It was a naturally mature 'egg', we didn't mine it, it was buried inside an asteroid, it happened to be dead and shattered, we were always looking for the legacy of the Ascended, and we knew that the legacy of such a civilization, even a little bit, could make us inexhaustible.

After detecting the signal, we rushed over and collected it as fast as we could, and you have seen the 'egg' on the power station, right? It is an ellipsoid with a special material, which uses a special force field to isolate the internal matter from the external universe, and we Primordial people think that they are natural force field experts, but the force field covered by the 'egg' makes us helpless.

There is a small storage device on one side of the 'egg', which is difficult to find when it fits together with the ellipsoid, and after research we were fortunate to find that it is not difficult to crack, at least it is not encrypted, although it is in a completely different language, but it can always be translated by slowly deciphering it.

It was the smallest storage device we've ever seen, but it recorded information that was unimaginable, so to speak, and we couldn't fit a tenth of the data in all the memory of the two civilizations at that time.

Do you know what it takes to store so much data?

Civilization.

The so-called 'egg' is actually an independent universe that is completely independent of the big universe, and the ascendant has completely cracked the mystery of the cosmic membrane, and the force field wrapped in the 'egg' is an independent cosmic membrane. Inside him is an independently developed, constantly repeating model of the universe.

For the vision scale of the civilization inside, this small universe is like us looking at this universe for them, the time of the universe itself is generated by the expansion of matter, the expansion rate of matter in it is much greater than our universe, the speed of time passing in it is more than 10,000 times that of us, countless tiny nanomachines float in all corners of this small universe, they continue to discover new civilizations, and record their civilization, technology, racial characteristics, political systems and more trivial data...... They are born, developed, brilliant, weakened and finally met death in the universe, and none of them can break through this universe, not because they are not strong enough, nor because they have no potential, but this small universe has an automatic countermeasure system, and once they try to break through this small universe, the system will automatically destroy them.

We have found many of their wars against the countermeasure system in the record, their technology is very powerful, but the scale is too small after all, you think about a primitive man holding our universe in his hands, even if his technology is low-level, no matter how barbaric the weapon is, we can't resist, this is the scale of suppression, primitive people can break us with a mallet.

The birth of civilization itself is a very rare thing, sometimes the small universe expands and is reborn several times and does not necessarily appear a civilization, like ours has a large number of civilizations in the universe is even rarer, this 'egg' records the rise and destruction of millions of civilizations, which preserves a large number of science and technology and creativity, different structures of civilization will develop in different directions, the environment in which civilization is born will limit their vision and culture, through continuous observation and absorption, we can learn from each other's strengths and make continuous progress.

It's a shame to say that there are many records in that 'egg' that we are more advanced than us, they are the ones who really should survive, they have endless possibilities, but it is a pity that they were born in such a petri dish of civilization, either destroyed by the contraction and restart of the small universe, or destroyed by the automatic reaction system, birth and death are so meaningless, can only leave us some precious information, so that we can continue to move forward with their last wishes.

For a civilization, this is more useful than any heritage, by reading the scientific and technological achievements in the 'egg', our civilization technology has made a leap, not to mention, the speed of light navigation technology alone, there are hundreds of kinds in it, which solves our urgent need, we collected materials and quickly transformed our spaceship, and built our first light-speed spaceship ever, this is a force field-powered spaceship, using the technology in our best field, the civilization that created it is also a gravitational body civilization like us.

We have chosen a suitable planet for interstellar migration, we have settled inside a warm and stable yellow dwarf, we have rebuilt our magnificent city, we have been reborn, once a flare event was the end of the world for us, but now we can reshape the inner environment of the star, the 'egg' is like an endless treasure trove, there are tons of new technologies waiting to be discovered and learned.

The Flopps have settled on an oceanic planet in our same galaxy, and during that time we have been deciphering the technology inside the 'egg' together, they are still as nervous as ever, constantly worried that they will be targeted by foreign civilizations, they have destroyed several weak civilizations that have been discovered for no reason, and we have clashed with them because of uneven distribution or dissatisfaction with their behavior.

The speed of our decipherment is getting faster and faster, and the knowledge that is useful to us in the 'egg' is getting less and less, although different civilizations choose different directions, but in the end they always have the same goal, whether it is carbon-based organisms, silicon-based organisms, gravitational bodies, energy bodies or biological evolutionary civilizations, no matter how we use to achieve the speed of light flight, we only need one of the best ones to use, most of the excavated technologies are duplicated or inferior to the previously discovered technologies, we have found treasures from the beginning to the later gold panning in the sand.

This 'egg' is obviously not enough, we have to look at the universe again after enjoying a long time of comfortable life, we hope to find more 'eggs', we are ashamed, this is a way to get something for nothing, but as long as you enjoy this convenience once, you will feel that it is meaningless to explore technology, maybe the next second someone will find the technology from the 'egg' that can replace your research and development results.

But as we look farther and farther, we find not only more 'eggs', but also the bad news that comes with it......

Dusk is here again, but this time, we have no escape, it is the twilight of the universe.