In 2760, the group of non-returnees departed from the extreme edge of the Barnard System and by 2950 had advanced to deep space nearly 160 light-years from the Solar System.

They found a lonely asteroid floating in the universe that does not orbit any stars.

After landing, the probe began to receive electromagnetic signals with obvious regularity.

After years of research, the non-returnable discovered that the asteroid was actually an ancient rocky life.

This rock has a lifespan of at least two billion years.

The consciousness of rock life is born lonely in a rock structure that fuses some metals, and exists in a way that is completely inconsistent with the cognitive logic of earthlings and the definition of life on earth.

Its subjective consciousness is not a complete logic constructed in the brain of carbon-based life, and there are no neurons or nerves in it.

But the amazing thing is that the protons, neutrons, and even the massive structures of atoms and molecules that make up this asteroid form a wonderful whole.

Electrons and ions drift apart, transmit information at a slow rate, and form a closed loop, forming a vast slow-moving intelligence that is similar to, but distinct from, carbon-based life.

Carbon-based life, especially humans, relies on the flow of charged ions to transmit information, and on quantum changes in phosphorus atoms that alter the structure of microtubules in neuronal cells to generate consciousness and store memories.

Life in rocks relies on larger, but slower-reacting low-speed chemical reactions to transmit information, as well as on the quantum collapse changes in a variety of compounds within it to generate consciousness and memory.

The premise of everything is that in the accident of the infinite denominator, the quantum changes in this asteroid form a law and combine into a whole.

The process by which it was born was too fortuitous.

It has no homogeneity.

Even if there were other rock life in the universe, it would not be of the same race as it.

Normally, it thinks slowly, and a human life may only be a brief memory for him.

It's not smart, it doesn't have any inventions, it doesn't even have a civilization level.

But it's still really "alive".

It is able to memorize and repeat simple information over and over again.

After the information is memorized by it, it is forgotten at a slow rate as it "ages".

When all memories are forgotten, it means that it is "dead".

At that time, more than 20 people who had only more than ten years left to live would not have had the opportunity to read its message.

But the good news is that when humans come into contact with it, it is also coming to the end of its life.

The gravitational effect in its body began to take effect, and the quantum collapse, which had never stopped, was gradually stalled due to the settlement of particles.

When everything falls silent, it will become a real cosmic rock that may be captured by a star or planet in countless years.

As a lonely life that has witnessed two billion years, it may be a little unwilling after all.

At the same time, it is precisely because the quantum state gradually tends to settle that the frequency of small-scale collapse in its body is accelerated countless times.

Its thinking has become faster, and it can begin to release a video signal that is about half an hour long in a year's time.

The electromagnetic signal is the last image it wants to convey to humans.

The non-returnees finally deciphered this message before they aged and died, and it was an extremely grand three-dimensional projection of the universe.

It tells a story to humanity.

The story is about a war that took place millions of years ago.

The war lasted for thousands of years, and from time to time the warring sides disappeared and reappeared.

Of course, the life of the rock has not only seen the scene in this video, but it has long forgotten the things that are far back.

And, in its consciousness, everything it had experienced in the "first half of its life" for more than 1.9 billion years was only endless loneliness and absolute boredom, and it was not until the last million years of its life that everything in front of it underwent such magnificent changes.

This experience, which has lasted for thousands of years, is its most precious treasure in its heart.

Even if it is about to die, it wants its wealth to be passed on.

Rock Life compresses thousands of years into a half-hour video, making it extremely difficult to decipher.

But the non-returners eventually succeeded.

The two warring sides are none other than the Lost and the Compound Eye.

At that time, the warships of the Compound Eyes were not the prismatic structures they have today, but one small sphere after another, numbering exactly one million.

The compound eye civilization had the upper hand from the beginning.

As the war progressed, the form of the warships of the compound eye civilization gradually changed, and the performance continued to improve.

This means that the technology of the fan is being digested and absorbed.

Eventually, the war stopped.

Rock life has never had a confrontation of this magnitude break out in its memory.

At this time, the million warships of the compound eye civilization had all been transformed into prismatic structures.

One million is a delicate number.

Because Chen Feng saw from the battlefield intelligence, the exact number of prismatic warships in front of him at this time was 999996.

The missing four should be the controllers of the spherical battleships, each responsible for patrolling a 90-degree sector of the galaxy.

It's weird and scary.

This means that the true number of compound eye invaders has never decreased or increased for millions of years.

This is terrifying, and it shows that the compound eye has found a way to possibly immortalize.

Chen Feng could roughly guess what the method was.

Clone and copy and paste consciousness, and then keep raising Gu to screen new personality subjects.

At present, humans are unable to transfer consciousness because the quantum thinking storm in the human brain is too complex, but it does not mean that compound eyes cannot do it.

