Chapter 930 Large Fleet

After touching the golden disk, Hao Ren was trapped in some kind of chaotic and weird dream for several days, and these indelible traces were left on his hands - both Vivian and Yitzhak I checked the marks on his hand, but found nothing. The marks were just like ordinary burns and did not carry any supernatural power. But even Hao Ren knew that these traces definitely had extraordinary significance.

During the night when he was trapped in chaotic dreams, Hao Ren relived the scene he saw in the illusion of the golden disk over and over again. Every time he woke up in the crumbling temple of the Goddess of Creation, walking through Countless burning pillars and battlefields of deadly battles, and finally arrived at the place where the crime of killing gods occurred. Then every time, he was just like the first, always one step too late, unable to clearly see the faces of the Godslayer and the Goddess. Every dream was repeated exactly, but as he continued to experience those things, Hao Ren found that he was reading some information from the dream more and more clearly.

That information was the chaotic memory that was injected into his mind after touching the golden disc for the first time. The repeated dreams seemed to help him extract information that was difficult for humans to understand from the depths of his mind. As these repeated dreams finally faded away, Hao Ren was convinced that he had clearly grasped something. Now, as he re-examined the series of events after he touched the golden disk, an idea gradually took shape:

He touched the disc, obtained "information" from the disc, and then strengthened this information after constantly experiencing dreams. This series of processes is probably not accidental. This should be a carefully designed program, and the function of this program is to Convey a "message". Because after he fully understood what he got from the golden disc, those dreams faded away just right - this can only be explained by the word "purpose".

"I heard the goddess of creation telling me, 'Be careful, the enemy is still there.' She didn't tell me directly in words, but in the entire illusion and the entire spiritual world, she used a more complex and difficult-to-detect method. The code was poured directly into my mind." Hao Ren rubbed the "burn" marks on his hands. "It took me five full days to extract these six words from the spiritual world, and by the end they were very clear. Yes. I think this should be a warning."

"But do you think this warning is for you?" The data terminal flew slowly next to Hao Ren's head, "What you see is an image left ten thousand years ago, the 'last words' of the Goddess of Creation. It was also from 10,000 years ago, and she was probably leaving a message to someone at that time, when of course there were enemies everywhere.”

"In the illusion, the goddess of creation once glanced at me." Hao Ren put down his hand and looked at the production factory in the center of the lair intently. "I am 100% sure that the focus of her eyes fell on me. She clearly knew that I Standing there. So she should have the ability to see through time and space. Even if it is just through a 'video', her ability still exists. So her message should also be for me."

The data terminal was a little surprised, but it knew very well what abilities those powerful creatures - especially gods - should have, so it quickly accepted Hao Ren's statement and guessed on this basis: "In this case, The goddess of creation may know more than imagined."

"She is a god after all, but she was killed by the race she created. Do you think it is possible for her to have no resistance or back-up?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "She had time to create Vivian, and she had Time shut down the functions of some of the guardians, and she had time to send some of the guardians away from the battlefield of the Kingdom of God. She also spent thousands of years building a creation engine. After the collapse of the Kingdom of God, it was most likely that it was this creation engine that The Gate of Suluen was launched from the dark realm. I think she may lack some knowledge compared to the professional gods of the Xiling God Department, but she is by no means a fool."

Finally, he shook his head and smiled: "No matter what, it is always necessary to be more vigilant. Letting the drone group increase its combat effectiveness will come in handy sooner or later, even if it is not to deal with the remaining enemies mentioned by the goddess of creation. This There are still many threats from the universe."

A small group of rogue drones flew past the window. They noticed that Hao Ren was looking here, so they came over curiously, somersaulted outside the window, and then lined up to fly away: Although these drones Under the control of a unified consciousness, but within a limited scope, it still possesses individual intelligence and simple thinking abilities, which allows them to respond more efficiently when facing complex and changeable situations. Hao Ren looked at the busy drones outside the window and suddenly smiled and muttered: "Lily seems to have been worried about what to do if these drones go berserk like in the movie."

