Chapter 374 The Survivor
Look at this spaceship left behind by a shining civilization.
Chen Ming struggled to resist the idea of sending all the equipment over to start analyzing the spacecraft.
Instead, he first observed the overall condition of the spacecraft.
The external structure of the spacecraft does not appear to have any problems at present.
Even though the spacecraft's fuel has long been exhausted, all systems that require energy to operate have already completely stopped. The spacecraft has been almost face-to-face with the core of the black hole for tens of thousands of years.
The spacecraft still had no structural damage and remained intact.
The interior of the spacecraft also looks perfectly fine.
The whole thing is very clean, and there is nothing that can be called debris arranged inside the spacecraft.
In addition to the clean first impression, this spacecraft gave Chen Ming the feeling of a very complete and compact integrated structure, with nothing scattered.
Combined with the design of the spacecraft's operating system and internal layout, it can be seen that this spacecraft can be driven by one person, with no more than two people at most.
Therefore, there is nothing on the spacecraft left by the previous pilot.
Although the technology of Shining Civilization is indeed very powerful, it cannot be said that daily necessities or some supplies can last for tens of thousands of years.
Such a long time has passed, even inside the spacecraft, everything that should be gone should be gone long ago.
However, this means that Chen Ming has no way to confirm the specific image of the main species of Shining Civilization, nor can he use this to figure out the specific situation of Shining Civilization.
However, just by looking at the design of the spaceship interior, you can still see some of the more common culture of shining civilizations.
For example, some insect-style markings are like some kind of decorations that have been integrated into the daily life of sparkling civilization.
Some clues about this can be seen from the appearance design of the ground machinery unit.
But Chen Ming doesn't care about culture. Every civilization has its own culture.
What he is more concerned about is the technology of Shining Civilization, especially whether there is anything left on this spaceship other than the spacecraft.
Of course there was something, and it was something that Chen Ming was interested in.
In a spaceship room that was probably a warehouse behind the Shining Civilization spacecraft, there was a device that could be considered a powered armor.
There are also some matching weapons or weapons for individual soldiers also placed inside this small warehouse.
It seems that even people who are not from Shining Civilization but are from the Empire can easily get started with these things after getting familiar with them.
Chen Ming has studied the text of Shining Civilization in the past six months, and of course he also knows that in the current mainstream opinion, the main species of Shining Civilization is most likely to be humanoid creatures.
So it's no surprise that these things exist on the spacecraft.
He was more curious about whether there were other types of things on the spacecraft that he was interested in.
With this thought in mind, Chen Ming opened the set of power armor produced by Shining Civilization.
Unfortunately, there were no corpses inside the power armor, or even signs of being used.
It seemed that the spacecraft was directly attacked by the black hole monster after passing through the wormhole, and the pilot died before he could put on power armor to protect himself.
As for the body, there is a high probability that the body would have been torn apart by the gravity of the black hole after the spacecraft ran out of fuel and lost the ability to protect the internal structure and objects. Eventually, it would rot inside the spacecraft and never be found again.
Chen Ming has no way to use corpses to confirm what the theme species of Shining Civilization is, nor can he use resurrection mechanical fluid to resurrect a person from Shining Civilization in order to understand their past.
This is bad news with no solution.
But at least the powered armor is real, and those weapons are advanced weapons that actually exist.
Whether it is Shining Power Armor or Shining Civilization's individual weapons, their technical level clearly exceeds the relevant technical level currently mastered by the Empire.
Chen Ming can integrate these technologies into his own biological armor technology.
Or use it to exchange for some resources he needs in the empire.
Except for physical objects like power armor and weapons.
Chen Ming also found the storage unit that stored important information about the spacecraft in the log of the spacecraft's computer.
He could tell from the data in the storage unit that this was a spacecraft that was sent out to perform missions directly after leaving the factory.
You can also see some basic data about the spacecraft, including its place of origin, developer, designer, etc.
From these contents, it can be seen that the social structure of Shining Civilization is similar to that of human beings.
And he also found a brief description of the last mission performed by the spacecraft in the database of the spacecraft's computer.
Includes origin, destination and mission information.
Of course the destination is here, and the purpose of the mission is clear. It's even written on the name of the spacecraft.
The starting point was within the observable universe area of the empire that Chen Ming had never been to.
That location is some distance away from the wormhole in the origin galaxy, but it's not too far away.
