Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 367

【recorder? 】

After hearing this term, the "Silent Empire" didn't appear to be very unfamiliar. Obviously, they also knew this civilization.

"Yes," the high-level "Exile" confirmed, before continuing:

"Before we came here, the 'Recorder' told us the biggest anomaly in this galaxy, which is now the 'Great Wound', and suggested that if we really can't do anything, we can come here to seek inspiration in the future. "

"However, we didn't think that we would reach the point of 'things can't be done', so we never paid attention to this place, but only valued the natural cosmic environment here..."

"But it's a pity that through long-term confrontation, we finally realized where the gap lies. The gap brought about by time is really difficult to bridge."

"We may not be favored by time, so we have to find another way to pay attention to this 'big wound' galaxy again."

"Although the 'recorders' are indeed a bunch of bad guys, at least their eyesight will not be a problem. Things that can be noticed by them must have their own uniqueness..."

According to what they said, the anomaly of the "Great Wound" was provided to them by the "Recorder". Although it is impossible for this galaxy itself to attract attention, given the danger of those "subspace cracks", the research that can be carried out is considerable. limited.

It is basically impossible for a normal civilization to spend energy to delve into such an unknown harvest. At most, it will build an observatory to monitor the anomaly, or use it as a "natural danger" like the "exile"'s initial choice.

However, the "recorder" clearly pointed out that there is a big secret here, and they think it is the "last resort" that the "exiles" can choose. got some information.

Even, the most essential purpose of the "recorder" to let the "exile" come here is not to "activate the cage", but for these cracks related to the "void".

And when the high-level executives of the "Exiles" told these things, they obviously already suspected the purpose of the "Recorders".

After all, they have dealt with this group of people before, and they know that the other party is indeed a group of "bad" guys.

However, although the people in the "Silent Empire" behaved thoughtfully, they seemed to have expected this, and what interested them more was the history of the "Exiles".

[You say, before "we came here"?Oh, that's right, the name "Exile" really doesn't seem like a local civilization, but we used to think that you just had some unspeakable encounters in this galaxy... Now it seems that there are other explanations? 】

Regarding this, the top executives of the "Exiles" were silent for a while, as if they were discussing how to answer.

After a while, the former high-level person in charge of negotiating with the "Silent Empire" continued to say in the communication:
"This is not a secret. If you have the heart, you can get a rough history from our textbooks..."

"That was a long time ago, really long..."

"We are not a civilization that originated in this galaxy. Our real origin comes from another place, a galaxy group that is very far away from here and extremely scarce in metal resources."

"It's not that a single planet is lacking, but the metal resources of the entire galaxy group are quite scarce. For this reason, our road to civilization started too long."

"In our Aboriginal history, the 'Stone Age' lasted the longest. Because the tools were not improved, productivity was always stagnant at the basic level, or it took countless hours to improve a little bit, which made us use a lot. Stone tools for a long time."

"When compared with the development of some indigenous civilizations in the future, we found that on the same time scale, we stayed in the 'Stone Age' for about five to ten times longer than other civilizations."

"Can you imagine it? This time gap may be enough for a civilization to go from birth to death dozens of times, but we are still holding tools made of stone and manually beating food over and over again."

The "Exiles" seemed to be born in a metal-poor area in the past. It is indeed not impossible for life to be born in such a place, but it takes a lot of luck for "civilization" to appear.

And even if civilization is born, the degree of development will basically be limited to a certain upper limit, because the lack of metal has an inevitable huge impact.

The progress of society requires the development of productive forces, and productive forces are closely related to production tools. The "exiles" do not seem to be a psionic race, and most of their indigenous times required "machinery" to produce great transformational progress.

It is basically impossible for things like "machinery" to be separated from metal, and almost all machines linked to "innovation" need to be made of metal.

It is not only that precision parts can only maintain sufficient stability with metal texture, but also that "metal" is the most easily obtained by living things from nature and has the best physical properties.

Perhaps civilizations can scientifically synthesize some plastics that are as strong as metals in the future, but before they progress to this stage, they all need metals to help them progress to this stage.

Without the "basic resource" of metal, the development of civilization will definitely be severely restricted.

"After the 'Stone Age,' we're living through the 'Wood Age,' an era that was very different from other Aboriginal civilizations."

"Because of the lack of metals, at that time we focused on the easiest plants to obtain. Although metal resources were scarce, vegetation resources were extremely rich, and there were many plants with special properties."

"Some of us who are gifted have found ways to plant, including expanding plant production, cultivating plants for special purposes, etc., which can barely be regarded as a change in productivity."

"For this reason, our biological sciences advanced quite early, even now that biology is our strong point."

"It's a pity that plants are plants after all. You can't expect plants to synthesize non-existing elements with other elements, right? This is no longer the scope of biology. Biological chemical reactions can only change the arrangement of atoms, and the synthesis of new elements will Involving nuclear reactions inside atoms, normal plants simply cannot create this kind of environment."

"So we waited for a long time before we finally got an opportunity for development—a meteor shower."

"A meteor shower that didn't know how long ago arrived in our home galaxy. There are a lot of metal resources on these meteorites, which have become an opportunity for our progress."

"But why is it just an 'opportunity' instead of directly bringing innovation to us? The reason is also very simple, because a large number of meteorites fell into our home planet, causing a serious mass extinction, and 99% of all living things died in the In this mass extinction."

