Chapter 383: The Ant Nest, the Wanderer Returns Home [7300 Words]
At this time, the human quantum information monitoring network has just been rebuilt and is being debugged, and it can only scan a third of a light-year.
When the Prism fleet was captured, it was less than a quarter of a light-year away from the edge of the solar system.
The opponent did not suddenly appear across space like a spherical battleship, but appeared in the universe early, and then jumped forward along the network of curvature gravitational lines one by one.
This jump can be called a mid-range jump, and each jump travels about 0.005 light-years, with an average of one jump per second.
So the prismatic fleet reached the edge of the solar dome with about 50 seconds left.
In these 50 seconds, Chen Feng quickly readjusted to the control and performance of the Star Blade Colossus, and at the same time, he thought a lot in his head.
He tried to empty his mind and stay absolutely calm, but he couldn't.
After all, he is a man, not a machine.
How firm the mind of the compound eye civilization is to destroy the earth civilization, he no longer needs to emphasize it to himself.
His hatred began with confusion, then took root in an understanding of the rules of the universe, and now, with some calmness.
Chen Feng subconsciously recalled the argument he had discussed with Zhong Lei that poisonous ants bite elephants to death.
Now he has a new perspective.
It is assumed that everything outside the universe does not exist, and that the universe is just the sun and the earth.
Then the ecological environment of the earth represents the entire universe.
What is the smallest creature on Earth where humans can develop empathy?
It must be an animal that is visible to the naked eye and can basically distinguish its physiological characteristics.
It is ants and mole crickets, collectively referred to as ants.
Of all the microscopic animals, humans spend the longest time gazing at ants and have the most divergent thoughts because of them.
The allusions to ancient proverbs and idioms that have been widely circulated and have a long history are proof of this.
Ants are still barely surviving.
Thousands of miles of embankment collapsed in ants.
I am willing to pay for the power of ants and open the hearts of students.
The Tao is unfathomable, and there is no rest; The sky cannot be manipulated, and people are ants.
The ants shook the iron pillar.
Ants bite elephants to death.
How light is the life of an ant.
The ants are not old enough to redeem, and their tears are like flying snow.
And so on and so forth.
Even in the 21st century, in the era when online literature is constantly emerging, and humans can even see tardigrades and H39 with microscopes, online authors always love the sentence structure of "little ants, dare to ......".
The discussion between Chen Feng and Zhong Lei also revolved around ants.
Ants are not only human beings' self-deprecation of themselves, but also represent a certain kind of infinite yearning.
In these ancient sayings there is vigilance, admiration, and contempt.
Why do literati and artists always have trouble with ants?
Of course, it's not that they're idle and have nothing to do, but because ants are small and fragile, but they can really cause a lot of trouble to humans.
Humans and other large creatures that seem to be invincible will be cheaper than ants and microbes that are invisible to the naked eye after death.
Human eyes are not disgusted because they can't see microbes devouring corpses, but if they see a colony of ants and flies covering corpses, they are disgusted, frightened, and angry.
But shouldn't ants be qualified to survive on Earth?
Absolutely.
It is still part of the ecological cycle of the Earth's "universe".
In addition, although ants are weak and can be easily pinched to death, thousands of years have passed, no matter how wide the scope of human influence is, the number of ant species has not decreased significantly, and it is still ubiquitous and alive.
Humans, elephants, tigers, anteaters, and even a dog can wipe out ant populations, not to mention a real apocalypse like torrential rains and forest fires, the Earth's environment should be dangerous for ants, but the truth is that the vast majority of ants survive their lives.
Some ant populations can survive for dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of generations in peace and tranquility.
The earliest ant populations on Earth date back 100 million years.
In the course of 100 million years, one seemingly powerful species after another has perished, and ants, a small and strong species, still stand tall on the earth in huge numbers.
So, who is more vulnerable?
Why are tiny and fragile ants so tenacious?
Just because of the huge number base?
Apparently not, the advantage of ants lies in their ultra-high reproductive capacity and "short" lifespan.
Yes, a short lifespan is also an advantage.
Ants are usually divided into three categories, queens, soldier ants, and worker ants.
Among them, worker ants are the most abundant and the most common.
Because of the subgenus and species, the lifespan of worker ants varies from a few days to several years.
Most worker ants have a lifespan of about ten weeks, more than two months.
The long life of ants "thinking they are" is just a flick of a finger for humans and large animals.
The life span of ants is too short, and they can't wait to be unjustly killed in a catastrophe, and they will die.
Therefore, most ants really go through their lives happily and peacefully, and they are really not afraid of death.
