Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 933 "The Wandering Earth"

In the 499th year of the new era, Noah's Ark observed a wormhole located on the edge of the Orion cantilever in the Milky Way, but this wormhole is extremely hidden. When humans observed it, they were already captured by its gravity.

At that time, the human beings on the ark exhausted all methods, but could not escape the fate of being swallowed by the wormhole.

Traveling through the wormhole caused huge losses, and the humans on the ark were once on the brink of extinction... But fortunately, they finally survived that difficult period, not only repaired the damaged ark, but also successfully found Alpha Star... or rather, Earth.

From the perspective of future generations, traveling through the wormhole is an accident, but it is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—if the Ark failed to pass through the wormhole, I am afraid that it has not been able to leave the Milky Way until now.

"The wormhole is connected to a parallel space-time."

"Sure enough... that wormhole is the key." Ke Lan let out a foul breath. He always knew that something important must have happened between 499 and 500 in the new era, but what he didn't expect was that the wormhole connected It's actually parallel time and space.

"I can't explain it, travel through time and space; I don't have enough brains, parallel universe." When this joke really happened in reality, he couldn't laugh at all.

"So... so the Alpha people refer to... the 'paradox' that caused the disappearance of most Alpha people is actually a space-time paradox, and the source of this paradox is the humans on the Ark?" Ke Lan asked.

"Yes. But all of this was arranged by the night watchmen. They knew that allowing the ark to enter their own time and space would lead to paradoxes, but they still made that choice without hesitation—the wormhole that allowed the ark to travel through time and space was not A natural wormhole, but a passage secretly arranged by the Alpha civilization, including the few resource planets that the Ark encountered after passing through, and it was also prepared for you by the Alpha civilization in advance... not because of good luck."

"Alpha civilization did this... What is their purpose?" The fog in Ke Lan's mind was gradually fading, but at this time he ignored the clues that emerged from the sealed memory fragments-instead of relying on himself It's better to just listen to the other party and finish the whole thing if you guess about some corners and corners of the information.

"This has to be traced back to what we experienced back then." The hive master said, "In the old era... the human experience in this universe is exactly the same as that of your universe. The sun's decay process suddenly accelerated, and the earth was facing a crisis of destruction. If human civilization wants to survive, it has to abandon its homeland and flee to other galaxies..."

Although Ke Lan has not experienced this period of history, he has consulted a lot of materials during this period, and what the other party said is not wrong... Until the last few years of the old era, what happened to human civilization on the two timelines are exactly the same.

"We have also implemented the Ark project, but unfortunately, many terrorist attacks have occurred on the Ark construction bases around the world, and a large number of semi-finished parts have been destroyed. According to expert estimates, after the 'deadline', the Ark can only be completed by 40.00%[-] , this is far from meeting the requirements of interstellar navigation... Even if we decide to reduce the size of the ark, it will be useless, because the most important main reactor was blown up, and even the area where the entire manufacturing plant is located has been turned into a heavy radiation zone. A large amount of raw materials and important equipment have been polluted, and at the same time a large number of technicians and workers have been lost. Even if we gather all the resources of all mankind, we will not be able to create a reactor capable of setting sail for the Ark."

"...So, in the illusion I saw before, there was a scene of a rebel organization attacking the Ark manufacturing factory, because of this incident?" Ke Lan said thoughtfully.

The hive master did not answer, but continued to tell the story: "Fortunately, we have always had a backup plan B... This plan B will also sacrifice most of the people on the earth, but, we don't have to. Sacrifice the Earth."

"Plan B?"

"This plan B was proposed by an engineer named Liu in Huaxia, but this plan was not favored at the beginning because it was too crazy and extremely difficult to implement, so the priority has been ranked after the Ark plan until the Ark plan bankruptcy."

"What's in Plan B?"

"Transform the earth into a huge 'ark', which will carry human beings to a new habitable galaxy." Said the owner of the hive city.

Ke Lan felt his heart beating, and this story gave him a feeling of deja vu—yes, there was once a novel called "The Wandering Earth", which was about human beings creating countless planets on the earth. The planetary engine, and then the story of leaving the solar system with the earth!

It's just that in the time and space Ke Lan lived in, the Ark Project succeeded, and this "Wandering Earth" project as Plan B was abandoned, and its plot was rewritten as a science fiction novel... But in the Hive City Civilization and Alpha Civilization In this time and space, the "Wandering Earth" plan has been implemented!

It's all right!Including the ruins of the engine on Alpha Planet, the refusion technology mastered by Yagunaktor, and the Ice Age that Hive City once experienced... All these things can be matched with the content in the novel!
No, that's not a novel, that's what really happened in this time and space!
"We are very lucky, perhaps because of the mentality of breaking the boat, the world's top scientific research teams have gathered together. At this time, there is no distinction between nationality, race and position. Every researcher is burning himself day and night— —Finally, before the 'deadline' came, we broke through the technical difficulties that we hadn't been able to break through in the past hundreds of years, and initially mastered the refusion technology."

"So, humans in this timeline have already mastered refusion technology in the old era?" Ke Lan murmured—this has to be said to be a miracle, but he believes that this miracle really happened. Otherwise, the human race in this timeline would have been destroyed long ago, and there would be no later "Hive Civilization" and "Alpha Civilization".

"While the scientific research team is overcoming difficulties, planetary engines around the world are also being completed one after another—maybe it is because the bankruptcy of the Ark project has changed the thinking of those rebel organizations, or maybe it is because the plan to escape with the earth has made them unable to find a new one." In short, the construction of the planetary engine was much smoother than the construction of the ark, not only did it not suffer from the attack of the rebel organization, but even received a lot of unexpected assistance."