"For a civilization that has no ability to step into space, the threat of meteorites is fatal. Not only do a large number of animals and plants perish, but even we ourselves are on the verge of extinction."

"Although some of the essential plants we cultivated happened to have strong adaptability and allowed us to survive this difficulty, our population still plummeted, and it took quite a long time to recover."

"After that, things are basically the same as ordinary civilizations. Through the large amount of metals brought by meteorites, we have produced innovations again and again."

"Because these metals are hard to come by, we have extremely rare uses for them, understood early on that these are 'non-renewable' resources, and because of the provenance of these metals, we quickly set our sights on space. To obtain the metals, we Had to go into space."

"We first used these metals to go deep into the earth's crust and dig out the extremely rare metal deposits hidden in the planet's interior."

"Then we used these remaining mineral deposits to ascend into space, and tried our best to get to the star ring of another planet closest to us. There are a large number of metal meteorites in these star rings, and finally let us enter a virtuous circle. Gradually transitioned to the interstellar era."

"Although it took much longer than the average civilization, we still started our journey of cosmic expansion."

"However, in the process, we gradually discovered the secrets of our galaxy..."

When he said this, the "Exile" executive took a deep breath, and it seemed that whenever he recalled this incident, he would have a subconscious anger.

"We found that the lack of metals in our galaxy is because we've been 'mined' here."

"There is an alien civilization that regards this place as a 'mine', and has robbed most of the planet's mineral deposits, leaving only asteroids that 'disdain to mine'."

"They don't consider how much such behavior will affect the civilization here. We know this is the arrogance of the 'high civilization', but we still have extreme hatred for it, because we have such a difficult life. Thanks to that gift of civilization."

"This hatred eventually evolved into extreme racism, we began to hate all civilizations except us, and in order not to suffer from the past, we did the same thing, they did it, can't we do it ?”

"So we started to plunder resources frantically, and did not stop after we destroyed our galaxy group, and went to other galaxies to continue plundering."

"We have also suffered failures in this process, but we have never been destroyed, and continue to make a comeback with our superb biotechnology."

"The benefits brought by this kind of plunder gradually made us addicted to it. Even after our resources were already very abundant, we still didn't stop the pace of plundering, and thus became a group of 'predators'."

"And because of extreme racism, we have committed unbelievable evils, we have destroyed all civilizations that we have plundered, and we have slaughtered trillions of creatures."

"Using the words we have learned, we are a group of 'racial clean freaks'..."

Such words sound harsh in the "Silent Empire", and the eyes of those "Silent Ones" are also a little erratic.

Because these former "high-dimensional invaders" did something worse, they directly destroyed a plane, and the number of creatures in it is probably much more.

But the "exiles" didn't notice this, but continued to talk about their past.

"Until one day later, we encountered the 'recorders'. To be precise, they took the initiative to find us, because our extinction behavior seriously affected their 'observation records', and we also destroyed their unscrupulous records. Less 'Observatory', they're here for trouble."

"Then we were taught a lesson. We were beaten half to death and almost perished."

"However, this also made us wake up from greed and hatred. Looking back, we have committed many unforgivable sins, and even we did not find the civilization that 'mined' in our home galaxy. Wrath is directed at the weaker civilizations..."

"Although morality is not that important in the interstellar society, we are an emotional species. Even if we have genetic technology to control emotions, we are not willing to become rational machines. In the end, we still feel heartfelt for our past behavior. repent."

"This was not a vain attempt to survive. In fact, we were already prepared to commit suicide at that time, but suicide was a choice of escape. We still chose to ask the 'recorder' to let us atone for the past."

"You also know what happened after this, the 'Recorder' did give us a chance to come to this 'exile place' galaxy, and we also became 'exiles', to do one thing— Stop some 'extinct' civilization that's killing as much as we once did."

"In order to deal with this future enemy, we have started to build the 'hell defense line' since we entered here, and we are always ready to evacuate to both ends. Wherever the opponent comes, we will go to the other side of the defense line and use the 'recorder' ' The Cage Generator' traps the other side here, fighting us in a war that only one side can win."

"And the 'recorder' also told us the information about the 'big wound', and told us that we can use it to improve ourselves."

"Since the 'Hunter' entered this galaxy, we immediately confirmed that this civilization is the exterminator we were waiting for, so we activated the machine without hesitation, and trapped them here with us."

"However, after your reminders, we feel more and more that the 'recorders' have a purpose for us to come here. Why didn't they show up when we destroyed the galaxy? With their level, it is completely possible to destroy them when we destroy them. The 'Observatory' came to stop us, they are a bunch of nasty guys."

"Perhaps, they are just to induce the 'void' here..."

The high-level analysts of the "Exiles" are constantly analyzing their guesses, guessing the purpose of the "Recorder" all over.

However, the "Silent Empire" was a little hesitant to speak after listening to their history, and finally couldn't help it, and reminded:
【In other words, have you found the 'observation terminal' in your home galaxy, which is the 'observation station' of the 'recorder' in your mouth? 】

[Or, based on what we know about the 'Recorders', is there a possibility that they actually dug the mines in your home galaxy? 】

Hearing such communication content, the entire senior management of the "Exiles" fell into silence, as if they really didn't think about it.

(End of this chapter)