Facing Professor Ning's inquiry, Lu Ming paused, organized his language, and said:

"There is another conjecture. That is, the Magic Eye Galaxy was deliberately transformed into this by a super civilization. ”

"So, what about the purpose?"

"I've also read a science fiction book that says that the longest way to keep information is to carve words into stone. Usually this is true, but is there another possibility......

A super-civilization preserves its own information by informatizing itself and then using an entire river system as a carrier of information? ”

Professor Ning was stunned.

A stone, still too fragile. Any catastrophe can destroy it. Whereas, a river system......

It is unlikely to change significantly in form for hundreds of millions of years. Even if there are changes, maybe those changes are part of the information?

"Suppose there is a super-civilization capable of transforming an entire river system, and this super-civilization has encountered some kind of catastrophe and is about to become extinct. Well, let's not discuss why such a powerful civilization would perish for the time being.

Before the demise of this civilization, a certain river system was transformed into a carrier of its own information, allowing it to exist for hundreds of billions of years, and allowing the light carrying its own information to crisscross the universe.

So...... When a civilization similar to our human civilization observes it, then the intelligent individuals of that super civilization will be reborn in this low-level civilization. Even, if the slightest disposition is not good, the entire low-level civilization will be occupied.

The most important thing is that the universe is so vast that it is possible to give birth to an intelligent civilization anywhere and grow to a stage similar to that of our human civilization today. In this way, no one can predict where this super civilization will be reborn in the universe.

Once reborn, according to the information it is born with, the reborn super civilization can grow rapidly and regain its position at the top of the universe.

And the enemies of this super-civilization have nothing to do about it.

As long as there is a low-level civilization, this super civilization will always be constantly reborn. Extinguishing one and having another continue, and as long as the CSK-9602 system exists, rebirth will continue for one day. Unless the CSK-9602 system is destroyed, or disrupted, rebirth will be unstoppable. ”

"Very interesting speculation."

Professor Ning said, "But, since you are qualified to be the enemy of this super civilization, then it should be possible to retransform this galaxy and disrupt the information it carries, right?" ”

"Two possibilities. First, maybe this super civilization's specialty is to transform galaxies? They may be weak, but they are strong at transforming galaxies. Their enemies may be the opposite, and even if they destroy this civilization, they will not be able to transform the galaxy.

Second, Professor Ning, you also know how big the universe is, and we still don't know how big it is. We don't even know if the universe is infinite or not. Whereas...... The light doesn't go away.

In this way, even if the river system is disrupted one day, it has been radiating light outwards for up to hundreds of millions of years. These rays of light are always carrying relevant information as they move forward in the universe.

The observable universe is about 90 billion light-years in diameter, and perhaps tens of billions of years after the destruction of this galaxy, the light carrying this information will reach outside the observable universe, where there may also be a low-level civilization that happens to receive these rays, so that this civilization can be reborn outside the observable universe? ”

Professor Ning was thoughtful.

This is equivalent to making an irrevocable backup for its own civilization in the universe. No matter how powerful you are and how many times you destroy me, as long as you have this backup, I can always be reborn and grow again.

"There is another conjecture. It is also possible that the super civilization modified the galaxy not for rebirth, but for expansion. ”

"Expansion ......"

"Yes. It's a fully automated, one-and-done, potentially rewarding model of civilization expansion.

Think about it, as long as a certain amount of preliminary labor is put in to transform the galaxy into this way, then in the future, there will always be a steady stream of civilization vassals in various parts of the universe.

For example, if our human civilization makes a mistake in handling it this time, causing monsters to grow and completely steal the wealth of our civilization, then it is foreseeable that with the monsters of 'remote information support', the speed of technological development - no, it should not be said to be development, it should be recovery, and its speed is far higher than that of our human beings.

Maybe in a hundred years, they will be able to leave the solar system. After 10,000 years, it will have the ability to communicate with the mainland. In this way, it means that the super civilization has a territory more than 100 million light years away, and a force that can be called upon without much effort.

And the universe is vast, how many civilizations like ours are there? Even if only one civilization out of a thousand civilizations is occupied by doves, in tens of millions of years, how far will the power of that super civilization swell?

All they need to do is transform a galaxy. It may not even require post-maintenance at all. ”

Professor Ning's expression was a little pale.

"Of course, it is more likely that the purpose of that super civilization to transform the galaxy is multi-purpose. It is expansion, but also a backup for civilization to prepare for the rebirth of the future. There may have been other purposes, but I can't guess for the time being. ”

With such a low level of science, it is very likely that the idea of such a high level of civilization will fall into the model of "the emperor's golden hoe".

"The universe is so vast that we don't know much. Maybe these speculations of mine are not even as good as jokes in the eyes of the other party, and maybe they don't even bother to look at them. ”

Lu Ming shook his head gently: "It's better to live your own life." ”

Professor Ning nodded in agreement: "Indeed." But Lu Ming, I still have a few doubts. While there is now enough evidence to prove the correctness of your speculation, there are still some unexplained things in it.

First of all, we have made it clear that Shu Changshan has completed the transformation from a human to an alien before he was absorbed by you. It has been deceiving us. However, our space telescope did indeed photograph a strange star, the one it called the 'Star Spirit'. What do you think is going on? ”

At the beginning, it was precisely because of the photographing of the star spirit, under the pressure of the star spirit, that he had to carry out Shu Changshan's arrangement, trying to destroy the monsters, so that they could not transmit their location information to the star spirit.

If the Cthulhu system is fake, then what's going on with the Star Spirits?

