the Silver Queen said suddenly, "Are we really capable of responding to this signal now? If it is as the scholars have speculated, it is Transmitting across the star sea at an instantaneous speed may have exceeded our technological limit. If we don’t even have the basic technology, then it’s too early for us to discuss whether we should respond..."

"That's exactly what I'm going to say—if it's really necessary, the Alliance may really be able to respond to this signal," Gawain tapped on the table lightly, "The sea monsters...you should know that they are traveling on a huge starship They crash-landed on our planet, and not long ago, they had partially repaired the starship's FTL communication array."

Rosetta and Belsetia immediately glanced at each other subconsciously, their expressions changed slightly, while Gawain looked at Amorn who had been sitting by the side without saying a word: "I want to hear your opinion—from How do you see this from a 'god's' perspective?"

"Gods in different fields may have completely different ideas about this matter," Amon shook his head lightly, "but from my perspective, I don't recommend responding to this signal."

"I thought you would be inclined to respond." Gawain looked at the former God of Nature with some surprise, "After all, you have always been inclined to take proactive actions to deal with problems."

He said this very euphemistically, but what he actually thought of was the glorious deeds of this god of nature who recklessly stood on the sky station and rescued the Silver Queen from the front line with two rounds of charge-this seemingly calm and reliable elf In fact, the old man made a reckless comparison, showing the characteristics of countless dead creatures in nature to the fullest. In fact, sometimes Gao Wen even suspected that the holy image of Amon's "giant deer" was created by special effects, combining light and shadow. Pick off the antlers or something. After you clean it, it might not be a roe deer inside...

But he hesitated a few times about this matter, but he was not ashamed to bring it up in person - he had considered secretly discussing it with Mir Mina, since the goddess of magic saw that the character of funeral is not afraid of death, she must find a way to verify it...

Amorn didn't notice Gawain's strange expression for a moment,

He just shook his head seriously: "It is the instinct of living beings to avoid danger and ensure survival. I understand the value of curiosity and exploration, and I understand that predators are as ubiquitous as primitive crises in nature. We are too weak now , but everything about the civilization that sent the letter is shrouded in mystery. Even if we analyze the civilization form and intentions of the other party, it is entirely based on the signals they voluntarily released. Yu put his own destiny in the hands of others, after all..."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment before continuing: "After all, they are very likely to be unable to confirm our existence..."

The moment Amoen finished speaking, an elegant and gentle female voice suddenly appeared in this space: "No, I'm afraid the situation is not as optimistic as we imagined."

Gao Wen immediately looked in the direction of the sound, and saw two figures appearing beside the round table accompanied by a golden light curtain and purple mist. Walking out of the golden light curtain was a blond man with golden hair like a dragon. A tall lady with vertical pupils and elegant demeanor, and the figure who appeared from the mist was wearing a classic court-style black dress, and the lavender eyes seemed to be jumping with charged arcane flames all the time—this is exactly what she had just arrived at. The incarnations of Mirmina, the goddess of magic, and Enya, the dragon god, at the meeting site.

The voice who spoke just now came from Enya. At this moment, she quietly looked around at everyone present, and her eyes finally fell on Gao Wen who held the meeting. She nodded slightly: "Sorry, we are late."

The two goddesses were seated at the round table. The fact that half of the people in the meeting were gods made Rosetta and Belsetia look a little strange. Obviously, they are not quite used to this "Cecil style". Amorn immediately looked in Enya's direction: "What do you mean by what you just said? What do you mean the situation is not as optimistic as we imagined?"

"I'm afraid we have already been exposed. If the judgment of Mirmina and I is correct, the signal sent by the civilization that sent the message should not be a global broadcast, but a highly directional communication," Enya said calmly, "They Having locked onto the coordinates of our planet, and presumably confirming our existence, the part of the communication requesting a response should just be some kind of... routine confirmation."

