No one knows how many expeditions will reach their destination.

People who stay in the solar system say to others that if they leave, they will not look back, and they will no longer look up at the stars at will, that is meaningless.

People will only occasionally stop in their spare time from busy study and work, silently remembering the faces that have passed away.

I wish you all the best in the distance.

At midnight on January 1, 2500, seven days after seeing off the last colonial ship, some changes quietly took place.

As if pinching the second, the large radio telescope located inside the Pluto colony was the first to catch some of the changes.

Scholars quickly calculated their conclusions.

Just now, the speed of light in a vacuum has dropped slightly by one ten-millionth compared to the standard value of the past.

This abrupt change was very subtle, and if it weren't for the fact that the current equipment was sensitive enough, and everyone was on high alert, it would have been almost impossible to detect it so quickly.

This change is small and does not affect people's daily life and work at all, but it makes physicists creepy.

The physical rules in the solar system have undergone a slight change that earthlings can't understand.

What happened next was the same as it used to be.

The existence of a massive solar system barrier has been discovered, and this barrier continues to shrink at a not-so-slow rate, compressing the space of the solar system.

This kind of spatial compression will distort the rules of the universe at a certain level, and may block the way forward of theoretical knowledge after the scientific and technological level of human civilization reaches a certain stage.

Combined with the instantaneous changes that previous scholars have discovered, scientists have concluded that perhaps just a moment, just a billionth of a second, humanity has been locked up.

Master Chen Feng's "Crisis of the Compound Eye" is not a story, it is a prophecy.

Now his prophecy has been fulfilled.

Thankfully, we believed his prophecy 32 years in advance and took decisive action.

The world's leaders feel distorted.

There is a kind of steadfastness that the big stone in my heart has finally landed, but it is so heavy that I can't breathe.

In the past timeline, every human civilization has gone through this phase of over-mentality.

Human beings will always have fear in the face of the unknown, and this fear will bring chaos, and it takes difficult and painful self-grinding to accept the reality little by little and adapt to the new situation.

But this time it was a little different, as the leadership had more trust in Chen's predictions than ever before, and knew more.

It's happened, and we expected it.

Since we have given up on leaving and have chosen to stay with more than 37 billion people, there is no word regret in our dictionary.

Master Chen Feng's portrayal in "The Crisis of the Compound Eye" is clear enough.

If this prophecy is accurate, so should his depiction of the invaders who will arrive in 500 years.

In the movie, the protagonist Zheng Feng finally broke through the invader's warship, rushed in, and killed one person.

Master Chen Feng will not lie, let alone brag!

He must have "seen" that day.

Moreover, Master Chen Feng had already started preparations five hundred years in advance.

That's what he created in the game!

Although our technology today is nowhere near the level he portrayed in the film, it doesn't matter, we still have 500 years left.

We can reach or even surpass the level of technology in Crisis of the Compound Eye.

We'll master the curvature-like engine, the Unified Force Field Shield, the gravitational wave device, the enemy's weird bombs, and even the Black Hole Bomb!

Humanity will have the power to fight!

Just start now and move on!

This time, it only took one month from the establishment of the world government to the gradual announcement of the news to all mankind!

Half a year later, more than 37 billion people in all mankind have accepted this reality.

Someone cried.

Someone is pessimistic.

Someone is desperate.

But many more people are looking up at the huge statue that is rapidly rising from the ground in the center of the city.

It was a man with a resolute face.

Hundreds of years ago, he struggled and dedicated his life.

His last words echoed over the radio.

"I have only one request for you, don't stop my unfinished business and keep going."

People didn't quite understand what he meant by his unfinished business.

Create?

Construction?

Struggle?

For the benefit of future generations?

Now people know.

All these seemingly great and sublime speculations are inaccurate.

His unfinished business is only two simple words.

Exist.

No matter what the cost, no matter how many years we have to continue to struggle, no matter what kind of enemies we will face, we have only one pursuit.

The existence of human beings cannot be erased!

The weeping person withdrew his tears, the pessimistic person gave himself a slap in the face, and the desperate person got back on his feet with a desperate fighting spirit.

