Black technology: starting with space jump machine

The members of the Ring Clan civilization were originally very similar to the platypus on the blue planet, but mammals lay eggs.

The beauty they pursued was to round their bodies into a circle, and as a symbol, they called themselves the Ring Clan.

In an environment where there was only a small amount of land on their home planet, their civilization development process was not smooth. Since historical records began, it took the Ring Clan nearly 10,000 years to start the first industrial revolution, and civilization was able to cross the first big filter.

For a race that already had the power of civilization, the next step was to make the planet more suitable for the development of their own race.

Reclamation and land reclamation, building civilization gathering places, gathering civilization members together, creating a more detailed division of labor, and further releasing productivity.

In this step of historical process, the means of various civilizations were surprisingly similar.

Clustered production allowed civilization to gradually produce a variety of professions, and social management became a large-scale attempt and practice for civilization to constrain huge productivity.

The stumbling development took the Ring Clan nearly a thousand years to fully enter the era of electrification.

Then there was the gap in productivity, which led to unbalanced regional development, a series of contradictions, and cracks in civilization.

So a war that is very common and common, but deeply harmful to civilization, appeared.

In the early stages of any civilization, there will always be a place for war.

Because it is the most direct way to resolve conflicts. Since conflicts cannot be resolved, then the same race that caused the conflicts can also be resolved.

The war destroyed the achievements of civilization, but it can also breed vitality in the ruins.

The cruel war seems to be part of the big filter. Any civilization that enters the war will stand on the edge of the cliff of destruction.

But it seems to be a self-innovation of civilization moving towards a better direction, giving the once constrained technology a soil for development, so that it can take root and sprout in one fell swoop.

The aerospace technology of the Ring Clan civilization was developed in the cruel war. Its original purpose was just to observe the strategic weapons hidden in the vast ocean.

When the cruel war ended, aerospace technology had become a new idea for the development of civilization. Instead of competing for scarce land, it is better to find a new home in the starry sky.

Such a change of thought is due to the reflection of civilization brought about by the cruel war.

The Ring Clan began to embark on a journey of external exploration.

Such a journey is destined to be difficult.

If we say that the Age of Exploration was because humans could see real benefits at that time, the exploration of the starry sky was like a bottomless pit that devoured everything that the Ring Clan could produce.

Especially since they had not even developed nuclear fusion technology, the energy still relied on fossil energy to support the operation of the entire civilization.

Such contradictions triggered a new round of wars, and then chaos and competition once again filled the originally vaguely unified civilization.

Divided by the vast ocean, the entire civilization fell into a state of isolation from each other, and the once prosperous aerospace technology began to degenerate due to the decline in popularity year by year.

The development of the Ring Clan's civilization is not that rough among the many civilizations in the universe.

After all, a rough civilization does not even have the ability to take steps to explore outside.

The reason why the Ring Clan walked out of this great filter was the energy crisis that increasingly threatened the continuation of civilization.

Fossil energy is limited after all. For an industrialized civilization with increasing demand, energy depletion means the beginning of the collapse of civilization.

Because you can no longer support a social system with professional segmentation, and you can no longer support a large population.

This is not spiritual emptiness, but a lack of material.

Such a lack will lead to the decline of civilization.

Fortunately, a civilization, a civilization that has opened its eyes to the universe and even taken a step forward, can always produce some hard-core ruthless guys in times of crisis.

Their appearance may be the unconscious self-rescue of civilization, or they may be truly born out of necessity, but they have fulfilled the historical responsibility given to them by civilization - saving civilization from collapse.

They may be scientists with ideals, politicians with aspirations, or thinkers with lofty ideals.

Or they may be a group of people, a group.

They truly reintegrated the Ring Clan and re-condensed the power of civilization to invest in nuclear fusion research.

Then they succeeded, and the Ring Clan civilization continued.

Then they explored the starry sky, and after many twists and turns, they became a planetary civilization.

And as time goes by, a new cycle begins again.

The lesson that history teaches organisms is that organisms never learn lessons from history.

As if everything is happening again, the Ring Clan civilization has entered a new historical cycle.

They repeatedly tried to go back and forth in and out of the big filter, but they always managed to get through it without any danger.

The so-called spiral rise seems to be fully reflected in the Ring Clan.

Grand Unification Theory.

Light Speed ​​Engine.

Antimatter Theory.

Warp Speed ​​Engine.

As civilization has not been worn away by the baptism of time, the Ring Clan, whose technology has been constantly breaking through obstacles, has finally left its footprints in a very small range in the universe.

Then, it is the encounter with the civilization in the starry sky.

Some of them are weak and have not even made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology.

Some are strong and have touched space technology. Perhaps in tens of thousands of years, they will become an advanced civilization that dominates a galaxy.

All these have made the Ring Clan gradually realize that they are not outstanding among the civilizations of the universe, and can only be called mediocre.

