Chapter 1428 The possible truth
There are still countless suspicions and potential war risks in two countries on the same planet, so what if the two planets separated by the vast sea of stars? This is a realistic problem before the three empire rulers.
The vast starry sky hides too many secrets and possibilities. Gao Wen hopes that other intelligent civilizations in the starry sky also have good intentions and virtues, but it is impossible to believe such things unconditionally.
Before a civilization can develop to the extent that it can enter other planets and establish a "disaster backup" before other planets can establish a "disaster backup", its survival in the sea of stars will always be like a lonely boat. Any unexpected wind and waves may lead to the complete overturn of the lonely boat. This may be a natural disaster like a demon tide, or a malicious alien civilization. No matter which possibility is, it is something that the countries on this planet can't afford.
"... Before discussing whether to respond to this signal, I want to confirm something first," said the Silver Queen suddenly. "Do we really have the ability to respond to this signal now? If it is really transmitted across the starry sea at an instantaneous speed as scholars have guessed, then this may have exceeded our technical limits. If there is not even basic technology, then it would be a little too early to discuss whether to respond..."
"This is exactly what I want to say. If it is really necessary, the Alliance may really respond to this signal," Gao Wen tapped the table. "Sirens... You should know that they were on a huge starship and landing on our planet. Not long ago, they had partially repaired the super-light speed communication array of the starship."
Rosetta and Belsetia immediately subconsciously looked at each other, and their expressions changed slightly. Gao Wen looked at Amoen, who had always sat next to him without saying a word: "I want to hear your opinion from the perspective of a 'god', what do you think about this?"
"The gods in different fields may have completely different ideas about this matter," Amoen shook his head gently, "and from my perspective alone, I do not recommend responding to this signal."
"I thought you would be inclined to respond," Gao Wen glanced at the former God of Nature with some surprise. "After all, you have always tended to take proactive actions to deal with problems."
He said this very tactfully. In fact, what he thought of was the glorious deeds of the God of Nature standing in the sky and two rounds of charge to save the Silver Queen from the front. This seemingly stable and reliable elf old man actually compared it recklessly, showing the characteristics of countless dead creatures in nature to the fullest. In fact, sometimes Gao Wen even suspected that Amoen's holy image of the "big deer" was produced by special effects. After picking the light and shadow, deer antlers, etc., it was afraid that it would be a roe deer inside...
But he hesitated several times but was embarrassed to mention it in person. He considered secretly discussing with Milmina. With the character of the magic goddess who saw that she was not afraid of being a funeral, she would definitely find a way to verify it...
Amoen did not notice Gao Wen's face was strange for a moment. He just shook his head seriously: "Avoiding dangers and ensuring survival is the instinct of living things. I understand the value of curiosity and exploration, and I understand that predators are as ubiquitous as the primitive crises in nature. We are still too weak now, and everything about sending a letter to civilization is shrouded in mystery. Even if we analyze the other party's civilization form and intention, it is entirely based on the signals they actively release. In this case, once we respond, it is equivalent to putting our own destiny in the hands of others. After all..."
Speaking of this, he paused for a moment before continuing: "After all, they are very likely to be unable to confirm our existence..."
Just as Amoen finished speaking, an elegant and gentle female voice suddenly appeared in the space: "No, I'm afraid the situation is not as optimistic as we imagined."
Gao Wen immediately looked in the direction where the sound came, and saw two figures accompanying the golden light curtain. Purple mist appeared next to the round table. From the golden light curtain was a tall lady with golden vertical pupils like a dragon and elegant demeanor. The figures that appeared in the mist were wearing a black long dress in classical court style. The lilac eyes seemed to be jumping with charged arcane flames all the time. This was the incarnation of the magic goddess Milmina and the dragon god Eunya who had just arrived at the meeting.
The voice that just spoke came from Enya. At this moment, she quietly looked around everyone at the scene. Her eyes finally fell on Gao Wen, who was holding the meeting, and nodded slightly: "Sorry, we are late."