There are likely to be relics of a shining civilization or even military relics there.
Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that exploring wormholes is a relatively common project and that there is just an ordinary ruin.
It is even possible that nothing remains of that starting point.
But no matter what, Chen Ming remembered this location and immediately started arranging a spaceship to go there to have a look.
Results should be available soon.
In addition, when Chen Ming looked at the mission log, in addition to seeing the information about the mission itself, he also saw another potentially valuable information.
That is the date on which this task will be performed.
This is very important news and this timing means a lot of things.
But here he encountered a little problem.
The date of the mission was based on the chronology of the Shining Civilization, but the chronology of the Shining Civilization was different from that of the Empire.
Because the chronology is usually determined by the period of a civilization's parent star orbiting its own star.
Therefore, Chen Ming could not determine the time corresponding to the empire by just looking at the time in the spacecraft log.
What's more, this spacecraft has stopped operating for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, and there is no log record for the tens of thousands of years in between.
He couldn't do it like when he was reading the log of the scavenger robot, and used the objective time recorded in the log to work backwards to the earliest recorded time, and finally determined that the scavenger robot had been around for at least 30,000 years.
Therefore, if he wanted to know the specific time when this reconnaissance spacecraft performed its mission, he might have to make a special trip to the Shining Civilization Research Institute.
There should help you analyze the tables corresponding to the dates of the shining civilization and the chronology of the empire.
Chen Ming even felt that he might be ready to go, but had to go.
Because he felt that the things about the shining civilization related to this wormhole would be very important, and it was a key point in time to understand the shining civilization.
Perhaps the Shining Civilization declined around the time when it discovered the wormhole and was preparing to enter the wormhole for exploration.
The reason why he had such an idea.
Of course it's because of the scavenger robot and the spaceship he just acquired.
These two things are definitely products of the same period, and they are definitely not too far apart in time.
The scavenger robot was originally simply equipped with a mining drone to mine and develop the early resources of the galaxy
The nanoforge it carries is also intended to be used for colonial construction,
The two work together to build infrastructure before the population of Shining Civilization arrives.
but.
The nanoforge was damaged for some reason and no one repaired it. It was eventually taken away by a scavenger robot and installed on itself, where it has been kept until now.
In addition, the scavengers also dismantled some materials and parts from the sunken mechanical capital ships to arm themselves, and said that they could only do this because of the war.
This clearly indicates that a war broke out during that time.
This war eventually led to the bankruptcy of the development plan, and even the Shining Civilization seemed to have forgotten this place.
It seems that it is because Chen Ming is not sure whether Shining Civilization has perished during this war period, or whether the war did not directly lead to the demise of Shining Civilization, but only made Shining Civilization unable to manage the areas that need to be developed on these borders.
But after having the spacecraft pass through the wormhole, Chen Ming became clear about one thing.
The shining civilization must not have died out at this time, but will gradually die out.
Because the time point of the reconnaissance mission is either before the battle that caused the battleship graveyard to appear here, or after the battle.
If the scout ship had passed through the wormhole before the battle, there would have been no rescue for the Shining Civilization.
The strength of that reconnaissance ship was so terrifying that even if it penetrated the monster's body, the people inside would never die as long as there was fuel.
This is the conclusion Chen Ming came to after studying the spacecraft for a while.
Therefore, Shining Civilization definitely has enough time to rescue.
With Shining Civilization’s technology, killing this thing is definitely not a problem.
But no, the Shining Civilization was not even able to rescue the people who were scouting behind the wormhole.
Therefore, not to say that they perished, at least they began to decline from here.
Therefore, if we can figure out this specific time, we may be able to determine the approximate time of the demise of the Shining Civilization.
With a specific point in time, the empire can use things unearthed from many ruins to prove the history of the shining civilization.
Find out how the Shining Civilization, which was countless times more powerful than the current empire, perished, so as to avoid following the same path of the Shining Civilization.
Of course, this is also something that Chen Ming is very interested in.
Not only the technology of Shining Civilization, he also wanted to know the reasons for the demise of Shining Civilization.
He also needs to prevent himself from going down the path of shining civilization.
Especially when Chen Ming felt more and more that many aspects of his psychic powers were similar to those of the Shining Civilization.
One-third of the basis of his psychic powers is the legacy left by the Shining Civilization, the Machine Tribe.
