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"Now that the members of the Proxima b civilization have entered the Oort cloud and are about to arrive at Neptune, the Blue Star personnel must also be prepared."

Luo Xiu didn't say this to the control system, but to Xue He who was following him.

"Okay, Commander, I will inform Gou Wen at the Blue Star Research Base." Xue He, a virtual image, nodded slightly and responded.

The ten members of the Blue Star humans who participated in the Neptune Joint Meeting had been selected a few years ago, and they were just waiting for Luo Xiu to send a ship to Neptune to attend the meeting.

Among these ten people, Gou Wen, the head of the Blue Star Research Base, is of course included.

"By the way, several more ships can be made using strong interaction force. We need more tests."

Although the strong interaction material is almost perfect, Luo Xiu still needs to conduct more tests on this battleship. No matter how good its hardness is, it still needs constant testing.

"Ten starports on the lunar orbit platform have been produced, and ten starports in the Kuiper Belt have also been produced. Testing will begin soon. After we obtain first-hand information, we will evaluate it through feedback on the data. The ship undergoes necessary modifications."

Xue He now basically plays the role of a bridge between Luo Xiu and the research base. Every time an order is issued to the lunar research base, it will basically pass through Xue He.

The main reason why Cao Guolin did not receive this treatment was because his body was not as good as before.

Although Cao Guolin has been able to live longer through genetic modification, his body, which is more than a hundred years old, can still think very clearly, and even moves without much restriction.

But he is a human being after all, an ordinary living being with birth, aging, sickness and death engraved on his genes.

His aging is irreversible. Even if cell death is slowed down through genetic optimization, the day will come when his body's functions will stagnate.

However, in organisms, there is eternal existence.

Take cyanobacteria, for example, which won the initial bacterial war and gained immortality. But their level of life is also permanently fixed in the bacterial stage, and eternal life will bring about evolutionary stagnation.

Organisms that do not achieve immortality are ‘losers’. The losers were forced to find other ways out and chose the path of evolution.

If they want to survive, they must constantly adapt to the surrounding environment, learn new knowledge, and evolve new body functions to resist various new crises.

But to gain new knowledge, old knowledge must be destroyed. In the conflict between the old and the new, the former must be broken before new life can be achieved.

The more experienced individuals are, the more difficult it is for them to accept new knowledge. Therefore, new individuals must be produced to inherit the new knowledge and environment.

However, resources are limited. The birth of new life means squeezing the space of life. In order to enable itself to survive better, the old life chose death.

Rebirth and death are inherently one. And the various alternations of life and old age bring about the continuous evolution and continuous progress of species.

But after evolving into the interstellar age, various intelligent creatures want to break this curse. They don't want to step into eternal darkness, and they don't want to miss a glorious future.

They still need more time to shine more brightly.

Based on this idea, intelligent life forms began their exploration of immortality when they were still on their home planet.

However, if it is only based on changes in organisms, the difficulty will be much higher.

If you want to enter the ranks of immortality, there is a simpler way in the solar system now, and that is to ascend mechanically and become a semi-intelligent life form.

In this way, the organism itself can be considered to have entered a new era.

But the cost is also huge. Without the flash of inspiration from brain cells, they have been dominated by circuits, and there is basically no hope on the road of thinking and research and development.

At that time, they could only follow the rules and move forward according to the established route.

The reason why Cao Guolin has not made up his mind to become the first member of the mechanical ascension is precisely because of this.

To others, this may be stubbornness. But for Cao Guolin, this kind of stubbornness coming from scientific researchers is unique to an intelligent life.

"Chief Engineer Cao's body is no longer as good as before. Three days ago, he was no longer able to walk actively without the help of an assistive system."

When Luo Xiu did not continue to issue instructions, Xue He took the initiative to inform him of Cao Guolin's situation.

"Can't you walk on your own?" After hearing Xue He's words, Luo Xiu also realized that Cao Guolin's body had really reached its end.

You must know that the place where Cao Guolin and Xue He are located is the moon. Compared with the Blue Star, the gravity here is only one-sixth of the Blue Star. And if Cao Guolin is basically unable to move in such an environment, then if he is placed on Blue Star, he will have no choice but to rest in bed.

"He still didn't agree to the mechanical ascension experiment?" As a former member of the cruising fleet, Luo Xiu valued mechanical ascension very much.

It was precisely because of the importance of mechanical ascension that Luo Xiu did not find any Blue Star personnel for testing, but planned to leave the first spot to Cao Guolin or Gou Wen and others.

These people have worked very hard on the integration of Blue Star humans and starship humans, so of course the first batch of mechanically ascended members will fall on them.

"Yes, Chief Engineer Cao does not want to carry out mechanical ascension." Xue He had nothing to do about this. Since the other party did not agree, he could not force Cao Guolin to complete mechanical ascension.

"After we conducted simulation tests based on the technology disclosed by the mechanical ascension expert on the cruising fleet, the success rate of mechanical ascension has basically reached 99.3%. According to common sense, there is no risk of failure."

"Chief Engineer Cao disagrees because of his own reasons."

As the person who is most familiar with Cao Guolin in the lunar research base, Xue He certainly knows Cao Guolin's thoughts on mechanical ascension.

"I'm afraid Chief Engineer Cao won't agree for a while."

Just because Xue He was very familiar with Cao Guolin, he certainly knew that the other party would not agree to mechanical ascension in a short time.

Seeing this, Luo Xiu had no choice but to wave his hands and said, "Forget it. Since he won't ascend mechanically for the time being, let's give the first spot to someone else."

"It's best to be Gou Wen. When you go to the Blue Star Research Base, talk to him about this."