However, the earth does not represent the universe, and the difference in the proportion of the earth to the universe is much greater than that of the ant.
The position of human beings in the universe is not even one billionth of what ants are to the earth.
Because of the large population base, when not being watched by large organisms, the individual ant and its population are in an absolutely safe state in terms of probability.
Only in the rare case of the ant will be unintentionally stepped on by a large creature, or unfortunately meet a bear child who likes to play with water or fire, and will be tragically destroyed.
If the earth is also seen as an isolated ant, then human civilization is also in a kind of probabilistic safe house.
The probability of safety is very high, and it can even be so high that the risk factor is negligible.
But......
WHEN AN ANT SMELLS THE SCENT OF HONEY, CLIMBS ONTO THE TABLE IN THE COURTYARD, AND THEN APPEARS ON THE ANGRY CHILD'S DESSERT, AND THEN THE ANGRY CHILD'S GAZE TURNS FROM HIS IPAD TO THE ROW OF HARD-WORKING ANTS, THE SAFETY FACTOR OF THE ANT WILL SUDDENLY DECREASE, AND THE DANGER FACTOR WILL GO STRAIGHT TO THE THRESHOLD.
Or, to put the situation more randomly and accidentally, the ants are just passing by in groups in the courtyard, and a curious child happens to see them.
At the moment of staring, the ant's safe house shattered, replaced by absolute danger, and there was no room for resistance.
Naughty human children will pick up a water hose and pour it into the ants just for fun.
The higher civilization destroys the lower civilization, there is no need for a reason, it is just fun.
If you have to find a reason, it could be that a child feels sorry for his dessert, or that an ant colony is eating the corpse of a butterfly that he thinks is beautiful.
Again, the kid happened to have a nightmare last night, dreaming that he was being eaten by a crazy ant colony after he died.
And these ants also anthropomorphized in his nightmares, gnawing on meat while making a terrible laugh.
It's not hard to guess where the rest of the story will go.
In short, the gaze of the lower beings in the face of the gaze of the higher beings represents danger.
Now humanity is facing "angry children".
The dome of the sun is the excavator used by the angry child to shovel the soil, and when the shovel goes down, the ants are dug up by the roots, isolated from the earth, and turned into a turtle in an urn and a fish in a bottle.
The ball battleship was the first drop of water from the huge faucet in the angry child's hand.
In the previous seven timelines, this drop of water easily destroyed everything.
Now Chen Feng has turned into a fire, ignited the flame of civilization, and evaporated this drop of water.
But the "stinky kid" can observe the strength of the ants in the nest through the camera mounted on the shovel of the excavator, and the stinky kid also has some biological knowledge, knowing that a drop of water cannot drown all the ants in the ant.
So now the angry kid handed over the faucet and opened the sluice gate to release the water, which was still boiling.
The million prismatic warships are the boiling water surging towards the ants, leaving no life.
At this moment, when he wanted to understand this truth, Chen Feng had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
He was both sad and optimistic.
He must accept his fate.
It's time to give up the illusions, I really can't win this time.
If humans were really ants, there were countless nests in the universe.
Unfortunately not.
We are only on Earth, only in the Milky Way.
We are so lonely and small.
It's a foregone conclusion.
Ever since human civilization passed the stage of ape-man and was born on earth after countless years of backwardness, it has been destined for today's situation.
If the earthlings really have the most perfect potential, and the quantum storm in the brain can really match the complexity of the universe, then this, in turn, can only show that the earthlings may be the latest civilization in the universe.
In this cosmic race in which countless civilizations participate, the earthlings have lagged behind for too many years.
Even if the next track is still very long, the forerunners in front of them will throw unavoidable mines along the way, and it will be futile for the earthlings to catch up.
Chen Feng also has a new understanding of fate.
On more than one occasion in the past, he had resented the group of people who had launched the Voyagers, firmly believing that it was their hubris and ignorance that brought about the apocalypse.
But now he had changed his mind, and even without the Voyager program, the existence of humanity would be exposed to the universe sooner or later.
This can happen in the twenty-first century, or it can happen in the twenty-fifth century, or even the thirty-fifth century.
Unless the earthlings give up their potential, the fate of war is inescapable.
But how can this potential be said to give up and give up?
Whether you want to or not, you can't do it in the first place.
How can humanity not move forward unless it actively moves towards extinction?
On the way forward, the earth civilization will inevitably be forced or actively participate in the cruel competition of the universe.
Perhaps not every extraterrestrial civilization is full of malice, and there are also good aliens.
However, if the pace of human progress does not stop, it will inevitably encounter an extremely powerful and irresistible malicious civilization in a certain year, month, and day.
