dark moon

Chapter 449 No Hope
Xiu'er's tone was very calm, but the content he said was terrifying. Since coming to this world, Xiu'er has talked about related topics several times, and the shadow chasers were already mentally prepared. However, when they heard this sentence As he spoke, everyone's hearts still trembled heavily.

Everyone hopes that Shuer is joking, but everyone is already very familiar with Shuer, and he will never talk nonsense on such an issue. It seems that the prospect of Parvatiga is not optimistic. No wonder Shuer would rather Even at great risk, I have to bring everyone to this world.

"Mr. Ryan, please continue." Shuer made a serious gesture of invitation to Ryan, "We will talk about other things when you come to an end here."

"Oh, actually, you can guess what happened next." Ryan said with a wry smile, "After the expedition failed and the expeditionary force was almost wiped out, our government finally understood that the opponent is no longer something we can fight against. It is only a matter of time that our homeland will be swallowed up by the source of disaster. However, it is definitely not the habit of our brown star civilization to sit still and wait for death. It is impossible for the hundreds of billions of people in the planetary system to let them die in vain. Therefore, they are constantly sending out expeditionary troops to try to delay the disaster. At the same time as the source of expansion expanded, the entire Brown Star civilization was completely mobilized, concentrated all its efforts, and began to build giant spaceships."

"Building such a city-scale spaceship is still difficult for the Brown Star civilization. After all, one ship requires a large amount of resources and occupies most of the industrial facilities. It is difficult to implement under normal circumstances. Okay. Under the deadly threat, different parties and different nationalities united, and the entire civilization circle was completely integrated. Everyone abandoned unnecessary needs and desires, letting everything make way for the giant spaceship."

"It took us 300 years to build [-] city warships for the execution of the exile operation. According to the original plan, we should build more. In theory, [-] ships can barely meet the demand. Unfortunately, time is running out, and the crisis is imminent Twenty light-years away. Although the edge of the source of disaster has not expanded to our silver fish constellation, those invisible shadows have begun to appear on the edge of the silver fish constellation, causing many soldiers at the checkpoint to lose their lives inexplicably. "

"Everyone knows that there is no time to prepare anymore and must leave immediately, otherwise everyone will be buried with their hometown. At the last moment recorded in the record, everyone showed amazing unity, and many people took the initiative to give up the opportunity to board the ship. For more important candidates. Scholars, artists, skilled craftsmen, and young elites from all walks of life were gathered together on the spaceship and left their hometown at the last moment. It is said that when the fleet left Silver Fish, almost everyone Everyone saw it. The overwhelming shadows surged over the colonial planets in the galaxy. Then, the huge darkness swallowed up the entire constellation. Stars, planets, satellites, everything in the Silver Fish constellation was assimilated by the darkness without even making a sound. , turned into nothingness.”

"This is the most painful memory of that generation. They recorded this period of history and asked every generation of exiles to remember it and never forget this horrific disaster." Ryan smiled at himself and shook his head. He shook his head and said, "Actually, it's impossible to forget. Even if you really forget, as long as you look back and look at the scene behind you, you will remember everything."

"After leaving their hometown, the leaders of the fleet initially planned to escape to a distant corner of the universe to rebuild our civilization. However, the cruel facts gave us a heavy blow. Oh, this is simply a delusion, because the source of the disaster is not at all He didn’t let us go.”

"The source of disaster has been expanding, the scope of devouring is getting wider and wider, and the speed of expansion is getting faster and faster. In the first period of time, the speed of our spaceship can indeed throw the source of disaster far away. After 50 sailing at full speed, Years later, the detectors could no longer detect the sign readings of the source of the disaster. Everyone naively believed that we had escaped the disaster and could settle down again. In the past few days, the fleet was as lively as a festival. After all, the exiles haven’t been this happy for decades.”

"Fortunately, the leaders of the fleet were not carried away. They maintained the most basic caution and did not initiate a new landing plan. Instead, they chose to let everyone stay on the spacecraft and wait and see the situation for the time being. Fortunately, they made this decision , because a month later, the source of disaster's sign reading appeared again, and it caught up again. If the fleet had landed before, I'm afraid it would be too late to let everyone and equipment reboard."

"So, the fleet immediately got back on the road and began a long journey of exile. It never stopped for a long time. As the source of disaster expanded faster and faster, the fleet could no longer get rid of it. No, To be precise, the distance between the two sides is even getting closer, and they will be caught up and killed by it at some point."

"Fortunately, our civilization has not stood still. Even on the spacecraft, we are constantly studying deep space navigation technology. Almost all scientific research efforts are concentrated on this point, and many breakthroughs have been made. So. , resulting in this strange scene now. We continue to update technology and increase the speed of the spacecraft, and the expansion speed of the source of disaster is also accelerating. We dare not stop, it will not stop, both sides are racing in the universe. , the battle situation remains delicately stalemate.”

