Chapter 1436 Suddenly, Very Suddenly

In Sorin's command hall, Bertila stared blankly at the holographic projection in front of her, while her spirit spread throughout the facility. Everything that happened here, every piece of information flowing from the communication channel escaped. But her sight.

There are hardly any obvious fluctuations in expression on the face of this mimic avatar, but Bertila knows that he is not at all calm at the moment—talking with a civilization that is completely strange, even living on another planet It was an unprecedented experience. As long as she thought about the historical process behind this conversation across the stars, she felt every leaf in her trembling slightly on the treetops.

Those who followed the developments here through the remote network must have the same mood.

"The new text has been compiled, the transcoding has been completed, and it is being sent to Antavien." "Antavien sent a confirmation message, and the text has been sent, waiting for the other party's response."

There was a report from the command seat in the hall, and Bertila was still standing quietly at her position, calmly watching the holographic projection in front of her like a plant, and she saw a line of slightly Glowing text:

Starbreaker: "If we don't work together, what will you do? Do you have some kind of...alternative solution to this observation point problem four light-years away? This question is purely ours. curious."

After this, there was a period of blank noise that was longer than the previous waiting period, and the "Noyes" seemed to be discussing how to answer this question - separated by at least four light-years of star sea, she could not see what happened on the "opposite side" things, but she couldn't help imagining, imagining how those "aliens" were having the current conversation...

Did they also gather as many expert teams as Thorin Command Center did? Will they also have heated discussions and try to guess and interpret this ethnic group that calls itself the "Loren Alliance" across the Xinghai? Will they also feel the joy and tension like the mortals on this planet?

The society of the "Noyes"... Is there a wave of waves due to the sudden communication? Are their leaders also paying attention to this conversation across time and space?

Bertila slowly raised her head, but her "gaze" penetrated the tens of meters thick roof, wooden structure and layers of leaves above. From the perspective of a giant tree, the vast and boundless sky is like a giant curtain. It hangs over her perception, but even this seemingly vast and boundless sky is actually just an inconspicuous layer of atmosphere on the surface of this planet. The vast starry sky of ordinary people's imagination——

Four light years, this is a scale that makes all disputes, gains and losses, life and death in the world instantly seem small. As early as the Gondor era, the magisters were aware of the concept of the speed of light. However, until the destruction of Gondor, "light years" were still limited to a "conceptual unit of measurement"-it was so desperate,

So much so that people at that time could not even imagine what kind of travel method could travel on this scale, so this thing beyond understanding was finally classified as "the power of God" like other similar things... …

Thinking about it now, the poor mental state of the gods on this planet is probably inseparable from the influence of these things that have been randomly classified as "miracles"... The mortals who were once ignorant only knew how to keep their heads down, but When encountering problems that cannot be explained clearly, they always blame the gods irresponsibly, but what can the gods do? They don't understand either, so they can only go crazy...

If there is no theocracy, if there is no more and more revelations about the operation mechanism of the gods in recent years, this kind of blindness may sooner or later lead to the doomsday no less than the magic tide.

A slight buzzing sound suddenly interrupted Bertera's slightly divergent thinking. She immediately looked at the holographic projection in the center of the hall, and saw a line of text being continuously translated into a common language slowly emerging on the screen— —

Noy: "Yes, we have alternatives—in other words, your response is a surprise to us. From the beginning, we have followed the premise of 'no other intelligent civilization within the predetermined range can provide assistance' to develop a self-rescue plan.

"Many, many years ago, we have sent out 'observers'. The observers will go to the nearest standard measurement point from our planet and send the magic tide readings there back to our parent star...

"To this day, observers have traveled in space for 126 years, but this long journey of four light years has not yet reached the end... It has entered the deceleration process, but there is still a certain distance from the scheduled observation point .”

The text on the holographic projection stopped beating, and the entire hall suddenly fell into a strange silence. Bertila realized a certain fact revealed behind this text, which made her eyes widen.

