Planetary Museum

(Sorry, I forgot to update yesterday for some reason, and I will make up and add a chapter today)

Wu Xiaoqing stayed on the edge of the cliff for 3 hours.

Within his field of vision, he could see a total of more than 30 similar potholes, and the average number of spaceships flying out of each pothole exceeded 200 sorties per hour.In other words, just the spaceships he saw with his eyes had accumulated to more than 18000.

What kind of concept is this? The United States, the most powerful air force on earth, has only a few thousand aircraft in active service.Even during the Cold War, when the earth's military equipment reached its peak, the number of the United States was only more than 3. If these planes took off at the speed Wu Xiaoqing and the others see now, they would not last more than six hours at most .

Moreover, the planetary assault ship and the combat aircraft on the earth are not a concept at all.

In terms of mass alone—the weight of a planetary attack ship is conservatively more than a few thousand tons, while the small aircraft on the earth are used for combat, but only a few tons or even a dozen tons, and the large transport aircraft passenger aircraft , even if the load is included, it is absolutely impossible for the take-off weight to exceed a thousand tons.Not to mention the so-called "aircraft" on the earth, strictly speaking, just "drifting" in the air medium.By the standards of the earth, these spaceships come to the earth, and each one can be used as an aircraft carrier - a space carrier.

If the aircraft carrier is used as an equivalent calculation, then the force that Wu Xiaoqing sees now is enough to destroy the earth and even the entire solar system dozens of times.

With the force that people on Earth now possess, to interfere with this level of civilization... is like a person from the Napoleonic era traveling to the Cold War in an attempt to reconcile the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.There is no doubt that this is what A brought Wu Xiaoqing to see these pictures, and this is what he wanted to convey to Wu Xiaoqing.

Before that, although Wu Xiaoqing could probably understand that Civilization B is a civilization that is much more advanced than the earth through the study of the language of Civilization B, but it is difficult to form a specific concept of this advanced nature before seeing the facts.

Only when he saw the spaceship take off in front of him with his eyes, and saw the tail flame of the spaceship covering an area of ​​tens of square kilometers like a small thermobaric bomb, did Wu Xiaoqing feel a little coolness from the bottom of his heart, and follow this coolness at will. What followed was the almost subconscious questioning of the search and rescue team—on what basis did the search and rescue team judge that they were capable of interfering in this war and completing this mission?

Needless to say, such a high-intensity spaceship, just transforming the planet itself...is already a huge project that is unimaginable for people on earth.

Those huge pits with a diameter of more than ten kilometers, those pit walls were burned by the high-temperature tail flame, there is still no slight melting phenomenon, and the depth of these pits cannot be seen at a glance... and the air, Wu Xiaoqing has basically made a judgment now—— There must have been air on this planet originally.Because when I saw those people in Civilization B before, it was easy for Wu Xiaoqing to see that the creatures inside were breathing through the clothes of the other party. Judging from their behavior when they came to this planet through those "ladders", This planet must be used for their long-term survival.Need to survive, naturally need a lot of air, and as long as there is air, as long as there is gravity on this planet, there will inevitably be diffusion... and the design of the spacecraft itself is only suitable for high-speed flight in a medium-free environment —that is, a vacuum.

This also means that the vacuum on the surface of this planet is an artificially created environment.In addition, apart from the traffic tracks and these potholes on the surface of the entire planet, there are no other buildings or residences at all.

In Wu Xiaoqing's view, this is already very obvious—this planet is a highly militarized planet, and it can even be said that it is a planetary fortress. Everything here means that the biggest role of the entire planet is to protect and Storage of force, and high-speed deployment of force... The entire planet itself can be regarded as the mothership of those huge "attack ships".

"What we see now... how long ago was the image?"

"Now." Wu Xiaoqing looked at A's mouth opening and closing when he spoke, and felt the incredibleness of this world for the first time, because now he was sure that there was a vacuum around him, and theoretically he couldn't hear the other party's words, but Wu Xiaoqing knew clearly Feeling his eardrums vibrating, he took a few steps in one direction, and he could even clearly feel that A's voice was getting lower.

"That is to say, the theory of the speed of light we know is wrong?"

"That's right," a knew what Wu Xiaoqing meant—according to the theory of relativity, in the universe, the speed of information transmission will not exceed the speed of light at most, that is to say, real-time monitoring cannot exist in the universe, "you just haven't touches the boundaries where relativity applies."

"Do they know they are being monitored?"

"If they knew, I'm afraid they wouldn't have the intention to fight each other," A said, "They would aim these spaceships at us as soon as possible."

……

"Everyone is here." After the consul entered the venue, he nodded to everyone present, and then he waved his hand—come in, everyone.

A group of heavily armed soldiers walked into the venue, making more than 20 people present nervous involuntarily.But when they saw the tools in the hands of the soldiers, they quickly chose to obey.

