Famuli and Visto, two half-breed little greys, are trapped in the lowest room of the lunar base, painfully digesting the 'death of Deth'.

They couldn't go anywhere, so they were trapped there, waiting for the future Omazo to come back and rescue them.

As for Huang Ji and Fez, after acting in a play, they bombed and destroyed everywhere to cover up some small objects they stole and left silently.

"The Great Silent Enchantment, I'll come back to get it eventually. ”

"Next stop, Mars. ”

Huang Ji and Fez huddled into Kunlun and flew to Mars at full speed.

It took only half a day to arrive, and the ship was anchored between Mariner Canyon and the Tarsis Heights, known as the Noctis Labyrinth.

The terrain is extremely complex, as if it has been eroded by water for thousands of years and washed by majestic rivers.

"Wow, it's like a riverbed. Fez said.

Huang Ji smiled: "This is the riverbed, and there used to be a city here. ”

Fez, who was already surprised, said calmly, "Oh, Martian?"

"There are no Martians, although Mars has an ecology that breeds life, but it definitely does not give birth to complex life, let alone intelligent creatures, maybe a bit of a single-celled organism. ”

"However, in ancient times, aliens on the earth were all over the place, and Mars is such a stable rocky planet, there is no reason why no one will patronize it, so there must be a lot of people from interstellar civilizations. Huang Ji said.

Fez said, "You're saying that Mars, like Earth, will have some ancient relics?"

Huang Ji said: "According to the records of the moon, the center of Mars is rich in 'cholene ore', so it has been exploited here. ”

"But a living planet is forever nobler than a barren planet. Although both Earth and Mars have life, there is no doubt that life on Earth is more vigorous and diverse, and it is much more precious than Mars. ”

"There are some people of low civilization who can't eat the meat of the earth, so they can only drink some Martian soup. They left some buildings here, which are too old to be useful, but the material itself, which we directly recycle as 'scrap iron', is also very valuable. ”

Fez wondered: "Why are you so sure that Martian life is inferior to Earth, and there are no intelligent creatures? After all, we have so many legends of Martians." ”

"Legend has it that the Martians developed technology, and then the nuclear war self-destructed, and a few remnants fled to Earth and established the Atlantis ......"

Huang Daji smiled and said, "Hahaha! If you can escape to Earth, why don't you go early?"

"And nuclear war cannot destroy the biosphere, there will always be species that evolve and survive in the radiation and adapt to the new environment. ”

"Believe me, there must be no advanced creatures on Mars, and life on it should be very simple. Otherwise, the aliens will not dry up and fish, directly work in the center of the earth, and over-exploit it, resulting in the cooling of the Martian core, the decline of the magnetic field, the collapse of the atmosphere, the loss of water, and the reaction of oxygen with all the minerals on the surface, and finally making it this dead and silent appearance. ”

Fez also knows that the reason why Mars is what it is now is because the Earth's core rotates too slowly, resulting in a weak magnetic field, which is blown by the solar wind into what it is today.

When it used to have a strong magnetic field, it must have also had a thick atmosphere.

"You're saying that aliens have destabilized the Martian core for mining...... What led to ecocide?"

Huang Ji opened the Kunlun and let it release the engineering robot, and said: "In fact, even if the ecosystem of Mars is a little more advanced, even if the earth's core is destroyed and the magnetic field is weakened, the ecology of Mars will not completely disappear like this!"

"In the same case, the Earth will still have an ecosystem that can adapt to a thin atmosphere and strong cosmic rays. ”

"Because in the first wild era of the earth, the climate was far worse than the current Mars!"

"If there were plants with flourishing rhizomes, even if there were only green algae-like creatures, Mars wouldn't be as depleted of water as it is now. ”

"Unless aliens deliberately wipe out all living things, there is only one possibility that Mars will be so dead and silent...... Life on Mars has not even crossed the hurdle of multicellularity...... This led to their fragile roots being cut off under the influence of alien mining. ”

"Remember, species are prone to extinction, but the biosphere is not. ”

The two were chatting casually, and the engineering robot had already drilled a deep well.

It went straight underground, at a depth of about six kilometers, and dug into an underground steel city.

Of course, it can be a city for humans, but it's actually a mining site.

The dusty pillars stretched out a large clearing between the two rock formations.

Hundreds of alloy pillars, along with crystalline chambers mixed with dirt and rock, and the few remaining decks on the ceiling and floor, are all that this ruin is.

"There are really ruins! are they all recorded on the moon?" said Fez.

Huang Ji pointed to the crystals and said, "How is it?

