Chapter 56: Choice

The demise of the sun is brought to life through virtual reality.

Even Lu Yu, who had witnessed the destruction of many stars with his own eyes, and was even the culprit himself, witnessed this moment, but there was an indescribable anger in his chest.

How dare you!?

Sun!

My sun!

The sun of mankind!

Even though humanity now has the ability to cross star systems, it is still heavily dependent on the solar system.

Not only because this is the birthplace of human civilization, losing it is like a lost dog, but more importantly, the material here is the key to human development, and there is already a complete scientific research base and a complete industrial base here.

Once lost, wandering in space with a spaceship, humanity ...... Could it still be the humans on that blue star?

And how many years will it take to re-find a suitable star system and re-establish everything necessary for the development of civilization?

Looking at the virtual reality image, the sun emits a dazzling glow!

Helium flash.

It means that the star will enter the next stage of evolution, and life in the star system will enter the countdown to death.

The attendees just watched the scene and reverted to the first act without saying a word.

Only the military commentator stepped forward and began to explain this third act of interstellar simulated warfare.

"Just as the other side can't predict the situation of us humans, we can't predict what terrible weapons the other side is hiding."

"This scene is simulated on the premise that the other party has a weapon to change the state of the star, and we should deeply understand that this is the first interstellar war of mankind, and it is the other party who has fought in front of the door."

"If the other party has such a killer weapon, for human civilization, even if the other party is blocked in the Oort Nebula, it does not mean that human beings can sit back and relax."

"After all, humanity's ability to deal with star-level interstellar disasters is too weak, but there is no guarantee that the other party does not have such capabilities."

"Therefore, once the interstellar war starts, we must bring out all kinds of situations one by one and deal with them one by one."

The narrator may not know what level of the person listening to the report is, but through virtual reality he still bluntly points out the deadliest point of humanity.

What if the other party has some kind of weapon that can threaten the stars?

This is the worst-case scenario, even if the other party is blocked out of the solar system, there are still means to threaten civilization, under such a threat, how can human beings develop technology in an orderly manner?

Everyone understands what this possibility means.

Perhaps for the sake of the development and security of civilization, perhaps humanity will have to abandon the solar system!

There are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves.

If you worry too much about your own safety and use a lot of power to defend the safety of the star system, it will lead to the decline of civilization.

For a stellar-level civilization with the ability to strike light years away, such a line of defense is actually of little use.

Just like the Dyson sphere in the past, it seems to be a grand project, but it has the most lethal point, as long as it affects the stars...... Everything is ready, and it will collapse with a slight push.

These examples are all the information that Lu Yu obtained from the Alliance of Conscious Life Forms, and after cosmic sociology sorted out these examples, he had to be surprised.

When a civilization is promoted to a stellar civilization, the home planet will change from a natural celestial body to a civilization-made spaceship.

Not only for the sake of development, but also for the discovery of the home galaxy by other civilizations.

A long time ago, mankind longed to find an intelligent race in space, hoping that it would not be a lonely civilization in the universe.

But now that other civilizations have finally been discovered, the location of the solar system has been accidentally exposed.

For many scientists who are eager to communicate and collide with academic sparks, such a cosmic environment does not seem to support the once naïve idea.

It's not a dark forest, but it's not going to be much better.

Perhaps this highlights the importance of a relatively stable environment in which civilizations within a large area of the star can live together in an orderly manner.

The white dwarf market is a representative of this.

The image of the third act, which simulates an interstellar war, casts a shadow on everyone.

It is true that mankind is not ready to deal with extraterrestrial civilizations, let alone abandon the solar system, but the fact is that humanity may have to make a choice in the future.

Even if the other party strikes the stars, it can no longer destroy the human race, but you must always be prepared to deal with such a terrible situation.

That's what strategy meetings are all about.

This meeting was very long, and the military not only included the situation that the unknown fleet was a fourth-level civilization, but even listed it as a more advanced civilization and had more terrifying technological weapons in the virtual interstellar war.

Lu Yu listened very carefully in this long meeting.

"Act 123 of the simulated interstellar war has been played, and the representatives who will go to the forward base will show us the video."

The first part of the simulated interstellar war lasted for three days before it finally ended, and then immediately connected to the next set of strategic plans.

