Fortunately, I'm a Giant of Light

"Report, it went to the asteroid belt."

The asteroid belt is a dense area of ​​asteroids between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, born in the early days of the solar system.

Even so, they are still very thin in the universe, but the universe is an empty space with almost zero material density. Compared with the clean orbits of the planets, the asteroid belt celestial bodies are already too large. many.

If you compare the asteroid belt to a dense city.

Then most of the space in the solar system is not even counted as a village. At best, it is an ocean, without any ups and downs, a vast expanse of green, without any other things.

Therefore, it is very simple for human probes to pass through the asteroid belt. Even if they go straight through, they may not be able to hit anything.

In the human plan for [-], the asteroid belt is identified as an important mining point, which is rich in elements.

For example, the asteroid numbered 2011UW-158 is a platinum asteroid.The total weight of platinum is about [-] million tons.

In fact, human beings already have some construction machinery mining on the asteroid belt to make up for the huge resource demand for the construction of Mars bases.

The Descendants also have a hidden base in the asteroid belt.

The human negotiator it captured was in a certain base in this asteroid belt.

But this time, its purpose in coming to the asteroid belt was not to meet that base, but to meet another alien spaceship that had stayed in the asteroid belt for a long time.

The ring-shaped spaceship that humans discovered a long time ago did not respond to any messages from the descendants, and it still stays quietly among the stars, as if dead.

Chapter 65 The Ringworld of the Living Dead

Long before starting from Mars and deciding to go to the Kuiper belt, the descendants wanted to communicate with the inhabitants of the ring world.

The reason why the super-large spaceship is made into a ring is very simple, that is, to simulate the gravity with the centrifugal force in the self-rotation.

The structure depends on the demand, and the demand can be deduced backwards to the situation of the demander.

The ring shows that the people living in the ring world are also a kind of baryonic life.The size and rotational speed of the ring world even reveal the centrifugal force it generates to simulate gravity, which is about the same as the 1G gravity on the earth's surface, and their technology is not advanced enough.

"After all, they didn't even have a cover to cover them."

But it fails.

Ringworld doesn't respond.

From then on, the descendant had guesses and doubts, but due to the hasty planning, it gave up communication and continued to fly to the outer layers of the solar system.

Speculation and suspicion are because... these things that either jumped from neighboring galaxies, or flew directly to the solar system are actually very suspicious.

In principle, they belonged to the captured fish that were not recruited by the Orion defense line. In other words, they were primitive civilization groups that were not popular.

However, in fact, the Mephilasians said that they had never visited the mechanical planet, let alone knew of the existence of the mechanical planet.

This is what is suspicious.

It walked on the vast shell of the ring world, all the way forward, as if walking on the continent of the earth.It can also see some of the robots used for space maintenance replacing the probes.

The Descendant touched these machines lightly, choosing to hack into the ring world's network.

This is a risky thing, superficially weak does not necessarily mean weak.

But it managed to find a portal it could use.

After the descendant arrives at the location, he asks the AI ​​in charge of the ring world to open the door.Then the small round door rotated open, revealing the location of the air pressure chamber.

After entering the air chamber, the descendant looked around.Surrounded by ordinary steel layout scene.It was dark behind the windows.

The descendant was suspicious, thought for a while, then turned around, and asked the liquid metal robots placed on the command satellite by the mechanical planet to follow him.

Then, it continued to move forward, passing through more than a dozen rooms with the same layout, and the atmosphere was similar to the atmosphere of the earth.

There was silence, and there was nothing alive.

It saw several operation panels and wanted to operate them.But like the master AI, the database is locked or missing.

"This probably means that there was a catastrophe in this ring-shaped spaceship, so the people here died in sevens and eights, maybe they have all become extinct, so it is not unusual for them not to respond to my communication request."

Races living on planets with abundant materials will continue to become extinct, not to mention the lives wandering alone among the ruthless stars, even though their technology is always higher.

It thought for a while, flapped its wings, flew up, and continued to move forward without touching any solid matter.

Pushing open a door, it is a room like the living room of an ordinary neighbor's house.There was dried blood here, but it wasn't cleaned up.

There are also several blurred and oxidized documents on the table.

The descendant didn't look through these documents, thoughtfully, and continued to move forward.

Pushing open another door, it suddenly turned into a school, like a corridor of a teaching building and a grade, but it was empty, leaving only signs of people living in the past.

The liquid metal robot of the mechanical planet uses scanning eyes to scan, and it is easy to find that these scenes are false, all of which are some kind of holographic projections. Through the splicing of rooms and scenes, the ring world is built into the original appearance of their residence.