The other third is the Thorn Zerg tribe, which definitely has a very close relationship with the Machine Tribe.
The last third is the dimensional technology that Chen Ming does not believe Shining Civilization has not mastered.
This coincidence was so small that it was difficult for Chen Ming not to think too much about it, so he became more and more curious about the Shining Civilization.
Of course, everything he just thought about must be confirmed by asking the Shining Civilization Research Institute.
After a thorough examination of the ship's database and the ship itself.
Chen Ming was still in the cockpit of the spacecraft and found a portable device that seemed to be interesting until now.
Chen Ming directly used spiritual energy to get the device in his hands and got its name. 【Resonance Channel Communicator】
According to its operating principles mastered by Chen Ming's psychic ability, it communicates using a same-frequency resonance method similar to that of the battleships that have been mastered with shields.
But you won’t know the specific effect until you try it.
The psychic minister beside Chen Ming was very sensitive to all the changes around him, so he just noticed the type of spaceship that Chen Ming brought back with his psychic powers, which was a model he had never seen before.
Now I also noticed the unknown device that Chen Ming suddenly got in his hand.
"What is this?"
Chen Ming did not go out of his way to cover it up, but said truthfully: "It should be some kind of communicator."
It seems to be still running and has full battery life, but there was no response when Chen Ming pressed it twice.
Considering the purpose of this spacecraft, Chen Ming was not sure whether the people or things that could communicate with this device were gone.
But just when he thought it was useless, he suddenly noticed a resonant signal being emitted towards the outside world.
Chen Ming was a little surprised and immediately tried to track the source of the signal, but the signal disappeared immediately.
He couldn't detect it.
The next moment, a sparkling civilized language was displayed on the communicator's screen.
"Who are you?"
Chen Ming did not answer, but was thinking.
Thinking about how this communicator was under his control, he could not discover how this information was transmitted into this device.
Is this resonant communication device so outrageous?
And he didn't know whether the person behind the communication was a human, a ghost, or what kind of AI program it was.
He didn't know if the people behind the communicator were the people left behind by the Shining Civilization and multiplied to this day, or simply the people who survived from the Shining Civilization to this day.
A hasty answer is not a good choice.
But he seemed to have no better choice.
This is his only clue.
The psychic director next to him also saw the text on the screen, and his heartbeat suddenly increased: "There are still people alive in the Shining Civilization? This is a big discovery."
Although he is not focused on projects in the direction of Shining Civilization, psychic technology itself is a direction that has nothing to do with Shining Civilization.
So I definitely know some basic knowledge, and of course I clearly discovered the special significance of the suspected descendants of the Shining Civilization.
However, Chen Ming was not so optimistic and said: "I'm not sure yet whether he is a person who shines with civilization."
"That spaceship has been around for at least tens of thousands of years. Do future generations still remember this spaceship even after 30,000 years?"
Chen Ming said, and explained the two things that just now his spiritual energy tried to track the emitted signal but was cut off from the tracking path, and he could also send the communication signal directly over his spiritual energy.
"So I doubt what is going on with them."
Before the psychic director had time to respond, a new line of text appeared on the communicator: "Have you discovered the monster in the black hole?"
Chen Ming frowned slightly, still thinking about what to do.
The psychic director really wanted to say something, but after all, this was something that Chen Ming had personally obtained with his own efforts, and he did not shy away from him at all. Even if he was allowed to see these obviously important things, he would not It's better to speak directly.
"We are the remnants, we want to communicate with you, we have no ill intentions."
After these words came out, Chen Ming's consideration came to the end.
He used his psychic powers to monitor the device in all aspects, and then responded on it: "What is a survivor?"
The communication channel was silent for a while, and then a sentence appeared again.
"We are the shining survivors, the descendants of the survivors who hid in the world behind the wormhole. We are committed to preserving everything that shines."
Chen Ming looked at each other with the psychic director next to him who looked a little excited, and continued to ask: "What happened to 'Shine'?"
"We can't answer that question."
The person on the other end of the communication chose to remain silent.
"Why?"
"Because we are missing this period of history."
Missing...
Chen Ming suddenly remembered the time when he was searching for files in the database of the controlling personality core in the core colony of the Machine Tribe Star Territory.
Similarly, the record about the demise of the Shining Civilization was also lost.
Is it really missing?
