Chapter 374 The Survivors

Looking at this ship left behind by the Shining Civilization.

Chen Ming had a hard time resisting the idea of ​​sending all the equipment to the spot and starting to analyze the ship.

He turned to observe the overall condition of the ship.

The external structure of the ship does not seem to have any problems at present.

Even though the fuel of the ship has been exhausted, all the systems that require energy to operate have already completely stopped working, and the ship has been almost face-to-face with the core of the black hole for tens of thousands of years.

The ship still has no structural damage and remains intact.

The interior of the ship also looks completely fine.

The whole is very clean, and there is nothing that can be called debris arranged inside the ship.

In addition to the first impression of cleanliness, this ship gives Chen Ming the feeling of a very complete and compact integrated structure, without any scattered things.

Combined with the design of the ship's operating system and internal layout, it can be seen that this ship can be driven by one person, and no more than two people at most.

Therefore, there is nothing left by the former driver on the ship.

Although the technology of the Shining Civilization is indeed very strong, it is not to the extent that daily necessities or some supplies can exist for tens of thousands of years.

After so much time, even inside the spaceship, the things that should be gone should have been gone long ago.

This just made Chen Ming unable to confirm the specific image of the main species of the Shining Civilization, nor could he use this to figure out the specific situation of the Shining Civilization.

However, just looking at the design of the interior of the spaceship, we can still see some of the more common culture of the Shining Civilization.

For example, some insect-style markings are like some kind of decorations that have been integrated into the daily life of the Shining Civilization.

This can be seen from the appearance design of the ground mechanical units.

However, Chen Ming doesn't care about culture, every civilization has its own culture.

He is more concerned about the technology of the Shining Civilization, especially whether there are any other relics on this spaceship besides the spaceship.

Of course there are things, and it is something that Chen Ming is interested in.

In a spaceship room at the back of this Shining Civilization spaceship, which is probably a warehouse, there is a thing that should be considered a power armor.

There are also some supporting weapons or weapons for individual soldiers placed inside this small warehouse.

It seems that even if you are not a Shining Civilization person, but an Imperial, you can easily get started with these things after getting familiar with them.

Chen Ming had studied the text of the Shining Civilization in the past six months, and of course he knew that in the current mainstream view, the main species of the Shining Civilization was most likely humanoid.

Therefore, it was not surprising that there were these things on the spacecraft.

He was even more curious whether there were other types of things on the spacecraft that he was interested in.

With this idea in mind, Chen Ming opened the power armor produced by the Shining Civilization.

Unfortunately, there were no corpses inside the power armor, and there was no sign of it having been used.

It seemed that the spacecraft was directly attacked by the black hole monster after passing through the wormhole, and the driver died before he could put on the power armor to protect himself.

As for the corpse, it was most likely that it had been torn apart by the gravity of the black hole after the fuel of the spacecraft was exhausted and the ability to protect the internal structure and objects was lost, and finally rotted in the spacecraft and could no longer be found.

Chen Ming had no way to confirm what the main species of the Shining Civilization was through the corpse, nor could he revive a person of the Shining Civilization through the resurrection mechanical fluid to understand their past.

This was bad news with no solution.

But at least the power armor was real, and those weapons were advanced weapons that actually existed.

Whether it is the Shining Power Armor or the Shining Civilization's individual weapons, their technical levels obviously exceed the relevant technical levels currently mastered by the Empire.

Chen Ming can integrate these technologies into his own biological armor technology.

Or use them in exchange for some resources he needs in the Empire.

In addition to physical objects such as power armor and weapons.

Chen Ming also found the storage unit that stores important information about the spacecraft in the log of the spacecraft's computer.

He can see from the information in the storage unit that this is a spacecraft that was directly dispatched to perform tasks right after leaving the factory.

And he can also see some basic data of the spacecraft, including the place of origin, developer, designer, etc.

From these contents, it can be seen that the social structure of the Shining Civilization is similar to that of humans.

And he also found a simple description of the last mission performed by this spacecraft in the database of the spacecraft's computer.

Including the departure point, destination and mission content.

The destination is of course here, and the mission purpose is also clear, even written on the name of this spacecraft.

And the departure point is in the observable universe area of ​​the Empire that Chen Ming has not been to.

That location is some distance away from the wormhole of the Origin Galaxy, but not too far away.

