Chapter 972 Undercurrent in Deep Space
Chapter 972 Undercurrents in the Deep Space
The air in the conference room was quiet for many minutes.
Chu Guang, who was sitting at the conference table, did not speak for a long time, digesting the huge amount of information.
After a while, he put his index finger on his forehead and pressed it, sorted out his thoughts and spoke.
”So… the Celestial Beings extended a helping hand to the Southern Legion through the Enlightenment Society and provided them with a series of trump cards including ‘Death Potion’ and ‘Seed of Gaia’?”
”Yes,” Qi Liu nodded and said seriously, “Whether it is a trump card or not, we have solid evidence to prove that it is not the technology owned by the Southern Legion.”
Chu Guang looked at him incomprehensibly.
”I don’t understand, what is their motive… or what do they want to do?”
Why give this card to Tyr?
Unless –
they don’t want the Wasteland Era to end.
Or, they hope that the Wasteland Era will completely enter the Doomsday Era and accelerate to the end.
There are only these two explanations.
He couldn’t think of a third explanation.
Qi Liu said after a moment of silence.
”The reason why the celestial beings are called celestial beings is because they do not recognize us as their compatriots, or… they have already drawn a line between us after ascending to another dimension.”
”Of course, the dimension I am talking about here is not the dimension in the sense of space, but the dimension in the sense of existence.”
Chu Guang pinched his eyebrows.
”Is there a more direct way to put it?”
Qi Liu went straight to the point.
”Have you heard of mind uploading?”
Chu Guang reacted immediately.
”Are you talking about the thing in Shelter 101?”
In fact, it is not just Shelter 101. The Torch Church also uses a method similar to distributed computing to store thoughts in bionic chips, thereby building a “heaven” on the ground in the fictional “heaven”.
In other words…
the celestial beings are the same?
No wonder the Torch Church went directly there!
Chu Guang felt as if something had suddenly dawned on him.
Qi Liu, who was sitting opposite him, nodded and said in a deep voice.
”In order to complete the expedition to the colony five light years away, many people in the expeditionary force gave up their bodies long ago.”
”It is difficult for us to analyze their thoughts with human thinking, but after years of observation, we have obtained some useful information… They are not our compatriots, and this is not their home.”
”Their compatriots and their homes exist in their memories. They want to return to the era of the Human Union, or to return to that era of infinite prosperity.”
”Even if this seems impossible to us, time can only move forward, not backward.”
Chu Guang took a deep breath.
”So… they plan to destroy this planet?”
Qi Liu shook his head and nodded.
”Have you never been confused, since we have mastered the gravity well technology, why didn’t we use the gravity well to get the garbage from outer space down in the early Wasteland Era?”
Chu Guang’s pupils shrank slightly.
”Could it be…”
Qi Liu nodded.
”We have tried everything we could, including deploying gravity wells. Even today, the Great Rift Valley still has a prototype of a gravity well. Unfortunately, when we drove the gravitons to try to collapse the gravity field of this planet, a force that was no less powerful than ours interfered with our interference with gravity, and this force was at a Lagrange point not far from us.” After a pause
, he continued.
”Unfortunately, there are not so many ifs in this world, but if we had succeeded in letting the garbage fall, the radioactive dust alone would not have been enough to keep the winter going for half a century.”
Chu Guang’s Adam’s apple moved.
”Do they want to kill everyone on this planet?”
”At least eliminate most of them, or let the survivors regress to the feudal dynasty or even the Stone Age, or even become animals,” Qi Liu said in a calm tone, “Of course, they don’t think this is genocide, but ‘starting over’.”
Chu Guang: “…Isn’t this the same as the Enlightenment Society?”
Qi Liu nodded.
”So they can get along with the Enlightenment, and can also get along with Tyr. Are you still surprised why those celestial beings gave the card of ‘Seed of Gaia’ to Tyr?”
”I’m not surprised, I’m just sighing.” Chu Guang sighed and said, “They can obviously use these technologies to do something…”
But it must be admitted that their position is indeed much higher than that of the Enlightenment.
