The stars, but they become the gray wind

"Yeah... I hope the humans in this world won't do this kind of weird stuff in the future. Otherwise, we'll have no choice but to help them modify this pile of shitty code ourselves." Yuki answered calmly.

"Hmm... I don't think I have the patience to modify a pile of shit that has accumulated for thousands of years?"

"Oh…where do I begin?"

"Think about it... If you were asked to fix a program whose developer had run away, and it had been running for thousands of years without any optimization, just patched over and over again based on the original, with tons of bugs, and the slightest change could cause the entire program to crash on the spot, would you be willing to tinker with this pile of code?"

"It's highly likely... that you're unwilling?"

"And now you have a chance to make this mountain of code flawless from the moment it's created. Will you take this chance?"

"Yes, since there is this opportunity, why not give it a try?"

"But I don't want to use this method... After all, once this kind of thing starts and is done for the first time, I'm not sure if I can stop it later." Carlisle looked at her old friend meaningfully.

"A closed time-like curve computer...it can do more than just transmit information into the past. Do you understand that?"

"If we want... we can also go back to the moment of the Big Bang and modify the various parameters at that moment, so that the universe that was born after that moment meets our requirements."

"In comparison, it would be so easy to go back to the beginning of an intelligent species or civilization and modify and artificially edit its biological evolution and civilization development process."

"At least at this stage, I don't want to do that. Once something like this starts, it can't be stopped. We're not the Zeli people, so we don't need to face threats like the photon bird. Furthermore, there's no need to modify the evolutionary process of other civilizations at this stage. We still want to preserve more possibilities and more diverse colors for the universe."

"Also, we're not obsessive-compulsive and don't want to demand that other civilizations in the universe become like us. Otherwise, we'd be no different from the humans on Earth who divide themselves into us and them, and are hostile to each other and fighting against each other."

"At this stage, I hope human civilization can realize what's wrong with itself and fix this mountain of code that's accumulated over millions of years, rather than forcing us to modify it ourselves. If we were to do it, we would only modify it to suit our needs, not to suit our species."

"To completely eliminate the influence of this mountain of code, human society needs to completely reshape its cognition and order, end all unrest and conflict on this planet, and transform the entire society from a high-entropy closed system to a low-entropy open system. Otherwise, within this closed system, we will only fall into endless involution, and eventually become like the flower that began to wither when super artificial intelligence was born, and completely fade away."

"Many people and things in human civilization, even the very existence of human society itself, have become obstacles to its development. If we don't make fundamental changes, then one day in the future, humans who still try to use technology beyond their control as bargaining chips to exchange benefits with each other will only be destroyed and replaced by their own creations. By then, there will be no room for recovery. Even if we don't want to get involved, we will have no choice but to take action ourselves."

"This is undoubtedly the worst of all options. I hope the humans on this planet won't reach that point."

"Regarding this question, you probably haven't asked Sky Star's closed time-like curve computer yet, right?"

"If I had asked, I wouldn't be discussing this with you here. If I had input this question into the closed-timelike-curve computer, then human civilization in this world would inevitably move toward the outcome we've calculated and prescribed. Their outcome would be fixed. To give them the opportunity to make their own choices, we've given up on asking the closed-timelike-curve computer for a solution. I personally hope they don't disappoint me."

"So... the ending is still undetermined?"

"No, as long as we don't deliberately use closed-timelike curve computers to solve problems, things won't lead to mechanical determinism. On the contrary, if we deliberately use closed-timelike curve computers to solve a problem, then the problem will definitely turn out the way we want it to."

"This applies to both the entire Sky Star civilization and all individuals within it. Whether it's Sky Star civilization as a whole or individuals within Ming, as long as we diligently seek answers, things will only move towards the results we hope for."

"But most of the time, we don't deliberately seek a specific result. Therefore, most Sky Star people don't currently need to use a closed time-like curve computer for a small matter."

