The Dragon That Devours the World

In 2088.

"A two-hundred-year tribulation, a road to revival of an ancient country..."

On the same day, a well-known VR media said in three-dimensional news.

On that day, an event that had long been anticipated by many people happened. The "third world war", which lasted for more than two decades, came to an end. With the end of the battle on the last Atlantic island, two The war between small countries is over, and the three wars are also over.

After entering the millennium, the changes in the world structure have exceeded everyone's expectations. A huge eastern country has risen rapidly. In decades, this ancient country has taken away everything that belongs to the world's strongest country. Glory.

The world's No. 1 gdp, the first manned landing on Mars, the country with the highest penetration rate of artificial intelligence...

Under numerous obstacles, the rise of this country surpassed everyone's estimates in the millennium. Until the outbreak of the Third World War, the total GDP of this country was 12 times that of the world's strongest country. In all aspects, it strongly impacted the dominance of the world's most powerful country, so the Three World Wars broke out.

But unlike any military strategist’s vision in the past, the form of this world war is different from everyone’s imagination. The behemoths that are thousands of miles apart and on opposite ends of the earth did not directly engage in a flesh-and-blood confrontation, but calmly and cautiously used the many in their hands. The proxy state is at war invisibly.

On the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, on the Gobi of Africa, on the deserts of the Middle East, in the cities of Europe, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, on the ice of the North and South poles... in every corner of the world, every corner of the world. In a region, behind any war, there are more or less the shadow of two behemoths. Between these two behemoths, in this invisible tacit understanding, most countries in the world have been involved in the war.

It is like two chess players manipulating the chess pieces in their hands, calmly pushing the chess pieces in their hands, fighting each other and fighting each other, but they have an invisible tacit understanding.

The casualties of this "third world war" are not as good as the previous two world wars, but the scale and spatial scale involved are far greater than those of the previous two world wars. Eventually, in the 23-year long war, the situation of one and the other is gradually becoming obvious, the direction of victory and defeat has become clear, and the war is gradually coming to an end.

On an Atlantic island, the soldiers of two small countries shook hands and made peace, and the two big countries also shook hands and made peace.

The Americas, which hangs alone outside the world island, can no longer control the situation on the world island. The former world's most powerful country silently retreats to the American mainland, licking its wounds, and that ancient country once again stands on the top of the world.

Fifty stars dimmed, but the brilliance of those five stars spread to the whole world.

"...Humans should not be trapped on this small planet. As humans in this era, we should have the determination and confidence to open up a new world for our descendants..."

In that United Nations conference, under the gaze of the nations of the world, diplomats from ancient countries gave a New Year's speech.

...

After the New Year's speech, the calm diplomat walked to the backstage, and the ceremonies on the surface were over, but there was a more arduous battle still waiting for all mankind.

"Chen, it has been gone for many years."

Looking at the middle-aged diplomat, the thin young man who had been sitting in a chair waiting stood up, smiled and bowed slightly. He wears a pair of old-fashioned gold glasses on his smiling eyes, just like him and the organization behind him, old and conservative.

"Mr. Roman, you have been waiting for a long time."

The diplomat nodded in salute to him.

"It's the cause of all mankind, so it doesn't hurt to wait a while."

The thin young man shook his head.

Neither of them is accustomed to talking nonsense. In this kind of urgent matter, it is necessary to deal with it quickly. Therefore, at the beginning, the argument between the two sides was straight into the subject.

"...Our country attaches great importance to your request for assistance from our country, but after careful discussion, our country believes that it is not necessary to devote all energy to space exploration..."

The diplomat surnamed Chen said frankly.

For this regime that has just taken over the world, the world is far from stable enough. The huge unemployment caused by artificial intelligence can spawn the third world war and destroy this unstable country.

The use of artificial intelligence has changed the mode of operation of the world, and this ancient country has benefited a lot from it. Although the organizations represented by thin young people and the things they request are important and related to the destiny of mankind, on this occasion, Many upper echelons of the ancient country still tend to sort out internal affairs and diplomacy first, rather than urgently carry out space exploration.

Opening up a new world is an inspiring slogan, and it is also the ultimate goal set by this ancient country. But looking at the stars in the sky, one should also be careful not to fall into the pit.

Roman listened quietly, he had already anticipated the difficulty of the negotiation on this trip. Gently pushing the glasses on the bridge of his nose, he shook his head.

"Chen, I understand your ideas and the ideas of your country, but I have some new information that I hope to share with you."

Along with his act of pushing his eyes, an illusory projection appeared in front of several people, listing a lot of data and reports, as well as three-dimensional images of space.

The diplomat carefully looked at the data above, his calm face couldn't tell what he was thinking.

"Forty-two light-years away, a star disappeared? Why have we not got the information yet."

Leaving his gaze away from the virtual projection, the diplomat asked calmly.

"This is the news ten minutes ago, which was monitored by our artificial intelligence. You don't pay enough attention to this aspect, so no news has been delivered to you, but in a few hours, you should be able to get news."

The thin young man explained.

As he said, he was silent for a while, then said.

"Chen, my grandfather old Roman often told me before he died, to be afraid. I didn't understand it at the time, but now I seem to understand."

"Eighty-four years ago, in 2004, in the 124 incident, the Manhattan area of ​​New York suffered an explosion. Of course, this is just an outside statement. In fact, there was a beam of light shining from the pupil of... It evaporated the Atlantic Ocean, evaporated the water, and knocked Saturn out of a big hole. After eighty-four years, we thought that everything ended with the death of that existence. However, it turns out that this is not the case."

"The light is still advancing. In the cold and dead universe, there is a light advancing forever. The huge star that is forty-two light-years away has been wiped out in front of it, and this, We didn’t realize it until today, eighty-four years later..."

With that, Roman shook his head.

In the face of this great power that easily erases stars, the human beings who are still clinging to this tiny planet are really insignificant. And this light can easily erase a whole star, but it was just a beam of light that escaped from the eye of that existence eighty-four years ago.

"Chen, it has not disappeared, it is still looking at us, that beam of light is its contempt and ridicule for us. This planet has nurtured us, but we should not stay on this stone forever, we must escape, Otherwise, we will never have a chance to escape in the future."

Roman looked at the diplomat in front of him with a heavy face.

In front of his sight, the diplomat thought, and finally said solemnly.

"Mr. Roman, I will feed all this back to my country."

...

The diplomat had already left, Roman sat on the chair again, and after a while, he suddenly spoke.

"Kelly, do you know why Grandpa created a separate monastery within the organization."

Forty years ago, the elder Roman, who was nearly 90 years old, secretly founded a monastery in the Freemasonry. The structure of this monastery was similar to the former Sion Monastery~www.readwn. Com~ sticks to the same creed.

Beside him, Kelly did not speak.

He is the guardian of silence, he doesn't need to speak, just a stone statue when Roman wants to talk to himself.

As for Kelly's silence, Roman didn't care, just murmured.

"Think about it now. Grandpa must have hoped that I could enter the monastery at first, but because I thought it was boring, I refused... Yes, but it is inexplicably like being merged by the monastery. Grandpa, what were you thinking about."

After a long silence, it was dark outside the window unconsciously.

Roman looked at the stars in the night sky and suddenly spoke.

"Kelly, a star has disappeared."

Beside him, Kelly did not speak and remained silent.

By the window, the gloomy man looked at the night sky, not knowing what he was thinking.