Returning from the abyss

Chapter 526 The Observer

The internal structure of the building is not tall and magnificent, and according to the size of the side door before, Lu Ning can also judge that the height of the people who built it may be about the same as that of Alliance humans.

But once the details are involved, the style is quite different. For example, the walls are actually composed of some polygonal materials. It is unnecessary to use a large number of building materials with completely different shapes in order to build a building. However, the connection of these materials The seams are not the brushstrokes of those text patterns, which means that this troublesome behavior does not know the meaning.

You can clearly feel a sense of inclination on the ground. If you measure it carefully, you can find that the left side of the floor is slightly higher than the right side, with an inclination of about five degrees. It cannot be felt under normal conditions, but Lu Ning When walking, I always feel that my perspective is crooked.

Passing through the corridor, the two came to the main hall.In the center is a circular platform slightly higher than the ground, with a diameter of nearly two meters, surrounded by a polygonal floor. Here, it can be clearly seen that some polygons protrude slightly from the ground, making the ground of the entire main hall full of potholes.On the wall facing the door in the main hall, there is a whole dodecagonal bright panel, which is huge in size, and a flag is hung on both sides. On the left is a simple black eye in a dark red background, and on the right is a dark blue background. , there are four cross-shaped stars at the four corners, and a nebula-like vortex in the center.

"Spades, what does this remind you of?" Lu Ning asked after looking at it for a moment.

"A meeting." Spade replied honestly.

"I didn't know there was such a formal thing among mercenaries." Lu Ning pretended to be surprised.

"Haha, when we are sitting together discussing which merchant ship to rob, we will still find a more or less decent place to hold a meeting, but most of the time, we start fighting because of the uneven distribution of spoils before the robbery starts. They broke up unhappy, and sometimes two lives were caused." Spade said slightly mockingly.

"Because of this, star robbers, mercenaries...these have always been just mobs." Lu Ning shook her head slightly, "Forget it, back to the topic, the left and right sides should be flags."

"Well, Captain, the appearance of such a representative flag undoubtedly shows that this place is indeed a product of civilization. Neither the Canglong Alliance nor the other alliance countries have these two types of flags."

"But flags generally have meaning, and the more important a flag is, the more it needs such meaning—although this is just our way of thinking."

"If there is, then we must first determine whether the thing on the left is an eye." Spade pointed to the flag, "Different civilizations may have different perceptions and descriptions of eyes, and we can't even judge the eyes of those civilizations." Do 'people' have the same eyes."

"That's right." Lu Ning nodded, "On the right side, there are four stars surrounding a nebula. If it were me, I might judge it to be some kind of alliance flag. After all, this drawing idea is very similar to some countries that have sworn an alliance. Confederate flag used."

"Captain, why don't we touch the thing in the middle? Since we're all here, we have to touch everything to see if it works, right?" Spade stepped forward, carefully stepping on the uneven floor , He hesitated for a moment when he reached the position of the circular platform, stretched out his foot and stepped on it tentatively.

Then the others are gone.

Lu Ning was startled, and immediately entered the communication channel: "Spades? What's wrong with you? Where have you been?"

After a while, Spade's voice came: "Don't worry...Captain, I seem to have reached another floor, and that thing seems to have a teleportation function."

"Teleport?" Lu Ning glanced at the platform.The alliance has not been able to carry out human transmission so far, because it cannot overcome the errors that will occur during the transmission process. No one wants to travel in space at the cost of blindness or even death. Even spaceships can only shorten the voyage by warping space. Rather than direct space transmission.

"Anyway... wait a minute, let me take a look here..." Some voices came from Spade, who seemed to get up from the ground, "This is a place that looks like a leader's speech. When we were training before, every night There is such a thing. Tables, chairs, slates, lecterns, I hate this place, does another civilization still observe such rigid customs?"

"Then I'll go too..."

"Captain, wait below first, I saw something that looks like a keyboard, but it's ten times bigger than a normal keyboard."