Hua Zhongyun, the first leader of the world government, said: "Everyone, let's struggle, it's still too late, we still have 500 years!" ”

In the summer of 2,500, with the completion of the statue of Chen Feng in the major planetary cities, mankind quickly entered the next era - five hundred years of preparation.

On the winter night of 2519, 99.99 percent of the entire human race was slightly nervous at home, except for soldiers and medical workers who were fully armed and fully wrapped in quarantine armor and carefully guarded the streets.

Mankind has already completed the universal vaccination and has antibodies.

But they are still on full alert, and the whole people have been staying at home for three full months, and it is now December 31, 2519.

It's the last day of 2519.

At this time, everyone is holding a portable genetic testing device in their hands.

The lights of the numerous genetic monitoring towers in the major settlements are shimmering.

No one knows where the enemy will come from and in what way.

But everyone knows what kind of enemy they are waiting for, invisible to the naked eye, but fierce as the devil.

The clock on the wall ticks and ticks.

The father, who was wearing a full set of isolation gear, looked at the monitor beside him.

There are two separate rooms on the monitor, and the picture shows his wife and daughter who have also completed quarantine prevention.

From time to time, the man looked down at the genetic tester in his hand, and then at the fireplace not far away beside him.

Behind the fireplace is a medium-sized atomic decomposition garbage collector.

The father was thinking about a problem.

Although medical scientists have said that in the early stages, there is a more than 15% chance of curing this infectious disease.

But the contagiousness of this disease is terrifying.

Bacteria are extremely viable.

Even if the virus has reached the P7 level, it can still leak and contaminate large areas.

If the detector in my hand alarms after twelve o'clock, it means that I have become a carrier for the invaders to release S bacteria.

Then I didn't hesitate to jump into the atomic decomposition machine.

I must not be a source of communication!

If it's my wife or daughter......

I'll just ......

Come in with her!

Bite.

Twelve o'clock arrived.

The Gregorian New Year's bell rings in 2520.

Nothing happened.

At the end of January 2520, medical scientists and biologists held a large online meeting to make a comprehensive assessment and reach a conclusion.

The S fungus missed the appointment.

The prophet Chen Feng's prophecy seems to have been wrong.

Some breathe a sigh of relief, but others are more nervous.

After the consultation of the high-level meeting of the world government in the bud, Hua Zhongyun said in a heavy tone.

"We made a mistake. The reason why Master Chen Feng encrypted the information of the S fungus before and set it to be automatically unlocked on January 1, 2520 must have his considerations. ”

"If we crack it early, it could be discovered by an intruder and cause the other party to change their strategy. Now we have indeed taken action ahead of schedule, we have completed the vaccination rollout, and we have also done the quarantine ahead of schedule. All this has already been discovered. So what we have to face now is an unknown crisis. ”

"After all, we still make mistakes because of kindness. I'm sorry everyone. ”

In fact, there have been debates and disagreements on this matter for a long time.

Scientists, soldiers, politicians, and other leaders have their own opinions, and the conclusion of the debate is that despite Chen Feng's metaphors and considerations, most people are still unwilling to take the huge risk that could lead to the death of at least billions of people.

As long as it can be saved, who wants to watch their compatriots die coldly?

When people are greedy, they are prone to make mistakes.

The price of mistakes is a new crisis, mass extinction.

January 2544, a cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere and a midsummer in the Southern Hemisphere.

A quiet change began.

I don't know how the compound eye, who controls everything remotely, observes the situation in the solar system, and how much information can be obtained.

In short, the compound eye changed his strategy again after discovering that "Song of the World" was ineffective and that the S bacteria had to face antibodies at the beginning.

The full controllable energy in the solar system barrier is activated again.

The compound eye man once again introduced a new bacterium.

This small individual bacterium is completely no match for the body's immune system and has low fecundity in the human body.

Therefore, the bacterium is completely harmless to humans and safer than E. coli.

But it is extremely capable of reproducing in animals.

The bacterium is also not lethal to animals and can even coexist well.

