Christine let out a groan and tried to open her eyes, and then she saw Zhao Yu squatting in front of her and the white-haired man behind Zhao Yu. She immediately reacted: "You succeeded? ”

This scene is similar to when the two first met on the battlefield in the second stage, but this time it was Zhao Yu who made a V gesture and Gabriel nodded.

"Great, I thought I was going to die......" Christine sat up and looked at the smashed power arm she was wearing, "Damn, Gabriel, what the hell is your preset program?" It's too brutal! ”

"It's a simple combat procedure, but don't worry, before carrying the new information just now, my combat style is the initial state, and you have every chance to defeat me." Gabriel still has all the answers, "It's all for this test." ”

"Well, if it's a pervert like you, it's really possible to complete the task quickly in the first stage." Zhao Yu rubbed his bruised arm, "However, all of this was arranged by Dr. Thomas a long time ago?" ”

Christine thought for a moment, "No, to be precise, the Doctor is only responsible for a part of the whole plan, and this thing, Gabriel's return, is actually ...... Forget it, Gabriel, if the doctor didn't lie to me, the program you just entered included all the information provided by the Buttermins people, and some of the information didn't even have time for the doctor to decipher, in other words, you are now the person who knows the most secrets on the planet! ”

Zhao Yu looked back at the white-haired man, Gabriel nodded, and immediately started to speak straightforwardly: "Since the discovery of the traces of the triangular cluster, the Bremins ambassador Lake has been looking for a solution, so he and Dr. Thomas have cooperated to develop the 'Twilight Project', of course, due to the limitations of the Galactic Civilization Consortium, he can only provide very little help......"

"Stop!" Zhao Yu shouted, "I'll take a look!" This Twilight Project, and what other beacons, are all because of what triangular cluster to deal with? So, what the hell is a triangular cluster? Need to get the Buttermins to work with the earthlings so seriously? ”

"This universe is dying, and it is dying by acceleration, Mr. Zhao Yu, I think Ambassador Lake has already told you." Gabriel said slowly, "The universe is producing new stars more and more slowly, and those that have been born are dying out, and now the rate of star death has exceeded the rate of new star creation. ”

"Eventually, there will never be a new star in this universe." Zhao Yu quickly understood the other party's words, "A pitch-black cosmic apocalypse - and then what?" ”

"According to the calculation of earth time, as early as 1.5 billion years ago, there were civilizations in the universe that discovered this fact, when life on the earth was still in a single-celled state, and for most civilizations at that time, the end of the universe was too far away, so far away that there was no need to worry, because these civilizations simply could not last until someone discovered that the speed of the universe's demise was accelerating."

The universe is so big, there are always a few civilizations that are particularly vigilant and bent on finding a way to escape the end of the universe, and they finally found it.

The natural naked singularity, a phenomenon that theoretically cannot exist in the universe, has been definitively discovered. After an unknown number of attempts, a civilization has opened a path beyond the universe through the naked singularity, that is, the void that contains countless universes. After losing an unknown amount of power in the void, they entered a new, livable universe.

Before going to the New World, this race announced its results to the whole universe, anyway, each naked singularity leads to a different universe, they don't have to worry about other civilizations coming to compete with them for territory, and after hundreds of millions of years, the cosmic war around the naked singularity begins.

This is a war that the humans of the earth cannot imagine and cannot participate in, since each natural naked singularity can only be used once, so in order to activate the naked singularity for the migration of the entire race, it is necessary to continuously maintain a strong energy consumption - generally speaking, every time a migration is completed, millions of stars will be consumed, even a star cluster with hundreds of billions of stars like the Milky Way cannot support a billion years of consumption, however, not every naked singularity can lead to a new universe suitable for the survival of life in this universe, but to confirm this, All you can do is find a naked singularity, turn it on, and send a probe to see what the hell is on the other side.

Ironically, the energy expended to keep the naked singularity open is further accelerating the decline of the universe, and now it has become a vicious circle - the universe is declining, so everyone opens the naked singularity and escapes, so the universe decays faster, so everyone flees in a hurry, and the universe decays faster......

"The probability of a naked singularity to a universe suitable for us is less than 1 in 10,000." Gabriel said, "In other words, every time a suitable naked singularity is found, at least tens of billions of stars have been consumed in vain, even if it is the Milky Way, it can support less than fifty migrations at most, and what is even more terrifying is that a naked singularity is not enough to support for too long, so the task of finding a naked singularity has been going on - the probability of natural naked singularity in the Milky Way is not high, you can still see the sky full of stars, and when the starlight of other galaxies travels through millions or tens of millions of light years, In fact, most of them no longer exist at this time. ”

"I have a question, why is it that the earthlings don't know anything about such an exaggerated thing?" Zhao Yu couldn't help but ask, "Even in the 20th century, earthlings could see tens of millions of light years away through the Hubble telescope, right?" Consume millions of stars at once...... Won't this be observed? ”