Chen Ming, with doubts, ignored this topic that might lead to the suspension of this communication, and asked: "Why do you want to hide it?"
The survivor responded: "Because we are too weak, hiding is our only way to survive."
"Please believe us, we really only do this because we are weak."
Chen Ming expressed doubts about this, but he did not say it, but asked: "Then why did you contact me and how did you contact me?"
"It was actually you who contacted us."
This is really the case.
Chen Ming casually pressed the button on the communicator, but who knew it would actually produce results.
The survivor continued: "And our database stores all records about Shine. We have a special record about the communicator you found, because this record is the reason for our survival."
"What is the specific situation?"
"Our ancestors once organized a small fleet and entered the wormhole, hoping to escape something."
"But after passing through the wormhole, they were attacked by the monsters in the black hole. Some of the spacecraft took the initiative to sacrifice themselves to interfere with the monsters, buying time for others to escape the black hole."
"We thought that all the people and spacecraft in the past had fallen into the black hole, but we didn't expect that there is still a communicator that still exists today."
The same old story.
Chen Ming commented silently in his heart.
But logically speaking, these survivors do seem to have no problem.
The survivors are most likely a group of people who want to escape when the Shining Civilization is close to collapse. They do not necessarily have good weapons and equipment.
Although the equipment does look good from Chen Ming's perspective, it is only good in terms of technology, not in terms of ability. But if you really use those equipment to defeat black hole monsters, you can still sleep well.
I'm afraid they are really just a small group of people.
"Do you know how long it has been since now?"
"Forty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-two years."
The psychic minister next to him directly converted the units and said: "About fifty thousand years ago on Earth."
Chen Ming nodded, ended the one-sided identity confirmation interview, and started normal communication: "So...who do you think I am?"
"A member of a newly born civilization."
"We noticed that you were trying to track us through your psychic powers, so we hid in a more secluded place. Please don't try to track us."
It seems that these survivors of the Shining Civilization know that the Shining Civilization has been completely destroyed, and they are not said to be the survivors of the Shining Civilization.
Chen Ming asked: "So what do you want to do?"
"You should be able to tell that I just clicked twice casually after picking up this device. I don't know if you exist."
"But you took the initiative to contact me, so you must have some purpose."
There was another silence behind the communicator for a while, then responded: "Yes, we want to make a deal with you and the civilization behind you."
"We hope that you can preserve everything that shines in existence, so that the shining past will not disappear because of our demise."
"We no longer think that we can revive a civilization, we just want our civilization to be recorded."
It sounds like there's nothing wrong with it.
The last group of people of a once prosperous civilization, facing a newly born civilization, hope that their civilization can at least not be forgotten.
But Chen Ming always remained vigilant and said: "Then you can give me all the data directly, and I will hand over all the data to my civilization."
"Sorry, we are not yet able to completely trust you. We must maintain respect for the heritage of our civilization. We cannot hand over everything of our civilization casually."
Chen Ming replied directly and forcefully: "Then we have nothing to talk about."
When these words came out, the psychic minister was a little anxious. After all, this was an excellent opportunity to get in touch with the shining civilization.
But Chen Ming raised his hand to stop him, indicating that he knew what he was doing.
He is now facing an unknown existence and must test it.
Facing it with a tough attitude is the simplest and most effective choice to test the situation on the other side.
At the same time, this can be regarded as stating one's own thoughts.
He has always been very gentle towards his own kind, but his attitude towards those who are not his kind is completely different.
Although both the empire and himself have been picking up garbage from the corpse of shining civilization.
But no matter how you say it, Shining Civilization is not human civilization.
Therefore, Chen Ming must not be able to empathize with Shining Civilization.
And he actually has one more thing to worry about.
That is, is it possible that the Shining Civilization has some extreme means that can take away human civilization or something.
With the technology of Shining Civilization, he felt that it was possible.
So he will never let down his guard.
The survivor of the Shining Civilization sent another sentence soon after Chen Ming's tough reply: "Maybe we can try to win mutual trust."
"Excuse me, have you killed the monster in the black hole?"
"No."
Chen Ming felt that there was nothing to lie about this question. After all, if these survivors were really the descendants of the Shining Civilization, they would at least have the ability to detect black holes.
"As our sincerity to win your trust, we are willing to inform you of the weaknesses of the monster we call the 'Nightmare of the Plane'."
(End of chapter)