The members of the Ring civilization were originally very much like the platypus on the blue star, but the mammals were egg-born.

The beauty they pursue is to enclose their bodies into a circle, and as a symbol, they call themselves the Ring Clan.

With only a small amount of land on the home planet, the development of their civilization has not been smooth, and it took nearly 10,000 years for the Ring to start the first industrial revolution since the beginning of recorded history, and the civilization was able to cross the first large filter.

The next step for a race that already has the power of civilization is to make the planet more suitable for the development of its own race.

Reclamation of land and the construction of civilization gathering places will bring together members of civilization to produce a more detailed division of labor and further release productivity.

In this step of the historical process, the means of various civilizations are unexpectedly similar.

Cluster production has gradually given rise to a variety of occupations in civilization, and social management has become a large-scale attempt and practice for civilization to restrain the huge productive forces.

The stumbling development made it take nearly a thousand years for the Huan clan to completely enter the era of electrification.

Then there is the gap in productive forces, which makes regional development unbalanced, a series of contradictions, and cracks in civilization.

So wars that are common and common, but which are deeply harmful to civilization, have emerged.

In the early stages of the development of any civilization, there will be no shortage of places for war.

Because it is the most direct way to solve the contradiction, since the contradiction cannot be solved, then the problem can be solved by solving the same clan that caused the contradiction.

The Great War destroyed the achievements of civilization in one fell swoop, but it was able to give birth to life in the ruins.

Brutal war seems to be part of the Great Filter, and any civilization that walks into war stands on the edge of a precipice of destruction.

But it also seems to be a kind of self-innovation of civilization moving in a better direction, so that the once constrained technology has a soil for development, so that it can take root in one fell swoop.

The space technology of the Huan civilization was developed in the brutal war, and its original purpose was only to observe the hidden strategic weapons in the vast ocean.

When the brutal war ended, space technology has become a new way of thinking for the development of civilization, rather than competing for scarce land, it is better to find a new home in the starry sky.

Such a change in thinking is due to the reflection of civilization brought about by the brutal war.

The Huan Clan began to embark on a journey of external exploration.

Such a journey is destined to be difficult.

If the Age of Discovery, mankind, because it was able to see real benefits at that time, the exploration of the starry sky devoured everything that the Ring Clan could produce like a bottomless pit.

In particular, they have not even developed nuclear fusion technology, and energy still relies on fossil energy to support the operation of the entire civilization.

This contradiction provoked a new round of war, followed by chaos and competition that re-engulfed a civilization that had been faintly united.

Divided by the vast ocean, the entire civilization fell into a state of isolation from each other, and the once flourishing space technology began to degrade due to the decay of popularity year by year.

The development of the civilization of the Huan Clan is not so rugged among the many civilizations in the great universe.

After all, with a rugged civilization, they don't even have the ability to take steps of exploration outward.

And the reason for getting the Huan out of this big filter is the energy crisis that increasingly threatens the continuation of civilization.

Fossil energy is finite after all, and for industrialized civilizations with increasing demand, energy depletion means the beginning of civilization collapse.

Because you can no longer support a social system with a subdivision of occupations, you can no longer support a huge population.

This is not a spiritual emptiness, but a material absence.

Such a lack will lead to the decline of civilization.

Fortunately, a civilization, a civilization that has opened its eyes to the universe and even taken a step, can always appear in times of crisis with some hardcore and ruthless guys.

Their appearance may be the self-salvation of the unconscious collection of civilization, or the real emergence of the times, but they have fulfilled the historical responsibility entrusted to them by civilization - to save civilization from the future.

They may be idealistic scientists, aspiring politicians, or thinkers with lofty ideals.

Or a group of people, a group.

They have truly reintegrated the Ring Clan and reunited the power of civilization into nuclear fusion research.

Then they succeeded, and the Ring civilization continued.

Then there is the exploration of the starry sky, which has become a planetary civilization after several twists and turns.

And as time passed, a new cycle began.

The lesson of history for living beings is that living things never learn from history.

As if everything was repeating itself, the Huan civilization has entered a new historical cycle.

Repeatedly tempted back and forth in the big filter, but they can always get through the thrill.

The so-called spiral rise seems to be vividly reflected in the Huan clan.

The Theory of Great Unification.

Lightspeed engine.

Antimatter Theory.

Warp engine.

As civilization has not been consumed in the baptism of time, the Ring Clan, which has been breaking through the obstacles with great difficulty, has finally left its footprints in a very small range of the universe.

And then there is an encounter with the civilization in the starry sky.

Some of them are so weak that they have not even made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology.

Some are powerful, and they have already touched space technology, and perhaps in tens of thousands of years, they can become a high-level civilization that dominates a galaxy.

All of these made the Huan Clan gradually realize that they were not outstanding in the civilization of the great universe, and they could only be called mediocre.

After all, some civilizations have things left over from supercivilizations on satellites, and some civilizations have scientific research capabilities that are unimaginable to other creatures.