Even if human civilization is already more powerful than the compound eye, it will not necessarily be useful.
Who knows how big the universe is, how many billions of years others have developed, and how high the level of civilization is.
Of course, Chen Feng is not convinced, but he believes that the earthlings are too weak when they are targeted, and their ability to resist risks is too low, and others are doomed to perish with just a simple gaze.
The enemy came too soon.
No one else gives a chance to fight in an upright manner.
Just like two swordsmen duel, the weaker swordsman has been cultivating hard for decades and is ready to fight hard, but the stronger swordsman snapped his backhand and touched the AWP.
It's already stronger, and you're sure to win, and you still have hot weapons.
It's just despicable and shameless!
In your position, you may take it for granted, but that doesn't stop me from being unwilling.
The prismatic battleship fleet finally drew closer and came to a sudden halt ahead.
The tip of the enemy ship's cone is facing the solar dome.
Then, like an orange that has been broken, a crack opened slightly in the middle, and one blade after another blade mantis floated out.
At the same time, the tip of the prismatic battleship suddenly glowed with a scorching white light.
Detection instruments show that an ultra-high energy reaction is taking place there.
The ultra-high-power "Song of the World" suddenly sounded in the solar system.
One particle bomb after another is brewing at a breakneck pace.
The space within the solar system suddenly began to become viscous, showing a large area of dark energy.
The Quantum Communication Instrument gave an alarm, showing that the nuclear reaction in the Sun, located at the center of the solar system, had suddenly increased by a million times.
Sunspot explosions, which were originally seen only once in decades, are bursting out at an ultra-high frequency of hundreds of millions of times per second.
It was still a familiar taste, and as soon as the compound eyes came, they came up with a terrible means that were enough to crush humans.
This may be the reason for the previous dispute in the spherical battleship.
If the spherical battleships wait for these real prismatic warships, then human beings will naturally have no power to resist.
But perhaps it was because the real controller of the ball battleship, the body of the fifty-five compound eyes, was eager for merit, and firmly believed that it could kill all the humans with forty blade mantises, so he acted rashly, and finally ended up with the destruction of the entire army.
Of course, the compound eye who made the decision also knew very well that even if it died, it would not affect the overall situation, and there would be people behind it anyway.
At this time, Chen Feng controlled the Colossus of Xingfeng and slowly floated forward.
He gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with fire.
Never mind.
This time I accept the fate of perdition.
But the ancients said that ants still survive.
I know I'm an ant, but I don't accept the fate of closing my eyes and waiting to die!
I'll give you a taste of the sharp pain of being bitten on your finger and then being poisoned by me!
Chen Feng began to concentrate and perfectly link his brain thinking with the Colossus of Xingfeng.
He tried to move his fingers.
The fingers of the Colossus of Starfront, which was nearly a kilometer long, were slightly bent, and he clenched the two similar unified force cutting blades in his hand.
The Colossus's chest began to heav slightly like a human being, as if it were taking a deep breath.
A large amount of positron conversion essentia is fed into the bulb engine.
The horns of nearby warships and fighter planes were affected by radiation, and a piercing noise suddenly sounded.
For the first time, Chen Feng turned on the curvature flight state belonging to a human being, and a faint curvature bubble firmly wrapped him.
At this time, behind him, functional units such as scientific research space stations, engineering ships, and medical ships were rapidly retreating, and battleships and combat armor were still rapidly preparing their formations.
Since the power of "Song of the World" cannot be suppressed, the human fleet will inevitably face the sweep of particle bombs.
Nowadays, mankind has a wealth of experience in fighting particle bombs.
When the battleships formed a formation, they no longer stood still, but spread out, and the large battleships maintained a distance of more than 300 kilometers from each other, maintaining random movements to prevent bombs from being dropped directly into the cabin.
In addition, the new multi-functional battlefield scanner can quickly detect abnormal fluctuations when particle bombs are brewing, and assist warships and small combat units to complete rapid transposition.
Outside, after tens of millions of blade mantis flew out one after another, the prismatic battleship array outside the solar dome changed again.
Prismatic battleships no longer coalesced, but began to spread out in all directions in a medium-range twist jump.
At the same time, a violent chain explosion caused by a large number of particulate bombs dropped over the air began.
The airspace where the human fleet was concentrated was shrouded in countless fluttering "ghost fire" bombs.
It's a similar story on the escape fleet's side.
Luckily, both the Tinder and the Sprout have special power-ups and shields.
Past experience has helped a lot, and the overall human casualties are not significant.
What really causes damage to human beings is that in the process of moving positions, combat units are inexplicably "eaten" half by some undetectable dark black regiments.
