Chapter 323: The Flame Passes on the ...... That Never Goes Out

The maze black box structure projection is the ultimate sharing of the starry sky picture.

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Inside the transport's completely enclosed cargo hold, Xinglan finally made her first attempt to cut through the probe's shell. She didn't dare to cut the outer protective layer directly in the empty cosmic space, if there was any sensitive equipment inside, it was likely to be damaged under the impact of cosmic rays, after all, from the perspective of the external technology level of this detector, it was really not reassuring, so Xinglan finally asked the gravity capture ship to send this probe to the inside of the transport ship that came later, and then began to cut inside the cargo hold of the transport ship.

It is also a gravity-free vacuum environment, but it isolates the ubiquitous cosmic rays in space, and when the detector shell, which looks like a large cooling fan, is hit from the side by a laser cutter, it behaves as easily as it looks like it is technologically high-tech, and subsequent sampling and analysis prove that these are just ordinary aerospace alloys, and Xinglan herself can easily make the exact same detector shell and engine.

There is no doubt that the housing of this detector is worthless.

When this was confirmed, Xinglan's movements sped up even further, and she used the laser to completely cut through the upper layer of the detector, and the scanning structure of the signal pro showed that the detector had an automatic ejection mechanism, but it was no longer able to operate on its own when the energy was completely exhausted, until she injected a part of the power directly into the circuit through the signal non, and the rest of the part stretched out in a complex geometric deformation, revealing a black box.

The entire detector has nothing of value other than this fully enclosed box about forty centimeters long, and the mysterious signal from inside it is from inside, as if to emphasize, and it is once again sent out to the outside world without warning.

[No civilization may hold this repository for more than 135 years...... Failure to disengage within the time limit will activate the special module enforcement. 】

What does this passage mean? Xinglan is not clear at the moment, it sounds like this is a repository of information, but what is it? Regardless of whether that statement is true or not, 135 years is not a long time, nor is it short, at least it is not a few hours of work.

The black box itself is a standard cuboid, the material is a hard, unidentified object that is completely different from the outer shell, neither transparent nor reflective, and when Xinglan gently takes the box out of the outer shell and places it to float in a gravityless vacuum, she can clearly see that there are some indentations of dots and lines that seem to be messily distributed on the six sides, but after a little deduction in the signal subnet, Xinglan will understand. This is a very simple logical reasoning problem, without the use of any words and symbols that require cultural restrictions, just pure points and lines, and the deduction is not very difficult, and generally a better computer can complete it automatically.

Maybe it's just a simple anti-misoperation insurance.

The vacuum, an automaton that looked like an octopus extending out of a myriad of operating limbs, approached the box in a vacuum, the ends of which were no less dexterous than the biological limbs that glided through the dents of the dots and lines in a regular manner, and when the logical question was fully answered, the bottom of the dents glowed with a faint blue light.

After a few seconds, the seemingly seamless lid automatically retracts back in all directions...... Rather than being physically folded and deformed, the indestructible solid lid shrank to the surface of the surrounding wall like a liquid, just enough to completely fill the dents on the surface to a flat level.

Liquid metal composed of nanomachinery? Or is it a particle shift like the Night Moon? Whatever it was, at least it had successfully aroused Xinglan's interest, and the process of opening the box was not uneventful, it looked like a flower blooming, and countless brilliant lights gushed out from the inside, forming a rapidly changing holographic projection in the air above, showing a vast star map in the most intuitive and clear way with images, and Xinglan confirmed that this starry sky was unrecognizable at all after a quick comparison of the memory bank, and it seemed to be beyond the scope of her recorded observations.

She looked inside the box, where there was only a slender strip of black metal that stood on its own, except for a few places that were clearly used to make projections, and the automaton struck the bottom of the box nimbly, and the unrestrained black metal strip floated out of the box on its own, slowly floating in the gravityless environment. The surface of the box looks smooth, just like the material of the box itself, but if you look at it from a microscopic angle, it's easy to see the difference: the surface of the metal strip is covered with a large number of tiny, regular grid-like patterns.

As if sensing something, the original projection of the star map pattern changed again, turning into countless complex parts, and the wiring of each chip was magnified to be clear, and then combined with a series of dazzling movements, it became a device with a monitor and a player, with slender grooves on the surface.

