Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 934 The First and Second Disasters Come

"In fact, after the disappointment of the Centaur constellation, human beings have given up the idea of ​​​​finding a habitable star system... We first used the resources collected in the Centaur constellation to create an enhanced version of the atmosphere and use the gravitational enhancement device. Absorb the entire enhanced version of the atmosphere firmly on the surface of the earth... The thick radiation clouds you see now are actually the 'wreckage' of this atmospheric system.

"Following that, we used the energy generated by the re-fusion reaction to create sixteen artificial satellites that can radiate light and heat to the surface... or, artificial suns... which appeared in ancient myths. The scene of ten suns hanging in the sky at the same time, and in that era, people in any position of the daytime hemisphere could see more than eight 'suns' in the sky when they looked up.

"After nearly 1000 years of hard work, we have finally transformed the surface of the earth into a shape that is barely suitable for human survival, including the enhanced atmosphere and artificial sun. This entire system was named 'New Eden'. People began to move out gradually. Dungeons, coming to live on the surface, and it took another [-] years for us to finally restore the surface of the earth to what it used to be...or even better.

"But the journey of the earth drifting among the stars is not over. One reason is that it takes a lot of resources to maintain sixteen artificial suns. If it stays in a space, the nearby resource celestial bodies will be exploited sooner or later. We have to wander while collecting resources to meet the huge demand of the 'New Eden System'... Another reason is that we still have a glimmer of hope, if we can really find a suitable star, maybe..."

"Then this star in this galaxy is the...'home' you found?"

"No, this 'sun' is like an artificial light source in a greenhouse... Can you understand what I mean?" the hive master sighed.

"Alpha civilization... Earth civilization in this time and space... was kept in captivity by that existence?" Ke Lan didn't know how many deep breaths he had taken... There were many guesses that he only dared to come up with when he was thinking wildly. All of them have been confirmed one by one... This is beyond the word "crazy" to describe.

If possible, he would rather it was just a dream. After waking up from the dream, he found that he was still lying on the single folding bed in that small residence, and there was still the box of lemon-flavored soda that had expired for an unknown number of months under the bed.

"During interstellar drifting, there are many unstable factors, among which the greatest threat to the earth is asteroids and meteorites. Whether these celestial bodies fall to the surface of the earth or hit the artificial sun, they are enough to cause catastrophic consequences... for To eliminate such risks in advance, a large number of engineering ships and mining ships have been transformed into warships... plus newly designed and built warships, in 50 years, a super fleet with more than [-] warships and hundreds of millions of soldiers was established, at that time, everyone thought that the earth civilization had entered the golden age, and our military power was enough to run rampant among the stars... until, until we accidentally entered the battlefield between the gods."

"The... battlefield between the gods." Ke Lan knew that the "great god" believed by the Alpha civilization had been waging war with other "different gods", but as written in fantasy novels, the general boss They will all be restricted by mysterious things like "rules", and they cannot fight in person, and the fights are basically the younger brothers of their respective subordinates.As the spokespersons of the gods, those "families" became the main force in the war between the gods.

"What we broke into was only the edge of the battlefield... That piece of space is not even a battlefield between gods... If you use the description of human beings to describe the war, it is just the weakest family under the hands of the two gods The small friction between them." The hive master said, "But even so, the aftermath of the friction still destroyed the New Eden system, the entire space fleet was wiped out, countless human beings died, and the number of survivors was large. Most were eroded, cognition was distorted, and the body mutated into a monster... We call this the 'first disaster'."

"So, the 'disaster' mentioned by Hive Capital Civilization is the second time?"

The hive master didn't answer Ke Lan's question directly, but continued on his own: "It's just the aftermath... Those creatures didn't even notice that a wandering planet broke into the area they were fighting... Maybe They have noticed, but they don't care at all...With their technology or strength, sending out a child at random can destroy the entire earth and wipe out the civilization we are proud of from this world."

"But fortunately, they didn't do that... Otherwise, there would be no later stories." The hive master continued, "During the first disaster, a tragic battle broke out on the earth, and the surviving Those who have not mutated among the survivors have to aim their weapons at those "same races" who have lost their human form and humanity, and at the same time, they must always beware of mutations that may erupt at any time with their companions fighting side by side... This war is like a biochemical crisis , but spreading erosion memes is far more difficult to guard against than viruses. When the last erosion is wiped out, the remaining human population is already less than the number of permanent residents in a block on the Ark. Human civilization has truly come to brink of extinction.

"Due to the destruction of the 'New Eden System', the surface became unsuitable for human survival again, and the survivors had to unseal the surviving dungeons again—ninety percent of the dungeons in the wandering era were demolished and blocked, and only one It has been preserved as a historical relic and a museum, but fortunately, the number of survivors is smaller than the population that can be accommodated in the dungeon, and the tragedy of life and death determined by lottery like before the brake era has not happened again."

"The survivors restarted the dungeon. Is this the origin of Hive City civilization?" Ke Lan asked.

"Yes, since then, we have officially entered the 'Frozen Age'...but the first disaster did not end here."

"Those who survived have also been eroded, right?" Ke Lan instantly understood the hidden meaning of the other party's words, "After all, cognition is pollution, and how can it be affected at all after fighting that kind of monster? None."

"That's right, those who returned to the dungeon, that is, the first generation of Hive City residents, almost all of them were eroded, but their erosion progressed slowly, and there was no obvious mutation at the end of the war... But as these people continue to recall the fragments of the war, coupled with the influence of nightmares, hallucinations, and PTSD, some of these people continue to be corroded beyond the critical value... The demise of human civilization seems to be a foregone conclusion, and what can we do? Fewer and fewer people remain awake for long periods of time... In the fourth year of the Frozen Age, the survivors had to make a difficult decision."

