Two countries on the same planet still have countless suspicions and potential war risks, so what about the two planets separated by the vast sea of ​​stars? This is a real problem before the eyes of the three imperial rulers.

The vast starry sky hides too many secrets and possibilities. Gao Wen hopes that other intelligent civilizations in the starry sky will also have goodwill and virtue, but it is impossible to believe such things unconditionally.

Before a civilization develops to the point where it can step into other planets and establish a "disaster backup" on other planets, its survival in the star sea will always be like a lone boat, and any unexpected storms may cause this lone boat. The complete overthrow of, this may be a natural disaster like the magic wave, or it may be an alien civilization with malicious intent. Regardless of which of these possibilities, the nations on this planet today are gambled. Things up.

"...Before discussing whether to respond to this signal, I want to confirm one thing first," the Queen Silver said suddenly, "are we really capable of responding to this signal now? If it is really what scholars have guessed, so The instantaneous arrival speed is transmitted across the stars, then this may have exceeded our technical limit. If there is no basic technology, then we may be a bit early to discuss whether we should respond..."

"This is what I want to say. If it is really necessary, the Alliance may really be able to respond to this signal," Gawain tapped on the table lightly, "Kairen...you should know that they were crash-landing on us on a huge starship. On this planet, not long ago, they had partially repaired the starship’s superluminal communication array."

Rosetta and Bersetia immediately glanced at each other subconsciously, their expressions changed slightly, and Gawain looked at Amone, who was always sitting beside him without saying a word: "I want to hear your opinion from one's. What do you think of this from the perspective of the gods?"

"The gods in different fields may have completely different ideas about this matter," Amone shook his head slightly, "and from my perspective, I don't recommend responding to this signal."

"I thought you would be inclined to respond," Gawain glanced at the former **** of nature somewhat unexpectedly. "After all, you have always tended to take proactive actions to deal with problems."

What he said was very tactful, but in fact what he thought of was the glorious deeds of the **** of nature standing on the sky with a head and two rounds of assault saving the Silver Queen from the front. The comparison of Shang Mang reveals the characteristics of countless dead creatures in nature. In fact, sometimes Gawain even suspects that the holy image of Amoen’s "giant deer" is produced by special effects, which can make light, shadow and antlers. I’m afraid it’s not a roe deer inside after it’s cleaned...

But he hesitated a few times and was not as embarrassed to bring it up face to face. Instead, he considered secretly discussing with Milmina. From the magic goddess, he could see that the funeral is not afraid of the funeral director’s character. He must find a way to verify one or two...

Amorn didn’t notice the weird expression on Gawain’s face for a moment. He just shook his head seriously: “Avoiding danger and ensuring survival is the instinct of living creatures. I understand the value of curiosity and exploration, and I also understand predators and nature The original crises are everywhere, and we are too weak now, and everything about the sending civilization is shrouded in a mystery. Even if we analyze the other’s civilization and intentions, it is completely based on their active release. The signal that comes out, once you respond in this situation, is equivalent to putting your own destiny in the hands of others, after all..."

Speaking of this, he paused for a while before continuing: "After all, they may not be sure of our existence..."

As soon as Ammon’s voice fell, an elegant and gentle female voice suddenly appeared in this space: “No, I’m afraid the situation is not as optimistic as we thought.”

Gao Wen immediately looked in the direction of the sound, and saw two figures appearing beside the round table accompanied by a golden light curtain and a purple haze. From the golden light curtain came out a golden head that was golden like a dragon. A tall lady with vertical pupils and elegant demeanor, while the figure that emerged from the haze is wearing a black dress in the classical court style, and the lavender eyes seem to be constantly jumping with charged arcane flames. This is just arriving at the meeting site. The incarnation of the magic goddess Mirmina and the dragon **** Enya.

The voice just now came from Enya. At this moment, she quietly glanced at everyone on the scene, and finally fell on Gao Wen who was holding the meeting, and nodded gently: "Sorry, we are late."