The whole process is extremely complicated, so it took several hours to complete the atomic-level design of the entire device, these images may be too detailed for ordinary creatures to be recorded by the equipment, but Xinglan only needs to observe it once to record it completely, and compared to the metal bar, its role is self-evident.

The development of a scientific and technological civilization will inevitably produce equipment for storing a large amount of data, but you can't expect the civilizations of the whole universe to walk on the development path of tape hard disk discs and U disks, this metal strip is obviously some kind of similar data storage device, and the machine played in the previous projection is a reading device that matches it, as for why not prepare the finished equipment directly...... Maybe it's some kind of test.

There is nothing else in the box left, so is this metal bar the so-called information bank mentioned in the previous pulse?

Xinglan pondered for a moment, the previous reading device actually does not need to be made all, and the biggest obstacle to reading the information in this metal bar is the completely unfamiliar decoding method and contract, but through the understanding of the structure diagram of the instrument, she can already completely decipher the encoding method of this mode, and naturally there is no need to copy an identical device, and even the easiest way is to directly use signal particles to generate microcurrent simulation, There is no need for any hardware to dock with this metal bar.

Just doing it has always been one of Xinglan's great strengths...... In short, she immediately got to work, a layer of signal subs attached to every signal node on the surface of the metal strip, and functioned as a virtual system by receiving and sending microcurrents. She wasn't very worried about what viruses might be attached to the information, it was true that most intelligent systems had weaknesses in front of viruses, but just as it was almost impossible to control the brain with logic loopholes, the self-correction ability of real life was unlikely to be destroyed by viruses that exploited logic loopholes, not to mention that Xinglan herself had extremely strong computing power.

As a result, after the basic linguistic information base is decoded, a flood of information flows from the connections into the signal subnetwork.

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The universe is so vast and boundless.

Life, so short, so fragile.

Every civilization is like a meteor in the endless starry sky, most of them will be quietly submerged in the magnificent world after a brief bloom of light, even if they are unwilling to be forgotten, it is almost impossible for other civilizations to know about them.

As an individual, the most feared thing is death. As a civilization, the most feared thing is perdition. Then on top of death and perdition, there is nothing more terrible than all this...... Forgotten.

No one will remember that you existed, there would be no trace of you, your presence would have no effect on the whole world, and even if you did, it would be meaningless.

There was once a civilization that believed so in their early myths and legends that the first heaven was the infinite and eternal perfection, and that everything would exist forever in the most perfect posture, until one day, the sky cracked open and an abyss of sin appeared, and life in the abyss of sin became so small and so fragile that they could only look up to the pure and eternal sky, but they could never really touch it, and this abyss was the earth under their feet.

Of course, it was their home planet, hence the name: Abyssal Star.

Of course, on the road of civilization development, from ignorance to wisdom, from powerless struggle to the feat of changing the world, this civilization has stepped out of the home planet under the power of science and technology and walked towards the endless and deep universe, and they have deeply understood a truth: nothing is truly eternal, and everything that is strong may be destroyed.

Perdition may be irresistible, because you can never know if you have really prevented it until you have actually perished, which is a completely unsolvable paradox, so at least, try not to be forgotten by the world when you can't resist it.

No one knows who came up with this idea first, but by the time it actually started to be implemented, it had become a hot topic of discussion. This is a drifting bottle of the sea of stars, an inextinguishable source of fire, the last light of hope in Pandora's box, and Noah's Ark to escape the catastrophe of the world...... No matter what you call it, it's just that, an incredible ultimate database, a database where any civilization can add any information to it as it wishes, whether it's technology, culture or art, even if your civilization perishes, it won't be forgotten.

On top of that, no one can remove any data from it except the adder, and anyone can read the data inside...... However, there is a restriction, the scientific and technological information can only be read randomly, and only after the problem verification has fully mastered this scientific and technological information can the next scientific and technological information be continued, which limits the danger of a large number of abuses of the technology provided by countless internal civilizations, and at the same time, the time for researching technology is also limited, that is, 135 years.

This civilization shares a database, and a civilization can only hold it for 135 years.

(Thanks to "もふもふ?") The 10 starting coins and the 11364 starting coins of "Purple Cloud Half Cover the Light Moon Trace" are rewarded, and I wish the lovely Jiajia a successful recovery of her health and continue to play happily together~)