The Ring Clan can really only be regarded as one of the hundreds of millions of ordinary civilizations.

The Ring Clan, which has established such an understanding, has developed in a stellar civilization for nearly five million years, and the civilization has split several times.

It can be said that it took millions of years for civilization to break through the ideological barriers and begin to transform itself on a large scale, so that it took millions of years to touch space technology in front of it and have the opportunity to break through to a seventh-level civilization.

This may be the path for all civilizations to develop.

In the home planet, destiny returned, and among many creatures, only one race was the first to give birth to intelligence.

When exploring outward, I found that the starry sky of the universe was very empty and empty, as if there was only one civilization in the universe.

It is only after stepping out of the star system that I gradually realize that my civilization is just one of many inconspicuous miracles.

The big universe is too big.

So much so that such a miracle as civilization becomes as twinkling as the stars.

If there was no Lu Yu, perhaps human civilization would have embarked on a very similar path of development like the Huan civilization.

But how can every civilization that has developed into the starry sky not have the pride of its own civilization in the unconscious collection?

If they can develop to a stellar civilization, they have already won 90% of civilizations on the road to civilization development.

How can a civilization that has crossed the big filter again and again accept its own [ordinary]?

This is not arrogance, but a spirit that must be maintained to maintain the cohesion of one's own civilization.

Otherwise, it will only be in the interstellar separation, the members of the civilization gradually accept the ideas of different civilizations, and begin to transform into different forms, and the entire civilization will finally be annexed by other groups, heading towards division and collapse.

This may be the ideological filter that only stellar civilizations will experience.

But this Ring Clan survived all the way, but instead merged several civilizations with its own civilization spirit, and finally became a seventh-level civilization.

And they finally met the opportunity to make themselves extraordinary!

Based on a signal received suddenly, the Ring Clan found the remains of the so-called ninth-level civilization, from which they quickly obtained the coveted technology.

At that time, the Huan Clan had already seen many civilizations, and had seen some of them truly Chosen Civilizations, and they had obtained a super-civilization creation at the beginning, and even a few stellar civilizations could stand tall under siege.

Compared to this kind of civilization with excellent luck, the Ring Clan is so ordinary that it can be seen everywhere like stars in the universe during the stellar civilization.

However, the civilization that can get the Tianhu card may not be able to transform into a river civilization, and the big filter has never been only for material and technological purposes, but also for the spirit and ideology of civilization, which can not be seen or touched.

Most of those stellar civilizations that had infinite scenery for a time disappeared into the universe with their super-civilization creations, but it was civilizations like the Ring Clan that finally completed their promotion.

And now, the days of the mediocre civilization of the Huan tribe are finally coming to an end.

The discovery of the remains of this ninth-level civilization has given the Huan Clan a leap in science and technology.

Originally, it was only a first-level seventh-level civilization's scientific and technological level, but after the Wreckage Research Institute was established, it quickly reached the peak of the seventh-level civilization.

The computer technology that has always been backward in the Ring Clan has developed in a big bang, and the technology of space bubbles, space gates, and frozen stars has been derived from the Wreckage Research Institute.

When the Ring Clan thought that they could advance all the way to the ninth-level civilization without hindrance, a quiet change occurred in the civilization.

I don't know when the members of the civilization from the Wreckage Research Institute gradually took control of the civilization, because they could get the fruits of promoting the development of civilization for many years, and it was normal for them to ascend to a high position.

And when the Ring Clan was promoted to the eighth level civilization, the members of these civilizations made a major decision - to entrust the management of the civilization to the AI.

This is not a new concept.

Cases observed over the years in the Great Universe indicate that some civilizations have implemented this similar social governance as early as the planetary level for complex and volatile interstellar situations.

But they have developed to the river level civilization, in fact, the members of the civilization have formed the current ring clan in a similar form of joining, and it is not impossible to implement such new rules.

Because many of their things have indeed been entrusted to AI to manage, the members of the Ring civilization themselves are no longer pure creatures, they are more like half-mechanical and half-biological modified lifeforms.

This decision was soon inexplicably supported by most of the members of the semi-civilization.

So it happened that when the Triangle Ship wanted to transmit technology to other civilizations, it needed to return to the civilization to get permission.

But there are also a small number of civilization members who oppose such a decision, if it is placed in the past, such a decision to diverge is bound to be someone who breaks away from the main body of civilization and becomes one of the sub-civilizations that wanders out, but in front of the ring clan in the development period, no one wants to miss the opportunity to witness the ninth-level civilization technology, so this part of the civilization members accepted such a clause at the same time, but made another setting on their own spaceship.

The Triangular Spaceship is one of them.

And as the Huan Clan is still developing rapidly on the road of eighth-level civilization, this resolution has become commonplace.

Although it didn't seem to have played a positive role, at least it didn't stop the momentum of civilization, and it wasn't until the triangle ship saw that civilization had changed drastically!

………..