In the next second, she heard Gawain's voice suddenly coming from the communication device: "They are capable of space travel—this civilization has passed the 'rite of passage', so start asking immediately."

Gao Wen, who was far away in the south, had already stood up from his chair at this time, and even Amber next to him was staring at the magic net terminal on the desk. When the "original plan" had been implemented for 126 years, what shocked Gawain the most was that they were able to carry out interstellar travel itself!

Stepping out of the planet and stepping into the universe - on the planet where the Loren continent is located, this behavior means that the mortal civilization has completely cast off the shackles of the gods and entered adulthood. And knowing every season of intelligent species that has existed on this planet's history, this process will obviously not be unique.

As long as other planets follow the same laws of the universe as Loren, as long as the thinking logic of other intelligent races is not deviated to the point that it is completely incomprehensible to the Loren races, then even if it is a few light-years or hundreds of light-years away "Aliens" must also have this process of "primitive worship-birth of gods-two-way shackles-adulthood", and in the final stage of this process, they will face "disobedience failure" and "civilization survival" An alternative situation.

This is not an easy process. The dragons of Tarrond have used the heavy status quo to prove to the world the price of taking a wrong step in this process, but the experts of the Theocratic Council believe that the price is lower and easier. There is a path to realization, as long as you walk on the right path in the early stage of breaking free from the shackles, it is not unimaginable to cross the coming-of-age ceremony at a relatively low cost-but on this planet, it seems that there has never been There have been such instances, and the countries of the alliance can only feel their way forward on this road.

The starbreakers on the other side of the Thorin control hall had already begun to prepare the text of the question to "Noi", while Gao Wen controlled the sudden excitement and sat down slowly again. He took a deep breath, feeling his heart beating back to normal little by little, and his eyes scanned the particularly warm printing paper again——in those short words, what was revealed was another country that was struggling as much as the Loren kingdoms. The surviving civilization has continued the journey of self-rescue for thousands of years.

Interstellar broadcasts that have lasted for 1,400 years, observers who have traveled in space for 126 years... This group called "Noi" seems to be as tough as all living beings in Loren Continent—like setting sail As the poem left by the author warned, they did not indulge in this illusory and peaceful night.

As for the time scales of "1400 years" and "126 years" mentioned in these conversation records, they are the same as the previous "light years", and they have been determined by the starbreakers and the giant tree of Sorin. The calculation node over there has carried out the unit conversion - the information that Gao Wen has seen here has been converted into Loren's calculation unit.

Sir Scott Planting, who interpreted the alien "dictionary" at the Viplandon Observatory hundreds of years ago, is a professional scholar. Star twinkling is the "standard time scale" of reference values, and at this point, pioneers have paved the way for future generations.

There was a light clicking sound from the printing device, and then the shaft and gears began to rotate, and Amber subconsciously called softly: "There is something coming over there!"

Gawain controlled his excitement, and immediately pulled out the printing paper after it left the machine. On it was the latest conversation record between the starbreaker of the Thorin Control Center and the "Noi people":

Starbreaker: "We have some questions that may seem presumptuous, but this will help both of us to better understand—excuse me, do you have 'gods' in your world?"

Noy: "Yes, of course, we have our own religion and belief system—it seems that there are also gods on your side?"

Starbreaker: "Yes, we also have our own gods. Then the second question, when you... sent 'observers' to the universe four light years away, didn't it cause the gods to lose control?"

After this question, there seemed to be a long blank waiting on the side of the "Noi people". In addition to the "blank waiting" mark on the printing paper, there was a long series of ellipsis. Gawain didn't look until almost the end of the paper. To the reply from the "Noi people":

"The observers we send out are our gods."

This time, not only Gao Wen suddenly stood up, but even Rosetta Augustus and Belsetia Morningstar, who had been listening quietly in the communication interface, stood up suddenly in shock.

