Qiao Lu followed Lin Wen into what is now the headquarters of the United Government, where he met another old friend, who still commands all the Autobots.

Optimus Prime still looks the same as before, probably for a Transformer who can live for millions of years, two thousand five hundred years is not too long.

"You're back, Jolly."

Completely different from the excitement of others, Optimus Prime just came with an ordinary greeting, as if he had just not seen each other for two days, and there was no feeling of reunion after a long absence.

Probably because of the above, his age is already millions of years old,=。

However, this is a special feeling for Qiao Lu, after sleeping for 2,500 years, there is an old friend who has not changed at all, which is not a kind of luck.

"Well, I'm back."

After a brief greeting, Qiao Lu followed Lin Wen into the conference room.

Here he finally understood the overall situation, and the scale of this war was much bigger than he had imagined.

The entire conference room was submerged in a huge hologram, and it was not yet the star map that Joe was familiar with, but a bizarre image that seemed to be made up of countless intertwined fibers.

Lin Wen opened his mouth and said, "So far, we have united 1.57 million human civilizations in the multiverse to launch a final challenge to the Zero. This kind of war involves not only the universe in which we are currently 16 billion light-years in diameter, but also countless parallel universes, and every existing cosmic dimension is a universe in the true broad sense. ”

For such a terrifying scale, Qiao Lu was already a little unimaginable, and even the giant hologram on the conference table, he couldn't understand it, and he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of this era at all.

For this reason, Ding Yi explained to him: "Every fiber above is a parallel universe, and the entire universe is such a fiber cluster. The Wandering Earth can jump to nearby fibers, and this is the truth of our past traversals. Now they have been able to create such a rough model of the universe, which of course seems to me to be far from a true model of the great unity of the universe. ”

Qiao Lu shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay, it seems that I am also outdated, and I can't even keep up with your discussions." ”

"It's okay, it's all normal. When I woke up, I didn't understand anything, but I slowly learned. ”

Coming to this new era, Qiao Lu couldn't help but feel so unfamiliar with so many things that it was difficult to keep up with the pace of this meeting, and now he knew too little.

Lin Wen said: "If you have any questions, you can always ask them. This meeting was supposed to answer your questions, after all, we still need you to complete the final mission. ”

Qiao Lu also understands that it is difficult for him to directly intervene in the decision-making of the coalition government, and it is important for him to understand what is happening now.

"Okay, so my first question is, since the Zeroers can't sit idly by with humanity, what exactly have they done? Has the war already happened? ”

"Yes, the war has already happened." Lin Wen said with certainty:

"It's just that this time the Zeroer is not using a light particle strike, not a dimensionality reduction strike, not any cosmic law weapon that we have ever imagined, it is more terrifying than we imagined, and at the same time more elusive. After careful analysis, I named it an antimemetic weapon. ”

"What's that?"

Sure enough, another term appeared that Qiao Lu had never heard of.

Ding Yi explains: "Antimemes are a concept with self-preservation or self-shielding characteristics, for example, if you have a dream, sometimes you will feel that there are days when the dream is very long, and the things that happened in the dream are specific and vivid, but when you wake up, you will find that the most recent memory is the night before, lying in bed with your eyes closed. In fact, if there is no distance between sleeping and waking up, it means that we have completely forgotten the content of the dream, but being forgotten does not mean that it has not happened. ”

Qiao Lu immediately remembered the experience he had just woken up, maybe in the long hibernation, he didn't have no dreams, but these dreams were forgotten, just like Ding Yi said antimemes.

Ding Yi continued: "However, even if you remember some of them, you will quickly forget the dream after you wake up, and it is difficult to record the dream through accurate description. If you want to share your dreams with other people, you're either logically reconcoctive or just gibberish. In short, it is extremely difficult to describe exactly what happened in a dream. It's an antimeme, and it's always impossible to get the message across. ”

Qiao Lu probably understood a little, but still couldn't understand how to use antimemes.

The above is just a normal antimeme, and each and every one of us has experienced it. But antimemes used as weapons are not so mild and harmless. For example, if a person disappears from society, no one remembers his existence, and any record left behind will be forgotten in the blink of an eye like a dream. So even if he is alive, it is no different from being dead. ”

Such an idea also existed in Qiao Lu's mind, but he never thought that it could be used as a real weapon.

"This kind of thing directly attacks our cognition, not just humans, but other races, even mechanical lifeforms. Subjects hit by antimemetic weapons will completely disappear from cognition, which is more intimidating than physical destruction. I think the purpose of the Zeroers is to completely erase the civilization, culture, society, and group as a concept of human beings from the universe, so as to completely cut off the possibility of inheritance. The final result is that human beings have never existed in this universe. ”

This kind of thought made Qiao Lu feel a chill down his spine, if the Zero Returner really succeeded, then human civilization would really be dead, and there would be no way to leave even a trace.

"Can this really be done?"

"It's not that we can't do it, but it's already happening."

Lin Wen enlarged the hologram in the conference room, and pointed to the fiber bush above and said:

"So far, we have severed contact with at least three thousand six hundred and fifty-seven human civilizations in parallel universes, and considering that we actually reacted not long ago, the actual human civilization that has suffered is at least twice as much as the current count."

"The scariest thing about antimemetic weapons is that you don't know when the other party attacked or when you were hit."

"The only thing we can do is to act back as quickly as possible, otherwise more and more people will disappear into thin air, and we don't even remember that they ever existed!"