Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 311 The Realm of Life and Death
Accompanied by his words, the translucent plants covering the viewing platform began to tremble slightly.

The blood vessel-like veins swelled rapidly and became entangled together. A large amount of unknown liquid gathered at the knotted place of the veins, and then gradually formed a large bulging bag.

The bulge is getting bigger and bigger, like a flower bud that has not yet bloomed, and gradually grows to be as big as the leader of "Chasing Light", and the translucent skin is no longer transparent, and no one knows what changes are happening inside .

Not long after, there was a heartbeat in the flower bud, which became strong from weak at first, and in a trance, the leader of "Chasing Light" seemed to smell a fragrance of flowers.

The next moment, the petals surrounding the buds began to fall one by one, and a figure walked out of it. The leader recognized that it was the "sacrificed" solar engineer.

But he also knew that it was just "another life" that looked exactly like the solar engineer.

It just walked out, and the leader of "Chasing Light" looked at each other silently, as if they were waiting for the other party to speak first.

In the end, the leader of "Zhuguang" couldn't bear it anymore, and asked first, "You, or rather, who are you?"

"We are 'Ashes', to use a name you are more familiar with, we are 'Fire Chasers'." The topic was opened by the leader of "Chasing Light", but it was the "Fire Chaser" who spoke endlessly down.

"From the genetic memory, we already understand why we have been revived after 'death'."

"There is a certain... gifted scientist in your group. He has detected the secret in your body and tried to revive us by activating this gene."

"He is not a kind person, and he did this only to master and integrate into this spreading gene, to control all life in the form of 'pure consciousness', so as to accomplish his so-called goal of becoming a 'new god' .”

"In order to achieve his goal, he first experimentally used this gene to control others. After finding out that it was feasible, he controlled some people to hijack the spaceship silently."

"Someone noticed something was wrong during this process and tried to resist, but he only paid the price of a few corpses to completely control the spaceship."

"After that, he sprayed a large amount of a catalyst here, and began to induce the atavism phenomenon in that part of the gene, successfully transforming all the life on this spaceship into...'us'."

"And he himself was no exception, he also became a plant."

From the mouth of "Fire Chaser", the leader of "Chasing Light" understood what happened on the spaceship. He didn't expect that it was people inside their civilization who caused all this.

And even if he wanted to disbelieve, "Fire Chaser" didn't care, and continued on his own:
"But he obviously underestimated the power of genes. How could he control so many genes with his own consciousness?"

"The result is that his consciousness, like everyone else on the spaceship, was torn apart during the process of vegetativeization, leaving only a large unconscious plant population."

"This blob of unconsciousness was barely able to form true consciousness, so they spontaneously began to attract the beings 'closest' to them through genetic associations, this...solar engineer, was the last drop of water to fill this blob of unconsciousness."

"From unconsciousness to consciousness, this is a huge transformation from zero to one, and since then, this mass of unconsciousness has become 'life'."

"And the memory in the genes has become the leader of this mass of consciousness, and we've 'resurrected'."

"...So, this is the resurrection plan you made for yourself?" Hearing this, the leader of "Chasing Light" couldn't help asking about this matter, which was also the one thing he was most concerned about.

In this regard, "Fire Chaser" unexpectedly shook his head:
"No, we never thought about resurrection. The people on this spaceship have no relevant memories, but I think you, as the leader, should have learned about our origins through other channels."

"We are ghosts from the last era, we should have died before the big bang."

"When other companions are at the cost of perishing, trying to leave help to the next era, we hide, and the nickname is 'use our own methods to bring dawn to the next world'."

"But in fact we chose to escape. Would other people not think of this method? They have much higher technology than us, so if it is feasible, why don't they do it?"

"Finally we understand that everything in the previous era has been completely wiped out with that explosion. This is the rule of 'cosmic restart', and we are no exception."

"We transformed all the planets here, and left behind a variety of ancient technologies, especially super-light speed technology, because we found that the civilization here is severely restricted by the speed of light."

"But our intelligence is beginning to be lost, our bodies are beginning to decay, and we are being 'killed' by this universe, which will sweep us into the tombstones of a previous era."

"We also panicked and looked for ways to save our lives. We realized that we were not adapted to this universe, so we began to study the method of 'dimension adaptation'."