There is a high possibility that there are relics of the Shining Civilization, or even military relics.

Of course, it is not ruled out that exploring wormholes is a common project, and there is only an ordinary relic there.

It is even possible that there is nothing left at the departure point.

But anyway, Chen Ming wrote down this location and immediately began to arrange for the spacecraft to go there to take a look.

There should be a result soon.

In addition, when Chen Ming was checking the mission log, in addition to the information about the mission itself, he also saw another potentially valuable information.

That is the date of execution of this mission.

This is very important news, and this time point means a lot of things.

But here he encountered a problem.

The date of execution of the mission uses the chronology of the Shining Civilization, which is different from the Empire.

Because the chronology is usually determined by the period of revolution of a civilization's mother star around its own star.

Therefore, just looking at the time in the spacecraft log, Chen Ming cannot determine the time corresponding to the Empire.

What's more, this spacecraft has stopped operating for tens of thousands of years, and there is no log record for the tens of thousands of years in the middle.

He can't do it like when he was looking at the log of the scavenger robot, and reverse the objective time recorded in the log to reverse the earliest recorded time, and finally determine that the scavenger robot has appeared for at least 30,000 years.

Therefore, if he wants to get the specific time when this reconnaissance spacecraft performs the mission, he may have to go to the Shining Civilization Research Institute.

There should be a table that can help analyze the time of the Shining Civilization and the corresponding chronology of the Empire.

Chen Ming even thought that he might be ready to go, but he must go.

Because he felt that the things about the Shining Civilization related to this wormhole would be very important, and it was a key time point to understand the Shining Civilization.

Perhaps the Shining Civilization declined around the time when the wormhole was discovered and prepared to enter the wormhole for exploration.

The reason why he had such an idea.

Of course, it was because of the scavenger robot and the spaceship he had just obtained.

These two things are definitely products of the same period, and they are definitely not too far apart in time.

The scavenger robot, originally, simply carried mining drones to mine and develop the initial resources of the galaxy.

The nano forge it carried was also intended for the construction of colonies.

The two worked together to build infrastructure before the population of the Shining Civilization arrived.

However.

The nano forge was damaged for some reason, and no one repaired it. It was eventually taken away by the scavenger robot and installed on itself, and has been free to this day.

The scavengers also dismantled some materials and parts from the sunken mechanical battleships to arm themselves, and said that they could do so only during the war.

This clearly shows that a war broke out during that period.

This war eventually led to the bankruptcy of the development plan, and even the Shining Civilization seemed to have forgotten this place.

It was said to be because Chen Ming was not sure whether the Shining Civilization had already died during this war, or whether the war did not directly lead to the demise of the Shining Civilization, but only made the Shining Civilization unable to manage these border areas that needed to be developed.

But after having this spaceship that passed through the wormhole, Chen Ming was clear about one thing.

The Shining Civilization must not have died at this time, but gradually died.

Because the time point of the reconnaissance mission was either before the battle that caused the battleship graveyard here, or after the battle.

If the reconnaissance ship passed through the wormhole before the battle, the Shining Civilization would not have been rescued.

The strength of the reconnaissance ship was so powerful that even if it pierced into the body of the monster, as long as there was fuel, it would never let the people inside die.

This is the conclusion that Chen Ming came to after studying the spaceship a little.

Therefore, the Shining Civilization definitely has enough time to rescue.

With the technology of the Shining Civilization, it is definitely not a problem to kill this thing.

But no, the Shining Civilization is not even able to rescue the people who are investigating behind the wormhole.

So they are not extinct, but at least they started to decline from here.

Therefore, if this specific time can be figured out, maybe the approximate time of the demise of the Shining Civilization can be determined.

With a specific time point, the Empire can use things excavated from many ruins to prove the history of the Shining Civilization.

Find out how the Shining Civilization, which is countless times more powerful than the current Empire, perished, so as to avoid following the old path of the Shining Civilization.

Of course, this is also something that Chen Ming is very interested in.

Not only the technology of the Shining Civilization, he also wants to know the reason for the demise of the Shining Civilization.

He also needs to avoid himself from following the path of the Shining Civilization.

Especially when Chen Ming feels that many aspects of his psychic power are similar to those of the Shining Civilization.