And they have a deeper understanding of the cleansing, and even don’t want the residents of the shelter who have preserved some of the fire seeds of the old era.
Qi Liu shook his head and said.
”They are no longer human, and there is no point in you entangled in this.”
After a pause, he brought the topic back to the issue of “Seed of Gaia”.
”Your research on Xiaoyu is actually very meaningful, and is gradually getting on the right track. We don’t want you to go astray, so we concealed the matter about the ‘Seed of Gaia’.”
”After all, that technology brought severe disasters to us in the old era… At least in our opinion, you who are starting over can obviously move towards a better future.”
”But the facts have proved that we were superficial this time. Some things are indeed not suitable for children to play with, but some things are useless even if they are concealed. You will always use your own methods to discover the secrets hidden behind history, just as we once explored the future tirelessly.”
”Your Xiaoyu, or Tyr of the Southern Legion… is actually a Gaia-like life form, and the latter is very likely born through the ‘Seed of Gaia’. What was supposed to happen finally happened.”
”Dr. Conclusion said the time has come, and our chief technology officer thinks so too.”
”Perhaps from now on, we should face the past that we have experienced together more honestly.”
Chu Guang looked at him intently.
”What we need is substantial help, not just verbal comfort.”
He thought the academy would keep silent and evade responsibility, but the next sentence from the director of the Investigation Department made him hold his breath.
”That’s why I’m here.”
”From now on, we will open up to you all our research on gravitons, including anti-gravity technology—”
”Those technologies that you, the Enterprise, and the Legion have mastered but never truly possessed.”
”As for the research ship, don’t dismantle it after you find it. It’s meaningless.”
…
Deep and dark space.
A broken starship hovered silently in orbit, with fragments of various sizes and fully protective space suits floating around it, blending with the fragmented wreckage around it, forming an artificial asteroid belt.
This is a synchronous orbit, 36,000 kilometers away from the equator. It is
also the most remote border of this blue wasteland, where scavengers will hardly come.
Due to the distance from the oxidizing environment, the years have not left too many traces on these ruins of the old times, and the armbands and emblems of the People’s Union Aerospace Force are still clearly visible.
However, the glory of the past has long been covered with dust, just like the dazzling ruins, it is no longer worth mentioning.
However, today is different from usual. A silver-white spaceship slowly approached from a distance and opened a corner of the coffin…
the cockpit of the research ship.
The expressionless man stared ahead quietly, with pale blue dots reflected in his pupils.
Looking at the coordinate parameters getting closer and closer, he turned on the communication module and said in a calm voice.
”…This is Luo Yi, I am close to the coordinate position and will soon enter the communication barrier area.”
After a long pause, a reply mixed with the noise of electric current came from the distant deep space.
”Received, keep moving forward.”
”Yes.”
Without too much communication, the man reached out and turned off the communication module, completely entering the radio silence state, and then opened the throttle valve of the plasma engine, pushing the research ship forward to accelerate.
The pale blue plume ejected, pushing the research ship close to the dense “artificial asteroid belt” that was close at hand.
The raging metal storm became more and more dense, and the large and small metal fragments and debris were running on regular or irregular orbits at a terrifying speed.
They collided with each other, split into smaller fragments in the vacuum, or released stray electric sparks.
If you enter this area without protection, even a Titan will be beaten into a sieve!
However, when the research ship entered this area, something unexpected happened!
The debris that was originally rushing around seemed to have eyes, and they deviated from their original tracks and took the initiative to avoid the side!
The miraculous scene was like an invisible hand, protecting the research ship and pushing away the deadly orbital garbage and aircraft wreckage for it!
It was not some supernatural power, but the deflector shield was working.
Of course, using this power is not without cost.
While the flying debris was being bounced away, the energy on the shield capacitor was also rapidly consumed!
[Warning! Shield capacitor remaining 50%! ]
[Warning! Shield capacitor remaining 45%! ]
[……]
The energy tank is being consumed rapidly!
