Road to science and technology

"What kind of civilization can do such a thing!" Yue Yuanzhou clicked his tongue. Although he was a little surprised, his tone did contain most of the complaints.

"This is breathtaking!"

Compared to Yue Yuanzhou, Karl, who finally couldn't sit still at Death Song Academy, was truly surprised. He had forgotten how many times he had sighed since he followed Yue Yuanzhou.

Now he feels that this kind of life is simply wonderful. Compared with before in the Styx Galaxy, it is so much richer now.

"Is this civilization a fan of dwarf stars?" Even Ah Zhui couldn't help but complain.

Yes, what is now displayed in front of Yue Yuanzhou and the others are a dozen red dwarfs with faint light. Although they are said to be faintly radiant, the surface temperature of brown dwarfs is actually about three thousand degrees Celsius.

There are actually many dwarf stars in this small universe. Under the illumination of the four faint red dwarf stars, they hang high in the night sky like ghost corpses, lined up in a neat queue.

Yue Yuanzhou looked at these planets in silence. He knew that the original dark gaseous planets that did not emit light must be brown dwarfs. In fact, brown dwarfs are a celestial body with the largest mass only about ten times the mass of Jupiter. This kind of star is not easy to detect. The faint celestial bodies are not real stars. They are not massive enough. Even if they can burn deuterium, they do not have the nuclear fusion reaction to keep the stars glowing for billions of years. Its energy release time will not be longer than 100 million years. Therefore, the brown dwarf will eventually cool down and age, becoming a dark, gaseous planet that does not emit light.

These short-lived brown dwarfs should have been used by this unknown civilization to collide with each other to create stars, but they were not used for some unknown reason, so now they have become dead dark gaseous planets.

The direct distance between them was only three or four astronomical units. They were so close but did not collide with each other due to gravity. Yue Yuanzhou understood that this must be a problem with the equipment around them. He could guess the function of these equipment at a glance. Out comes the gravity shield.

Yue Yuanzhou made a rough estimate. Excluding the four burning red dwarf stars, there are about nine thousand other dead planets in this small universe.

Among these more than 9,000 planets, only a few are the corpses of brown dwarfs, which are smaller dark gaseous planets, and most of them are the corpses of red dwarfs. The corpses of these red dwarfs are actually dark gaseous planets, but we know that stars Evolved Yue Yuanzhou It can be seen from their size that these larger ones are the corpses of red dwarf stars.

Red dwarf stars, generally the lifespan of such stars is at least tens of billions of years, and can even reach hundreds of billions of years, and this red dwarf star that was stuffed into the small universe and arranged neatly also died.

Only the four red dwarfs were still surviving, but Yue Yuanzhou, who had stellar drive technology, knew from their spectra that their fuel was almost exhausted and they were about to die.

"This looks like a warehouse of a civilization! A warehouse of a lost civilization!"

Even if all the stars in this small universe are dead, it is not difficult to believe that they were still shining at that time. Under the work of the gravitational shielding device, more than 8,000 red dwarf stars were quietly suspended there, shining on this small universe, and Nearly a thousand brown dwarfs remain unused.

It is not difficult to imagine that if the fuel of these four red dwarfs is exhausted by then, those gravitational shielding devices will stop working because there is no energy supply. By then, the planets here will all collide together due to gravity. The huge gravity is enough to make They create black holes and then send the little universe into its arms.

Yue Yuanzhou can now imagine that the only way for this civilization to transport stars is space technology plus curvature drive, because if they had space storage technology, they would not need to arrange them neatly like this.

"1.2 light years!" Yue Yuanzhou now stepped out. This is the diameter of the small universe that is used as a warehouse.

Just when Yue Yuanzhou was sighing, a quantum signal was sent to him from this small universe close to the four red dwarf stars that had not been extinguished. It was a clear signal, which did not need to be decoded like a broadcast.

Yue Yuanzhou raised his eyebrows when he saw this: "Is there anyone?"

Probably not. How could there be anyone in a warehouse like this that has been turned into a tomb of stars? Yue Yuanzhou thought this way, and his detection spacecraft was already approaching the signal source.