"What decision?"

"All the survivors, all committed suicide, leaving only the fertilized eggs that have been screened, and let the fully automatic cultivation equipment take care of these fertilized eggs and embryos, and implant the history and knowledge of human civilization in the babies' brains... let these The newborn will take on the responsibility of continuing the fire. As for the information related to the disaster, it is all sealed up as the top secret, and only the controllers of each hive, that is, people like me, are qualified to know." The master of the hive capital said, "Many people think that the master of the hive capital is like an emperor, but in fact, his body and consciousness are under surveillance all the time. Once the degree of erosion exceeds the threshold, I will I was wiped out immediately and replaced with a new 'newcomer' who came out of the cultivation equipment. According to the records, I should be the [-]th controller of this hive. When the turnover is the most frequent, I can even be replaced in a day. Several times... some individuals were overeclipsed even when their memories were implanted."

"It seems that the hive controller is really a high-risk occupation... just like the symbiont." Ke Lan said, "In this way, it seems understandable that the undead crew will guard against this information... It's just that they It seems that there is no such elimination mechanism, except for 'Chiron', I suspect that there are quite a few other members whose erosion level has exceeded the dangerous threshold, but they chose to conceal it..."

"Except for me and the controllers of the other hive cities, the other hive city residents have no idea what happened in the last era. They even thought that human beings lived underground from the beginning..."

"Then why do you still send an exploration team to the surface? Are you not afraid that they will bring those 'forbidden knowledge' back to the hive capital?" Ke Lan asked.

"When we entered the dungeon in a hurry, a lot of materials and equipment were left on the surface. If we only relied on the materials stored in the hive, we would not be able to last that long. Just like the relic hunters on the ark, we also need to send people Retrieve the legacy of those previous eras..."

"Can't robots be used? Isn't that more efficient than humans?"

"In the early days of the Frozen Era, we did send robots to carry supplies on the ground, but as the population of the hive capital gradually increased, the managers found that the cost of humans was far lower than that of robots... because the AI ​​of robots will also be destroyed. Erosion, even some non-intelligent programs, can develop intelligence under erosion. With the large number of robots searching for supplies gone, the follow-up exploration report even mentioned that a large mechanical monster was found on the surface... …Erosion will perish after the soul and body are completely absorbed by that existence, but the mechanical monsters born from erosion have no soul. Like Nieto, they will not be absorbed by that existence and will not be destroyed. They will always wander in On the ground, hunt all creatures that are not infested.

And with the help of the self-repair program written into the chip, they will continue to search for energy and materials in the relics of the previous era, and carry out self-repair and transformation... There are more robots sent out, such immortal mechanical monsters on the ground There will be more and more, and the difficulty of subsequent exploration operations will increase exponentially, so in the middle of the Frozen Era, it has been replaced by full-manpower exploration.The exploration teams sent to the surface were also completely prohibited from carrying intelligent electronic devices... Even all the electronic devices in the Bottom Hive were removed, in order to prevent the mechanical monsters on the surface from invading the Hive City through these electronic devices. "

"So that's the case... how did the second disaster happen?"

"The reason for the first disaster was because people witnessed the war between the gods' families, and the reason for the second disaster was because of the universe where the earth is, one of the families was killed by the hostile gods. The family of the family was completely wiped out, and that existence needed to find a new family, and at this time, its sight just swept across the earth—this drifting planet with life.”

"So the human beings of the Hive City civilization were chosen by that existence to be their own family members and became Alpha people?" Ke Lan asked.

"It's not so easy to become that existence family..." The hive master let out a self-deprecating chuckle, "Human civilization is far from qualified... That existence is just leaving a thought on the earth, and then Don't worry about it anymore... This idea is like nuclear radiation, but compared to nuclear radiation that only affects the body, its impact on consciousness and cognition is more critical..."

Ke Lan took a breath and said, "This should... be regarded as a free-range development. Just throw a little catalyst on the earth. If human beings can become a strong enough civilization under the catalytic effect, they will be absorbed as that existence." If the clan is wiped out, nothing will happen, anyway, there are many civilizations stronger than ours in the universe; and if we are stuck in the middle of the two, if we can't get up or down..."

"It will be absorbed by that existence as nourishment." The owner of the hive capital followed Ke Lan's words, "Although the soul and body of the entire human civilization are not even mosquito legs to that existence, they are also worth talking about. Victory is nothing... I don’t know how many civilizations that existence swallowed up to possess such powerful power.”

"Are the Alphas successful or failed in evolution?" Ke Lan asked again, "With their technological level... they shouldn't be as good as those family members, right?"

"It's not only inferior, it's far worse." The owner of the hive city sighed again, "Many hives were destroyed in the second disaster, and only a few people in the hive city survived. Over the years, they have gradually become like the Alpha people...but they are still far away from the existing family members...According to the calculations of the scholars of the Alpha civilization, the chances of them successfully evolving into the family members are zero...Is it possible that they are zero It is almost zero, but it is zero... The ultimate destination of the entire civilization is to become the nourishment of that existence and be swallowed up. Moreover, even if a miracle happens and it becomes a family member successfully, it will only change from nourishment to gods. Cannon fodder... In a war of that level, families are wiped out every moment...Families with weak strength can't even survive a war."

(End of this chapter)