One third of the basis of his psychic power is the legacy left by the Shining Civilization, the mechanical race.

Another third are Thorn Zerg, which has a very close relationship with the mechanical race.

The last third are dimensional technologies that Chen Ming does not believe the Shining Civilization has not mastered.

There are so many coincidences that it is difficult for Chen Ming not to think too much, so he has more and more curiosity about the Shining Civilization.

Of course, everything he just thought of must be confirmed by asking the Shining Civilization Research Institute.

After a thorough inspection of the spacecraft's database and the spacecraft itself.

Chen Ming also found a portable device in the cockpit of the spacecraft that seems to be of some interest.

Chen Ming directly used psychic power to take the device in his hand and got its name.

[Resonance Channel Communicator]

According to the operating principle of the device that Chen Ming's psychic power has mastered, it uses the same frequency band resonance method similar to the main battleship and shield that has been mastered so far to communicate.

But the specific effect can only be known after trying it.

The psychic minister beside Chen Ming is very sensitive to all changes around him, so he just noticed the spaceship of a model that Chen Ming brought back with his psychic power, which he had never seen before.

Now he also noticed the unknown device that Chen Ming suddenly took in his hand.

"What is this?"

Chen Ming did not deliberately cover it up, but told the truth: "It should be some kind of communicator."

It seems to be still running, and its endurance is full, but when Chen Ming pressed it twice, there was no response.

Considering the purpose of this spaceship, Chen Ming is not sure whether the person or thing that can communicate with this device is gone.

But just when he thought this thing was useless, he suddenly noticed that a resonant signal was emitted to the outside world.

Chen Ming was a little surprised and immediately tried to track the source of the signal, but the signal disappeared immediately.

He could not detect it.

The next moment, a sentence in the language of the Shining Civilization was displayed on the screen of the communicator.

"Who are you?"

Chen Ming did not answer, but was thinking.

Thinking about how this communicator could be under his control and he could not find out how this information was transmitted to this device.

Is this resonant communication device so outrageous?

And he didn't know whether the person behind the communication was a human or a ghost, or an AI program.

He didn't know whether the person behind the communicator was a person who had survived from the Shining Civilization to this day, or simply a person who had survived from the Shining Civilization to this day.

A rash answer was not a good choice.

But he didn't seem to have a better choice.

This was his only clue.

The director of the psychic institute next to him also saw the text on the screen, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated: "There are still people alive in the Shining Civilization? This is a big discovery."

Although he was not focusing on the project in the direction of Shining Civilization, psychic technology itself was a direction that was inseparable from Shining Civilization.

So he must have some basic knowledge, and of course he knew the special significance of discovering the suspected descendants of Shining Civilization.

However, Chen Ming was not so optimistic and said, "It is not certain whether they are from the Shining Civilization."

"That spaceship has existed for at least tens of thousands of years. Even if the descendants have been 30,000 years later, can they still remember this spaceship?"

Chen Ming said, and explained the two things that his psychic power tried to track the transmitted signal but was cut off from the tracking path, and that the communication signal could be sent directly over his psychic power.

"So I am very suspicious of what they are like."

Before the director of the psychic power institute had time to respond, a new line of text appeared on the communicator: "Have you discovered the monster in the black hole?"

Chen Ming frowned slightly, still thinking about what to do.

The director of the psychic power institute really wanted to say something, but after all, this was something Chen Ming had personally obtained with his own efforts, and he did not avoid suspicion of him at all. He let him see these obviously extremely important things, so he couldn't speak directly.

"We are the survivors, we want to communicate with you, we have no ill intentions."

After this sentence came out, Chen Ming's consideration came to the end.

He used psychic power to monitor the device in all aspects without blind spots, and then responded on it: "What is a survivor?"

The communication channel was silent for a while, and then a sentence appeared again.

"We are the survivors of the Shining, the descendants of the survivors who hid in the world behind the wormhole. We are committed to preserving everything about the Shining."

Chen Ming looked at the director of the psychic power who seemed a little excited beside him, and continued to ask: "What happened to the Shining?"

"We can't answer this question."

The other end of the communication chose to remain silent.

"Why?"

"Because we are missing this part of history."

Missing...

Chen Ming suddenly remembered when he was looking for files in the database of the main control personality core in the core colony of the mechanical star field.

Similarly, the record of the demise of the Shining civilization was also lost.