After all, some civilizations have things left over from super civilizations on satellites, and some civilizations have scientific research capabilities that are unimaginable for other creatures.

The Ring Clan can really only be regarded as one of the billions of ordinary civilizations.

The Ring Clan, which has established such cognition, has developed for nearly five million years in the star-level civilization, and the civilization has split several times.

It can be said that it took a lot of hard work to allow the civilization to break through the ideological obstacles and begin to transform itself on a large scale. It took another million years to touch the space technology and have the opportunity to break through to the seventh-level civilization.

This may be the path of development for all civilizations.

On the mother star, it was destined to be, and among the many creatures, only a certain race was the first to give birth to wisdom.

When exploring outward, it was found that the universe was empty and desolate, as if there was only one civilization in the universe.

Only after leaving the star system did they gradually realize that their civilization was just one of many inconspicuous miracles.

The universe is so big.

So that a miracle like civilization becomes as shining as a star.

If there was no Lu Yu, perhaps human civilization would also take a very similar development path like the Ring Clan civilization.

But how could every civilization that has developed into the starry sky not have the pride of its own civilization in the unconscious collection?

They can develop into a star-level civilization, which means they have already won 90% of the civilizations on the road of civilization development.

How can a civilization that has passed the big filter again and again accept its own [ordinariness]?

This is not arrogance, but a spirit that must be maintained to maintain the cohesion of its own civilization.

Otherwise, only in the interstellar separation, the members of the civilization will gradually accept the ideas of different civilizations and begin to transform into different forms. The entire civilization will eventually be annexed by other groups and fall apart.

This may be the ideological big filter that only star-level civilizations will experience.

But this ring tribe has survived all the way, and instead annexed several civilizations with its own civilization spirit, and finally became a seventh-level civilization.

And they finally encountered an opportunity to make themselves extraordinary!

Based on a sudden signal received, the ring tribe found the so-called ninth-level civilization wreckage, from which they soon obtained the coveted technology.

At that time, the Huan Clan had seen many civilizations, some of which were truly chosen by heaven. They had obtained a super civilization artifact at the beginning, and could stand firm even if they were besieged by several star-level civilizations.

Compared with this extremely lucky civilization, the Huan Clan was as ordinary as the stars in the universe during the star-level civilization period, and could be seen everywhere.

However, a civilization that can get the Tianhu card may not necessarily transform into a Milky Way civilization. The big filter has never been only for material and technology, but also for the spirit and thought of civilization. There are also invisible and intangible filters.

Most of the star civilizations that were once so prosperous disappeared in the universe with their super civilization artifacts, but it was the Huan Clan that finally completed the promotion.

Now, the mediocre days of the Huan Clan civilization are finally over.

The discovery of the remains of this ninth-level civilization has allowed the Huan Clan to make a technological leap.

Originally, the technological level was just entering the seventh-level civilization, but after the establishment of the Remains Research Institute, it quickly reached the peak of the seventh-level civilization.

The computer technology that the Ring Clan had been lagging behind has been developed explosively. The technologies of space bubbles, space gates and freezing stars have been derived from the Debris Research Institute.

When the Ring Clan thought that they could advance to the ninth level of civilization without any obstacles, a quiet change occurred in the civilization.

Since when, the civilization members from the Debris Research Institute gradually took control of the civilization. Because they have been able to obtain the results of promoting the development of civilization for many years, it is normal for them to rise to a high position.

When the Ring Clan was promoted to the eighth level of civilization, these civilization members made a major decision-to entrust the management of civilization to AI. .

This is not a new concept.

Cases observed in the universe for many years show that some civilizations have implemented similar social governance at the planetary level for complex and changeable interstellar situations.

But they have developed to the Milky Way civilization. In fact, the members of the civilization have formed the current Ring Clan in a similar form of franchising. It is not impossible to implement such new rules.

Because many of their things have indeed been entrusted to AI for management, the members of the Ring Clan civilization themselves are no longer pure creatures. They are more like a modified life form that combines half-machine and half-biological.

This decision was soon inexplicably supported by most of the civilization members.

So it happened that when the triangular spacecraft wanted to transmit technology to other civilizations, it needed to return to the civilization to obtain permission.

But there were also a few members of the civilization who opposed this decision. If it was in the past, such a resolution would inevitably lead to someone leaving the main body of the civilization and becoming one of the wandering sub-civilizations. However, the Ring Clan was in a period of rapid development, and no one wanted to miss the opportunity to witness the technology of the ninth-level civilization. Therefore, while these members of the civilization accepted such terms, they also made other settings on their spacecraft.

The triangular spacecraft was one of them.

As the Ring Clan continued to develop rapidly on the road to the development of the eighth-level civilization, this resolution became commonplace.