After receiving Luo Xiu's instructions, Xue He also nodded and said: "Okay, Commander. I'll go there first."

"Well, go ahead."

After Luo Xiu finished speaking, Xue He, who was originally a virtual image, disappeared directly from the room where Luo Xiu was and returned to the lunar research base.

At this time, the members of the lunar base were basically the first batch of scientific researchers selected to come to the moon. When they arrived, the youngest ones were in their thirties or forties.

After a series of confrontations with the main fleet in the solar system, defeating the super-accelerated fleet, destroying the star gate, and confronting the main fleet in Alpha Centauri, they are generally a hundred years old.

If it were the previous Blue Star, most of these people would have already reached the end of their lives. However, through the optimization of their own genes, most of these members in the lunar research base have survived to this day, and can still provide Luo Xiu with many scientific research results.

But even so, they still urgently need to replenish their lives or become a mechanical ascension person.

Most of these members of the Lunar Research Base are different from Cao Guolin. Compared to Cao Guolin who does not want to become a mechanical ascensionist, other members of the research base have been waiting for the moment of ascension.

Only by ascending can one have eternal and endless life. This is something that many Blue Star personnel can only hope for, but Cao Guolin has been hesitant and has no intention of agreeing.

While the solar system was still thinking about the topics of immortality and mechanical ascension, within the Cygnus spiral arm, near the original base camp of the cruising fleet, the unknown battleship that had previously destroyed the cruising fleet was carrying the omnic Life One against another. The resources of the star system are being grabbed crazily.

After several Blue Star years of construction, the equipment used for the jump has begun to take shape. After this building is completely completed, it will be time for the unknown warship to head directly to the vicinity of the solar system through its jump.

'Has been able to pass small detectors. ’

‘Launch small detectors. ’

Although the jump equipment has not yet been built, if you want to use it, some small equipment can still jump to the vicinity of the solar system through it.

After a short analysis of the unknown warship, a small detector flew out of the ship and headed straight for the jump equipment.

The main reason why this ship did this was to verify whether the jump location was wrong, and to conduct a trial jump within the Orion spiral arm.

If there are no problems with the jump, the unknown warship will directly enter it and jump to the vicinity of the solar system far away in the Orion spiral arm.

Although the small detector that entered the jump equipment at this time was not large in size, it moved extremely fast. After only a few accelerations, it plunged into the center of the jump equipment.

As a blue arc lit up, the small detector that was in the main spiral arm of the Swan just now has arrived at a star field located in the spiral arm of Orion, close to the solar system, an unknown number of light-years away.

‘The jump data is wrong and the jump location is deviated. ’

‘It is recommended to change the transition parameters. Data has been sent back. ’

As a device for testing the transition, the detector's purpose is to correct the transition location and transmit back the transition data.

However, just after the detector transmitted the information back, the detector captured an extremely strange scene.

In the probe's lens, what it collected at this time was exactly what was transmitted from the solar system two years ago. However, this picture is too weird for the detector.

I saw that Neptune in the solar system was sometimes a planet covered by sea water, sometimes it was a green planet covered with various plants, and sometimes it was like an interstellar fortress, covered with steel.

These changes were completed in a very short period of time. If it were not for the fact that the collected information was correct, the unknown warships far away in the Cygnus spiral arm and seeing this scene through long-distance communication would have suspected that there was something wrong with the detector. .

‘Virtual signal? ’

'No, the signal is completely real. ’

‘Is it a physical change or a change in microscopic particles? ’

Since the detector is still some distance away from the solar system at this time, the received signal has been attenuated and very blurred in space.

‘It needs to be explored up close. ’

After receiving the instruction from the unknown warship, this extremely small probe started its thrusters and sped towards the direction of the solar system.

In fact, for that unknown battleship, if the civilization in the solar system can only apply technology to particles, it will not pose much of a threat to him.

To deal with a civilization that is not very powerful, this unknown warship does not even need to take action on its own.

'Um? ’

Just as the probe from the Cygnus spiral arm was setting off, a Zhouwen-class battleship belonging to the starship humanity was also heading toward the solar system not far away.

‘Battleship? ’

‘Material strength: low. Weapon Power: Medium. ’

‘Not threatening. ’

The warship discovered by the probe, which was not a high threat, was carrying ten members of the Proxima b civilization who were about to go to Neptune to attend a joint meeting.

But for this battleship, the unknown ship still in the Cygnus constellation did not feel any threat.

"Did you calculate something wrong about your civilization?"

After detecting the data of the Zhou Wen-class battleship, the unknown battleship also immediately retrieved the omnic Life No. 1 and asked it.

At this time, No. 1, who had been blocked by an unknown warship and could not make any contact with the outside world, could only respond when asked by the other party: "Our advance fleet encountered a sudden attack from the other party, and all the fleet was destroyed in an instant. Destroyed and only played a statistic.”

"When the main fleet arrived, it was blocked by a large number of anti-matter weapons. A warship with space energy destroyed the civilization ship I sent, and pursued it all the way to the location of our star gate. The star gate was also Destroyed together."

What No. 1 was describing at this time was exactly what happened when the cruising fleet came into contact with Luo Xiu. These two failures made the cruising fleet think that the one attacking their stargate in the Cygnus spiral arm was Luo Xiu in the solar system.

"Antimatter energy, space energy."

The unknown battleship had actually obtained data about the battle between the two sides before, but judging from the original data, this sturdy record seemed to have no connection with the Zhou Wen-class battleship at all.

Even if the opponent can use the quantity to pile up a large number of anti-matter energy weapons, does the opponent really control the space energy? If you can master it, why are you still sailing in space instead of jumping directly from Alpha Centauri to the solar system?