"But in the end, we found that this possibility couldn't apply to us, because our numbers were too large."

"This huge number even almost made us the 'sinners' of this universe, and it also made us realize how much danger our 'evasion' has brought. What we think 'pioneers' have done , and how much suffering it caused.”

"This galaxy is shrinking, and the space-time structure here is also extremely weak. There are still many dangers that you have not discovered. This is the way this universe is using it to clear us. The source of your suffering comes from us."

When it comes to this, the "Light Chasing" civilization already knows this past history.

At the same time, he also understood that their birth came from the "fire chasers", and their suffering also came from the "fire chasers". This kind of contradictory mentality made his eyes on the "fire chasers" complicated. a lot.

"In the previous era, the responsibility of our civilization was to collect and preserve genes, so we tried to replicate and create those lives here."

"The erosion of dimensions does not affect you, because you were created in this universe after all, and you are not the remnants of the previous universe."

"But since the creation of life always inevitably involves the use of our original genes, it leads to ... the most tragic suffering."

There was no expression on the face of "Fire Chaser", but his voice was unconsciously sad.

"All creatures that have been mixed with our genes have become targets of elimination. When we realized this, it was too late. Although you are very adaptable to this universe, you are still marked with a 'clearance mark' by the universe, no matter you Wherever you flee, you will be 'cleared' from this universe."

"And we can't even get rid of this gene, because it is the cornerstone of your life, all other genes can be changed, except this one, which means killing you, and we... can't do this something..."

No one knows how much emotion the "fire chasers" have for their "creations", but one thing they have shown is that at least they don't regard the "creations" as some kind of experimental objects or ornamental objects Instead, they regard it as a truly independent "civilization".

They have no right to decide the life and death of these civilizations, even if they know that the final outcome must be extinction.

"We have foreseen the terrible scenes that will happen in the future, so we retreated again. We chose to close ourselves and no longer resist the erosion of dimensions. As long as we perish first, we will not see that day."

"But we still didn't expect that there would be a time of recovery by accident..."

The tone of "Fire Chaser" has been extremely depressed so far, and it is hard to imagine that this is what a civilization from the last era can say.

And the leader of "Zhuguang" was also affected by this depressed tone, and asked a little sadly: "...So, why did you let me come here this time?"

"... Do you think there is hope for such a world?" "Fire Chaser" replied:

"The end of demise has long been doomed and cannot be changed. Is it necessary to continue this kind of life? You are the leader of this civilization. You may not be able to represent the will of everyone, but we think it is enough to ask you one .”

"You guys, can you go on?"

At this moment, the whole world seemed to fall into silence.Listening to the words of "Fire Chaser", "Chasing Light" also began to ask themselves: Can they really go on?

Fighting out from the 460 former companion civilizations, their blood of advancing has long since become as indifferent as a glacier.

Even the will to survive has become numb after witnessing countless failed struggles, and now he is asking himself: Even if they become the final winner, what can they do?

Even the "guardians" who want to provide assistance to them can't find a way to get them out of here. Their future ending will most likely be reduced to historical dust in the "shrinking world".

Now that the ending is doomed, what is the purpose of their struggle?
At this time, the "Fire Chaser" was still waiting for the response from the "Light Chaser" leader. Out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't see the inner thoughts of this "Fire Chaser" who was pretending to be a solar engineer.

But the leader of "Chasing the Light" understands that the survival of the entire civilization is on his shoulders at this time, and the "Fire Chasing" has mastered the method to detonate the genes in their bodies. He believes that as long as he says "I can't go on", then The "Firechaser" would have no hesitation in converting all of them into plants so that they would no longer suffer from this suffering.

but……

The leader of "Chasing Light" also remembered that "Fire Chasing" did not directly destroy their civilization, but was asking for his opinion.

His memory began to go back, from an adult to a child, and from a child to a more distant past.

He has not experienced the events of that era, but he seems to be on the spot and saw the time when his ancestors first entered space.

Their curious ship is roughly driven off by a swarm of plant ships, and they are warned not to do it again.

However, in the database of these expelled spaceships, there is a complete set of archaeological technology and alien exploration technology, which seems to encourage them to go to more distant starry sky.

Finally, the leader of "Chasing Light" raised his head and gave his answer:

"The starry sky is still vast, and we can't stop there yet."

(End of this chapter)