[Recorder? 】

After hearing this term, the "Silent Empire" did not appear to be very unfamiliar, and it was clear that they also knew about this civilization.

"Yes," the senior of the "Exile" confirmed, and then continued:

"Before we arrived, the 'Recorder' told us about the biggest anomaly in the galaxy, which is now the 'Great Wound', and suggested that if we really couldn't do anything, we could come here in the future for inspiration."

"But we didn't think it would be 'impossible' before, so we never paid attention to this place, but only valued the natural cosmic environment here......"

"But it's a pity that through long-term confrontation, we finally realized where the gap is, and the gap brought by time is really difficult to cross."

"We may not be favored by time, so we have to find another way to refocus on this 'big wound' galaxy."

"While the 'Recorders' are indeed a bunch of nasty guys, at least they don't have a problem with their vision, and what they can notice must have something unique about it......"

According to them, the anomaly of the "Great Wound" was provided to them by the "Recorder", and while it is impossible for the galaxy itself to go unnoticed, the research that can be carried out is quite limited due to the danger of the "subspace rifts".

It is basically impossible for a normal civilization to spend energy on such an unknown thing, at most it will build an observatory to monitor the anomaly, or use it as a "natural hazard" as the "exile" originally chose.

But the "recorders" make it clear that there is a big secret here, and that it is the "last resort" that the "exiles" have chosen, and it's hard not to suspect that they actually know what these things are, and may have gotten some information from them.

In fact, the most essential purpose of the "Recorder" to bring the "exiles" here is not to "activate the cage", but to do these rifts related to the "Void".

And when the "exile" higher-ups told these things, it was clear that they had already suspected the purpose of the "recorder".

After all, they have dealt with this group of people and know that the other party is indeed a group of "bad" guys.

However, the people of the "Silent Empire", although they behaved thoughtfully, seemed to have anticipated this, and what interested them more was the history of the "exiles".

[You say, "before we came here"? Oh yes, the name "exile" doesn't really seem like a local civilization, but we used to think you just had some unspeakable encounter within this system...... Now it seems that there is another way to say it? 】

In response, the Exile's higher-ups were silent for a while, seemingly debating how to answer.

After a while, the previous high-ranking person in charge of negotiating with the "Silent Empire" continued to say in the communication:

"It's no secret that if you had the heart, you would have gotten a rough history from our textbooks......

"That was a long time ago, really long......"

"We are not a civilization that originated in this galaxy, our real origin is from another place, a group of galaxies very far away from here, with extremely scarce metal resources."

"It's not that there is a shortage of single planets, it's that the entire group of galaxies is quite scarce in metal resources, and for this reason, our road to civilization has been too long."

"In our Aboriginal history, the longest lasting period is the 'Stone Age', where productivity has always stagnated at a basic level due to the lack of improvement in tools, or it takes countless hours to progress a little bit, which has led us to use stone tools for a long, long time."

"When we compare the development of some indigenous civilizations with others, we find that on the same time scale, we spend about five to ten times as much time in the 'Stone Age' as other civilizations."

"Can you imagine it? This time gap may be enough for a civilization to go from birth to demise dozens of times, and we are still holding tools made of stones, manually tapping food over and over again. ”

The past of the "exiles" seems to have been born in a metal-starved region, and it is indeed not impossible for such a place to give birth to life, but it takes a lot of luck for "civilization" to appear.

And even if a civilization is born, the degree of development will basically be limited to a certain upper limit, because the lack of metals has an inevitable huge impact.

The progress of society requires the development of productive forces, which in turn are closely related to the means of production, and the "exiles" do not seem to be a psionic race, and most of their indigenous era also needed to be "mechanical" to produce transformative and great progress.

And "machinery" is basically impossible to do without metal, and almost all machines associated with "innovation" need to be made of metal.

Not only can precision parts only maintain sufficient stability with metal texture, but also that "metal" is the easiest thing for living beings to obtain from nature, and all kinds of physical properties are the most excellent substances.

Perhaps civilization will be able to artificially synthesize certain plastics with the strength of metal in the future, but until they reach this stage, they all need metals to help them progress to this stage.

Without the "basic resource" of metals, the development of civilization will certainly be extremely restricted.

"After the 'Stone Age,' we are living through an era that is the 'Wood Age,' an era that is very different from other indigenous civilizations."

"Because of the lack of metals, we set our sights on the most accessible plants, which are extremely rich in vegetation resources, including some plants with special properties."

"Some of us who are very talented have come up with ways to grow plants, including expanding plant production and cultivating plants with special uses, which can barely be regarded as revolutionizing productivity."

"For this reason, our biological sciences have advanced quite early, and even now biology is our strength."

"It's a pity that plants are plants after all, and you can't expect plants to use other elements to synthesize non-existent elements, right? This is no longer the category of biology, the chemical reaction of living organisms can only change the arrangement of atoms, and the synthesis of new elements will involve nuclear reactions inside the atoms, and normal plants cannot form this environment at all. ”

"So we waited a long time before we finally got the opportunity for development – a meteor shower."

"A meteor shower from an unknown amount of time ago arrived in our home galaxy, and these meteorites have a lot of metal resources on them, which has become an opportunity for us to progress."