Fez immediately said: "I saw it in the guest room of the moon before, and it is the room of the marine environment. ”

Huang Ji said: "That's right, that race is called 'Nuomu', a bit like a mermaid, an amphibian species, and also belongs to the carbon-based creature notochord Taiweihua type. ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward and directly asked the Kunlun to emit a strong signal to unfold the crystal room.

Fez, who only glanced at it, exclaimed, "Someone!"

I saw a corpse lying inside, with a slender figure and a fishtail, milky white skin, and a faint fluorescence, similar to a human appearance, and exquisite facial features.

The reason why I say the six senses is that there is a soft white flesh lantern in the middle of its forehead, the light is dim, but it is still a little faint, and when you touch it, it is very soft.

The eyes are large, taking up a third of the face, and the nose is almost nonexistent, except for a small tip that resembles a triangular jelly in the middle of the face.

The mouth is also very small, almost a line, but the ears are large, like sword-shaped diagonal inserts, clinging to the sides of the head, and the beautiful pinna lines are like conchs, and the tips are flying, like a pair of flying wings on both sides of the head.

Its hair is as clear as a jellyfish's whiskers, and it seems to be alive.

Although it is a fishtail, it still has legs, but it is hidden in the fishtail, and only a little flipper is exposed at the end. It's a bit of a penguin, like a curvy crow's feet dress wrapped around your legs.

I think this creature has two forms of movement, and the fishtail can be unfolded into another shape, but if you really show your legs, I'm afraid it will be extremely slender.

"It's beautiful! What planet is this?" Fez's asked.

Huang Ji pointed to the faint astral patterns on a pillar that were almost worn out, and said, "The Sirius Galaxy, 8.6 light-years away from Earth, is our closest neighbor. ”

"That galaxy was also my first stop in the interstellar world, the best choice. ”

Fez poked at the mermaid, looked at the small flesh lantern with a glimmer on his forehead, and said, "Is he still alive?"

Huang Ji checked it and said firmly: "It's dead." Don't associate the light of this meat lantern with her life. It's a radioactive substance that will only decay in 100,000 years. ”

"According to the introduction on the lunar man-making machine, this is one of the sensory organs of the Nuomu family, which can sense gravitational waves. As well as emitting almost all wavelengths of light, including gamma rays, they can also determine the situation in a large range through the feedback of electromagnetic waves, of course, in a high-tech society, the latter function is almost degraded, and many Nuomu people will not use ......"

Fez feels so amazing, such a powerful function, I can't use it...... Is this a disadvantage of technology?

"Are you going to become Him?" asked Fez.

Huang Ji said: "The moon has her entry information, but there is no exit information, because she died in the solar system. ”

"I borrowed her identity to leave, it was the best option. She's been dead for thousands of years, but the crystal coffin has preserved her cellular activity well, and now that I've got it, I'm sure I've fooled Omazo perfectly. ”

Fez mused, "For thousands of years, how do you explain that it took so long to leave the solar system?"

Huang Ji smiled: "How simple is it...... Hibernation. ”

"Hibernation?" Fesslen paused for a moment to understand, and then wondered, "Then how did this Nuomu die? Why didn't she hibernate? As a result, she died alone on Mars?"

Huang Ji didn't answer this question, but rummaged around, and soon found a fan-shaped computer in another crystal building.

It was already broken, and there was no energy left, so Huang Ji took it back to the Kunlun with the corpse, and repaired it for two hours before transferring the data in it.

"Let's take a look. Huang Ji said.

The two of them browsed the data together, and Fez quickly understood the past of Mars.

This mermaid, along with some other Norm mermaids, fled to the solar system.

The reason is that the Sirius galaxy suffered a war nine thousand years ago, and the Nomu civilization was opened, and the capital was forced to become an open planet.

Fez's was still strange, isn't it good to be open, to be able to have in-depth exchanges with higher civilizations, to buy high-end technology, and things that cannot be produced by their own civilization.

But the records in this computer are very rich, and without Huang Ji's explanation, he quickly understood what the opening of the capital meant......

That was the last pure land of civilization that was opened.

In the galaxy, a civilization that sets foot in the starry sky, colonizes another planet, and adapts to the local environment, can join the Star Alliance.

This is the minimum to join the Star Alliance, which is described by the era as the peak of the nano era.

After two small periods, it will be the atomic age, reaching the mainstream of the galaxy.

The joining civilization of the nano era is very rare, and it is not classified into the era of the four major civilizations, because after a civilization joins, it often explodes in science and technology very quickly, and the short is hundreds of years, and the long is thousands of years and it will enter the atomic age.

The melting pot of the Star Alliance, the exchanges between various races, and the influence of various cultures, ideologies, and technologies will greatly stimulate the young civilization that has just 'entered society'.