Faced with this question, Lu Ming shook his head: "Frankly speaking, I don't know. However, I personally believe that this is most likely faked by the monsters through some means, such as invading the ground base of the space telescope, signal transmission, etc. It should be fake, it doesn't exist at all. ”

Professor Ning thought about it and seemed to want to continue questioning, but after all, he didn't, but nodded again: "Now I can only think like this first."

The second suspicion is that you think that people mutate because they are infected by some pathogen. However, we have never been able to find this pathogen, what do you think is going on? ”

This is indeed a relatively big doubt. When madness and mutation first appeared, Lu Ming had already made a guess that "light changes the synapses of the brain and generates pathogens to cause lesions".

If the pathogen can be found, it will be possible to find out the eucalyptus situation at that time. But the truth is that we have not been able to find it until today.

"My guess is that it could be some kind of pathogen that is completely different from what we know."

Lu Ming said: "First of all, we can be sure of one thing, that is, that super civilization knows the technological level of our civilization. In other words, it knows to what level of civilization it has developed to be its potential target. ”

Only a civilization as technologically advanced as human civilization will be aware of the anomaly in the CSK-9602 galaxy and have the ability to observe it more clearly. At the same time, for a civilization that is in the development period, it will certainly not miss this observation target.

Because anomalies usually mean new discoveries.

However, civilizations that are lower than the current level of human civilization do not have the ability to observe the CSK-9602 galaxy. Civilizations that are higher than the current level of human civilization have already gone through the stage of "observing the galaxy and causing individual mutation within the civilization" and have successfully dealt with it. After that, they will not repeat the same mistakes and continue to observe the galaxy.

Only civilizations that have advanced to the level of human civilization at this moment will be affected by this event.

"Then, after determining the technological level of the target civilization, with the scientific and technological strength of that super civilization, it should be a very simple matter to create some kind of pathogen that is absolutely impossible to discover with the scientific and technological level of that civilization, right? So ......"

Lu Ming spread his hands: "Our civilization has passed this hurdle, and we have the qualifications to continue to improve the level of science and technology in the future, and at the same time, we are no longer the target civilization of the CSK-9602 galaxy, and it will no longer deliberately target us." Wait, maybe we will develop in a dozen years, and with a medical and biotechnology revolution, we will be able to find this pathogen. ”

"Makes sense."

Professor Ning agreed: "Then the last question. Reality has clearly proven that the real plan of the monsters is indeed to project a star map of the CSK-9602 galaxy over Nancheng City in order to cause a large-scale infection. However, according to our previous experience, humans mutate into aliens, and there is a period of madness that lasts for more than ten days in between.

Then, even if Nancheng is really infected on a large scale, in the face of a group of people who are in a state of madness and are likely to be unable to act independently, it is very easy for us to deal with them. With such a huge loophole, it's impossible for monsters not to take it into account. So how do you think they will respond to this vulnerability? ”

Lu Ming was silent for a moment.

If it hadn't been for the decisive handling of the second action team at that time, there would have really been a large-scale infection incident in Nancheng. At that time, there is no need to guess how the monsters will deal with the situation.

Now, it can't be staged in reality, so I have to guess it reluctantly.

"I guess...... Perhaps, through this mass infection method, people infected in groups may have a short period of madness? Or is it that the more there are variations, the faster they change? By the way, it seems that Luo Yang's mutation cycle is a little longer than that of Zhou Tianyang's team, and from this point of view, it is really possible. ”

Luo Yang is a mutated person alone. Zhou Tianyang's team was mutated with 28 people.

Judging from the current data, Luo Yang's mutation cycle is about a day longer than Zhou Tianyang's team.

If the number of people is increased from one to twenty-eight, the mutation cycle can be shortened by about one day, and the number will increase from twenty-eight to hundreds of thousands......

How long will the mutation cycle be shortened?

It might only take an hour or two, or even a few minutes, to complete the entire mutation.

Maybe if your team's handling is a little slower, monsters will run rampant in Nancheng......

Thinking of that terrible scene, Lu Ming couldn't help but shudder.

"It's possible. But I don't think we'll have a chance to verify it. ”

Professor Ning also seemed to be a little scared at the moment.

Lu Ming said sincerely: "Yes...... Thankfully, we didn't have a chance to verify it. ”

Humans don't want to test this hypothesis. Whoever wants to verify who goes.

"Okay, Lu Ming, do you have anything else you need to add?"

"No more. However, Professor Ning, I would like to ask you a few things. ”

"You say."

"This incident...... How are you going to announce it to the outside world? ”

At the beginning, the crazy mutation of Zhou Tianyang's team and Luo Yang could be known to many people.

Both the informant and the victim's family need an explanation.

"A new type of viral infection that can attack the brain. It's a public health event, and just like today, there are still small outbreaks of plague and the like in some places. ”

Lu Ming nodded.

It is also appropriate to use a public health incident as an excuse.

"How do you explain it from the Nanli Laser Research Institute?"

Professor Ning said: "This is better explained. Didn't you always say that there was a cruel criminal gang in the mountains of Nanli? The gang also slaughtered a village, causing an uproar. The explanation above is that the laser research institute was overrun by the criminal gang that conspired to make weapons of mass destruction, and all the people in the institute were killed.

Therefore, the world government mobilized its garrison troops and resolutely attacked this criminal gang with long-range firepower, completely annihilating the enemy......

By the way, the personnel of the original research institute, the World Government's argument, they waged a resolute struggle against the criminal gangs, but in the end they failed, and they were brutally killed. For this reason, the world government will give some compensation to the families of the victims.

The people in Zhou Tianyang's team and Luo Yang will also give some compensation based on the excuse of 'scientific research experiments'. There are also the families of the villagers who were slaughtered, and there are also compensations. ”

Lu Ming nodded silently.