Maybe the compound eyes are relatively simple in thinking?

In addition, the reason why Chen Feng said that it is "possible eternal life" is not conclusive eternal life.

That's because cloning and copy-pasting consciousness may also have a limit on the number of times.

After a certain number of times, even if the body is still alive, the mind may collapse and gradually distort into another personality.

Or the direct collapse of consciousness leads to a kind of physical life and psychological complete death.

For example, the million compound eyes now and the million compound eyes millions of years ago are not the same person?

Chen Feng doesn't know, and the compound eye himself may not know.

That is the ethics of the universe, and it cannot be experienced unless human beings can also master the perfect transfer of minds.

In addition, another important piece of information that Chen Feng obtained, the positioning of the patrol ship of the spherical battleship in the compound eye civilization, also came from the difference between the number of one million and 999996.

That's the answer.

After the Compound Eyes occupy the Milky Way, they are supposed to be clustered in a galaxy near the Silver Heart, and then divide the Milky Way into four fan-shaped regions, and have four patrol ships patrol at a frequency of one one-way trip every thousand years and one round trip every two thousand years.

Approximately every time the patrol ship returns, a different group of people.

Humanity's luck was both good and bad, and at the same time as the solar barrier arrived, the spherical warships responsible for patrolling this area needed to fly five hundred years from the solar system, leaving at least five hundred years for humanity to develop.

Of course, these 500 years may also have been deliberately left to mankind by the compound eye.

Since the compound eye can absorb the technology of the fan, of course, it can also absorb the technology of humans.

In a sense, the solar barrier is also an important means by which the compound eye can safely allow low-level civilizations to develop in the cage, and then completely eradicate them and erase traces at the right time.

As for why the two colonies failed to find the remains of a high-level civilization in the Orion Arm, they encountered all low-level civilizations?

It may be that the person with the compound eye has too clean hands and feet, or it may be that the hands and feet of the compound eye person are too clean.

Assuming that there is still a good order in the universe, then the Compound Eyes need to clean up the battlefield very carefully to eliminate the high-level civilization, and it doesn't matter when destroying the low-level civilization.

It seems that gangsters need to destroy the corpse to kill people, and when they step on a grasshopper on the road, they naturally let its corpse go.

In this timeline, in addition to the spherical battleships, the new enemy prismatic fleet is from the galaxy near the Silver Heart and pounces on Earth.

The prismatic ships traveled slightly faster than the ball ships, perhaps farther away, but arrived in the solar system less than twenty hours late.

Why are patrol spherical ships larger than war machine prismatic ships?

From a human perspective, you can think of it this way.

How would it feel for someone with eternal life to go on a task that would take 2,000 years to go back and forth?

Even if there is a faster-than-light quantum network that can keep in touch with its own population, it still can't avoid emptiness, loneliness, and coldness.

When technology is already developed enough and energy is almost inexhaustible, should this "brave man" who performs patrol tasks be given the highest material treatment?

Absolutely.

Building a huge patrol ship, increasing its activity space, creating the best conditions for its entertainment and life, and making it more interesting when performing its tasks has become one of the basic guarantees.

In addition, it must be given the means to ensure its life, that is, clonal replication.

The "patrolman" who died in the hands of Chen Feng must be particularly fond of the number 55.

The above conjectures and conclusive arguments are the standard answers that Chen Feng and other scholars of the solar system have come up with after fusing the knowledge of the two colonies.

Chen Feng believes that his conjecture is basically close to the truth, and it is also in line with every speculation and every intelligence detail in his past.

In fact, the situation has not changed, and this defeat is doomed, but Chen Feng is not sad, but a little proud.

Compared to the other civilizations that had been exterminated in Orion's arm, and even compared to the once powerful civilization of the Fan Clan, he had done well enough.

Since the Compound Eye civilization invaded the galaxy, God knows how many wars they have fought large and small, but they have never killed an individual.

According to Proxima Centauri's scientists' analysis of the Mystery Escape Ship, the level of science and technology possessed by the exterminated Mystery Race at that time should be similar to that of today's solar system, and even slightly superior in material science.

But as a result, the Fan Clan was not only completely defeated, but was even absorbed by the opponent in the process of the war.

Now humanity is facing a more powerful enemy that has been rooted in the galaxy for millions of years, and has absorbed and transformed all the technology of the Fan Race, and has more or less sucked a lot of blood from more or less low-level civilizations.

However, after only seven perishes and seven thousand years of technological acceleration, the human race that rose from the end of the world has gone from a humble and insignificant 0.7-level civilization to today, and has successfully killed a compound eyer.

Chen Feng didn't feel very proud before, but now he is a little more gratifying.

In addition, he has a new understanding of the civilized class.

When the technical level is not high, the Kardashev civilization classification has relatively good adaptability.