Every two soldiers corresponds to one participant. They used the professional scanning equipment they brought to conduct a full-body inspection on everyone. In addition to the more than 20 people in the venue, it also included all the electronic equipment in the conference room, the information wall, Communicators, monitors, cleaners, and even air filtration systems and fire protection systems hidden in walls—these systems also have storage spaces. According to the definition of the law of war, these storage areas can also be regarded as "unknown battlefields."

The results of the scan were good, and no suspicious rebel traces were found, which meant that AI's infiltration of the ruling government was not as serious as imagined.

"You should all know the reason for the search. Let me explain it myself to prevent any possible rumors and misunderstandings. Three hours ago, we successfully retrieved from the server of the Fourth Earth that the ai pretended to be a dead player. , to instigate and encourage gamers to engage in espionage. The proposal to declare war on the Fourth Earth just launched in the parliament has been rejected-but here, we want to erect such an awareness that our home planet is not safe, there are There is enough evidence to show that there is a possibility of collusion between those game players and the AI..."

The president's remarks made some officials on the scene tense, and one of the special representatives from the parliament stood up and publicly protested: "Your Excellency, I think it is necessary for me to remind you of some laws with accurate terms. Definition. Communicating with the AI ​​program is not the same as rebellion! At present, whether it is military or government work, there are a large number of AIs in service—if you define it, the soldiers of the entire Federation are rebels under the command of AI.”

"If I hadn't acted decisively and adopted information control, they would have rebelled long ago! As a representative of the parliament, you have no right to speak! Please remember this, sir." The consul shot back unceremoniously, and then he He picked up his communicator and knocked on the table, "Now the meeting begins...intelligence officer, tell me what you found."

The intelligence officer is a thin old man. Everyone has never seen it before. It seems that he should have been promoted by the consul recently.It seems that he is almost 300 years old, and he needs mechanical support just to stand up - I don't know which hibernation service center the consul found him from.He opened his mouth and found it difficult to speak, so he simply put on a gaming helmet—this kind of thing can read brain waves and use it to directly present text or even pictures.

"Let me introduce myself first, I am from three centuries ago," the intelligence officer bowed to everyone, "I am engaged in astronomy... three centuries ago, I once typed a report , referring to a star 12 light-years away from us, on which there may be primitive civilizations.”

"Are you talking about star Z-45?" asked the Commander-in-Chief of the Federation's First Fleet, "We have gone to observe it at a close distance, and we have also made the same type of report."

"Indeed," the intelligence officer nodded. "Now, we have found enough evidence that the rebel army is preparing to launch a star-class spacecraft towards star z-45. Please look at the pictures."

Everyone picked up the glasses on the table, put them on, and clearly saw the evidence shown by the intelligence officer, including the abnormal increase in the heat radiation of the rebel-occupied planet, the decrease in the rate of mass change, and the large-scale shift of the center of gravity inside the planet. And the battlefield intelligence that AI temporarily slows down the offensive.

"We have consulted with colonial experts, and they clearly pointed out that these phenomena represent that AI is creating a super-large-scale warship—a giant ship that is far beyond the needs of general warfare. We deduce that it is likely to be a colonial ship."

"Colonial ship?" Someone asked in confusion, "Why do these AI need to colonize? They currently have a huge advantage on the battlefield!"

"We are not AI, so naturally we can't understand what they are doing, but one thing is certain," said a scientist under the consul, "If the other party is really building a colony ship and successfully reached the target galaxy - then Means that even if we win this war, it is impossible to completely wipe out the enemy in the end. The enemy will counterattack from the z-45 as a base in hundreds, even decades. We all know the efficiency of the other side... ..."

Another industrial expert who specializes in AI said with a wry smile: "Of course it is clear, their efficiency is all optimized by us bit by bit... When we first colonized the galaxy, we used the AI ​​​​automatic colonization ship... The highest record is that after arriving, two years to achieve complete independence, and 20 years for the entire planet to become a block...No more than 50 years, a planet can be completely dismembered..."

Several fleet commanders turned pale with fright: "Then if the opponent goes all out to build an attack ship..."

"The reality is that they don't," the industrial expert comforted. "In fact, it is impossible to use [-]% of the planet... In war, the mass is used for protection and plays a greater role than offensive. The mass of the planet is completely converted into a fleet. On the contrary, its sustainability is reduced. A stable source of gravity is more critical than the role of a fleet.”

Then the industrial expert smiled wryly: "Don't you even understand the common sense of this galaxy war theory? You are generals."

Several generals almost showed anger on their faces, but they all held back.Also holding back his anger was the consul who promoted these generals. He pressed his hand tiredly, and then asked the intelligence expert to continue his speech: "So I suggest that even if the war resources are tight now, we should find a way to build a Fleet, follow closely behind the rebels... If the war is won, we can naturally kill them quickly... If..."

There was silence in the conference room, and everyone heard the subtext.