The news brought by Enya directly disrupted all rhythms. The three rulers of the empire and Amoen who had just learned the news looked at each other in blank dismay. Immediately afterwards, Gao Wen broke the silence: "What's going on?"

"Cough, let me explain." Mirmina coughed lightly, and waved her hand to outline a floating light curtain above the round table. Immediately afterwards, the light curtain shrank and condensed into a magic projection of the planet. This projection obviously It's just some kind of schematic diagram, and the structure on its surface is blurry. You can only vaguely see the existence of Loren, Tarrond and other continents, but under this blurred appearance, you can clearly see the vertical and horizontal planes. The distributed light blue light flow surges inside the planet like a blood vessel.

And at the focus of these "vessels" is the center of Loren Continent, a specially marked blue light beam.

Immediately afterwards, Milmina waved her hand lightly again, and several specious phantoms immediately evolved around the planet. They showed the states of various realms such as elements, shadows, and shadows, and each projection contained A stream of blue light can be seen flowing through it.

"As you can see, this is a schematic diagram of the 'world' we live in - not exact, just a general understanding. These blue parts are the dark blue webways in each realm, and they are in a higher dimension The upper connection is a whole, the part affects the whole, and the whole affects the part, and here... is the largest networkway node that has been proven so far, the Deep Blue Well.

"In the past period of time—strictly speaking, since the end of the war, I have been paying attention to the changes in the Deep Blue Well, and tried to record the fluctuations of the Deep Blue Network Road during the entire war. After receiving the meeting notice just now, Ms. Enya found me, hoping to use my observation data to confirm one thing..."

Following Mirmina's words, the magical phantoms floating in midair also changed accordingly, presenting a record of fluctuations in the dark blue webway for a period of time, and at a certain critical point in time, Gawain saw all the The main nodes of the body suddenly "vibrated" for a moment, like a strong pulse, which was particularly eye-catching.

The Silver Queen Belsetia spoke softly subconsciously: "This is..."

"This is the moment when the 'Sentinel' 'squeezed' into the real world along the crack of the dark blue webway," Mir Mina said in a deep voice, "That spaceship... If my guess is correct, the voyager must have used a very Special technology transforms the entity of the sentinel system into a "projection" state similar to the kingdom of God, so that it can maintain stability in the deep world, and the behavior of the sentinel system forcibly entering the real world is not just a kind of "space teleportation" ', in fact, reversed the conversion process, which led to an extremely strong network channel shock...

"If the calculations of Ms. Enya and I are correct, the webway shock caused by the reversal process is beyond imagination. Although mortals cannot perceive or observe it, it has already set off in the 'base' of our universe. A ripple, this ripple spreads out at an unimaginable speed, and even...may have surpassed the concept of 'speed'."

Mirmina exhaled softly, and ended her explanation. A brief silence enveloped the audience, until Enya's voice broke the silence: "More than half a month ago, in that brief moment, our planet once Being 'lit up' like a torch in the night, I am afraid that it can be clearly seen hundreds of thousands of light years away. If the sending civilization has been paying attention to the starry sky, then they will definitely not miss this time that there are obvious traces of human intervention... …flash."

Everyone at the scene felt as if their hearts stopped beating, and at this moment, there seemed to be an explanation for the sudden change of the signal mode of "Sending Civilization".

They really observed the changes "here", so they converted the originally aimless global broadcasts into more efficient directed broadcasts.

"...We need to look at this matter again," Rosetta said very seriously. "Whether we respond to this signal or not, the discussion must be based on the premise of 'we have been exposed'."

Gao Wen didn't speak for a while, he just frowned and fell into deep thought. Gradually, his pensive appearance also attracted the attention of Belsetia and Amon. The round table became quiet, and everyone seemed to be subconsciously Waiting for him to speak, Gao Wen finally broke the silence: "...responding to this signal, this is probably the only option."

