Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 243 You Know Too Much

"This box that seems to be able to hold a galaxy will be a wonderful hiding place. As long as it is hidden in a place where no one can find it, and I bring enough slaves in, the future life will be promising..."

The Grand Duke cherishes this peculiar box he snatched from an unlucky scientific research team of a certain civilization very much. He used to collect it only because of its extremely rare attributes, but now this box has become his life-saving straw.

"But... None of those idiots can figure out the secrets... Sure enough, it's not the top group of people, isn't it useful to me at all?"

In order to crack the secret of the box, the Grand Duke secretly kidnapped many scientists, hoping that they could solve the problem of the box, or at least allow him to live in it.

However, after seeing how much the galactic civilizations hate "accidental enemies", the Grand Duke who holds such a sensitive warship dare not make any more noise, for fear that someone will think of him, and then directly characterize him as a "silver warship". Rape" wiped out.

He can't touch those top scientists who will cause a sensation in the galaxy when they travel. He can only target many second-rate or even third-rate scientists.

Therefore, after the captured scientists were useless, he could only use cumbersome amnestics to make those people forget about it, and then sent them away with his "return spacecraft".

After countless failures, the Grand Duke was already very desperate, and even prepared for his funeral. He wanted to secretly live in seclusion on a certain indigenous planet, and he could survive every day.

But suddenly, a response came from a communication that he focused on, which rekindled a glimmer of hope for him.

The idea of ​​kidnapping a scientist to help him research is no longer feasible. He can only find a curator who is paid for his work to help him explore the secret of that magical box.

To be on the safe side, he only sent the eye-catching parts of some boxes to the curators, and did not give them the boxes themselves for study. What he didn't expect was that the curators replied so quickly.

So after opening the communication panel with a face full of excitement, the Grand Duke carefully read the content of the curator's response.

"Hello, Anonymous X."

"You're sending blurry images, and your data is full of errors. We know you're trying to hide something, but you want our scientists to waste precious brain cells trying to sort out what's useful from a pile of junk. , which ones can’t be used?”

"This is an insult to our genius minds!"

Seeing this, the Grand Duke almost had a cardiac arrest. He didn't expect that his insurance measures would arouse the curator's great disgust.

But after reading it further, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"—We wanted to reprimand you loudly like this, but in view of the fact that you have given too much 'sponsorship', we decided to try our best to help you solve this problem as much as possible, so let's not take this as an example."

"Based on the useful data and image records you gave, there is indeed a galaxy inside this box."

"According to a subtle phenomenon that occurred on the surface of the box, we confirmed that it used a certain effect of the subspace field to isolate the galaxy-sized space from the real universe, creating a space between the real universe and the subspace." sub-'subspace'."

"The nature of this kind of subspace is closer to the real universe, and it is even possible to directly use the carrier in the real universe to locate the location of the subspace and save it in the physical universe."

"As for the method of opening, we don't think there is currently any."

"According to speculation, this box has a high probability of being a 'souvenir' item, and I probably never thought of opening it from the day it was put in. According to our level, if we insist on opening it, it will probably lead to the destruction of its internal subspace , not to mention wanting to enter from the outside.”

"Perhaps only the civilization that has fully mastered this technology can switch it on and off at will."

"We are very interested in the object itself, and if you are willing to transfer it, we can offer a very high price."

"To show our sincerity, we can provide you with an additional piece of information—"

Originally, the Grand Duke, who could only see the words "powerless" from the curator's information, after seeing the last sentence, held a glimmer of hope and prayed that the curator would bring him good news.

But after reading the last galaxy word by word, the Grand Duke's eyes widened suddenly, his face full of disbelief.

"—With your poor appreciation level, you can't see the mystery hidden on the box, but our superb academic ability still distinguishes the craftsmanship used by the box from the image you provided, which is different from that used by the 'Guardian' The similarity is as high as 99.8%.

"If this is a relic of the 'Guardian', then you'd better keep it better, it's best to give it to us for safekeeping, you should know how crazy the adventurers of the galaxy are about the relic of the 'Guardian'. "

The Grand Duke didn't bother to read the following words anymore. It was unbelievable to him that this thing actually belonged to the "Guardian"?

He deliberately concealed a lot of key information when sending it to the curator for appraisal, one of which is that his car responds to this thing!
Until now, he clearly remembered that when the group of scientists carrying this box passed by his galaxy, the automatic operating system in his car, which was always silent, actually sent a message on its own initiative.

The content is: "The lost item Z-2999 has been detected, please pay attention to recover it".

In order to find it, he even asked his men to board the ship to meet the enemy instead of destroying it directly as before.

He was very sure that the box was the lost item of "Z-2999" mentioned by the spacecraft's automatic operating system. After experiencing the "accidental enemy" crisis, according to the condition of his car, he thought it was the product of the "accidental enemy" .

But now the curator told him that this thing actually belonged to the "Guardian", and the secret behind it made him feel shivers down the spine.

Since his spaceship, which is suspected to be from the "accidental enemy", will still respond positively to the relics of the "Guardian", then will the battleship that destroyed the "Central Processing Unit" of the "Guardian" also...

His thoughts were interrupted suddenly as the lights inside the spaceship began to flicker on and off.

The automatic operating system right in front of him also inexplicably entered the standby state without instructions. Judging from the image on the operation screen, it seemed that it was waiting for the link of "something".

Suddenly, the Grand Duke's pupils shrank, not because of the dark green battleship that suddenly appeared in the galaxy, but because of the content in the automatic operating system:

[The "Guardian Matrix" has been detected, and the control of "Star Engineering Equipment Type B" is being handed over, please wait...]

The spaceship's system is returning to its original state, and the modifications made by the Grand Duke to allow him and his men to live in the spaceship are also beginning to be refreshed by the spaceship's own equipment.

Cosmic radiation is seeping uncontrollably into the interior of the spacecraft itself, which is designed for unmanned operation, with internal equipment that protects against radiation, but not organic life.

The wailing voices of his subordinates were still lingering in his ears, but the consciousness that disappeared with suffocation and hypothermia was only thinking about one thing:

"'The Guardians'...didn't die?"

The stars twinkled, then brightened again.

No one in the galaxy noticed that the Grand Duke of Silver Star, who had been raging for a while, with hands and eyes all over the sky, just died quietly in the vacuum.

(End of this chapter)