"At that time, many resistance organizations were under the banner of 'defending the earth and defending their homes'...Since the high-level human beings decided not to abandon the earth, they naturally lost their reason to resist..." Ke Lan recalled the materials he had read , said.

"Are you curious about the meaning of the phrase 'Leave the bed'? This sentence is actually the code name of Plan B back then. The solar system, once the home of mankind and the earth, was the hotbed that gave birth to human civilization...except In addition, there is a reason that sounds a little funny and childish."

"What reason?"

"The engineer surnamed Liu who proposed Plan B back then has always been bedridden. He once said jokingly at an informal gathering of scientists that it was as difficult as trying to escape the solar system at seven o'clock in the morning. It's like getting out of bed... Although this is a joke, but the phrase 'Leave the bed' was officially designated as the official code name of Plan B after that party."

Ke Lan: "...So, 'bed' refers to...the solar system."

"Yes, this plan and code name are deeply rooted in the hearts of every earthling, until the end of the Hive City Era, all the earthlings on this planet have become what you call Alpha people, and they still haven't forgotten this code name .”

"Then why do some people on earth know this code name, er, I mean, people on earth who got off the ark." Ke Lan asked, "For example, the explorers who entered the underwater city for the first time, and the 776 special The soldiers in the squad, and the black-clothed bishop in the heretical sect—I have come into contact with this code several times, and it all comes from the people on the ark, not the people of your time and space.”

"As the human beings on Planet Alpha are eroded and transformed into 'alpha people', part of the impressive public memory will become 'forbidden knowledge', whether it is the eroded Ark human beings, or through the holy words that use that existence The black-clothed bishops of power, they will all obtain part of the sealed memories of the Alpha people, most of these memories are fragmented... These people cannot understand the content of the memory, they just know that this code name is very important, so they will be in the last waking time , Record this code name and use it to remind others... But in fact, what this code name represents, even they themselves don’t know.”

"...Then how did you, Earthlings in this time and space, become Alphas?"

"This is the story I'm going to tell next." The hive master continued, "The refusion technology was successfully developed, the planetary engine was successfully ignited, and at the same time, the dungeons around the world were completed almost at the same time...you The hive capital you see now is actually transformed from the underground city back then."

"I guessed it." Ke Lan nodded, "After the earth leaves the solar system, the surface environment will become completely unsuitable for human survival. If you don't go underground to survive, all those who stay on the surface will be frozen to death."

"But dungeons can't accommodate all humans... At that time, all dungeons were basically constructed like bottom nests, with people crammed into modular compartments like sardine cans, relying on protein made of cockroaches and earthworms A block of life support... But even so, all the dungeons can only accommodate one-third of the global population at that time."

"It's worse than what was described in the novel." Ke Lan murmured. In the novel called "The Wandering Earth", at least half of the humans entered the dungeon and survived.

"In order to compete for places in the dungeons, the originally united human beings turned against each other again. Several wars broke out on the earth a few years before the planetary engine was ignited... But fortunately, the planetary engine and the underground city were destroyed during the war. There are not many cities, but we have successfully entered the 'era of brakes'."

The "braking era", which was also described in that novel, refers to the use of a planetary engine built on the equator to offset the gravitational force of the earth's rotation, stop the earth's rotation, and prepare for the next step of escaping the solar system.

"Hundreds of earthquakes broke out on Earth in the 'Brake Era'. Not only did people on the surface suffer heavy casualties, but even many planetary engines were damaged. Almost [-]% of the world's underground cities collapsed, and some of them It was completely buried, and no one survived." The hive master said slowly, "We paid a heavy price for just the first step. It's not that we underestimated the impact of the earth's stoppage, but that we can only To that extent."

"In the face of the survival of the entire civilization, the life and death of an individual is just a statistic." Ke Lan said silently, "The high-level human beings have always done this... Although it is cruel, it is indeed effective."

"After the earth stopped rotating, the hemisphere facing the sun became polar day, with an annual temperature between [-] degrees Celsius and [-] degrees Celsius, while the hemisphere facing away from the sun became eternal night, with a temperature as low as minus nine. Ten degrees Celsius... Most of the human beings left on the surface died in the 'Braking Age'."

"A small number of people in the novel survived. How did they do it?"

"According to historical data, a small number of people who did not enter the dungeon survived, but we don't know how they did it... When we returned to the surface, they had turned into monsters—"

"Is it because of the disaster? What happened to the disaster?" Ke Lan asked.

"After the era of brakes comes the era of escape. We accelerated the earth to the speed of the third universe and successfully escaped the gravity of the sun. At this point, human civilization and the earth have officially entered the era of wandering... In the novel you read, it should be written like this Bar?"

"That's right." Ke Lan nodded.

For the earth civilization in this time and space, it is not a novel, but a documentary literature.

"I wouldn't be able to tell you all about the series of things that happened during this period. You just need to know that the earth wandered in the universe for tens of thousands of years, until it was discovered by that existence and 'captured'."

"Wandering for tens of thousands of years? But... Although I know that the content in the novel has changed, but according to the original plan, wouldn't it only take 2500 years to reach the centaur constellation?"

"After we arrived at the centaur constellation, we discovered that it is not suitable for humans and the earth. We can only replenish the fuel needed for the refusion reaction there...and continue." The hive master said, "At the same time, we A large number of spaceships were built and sent to space regions near the route in order to find suitable space regions or available resources. The predecessor of Yagunaktor, the No. 0906 engineering ship, was sent out during this period. .”

The hive master paused for a few seconds before continuing: "Humans at that time thought that the earth might drift forever in the universe... But they never thought that something worse than this would happen to humans over the heads of civilization and the planet."

Ke Lan immediately concentrated. He knew that the other party would soon get to the point of the story—the "indescribable" disaster.

(End of this chapter)