At this time, the signal source sent out another electromagnetic wave signal, which was also the same broadcast signal.

Yue Yuanzhou understood. This was probably because he was afraid that he would not have quantum communication capabilities?

Because it was a broadcast signal, Yue Yuanzhou quickly understood the meaning of this broadcast, which was probably: Welcome to the small universe of XXX civilization, an unknown future civilization.

This XXX was caused by Yue Yuanzhou's failure to decipher this civilized language, and most of the other ones were guessed by him based on clear codes.

However, this process of language barrier did not keep Yue Yuanzhou waiting for too long, because from now on, this signal sent a bunch of messages in the language of his own civilization. So it didn't take long for Yue Yuanzhou to have a real dialogue with this civilization.

"Hello unknown civilization, welcome to the small universe of degenerate civilization! Don't be nervous, I am just an artificial intelligence of our civilization."

The artificial intelligence said mindlessly.

"You are lucky to have found the door set by our great degenerate civilization in the universe, and you can actually solve the puzzle we set. This shows that you already have a very powerful computer."

The degenerate civilization here was also named by Yue Yuanzhou for his own convenience when translating. In fact, according to what this warehouse smart computer said, it should be the civilization of the beautiful green planet. Because the name is too long, it is because of the relationship of the universe in which this civilization is located. Yue Yuanzhou changed it for him.

"I'm curious about how smart this artificial intelligence of yours is!" Yue Yuanzhou said casually to what this artificial intelligence said.

He has now confirmed that this is an artificial intelligence, because the soul detection does not show any signs of life. And it didn't know how it got in at all. It seemed that its arrival triggered some life detection mechanisms, causing the artificial intelligence to wake up.

"I can answer everything our civilization knows, including the truth about this universe!"

This artificial intelligence did not wait for Yue Yuanzhou to ask questions, and continued to speak on its own: "In order to prevent you from degenerating and perishing like our civilization after hearing the truth about the universe, please first listen to me talk about our civilization and this small universe. "

"The time given to me by the system shows that it has been 20 billion years since the demise of our civilization. It seems that you are too late. The resources in our warehouse have become rotten. Even if my system is not regularly maintained, now I'm afraid it has expired long ago, and now there are only these four red dwarf stars left here. Those stellar energy were originally given to the civilizations who were destined to enter this place."

"My creator hopes that the civilization born from this universe can continue to develop on these energy sources, and will not be destroyed by the dark prospect of the psychological defense of civilization, and will not fall into the same ending as us. Unfortunately, it seems that time has destroyed everything."

"Our great civilization was born in a dark universe. The universe was already very dark at that time. We once thought that darkness was the entire universe, and the star that gave birth to our civilization was the only one in the world. But when our technology is developed enough, By chance, we observed the collision of two brown dwarfs, and a brand new star was born."

"At that time, our civilization had been born for 30 million years. From that moment on, we began to understand the stars that gave birth to us with a new perspective and began to study the evolution of stars. So we were surprised to find that red dwarfs are not all stars."

"Since that time, we have been studying the evolution of stars crazily, because that is energy, and energy is everything for a civilization like ours that was born in the dark universe. After another 10 million years, we have mastered the technology of gravity, and at this time we have begun We are frantically searching for some remaining gas and dust that make up stars in the dark universe, and using our great gravitational technology, we can slowly aggregate them into stars."

"In the next few hundred million years, we searched the entire darkness and lit up stars one after another. As a result, civilization gained countless seemingly inexhaustible energy, and civilization entered a stage of rapid development. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, because after we found that these gas and dust exceeded the range of about 200,000 light-years, it was difficult to find them again."

"In fact, with our superb gravity technology, we have long discovered that the center of this 200,000 light-year range is a giant attraction source."

Listening to this artificial intelligence introducing their development history, Yue Yuanzhou felt that this range looked a bit like the range of a river system. At this time, he was thinking, could the truth of the universe mentioned by this civilization be that... the entire universe is a river? Get it!

Thinking of this, he interrupted the chattering artificial intelligence: "You'd better hurry up and tell me the truth about the universe!"

Degenerate Civilization: Don’t let the tickets rot in the warehouse...take them out quickly