After saying this, Lu Ning heard tinkling sounds from over there, as well as some gossips whispered by Spade. About a minute later, she suddenly felt that the light in front of her eyes was brighter again. The dodecagonal bright board emitted a strong light, and then a black line emitted from the center, dividing the bright board into twelve parts evenly.

"Spades, that screen-like thing here is on."

"Really? It seems that my random pressing seems to work, but there is a new problem."

"what is the problem?"

"Oh, that question that has plagued us since the dawn of technology. Please enter your password."

"..."

Although this is a perfectly reasonable situation, it is a bit ironic to be stuck in this place.

"How do you know that you are asked to enter a password? Do you recognize the text here?"

"There is no text, and twelve spaces are blocked on the screen. I don't know what to do other than the password."

"Wait, I'll try the screen over there." Lu Ning glanced at the light board that had dimmed. Different patterns appeared in each block. She carefully bypassed the circular platform and came to the Under the bright board, I reached out and touched the bottom one.In an instant, the black lines on both sides of this piece immediately swept away a circular arc, and the entire screen was restored to cleanliness, and soon a faint image appeared.

"Captain! There is a symbol in the third grid from the left here." Spade said immediately.

"Take a picture and send it to me." Lu Ning said quickly.

Three seconds later, a photo was sent to Lu Ning's terminal, and she also saw what Spades looked like by the way. It was not an electronic screen, but a whole thing like a slate, with Bright blue stripes.

Lu Ning compared the symbols above and quickly copied it on the bright board.As she released her fingers, the above image suddenly became much clearer, and a circle appeared in the center.

"What is this?"

【What is this? 】

A synthetic voice with the same tone as Lu Ning came out of the screen, and then a second circle appeared.

Lu Ning froze for a moment, and immediately realized what it was.There are some records in the data of the distribution center. When advanced civilizations in technological scenes and unfamiliar civilizations make friendly contacts, they usually do not force the other party to learn their own language because it is inefficient. Instead, they quickly complete the language through a certain learning system. translation for efficient communication.

She immediately changed several different tones and said some irrelevant words. The logic in these words was quickly recognized, and Spades over there also listened quietly, until about 15 minutes later, the screen finally disappeared. A circle appears, but an image, which is four bright stars moving at the same speed in the same elliptical orbit, and in the center of the orbit is a nebula, in the middle of the nebula, the characteristics of the accretion disk can be vaguely seen, There is no doubt that there is a huge black hole.

【Hello. 】

A sentence that had not appeared before came out from the light board.

"excuse me……"

【Unknown civilization, since we have arrived here, no matter who it is, we should understand it. 】The bright board did not have a conversation, and Lu Ning closed her mouth after realizing this.Spades is a little strange: "They have such a strong language learning function, but they can't have a semi-intelligent conversation?"

"I don't think this is the problem, but the translation of language and text is likely to cause a large error in intelligent dialogue, so it is better to translate a line that has been prepared in advance."

[This is *Kaprek* Observer, Darkspot Observatory.According to the system time, this message comes from 12 years ago, the observer member *Tirraceno*. 】

Some of the nouns were pronounced directly, probably marked as proper nouns or names, and no translation was performed. Lu Ning could only write down the pronunciation and continue to listen.

[The dark spot observation station has been initialized, only the basic module records are kept, and the permissions are fully open.Observers will be evacuated from here, and perhaps we will never be able to.According to the rules, this observatory will serve as a storage point, and any latecomer civilization can use the information therein.Next, we will introduce the astronomical observation board, and use the corresponding key to enter the functional area. 】

"That's what I have here." Spades said.

[Observers have conducted 16-year observations on the planet *Linistobbins* and its galaxies. In order to avoid interference, all observation stations are established within the imaginary space of the planet, and the observers will not interfere with the development of civilization.According to the rules, state the reason for the observation here.