During the meeting, in fact, not only the military provided a simulation of future interstellar warfare, but also the forward base also brought everyone a dazzling space development plan.

At present, a large amount of the production capacity of the Blue Star is all invested in the construction of the deep space base, and the transformation of the Blue Star is actually quite lagging behind the ever-changing forward base.

Just looking at the human civilization on the surface of the Blue Star, it may only be a second-level civilization, but it has reached the productivity level of a third-level civilization in the forward base.

As for why it still relies on Blue Star, it is only because a large number of high-end scientific and technological parts can only be produced in the most cutting-edge research laboratories at Base Zero, and the productivity invested in these devices has reached more than half of the world's productivity.

Almost across civilizations to produce them!

But there is no way to do it, after all, these parts may be the core components of the spaceship engine, the gravity bomb generator, and other things that are almost beyond the technological level of the star civilization.

Just like the former United States built a rocket to the moon in the last century, in fact, a large number of core components are all engineers trained by the powerful industry back then.

After the restart of the lunar landing program in the 21st century, who knows that science and technology have advanced a lot, but some key parts cannot be made, resulting in delayed rocket launches again and again.

Therefore, the majority of conspiracy theorists exclaimed that the moon landing was fake, questioning whether humans have really landed on the moon.

It can be seen that the advanced manufacturing of core components is not just starting now.

And although the world has silently contributed a lot of productivity in order to support deep space bases, it is still not enough!

Even if the forward base is now able to export a large amount of materials and technological creations, but these things are immediately transmitted to the Great Wall base in the Kuiper belt, and the stellar system defense system has forcibly affected the energy and productivity of most of the human race, otherwise maybe human beings have been able to colonize Mars now!

No matter how hard it is, everyone understands that it is necessary to pay.

Looking back at the pie drawn at the forward base, no, it should be a virtual scene.

In the first act, humanity has ceased to use the Blue Star as their primary habitat.

Most of humanity's industry has shifted to the far side of Jupiter and Mercury as it transits through the advancing bases.

There is an abundance of fusion material to supply human use.

The simulated environment of the large space city is similar to that of the Blue Star, and there is nothing unusual about human beings living in it.

It is also a new base for human development in deep space, and the large number of dockyards allows humans to have enough ships to resist unknown fleets.

This is the result of mankind's great leap forward in the development of space bases after blocking alien civilizations from the Great Wall of space and entering a stalemate stage.

Human civilization can slowly get rid of the dependence on the home planet and quickly enter the level of cosmic civilization, and at the same time, a large number of science and technology have time to develop, even if the coordinates of the solar system are exposed, the human beings who are constantly developing their own civilization by leaps and bounds are not afraid of how to visit the civilization.

Who would dare to be the enemy of a civilization that is constantly exploding in science and technology?

And this civilization has mastered the way of stellar civilization, even if it destroys the home planet of mankind, it still can't destroy human civilization, in exchange for the undying hatred of civilization.

Thinking that tens of thousands of years later, we will face an advanced civilization with space technology, and those civilizations that try to do it will really not hesitate?

The simulation of the forward base is actually very simple, for the experience of a large number of scientists working on the front line, and the scientific research results are continuous, as long as the unknown fleet is blocked from the Great Wall of space, and enough time is gained, the other party can be crushed with scientific and technological achievements.

This is an upright conspiracy, and it is also an opportunity for mankind to cross the ideological barrier and enter the space age.

Such an idea is somewhat naïve, but it fits the thoughts of most of the elders here.

Everyone is not afraid of a stalemate with an unknown fleet, just like the military simulation, the other side has strategic weapons that affect the state of the star.

As long as a stalemate is formed, humanity is really confident that it can make technology take off again, and turn the unknown fleet into an alien friend who sings and dances.

This is Lu Yu's confidence in human civilization.

It is even said that if it were not for this sudden unknown fleet, maybe human beings would have mastered space technology in the solar system and then really expanded in the galaxy, and then the stellar civilizations of the entire galaxy would have to exclaim that this remote cantilever could give birth to a higher civilization!

"In fact, there are still a lot of our technologies in the stage of theory and conjecture, especially the warp engine!"

"Even if we disassemble the engines of the Zerg spaceship again and again, we still have a lot of basic science to improve in order to truly master this technology, and it will take time."

