doomsday exile

The quantum spacecraft arrived at Mars two days earlier than expected.

Its appearance is very similar to the first generation, but its wings are retractable, so it looks more like a bat in appearance.

In Lu Di's words, adding four more wheels is the car of the hero of Meiman.

Coincidentally, the hero in the movie adapted from American comics also has to fight aliens.

"Ancient spiritual bodies are not aliens." Yan Long corrected.

At best, it can only be regarded as a civil war on earth.

Lu Di was speechless, what a goddamn civil war.

In the past, there were only crimes of treason, anti-society, and anti-humanity, but now there are more crimes against the earth?

This heavy quantum aircraft was transported to the silo, debugging, refueling, and a series of preparations.

This is not urgent, firstly, the meteorite has not reached the predetermined position, and secondly, the scientists in front are in a hurry, so the subsequent work does not need to be rushed, and the possibility of mistakes is also avoided.

"...It's basically like this, first use the rocket to take the aircraft out of the Martian atmosphere, and then use the second-stage booster to take you out of the gravitational range of Mars, and then it's up to you."

After Yan Long listened, he nodded to Professor He and said, "No problem."

Cao Yan was full of worry.

This reconnaissance mission is full of dangers. No one has ever driven a quantum aircraft in the universe, and no one knows what is on that meteorite.

Even the risks in the launch phase cannot be completely ruled out. Everyone knows that launch and landing are the most dangerous.

Lu Di sat next to him, shaking his calf. At this time, he couldn't speak, no matter what he said was inappropriate, he could only put on a relaxed posture.

"Then I'll leave it to you." Professor Alvin shook hands with Yan Long on behalf of all the scientific research personnel on Mars.

At this time, there are still ten hours before the launch.

Lu Di stayed in the empty meeting room, watching the red bright spots flashing on the screen.

Raising his hand, his fingertips passed through.

He looked very focused, as if thinking about something.

After an unknown amount of time, Yan Long's voice came from behind him.

"Lu Di."

The person who was shouted turned his head and found Yan Long standing in the shadow of the corridor outside the door.

This is a terrifying position comparable to that of Lu Di passing through a wall. Only a vague outline can be seen, which seems to be a little transparent.

Of course Lu Di wasn't frightened, he was just surprised that Yan Long should be very busy now, and he wouldn't wait idly like him.

"Are you nervous?"

Yan Long walked across to Lu Di.

Lu Di instinctively wanted to deny it, thought for a while, and chose to tell the truth: "One thing, I'm not afraid of any enemies, and I'm even excited to meet them soon, but I can't bear the result of failure, because I It's not just me."

Lu Di once especially hoped that Huaxia would come out with a few more powerful spiritual bodies, so that he could be a salty fish, but then he thought about it, wouldn't he have to compete for a job if he wanted to partner with Yan Long?Can it still be salted fish?

No no no!

You can let anything go, but Yan Long can't.

"You see, we have come to Mars twice, and traveled the quantum transmission route between Mars and the Earth several times. It can barely be said that we rolled in the vast ocean of the universe, but I thought about it carefully today, no, we It’s the first time to ride a rocket.”

Lu Di couldn't help laughing when he said this.

How can there be such abnormal "business trips" like them.

"Worried about this?" Yan Long sat next to Lu Di and asked in a low voice.

"Of course, the sea of ​​stars is waiting for us." Lu Di said casually, and then continued to look at the red dots on the virtual screen.

It is the Kunlun, the Suirun, who is really looking for the stars and the sea.

He and Yan Long should be regarded as... cleaning the way?

"By the way, where is the Kunlun?" Lu Di asked.

Yan Long turned on the computer terminal and entered the information of several spaceships into the virtual light screen.

Lu Di lowered his head to study, and found that they are all far away from the meteorite, and it will be difficult to "pass" the meteorite in the future voyage, because the starry sky is like the Pacific Ocean, even if everyone walks towards each other, there is basically no possibility of meeting each other.

"If the meteorite core... I mean, if it's a well-camouflaged chamber with spirits in it, it's dangerous for the ship to encounter them."

Lu Di clenched his fists and said worriedly.

He didn't tell anyone about this idea.

But if Lu Di didn't say anything, it doesn't mean that other people didn't expect it, it's just that everyone maintained a tacit understanding.

There are too many dangers that cannot be seen in the universe, and there are many asteroids like meteorites. This meteorite is specially marked because it will "visit" the earth, and there are many more seemingly "harmless" small planets. As for the celestial body, who knows where the group of ancient spiritual bodies are hidden?

It is unrealistic to return the spacecraft now, because the earth is not safe.

"Spiritual bodies can't penetrate the outer shell of the spaceship. As long as they don't leave the spaceship, their safety is guaranteed, but..."

Yan Long couldn't guarantee what technology the ancient spirit body had collected from the aliens.

These are all hidden dangers, but there is no way around them.

Because they don't know anything about the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know how long they have observed humans.

Lu Di would rather this group of ancient spiritual bodies be as arrogant as Delta, which is easier to deal with.

"This group of old jellyfish is much more flexible than Delta. They dare to think and do and can accept new things. They ran away when they said they wanted to, and they didn't stay on the earth as a nail household to endure natural disasters. In fact, they should be in the first place. I came back after the second mass extinction..."

Lu Di said to himself.

At that time, the earth still retained the appearance of the "hometown" that the ancient spiritual bodies were familiar with, and the damage caused by the first mass extinction was actually relatively small, at least there was no major change in the topography and basic species.

"Maybe they want to come back, but they can't."

The spiritual body just occupies the passing alien spaceship. They do not understand technology themselves. It takes a lot of time to completely "swallow" the achievements of a technological civilization, not to control but to truly understand.

