He stood on the tallest building in the empire and looked into the distance, his eight arms gently swaying in the long wind of hunting, and the endless complex looked like the corpse of a giant beast, dyed an unusually poignant red by the afterglow of the setting sun, with a cold and hideous beauty, exposed before his eyes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This may be the last time, he thought.

He just stood quietly, looking back at the whole course of civilization.

From darkness to light, from ignorance to wisdom, their civilization has developed to this point after 200,000 years of crawling and groping in the tunnel of time, but now, everything is over, or rather, everything is coming to an end.

Once, they naively thought that they had mastered all the laws of the universe, only to find out later that it was only the tip of the iceberg of the vast universe; They once thought they were the only life in the universe, only to realize that they were but one speck of dust; They once thought that their civilization had reached its peak, but then they realized that their civilization was not qualified to be discovered by others......

Controlled fusion has provided them with almost endless energy, and the explosive development of technology has made them stand on the height of gods, and at the same time diluted their most basic reverence for nature, so that their ambitions have swelled to the extreme, and they have unscrupulously modified their genes, the surrounding life, the weather, and their planet, so they finally ushered in the era of extinction a thousand years ago, all species on the planet were extinct, and in the vast universe, they were finally the only species left, at least at the time.

Five hundred years ago, the Empire's largest laboratory succeeded in accelerating a particle beyond the speed of light, challenging one of their fundamental truths, and through the study of this phenomenon and the unconditional correlation between particles, they discovered the existence of different dimensions for the first time, and two years later, another fundamental theory, the theorem of conservation of energy, was overturned and traditional science was turned upside down.

At this point, the development of civilization has entered a more majestic period, string theory, membrane theory, and supermembrane theory...... One by one, the unbridled ultimate theories have been confirmed, the basic sciences have been subverted and reborn, various new theories have emerged one after another, they have restarted to explore the birth and ultimate of the universe, and philosophy, a discipline that has gradually been covered up by science, has regained its light.

At this time, they found that their so-called "mastery of all the laws of the universe" was just sitting in a well and watching the sky, and in the next 500 years, science made unimaginable development, surpassing the sum of the previous 100,000 years, which was a real mythological age.

The development of curvature-driven technology has given them the ability to sail long distances, and civilization is like a toddler baby, taking its first steps.

Then they discovered that the universe is not desolate, and their civilization is not lonely.

In the era of navigation, they explored the relics of many civilizations, their civilization only existed for a short period of 200,000 years, and it was incomparably brilliant in their eyes, but in the vast universe, it was just a newborn baby, and some civilizations in the universe that were more than a billion years old had developed to an unimaginable level, and they could even make jumps in different dimensions, and could traverse the entire galaxy in an instant, and even more, they had surpassed the boundaries of time, and time was just two sides of the coin for them.

But they are still extinct.

Does science really exist, and are there really any universal laws in the universe? Perhaps the origin of matter is chaos and disorder, the so-called stability and order of the world, the so-called laws of the universe and even the laws of mathematics are just a brief moment in a corner of the universe, just a fleeting whirlpool in the turbulence of chaos, chaos and nothingness are the masters of this world, nothingness produces everything, chaos swallows everything.

Whether chaos is part of a larger order, whether this order is in the midst of greater chaos, he does not know, and he has no chance to know.

Only now did he realize that the emergence of civilization was only accidental, and that their civilization was like a little trembling candle in the wind and rain, and now, this candle flame was about to be extinguished.

He raised his head and looked at the two suns in the sky with awe.

Yes, they have two suns, one orange-red, which provides them with light and heat, and the other azure, which they call the source, which brings them life and hope.

Their planet moves around the source, and the source moves around the orange-red sun, forming a wonderful system, for them, it is an eternal truth, but no one could have imagined that their source would suddenly go out one day.

His father, the greatest leader of the Empire, asked him on his deathbed if he would be afraid if the sun went down one day, and he replied that even if the sun set, it would rise the next day, but he did not think that once their source fell, it would never rise again.

He finally understood his father's look at him.

They genetically modified themselves to give themselves access to an almost endless amount of life, their spaceship was able to reach the speed of light, they could even enter the fourth dimension in the laboratory, and they could use the confines of a huge spiral magnetic field to heat the plasma to extremely high temperatures to create another sun, but so what? They can't make a source, and without it, they're doomed to perish!

