Searching for Human Branches

  "This is the cycle of history..."

  Zhang Yuan can still recall that the original group of Gliese people were determined to change their own civilization after being harmed by addictive drugs for a long time. , wants to become a scene of non-mediocre civilization.

  However, as the population iterates from generation to generation, the older generation passes away and a new generation of population is born. Thousands of years later, all determination evaporated and they ultimately failed.

  He even had some doubts that the final destination of a civilization was already determined a lot when it was first born.

  Everything in the universe is like this. Due to the theorem of thermodynamics, everything will naturally tilt in the direction of increasing entropy.

  Change is difficult, and getting better is rare. To put it bluntly, if no miracle occurs, it is a normal phenomenon in the universe.

  Fortunately, the Gliese civilization has also been divided into three. One branch stays here, the other leaves on the Earth Era, and the other branch is an affiliated civilization of New Humanity. Of course, Zhang Yuan does not think that the Gliese people who left on the Earth Era ship can do better than the branch that stayed here. How difficult it is to get rid of their own destiny...

  On the contrary, the subsidiary civilization of New Humanity has already Fortunately, the chicken and dog ascended to heaven and suddenly transformed into a fifth-level civilization.

  Soon, Zhang Yuan put these random thoughts behind and asked: "Do you know where the branch of humans living on the satellite went?" "

  They moved the satellite!"

  Thinking of this, these pangolins His eyes widened, as if telling an incredible legendary story.

  The relocation of this satellite had already begun 2,500 years ago. There was a lot of commotion at the time, and the planetary engine shined brightly. During the large-scale movement, some meteorites in the planetary system were redirected. Several larger meteorites fell on the Gliese star, creating dents.

  This story is clearly recorded in the history of Gliese civilization.

  In fact, branches of human civilization stay here, which to a certain extent stimulated the development of Gliese civilization and stimulated these pangolins to maintain their interest in astronomy. They also need to build an astronomical telescope to observe what this neighbor is doing.

  But since humans moved away, these pangolins have quickly fallen into decline. They think that telescopes are irrelevant, because this race itself has no interest in the stars, and they just want to live underground.

  "It's just a pity that we don't know where they went. We only know a general direction. This direction is..."

  Zhang Yuan recorded everything and prepared to leave.

  Before leaving, he said: "Thank you for the information. This robot is given to your civilization. It contains a small gift from me to you. I hope your civilization will always progress."

  The man standing at the front The pangolin was stunned for a moment, and then quickly replied: "May your civilization always progress!"

  They still understand these interstellar etiquette. And they are still curious about what kind of gift it is.

  Not having much time to appreciate the surprised expressions of these Gliese people, Zhang Yuan cut off contact in the spaceship.

  His current memory bank is missing, and he can only leave some simple information about the Milky Way to these Gliese people, which also includes information about the Aleph civilization.

  Of course, the reconnaissance robot itself is a good gift. Even with the strength of this civilization, it is difficult to reverse engineer the robots of the fourth-level civilization, but it is always good to have a reference.

  It also stores novels, songs, music, etc. written by Zhang Yuan in recent years. For Zhang Yuan, leaving his works to aliens is also an interesting thing...

  "Goodbye... this time The separation may be forever."

  "Goodbye!"

  Zhang Yuan turned around and took one last look at this planet...

  This silent planet is a place that gave birth to civilization. It's just a pity that most civilizations are not living up to expectations. They stay in the embrace of their mother star and refuse to come out. They are restrained in the cradle of their mother star. The fate that awaits them is that they will most likely be assimilated by a higher-level civilization and turned into a standard intelligent unit.

  The warp spaceship took off again and headed towards the distant starry sky.

  According to the historical records of the Gliese civilization, the route the Earth Era Signal Branch advanced along was exactly the direction of the planet Captan, which is consistent with Zhang Yuan's calculations.

  In other words, the human civilizations of the Earth Era and the Golden Sun may be in a state of convergence and re-form an alliance.

  This kind of convergence is not unusual.

  If the human branches on both sides gradually lose the motivation to move forward as the technology becomes more and more difficult, then after the merger, they can compete and cooperate with each other again, and maybe sparks of progress can bloom again.

  This is a way to fight against "sinking".

  In addition, the current interstellar form is becoming more and more complex, and it is the last word to stay together as much as possible. Even Zhang Yuan felt that this kind of grouping might be useless. A silver-white robot could bring down the third-level civilization in one go. Even having a battle star didn't make much sense. But the human branch that lacks enough information doesn't think so. They may think that grouping is a good idea.

  If you don't become a Level 5 civilization, you will never realize the true power of Level 5 civilization.

  This kind of strength is a qualitative change that cannot be made up by relying on quantity.

  In this way, this curvature spacecraft kept searching along the cosmic strings.

  One year, two years, three years...

  Cosmic strings are like spider webs, distributed throughout the galaxy. Sometimes they are very sparse, sometimes they are quite dense, and their distribution is random. Zhang Yuan could only rely on the maneuverability of the spacecraft and try one by one in a vague direction, taking many detours back and forth.

  The universe is really too big, even a corner of the Milky Way is still terrifyingly big. The human branch of the Earth Era does not have curvature technology and cannot travel too far away, but Zhang Yuan still does not think that he will be able to search for it. This kind of thing can only rely entirely on luck.

  If the lease time of this spacecraft is about to expire and the battle star cannot be found, we will have no choice but to go back to earth civilization.

  Of course, searching for earth civilization is the last option. Zhang Yuan does not want to deliver important technology into the hands of the Sinker civilization... Developing curvature technology requires a strong industry and a large number of outstanding engineers. It is still unknown whether the earth's civilization has such industrial capabilities.

  For this kind of high-end technology, there is not enough industrial capacity, and if you give it, it will be in vain.

  Finally, in the ninth year, Zhang Yuan's warp spaceship discovered a huge space fleet with battle stars near the cosmic string!

  The speed of this space fleet is not very fast, about 1% of the speed of light. For a huge planet, this speed is already quite good.

  There are many patrol ships next to the battle star. A rough estimate is that there are at least more than a hundred! There are even five large flagships equivalent to the Titan level!

  However, Zhang Yuan was not sure whether these were human fleets. A long time has passed, and it is difficult to tell the difference between the alien fleet and the human fleet from the appearance.

  He didn't dare to get too close and blindly intercept the radio. After all, it was just a small spacecraft with a fourth-level civilization.

  To be on the safe side, Zhang Yuan carefully sent a message: "Hello, unknown civilization! We are the Kunlun Mountain civilization."

  This message was written in the most common information encoding for humans, and the text is in Chinese. If it were an alien civilization, it might be difficult to tell what it meant. But if it is a real human being, as long as the inheritance is not broken, it will definitely be able to tell the difference.

  The so-called "Kunlun Mountain Civilization" naturally means the human branch of Kunlun Mountain, which is easy to understand.

  Zhang Yuan waited patiently for the other party's reply...