Although the energy of the reactor is constantly flowing into the shield capacitor, it still can’t keep up with the speed of consumption!
The man glanced at the holographic interface, but there was no ripple on his face.
He seemed to not care about his own safety at all, and seemed to be confident about crossing this dangerous “water area”.
This is indeed the case.
When the shield’s residual capacitor was close to 3%, the research ship barely stopped next to the damaged starship.
Almost at the same time, the number of fragments hitting the deflector shield suddenly decreased, and the red alarm light that kept jumping suddenly turned green!
The energy pouring into the shield capacitor from the reactor gradually made up for the deficit in the energy tank. The man reached out and clicked on the holographic screen, locked the relatively safe access point, switched the plasma engine to the breakpoint injection mode, and let the navigation system independently design the landing route.
The crisis was resolved.
The research ship slowly approached the access point like a canoe breaking through the storm and entering the harbor, steadily approaching the dock that greeted it.
The access point was locked.
The research ship successfully “anchored”.
”I have successfully landed.”
He had turned off the communication module and did not choose to report the good news to the space station at the Lagrange point. He just said so silently, then unbuckled his seat belt, left the seat and floated to the buffer cabin. The
inner gate slowly opened, and several already cold bodies were quietly suspended in the buffer cabin.
[The buffer chamber has been opened, the outside air pressure is below the safety threshold, please wear full protective equipment…]
The man did not look at the corpses for a second, nor did he pay attention to the safety reminder floating in front of him. He just put on the jetpack, then reached out and opened the safety cover on the wall, and punched the red button.
”Woo–!”
The red alarm light came on, accompanied by a piercing alarm, and the heavy outer hatch slowly opened.
The air in the buffer chamber was evacuated in an instant, and the corpses suspended in the cabin were blown out of the buffer chamber in an instant as if they were pulled by a rope.
The same was true for the man standing in the cabin.
It was just that he took the initiative to follow the airflow and floated out of the cabin, and at the moment he left the cabin door, he put his hand on the edge of the cabin door, and turned around with a flip.
The smooth movement was as smooth as a pre-programmed program.
The man standing on the top of the research ship looked back and watched the corpses being swallowed by the deep darkness, and then looked indifferently at the towering starship wreckage in front of him.
The shock felt by standing close to admire this giant is far more profound than standing far away.
The words “Orion” cruiser printed on the armored shell are still clearly visible and have not faded with time.
Compared with that era of infinite prosperity, the people struggling in the wasteland are as small as cockroaches.
Living in the darkness with the rotting body of the giant as nutrition, isn’t that cockroaches?
But –
all this is about to end.
The man stopped to admire this magnificent monument for a while, and then pressed the button in his hand.
”Hiss-”
The jetpack sprayed a string of white mist, pushing him to the nearby entrance.
Sorry to have kept you waiting.
Comrades.
…
【Since the Borneo authorities declared war on cockroaches, the insecticide content in the Yongliu River has increased sharply. There are a large number of cockroaches and other insect corpses floating on the river, attracting birds to peck at them, causing serious damage to the ecosystem.
At present, this irrational war is still going on. Due to the lack of ecosystems, red soil once again plays the role of decomposer. According to aerial photography by meteorological drones, the red soil that had stopped expanding in many places in Niuzhou, Xiangzhou, Langzhou and Shezhou has shown signs of expansion again.
In order to cope with the freshwater resource crisis caused by the excessive chemical content in the Yongliu River system, the Jinjialun Port authorities have introduced seawater desalination equipment from the South China Sea Alliance for emergency response, and have interviewed Borneo’s ambassador to Jinjialun Port, Anwo, to negotiate on the ecological damage.
Since the expansion of red soil has compressed the arable land area and led to a reduction in food and cash crop production, analysts are worried that this may cause Sava to continue to declare war on red soil, causing a greater ecological disaster.
Mayor Yodu called on the media not to create panic, and said that declaring war on red soil is impossible from a scientific point of view, and it is also extremely absurd. The family will never do so without any reason.