"You will observe, if the earth's civilization lasts long enough - the earthlings really turn their eyes to the universe after all, it is only a few hundred years, and the more distant processes are either missed or unaware of by you, or the information has not yet been transmitted, after all, maintaining the naked singularity and conducting interstellar wars are calculated in thousands of years or tens of thousands of years in Earth time, and it is not surprising that there is an interval of several hundred years in between." Gabriel replied not at all, "Actually, now you can also observe some traces of interstellar wars, why are the galaxies in the universe fibrous, why are there so many empty areas in the universe where no celestial bodies do not exist at all, and why the vast majority of the mass in the universe is dark matter and dark energy that you can't observe at all?" If you can enter the Commonwealth of Civilizations and see the accounts of war, all doubts will be solved. ”

"Well, knowing that other civilizations in the universe are also fighting each other and doing things that will accelerate the destruction of the universe, I don't think the earth is so stupid." Christine whistled.

Zhao Yu shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "I understand, Gabriel, it's a very grand worldview setting, but ...... What exactly is a triangular cluster? ”

"It's another organization relative to the Galactic Civilization Commonwealth." Gabriel replied, "From the Great Triangular Galaxy." ”

“…… The way you chose your name is really straightforward! ”

"No, it wasn't originally called that, but it was renamed after referring to the naming of the earth." Gabriel took the pot and threw it back, "You didn't mean to name it that way, but we think it's appropriate." ”

Zhao Yu waved his hand weakly: "Okay...... Go on, we've digressed for a long time. ”

The triangular galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy, and the Milky Way are called the three major galaxies of the galaxy cluster, the distance between these two large galaxies and the Milky Way is millions of light years away, and even the basic form of life is very different, but like the "Galactic Civilization Consortium" of the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangle Galaxia have gradually formed a relatively unified civilization cluster in the long-term war, and after the naked singularity in the galaxy gradually decreased, they also began to turn their attention to the nearby galaxies- Not every civilization can easily make such a choice, just like the Andromeda Galaxy, which itself is almost twice the size of the Milky Way, so far the civilization over there has also spent its main energy on searching for the naked singularity of the galaxy, only a small part of the reconnaissance force has reached the galaxy, and the two sides maintain a delicate balance relationship, and it is not until the last 100,000 years that the Galactic Civilization Consortium has launched contact with the Triangular Galaxy civilization, of course, it is very unfriendly.

There is a distance of nearly three million light-years between the triangular galaxy and the Milky Way, which is enough to make any form of communication extremely difficult, not to mention that this is to seize the survival opportunity of each other's races, and the two sides broke out into a fierce conflict almost at the beginning, but the triangular galaxy civilization is too far away from its home galaxy after all, and the galaxy side quickly took the initiative, and the triangular army was forced to retreat to the periphery of the first spiral arm, and the counterattack turned into a guerrilla war. However, the situation has not been easy, the real challenge is still to come, the follow-up triangular galaxy reinforcements will arrive in the next one to twenty thousand years, and if the galaxy can achieve the final victory, then it is time to consider launching an expeditionary counterattack against the triangular galaxy.

However, the expedition to the triangular galaxy millions of light-years away is not an overnight task, and the path of light may be delayed for hundreds of thousands of years, and after the main force of the Galactic Civilization Consortium leaves, the exploration of the naked singularity of the galaxy itself must not be stopped, and this task can only be completed by the secondary civilizations left behind in the galaxy.

"Minor Civilizations...... Wait a minute, the Batmins and the Ahmeds are just a secondary civilization of the civilization complex?! ”

"Of course, the top civilization is fighting the Triangular Army tens of thousands of light-years away from Earth."

"So...... You sub-civilizations, whose mission is to find the naked singularity? ”

"This is one of the missions, the other is to find more civilizations in the galaxy and let them join the Commonwealth, such as the Earth civilization - if you pass the test." Gabriel finally paused slightly when he said this, looking at Zhao Yu and Christine's tangled expressions, "Now you know, why does the assessment attach so much importance to civilization's desire to yearn for space, right?" ”

Contrary to what the earthlings themselves had imagined, the lifespan of the earthlings was already in the middle of the Milky Way, and it could take a long time to find the right naked singularity - the last naked singularity to the right universe was more than 30 million years ago.

In other words, for most of the racial cells in the Commonwealth of Civilizations, exploring the Naked Singularity is a task that will consume a lifetime and may lead to nothing, even if it can be used to delay aging through hibernation. This requires that the criteria for joining the Commonwealth of Civilizations must be based on the courage to forge ahead and take risks, because a race that is afraid of the stars will never accept the fate of devoting their lives to endless exploration.

"So, unenterprising civilizations will restrict their interstellar voyages and make them wait on the original planet for the moment of cosmic death?"

