Year 2088.

"A 200-year journey of suffering, the road to revival of an ancient country......"

On the same day, a well-known VR media said in the three-dimensional news.

On that day, a long time ago, many people had expected to happen, the "Third World War", which lasted for more than 20 years, came to an end, and with the end of the fighting on the last Atlantic island, the war between the two small countries ended, and the third world war also ended.

At the turn of the millennium, the world changed beyond anyone's expectations, and a huge Eastern country rose rapidly, and in a few decades, this ancient country took away all the glory of the world's most powerful country.

The country with the world's largest GDP, the first manned landing on Mars, and the largest artificial intelligence penetration rate......

By the time of the outbreak of the Third World War, the country's total GDP was 1.2 times that of the world's most powerful country, and it had a strong impact on the dominance of the world's most powerful country in all directions, so the Third World War broke out.

However, unlike the imagination of any military strategist in the past, the form of this world war is different from what everyone imagined, and the behemoths at opposite ends of the world, thousands of miles apart, did not directly engage in flesh-and-blood confrontation, but calmly and prudently used the many proxy countries in their hands to fight invisibly.

On the islands of the Atlantic, on the Gobi in Africa, on the deserts of the Middle East, in the cities of Europe, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, on the ice of the Arctic and Antarctica...... In every corner and region of the world, there are more or less shadows of two behemoths behind any war, and between the invisible tacit understanding of the two behemoths, most countries in the world are involved in the flames of war.

It is like two chess players who manipulate the chess pieces in their hands, calmly pushing the chess pieces in their hands, fighting and killing each other, but there is an invisible tacit understanding.

The casualties of this "Third World War" are not as good as those of the previous two world wars, but the scale and spatial scale involved are far greater than those of the previous two world wars. In the end, in the long war of 23 years, the situation of one and the other gradually became obvious, the direction of victory and defeat was clear, and the war gradually came to an end.

On an Atlantic island, soldiers from two small countries shook hands, and two large countries shook hands and made peace.

The Americas, which hangs alone outside the world island, can no longer control the situation on the world island, and the former world's most powerful country silently retreats to the Americas itself, licking its wounds, and that ancient country once again stands on top of the world.

Fifty stars dimmed, but the brilliance of those five stars spread over the whole world.

“...... Humanity should not be trapped on this small planet, and as human beings of this age, we should have the determination and confidence to open up a new world for our future generations......"

At that United Nations conference, in front of the eyes of all the nations of the world, diplomats from ancient nations gave New Year's addresses.

......

And after the New Year's address, the calm diplomat went backstage, and the ostensible ceremony was over, but an even more difficult battle awaited all of humanity.

"Chen, I haven't seen you for many years. ”

Looking at the middle-aged diplomat, the thin young man who had been sitting in a chair and waiting, stood up, smiled and bowed slightly. He wears a pair of old-fashioned gold-rimmed glasses on his smiling eyes, as old and conservative as he and the organization behind him.

"Mr. Roman, I've kept you waiting. ”

The diplomat nodded to him.

"It's a matter of all humanity, and it doesn't hurt to wait a little longer. ”

The skinny young man shook his head.

Neither of them is used to talking nonsense, and in such urgent matters, it is important to deal with them quickly, so from the beginning, the argument between the two sides goes straight to the point.

“...... We attach great importance to your request for our assistance, but after careful discussion, we do not see the need to focus entirely on space exploration......"

The diplomat surnamed Chen said frankly.

The world is far from stable for a regime that has just taken over the world, and the massive unemployment caused by artificial intelligence could lead to a third world war and the collapse of a precarious country.

The use of artificial intelligence has changed the way the world operates, and this ancient nation has benefited greatly, and while the organization represented by the skinny young man and the things he asks for are important and vital to the fate of humanity, many of the upper echelons of the old country prefer to sort out domestic and foreign affairs first, rather than rush to space exploration.

Opening up a new world is a motivating rally, and the ultimate goal of the establishment of this ancient nation. But looking at the stars in the sky, you should also be careful not to fall into the pit.

Roman listened quietly, he had already anticipated the difficulty of the negotiation of this trip. Gently pushing the glasses on the bridge of his nose, he shook his head.

"Chen, I understand your thoughts and understand your country's thoughts, but I have some new information that I would like to share with you. ”

As he pushes his eyes, an illusory projection appears in front of several people, listing a large number of data and reports, as well as a stereoscopic image of space.

The diplomat looked at the data carefully, and his calm face could not tell what he was thinking.

"Forty-two light-years away, a star has disappeared? Why haven't we gotten information yet? ”

Turning his gaze away from the virtual projection, the diplomat asked calmly.

"This was news from 10 minutes ago, detected by our artificial intelligence. You haven't paid enough attention to this, so there's no news for you yet, but in a few hours, you should be able to get it. ”

The skinny young man explained.

As he spoke, he was inexplicably silent for a moment, and then said.

"Chen, my grandfather, Roman Sr., used to tell me before he died, to be afraid. I didn't understand it at the time, but now I seem to understand it. ”

"Eighty-four years ago, in 2004, during the 124 incident, the Manhattan district of New York was bombed, of course, this is just an outside statement, in fact, there is a beam of light from the ...... The light shot through the pupil of that being, and the light cut through the Atlantic Ocean, vaporized the water, and knocked Saturn out of a large hole. Eighty-four years later, we thought it would all end with the death of that being, but it turned out that it was not. ”

"That light is still advancing, and in the cold, dead universe, there is a light that is moving forward endlessly. The massive star, forty-two light-years away, had been erased from its presence, something we didn't realize until today, eighty-four years later......"

As he spoke, Roman shook his head.

In the face of this great power that can easily erase the stars, the human beings who are still clinging to this small planet are really insignificant. And this light, which could easily erase an entire star, was only a beam of light that escaped from the eyes of that being eighty-four years ago.

"Chen, it hasn't disappeared, it's still looking at us, and that light is its contempt and ridicule for us. This planet has nurtured us, but we should not stay on this stone forever, we must flee or we will never have a chance to escape again. ”

Roman looked at the diplomat in front of him with a heavy face.

In front of his gaze, the diplomat pondered, and finally said solemnly.

"Mr. Roman, I will give all this back to my country. ”

......

The diplomat had left, and Roman sat back in his chair, and after a while, he spoke suddenly.

"Kelly, do you know why Grandpa founded a separate monastic within the organization? ”

Forty years ago, the old Roman, who was nearly 90 years old, secretly founded a hermitage within the Freemasonry, which was similar in form and structure to the Xunshan Monastery in the past, and adhered to the same creed.

Beside him, Kelly didn't speak.

He is the Guardian of Silence and does not need to speak, just a stone statue when Roman wants to talk to himself.

As for Kelly's silence, Roman didn't care, just muttered.

"Now that I think about it, my grandfather must have hoped that I would be able to enter the ashram, but I refused because I thought it was boring...... The Hermitage, the last guardian of the Ashrams, apparently swallowed up the Ashrams, but it was inexplicably as if they had been fused by the Ashrams. Grandpa, what were you thinking? ”

There was silence for a long time, and before I knew it, it was already dark outside the window.

Roman looked at the stars in the night sky and suddenly spoke.

"Kelly, there's a star gone. ”

Beside him, Kelly didn't speak, still silent.

By the window, a gloomy man looked at the night sky, not knowing what he was thinking.