The two goddesses are seated at the round table. This situation where half of the people are gods makes Rosetta and Bersetia's expressions a bit strange. Obviously they are not quite used to this "Cecile style." In the working environment, Amone immediately looked in Enya's direction: "What do you mean by what you just said? What does it mean that the situation is not as optimistic as we thought?"

"I'm afraid we have already exposed. If my judgment and Milmina's judgment are correct, the signal sent by the civilization that sent the message this time should not be a global broadcast, but a very directional communication," Enya said lightly, "They The coordinates of our planet have been locked, and most of our existence has also been confirmed. The part of the communication requesting a response should be just some kind of...conventional confirmation."

The news from Enya directly disrupted all the rhythms. The three imperial rulers and Amone, who had just learned the news, immediately looked at each other, and then Gawain broke the silence: "What's the matter?"

"Cough, let me explain." Milmina coughed slightly and waved her hand to outline a floating light curtain on the round table. Then, the light curtain shrank and condensed into a magical projection of the planet. This projection is obviously It's just a kind of schematic diagram. The surface structure is vague. You can only vaguely see the existence of Loren, Tarrond and other continents, but under this vague appearance, you can clearly see the vertical and horizontal directions. The distributed light blue light stream surging inside the planet like blood vessels.

And at the focal position of these "blood vessels", it is the center of the continent of Loren, a blue light beam that has been specially marked out.

Immediately afterward, Milmina waved her hand gently, and several specious phantoms evolved around the planet immediately. They showed the states of elements, shadows, shadows and other realms, and in each projection, there were You can see the blue light flowing through.

"As you can see, this is a schematic diagram of the'world' in which we live. It is not accurate. It is good to have a general understanding. These blue parts are the dark blue network channels located in various realms, and they are connected in a higher dimension. As a whole, the part affects the whole, and the whole affects the part, and here... is the largest network node that has been proven so far, the Deep Blue Well.

"In the past period of time, strictly speaking, since the end of the war, I have been paying attention to the changes in the Deep Blue Well and trying to record the fluctuations of the Deep Blue Network during the entire war. After the meeting was notified, Ms. Enya approached me, hoping to use my observational data to confirm one thing..."

Following Milmina’s words, the magical illusions floating in the air also continued to change, presenting a record of dark blue network fluctuations over a period of time, and at a certain critical point in time, Gawain saw all that. All of the main nodes suddenly "tremble" for a moment, like a powerful pulse, which is particularly eye-catching.

The silver queen Bersetia subconsciously spoke softly: "This is..."

"This is the moment when the'Sentinel' squeezed into the real world along the cracks in the deep blue network," Milmina said in a deep voice. The technology of the sentinel system converts the entity of the sentry system into a kind of'projection' state similar to that of the kingdom of God, so that it can maintain stability in the deep world, and the behavior of the sentry forcibly entering the present world is not just a kind of'spatial transmission' , It actually reversed this conversion process, which caused an extremely strong network shock...

"If Ms. Enya and I are correct in our calculations, the network shock caused by the reversal process is beyond imagination. Although mortals cannot perceive and observe it, it has already been set off in the'base' of our universe. A ripple, this ripple spreads outward at an unimaginable speed, and even...may have surpassed the concept of'speed'."

Milmina sighed softly and ended her explanation. A brief silence enveloped the audience until Enya's voice broke the silence: "More than half a month ago, in that brief moment, our planet had It is'lit' like a torch in the night, and it may be clearly visible from hundreds of light years away. If the sending civilization has been paying attention to the starry sky, then they will definitely not miss this time where there are obvious traces of manual intervention... flash."

Everyone at the scene felt that their heart seemed to stop beating, and at this moment, the sudden change of the signal mode of "signaling civilization" seemed to have an explanation.

They really observed the changes "here", so they converted the purposeless global broadcast into a more efficient directed broadcast.

"...We need to look at this matter again," Rosetta said very seriously. "Now whether we respond to this signal or not, we must discuss it on the premise that we have been exposed."

Gawain did not speak for a while. He just frowned and fell into contemplation. Gradually, his contemplative appearance also attracted the attention of Bersetia and Amoen. The round table was quiet, and everyone seemed to be subconscious. He waited for him to speak, and Gao Wen finally broke the silence: "...response to this signal, I am afraid this is the only choice."

