[The ship has entered the state of combat readiness at the third level, please abide by the "Wartime Readiness Law" by yourself, and do not go out unless necessary]

[The material distribution method will be changed from "go to the distribution point to pick it up by yourself" to "staff door-to-door delivery", please pay attention to the acceptance within the specified time]

【……】

With the news from the border outpost, the entire "Chasing Light" civilization has entered a wartime state, and since the "Song of Dawn" homeland ship is the center of civilization, it is currently the least affected, with only three levels of combat readiness.

Although martial law has begun, it is still much more stable than the defensive supply fleet on the front line.

The Sun Engineer was hurrying down the avenue, and the occasional passing guard saw him, but they seemed to have greeted him in advance, and ignored him as if he was still on the street.

It wasn't that the Solar Engineer did anything to bribe, it was simply because of his special profession, especially in wartime.

All the life-sustaining facilities of the homeship are the top priority of maintenance at this time, and the engineers who used to have leisure vacations are basically in the company of doping, and working day and night is basically the norm.

Although the maintenance priority of the artificial sun in charge of the solar engineer is not so high, even if it is deactivated for a short time, it will not affect the ecology of the homeship, but after all, this is also one of the "life-sustaining" parts of the spaceship, so he has become a "privileged person" in wartime.

Now that the chip in his body has been marked, it has become a mobile signal source, and all the guards will know what he does, so that he can move through the streets unimpeded.

While there is no privacy, that's the ecology here.

After turning countless corners and passing through several sub-districts such as the "square area", "distribution area" and "labor reform area", he came to his workplace.

- A tall tower.

This is the place responsible for the entire ship's life support system, and there are many other staff members here, all of whom are engineers gathered here for "wartime security".

However, the third-level combat readiness is not so strict after all, and in their spare time, these engineers can also say a few words, and many people noticed the arrival of the solar engineer and said hello to him.

After responding one by one, the Sun Engineer noticed that there seemed to be some face-to-face engineers who also appeared in this place, and it seemed that they were newly recruited by the government.

Intrigued, he learned the identities of those men from his fellow engineers.

"They...... They are the maintenance engineers of the 'Class 1 Classified Building', and we don't know exactly what that building is, but eighty percent of it is related to our improved salaries, and it is likely to be an unknown production building. ”

"But it's not for me to say, the engineers are too idle...... I've been working here for so long, I've never seen them move, and they're here all day long and they're still smiling at us...... Isn't that really a 'privileged person'? ”

The words of his companion made it clear to the solar engineers that these people were probably the real "privileged people".

After all, they are not mechanical, they are not Gestalt consciousness, and their quality is not so high, even if this is a "planned society", there are indeed privileged people.

There will always be some positions that are easier and can brush up on qualifications, and those who can be parachuted here are privileged people.

However, this is the only way to do it, although it is "privileged", but if the basic ability is insufficient, it will never be assigned to such a position.

Among the more laid-back engineers, the Sun Engineer recognized one of them as having published in a scientific journal, and the other as having won several scholarships at public universities.

Their privilege is only to show that the work is a little easier, and even the engineers themselves may not know what the work they are responsible for.

The solar engineer shook his head and entered the tower, the level of the artificial sun.

There are several solar engineers, but he is the only one who came today, and there is no problem with the data of the artificial sun, but he must stick to his post until the state of combat readiness is lifted.

It was several weeks, during which the engineers had rotated several times, but instead of being lifted, the state of readiness had been upgraded from level three to level two, much to the uneasiness of the solar engineers.

He can know that there is only good in the channel of information, as if it is still a peaceful and prosperous era, but the escalated combat readiness can show that the war situation is not optimistic.

And as if to confirm his hunch, he, or the solar engineers, received a "confidential mission" from the government.

[Personnel in the order of citizens: SE-086713392 are requested to assemble at the "Control Tower"]

It was a notification sent directly to the chip in his body, and he arrived at his destination with uneasiness, only to find that the people who came seemed to be Sun Engineers like him.

Without much explanation, the military personnel took them directly to the disembarkation spaceship, and did not inform them of the purpose of the trip until they were halfway through the voyage.

"I think you should be able to feel more or less that we have been at war with the enemy for a long time, and now is indeed the time when we have no choice but to serve civilization."

"You are all the guardians of the artificial sun, and you are irreplaceable experts in this field, and this time your task is to restart the 'outlier sun'."

After that, they saw the target of their mission, a ship covered in a large number of strange plants, which in style seemed to be another of their "home ships".

"It's ......"

"Yes, this is the homeland ship 'Dawn Star', and we have a hard time understanding why we are being 'attacked' in our hinterland, and we know that this matter is crucial to our war situation."

"The only thing we know at the moment is the last announcement from the 'Dawn Star', which is 'Restart the Sun'."

"Rest assured that you will be joined by the most elite special operations forces, who will keep you safe aboard the Dawn Star."

The Sun Engineers looked at each other, but could not say anything to resist, so they logged in to the Dawn Star with the team.

At this time, Li Wenyuan, who was five million light years away, gradually realized one thing.

No information related to the Flame Chasers can be found in the data of the Light Chasers, but the information that has been synced to him by the Light Chasers leaders due to the fighting has never been interrupted.

He also observed the logic of the behavior of the "Fire Chasers", as well as the state of their individual species, and then remembered the Aether Dragon.

According to humans and the Aether Dragon, the Aether Dragon gradually declined because it "did not adapt to the rules of the universe", and its former wisdom was gone, turning it into a killing machine.

In the record of "chasing the light", it is also mentioned that the "fire chaser" was not in the current state of madness when he saw who killed whom, and he still maintained civilized sanity.

Although "Chasing the Light" believes that the "Fire Chaser" was infected by a virus in a certain war and lost his wisdom, Li Wenyuan knows that maybe what happened to the "Fire Chaser" is something similar to that of the Aether Dragon.

This civilization from the last cosmic epoch seems to have been eroded by the current universe and no longer adapts to the environment here.

(End of chapter)