Twenty years ago, they unfolded a proton in three dimensions in the laboratory, discovered the universe inside, and predicted the existence of the universe in Chinese, and he felt sad for those civilizations at the time, because any particle collision experiment could cause the destruction of the entire universe in the proton, and those civilizations would never know why.

But now he knew that it was themselves who should really be saddened, and who would dare to say that their universe was not located on a much larger particle collider?

Ten years ago, a meteorite flew from the depths of the universe and shot straight towards their planet, they dispatched all the fortifications, and even used the immature rule weapon to make the area where the meteorite was located fall from three dimensions to two dimensions, but it still did not play a small role, the meteorite collided with a beam of light from the source, and split into seven parts, one of which was inserted deep into the ground like a red-hot knife cutting into butter, and the other six parts scattered into the source, The smoke and soot that stirred up obscured the entire atmosphere of the source.

Since then, the source has been extinguished.

"Father......" A voice interrupted his musings, using the vibrations of the muscles in the larynx cavity to make the air vibrate to form sound waves, which are then received by the vibrations of the membranes in the ear, and then processed and presented by the brain......

"You're here," he didn't look back, "are you still dreaming about it?" ”

"It's over."

"What's the end of the dream?"

"It's scary, but ...... I left him something. ”

"You prepare, the source reserve is running out, and the plan will start tomorrow."

"Yes."

He continued to look, and for a moment he remembered his only friend, the troubadour, who had been called mad when he had left, but now he seemed to be a true wise man.

The darkness of nothingness swallowed up the last rays of the sunset, and he looked at it one last time unwillingly, turned around and walked away.

It was the sunset of civilization and the end of an entire era.

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"Now the countdown begins, ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One! The 'Seed' program is launched! He pressed the button with all his strength, and then collapsed in his chair as if he had been drained, but it was only a moment, he sat up again, staring at the light curtain in front of him, and a huge black building like a base sank deep underground, and at the same time, all the supply of water was cut off, and the entire planet fell into a deathly silence.

"Chief, please board the ship." The icy sound of the machine rang in his ears.

He dragged his heavy steps onto the ship.

"Mind you, this isn't an escape, it's an expedition!" He screamed hysterically, and though he knew it was the last struggle of this civilization, his remaining pride made him shout it, and then, he gave one last command-

"Project 'Starship', start!"

A trace of spatial fluctuations radiated from around the fleet, and at this moment, the space was like a piece of clothing ironed by a huge iron, but in an instant, the huge recovery force made the spaceship move, dragging it through a black trajectory of more than ten kilometers, and then disappeared in everyone's eyes.

The wilderness was crowded with people, they looked up at the distant spaceship, there was no hatred in their eyes, no pain, no fear, only a strong hope, no one, even the slightest sound, this civilization that had developed for 200,000 years, showed its nobility in front of death.

Each of these ships carries a three-hundred-year source reserve and will fly to all directions of the universe to find a suitable planet with a source for them to live on, and then survive.

Survival is the primary premise of civilization, and everything else is no longer important in the face of survival.

His task is different from theirs, he has to fly to the source, find out why the source is extinguished, and then, solve it.

The engines of the small ship began to start, and he looked through the screen at his people, who were gradually losing their lives and fighting into statues.

The next day the sun still rose, but it no longer belonged to them, the planet was lifeless, it was dead.

But so what? The seeds of hope have been planted, and one day, it will take root.

The "seeds" contain a large number of embryos, and when the light of the source shines again on this planet, life will be revived, and he has been waiting for this day, even if it is 100 million years from now.

He clenched the yin and yang pendant in his hand, this simple black and white, contained infinite and complex information, which was the key to their revival.

The sun is about to set, are you afraid?

Don't be afraid, one day, it will rise again.

He turned on the holographic projection, and the darkness held him tightly like a giant palm, and for the first time the universe revealed desolation and hideousness before his eyes.

In the past, he naively thought that his civilization could prosper forever, but now he finally knows that nothing can be eternal, and everything will eventually come to an end.

He felt terrific and confused, like a newborn baby cutting the umbilical cord and leaving its mother's arms.

He suddenly remembered a ballad written by his friend, the troubadour, many years ago

The universe is like a giant coffin

The dimension is an icy corpse

Slowly decays in the flow of time

The vibrating strings are the root of everything

What kind of musician can pluck it?

What is the meaning of vibration

There is no answer

There is no eternity

There are no gods

Only survive

There are only rules