"As our generation of exiles gradually grew up, everyone finally recognized a desperate fact, that is, there is no hope for our exile. We finally understood that the expansion of the source of disaster will not end at all. The universe is devouring us in chunks. We can escape now, but it is likely that one day we will have no way to escape and can only let ourselves be swallowed by the source of disaster."

"That's why you asked me, does the void have a boundary?" Shuer said thoughtfully, "Indeed, as long as the void has a boundary, you will be caught up sooner or later."

"Yes, this is what we want to know." Ryan said solemnly, "In the era of brown star civilization, scholars have been saying that the universe has no beginning, no end, and is boundless. It is an infinite space. Now we are very I hope their theory is correct, but everyone knows in their hearts that there is no such concept as true infinity in the world. No matter how vast the universe is, it will have an end. Even if, as you said, we cannot understand the concept of the end of the universe, it is After all, it actually exists, which means that our escape is just a last resort." "It was an extremely dark day. Some people lost hope and silently chose death, and some people gave up on themselves and used drugs to anesthetize themselves. , some people even went completely crazy, frantically trying to destroy the spaceship and let everyone on board die with them. Heh, you may not know that nearly one hundred of the two thousand spaceships were lost in those ten years. "

"Huh?" Shuer raised his eyebrows, "The spaceship was destroyed?"

"No, they haven't been destroyed yet, but the power systems of those spaceships have been damaged and their speed has dropped sharply." Ryan smiled sadly, "After they fell behind, we never heard from them again. I don’t want to think about their fate anymore.”

The Shadow Chasers were silent. In this life-and-death chase, there was obviously only one result in slowing down, and there was no chance of luck.

"So, let's start the sleep plan." Shuer tapped his thigh lightly and said thoughtfully, "It's no good if it doesn't start. Sleeping can indeed avoid too many accidents. However, if you choose the watcher in this way, you can't Are you worried that the Watchers will also be affected by despair and do something out of control?"

"Afraid, so the watchers must choose those who are willing to contribute to civilization, and they only have second-level permissions." Ryan explained, "The first-level permissions are jointly controlled by all the watchmen of the combined fleet, and the central computer of the spacecraft will monitor the situation at any time. Assess the mental state of the watcher. Once it is found that the watcher's mental state has entered a dangerous range, a report will be submitted to the United Fleet, and the United Fleet will jointly decide whether the person can continue to serve. Fortunately, I have checked the records. In the past thousand years, there has been no The impeachment of a watchman shows that everyone's feelings for civilization are still hard to let go."

"This is our story." Ryan looked back in the direction of the brown star again. Although he couldn't see anything through the outer wall, he still sighed deeply, "For more than 1000 years, we have never We have shaken off the threat of the source of disaster, but have never found hope. When you appeared, we thought your world was our hope. No matter what the price we have to pay, as long as we escape this nightmare, we are willing to accept it. , but, alas, it was all in vain in the end. I don’t doubt the reason why you rejected us, because what you said makes sense. Wanting to enter another universe is indeed just a delusion. "

"I'm sorry." Xiuer could feel deep sorrow and regret from Ryan and Nina, not despair, their feelings had gone beyond the scope of despair, leaving only the sadness full of powerlessness.Even a person like Xiuer could not help but be infected by their emotions, and said a little depressed, "We really can't help, to be honest, if possible, I really want to take Delia back, but even We can’t do such a simple thing.”

"Mr. Seure, there is no need for you to be sorry. This is not your fault." The two old men began to comfort the shadow chasers, "At least the fire of our civilization is still there. As long as people are still alive, there is still hope. Compared with Compared to the civilization you just mentioned that fell victim to it, we are quite lucky."

"Oh, indeed, but such a life of escape is probably not that safe." Shuer shook his head and said, "The people in the dreams below mentioned that several floating cities have lost contact in the past few decades. They said it was captured by a machine, but I don’t think it’s that simple.”

"Well, you guessed it right. Although we have been maintaining the normal operation of the spacecraft, accidents are always inevitable. Every once in a while, one or two spaceships will be unable to continue sailing. If we are lucky, we will find out during our rest period. If there is a problem, we can transfer the passengers on the spacecraft to other spacecraft in time, but if we are unlucky and something goes wrong during the escape, we will have to watch them disappear into the depths of the universe." Ryan sighed, "So we I envy your world because you can live a stable life and don’t need to run away like us all the time.”

"Our world is not as beautiful as you imagine." Shuer curled his lips and whispered, "The source of disaster you talk about is called the Void Rift in our place. It... is an old friend of our world. ”

(End of this chapter)