Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

He Bilin followed closely in the footsteps of Academician Tao Yuda and rushed towards the command center.

Along the way, he saw countless familiar faces.

There are seniors from Earth and peers from Proxima Centauri b.

Like him, all his peers from Proxima b followed behind those seniors like followers.

In fact, the expressions on everyone's faces are very similar.

Uneasiness, uneasiness, fear and...a little bit of excitement.

As for the seniors who had experienced the Battle of Proxima Centauri, their faces were full of solemnity and pain.

The situation was urgent, so everyone didn't say hello and just hurried towards the command center.

When passing by a porthole, He Bilin glanced out curiously.

This glance made him freeze on the spot.

Outside the portholes, battleships began to change direction one after another.

The material reserve ships, home ships, and engineering ships sailed away from Ross 154.

At the same time, a faint blue electric arc slowly condensed at the battleship's muzzle.

This is a sign that the plasma weapon has completed energy accumulation.

Next, with just one command, cannonballs composed of high-temperature plasma will blast directly in the direction of Ross 154!

In addition to plasma weapons, He Bilin clearly saw that the Type II coil gun on the belly of the nearest [Golden Crow Battleship] had begun to turn its muzzle.

The direction the muzzle is pointing is naturally the Ross 154 in the distance!

The faint excitement in He Bilin's heart completely disappeared.

He suddenly realized that war seemed to break out in the next second.

"How close!"

Tao Yuda's call came: "What are you doing standing still?"

"Follow up quickly!"

He Bilin quickly withdrew his gaze and jogged a few steps to keep up with Tao Yuda's pace.

At this moment, the expression on his face was somewhat close to that of Tao Yuda.

…

Ross 2 star.

Central City.

Lu Yongchang stared at the holographic projection in front of him.

"Zero, try to see if you can decipher the content in the signal."

Before he finished speaking, the holographic projection screen had already changed.

A line of Chinese characters appeared in front of him.

"Professor, there is no need to crack it." Zero said calmly, "This message uses our public communication code."

“Even, it’s in our language.”

Lu Yongchang did not speak, but stared blankly at the line of text in front of him.

[Dear scientific and technological civilization, hello! 】

The message was very short, only eleven words including punctuation.

But these eleven words made Lu Yongchang's heart fall directly into the ice cave!

On the opposite side, there is definitely an advanced civilization whose technological level far exceeds that of human beings!

Don’t say anything else.

Secretly mastering the communication codes and texts used by humans without humans being aware of it is no longer something that a second-level civilization can do!

Lu Yongchang swallowed lightly.

What should he do at this time?

No matter what, just open fire?

What a joke!

Facing an advanced civilization that doesn't know the details.

Especially after the other party shows a tendency to communicate.

To rashly start a war and start a war, isn't this the same as lighting a lantern in a latrine - looking for shit (and death)? !

only……

What should he do now?

Lu Yongchang's eyes were full of confusion.

According to the dark forest theory he deduced when he was on Earth, this unknown advanced civilization should directly take action to exterminate the weak human civilization.

After all, in his opinion, the solar system and the Proxima Galaxy were attacked by the dark forest of advanced civilization after their coordinates were exposed.

only……

So far, what this advanced civilization has done seems to be completely inconsistent with the laws of survival of the universe in his mind.

Before he could figure it out, Zero's voice sounded again.

"Professor, a second message has been sent from Ross 154."

Lu Yongchang was stunned.

So fast?

When he was stunned, Zero had already cast the information content on the holographic interface.

[Little guys, don’t be nervous, I don’t mean any harm. 】

Lu Yongchang looked at this short sentence and took a deep breath.

"What on earth does this... this advanced civilization want to do?"

After thinking briefly, he turned and walked out of the office.

"Zero, notify all scientific researchers in Central City and head to the port immediately."

"Let's return to the ship."

The moment he walked out of the office, Lu Yongchang was secretly grateful.

Fortunately, only one city has been built so far, and not many people have moved.

If this information had appeared more than ten years later, the human condition would have become even more passive!

As a scientific research area, the construction of the central city was the most difficult, and it only took two years.

In comparison, the difficulty of building residential areas has dropped by countless times.

More than ten years are enough to build a city cluster on Ross 2 that can accommodate all humans!

By then, almost all humans will be living on Ross 2.

Facing the enemy so close at hand, they didn't even have time to evacuate!

…

The next day.

24 hours have passed since the first message was sent.

During these 24 hours, the advanced civilization on the opposite side did not make any move.

Not only did he show no trace of himself, he also failed to send a single message.

It looks like...

It's like waiting for a response from human civilization.

Although it sounds a bit outrageous, this idea came to Lv Yongchang's mind.

…

In the command center of [Earth].

"Everyone, the specific situation has been introduced."

Lv Yongchang glanced around and said in a deep voice: "Now, we need to do a simple analysis of this advanced civilization."

Hearing this, almost all the researchers present showed a tangled look on their faces.

The reason is simple.

Only relying on two sentences, a total of 27 words including punctuation, to analyze an advanced civilization...

Is this difficulty a bit too exaggerated?

In the command center, there was a dead silence.

Lv Yongchang shrugged: "Let me start first."

"First of all, in the first sentence, it calls us a respectful technological civilization."

"That is to say, in the eyes of the other party, we belong to the technological civilization."

As he said, Lv Yongchang chuckled: "Maybe it's a bit like nonsense."

"But its underlying meaning is that in addition to technological civilization, there are other types of civilizations in the universe."

"For example, biological civilization? Like the Zerg in the movie."

As he said, Lv Yongchang shrugged: "Forgive my poor imagination, I can't imagine more types of civilizations at the moment."

With the examples given by Lv Yongchang, the eyes of the people present gradually became active.

Tao Yuda spoke first.

"Professor, it's still the first sentence."

"The other party used the word respect."

"Although the possibility of courtesy cannot be ruled out, is there a possibility that in the eyes of the other party, we are also not easy to mess with?"