Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 213 "Ghost Signal"

"I'm a lone wolf. Today is my first... I can't remember exactly. Anyway, today is another interstellar adventure of mine."

"Being a 'Chosen of the Prophets' was suffocating, so I had to take the risk I've always had to relieve the stress."

"But it's just a stopgap measure. Those fanatical believers with psychic powers will find me soon. I must try my best to relieve my mood before they take me back."

"Not to brag, I still think my life is full of legends, if I write my experience into a book, I may become the greatest fantasy writer in the galaxy."

"This kind of thing is really unbelievable. I will use this adventure to prove whether 'legends' can really exist in the world—"

The physical diary was closed by Lone Wolf and put back into his pouch.

As he said in his diary, he "escaped" this time, and the affairs of the Khan tribe and the "Guardian of the Holy Land" made him upset, so he had to come out to take a breath.

He is really not interested in these things, the "power" of the ruler is not as real to him as an interesting alien relic.

He is also not interested in using the token left to him by the Prophet Zakran to gather believers. It is widely rumored that he, the "chosen people of the Prophet", will start a "Great Holy War" in the name of the Prophet, but that thing is actually He has already been pressed to the bottom of the box to eat ashes.

However, this is not a source of bad premonition, what is really problematic is a series of strong signals.

After all, he often takes risks in the galaxy, and the conventional hyperspace engine is not so efficient, so the believers of the "Guardian of the Holy Land" modified his car and installed a jump engine that only the lost empire has.

Although his curiosity is strong, he is extremely cautious when dealing with the "unknown", and will not take risks easily.

The jump destination he chose at random was not as ordinary as he imagined, but on the contrary, it had some extremely obvious peculiarities.

Of course, after the inexplicable "legendary experiences" of the previous few times, Lone Wolf is already very cautious about the choice of adventure location.

"And this galaxy may be one of the root causes."

Thinking back to the special features of the entire galaxy, he checked the information about this galaxy again.

The disordered characters are arranged on it, seemingly chaotic, but you can vaguely see the meaning you want to express:
[%@#*killing nsadohdr maiming erud&$% dismembering 5395714 we are making a comeback]

All instruments fail at the same time, out of control.

However, his identity as a "chosen voter" is actually known by the believers of the "Guardian of the Holy Land". With the status quo that the Prophet Zakran has left civilization forever, countless believers of the "Guardian of the Holy Land" want to inquire about him Consider the case of the Prophet.

The introduction to this galaxy is very short, just like most galaxies in the Milky Way, there is only one sentence:

"I tried to send a communication to these spacecraft, but I didn't receive any response, and it seemed that they were unmanned."

"Could it be that a group of robots drove these spaceships here?"

With the help of this powerful super-light engine that can complete "teleportation", Lone Wolf has been able to travel to some places that he once thought were too far away.

The surface layer of the atmosphere of the highly toxic planet experienced violent fluctuations, as if some drastic changes were taking place inside the planet.

"...Am I a mobile accident generator? Where can I go on an adventure?"

But after looking at the location of the star map, he confirmed that this place is indeed a theoretical "barren galaxy".

There is neither a prosperous star road network passing through here, nor any cosmic phenomena worth paying attention to. Logically speaking, this place will only be an insignificant one among the hundreds of billions of star systems in the Milky Way.

"While these incidents ended with 'unknown gang of thieves at work', my gut told me something was wrong."

The car that accompanied Lone Wolf on countless space adventures had serious problems the moment the signal was received.

His spaceship quickly left the gravitational range of the stars here, and was ready to start the jump engine after reaching a safe area outside the gravity well.

As the brilliance flowed, the "broken time and space" formed when the jump engine was started began to reorganize, and maintained a consistent state with the destination, directly "changing" the time and space where the entire spacecraft was located into the destination.

"...Speaking of which, the 'Guardian' also seems to be machine intelligence, right? This lost mechanical empire may have a unique insight into what's going on here..."

"This anomaly reminds me of a little thing that happened in the Milky Way recently. I have heard more than once that there have been cases of theft of robots and spaceships in civilizations."

With so many spaceships gathered here, the lone wolf almost thought he had come to a pass galaxy.

"I didn't rashly try to land on those spaceships, but the drones sent to detect them told me that there are indeed no signs of biological life on the spaceships, but there are mostly traces of robots."

In the end, the unbearable lone wolf "run away" like the prophet. Although it was only temporary, it was also a rare leisure.

However, the accident still happened.

Although it cannot be seen with the naked eye, the drone he left in the galaxy for surveillance has transmitted pictures.

The indescribable strange signal started its journey of infection, and was quickly detected by the galactic civilizations.

But thinking about the abnormal robots who came here, Lone Wolf thought of "Guardian" for no reason.

The lone wolf tapped the spaceship's operating interface, randomly selected a galaxy, and then started the spaceship's jump engine.

"...I came to an abnormal galaxy, where a large number of spaceships from different civilizations with unknown purposes gathered."

Although he was not afraid, if something like "The Great Khan's Trial" and "The Prophet's Chosen" happened again, then he, who had always been troublesome, would only feel "bad luck".

But the string of signals at this time was strengthened countless times by unknown means, like a rooted fire, quickly burning and spreading.

"This is a star system composed of one F-type star, five barren planets, and one highly poisonous planet. It is nothing special."

Lone Wolf couldn't hold back, took out his diary that recorded his legendary life, carefully observed the spacecraft in the galaxy, and wrote the follow-up to this adventure.

"...It's really incredible technology, it's hard to imagine how these lost empires developed..."

He was going to spread the anomaly of this galaxy to see what others were going to do.

At this point in the diary, Lone Wolf stopped exploring the galaxy and decided to leave.

Although he doesn't understand the working principle of this engine at all, it doesn't prevent the lone wolf from lamenting the magic of the technology of the lost empire.

"...The most likely abnormality is this poisonous planet, right?" As soon as Lone Wolf had this thought, a bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart.

The most conspicuous thing is that there are a large number of spaceships here, and judging from the appearance and style, these spaceships come from different civilizations.

The operation interface of the spaceship, after a flash, turned into blood.

This string of signals seems to have existed inside the galaxy for a long time, but it was extremely weak before, even so weak that it could not be detected at all.

The lone wolf was thinking, glanced casually out of the corner of the eye, and then froze for a moment.

"...I hope there will be no 'accidents' this time..."

——Yes, his spaceship has been equipped with a jump engine, which is from the help of the "Guardian of the Holy Land".

Almost all electronic devices that can receive signals will be infected with this "signal virus" indiscriminately and enter an uncontrollable state.

Its form of expression looks very familiar, and more than one civilization has discovered it. This signal is very similar to the "ghost signal" that the "Guardian" once sent.

This once made them wonder if the "Guardian" had something abnormal again.

However, what they didn't expect was that almost when this signal began to spread in the galaxy, the real "ghost signal" from the "Guardian" also began to spread in the galaxy.

The galactic civilizations who detected two "ghost signals" at the same time couldn't help being confused: which one should they believe?
(End of this chapter)