It was a vast wasteland.

In the midst of the wasteland, there was a man who was alone.

Dressed in the robes of ancient emperors, he stood with his hands in his hands and looked into the distance.

In the sky, three dazzling suns emitted a scorching light, making the earth as dead as hell, and the sun representing hope, at this moment, is like death, gazing at the world.

Although it is only a stick figure and only outlines some lines, Xu Rui's painting grasps the charm, so with a few strokes, Lin Shuyi can also see the artistic conception that this concept draft wants to express.

The three suns cause the destruction of living beings, and the saints, want to solve this problem.

Lin Shuyi first thought of the myths and legends of China, Hou Yi shot the sun.

It is also the number of suns that causes the earth to be desolate, but there are only three suns in Xu Rui's manuscript, which is obviously different from the myth of nine suns.

"What is this?"

couldn't help but ask, Lin Shuyi saw Xu Rui turn around and smiled.

"After the concept of the work, the original painting, the animation."

As he spoke, he switched left and right, and Xu Rui had already drawn several of them.

There are hordes of space fleets assembled in the void, facing a tiny droplet-shaped object.

There are huge ships moving through the sea, and in front of them, the threads of steel form deadly strings, ready to go.

There are luxurious estates, elegant men and beautiful ladies looking out over the calm lake.

There were scholars standing in the graves they had dug for themselves, with a pistol pointed at their heads.

Although these conceptual original paintings seem to have no connection, they make Lin feel very harmonious.

Seriousness, grandeur, suffering and hope, these are the key words that come to her mind.

"Wow, what type of work is this, sci-fi?"

Although Lin Shuyi has not yet watched the internal test screening of "The Country Teacher", she has also heard a few words of introduction from some colleagues who do original paintings, and more or less knows that this is a science fiction movie, reminiscent of Xu Rui's first work "The Voice of the Stars" is also a science fiction work, and it is not the same as the general space opera, with a texture of humanities and science intertwined.

Therefore, Lin Shuyi is also looking forward to Xu Rui's new sci-fi work.

"Well, it's about the war of civilizations between humans and aliens."

Xu Rui replied.

"Civilizational wars? Like those movies? ”

Lin Shuyi suddenly remembered some movies, such as what Martians invaded the earth, alien spaceships descended on the earth, huge robots turned into cars, etc., and she was a little curious, how should the animation represent this scene of alien invasion.

You know, this kind of scene full of explosions, crowds, and cities, if you don't use CG to express it, then the pressure of painting will be very great, but no matter how well CG is done, the difference between it and hand-drawn still exists, and it is easy to produce a sense of separation, which is not what should be done for a work.

Seeing Lin Shuyi's confused look, Xu Rui simply turned the chair and let Lin Shuyi sit aside.

"In fact, the alien invasion in the movie is not reasonable."

He paused, then continued.

"There is no other life in the observable universe known to mankind, so how powerful will the civilization that can discover the existence of the earth and send people to the earth have? Sub-light or even faster-than-light travel, controlled nuclear fusion, the psychological strength and logistical support of long-term voyages in the long universe are all things that humans cannot compete with. ”

"In other words, if there is a real scenario of aliens invading the earth, we can't resist it at all?"

Lin Shuyi was very smart and immediately understood what Xu Rui meant.

"Actually, there is a theory that just by receiving information about the existence of aliens, there will be changes within civilization."

Xu Rui added.

"This work tells the story of humanity sending a signal to the extraterrestrial world and getting a reply, which in turn starts the story of communication and struggle between two civilizations."

Then, he briefly told Lin Shuyi the story of a woman who lost hope in humanity because she was persecuted by the people around her and communicated with alien civilizations.

α Centauri is a three-star system, that is, a galaxy composed of three stars, and in astrophysics, the three-star system is an unstable system, and its trajectory is unpredictable and irregular.

This is where extraterrestrial civilizations were born.

Xu Rui recounted the hundreds of rebirths of this alien civilization, and the aliens evolved a special mechanism to deal with the disordered three-star system, but even so, many civilizations only stayed in the Stone Age or the Steam Age.

This time, the alien civilization captured the signal from the Earth and decided to invade the Earth when they discovered that the Earth was in a stable stellar environment.

However, the alien civilization has not mastered the faster-than-light technology, although their technological level is far beyond the earth at this stage, but it has not really opened the gap, if you directly send a fleet expedition, then these fleets have gone through a lot of hardships, and when they come to the earth, they will face the earthlings whose civilization level is far beyond them, and thus become cannon fodder.

As a result, the alien civilization used its own powerful quantum science and technology to create Zhizi, an intelligent robot that is only the size of an elementary particle, which can interfere with the movement of particles in the particle accelerator, and can also monitor any situation on the earth.

Xu Rui told Lin Shuyi about the concept of technology explosion and suspicion chain, and finally said.

"If we affirm two axioms, first, survival is the first need of civilization, and second, civilization continues to expand and grow, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains the same, and then we introduce the technological explosion of civilization due to extraterrestrial disturbances, and the chain of suspicion between the two civilizations, we can get a cosmic sociological conjecture."

"What conjecture?"

Lin Shuyi was originally a liberal arts student, just to understand what technology exploded, the chain of suspicion took a lot of brains, hearing this, she felt that every word could be understood separately, but when connected, she didn't understand the meaning at all.

"To put it simply."

At this time, Yi Qianqian, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke.

"When a civilization in the universe discovers another civilization that is lower than itself, the best way is to destroy this civilization directly, and at the same time, the civilization also needs to hide itself to prevent it from being discovered by other civilizations."

I don't know when she heard the exchange between Xu Rui and Lin Shuyi, but judging from her answer, at least the previous paragraph was heard clearly.

"Yes, this is the Dark Forest Theory, and the measure taken by the alien civilization in the work is to destroy the Earth civilization."

Xu Rui bowed slightly.

"However, in this case, there will be no way for humans to defeat aliens."

Lin Shuyi doesn't seem to understand, but she is still a little obsessed with defeating aliens.

"Well, so, in the second part of the story, humanity came up with the Wall-Facing Project."

Xu Rui replied.

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