However, when the level of science and technology exceeds a certain limit, the class gap between civilizations cannot be measured simply by the amount of energy used.

For example, human beings, assuming that human beings fell into an eternal scientific and technological bottleneck after the invention of Dyson membrane, and no more achievements, but as long as the earthlings are given time, the earthlings can still sprinkle their footprints all over the galaxy and make use of every star in the galaxy, and it is not even impossible to covet the silver heart, and slowly climb the ladder of third-level civilization.

However, at this time, the earthlings were still unable to leave the galaxy and go to the extragalactic system, and in the face of the invading compound eyes, the defeat still had to be defeated.

Even if the other party only sent a million warships, the total energy they have together is less than 10 billionth of the entire galaxy, but they can win.

The energy use gap that can be closed by time is worthless.

The value of science and technology will be more reflected in quality than quantity.

For example, if humanity suddenly mastered a high-speed mobile technology that could fly independently of the warp jump and the curvature of gravitational lines, and could support a group of people to run away from the Milky Way to the other side of the Laniakea supercluster, the fate of humanity's demise would be reversed in an instant.

Chen Feng thought of his next struggle.

Continue to seek a deeper burst of technology and gain new power that can overwhelm the Compound Eyes in some way, at which point humanity will either gain the ability to maneuver and escape, or the ability to defeat the Compound Eye's million-edged fleet head-on.

Either way, it can completely change the future.

Now he understands everything, but as the war deepens, his mood has not changed in particular.

First, he found that no matter how much he tried his wisdom to imagine and speculate, he couldn't find a stable way to stimulate the explosion of deep technology.

He also informed Ou Qinglan and others of his idea, hoping that more scientists would work together with him, but the result was still very unpleasant.

Second, whenever you see your own kind die in the confrontation with other races, it is painful after all.

The death rate of the three human fleets is still very fast.

After the Compound Eyes quickly figured out the path of the Proxima Centauri fleet and Barnard's fleet, the battle damage was faster.

Unconsciously, another half an hour passed, and Chen Feng gradually felt physically and mentally exhausted.

He couldn't think of an idea, so many smart people and such a huge artificial intelligence couldn't think of an idea, but the direction of the war was so clear and clear, which made him very confused and painful.

He didn't know exactly how long the road would have to go, which bothered him immensely.

He vaguely forgot one thing.

Until now, players in the solar system have been playing "Morrowind" at the highest power for a moment.

The vast majority of people no longer enjoy the emotional blessing of "Morrowind", but under the influence of "Song of the World", their thinking has changed logically, and even when they die generously, they are no longer emotional.

Although people with a arousal degree of more than 35% can resist, their mood has also been somewhat affected, but only Chen Feng is completely immune to "Song of the World".

But he will be affected by "Morrowind" again, and his emotions are quietly and constantly activated.

Obviously, it is just a small fluctuation of his mood, and after being constantly amplified beyond a certain limit, it will cause a drastic change in his state of mind.

Another half an hour passed, and when Tang Tianxin's commander-in-chief ship was raided and torn apart by eight blade mantises, Chen Feng's flawless judgment had a loophole.

This time, the child's mother didn't have a chance to leave him a last word, and in an instant, he turned into cosmic dust in a violent explosion.

At the same time, the continuous bombardment of the human fleet finally opened a gap in the grid hollow.

The bombardment of layers of energy weapons and missile shells seemed to have finally exhausted the dark black mass and physical toxins in front of the space in front of them, and also consumed a lot of white plasma in the grid.

The first missile crossed the grid perfectly.

The blade mantis patrolling nearby also showed flaws, leaving a small passage.

In the next moment, Chen Feng made a decision and followed the path of the missile and pounced at the speed of light.

He was fed up with the feeling of being locked up in a deaf person and could only fight with other people's swords, guns, swords, and halberds, but he couldn't move a single hair of others.

But when he just crossed the grid and entered the area between the grid and the prismatic array, he saw the energy change behind him, and he also saw the battlefield intelligence.

The energy of the link grid has not weakened, and the missiles and energy cannons behind it still can't blast out.

On the prismatic battleship directly in front of him, countless long whiskers were spreading out.

He'd seen the beard.

It is precisely the means used by previous spherical warships, which can freeze space.

At this moment, like a touch of cold water poured over his head, Chen Feng woke up in horror.

Hit the plan.

The compound eye wants to capture him alive.

It's no wonder that he always seemed thrilling under the siege of hundreds of blade mantis just now, but in fact he was at ease.

It's not that he's so strong that he bursts the charts, but that the blade mantis is deliberately releasing water!

Chen Feng wasn't sure if his ability to travel through time was clear, but the compound eye must have discovered his specialness!

Finished.

He was suddenly left with only one choice, to die early.