Alien Relic Hunter

Tower of Babel, top floor.

Under the guidance of the master of the nest, Ke Lan successfully passed through the "gaps" between the chaotic space fragments on the top of the clouds and reached the top of the Babel Tower.

This nest belongs to the fourth ring of the eight trials of the Tower of Babel. After Ke Lan passed through the cloud top, there were still four trials waiting for him, but this time, Ke Lan was directly asked to "skip class" .

The master of the hive has traveled between these space fragments for tens of thousands of years. Although the ever-changing laws of time and space cannot be grasped, some loopholes and backdoors are not difficult to discover.

With the help of these loopholes, after Ke Lan traveled seventy-nine times in a row, his eyes suddenly cleared up and he came to a huge "altar".

The master of the nest told Ke Lan that when the Babel Tower was first built, it was announced to the outside world that it was a religious building used to offer sacrifices to the "great god", but in fact, it was the most important stronghold of the Night Watch organization. .

Although the saying "dark under the lamp" is a bit cliché, it is indeed applicable. For tens of thousands of years, the true function of this Tower of Babel has not been exposed.

With the help of space technology obtained from Zeluo's "similar people", the Night Watch added a large number of folding spaces and transmission channels into the Tower of Babel, which not only can connect secret bases everywhere on Alpha Planet, but can even plug in the Tower of Babel. Entering a "different-dimensional space" large enough to accommodate the entire Yagunaktor.

The familiar water-drop-shaped giant battleship was suspended less than two kilometers away from the altar.

One hour ago in external real time——

"The top floor of the Babel Tower is where the Night Watchmen originally made the God's Coffin. It also stores a part of the neutralized 'original energy' that is not imprinted by any god. Injecting this energy into the God's Coffin can once again strengthen the God. The master of the nest said to Ke Lan, "Originally, this part of the source energy was to be injected into the coffin of God many times, but there was not that much time left for the Alpha civilization, so they could only seal this energy in This place is waiting for the next relay of human civilization to complete this task."

"Then by injecting these original energies into the coffin of God, can we create..." Before he finished speaking, Ke Lan rejected his idea, "No, it shouldn't be possible, it's too far off... Even if it will be With all the energy injected into it, the God's Coffin is still a semi-finished product, and the creatures it creates may not even be comparable to those of the gods' dependents."

"Yes, it's too far off." The hive master sighed, "This plan cannot be completed by one or two civilizations. Even if everything goes extremely smoothly, it will take a long time to slowly fill up the line called The deep ravine of the 'gap'... It takes hundreds of millions of years for single-celled organisms in the ocean to evolve into intelligent organisms capable of creating civilization, and the gap between us and Him is greater than that between single-celled organisms and intelligent organisms. The gap between them is countless times greater.”

"It sounds desperate." Ke Lan said, "Thanks to this group of night watchmen, they can persist. Most individuals in a civilization without hive consciousness would not be willing to do this kind of thing." It’s too far away from the present. Not to mention the lifespan of an individual, even the lifespan of an entire civilization is like a fleeting moment in comparison.”

Ke Lan paused and then continued: "As far as I know, most of the residents on the Ark are not willing to sacrifice their current lives for an unreachable future... This is like taking a person He had to use all his belongings to buy a lottery ticket with a winning probability that is infinitely close to zero. Moreover, even if he is really lucky to win this lottery ticket, the prize will have to wait for countless thousands of years to be passed on to his descendants... or even and He had no connection with anyone to collect it.

"On the contrary, if he does not buy this lottery ticket, his current life will not be affected in any way, and his future life will not be affected in any way. He will live an ordinary but fulfilling life according to his original trajectory, not only It's him, his son, his grandson, his grandson's son, it's all the same... Not only is the goal of the Night Watch out of reach, but even the coming destruction is still out of reach for the individual."

Coming and out of reach are two completely conflicting adjectives, but when used here, they are not inconsistent at all.

Gods are to humans what humans are to mayflies, or even more.

"No, it's not out of reach... Alpha Star can't hold on much longer." The master of the nest suddenly emphasized his tone, "Your arrival has accelerated Alpha Star's progress towards destruction. That existence may detect this planet at any time. Due to the changes that have taken place on the planet, by then, everything will be too late... You may not even have time to hand over this baton to the hands of human civilization in another time and space."

"Then you want us to take Alpha... and continue wandering with this 'Earth'? Until" Ke Lan asked.

"The goal of the entire planet is too obvious. Even if he didn't notice it, the changes in the gravitational field caused by the drifting of the planet to the surrounding space are enough to arouse the vigilance of the Familia in the nearby universe - there are some Familia civilizations that are hostile to the alien gods. The giant starship that comes out will disguise itself as a drifting celestial body and launch a surprise attack on the target."

"Is it possible to let Noah's Ark set sail again?" Ke Lan raised his eyebrows, "If it weren't for the deliberate guidance of the Alpha civilization, I'm afraid the people on the Ark would have died in the long interstellar voyage... Even if it's luck Well, if Noah's Ark can find another planet suitable for human habitation, that planet will most likely have been visited by the gods' family members first. It may even be a trap set by them to 'hunt' other civilizations... ...As for letting the Ark continue to drift in the universe, even if it does not encounter other civilizations, it will be difficult for the Ark to be self-sufficient forever..."

In the nine hundred years since the Ark drifted, there have been nineteen resource crises that were serious enough to cause human extinction. Each of these nineteen resource crises ended in a very dramatic situation: either The dispatched exploration ship found an asteroid with rich resource reserves; either a genius scientist or a team suddenly broke through a certain technical problem and solved the crisis...

Ke Lan originally thought that these were due to luck, and human civilization should not be extinct tomorrow... But after knowing the truth, he realized that without the secret help and guidance of Alpha Civilization, the human civilization on the Ark would have been extinct long ago. Countless times.

And now that Alpha Civilization has disappeared, how many crises can Ark survive alone?

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