Then he raised his head and glanced over everyone: "Our existence has been exposed to the alien civilization, and the other party clearly knows our location. The so-called'unknown civilization alpha' refers to us, so continuing to remain silent is It makes no sense. In this case, we must respond, and we must respond as early as possible, as clearly as possible."

Enya looked into Gawain's eyes: "This is to prove to them that we also have the technology of superluminal communication."

"This sounds like a bluff. We only have a set of half-destroyed communication antennas," Belcetia shook her head, but admitted reluctantly, "but this seems to be the only way we can retain a little initiative."

"Actually... I may be a little more optimistic than you," Gawain glanced at the Silver Queen. "I am now more suspicious that the civilization that sends signals may not be as advanced as we thought, and even their super-light communication technology itself. …And it seems that there are many suspicious things."

"Suspicious?" Milmina cast a curious gaze. "What do you mean?"

"The'flash' that caused our coordinates to be exposed appeared more than half a month ago, right?" Gao Wen said slowly, "and according to your and Ms. Enya's judgment, the spread of this flash should be very, very Fast, maybe even as fast as super-light communication."

"Yes," Milmina nodded. "The shock occurs at the bottom of the world, and it spreads as a projection in the'deep ocean', and according to the unified wave model and our latest cosmic layering model, the information in the'deep ocean' The speed of propagation is not restricted by the laws of the material world. It is theoretically infinitely fast. This is also a technical direction of superluminal communication that I have conceived.

"Of course, there is only this theory. We have no corresponding technology to actively create this kind of information ripples that can be steadily transmitted in the deep sea, and there is no way to retrieve and'listen' to this kind of fluctuations from the deep sea, which was caused by the Deep Blue Well. This shock is the first'instance' I have observed..."

As the master of the field of magic and mystery, Milmina is always as easy to immerse in it as Rebecca when she talks about technical issues, and many of the theories she inadvertently mentioned make Gawain uncontrollably in his mind. Many ideas came up.

But he soon forcibly controlled the thoughts that were about to spread, and then asked seriously: "In other words, at that moment more than half a month ago, the'flicker' of our planet has spread to hundreds of Even thousands of light-years away, it happened instantaneously and arrived instantaneously. However, the'signaling civilization' didn't change their signal pattern until two or three days ago. Why?"

Amone looked at Gawain, then at Milmina, and said uncertainly: "They discussed for half a month to decide how to write the first letter? Well, this is unlikely..."

"Yes, of course this is not possible. They have been sending letters for so long. If they really find other intelligent people, they should have prepared all kinds of'communication copy'," Gao Wen nodded and said, "They It took half a month to switch the signal mode, which can only show that it takes such a long time to complete the adjustment of the equipment. But let’s not forget that this civilization has been broadcasting this signal as early as the Gondor Empire. Now, their'super-light communication technology' has been used for hundreds or even thousands of years..."

He stopped, folded his hands on his chin, and slowly continued in his thoughts: "A civilization that has broadcasted in the universe for a thousand years using super-light communication, now it takes half a month to switch the signal mode. There may be only one explanation for such a suspicious situation..."

The Silver Queen on the side immediately reacted: "This technology is not theirs!"

"The technology is not theirs, and the equipment may not be theirs. They may need to pay a great price or use very cumbersome methods to indirectly control this thing, even..." Enya thoughtfully, "Even they may just borrow it. A certain sailor’s legacy...If this is the case, then it is understandable that they will not be able to crack the'core secrets' of the sending device for a thousand years, because the sailor’s equipment often has very strict core protection."

Gao Wen opened his hands: "Just imagine, if they were really a civilization with a normal technical route, and they had mastered the mystery of superluminal communication as early as a thousand years ago, then what height should they have developed now? They should have already been. Breaking through the magic wave and solving the black trap long ago, they didn't need to wait for our response at all. On the second day of our planet'lighting up', their leap spacecraft might have already reached the sky over the continent of Loren.

"The truth is, none of this happened."