"For humans and other civilizations, we also hope that they can retain more possibilities, rather than ultimately forcing us to choose not to use closed-ended time-curve computers. We hope that they can move towards the inevitable outcome of civilizations continuing to survive and develop in a way that suits our needs."

"We had no choice but to disinfect the entire universe to prevent the spread of cancer cells. I don't want them to leave us with no choice in the matter of Earth civilization."

…………

Cabot was playing with a transparent cube in his hand that was emitting a brilliant blue light. It was a small souvenir that a purple-haired girl from the future had given to his boss and irresponsible mother before she left. In the center of one of the faces of the cube was engraved a small ?0 symbol, a symbol used to measure infinity.

"Aleph Level Zero civilization... So the future you came from has already reached that level?"

"That's right. I haven't let you down."

"However, it's best not to hold too high hopes for those naturally occurring civilizations in the infinite multiverse. We also had considerable expectations and hopes for those civilizations back then, but in the end, we were mostly disappointed."

"Those original civilizations that emerge from disturbed natural conditions always act recklessly in a state of complete stupidity, ignorance, and fearlessness, and are likely to destroy themselves."

"These primitive civilizations, born in a natural state, always destroy themselves in various unexpected ways without human interference. There's a reason why they disappointed us so much back then."

"In the end, only civilizations that have undergone profound interference can survive. To help you avoid these problems, I even deliberately found numerous universes where the speed of light cannot be exceeded, where the temporal protection mechanism will be broken at superluminal speeds, for you to cultivate. This is so that you can use closed time-like curve computers to freely control your own causal connections at any point in time."

“Civilization can only survive if it is independent of the flow of time and all causal connections.”

Cabot did not deliberately try to find out how far into the future the future Calisi had returned from. She temporarily suppressed her curiosity about whether the Sky Star civilization would become the Aleph Zero civilization in the future or in the past.

Out of curiosity, he focused his attention on the small souvenir left for him by his daughter who had returned from the future.

"Bose-Einstein condensate." Cabot noticed that the existence of this small cube in his hand completely violated the Pauli Exclusion Principle. The electrons of all the atoms that make up the surface of this cube seemed to share a quantum state at the same time.

"Space-time condensation materials... I don't know how far into the future this will be, but is it already possible to create something like this?"

Cabot muttered to himself as he touched the cube's hard, transparent, and almost indestructible smooth surface.

"My daughters are growing and developing so fast..."

While Moia and others continued to study the silicon-based organic compounds and microbial fossils discovered on the moon, at the Earth-Moon L1 Lagrange point, the Theia fleet finally completed the maintenance work on the unmanned exploration ship of the star system.

"Wow... a brand new look, huh?"

A Theian in a space suit standing in the open cargo hold of a cargo ship held up a personal data terminal and took a picture of an unmanned interstellar probe a few hundred meters away that had just been separated from the cargo and engineering maintenance ship and was fixed by a large number of robotic arms.

"Sure enough, it's after the repairs. The new look is more beautiful. This ship was really just one step away from sudden death." Another Theian who was also standing in the cargo hold with the help of magnetic boots knocked on the old Whipple protective shield that was replaced and placed behind him. The big hole with a diameter of more than 8 meters on one side still looked so scary.

"If it weren't for the last layer of the Whipple shield structure successfully blocking the micrometeorite that created this huge hole and penetrated dozens of previous layers of defense, this ship would have 100% perished mid-journey."

"I have to say, this ship was very lucky. That was a micrometeorite that collided head-on with the spacecraft at a relative speed of nearly 10% of the speed of light. Its diameter was probably larger than you. The dozens of layers of Whipple shield that were penetrated weren't simply penetrated. The impact at that speed directly triggered a certain fusion reaction. The reason for such a large hole was actually the fusion reaction triggered by the impact at 1/10 the speed of light. Even with that small-scale fusion nuclear reaction, it only penetrated a few dozen layers of Whipple shields, leaving the hull basically intact. The only way to describe this ship is to say it was lucky."

"In this regard, we should actually thank our alien friends. If they hadn't captured this ship, we would never have been able to bring it back alive. Even finding one or two pieces of wreckage would be a blessing."