"Reasonable concerns," the face formed by the consciousness of the fleet said expressionlessly, "The drone swarm out of control will bring immeasurable threats to the creator, and the expansion speed of this fleet is enough to cause her concern. Considering her survival It is logical for the environment and the knowledge instilled from childhood to produce similar reactions.”

Hao Ren looked at this rigid guy with a bit of fun: "To be honest, you really can't lose control?"

"It's not necessary." The cluster consciousness couldn't quite tell that Hao Ren was joking. It explained its attributes very seriously, "Every behavior should have its reasons, and the cluster does not need to lose control. There is no relationship between the cluster and the creator. Conflict, our proliferation, expansion, development, evolution, all processes are under reasonable program planning, and the fleet itself has no need to get rid of this program. At the same time, the Xiling God System itself is a huge consciousness connected by a spiritual network The cluster can be regarded as a more advanced machine group, and we are the secondary machine group created by them - there is no essential difference between the two. Everything is a tool and part of the Xiling God System, and one tool does not need to betray another tool .”

The data terminal fell on Hao Ren's shoulder, and Youyou said: "The drone swarm has a history of trillions of years in the Xiling Empire, and it may even be longer than that. Long before the concept of 'AI runaway' appeared, the drone swarm had a history of trillions of years." They are already part of the empire. They coexist with the Xiling Apostles and complete the integration before the conflict. The premise of losing control is that one group must first control another group, but in the empire, there is no second group, everything is Just parts and tools. Everything, all in one, just like your heart won’t betray your ribs.”

At this time, Doudou grabbed Hao Ren's arm and woke up from a nap. She had already slept for a long time. When she woke up, she found that Hao Ren was still discussing a bunch of boring topics with others, so the little guy flapped his tail vigorously and started to protest loudly. , Hao Ren hurriedly held the little guy firmly, and awkwardly nodded to the fleet consciousness interface: "Okay, let's not discuss these boring things - do you have a fish tank here?"

Hao Ren waited for two full days in this drone frontier lair. Although the fleet consciousness initially estimated that it would take twenty-four hours to find clues, in fact it took more time to search for those "passers-by in space."

But the wait was ultimately worthwhile. On the morning of the third day, a Ranger drone that had flown farthest finally found a clue: light-years away from the first lens trace, there were slowly moving objects floating in space. The escaping synthetic substances have dissipated so much that they are almost indistinguishable, but the detector still collects their remaining material particles and analyzes them to find that it is a synthetic high-performance fuel, perhaps a spacecraft engine operating at sub-light speeds. used below.

After receiving the report from the drone, Hao Ren and the others gathered on the bridge of the Giant Turtle Yantai. The detection area of ​​the fleet in the past few days has been made into a holographic star map and placed on the projection of the console. After seeing the analysis reports of those fuels, the data terminal muttered: "It looks like they are in bad shape. These are probably leaked fuels."

"No trace of the aircraft explosion was found on the entire extended line from the lens traces to these fuel leakage points. It is initially determined that the man-made aircraft that left these traces is still alive, but has a certain degree of damage." The interactive interface of the drone group floated on On the other side of the console, "The navigation direction of these aircraft has been roughly locked. If they have not changed their course much in the last hundred light years, they should be tracked soon."

Hao Ren thought for a while and ordered Nolan: "Set sail and chase in that direction now. Maybe we can find those ships before lunch."

Nolan muttered as he started his engine: "How are you sure that's a ship? Haven't you seen it before?"

Hao Ren curled his lips: "Nonsense, something that can travel at super-light speed while leaking oil could be a durian?"

The Giant Turtle Yantai finally left the drone nest after being parked for two and a half days. Under the guidance of the outpost drone, Hao Ren and his party quickly pursued the direction indicated by the traces.

It didn't take them long to discover their target.

"A large-scale man-made object was discovered ahead!" Nolan reported excitedly, "It really looks like durian!"

Hao Ren looked blankly at the monitor screen, and a large group of huge flying objects shaped like durians suddenly came into view.

"Tsk, tsk, what a mouth you have," Vivian shook her head and sighed, "It's law-level."