This property is universal and applies to all animals, including invertebrates and vertebrates, except humans.

Later generations named it Z bacteria.

The definition of Z is taken from wisdom.

Z bacteria are also known as smart bacteria.

A single Z bacterium is not sapient, but this changes when the number of Z bacteria in a population exceeds 10,000 individuals.

A certain number of Z bacteria will concentrate in the central nervous system of these animals and attach to their neurons to quietly complete parasitic assimilation.

By using the original neural links in the central nervous system of animals, the individuals of Z bacteria are associated with each other.

Subsequently, a group intelligence similar to the human brain division, but with much less complexity, will sprout from this strongly correlated group.

As a result of the external manifestation, this being, which was originally not intelligent, became an individual with wisdom.

The essence embodied in the interior is that countless Z bacteria individuals are combined to form the wisdom of the group.

Even if this level of intelligence is still very low, it is still a qualitative change compared to the various animals themselves.

After the brain intelligence changes, the change does not stop.

It may be to match the consumption of the central nervous system after having intelligence, or it may be the genetic instinct of Z bacteria, the body structure of the infected individual, which will be reawakened to the instinct of rapid division and directed gene expression, in a process similar to the process from embryo to mature individual, but much more complex.

After this process is completed, the infected animal will undergo drastic changes to exhibit properties that are not possible with terrestrial organisms.

Infected individuals may gain a larger body size to support more Z bacteria and gain higher intelligence, or they may remain their original body size and maintain only basic intelligence.

This brand new animal was named extinct animal.

When Chen Feng saw this text description in the review of historical materials, the first thing that came to mind was the dragonfly fighter of the invaders.

Thinking about the lethality of that thing, his scalp tingled.

Really got off the hook.

This time, the compound eye enlarged the trick and took out the thing at the bottom of the box.

Let the people of the twenty-sixth century face the dragonfly fighters?

Is it possible to win the battle?

No!

Just one dragonfly fighter is enough to completely destroy the entire human civilization in the twenty-sixth century!

The technological generation difference between the two sides is too great, and at that time, no human weapon could cause the slightest damage to the dragonfly fighter.

Maybe a dragonfly fighter can't destroy an entire civilization in an instant, but in the closed space of the solar system, it can sweep and harvest little by little like a god of death, a city, a region, and a planet.

Given the Dragonfly fighter a few decades, it can kill 37 billion people one by one.

There is nowhere to run, and everyone can only be killed.

Continuing to watch, Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, it is a secondary transformation based on the original animals of the earth, and there will be some improvements, but the potential is not enough to support the height of the dragonfly fighter.

But this is still not to be underestimated.

Exterminating animals is both intelligent and has an incredible bioweapon structure, not to mention the lethality of humans.

What's even more insidious is that this time the invaders still used the idea of dormant outbreaks, deliberately controlling the timing of the outbreak of Z bacteria.

At first, the animals infiltrated by Z bacteria did not show obvious changes in appearance, nor did they change their temperament, but they continued to quietly increase their range of activities and silently spread bacteria.

This lurk is extremely stealthy and insidious.

Z bacteria disguised themselves as a completely harmless common bacteria.

Even if some biologists found out about it, they didn't realize the danger and only regarded it as a new species that evolved naturally in the biological world.

This camouflage is not difficult, as long as the genetic information of Z bacteria deliberately controls the number of populations in a single body, no more than 10,000, it will not show any intelligent characteristics.

At the level of human biological knowledge, almost no one could have imagined that there would really be some kind of bacteria in the universe, and after reaching a population of 10,000, it would be able to suddenly give birth to group intelligence, and even support a huge population of 20 billion at most, forming a complete wisdom that is not inferior to human beings at all?

Super biologist Lai Wenming had discovered the existence of Z bacteria in a dragonfly as early as 2546, but even he didn't realize it.

He deliberately cultivated a small group of Z bacteria with a total amount of 10 billion.

But Lai Wenming was also deceived by the Z fungus actor-level "pretending to be crazy and stupid".

Fourteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.