Is it really missing?

Chen Ming skipped the topic that might lead to the termination of this communication with doubts, and asked: "Why do you hide?"

The survivors responded: "Because we are too weak, hiding is our only way to survive."

"Please believe us, we really do this only because we are weak."

Chen Ming expressed doubts about this, but he did not say it out loud, but asked: "Then why did you contact me, and how did you contact me?"

"In fact, you contacted us."

It is true.

Chen Ming casually pressed the button on the communicator, who knew that there would be a result.

The survivors continued: "And our database stores all records about Shining, and there is a special record about the communicator you found that we have kept, because this record is the reason why we survived."

"What is the specific situation?"

"Our ancestors once organized a small fleet to enter the wormhole, trying to avoid something."

"But after passing through the wormhole, they were attacked by the monsters in the black hole. Some of the spacecraft sacrificed themselves to interfere with the monsters, buying time for others to escape the black hole."

"We thought that all the people and spacecraft in the past had fallen into the black hole, but we didn't expect that there is still a communicator that still exists."

An old story.

Chen Ming commented silently in his heart.

But logically speaking, these survivors do seem to have no problem.

The survivors are most likely a group of people who want to escape when the Shining Civilization is close to collapse. They may not have very good weapons and equipment.

Although those equipment look really good from Chen Ming's perspective, it is only good in terms of technology, not in terms of ability, but it is still useless to use those equipment to fight the black hole monsters.

They are probably just a small group of people.

"Do you know how long it has been since now?"

"Forty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-two years."

The psychic minister next to him directly converted the units and said: "About fifty thousand years ago in Earth time."

Chen Ming nodded, ended the one-sided identity confirmation questioning, and started normal communication: "So... who do you think I am?"

"A member of the newly born civilization."

"We noticed that you were trying to track us through psychic power, so we hid in a more hidden place. Please don't try to track us."

It seems that these survivors of the Shining Civilization know that the Shining Civilization has completely perished, and they did not say that they were the survivors of the Shining Civilization.

Chen Ming asked: "So what do you want to do?"

"You should be able to see that I just randomly pressed twice after picking up this device. I don't know if you exist."

"But you took the initiative to contact me, so there must be some purpose."

The communicator was silent again for a while, and responded: "Yes, we want to make a deal with you and the civilization behind you."

"We hope that you can preserve everything that Shining exists, so that Shining's past will not disappear because of our demise."

"We no longer think we can revive a civilization, we just hope that our civilization will be recorded."

It sounds like there is nothing wrong.

The last group of people in a once prosperous civilization hope that their civilization will at least not be forgotten when facing a newly born civilization.

But Chen Ming remained alert and said, "Then you can just give me all the data, and I will give all the data to my civilization."

"Sorry, we can't trust you completely yet. We must respect the heritage of our civilization. We can't just hand over everything of our civilization."

Chen Ming replied directly and forcefully, "Then we have nothing to talk about."

After saying this, the Minister of Psychic Energy was a little anxious. After all, this was an excellent opportunity to contact the Shining Civilization.

But Chen Ming raised his hand to stop him, indicating that he knew what he was doing.

He is now facing an unknown existence, and he must test it.

Facing it with a tough attitude is the simplest and most effective choice to test what the other side is like.

At the same time, this is also Chen Ming's own idea.

He has always been very gentle to his own kind, but his attitude towards non-same kind is completely different.

Although both the Empire and himself have been picking up garbage from the corpses of the Shining Civilization.

But no matter what, the Shining Civilization is not a human civilization.

So Chen Ming must not be able to empathize with the Shining Civilization.

And he actually has one thing to worry about.

That is, is it possible that the Shining Civilization has mastered some extreme means to seize human civilization or something?

With the technology of the Shining Civilization, he thinks this is possible.

So he will never let down his guard.

After Chen Ming's tough reply, the survivors of the Shining Civilization quickly sent another message: "Perhaps we can try to win mutual trust."

"Excuse me, have you killed the monster in the black hole?"

"No."

Chen Ming felt that there was nothing to lie about this question. After all, if these survivors are really descendants of the Shining Civilization, they will at least have the ability to detect black holes.

"Then as our sincerity to win your trust, we are willing to tell you the weakness of the monster we call 'Nightmare of the Plane'."