Yan Long is willing to chat with Lu Di about these conjectures, and it doesn't matter if he guesses wrong, as long as he can increase his understanding of the enemy.

"You can substitute it and think about it."

"If you want to put it that way, from my point of view, it's probably because the earth bumpkin's spiritual body has come into contact with advanced technological civilization, and he is too happy to think about it." Lu Di spread his hands and said.

To be fair, would an alien civilization capable of interstellar voyages not have movies, games and books for entertainment?

How could the ancient spirits, who only had ethnic groups, struggles, and killings in their minds, be nostalgic for their former lives after suffering such a cultural shock?

Earth?What do you want? What do you do when you go back?

Is it that the stars and the sea are not fragrant, or is the technological civilization not fun?

Lu Di rubbed his forehead and said, "Okay, I barely understand why these jellyfish and octopuses haven't returned to Earth for so long, so why have they changed their minds now?"

"That's what worries me the most..."

The voice behind Yan Long was almost a whisper, and even Lu Di couldn't hear it clearly.

"what?"

"These may be third-order spiritual bodies with endless lives, so time is meaningless to them, and they don't need food. The energy supply and maintenance of the spaceship can be obtained by docking on the planet for mining...as long as they really master that technology Civilization, this can still be done.”

Even if they inherit this civilization in a bloody way, even if they can't advance the technology of this civilization to continue to develop, it is still possible to follow the gourd.

Therefore, there is no obvious progress in the alien spacecraft that visited the dinosaur era after hundreds of millions of years.

The small rescue capsule excavated from the Antarctic, except that the activation method was changed to sound wave control, which is beneficial to the use of the spiritual body, other technologies don't look particularly tall, just a little ahead of the earth's civilization by a generation or two.

This is good news, which shows that the ancient spiritual body that "digested" this civilization still looks down on the civilizations developed by intelligent races with entities, and only regards them as a tool.

The bad part is that those guys can understand "cosmic strings" more clearly with systematic scientific knowledge.

The universe has its own operating principles, so whether it is human civilization, alien civilization, or even magical civilization (if there is one) is actually the same thing in essence.

"Our enemies are very powerful and difficult, and there should be more than two in number. The only clue we have now is that they are hostile to humans or the races that occupy the earth, whether they are intelligent or not."

The dinosaur lay down, Lu Di muttered.

Yan Long continued: "If they have mastered the achievements of civilization, they can let robots mine ore, build spaceships, and freely enter and exit the solar system, why should they return to Earth?"

"Encountered a more powerful enemy?" Lu Di shook his head as soon as he finished speaking. With the ability of those spiritual bodies, it is not difficult to touch back to the earth and hide without anyone noticing.

The ancient spiritual body doesn't seem to miss Delta very much either.

It can’t be to show Delta how right it was to choose to leave the earth at the beginning, how powerful they have become now, can they restart the earth, right?

Yan Long remained silent.

The light screen shone on his and Lu Di's faces, and it was strange that they didn't dye any color. They themselves were not affected by the light, unless they wanted the particles to change with the external environment.

Lu Di poked Yan Long with his elbow.

It was like a ball of water imprisoned by an invisible barrier, gently stirred another lake, a few drops merged into it, and then flowed back lightly.

"You must have an idea, tell me quickly." Lu Di asked curiously, and at the same time made a joke, "You don't have to be responsible for what you say here, even if you guess randomly, you don't need to worry about scaring others."

Yan Long pursed his lips, he was still used to thinking instead of giving the answer directly.

At the same time, I also want to see if Lu Di's thoughts are consistent with his own.

"If, I mean, if you have several bases in the distant starry sky, you have technology for recreation, you have companions, and you don't care about the same kind on Earth, then under what circumstances would you think of going back to Earth?"

"Uh……"

Lu Di originally wanted to say, are you sure that group of jellyfish octopuses are normal?What if they are just too bored in life and want to find something to do, so what if they drop a meteorite over here?

and many more!

"so boring?"

Lu Di suddenly stood up, stared at Yan Long and asked, "In Professor Xia's research, the spiritual body can only be born from living creatures, right?"

That's right, Lu Di remembered that he even touched Yan Long's stomach for this matter, as a joke.

Mental and spiritual bodies cannot produce offspring.

Particle-to-particle fusion just releases energy (cough).

Particles devour each other, and only one consciousness will remain or the consciousness will be completely confused. In short, it is impossible to give birth to new intelligent life.

"No matter what kind of companion it is, have there been no contradictions for hundreds of millions of years? Impossible, the spiritual body is the same as human beings... I mean, the spiritual body is the same as a living being with a body, with emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy." Lu Di said decisively Well, you can tell just by looking at Delta, you can be very imposing when you are young.

Therefore, the number of these ancient spiritual bodies will only decrease, not increase.

Maybe 10 years, 100 million years, they haven't felt anything yet.

After waiting for 1000 million years, [-] million years, they are not in the Delta of the earth. They are tired of seeing familiar faces around them, and even lost a lot of them because of conflicts. They don’t think about the future of the population, but think about it Change some new friends for yourself, add some new subordinates!

"There is an even more terrifying guess."

"what?"

"They didn't find a life planet like the earth that can give birth to a spiritual body, so they can only come back to play the idea of ​​​​the earth."

Lu Di opened his mouth and stared at Yan Long. It took him a long time to make a sound: "But they couldn't change the earth back to the Ordovician with meteorites hitting the earth! Isn't the failure of the dinosaurs obvious?"

Yan Long said solemnly: "This is also what I can't figure out, so I didn't tell anyone about this guess."