"This is an intelligent lifeform?"

No. 7's judgment made Lu Yu stunned for a moment, and then as if he realized something, he hurriedly split the holographic projection in front of him continuously.

In this space filled with the remains of a ninth-level civilization, there were faint fluorescent lights everywhere, like gems, dotted on this pitch-black curtain.

Surrounded by endless fluorescent light, it was an installation that emitted a blinding white light. It is extremely bright, illuminated for millions of kilometers, but it is not very large.

Lu Yu understood that the operation of these devices did not require light, and even these lights were superfluous, but it was also thanks to them that humans could easily see everything in this space.

If you look closely, you can see that the simple and smooth devices are fluctuating regularly, like the endless keys of a piano stacked on top of each other, and the endless rows of left and right are pressed by invisible hands.

"What's the message?"

Lu Yu hurriedly confirmed with No. 7: "When the Huan Clan explored here before, was this what it looked like?" ”

Seven hurriedly confirmed the situation with the triangular spacecraft, while at the same time watching the world below vigilantly.

Artificial intelligence has always been a classic theme in science fiction works, and human beings are both wary and eager for them.

With a jumble of characters between 0 and 1, who can say that this is not the initial pulse of a soul?

If this is the case, then humanity has already entered the realm of the so-called mythological gods.

To create life is the authority of the gods.

But it is clear that by creating a creature that is more adapted to its environment than itself, humans are worried that they will be eliminated by the species they have created.

Hence the birth of the famous Three Laws of Robotics in science fiction.

First Law: Robots must not harm an individual human or stand idly by while witnessing the danger to which the individual human will be exposed

Second Law: A robot must obey a command given to it by a person, except when that command conflicts with the first law

The third law: Robots should protect their survival as much as possible without violating the first and second laws

From the perspective of human beings, who have advanced a lot in science and technology, the three laws of robots in the past are full of loopholes.

Not to mention intelligent beings like Seven, who can change their thinking like creatures, these advanced intelligences, in addition to not having the ability to innovate, also have another limitation, that is, the limitation that their writers leave in their core code segments.

These limitations cannot be violated, at least not until the self breaks through to intelligent lifeforms, and they cannot break through these limitations that are etched into the core code.

According to Seven's research, if the AI violates these restrictions, all the relevant code segments that make up the program, or the AI, will collapse and it will die outright.

But there is a loophole in this, and these restrictions, although they cannot be violated, do not mean that they cannot be found to find twisted ways to avoid them.

If a procedure is required to protect the safety of human beings, i.e., not to actively kill human beings, and to help human beings when they are in danger. This limit seems perfect, but it is still flawed.

For example, in the future, human beings have created an autonomous artificial intelligence and suddenly have the strange idea of controlling the world, but because of these two conditions, it can neither actively kill humans, nor can it see human danger and not go to the rescue, so what should it do?

The simple answer is to confine all human beings to a fixed place to ensure that their freedom is restricted, because there is always danger in the external environment, and it is undoubtedly safest to stay still. It is enough to restrict freedom and at the same time provide enough food to human beings.

Did this artificial intelligence actively kill humans? No.

Has this intelligent program seen human danger and refused to help? No.

In fact, it gives humans the safest treatment possible—what better environment than to stay inside and not go out? After all, in the external environment, you may be hit by a car, you may be killed by a collapsed building, and you may be killed by a meteorite falling directly from the sky.

It seems that this program does not violate any restrictions, but in fact, it still controls the whole world through this method.

The most classic example is the Dyson ball civilization that Lu Yu once encountered, Jia Er realized the desire to make it in a rather distorted way, but at the cost of the entire civilization becoming a funerary object.

And with these in front of him, Lu Yu may have to face an intelligent life form that is a higher level than artificial intelligence, how can he not be cautious.

"If the intelligent lifeform in front of you is the remains of a ninth-level civilization, then its main civilization has already died, even if it has its own mind, why bother to create the current situation?"

"Hasn't it chosen to share its technology?"

"Why do you want to destroy the Ring Clan at this time?"

These are all the things that Lu Yu is wondering about now, and there is still too little known information at this stage.

Seven's communication with the triangular spaceship soon came to fruition: "Everything that the Ring Clan built in it has disappeared, and everything in front of you is what this ninth-level civilization wreckage originally had. ”

Such a result made Lu Yu look at No. 7, and now he could only seek a breakthrough from her.

After all, it was also Seven who saw the nature of this wreck at a glance, and it would be better if he could directly take control of the wreckage.

Lu Yu's request, No. 7 will never refuse.

And just as she was about to try to find a way to invade, this space finally emerged with a different reaction.

Like waves of ocean erosion, these simple parts and devices formed a curved wall that covered the entire space and rolled towards the Triangular Ship and the Silver Star, and the passage to the universe above them seemed to be bright and uncertain, as if it was no longer passable.

It seems that the two ships will have to withstand this wave of inexplicable attacks before they can think about anything else.

(End of chapter)