At the same time, with the exception of galactic humans, whose arousal level has increased to more than 35%, the thinking patterns of the vast majority of people have begun to change invisibly.
The penetration and influence of the ultra-high-power "Song of the World" is too strong, so if everyone is put into the logical thinking training chamber dedicated to making particle bombs.
Although "Song of the World" can only change the mode of thinking, and will not fundamentally distort people's three views, when the driver's thinking becomes rigid and rigid, the ability to change direction loses randomness, and it is easier to be predicted by particle bombs, and the casualty rate accelerates suddenly.
Chen Feng can't help it.
He was a little too busy to take care of himself.
The Colossus has strong resistance to particle bombs, but if it is dropped into the interior and detonated, the consequences are unpredictable, so he also has to perform a wide range of circling maneuvers in a state of curvature motion.
Dozens of seconds passed, and the prismatic battleship outside completely completed the change of formation.
This formation made Chen Feng a little incomprehensible.
Million-prismatic battleships are evenly spaced outside the solar dome and are spaced at the same height from each other.
The intense white light at the top of the prismatic battleship was not a heavy artillery, but branched from the top of the battleship like a tree root, diffused horizontally, turned into a thick arc of lightning and rushed forward, and then connected with another white lightning from another battleship.
It didn't take long for the white light at the top of these prismatic battleships to connect in pairs, forming a new net beyond the solar dome.
From time to time, a faint glimmer of light rippled between the grids of the large net, swallowing tiny electric rays.
Although Chen Feng had never seen this kind of technology, the technical department analyzed that the characteristics of these electric rays were similar to the white beams fired by the spherical battleship before, but the energy intensity was much higher again.
According to the analysis of the technical department, the electric mang-chain network is the self-owned technology that the compound eye is proficient in.
The purpose of the other party's actions is to prepare to collect the solar dome, and then use its own technology to achieve perfect suppression.
Sure enough, after the chain network was formed, the solar dome began to flicker again and was about to disappear.
Chen Feng counted down in his mind based on his experience.
"Three, two, one......"
In the command ship, Tang Tianxin picked up the communicator and said in a calm tone: "Everyone, every second we hold on, we can collect intelligence for Chen Feng for one more second. Soldiers, scholars, and workers, for the sake of themselves, for the future, for the qualification to live freely under the stars one day, in order to see what this universe is like, hold the weapons in your hands! Fight until the last minute! ”
The dome of the sun is gone!
Chen Feng, who was performing a small-scale random maneuver, suddenly turned around and sprinted towards the nearest prismatic battleship in the universe along the broken line.
The other human fleets launched their own desperate charges almost simultaneously.
After losing the stars, Tang Tianxin could no longer perfectly control the battleships both macroscopic and microscopic, she could only redivide the fleet into eight integrated new legions, and then give the commanders of the major legions with relatively high flexibility.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Feng rushed to a prismatic battleship less than 3,000 kilometers in front of him, but he did not rush forward.
In the process of charging, his eyelids suddenly jumped wildly, and after making several directional maneuvers in a row, he reopened the distance, and then reviewed the combat report, only to know that he had walked in front of the ghost gate.
It turned out that the path on his way, that is, the distance between the solar dome and the formation of the enemy ships, was already covered with heavy and stacked lumps of dark black.
These dark black masses do not have any photoelectric effect and do not emit gravity, which should be a unique use of some kind of dark matter.
In the vicinity of the dark black mass, there are also countless physical toxins densely distributed.
As he maneuvered, a thick white arc chased him after him.
If he takes one step further, he will die, and if he slows down, he will still die.
As he fled, he left some mines in his place, and at the same time fired a number of live missiles.
Some of the missiles hit the enemy ships, and some of the missiles deliberately hit the hollows in the grid between the enemy ships.
The thunderbolt he left in place was hooked by the arc of electricity, and it melted and shattered directly, unable to detonate at all, and turned into a ball of flame and burned on its own.
The missiles he fired at the enemy ship were hit by the branch-like arcs that suddenly set up at the top of the enemy ship, and they still melted and dissolved into extremely fine particles on the spot, and then turned into a ball of flame.
These particles are protons and neutrons.
As for the missiles that shoot into the hollows of the grid, they are no better.
As they passed through the hollow level, small arcs of electricity swept past, and the missiles shattered into powder and scattered like fireworks.
The reason why Chen Feng retreated was because he found that the prismatic battleships that formed the battle formation were still advancing in coordination at 0.5 times the speed of light.
According to this trend, after a maximum of ten days, the entire solar system will be swept by this network of links.
Except for the body of the sun, all matter in the solar system will be completely broken into protons and neutrons.
