Sword of Daybreaker

As the dusk approached, a piece of sunlight in the distance had gradually receded into the mountains, and only a few dark red afterglows were left to illuminate a small piece of sky in the direction of the huge sunset, while a wider dark blue night filled in from another direction. In the deep part of the night, there are stars gradually appearing, and the stars that mortals have looked up to for thousands of years are becoming more and more obvious in that dark blue.

  Those bright spots in the night sky carry how many magnificent imaginations and idyllic fairy tales of mortals? Perhaps even the most knowledgeable scholar of the Silver Empire could not describe them one by one. The stars hang high in the sky, in a realm that mortals can’t touch. The long distance and the unchanging brilliance of the ancients have a kind of almost divine meaning to the people who are bound by gravity on the earth, so since ancient times Since then, countless divine stories have unfolded around the stars and have taken root in the hearts of mortals.

  And these stories describing the starry sky have nothing to do with the real and vast universe.

Both Amone and Enya have personally confirmed that there is no kingdom of gods above the stars, the kingdom of gods is just a foreign space established by mortal thoughts, and countless stories pointing to the stars in the world are just a layer of magnificence The empty shell, to the universe outside this shell, mortals have never really touched, and never prepared to touch it.

But the vast universe of stars will not stop flashing because of the indifference of mortals-it is there after all, everything in the depths of the star sea moves endlessly, and now there is finally a voice that crosses the distance of the long stars, regardless of the various races on this land Are you ready? The voice has arrived.

  Of course, all of this is still unproven, but at least as far as Gawain himself...he thinks this voice is very likely to point to the stars.

After all, there are already visitors from the starry sky like the Kraken on this planet, and there are even the ancient sailor fleet and the alien alliances who set foot on the expedition together with the fleet in the records of the dragon race-so he is willing I believe that there are other intelligent creatures among the distant stars. They may have just opened their eyes and looked up at the sky, and are now sharing this world with the mortals of Loren.

The evening wind blew across the top of the Solin tree and whizzed past the monitoring antenna. The giant magic net hub in the distance and the nearby monitoring antenna made a deep buzzing sound, and Bersetia seemed to suddenly wake up from contemplation. He opened his mouth and said: "As for the stars, astrologers have always had a vision beyond ordinary people. Since the Gondor era, human magisters have successfully measured the distance between our planet and the sun and "Australia" and determined The twinkling stars in the universe are all high-energy stars similar to "Ao". At about the same time, scholars of the silver elves put forward speculations that our "sun" is actually a high-energy star similar to "Ao". The astral body, but it is more gentle, not burning violently..."

"I remember this. When I was a knight apprentice, my mentor brought a book from the city. It recorded a meeting between the human magister and the elven magister, and the debate about stars at the meeting. ," Gawain nodded, "Scholars believe that it is because of the mildness of the sun that we can survive on this planet, and the excessive energy radiation of'Australia' will destroy any ecosystem close to it... On this basis, a Gondor magister once put forward the hypothesis that if there are stars in the universe that are the same as our sun, without violent combustion and with suitable energy levels, and there are solid satellites in their suitable orbits similar to ours. , Then such an environment may give birth to alien life."

"At that time, no one knew the origin of the siren, and no one knew that the mysterious creatures that lived in the deep sea came from the universe--even until today, only a few people in the world know this. This is because of Cecil. "Some of the popular science propaganda of the United States is working," Bertila said with some sigh, "but in that era, the top scholars of the mortal kingdoms have already set their sights on the stars, and even began to speculate about those distant What is the world like now."

"But before they discovered further, the Demon Tide destroyed the mighty Gondor Empire. In order to make up for the huge scars left by the Demon Tide to the world, even the Silver Empire was dragged into a centuries-long whirlpool. , All development has stagnated or even regressed for hundreds of years," Belcetia said softly, and the sound of Ye Hai turning in the wind came from afar. "Think about it now, that was a brilliant but ignorant era, our top Having explored so far into the truth in the depths of the world, the main body of society has been stagnant. A demonic wave arrives, and the Gondor Empire from the top magister to the lowest level of the people is instantly wiped out—our view of this world I don’t know anything about the danger."