This brings a very positive side, but no one wants their civilization to be assimilated and their culture to be polluted and die.

Therefore, although various civilizations want to open some planets, they will inevitably close some planets.

The retreat planet is the pure land of that civilization, responsible for the inheritance and nurturing of their own culture and technology tree, and there are internal laws that conform to their own customs.

To put it bluntly, one civilization has two systems.

In this way, there is freedom of commerce and communication, and members of the major Star Alliances can enter and exit at will. The law is based on the Covenant public law.

There are also reservations where foreign civilizations are forbidden to enter, and only their own race can live and maintain traditions.

The two complement each other, open but not falling, learning but different.

This is the case with almost all civilizations in the galaxy, and those who do not do so become vassals, and ideas and cultures are gradually subjugated and die.

The more powerful the civilization, the larger the reservation, and the civilization has its own faction, which is not under the control of the Star Alliance, and few outsiders know the extent of technology......

Reservations tend to be mostly elites, and as for the weak and rice worms in some civilizations, they try to move to open planets as much as possible.

What should we do if we can't live on an open planet? Expand outward, either on a barren country planet or on an open planet with other civilizations.

Anyway, the business is free, and I can live casually if I buy land.

And weak civilizations will always be forced to open up more land for various reasons.

The Sirius Nomu civilization was not a big country in the first place, with a total of six star systems.

Just joined the Star Covenant and opened one. Later, I found that the whole civilization couldn't afford a wormhole by smashing pots and selling iron. Not to mention wormholes, the richest man in their civilization can't afford an atomic-age spaceship.

If you want to get rich and build roads first, the reserves within the civilization are still relying on the 'turtle speed' of one-tenth of the speed of light to cross galaxies, and the development is too slow.

They don't have the currency of the Covenant, and they have no other way but to desperately export resources in exchange for foreign exchange.

But basic resources are too cheap, and their technology, sold on the Star Alliance, is as cheap as cabbage......

Aliens take a few kilograms of antimatter and can play through all of their open areas. Dump some goods casually, and dominate their open planet.

Forced into desperation, they opened another star system, in exchange for the support of the Star Alliance's relief funds, and bought a wormhole, so that a star system inside them could connect to the wormhole that they gave away for free at the beginning of the capital.

In this way, the development of their internal reservation has accelerated a little. But open galaxies ...... It's still a leek.

This happened many times, and in the end they were left with only two star systems left unopened, one being the capital galaxy where their parent star was located, and the other being the first star system they colonized.

Other star systems have been sold out as open planets for various reasons.

Of course, if you really have to be hard-hearted, there is no bottom line like learning about space fungi, and there are things to sell. However, they didn't want to sell, and in the end, they held on until the atomic age, and the situation eased.

And at this time, it's time to take sides......

There are many factions in the Galactic Star Alliance, and the Nuomu civilization chose a faction of a civilization with better relations to join, but did not choose the faction closest to it......

After that, there were several diplomatic mistakes, which led to war.

Seeing this, Fez was very angry and said: "Is this Star Covenant useless? The laws of the Star Alliance clearly stipulate that wars between civilizations are not allowed! Otherwise, the Star Alliance will interfere! He interferes with a hammer?"

Huang Ji sneered: "Look carefully, the party that declares war is not a political entity, but just a star." ”

Fez took a closer look, and cold sweat came down.

It turned out that the reason why this war could be fought was because the civilization offended by the Nuomu civilization did not fight them, but a star in their civilization.

Yes, stars. Whatever is fun, broadcast live, record if you can't broadcast live, and have a lot of fans...... Internet celebrities.

He declared that this was not a war, but 'at the request of fans', and on the spur of the moment, the live broadcast wiped out the right fleet of the Nuomu civilization......

Of course, he didn't kill anyone, but he destroyed seventy percent of the war weapons that the Nuomu civilization had accumulated over a thousand years of development.

Not only that, but it also destroyed the environment of people's home planets, destroying their industry and agriculture.

There is no political element here, but there is no evidence.

According to the laws of the Nuomu civilization, this person must die, but he can't catch it...... In the end, it was the Star Alliance who helped catch it.

However, in the laws of the Star Alliance, the loss of wealth caused by the individual's misdeeds can be compensated.

Later, although the Star Alliance arrested the star, the lawsuit lasted for a long time, and the compensation was delayed, and the Nuomu civilization couldn't stand it......

Coupled with the pressure and blockade of the bigwig civilization behind the scenes, the Nomu civilization was forced to open the Sirius galaxy where the home planet is located.

It has become a 'naked civilization' without any reservations.

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