Humans can only keep going backwards until they have their backs to the sun, and there is no way back.
"Chen Feng, we have two choices now. First, go back and try to hold on for a few more days. Second, move forward, concentrate on impacting the same grid, see if you can escape, and escape one by one. ”
Chen Feng thought for a while, "The purpose of the first plan is to live a few more days, but it loses the opportunity to probe the enemy's means. ”
Tang Tianxin hummed, "Yes, so, I can only rush out." ”
Chen Feng nodded in the air, "I'll try to see if I can open a gap first." ”
Just as Tang Tianxin was about to order the whole army to charge, the intelligence officer suddenly shouted: "There is new information!" Two unidentified fleets are approaching the solar system! ”
Tang Tianxin hurriedly ordered to stand by, retreated in formation, and waited and saw the situation.
At the same time, she turned on the remote projection.
After a moment, her gaze was glazed.
Chen Feng also looked at the projection in a daze, his mind buzzing.
The starry sky projection screen has been updated.
About seventy thousand kilometers behind the prismatic array of battleships, a large fleet suddenly appeared.
The ships of this fleet are uniformly shaped, all of them are elliptical and two-wheeled, and in the middle is a combination that can see the structure of the command room.
Each spacecraft is three kilometers high, with an elliptical twin wheels 7.7 kilometers long, and a comet-shaped functional connection in the middle, which is 5.6 kilometers long.
The upper and lower elliptical twin wheels are another direction of curvature flight technology that has been verified and theoretically feasible.
The fleet that suddenly appeared had been traveling at exactly twice the speed of light, and then slowed down suddenly.
The entire fleet consisted of 80 million identical two-wheeled ships.
On the other side of the solar system, there is another huge fleet of 50 million warships with triangular geometry.
People's mood suddenly fluctuated, and they did not know where these two huge fleets came from, whether they were friends or foes.
But battlefield intelligence officers have already quickly given two patterns.
Both of these images are painted on all Twin Ships and Triangle Ships.
One is a bright red flag with 56 stars, and the other is the United Nations emblem that Chen Feng was once very familiar with.
Two solemn voices suddenly rang out in the human communication channel.
"Proxima Centauri Fleet Commander Peng Zhongyun, report to the home planet Earth!"
"Barnadri, Commander of the Barnadri Star Fleet, Glen Yabuliel, reports to the home planet Earth!"
"We're back!"
Chen Feng clenched his fists and felt uncontrollable, but the next second later, he became angry again.
He roared angrily, "Bastard thing! Didn't I tell you never to look back! ”
No one expected that at this last moment, these two reinforcements would be ushered in at all.
More than 500 years ago, countless colony ships died halfway, but humanity still managed to establish two colonies in the Proxima Centauri and Barnard systems.
Now the "wanderers" of the two colonies have broken the oath they made five hundred and forty years ago and arrived at the battlefield almost at the same time at the decisive moment.
Their sense of time seemed to be skewed, seventeen hours and eight minutes late, but it still came.
Peng Zhongyun and Gal looked at the image of Chen Feng in quantum communication at the same time, first stunned, then ecstatic for an instant, and then quickly calmed down.
The two commanders glanced at each other, and Peng Zhongyun first said: "Hello, this general who looks exactly like the sage Chen Feng, we must and can only participate in this war." Unless we can wipe out the Compound Eye's army here today, there will be no peace in the galaxy and no way out for humanity. ”
Galen added, "I'm sorry, we really can't turn a blind eye. The galaxy is infinitely vast to us, but for compound eyes, it only takes a thousand years to complete a patrol. We can't stay out of it. If the home planet falls, it will be our turn next. ”
Chen Feng pondered for a moment, "So you decided to return to the solar system a few years ago to fight against you?" ”
Gallen: "Yes. ”
Peng Zhongyun: "In fact, the solar system barrier is now shrouded in the sky over Proxima Centauri. ”
Gallen: "Next up is Barnard." ”
Peng Zhongyun: "Unless we can go further and leave the Milky Way for the extragalactic galaxy, we have no choice. In the past 500 years, our two major colonies have been in contact with some other civilizations in the galaxy, and it can be determined that this fleet is the entire military force of the compound eye civilization in the galaxy. ”
After an instant, Chen Feng understood a lot of meaning.
He adjusted his body slightly, turned his head to look at the array of prismatic battleships in front of him, "It's okay, whether it succeeds or not, kill him." ”
The three commanders, Tang Tianxin, Gallen, and Peng Zhongyun, gave orders almost simultaneously.
"All-out attack!"
"No reserves! Charge! ”
"Forward!"