"But why is it just an 'opportunity' instead of directly innovating us? The reason is also very simple, because a large number of meteorites fell into our home star, causing a severe mass extinction, in which 99% of living things died. ”

"For a civilization that simply does not have the ability to set foot in space, the threat of meteorites is deadly, not only the extinction of a large number of plants and animals, but also our own endangerment."

"Although some of the plants we cultivated were extremely adaptable and allowed us to survive this difficult time, our population plummeted and it took quite a while to recover."

"After that, things were basically the same as ordinary civilizations, and through the large amount of metal brought by meteorites, we had innovation after innovation."

"Because these metals are hard to come by, we are extremely rare in their use, we have long understood that these are 'non-renewable' resources, and because of the origin of these metals, we quickly set our sights on space. In order to get metal, we have to go into space. ”

"We first used these metals to go deep into the earth's crust and dig up extremely rare metal deposits hidden in the interior of the planet."

"Then we used these remaining mineral deposits to ascend into space, and managed to get to the rings of the other planet closest to us, which contained a large number of metallic meteorites, and finally put us into a virtuous cycle, gradually transitioning to the interstellar age."

"Although it took much longer than the average civilization, we still began our path of cosmic expansion."

"In the process, however, we gradually discovered the secrets of our galaxy......"

As he said this, the "exile" high-ranking took a deep breath, and it seemed that whenever he thought about it, he felt a subconscious anger.

"We've discovered that the lack of metal in our galaxy is due to the fact that we've been 'mined' here."

"There is an alien civilization that regards this place as a 'mining field', and has stripped most of the planet's mineral deposits, leaving only asteroids that are 'disdainful to be mined'."

"They don't think about how much such behavior will affect the civilization here, we know that this is the arrogance of the 'high civilization', but we still have extreme hatred for it, because we have lived so hard because of that civilization."

"This hatred eventually turned into extreme racism, and we began to hate a civilization outside of us, and in order not to suffer again, we did the same thing, and they did it, and we couldn't do it?"

"So we began to frantically grab resources, and after destroying our group of galaxies, we went to other galaxies to continue plundering."

"We've suffered failures along the way, but we've never been destroyed, and we're going to make a comeback with our great biotechnology."

"The benefits of this plunder have gradually become addictive, and even after our resources are abundant, we have not stopped plundering, and have become a group of 'predators'."

"And because of extreme racism, we have also committed unbelievable evils, we have destroyed all the civilizations that we have plundered, and trillions of living things have been slaughtered by us."

"In the words we know, we're a bunch of 'racial cleanliness'......"

Such words sounded a bit harsh to the "Empire of Silence", and the eyes of those "Silencers" were also a little erratic.

Because these former "high-dimensional invaders" did a little worse, they directly destroyed a plane, and the number of creatures in it is probably much larger.

However, the "exiles" did not notice this, and continued to talk about their past.

"Until one day later, we encountered the 'Recorder'. To be precise, they came to us on their own initiative, because our extermination has seriously affected their 'observation record', and we have destroyed many of their 'observation stations', and they are looking for trouble. ”

"Then we were taught a lesson, and we were beaten half to death and almost perished."

"But it also brings us to the wake of greed and hatred, and in retrospect, we have committed many unforgivable sins, and even we have not found the civilization that 'mined' in our home system, but instead directed our anger on the weaker civilizations......"

"Although morality is not so important in the interstellar society, we are an emotional species, and even if we have genetic technology to control our emotions, we are not willing to become rational machines, and we still feel heartfelt remorse for our past behavior."

"This is not a false attempt to survive, in fact, we were ready to commit suicide at that time, but suicide is an escape choice, we still chose to ask the 'recorder' to let us atone for the past."

"As you know, the Recorder did give us a chance to come to this Colony of Exile, and we became Exiles to do one thing - to stop an 'extinction' civilization that was as slaughtering as we once were."

"In order to deal with this future enemy, we have been building the 'Hell Line' since we entered here, and we are always ready to evacuate to both ends, and wherever the other side comes, we will go to the other side of the defense line, and use the 'Cage Generator' of the 'Recorder' to trap the other side here, and fight a war with us that only one side can win."

"And the 'recorder' also took the opportunity to tell us the information of the 'big wound' and told us that we can use it to improve ourselves."

"Ever since the Hunters entered the system, we immediately confirmed that this civilization was the exterminator we were waiting for, and without hesitation, we activated the machines and trapped them here with us."

"But after your reminders, we feel more and more that the 'Recorders' have a purpose in bringing us here, why do they never come forward when we destroy the galaxy? At their level, they could have come and stop us when we destroyed their 'observatory', they are indeed a bunch of bad guys. ”

"Perhaps, they are trying to attract the 'void' here......"

The Exile's higher-level analysts were constantly analyzing their guesses, guessing the purpose of the Recorder.

However, the "Silent Empire" was a little reluctant to talk after listening to their history, and finally couldn't help it, and reminded him:

[By the way, have you ever found the 'observation terminal' in your home galaxy, which is the 'observatory' of what you call the 'recorder'? 】

[Or, based on what we know about the 'Recorders', is it possible that the mines in your home galaxy were actually dug by them?] 】

Hearing such a communication, the entire upper echelons of the "exiles" fell silent, as if they really didn't seem to think so.

(End of chapter)