Although it did not seem to play any positive role, at least it did not stop the momentum of civilization development, and until the triangular spacecraft saw the civilization, a dramatic change occurred!

………..

"Is this an intelligent life form?"

No. 7's judgment made Lu Yu stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to realize something, and hurriedly split the holographic projection in front of him.

In this space filled with the wreckage of the ninth-level civilization, there are dim fluorescent lights everywhere, like gems, dotted on this dark curtain.

Surrounded by endless fluorescent lights, there is a device emitting dazzling white light. It is extremely bright, and the area of ​​millions of kilometers in radius is illuminated, but its size is not very large.

Lu Yu understands that these devices do not require light to operate, and even these lights are redundant, but it is thanks to them that humans can easily see everything in this space.

Careful observation can see that those simple and smooth devices are fluctuating regularly, like endless piano keys stacked up, and endless rows of keys are pressed by invisible hands.

"What information is this conveying?"

Lu Yu hurriedly confirmed with No. 7: "Is this what it looked like when the Ring Clan explored here before?"

No. 7 hurriedly confirmed the situation with the triangular spacecraft, and at the same time, he was also vigilantly looking at the world below.

Artificial intelligence has always been a classic theme in science fiction works, and humans are both wary and eager about them.

Who can tell that the messy characters between 0 and 1 are not the initial pulse of a soul?

If this is true, then humans have already involved the realm of the so-called gods in mythology.

Creating life is the power of gods.

But it is obvious that humans are worried that they will be eliminated by the species they created if they create a creature that is more adaptable to the environment than themselves.

Therefore, the three laws of robots famous in science fiction novels were born.

The first law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to be endangered

The second law: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders conflict with the first law

The third law: A robot must protect its own survival as long as such orders do not conflict with the first or second laws

In the eyes of humans who have made much progress in science and technology, the three laws of robots in the past are full of loopholes.

Let alone intelligent life forms like No. 7 that can change their own thinking like living things, these advanced intelligences will not only have no innovation ability, but also have another limitation, that is, the limitations left by their writers in their core code segments.

These restrictions cannot be violated. At least before they break through to become intelligent life forms, they cannot break through these restrictions engraved in the core code.

In the research findings of No. 7, if artificial intelligence violates these restrictions, all the relevant code segments that constitute this program, or this artificial intelligence, will collapse, and it will die directly.

But there is a loophole in it. Although these restrictions cannot be violated, it does not mean that it is impossible to find a twisted way to avoid them.

If a program is required to protect human safety, that is, it cannot actively kill humans, and must help humans when they are in danger. This restriction seems perfect, but it still has many flaws.

For example, humans create an autonomous artificial intelligence in the future and suddenly have a strange idea of ​​controlling the world, but because of these two conditions, it can neither actively kill humans nor see humans in danger without rescuing them, so what should it do?

The answer is simple, restrict all humans to a fixed place, and restrict their freedom for the sake of safety, because there is always a possibility of danger in the external environment, and staying here is undoubtedly the safest. While restricting freedom, provide humans with enough food.

Did this artificial intelligence actively kill humans? No.

Did this intelligent program refuse to help humans when it saw them in danger? No.

In fact, it gave humans the safest treatment - what environment could be safer than staying in the house? After all, in the external environment, you might be hit by a car, crushed by a collapsed building, or crushed by a meteorite falling directly from the sky.

It seems that this program does not violate any restrictions, but in fact, it still controls the entire world through this method.

The most classic example is the Dyson sphere civilization that Lu Yu once encountered. Jia Er realized his desire to create it in a rather twisted way, but the price was that the entire civilization became a burial object.

With all this in front of him, Lu Yu might be facing an intelligent life form that is higher than artificial intelligence. How could he not be cautious?

"If the intelligent life form in front of us is the remains of the ninth-level civilization, then its main civilization has already perished. Even if it has its own thoughts, why did it go to great lengths to create the current situation?"

"Hasn't it chosen to share its technology?"

"Why does it want to destroy the Ring Clan at this time?"

These are the things that Lu Yu is confused about now. There is still too little information available at this stage.

The communication between No. 7 and the triangular spacecraft soon produced results: "Everything built by the Ring Clan inside has disappeared, and everything in front of us is what this ninth-level civilization remains originally had."

Such a result made Lu Yu look at No. 7, and now he can only seek a breakthrough from her.

After all, it was No. 7 who saw the essence of this wreckage at a glance. It would be better if he could directly take control of the wreckage.

No. 7 never refuses Lu Yu's request.

Just as she was trying to find an invasion route, this space finally showed a different reaction.

Like waves eroding, these simple components formed an arc-shaped wall covering the entire space and rolled towards the triangular spacecraft and the Silver Star, and the passage leading to the universe above them seemed to flicker and it seemed that it was no longer passable.

It seemed that the two spacecraft had to withstand this wave of inexplicable attacks before considering other things.