There are many abnormal astronomical data in this planetary system. After the exploration ship discovers that there is a nascent civilization here, the observers will observe the civilization and the entire star system to ensure that there is no danger to the cosmic physics and biology before the death of the star system. , ██████ and other fundamental changes.The observer will continue to observe until the star dies, the danger is eliminated, or the observer is eliminated.

According to the data obtained during the observation period, during the nine winters that appeared on this planet, there was a commonality in the extinction of civilizations. All civilizations failed to break through the galaxy system, raising the degree of suspicion.

According to the study of the central star of the star system, it is confirmed that it is a low-energy star with a probability of close to 95% that it will collapse directly at the end of its life.

According to the celestial depiction data of the observatory Youkong, Giant Shadow, and Floating Prison, the galaxy will go extinct in about 12 years.

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Observers are about to complete their mission.We would be wiped out, it would be dangerous, but no ████, we kept the observatory in the hope that the universe would cope with it for the last 12 years.

For the civilizations that have learned the above information, this is our luck, and it is also your misfortune. [automatically deleted]
Below, I will introduce the basic use of the Dark Spot Observation Station...]

Lu Ning quietly listened to the step-by-step narration of the bright board. The means of advanced civilizations are simple but easy, but just like the initial announcement of the observer civilization, they do not interfere with the observed civilization at all, so this observatory is also It doesn't have any offensive performance, it's just a "sky eye" wandering in this imaginary space.

After being closed, the observation here stopped, which means that there is no historical data for the middle 12 years to read.After two tries, Lu Ning mastered the usage of this bright board, and also translated the words of the Observer civilization to the words of the Alliance first.The previous logical input was still inconsistent in some places, and it was only replaced by close meaning, so some of the previous language was not conveyed.For example, the "nine winters" refers to the extinction of nine civilizations.

In addition, some information has indeed been deleted or artificially concealed. There may be some difference between the two, but Lu Ning has no way to verify it now.

Finally, it can be known from some of the earliest records that there are a total of 39 observatories in the imaginary space, [-] of which orbit this phantom star, and the rest spread throughout the entire star system. These observatories may It is also invalid.

"What kind of civilization is this? Observation?" Spade murmured.

"I'm afraid it's just a piece of the puzzle of that civilization. In the original image, four planets surround a nebula. That's not a real scene, but an extremely realistic image. It corresponds to the flag on the right. And the actual shape is also It’s similar to the flag on the left. They have their own foundation.” Lu Ning touched the bright board, even after initialization, it still contained a lot of information, at least the 16-year observation records were all preserved, but Lu Ning didn’t Not so much time to see.

"But their level is higher than the Alliance, right? They were higher than the Alliance 12 years ago."

"They perished. At least the ones in this galaxy have perished." Lu Ning said.

Spades sighed.

"I just want to say this. How can such a group of civilizations perish? Captain, I don't feel safe at all now. I want to go back...to the alliance. I don't dare to set foot in such a place where advanced civilizations have been ruined. "

"Impossible." Lu Ning rebuffed, "First of all, we have too many things that have not been confirmed, and the alliance will not accept this kind of unclear result anyway. Secondly, do you think it will be safe to go back? In this information Although many are missing, there is one sentence that remains, the observers believe that the situation here should be dealt with by the universe—in other words, once there is a real crisis here, no corner of the universe can escape.”

"This……"

"They believe that after 12 years, this galaxy will perish. Although the corresponding time is similar to our present time, we cannot confirm that the fraction is thousands of years. It may be far away, or it may be tomorrow. And the demise of this galaxy may mean that Danger spread throughout the universe, would you like to see that happen?"

"I don't want to, but I can't do anything." Spades said gloomily, "I've never had the ability to put the universe on my shoulders. How much responsibility is that? Captain, do you think you can kill them all?" , what could even kill this universe?"

"...It's too much, there is one right in front of our eyes, isn't it what we are investigating?"

Spade was stunned for a moment before realizing: "You mean the reason for the destruction of the advance team?"

(End of this chapter)