"I remember you accurately described this situation," Bertila suddenly looked at Gawain, "the top and bottom layers are seriously disconnected in the field of knowledge, and there is no connection between cutting-edge technology and social productivity... ?"

"The knowledge structure at the top and the bottom completely loses continuity, cutting-edge technology cannot be transformed into the productivity of the entire society, and ultimately leads to serious development imbalances, and the disaster resistance and recoverability of civilization are greatly weakened. When a world-class disaster breaks out, only Some upper-class elites were unable to protect the entire body of civilization, or even unable to protect themselves. Occasionally, individual survivors were unable to rebuild society due to the fragmentation of knowledge, which eventually led to the rapid destruction of the entire civilization. This is how the Gondor Empire ended. ," Gawain casually said the theory he had summarized at the beginning, and then glanced at Bertila somewhat unexpectedly, "Have you seen those things I wrote?"

   "...I take a look occasionally," Bertila said unnaturally, "at least that helps me to summarize how everything will die."

  "...Anyway, it’s always good to read more books," Gawain touched the tip of his nose, and then sighed, "Alas, it’s a pity that many countries are still following this old path..."

"After all, for the order created by the transcendent, it is the easiest and safest choice to concentrate all knowledge and wealth in one point," Bersetia chuckled and shook her head. "Fortunately, Anzu has been reborn from the ashes, Typhon. Reforms were carried out earlier, and the Silver Empire... that group of congressmen have also become more sober these years."

Gao Wen didn't respond for a moment, but looked into the distance with some wonder, watching the edge of the tree canopy of the Thorin tree gradually be stained with silver light. After a while, he suddenly said: "From a certain perspective, the scene at Gangdor back then The magic wave...maybe it saved the lives of all mortals in the entire world."

  Bertila was startled, and subconsciously asked: "Why do you say that?"

"On the eve of the eruption of the magic wave, Gondor and the Silver Empire were already on the verge of exploring the starry sky. The magisters had already analyzed too much knowledge about the stars in theory-they just didn't take that substantial step," Gawain frowned, his voice calm and thought-provoking under the night sky, "And once that step is taken, the biggest'veil' when a mortal knows the world will be lifted, which will lead to a ceremony. The sexual'ultimate disobedience' happened ahead of schedule, and the mortals at that time..."

Gawain did not go on, but Bersetia was already shuddering. At this moment, the night wind had stopped, and there was a rustling sound of leaves from deep in the canopy of the giant Thorin tree. Berthila was the first to break the silence: "So if the magic wave did not erupt, the scholars of Gondor or the Silver Empire will most likely try to explore the starry sky... What happened to the Dragon Race more than a million years ago will happen to us!"

   Gao Wen nodded slowly, and his voice became particularly low: "But we may not have the good luck of the dragon race. We can carry the fusion of the gods at the critical point of being annihilated, and find the opportunity in time to lower our heads to survive."

"So the magic wave of the year was actually saving the entire mortal civilization from a macro perspective?" Bersetia's eyes widened. "It sacrificed the Gondor Empire, but saved all the mortal kingdoms except the Gondor Empire. Do you mean this?"

"Thinking of it this way will make it appear that the magic tide is a well-designed action. In the absence of evidence, it is best not to make assumptions of this degree." Gao Wen immediately shook his head. "Moreover, even if it is really an existing'handwriting' , We are also destined to be unable to get an answer-only a certain **** can perform this kind of "shot", and we can't find the gods to ask about the situation."

  He paused for a while, and said in a weird tone: "At least there is no way for the time being..."

While talking about it in his heart, he thought about it secretly, thinking that although it seemed impossible to find someone to collect evidence, maybe after going back, he could try to ask Enya about the situation...The retired Dragon God could not do anything now. Everything is "say as much as you want", but at least compared with the time when she was on duty, she now has a high degree of freedom in speech, and there are some things that can be asked directly.

  Bertila didn’t know what Gawain was thinking about in silence for a few seconds, she just asked a little curiously: “Then we are now ‘ready’?”