The two goddesses sat down at the round table. The situation where half of the people were gods made Rosetta and Belsetia's expressions look a little strange. Obviously, they were not very adapted to this "Cecilian" working environment. Amoen immediately looked in Enya's direction: "What do you just said mean? What does the situation mean not as optimistic as we imagined?"
"I'm afraid we have been exposed. If Milmina and I had a correct judgment, the signal sent by the civilization that sent the message this time should not be a global broadcast, but a highly directed communication," Enya said calmly, "They have locked the coordinates of our planet, and most of them have confirmed our existence. The part of the communication that requests responses should be just some kind of...conventional confirmation."
The news brought by Enya directly disrupted all the rhythm. The three empire rulers and Amoin, who had just learned the news, immediately looked at each other, and then Gao Wen broke the silence: "What's going on?"
"Cough, let me explain." Milmina coughed lightly, waved her hand to outline a floating light curtain over the round table. Then, the light curtain contracted and condensed into a magic projection of the planet. This projection was obviously just a schematic diagram. The structure of its surface seemed blurry, and only the existence of continents such as Loren, Tallond could be vaguely seen. However, under this vague appearance, the light blue light flow distributed vertically and horizontally could be clearly seen, surging inside the planet like blood vessels.
At the focus of these "blood vessels", there is a blue beam specially marked out in the center of the Loren continent.
Immediately afterwards, Milmina waved her hand gently, and several specious phantoms immediately evolved around the planet, presenting various realms such as elements, shadows, shadows, etc., and blue light flows can be seen flowing through each projection.
"As you can see, this is the schematic diagram of the 'world' we live in is not accurate, just roughly understand it. These blue parts are deep blue network channels located in various boundaries. They are connected to a whole in a higher dimension, which partially affects the whole and the overall affects the part. Here... is the largest network channel node that has been discovered so far, the deep blue well.
"Strictly speaking, in the past period, since the end of the war, I have been paying attention to the changes in the Deep Blue Well and have found ways to record the fluctuations of Deep Blue Network during the entire war. After receiving the meeting notice just now, Ms. Enya found me and hoped to use my observation data to confirm something..."
With Milmina's words, the magical illusions floating in the air continued to change, presenting a record of deep blue network fluctuations for a period of time. At a critical time point, Gao Wen saw that all the main nodes suddenly "trembled" for a moment, as if they were a powerful pulse, which seemed particularly eye-catching.
Silver Queen Belsetia subconsciously spoke softly: "This is..."
"This is the moment when the 'sentinel' 'sink' along the cracks of the deep blue net channel 's 'sink' into the real world," Milmina said in a deep voice, "that spaceship... If I guess correctly, the setter should have used very special technology to convert the entity of the sentinel system into a certain 'projection' state similar to the Kingdom of God, so that it can maintain stability in the deep world. The sentinel's forced entry into the present world is not just a kind of 'space teleportation', but actually reversed the conversion process, which led to an extremely strong storm of the network channel...
"If Ms. Enya and I were correct in the calculation, the reversal process caused this network oscillation is beyond imagination. Although people cannot perceive and observe it, it has already set off a ripple in the 'basal' of our universe. This ripple spreads outward at an unexpected speed, and may even... have surpassed the concept of 'speed'."
Milmina let out a light sigh, ending her explanation, and a brief silence enveloped the audience until Enya's voice broke the silence: "More than half a month ago, in that short moment, our planet was 'lit up' like a torch in the night, and it may be clearly visible hundreds of light years away. If the sending civilization has been paying attention to the stars, then they will definitely not miss this... flash of obvious traces of manual intervention."
Everyone at the scene felt that their hearts seemed to stop beating for a beat, and at this moment, the sudden change of signal mode of "sending a letter to civilization" seemed to have an explanation.
They really observed the changes in "here", so they converted the originally purposeless full-domain broadcast into more efficient directional broadcasts.
“…We need to look at this again,” Rosetta said incredibly serious. “Now whether or not it responds to this signal, it must be discussed under the premise of ‘we have been exposed’.”