"That's true, but it's not as serious as you think." Gabriel replied, "First, it is a basic rule that civilized star systems will not be consumed as naked singularities, and second, according to calculations, the universe will die completely, that is, there will be about 500,000 to 600,000 years before new stars are born...... Of course, this time should continue to shorten as more naked singularities are opened up and more stars are consumed, but there is a third, even if the universe dies, as long as the sun is still burning, the earth's civilization will not be affected too much, and the sun's lifespan is at least four billion years - enough for you to self-destruct ten thousand times. ”

"But...... You're going to have to say but, right? ”

"Yes, there was an accident, an outbreak of Betelgeuse." Gabriel actually sighed when he said this, "This makes the original way of dealing with near-earth civilizations inapplicable, so you have the opportunity to conduct a second assessment, otherwise you think that with the level of the earth, you can secretly contact the Ahmeds, and the Batmins, who monitor the civilization of the earth, will know nothing and let it develop?" ”

Zhao Yu stared at the other party's eyes, but Gabriel's eyes were always stable and normal, and he didn't even avoid his eyes.

"You mean, the struggle of Earth's civilization so far is still completely under the control of aliens?"

"Mostly, but there is another variable in the middle, the invasion of the triangular cluster."

Zhao Yu let out a long breath: "After talking about it for a long time, you finally remembered this word!" ”

"I've been saying this all along—the Triangular Cluster is the name for the military power of the Triangular Galaxy, and after losing the head-to-head battle, they switched to covert infiltration, and their main targets are lower-level civilizations, like Earth."

"Wouldn't it be nice if you had explained that earlier...... Wait a minute, that is, the one who intervenes in the civilization of the earth is ...... Triangular civilizations? ”

This time, it was Christine and Zhao Yu who looked at each other in unison, and Christine muttered to herself: "Who is behind the scenes...... That's what Lake said was behind it...... A civilization from millions of light-years away is manipulating Earth? I can't believe it! I mean...... If they are so powerful, why don't they just destroy the earth? ”

"They did do that, and they directly destroyed some of the lower civilizations in the galaxy." "But the Commonwealth of Civilizations quickly figured out a solution. ”

All galactic civilizations included in the known range of the Commonwealth are monitored, and if a civilization is attacked from outside, the Commonwealth of Civilizations can quickly trace the source and attack, which is the worst option for the triangular cluster that is desperately trying to hide itself and avoid a head-on battle with the Commonwealth of Civilizations, so a civilization of the level of Earth is not worth using precious force resources, and will only be handed over to a very small number of lurkers.

With the ultimate goal of preventing Earth civilization from joining the Galactic Consortium, the Lurkers will change their appearance, infiltrate human society, appear at every critical moment in history, and subtly change the direction of human destiny.

Perhaps it was an irresponsible statement by a politician that swayed the government, perhaps a miscalculation affected the correctness of the confirmation theory, perhaps the failure of a key experiment delayed the development of a certain technology, or perhaps the release of a wrong piece of information affected the judgment of the commander......

From the First Interstellar War, the Third World War, the outbreak of Yellowstone, the Great Schism...... Behind every stupid thing done by humans, there is almost a shadow of the triangular cluster lurker, which is also an important reason why the earth civilization has been unable to develop suitable technology to exchange for the corresponding technology, but this shadow is too well hidden, and the Buttermins can't determine the goal, until the second assessment comes, forcing the triangular cluster lurker to take more direct action - he must stop the earthlings from passing the assessment, otherwise everything before is useless.

"So this time, he'll be here." Zhao Yu said, "Alone? Is it just an alien? Right? It's just an alien who has ruined the hope of civilization on Earth for more than a hundred years! ”

Gabriel nodded: "One, the difference between the triangular civilization and the galactic civilization is too great, it is not easy to find a race that can smoothly integrate into the earth society, and the value of the earth civilization is not big enough for the triangular civilization to pay attention to - but now, it will mix in with the 126 people at all costs, and will do whatever it takes to prevent us from passing the second stage of the assessment." I believe that the Ahmed system has detected the anomaly, but they can't distinguish the specific target, and according to the assessment rules, they can't just kill all 126 people right now, they can only ensure that the assessment takes place first. ”

"He's not going to be one of those who have already died, is he?" Christine asked with a fluke mentality.

Gabriel told the truth: "I can't rule it out, but it's less than one in 100,000, and it's less than finding a suitable naked singularity." ”

"So what are we waiting for?" Zhao Yu raised the rifle in his hand and replaced it with a new magazine, "Let's pull him out, let it reveal its disgusting tentacles, and then beat it into mud!" ”

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I didn't throw out the final setting until now, and I think I'm quite capable of pitting it......

Now that you're done, go to bed, set your alarm and get ready to watch the Euro Finals! This should be the last time I stay up late to watch the game this year...... (Manual goodbye.)