"It can only be seen from this holographic projection that their culture is very close to that of humans."

The descendant glanced at the robots meaningfully.

They are continuing to scan the area with electronic eyes.

"It's just that..."

The descendant will lack interest. Originally, it thought that it could gain some help or solve some mysteries, but it turned out to be a ruin.

It starts walking back.

After that, just leave it to the robot of the mechanical planet.

Only at this moment, it suddenly heard footsteps behind it...

From the end of this "a certain floor of the campus" path.

So it looked back, and saw a person walking slowly at the end of the corridor... a person who looked exactly like the people on the earth.

If I had to say anything different... it would be that for some reason, strange and complicated hyphae like velvet or mushrooms appeared in its eyes.

Most people's eyeballs are white, yellowish and bloodshot when they are tired.

But in the eyes of the person who staggered out from that end, there was a black background... the whites of the eyes and the eyeballs, the entire interior of the eye sockets was pitch black, and densely covered with dense white hyphae, which were growing, constantly sprouting and growing. Split mycelium.

If you take a closer look, only the outermost layer of the cornea remains in this person's eyeball.And the lens and vitreous body inside the eyeball disappeared, but the living hyphae like retinal nerves supported its cornea...or this layer of human skin.

"Hello...you are visitors from an alien planet...since the era of the demon star, there have been... no visitors from an alien planet for a long time. Hello."

The fungus man staggered around as if drunk, and smiled at the descendant again, grinning.So the crack opened all the way to the ears, and his tongue kept forking, and dozens of them were stuffed into one mouth, and as the mouth closed, they all retracted into the throat.

"We're learning... learning... magic."

He was in a trance, walked and walked, leaned against the wall, and then turned on a switch.

So all the holographic projections in the room disappeared, and it became what it should be.

Only then did the descendant clearly see that the steel walls were covered with mold.

And the desks, books and chairs it thought were grown mushrooms are opening their wonderful and colorful umbrellas and standing on the ground.As for the walls, the robots could see better—the wires buried deep in the steel were overgrown with fungus.

"Are you human?" The descendant asked the unit of the mechanical planet in English, "Are you from the earth?"

The man didn't answer, but lay down and passed out.

He is in his 20s.

At the age of 20, the number of neurons in the human brain will decrease, and the lung capacity will also begin to decline, which is the beginning of the human body's transformation from prosperity to decline.

It is also a time when they are no longer so useful to the fungus that inhabits them.

At this time, the descendant stepped back and saw that the few blood-stained report papers were still on the umbrella of the fungus.

The above title reads:

A new breakthrough in Prometheus engineering!

The following content is written about a biological drug made from ancient viruses and fungi found on the moon.

At that time, the demon planets were still trudging between the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter.

The aftermath of Orion's defenses continues to pound all the giant planets that Kuiper brought to Jupiter's orbit.

The mechanical planet is out of traction.

The relic of the descendant alliance taken out from the Great Red Spot was horizontal in the air, and it was heading straight towards the demon star.And the demon star will never change any of its trajectories.

Retribution is still carefully watching the demon star.

The time of collision is near.

"I'm so nervous, Aya."

At that time, Mengmei said to herself.

The so-called nervousness is that one's own expectations may not be met, and one's worries about possible consequences.Even robots have their moments of nervousness.

Aya wanted to comfort the robot girl, but saw the repairman on the monitor... self-harming.

"The repairman...this anomalous creature is also very nervous."

It is constantly peeling off its own skin.

At the beginning, Zion felt right, the skin of the repairman was sewn together.It hid in a little corner of the house, crying and screaming, and kept singing its strange songs that no one could understand.And there are some words that Aya can understand in the ballad.

It is the repairman begging the Retribution to leave quickly, to the ends of the earth, to a place where you will never see the demon star.

The Retribution has been listening for a long time, but it doesn't respond.

Because it has to wait for Zion to come back, and it will continue to patrol around the demon star.

But the repairman dared not go anywhere else.

It knows that the Retribution is more dangerous.

Aya turned her head away, pretending not to know about it, and continued to look at the blurred and changing scenes on the surface of the demon star.

And Mengmei talked to the little robot again:

"You say, why do our creators have to suffer such terrible things?"

Unexpectedly, the little robot shook his head, took out the strange tone of its report, and said loudly plausibly:

"It's not suffering... It's just that some evil things always have a habitat. And since some habitats are inhabited, they will naturally have power, will be extraordinary, and will give birth to something that suffers from it. It It will always fall on the head of some life."

"Then why... did it fall on our heads?"