Gao Wen didn't speak for a moment. He just frowned and fell into deep thought. Gradually, his thoughtful appearance also attracted the attention of Belsetia and Amoen. The round table became quiet, and everyone seemed to be waiting for him to speak subconsciously. Gao Wen finally broke the silence: "...Responding to this signal is probably the only choice."
Then he raised his head and glanced at everyone: "Our existence has been exposed to the alien civilization, and the other party obviously knows our location. The so-called 'unknown civilization alpha' refers to us, so it is meaningless to continue to remain silent. In this case, we must respond, and we must respond as early as possible and as clearly as possible."
Enya looked at Gao Wen's eyes: "In this way, we prove to them that we also master the technology of superluminal communication."
"It sounds like a bluff. We only have a half-destroyed communication antenna on hand," Belsetia shook her head, but could only admit helplessly, "but this seems to be the only way we can keep a little bit of initiative."
"Actually... I may be a little more optimistic than you," Gao Wen glanced at the Silver Queen. "I am more and more suspicious now that the civilization that sends the signal may not be as advanced as we imagined. Even their super-light speed communication technology itself... seems to have many suspicious points."
"Suspicious?" Milmina cast a curious look, "What are you referring to?"
"The 'flash' that caused our coordinates to be exposed appeared more than half a month ago, right?" Gao Wen said slowly, "and according to your judgment and Ms. Enya, this flash should spread very, very fast, and may even be as fast as superluminal communication."
"Yes," Milmina nodded, "The oscillation occurs at the bottom of the world and spreads in the 'deep sea' in the form of projection. According to the unified wave model and our latest cosmic stratification model, the speed of information propagation in the 'deep sea' is not bound by the laws of the material world, and in theory it is infinitely fast. This is also a technical direction of super-light speed communication that I have conceived.
"Of course, there is only this theory now. We do not have the corresponding technology to actively create this information ripples that can be transmitted stably in the deep sea, nor to search from the deep sea. To ‘listen’ this fluctuation, the shock caused by the Deep Blue Well is the first 'instance' I have observed..."
As the master of the realm of magic and mystery, Milmina is always as easy to immerse herself in technical issues as Rebecca, and many theories she mentioned inadvertently made many thoughts emerge in Gao Wen's mind uncontrollably.
But he quickly forcibly controlled his thoughts that were about to spread and asked seriously: "That is to say, at the moment more than half a month ago, the 'flash' of our planet had spread hundreds or even thousands of light years away, and it happened instantly and arrived instantly. However, the 'send civilization' did not change their signal mode until two or three days ago. Why is this?"
Amoen looked at Gao Wen, then Milmina, and spoke uncertainly: "They discussed how to write the first letter in half a month? Well, this is unlikely..."
"Yes, of course it's impossible. They have been sending messages for so long. If they really found other intelligent groups, they should have prepared various 'communication copy'," Gao Wen nodded. "It took them half a month to switch signal mode, which only means that it took them so long to complete the adjustment of the equipment. But let's not forget that this civilization had broadcasted this signal to the outside as early as the period of the Gondor Empire. Their 'super-light speed communication technology' has been used for hundreds or even thousands of years..."
He stopped, folded his hands on his chin, and slowly continued in his contemplation: "A civilization that has broadcasted in the universe with superluminal communication for a thousand years, now it takes half a month to change the signal mode. Such a suspicious situation may only have one explanation..."
The Silver Queen next to her immediately reacted: "This technology is not theirs!"
"The technology is not theirs, and the equipment may not be theirs. They may have to pay a huge price or use very tedious methods to indirectly control this thing, even..." Enya thought, "and they may even just borrow a certain setter legacy... If this is true, then it is understandable that they will not be able to crack the 'core secrets' of the sending equipment for a thousand years, because setter equipment often has very strict core protection."
Gao Wen spread his hands: "Imagine if they were really a civilization with a normal technical route and had mastered the mystery of superluminal communication a thousand years ago, what kind of height would they have to develop now? They should have broken through the demon tide and solved the black trap long ago, and they didn't have to wait for us to respond. On the second day after our planet was lit up, their leap spacecraft might have already arrived over the Loren Continent.
Chapter completed!