"As for the relative antimatter technology and the unification theory, in fact, human research on them has just begun, and it will take time to put them into practice!"

"Fifteen years! Fifteen years! ”

"I used to think that this was a long time, but now it seems that it is so short, and it can't even allow human beings to leap from planetary-level civilization to stellar-level civilization in one fell swoop!"

The representative of the forward base lamented his speech, if it spreads to the universe, I don't know how many civilizations will beat their chests!

Planetary-level civilizations may have to collectively break their defenses!

If a third-level civilization wants to become a fourth-level civilization, it will take at least tens of thousands of years to digest the unified theory before it can be eliminated from the various influences of the large filter, and then it will be able to develop a light-speed engine and become a stellar civilization.

But the speed at which mankind has mastered the theory of great unification is terrifying!

Not only do they have the database of the entire fourth-level civilization, but there are also [kind] Zerg scientists who are hundreds of millions of light years away who are constantly teaching theoretical knowledge, and they are also [generous] to constantly dismantle their main spacecraft as a learning tool for humans.

With such excellent materials, why worry that the road to the promotion of human beings to stellar civilization will not be unimpeded?

And if the stellar-level civilization heard this, I am afraid that it would not be able to help but scold.

Which stellar-level civilization is not hard work, through the emancipation of the mind again and again, and even changing the racial form, it was tortured by the years into a different appearance before it was successfully promoted.

And humanity just seems to be short of time right now!

When the advantage of time is on the side of mankind, whether it is the advantage brought by the leap in science and technology, or the return of Lu Yu to the solar system with the Silver Star is a great victory for mankind!

Lu Yu looked left and right, and many elders kept nodding at the cake drawn at the forward base.

After all, the core of the military's plan always points to one point - expanding the size of the space fleet.

This would have been justified.

After all, it is a battle that is related to the life and death of human civilization, and it is worth it to prepare no amount of combat power.

But now that the speed of technology has given us more ideas, the plan that should have been taken for granted has become a bit radical.

There were also a lot of simulation plans prepared for the forward base, and it took two days to broadcast them one by one.

It includes the enhanced version of the Great Wall of Space, the Human Seed Project, and the contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.

From the perspective of a more onlooker, Lu Yu said in his heart that the plan proposed by the forward base was undoubtedly more objective and more in line with human civilization.

He rubbed his brow as he withdrew from virtual reality.

The scenery is beautiful, such a living area makes people feel extremely comfortable, if you don't always have to pay attention to the situation of the big universe, Lu Yu can relax all day without thinking about anything in such an environment!

And now Lu Yu didn't have the heart to enjoy the beautiful scenery, he was thinking about the simulated scenes he had seen from the meeting these days.

"Master, look at this!"

At this time, No. 7 pushed a holographic projection to Lu Yu, who looked in a daze.

"This is life born in strong acids."

"Although their structure is extremely simple, they can only be regarded as single-celled life, but they are still born in such a harsh environment."

In the holographic projection, it is a place with a relatively low temperature in the sea of strong acid, and it is also a place with a relatively mild pH value.

Here, Seventh discovered phosphine, a chemical that generally acts as a by-product of the metabolic activity of anaerobic organisms.

Using this as a clue, a single-celled life was finally found in this sea of strong acid, which is almost a sea of death!

Lu Yu looked at these lives that could be called in disbelief.

In such a terrible and extreme environment, they were still born and survived tenaciously.

What about humans today?

It seems that the greatest threat to civilization of yesteryear, the unknown fleet, is no longer a nuisance, but is it really enough to accept the plan to become tepid?

When the Great Wall of Space was first formulated, it was not a modest plan.

No one could have imagined that human productivity could skyrocket to the level it is today, but it was still quickly formulated and resolutely implemented.

With so many achievements, humanity seems to have become stable.

It's just that the rapidly changing environment of the solar system can really stabilize humanity?

Don't forget, when the system first came up with this task, there were two levels of tasks with AB.

The Unknown Fleet's visit to the solar system from the beginning was not a simple visit by an alien civilization.

Thinking about this clearly, Lu Yu had already made a decision when he dispersed the holographic projection in front of him.

Forward base, maybe this time I'm going to be your wall-breaker.