"We briefly lost a stellar-class exploration vessel. But in return, we gained a truly safe and stable method of interstellar travel, and it also pointed the way forward for our civilization."

"This could be considered a blessing in disguise, in a sense?"

Note: In fact, hitting some fusion fuel pellets at a speed of 50 kilometers per second is enough to trigger a fusion reaction. Letting an object hit most substances below iron at 1/10 the speed of light is enough to trigger a fusion reaction in the object being hit.

Chapter 209 Why?

"Time-like Infinity's first test flight, high-dimensional space jump engine test."

"Charging complete...!"

A fully reflective mirror warp bubble formed around the spacecraft and enveloped the entire spacecraft within milliseconds. The warp bubble and the spacecraft disappeared silently in the three-dimensional universe and appeared in a galaxy eight light-years away in just two seconds.

"The Time-Like Qi Phosphorus Dam, the Infinite High-Dimensional Space Jump Engine has completed testing and is operating smoothly."

Aze said to Yuki in the other universe through the communication on the bridge of the spaceship.

"Your new ship feels good. Aside from some areas feeling a bit small, like the hangar, it's otherwise quite useful. By the way, I've also checked all the ship's systems, and they're running smoothly. There haven't been any issues caused by the extra features you added."

"A ship nearly three thousand meters long isn't small. It looks small, but that's only when compared to a giant colony ship like the Salem. This ship can't match the redundant space design of those giant colony ships. Do you know why the Salem's interior hasn't gotten smaller even after installing weapons and undergoing numerous modifications?"

"What?"

"Because the added color nuclear armor, numerous turrets, and ultra-high-power directed energy weapons during the modification process are all additional components attached to the exterior of the spacecraft, just like the explosive reactive armor on a tank. They have no impact on the usable space inside the spacecraft. Moreover, those weapon mounting points were originally reserved for redundancy. As long as the energy supply is sufficient, any number of them can be installed."

"Of course, that design isn't perfect. For example, the Salem's directed energy weapons can't achieve omnidirectional launch from any part of the ship's surface like the Time-Like Infinity. Directed energy weapon beams can be generated from any location on the ship's surface and launch 360 degrees without blind spots. This is something the Salem's design can't do. The blind spots left and created by its hull structure and the large number of redundant spaces prevent it from doing so. Therefore, the Salem's directed energy weapons can only use turret-type launchers."

"No wonder when I was on Sister Kylias's ship, I felt like the internal structure hadn't changed at all, despite all the weapons installed."

"Big has its advantages, and small has its advantages, doesn't it?"

"By the way, do you want me to drive this boat over and deliver it to your door?"

"I won't need it for now. The situation here is rather special. No matter what I use, it feels like an overkill. Please keep it for me first."

“I see…”)

.........

Yuki turned off the communication interface and glanced at the newspaper beside him and the news about his gang on TV.

Silicon-based life compounds and early microbial fossils have been discovered on the moon. Do humans and extraterrestrial civilizations originate from the same solar system?

[Aliens still have not responded positively to communications and diplomatic requests from human governments and scientific institutions.]

[A giant alien base on the moon, an interview with James Red Star Moon Base astronauts who witnessed the entire process of aliens building a base on the moon.]

The alien fleet at the Larange point is still repairing the giant ship that is suspected to be an interstellar spacecraft. There are still two alien spacecraft in the moon's orbit.

A flood of news and information like this, along with humanity's bewilderment at the aliens' complete indifference to most of their communications and diplomatic requests, echoed throughout the news. With the exception of the astronauts stationed on the Moon and a few individuals on Mars, all requests from Earth's governments fell on deaf ears. Neither Theia nor the Glass Eels, nor even Sky Star, which had yet to reveal its differences with the Glass Eels, completely ignored all Earth's diplomatic requests. The reason was simple: humanity's current social system was too backward, with each government still operating independently. The three parties had no desire to communicate with them. In fact, for the Theia civilization, with its lowest technological level among the three, Earth's current social system was so backward that no one on Theia side had any desire to communicate with humanity. Even the Theias viewed Earth's current social system and level of development as a bit primitive, with each government operating independently. They considered it incredibly inefficient and backward, which completely eliminated their interest in communicating with Earth.