But this speech did not seem to work. Instead, it intensified the panic and caused the citizens of Jinjialun Port to store water and food.
——”Survivor Daily” Shuguang City Edition
】
Shuguang City.
On the north street of Linghu Wetland Park, Chu Guang, who was sitting at a ramen stall waiting for breakfast, was flipping through the newspaper in his hand. Unexpectedly, the first page he opened was a picture of a big cockroach. He immediately closed the newspaper with an expression of “old man, subway, mobile phone”.
Sitting opposite him was the Foreign Minister of the Alliance, Cheng Yan.
Seeing the expression on Chu Guang’s face, Cheng Yan knew that he must have seen some news, so he joked.
”There are no fools in the Borneo Province, especially in Jinjialun Port. I have been there before, and the people there give me the feeling that even the newspaper boys walking around the streets have ten thousand ideas for making a fortune in their heads.”
Chu Guang shook his head, took out two chopsticks from the bamboo tube on the table and wiped them with a tissue.
”Fools can’t be that bad. What we should be afraid of is people who are too smart doing stupid things.”
Several days have passed since he met with the director of the Academy’s Investigation Department that day. Nothing special has happened in the Alliance during this period. The “Survivor Daily”, which really has no news to report, put the trivial things in Tiandu on the headlines again.
Perhaps because Dolly took some people to the Great Desert and Batua Province for development, the level of the Dawn City editorial department has declined again recently. The photos were not carefully selected, and the mutant cockroaches in Qingquan City were used.
How could there be such a big thing in the Boro Province?
However, the “Survivor Daily” is not an official organization of the Alliance after all, so he can’t visit it again and again.
The last time he went there, the president was almost crying.
Just as he threw the tissue into the trash can, the young man with ramen ran over in a hurry.
”The ramen is here! Enjoy!”
”Thank you,” Cheng Yan smiled and nodded at the energetic young man, then looked at Chu Guang who had already started eating noodles, and asked tentatively, “Are you really not going to take care of it?”
Take care of it…
that word again.
Chu Guang was too lazy to answer this question, so he stuffed a garlic into the noodle soup and ended the topic with one sentence.
”It will cause ecological deficiency.”
Hearing this, Cheng Yan did not ask any more questions and changed the topic swiftly.
”What about the prisoners of war? Tiandu and Mammoth Kingdom both asked us to hand over Gurion to them. Although there are conflicts between them… but in name they are all our allies.”
”Gurion?” Chu Guang frowned, “Isn’t that guy in Xifan Port?”
Cheng Yan said with a wry smile.
”He was there at the beginning, but I don’t know if Zayed offended the emperor of the Eastern Empire or for some other reason, the people of the Eastern Empire stuffed Gurion to Jingalon Port… and only left Akbar to them.”
This sly guy…
Chu Guang laughed and shook his head, seeing through Saren’s cleverness at a glance.
This guy wants to play the idea of killing with a borrowed knife again, and this time he wants to use the alliance to hit his puppet.
Abusek has been dismissed by the committee. Although Tiandu is still an ally of the alliance in name, it is actually estranged from Shuguang City.
Anyone can see that the Family Association is a puppet of the Eastern Empire, including the Family Association itself.
However, Zayed is not honest. He wants the benefits of the Eastern Empire and wants to continue to get the benefits of the alliance. Tiandu
’s Federation is almost a corpse, and he is sewn on the chair of the committee. This is the best evidence.
Saren knows that he can see this and will never abandon the ally of Mammoth Country and give Gurion to Tiandu, so he handed over the knife very readily.
And if he really handed Gurion to Mammoth Country, the purpose of hitting the Poro Country would be achieved. No matter how thick-skinned Zayed is, he knows that it is impossible to have both.
As for killing Gurion, it is not a big loss for the Eastern Empire.
Saren is a Weilant, but he is a political animal. At most, he will cherish his feathers for the sake of face, but he will not abandon any of his compatriots from the bottom of his heart like those “Weilants”.