Then he raised his head and glanced at everyone: "Our existence has been exposed in front of the alien civilization, and the other party obviously knows our location. The so-called 'unknown civilization Alpha' refers to us, so it's okay to keep silent." It makes no sense, and in this case we have to respond, and we have to respond as early as possible, as clearly as possible."

Enya looked into Gawain's eyes: "This is to prove to them that we also have the technology of faster-than-light communication."

"This sounds like a bluff. We only have a set of half-destroyed communication antennas." Belsetia shook her head, but she could only admit helplessly, "but it seems to be the only way we can retain a little initiative."

"Actually... I might be a little more optimistic than you," Gawain glanced at the Silver Queen, "I'm becoming more and more suspicious now that the civilization that sent the signal may not be as advanced as we imagined, and even their faster-than-light communication technology It itself... also seems to have many suspicious points."

"Suspicious?" Mirmina cast a curious look, "What do you mean?"

"The 'flare' that exposed our coordinates appeared more than half a month ago, right?" Gao Wen said slowly, "And according to your and Ms. Enya's judgment, the spread of this flash should be very, very Faster, maybe even as fast as faster-than-light communication."

"Yes," Mirmina nodded, "The shocks occur at the bottom of the world and propagate in the form of projections in the 'deep ocean', and according to the unified wave model and our latest universe layering model, the information in the 'deep ocean' The speed of transmission is not bound by the laws of the material world, and is theoretically infinitely fast - this is also a technical direction of the super-light speed communication I conceived.

"Of course, there is only this theory now, and we have no corresponding technology that can actively create such information ripples that can be stably transmitted in the deep sea, and there is no way to retrieve and 'listen' to such fluctuations from the deep sea. The deep blue well triggered This shock is the first 'instance' I've observed..."

As the master of the field of magic and mysteries, Mirmina is as easy to immerse herself in talking about technical issues as Rebecca, and many of the theories she mentioned inadvertently made Gao Wen's mind uncontrollable. Many ideas came up.

But he quickly forcibly controlled the thoughts that were about to spread, and asked seriously: "That is to say, at that moment more than half a month ago, the 'flicker' of our planet had spread to hundreds of people. Even thousands of light-years away, it happened instantaneously and arrived instantaneously—however, that 'sending civilization' didn't change their signal mode until two or three days ago, why is that?"

Amoen looked at Gao Wen, then at Mirmina, and said uncertainly: "They discussed for half a month to decide how to write the first letter? Well, this is unlikely..."

"Yes, this is of course impossible. They have been sending letters for so long. If they really found other intelligent races, they should have prepared various 'communication documents'," Gao Wen nodded and said, "They It took half a month to switch the signal mode, which only shows that they need such a long time to complete the adjustment of the equipment. But let's not forget that this civilization has been broadcasting this signal as early as the Gondor Empire Yes, their 'superluminal communication technology' has been used for hundreds or even thousands of years..."

He stopped, folded his hands on his chin, and continued slowly in thought: "A civilization that has been broadcasting in the universe for a thousand years with superluminal communication, now it takes half a month to change the signal mode. There may be only one explanation for such suspicious circumstances..."

The Silver Queen on the side immediately reacted: "This technology is not theirs!"

"The technology is not theirs, and the equipment may not be theirs either. They may need to pay a huge price or use very cumbersome methods to indirectly control this thing, and even..." Enya thought thoughtfully, "Even they may just borrow A certain Voyager legacy... If this is the case, then it is understandable that they have not been able to crack the 'core secrets' of the sending equipment for a thousand years, because the Voyager equipment often has very strict core protection."

Gao Wen spread his hands: "Just imagine, if they are really a civilization with a normal technical route, and they have mastered the mysteries of faster-than-light communication a thousand years ago, how far will they have to develop now? They should have already They have broken through the magic tide and solved the black trap already. They don't need to wait for our response at all. On the second day after our planet "lights up", their jump ship may have already reached the sky of Loren Continent.

"The fact is, none of that happened."