"...No one knows, even I don't know," Gao Wenwen could use the identity of an "extraterritorial wanderer" here to be unpredictable, but he looked at Bertila's already heterogeneous figure, and finally he still Choose to be honest, "I once said that when it comes to divine disasters, many things cannot find an accurate'variable'. We cannot predict the critical point of the madness of the gods, nor can we calculate where it will go. At the first step, the talents are considered to be ready for the'final disobedience'... The only thing we can do is to do everything possible to check and fill up the vacancies during the development process, so that we can have our chance of survival when'that day' comes. Bigger."

  "It’s not like what the terrible ‘extraterritorial rogue’ should say," Bersetia said suddenly, "but hearing you say this, I feel a little relieved."

Gawain smiled and did not respond to the other party. Bertila spoke after thinking and brought the topic back to the "signal": "You think... if the signal really comes from Frostsky, it's What kind of civilization will the sender be? I mean... what is its threat?"

"It's not easy to judge," Gawain frowned. "From a common sense, they have the ability to transmit signals to our planet over such a long distance. This shows that they have more advanced technology than us, at least More advanced communication and detection technology, but before we crack the transmission methods of those signals and improve our understanding of the sky, no one can be sure whether those "senders" send signals solely relying on powerful technology or environmental factors. Coincidence. Furthermore, communication and detection technology is only one of many technologies, and it cannot be used to judge the technical strength of the sender in other fields.

"To take an extreme example, perhaps this method of communication across the starry sky is incredibly simple. Even primitive people with sticks can project their ideas onto distant stars, but we just don’t have I found this simple principle..."

  Belcetia thought for a while, couldn't help but laughed: "Your example is too extreme."

"Example, it's just an example," Gao Wen raised his hand and swayed, "I just don't want you to be too nervous. There is one other thing I need to correct...or just a reminder, although the signal is after the main antenna points to the frosty sky. Appeared, but that doesn’t mean it came from the Frost Sky.”

"Frostsky is just a constellation. The celestial bodies that make up it are very likely to be distributed in a very vast starry sky, and they are three-dimensionally distributed. The celestial body that emits signals can only be said to be in the direction of Frostsky, but the specifics are Where it comes from... it still needs astrologers to work hard to calculate. Now it is astronomically wrong to say that the signal comes from the frost constellation."

   Listening to Gawain’s words, Bertila couldn’t help covering his forehead. Bersetia murmured, “I haven’t heard Uncle Gaowen’s preaching for many years...”

   Gao Wen: "..."

  He was a little bit dumbfounded, but as the night wind blew across the treetops, his mood gradually relaxed a little.

"Maybe we are too nervous," he said, "this is just a voice that suddenly visited our world, and judging from the large number of mathematical concepts carried at the beginning, it is more like a'greeting' to introduce ourselves. In this vast and dark universe, show to another group of intelligent people that you are also a group of intelligent creatures that can communicate-I know this idea is too optimistic, but before we can figure out what the symbol at the end of the message really means Everyone can still be optimistic."

"Well, I do like an optimistic attitude," Bersetia exhaled, thinking as she said, "I will also take those symbols back to the scholars in the Temple of the Stars. The talent in language and writing is not weaker than that of human beings, and there may be some parts in our ancient records that can help...You shouldn't mind that the silver elves are also involved in this matter?"

   "Of course not," Gao Wen said immediately, "as I said at the beginning-this is a major event for all mortals, and I plan to make this project public within the entire alliance."

  His tone was very sincere, but he didn't say everything he was thinking about.

Now that the technology of the entire monitoring system is in the hands of Cecil, the core secrets of the main antenna array will definitely not be shared, and even if other countries get the technical data of this top-notch magical device, they may be copied if they want to copy it. Not coming out-under the premise that the only monitoring channel is completely monopolized by Cecil, to make this project public to the world, in fact, is essentially to let each country contribute their cryptography, philology and astrology experts, using a lot of technology People's investment in exchange for a "participation" quota.

  But this kind of thing, even if the participants can see it, no one will say it.