Chu Guang actually had the answer in his heart, but he still threw the question to Cheng Yan.
”You are the foreign minister of the alliance. What do you think? There is only one Guliong. Who should I give it to?”
Cheng Yan said in a very light voice.
”I heard that there are many former members of the Southern Legion among the 800,000 troops under Grove, the ‘Iron General’ of the Boro Kingdom, and there are also a large number of Southern Legion weapons. Some of them are taken over from the East Empire, and some are prisoners in the North Wind Operation.”
Chu Guang: “So?”
Cheng Yan’s pupils flickered slightly.
”Currently, Grove is confronting the Mammoth Kingdom in the north. If Guliong is handed over to Tiandu, the Mammoth Kingdom may be in danger.”
Laxi, who could stop Guliong, is dead.
The current leader of the Mammoth Nation is Shawa, the captain of Laxi’s stormtroopers. Although he is quite capable and has fought bravely on the battlefield, he is a domestic affairs officer after all and is not a talented commander.
Although Grove got a bargain on the southern front, it can be seen from Operation North Wind that he has some real skills, otherwise he would not have been printed on a playing card by the Southern Legion.
”Do you mean to kill Gullion?” Chu Guang didn’t want to listen to him beating around the bush, so he asked casually.
Gullion’s role is roughly equivalent to Griffin, just a commander-in-chief of a war zone. Whether he should die is the business of the Poro people. The key targets of the alliance are all in the city of Yavent, and he must be at least a four-star captain. For example,
the director of the General Affairs Department, etc.
As for a three-star captain, it is up to the Poro people to decide whether to sentence him to death or life imprisonment. He doesn’t really want to get involved.
”I don’t mean that, and it’s just the opposite,” Cheng Yan shook his head hurriedly, “The court in Jin Jialun Port will undoubtedly sentence him to death, but killing a commander without troops is meaningless to us.”
After a pause, he lowered his voice and said hurriedly in a voice that only two people could hear.
”I suggest that you put the court to judge him in Mammoth City… After all, from a legal point of view, the survivors of Mammoth City also participated in the war against the Southern Legion, and they were the main force on the battlefield. They have the power to judge Gu Liong, and they have more power than Tiandu today.”
Looking at Cheng Yan with a sharp look, Chu Guang’s expressionless face suddenly showed a smile.
”Not bad, you don’t have to go around in circles with me, just tell me your thoughts directly.”
Cheng Yan smiled embarrassedly.
”I’m not going around in circles… I just want to explain to you why I do this. After all, you can see that this Gu Liong is actually a knife handed to us by Saren. If you really can’t bear to part with Tiandu, you can execute him in Jin Jialun Port.”
After a pause, he added.
”Of course, I must remind you that false friendship does not bring any substantial benefits. Zaid’s sweet words will never come true. He will only try his best to fleece us.”
”A little liar wants to fleece me, but he is still a little naive,” Chu Guang laughed and pushed the empty bowl aside. “Your idea is good. Since you have an idea, just do it.”
Cheng Yan smiled slightly and understood.
”I understand.”
The affairs of the Borneo Province are only part of the post-war order. Chu Guang does not really want to play this game personally.
In contrast, Abusek, who had met him once at the Human Conference, was more interested in the “Abu Aerospace” recently created in French Fries Port.
This guy has retired, but he can’t sit still and runs out to start a second business.
If this guy can really succeed, he may change the conservatives of the alliance’s views on the Borneo people.
Of course, he hoped that the guy could have some positive influence on the people of the alliance, so that they could learn to respect themselves and become stronger.
Now that you have left the province of Poro, stop looking for your father and throwing tantrums.
On the other hand, Chu Guang was more concerned about the heavenly people.
If he didn’t break the sword hanging on the Lagrange point, he wouldn’t be able to sleep well.
Especially now that the legion has been disintegrated.
The burden that originally belonged to Julius, now he has to carry it.
(End of this chapter)