It was as if the world view was shattered and reshaped in an instant, and the natural laws that had always been taken for granted were turned upside down. Even Rosetta, who always maintained a serious posture with a straight face on weekdays, was staring at this moment, and the hall of the Sorin Control Center was even more There was silence for a moment, and the subversive facts took away the words of many people, and this strange silence was finally interrupted by Tyre, who was hanging up and listening so far:

"Antaveen sent a message, and the core temperature of the superluminal communication array has risen sharply-the hardware is about to reach its limit!"

Gawain woke up instantly.

Antaveen's FTL communication array is not in good condition, it can only be said to be barely usable, although the Krakens have optimized its working mode as much as possible, and have adjusted the information sending and receiving mode to a low frequency with lower load For the communication process, a large amount of coding work was allocated to the computing center of the Sorin giant tree, but this only delayed the burning time of the main antenna as much as possible.

In fact, it is already a miracle that that thing can persist until now, but the conversation with the "Noi people" brought so much shocking information that Gao Wen subconsciously forgot about it.

"Explain that the communication is about to be interrupted, and at the same time ask another question!" Gao Wen spoke quickly, "Ask about their relationship with the gods!"

In the lobby of the Sorin Control Center, the starbreakers completed the compilation and conversion of the text at an unprecedented speed. The data transmission system lived up to expectations and sent the converted code to Antaveen. After a short delay, a period of inquiry The information that travels through the interstellar space oscillates, passing over the stars in an instant at a speed far exceeding the speed of light.

Starbreaker: "Due to equipment cooling requirements, our communication system will be temporarily closed for maintenance and will be restarted in the near future. Before that, we would like to know a question: What is your relationship or relationship with the gods?"

And almost as soon as this question was sent, Tyre's voice came to everyone's ears: "The main antenna is burned, and the FTL communication array is shut down."

"Adjust the sensitivity of the monitoring antenna to the highest," Beltira, who was standing in the control hall, immediately shouted loudly, "Notify the monitoring station of the Ancestor Peak to assist in capturing the signal—don't miss the reply from the 'Noi'!"

Although only Antaveen's FTL communication array can send out signals, the "listening stations" set up in other areas can still receive the communication signals. Now that the main antenna has been burned, the Alliance has temporarily lost its initiative. The ability to communicate, but at least... everyone still has a chance to hear the reply from "them".

Every second that followed seemed as long as a thousand years, everyone—whether it was the technicians in the Sorin Control Center, or the three empire leaders far away in the capital of the Three Empires, or the goblin technicians far away on the Ancestral Peak Ladies and gentlemen, everyone held their breaths and fell into silence, as if they were afraid that taking a breath would interfere with the invisible signal in the starry sky. This tense atmosphere lasted until the indicator light in front of Bertila representing the signal received by the main antenna started. flashing.

"The main antenna has received a signal!" "The star breaker is deciphering!"

After a while, the reply from the "Nuoyi people" finally appeared in everyone's eyes——

"We have achieved coexistence with our gods, living together on the mother planet."

In the study room covered with blue velvet carpet, Gawain slowly put down the paper in his hand, leaned on the high-back chair and said slowly, thoughtfully: "It seems... this is the answer."

"Coexistence has been achieved..." Amber frowned and muttered, "They used the word 'realized'... Does it mean that their relationship with the gods was also very 'dangerous' before, after some hard work Only then did they reach this relatively good state? And what do you think they mean by 'coexistence'?"

"Except for the Nuoyi people themselves, any of our guesses are wild guesses," Gawain shook his head lightly. "The information we have now is enough for us to think for a long time."

At this moment, Bertila's voice sounded from the magic net terminal: "We have received... another call from the Nuoi people. They seem to want to confirm whether we are offline."

The corner of Gao Wen's mouth trembled slightly. At this moment, he seemed to feel a faint embarrassment filling the universe...

"Keep monitoring and recording," he sighed helplessly after a moment of silence, "we can't respond right now."

While speaking, he looked up at Tyre in another communication interface.

"Antaveen over there..."

"It's being repaired," Tire waved his hands without waiting for Gawain to finish speaking, "The big witch Hathaway has already got into the main antenna."

"...Okay, you guys come on."