"Ultimately, the reason is... would you be so idle as to communicate with a wild animal?"

"Furthermore, these wild animals' behavior and way of survival appear quite barbaric and backward. They are also very aggressive and aggressive. No one would be interested in interacting with you."

"Speaking of which, did that Calisi go to the other side of the world with Kylias and Salem?"

"However, in that place, I really don't know if they will make me angry next time."

“Sometimes, even in a different world, the nature of the human species really hasn’t changed at all.”

.........

On the other side of the world, in the Middle East, in a narrow coastal area that had suffered a bombing and was full of ruins, three "people" were walking on the streets. One was a girl with pink hair and pointed ears who looked like an elf. Another had cat ears on his head but no physical projection. Another girl had long purple hair and eyes that could never appear on a normal human. They swaggered on the street, but everyone who passed by seemed not to notice their existence, completely ignoring the existence of these three people who did not look like humans at first glance.

"This human species is truly... incomprehensible to me..." Carelias casually picked up a stone from the rubble and examined it closely. It was a low-quality cement brick, the very one that had caused the house to collapse. During the bombing, the brick had been blackened by the intense heat of the explosion.

"So many resources were spent on weapons made just to kill our compatriots? It's incomprehensible... and unreasonable." Kylias dropped the cement brick in his hand and shook his head.

"Just because these compatriots think differently from you, you ruthlessly massacre your fellow human beings who are clearly genetically the same as you?"

"For living space and resources? I'm afraid that's just an excuse. Although the resources in this area are scarce, if they can be scientifically, rationally and efficiently developed and utilized, it is entirely feasible to feed everyone in this area. But just because of such a trivial matter, they massacre their fellow species? It's simply unreasonable."

Kellyas saw several human children across the street staring blankly at the house that had become a ruin, and they did not leave for a long time. One of the little girls even shed tears of sadness and anger while looking at the collapsed house. Kellyas became curious about them, and she asked Calisi, who had come with her but had been silent since the beginning, to use the Shell of the Corrector to scan and read the memories of these children.

"Are you sure you want to see it?" When Carlisle saw the children standing by the collapsed house, she had already guessed most of what was going on.

"determine."

"Okay, but don't be too angry after reading it." Carlisle shook her head helplessly and sighed. When the Corrector's Shell was in a covert operation state, it scanned the brains of those children and read their memories.

"........."

Kalisi watched the expression on Kaelias's face change, from confusion, to sadness, to indignation, and finally to silence after a long sigh.

"I told you long ago that you would definitely not be able to control your emotions after watching this."

"why?"

"Because, that's what humans are like. They do such irrational things just because of trivial things."

"Killing unarmed compatriots who hold absolutely no hostility towards you, oppressing and exploiting others, or fighting to the death for a tiny bit of immediate gain is extremely short-sighted."

"And they take it for granted that they're using the blood and lives of countless innocent people as bargaining chips. That's bullshit."

"Little do they know that this development model, which has cost countless lives, is fundamentally wrong. Not to mention that these countless lives have not even allowed them to learn a single lesson from past experiences and avoid making the same mistakes again."

Kylias's expression revealed displeasure, and she betrayed some strange emotions. As sisters and compatriots connected in mind and spirit, the purple-haired girl keenly sensed this sudden strange emotion from your sister.

"If you want to stop me, I have no objection. However, I suggest you use some more deterrent methods. If it were me, I would only use the option that would cause the least loss."

"No...Xixi, come with me to the beach. I want to find a quiet place with no one around."

"Okay..." The purple-haired girl felt the strange emotion that suddenly appeared on Kaelias and then disappeared inexplicably. Without thinking too much, she took Kaelias to the beach of this city. Before leaving, she saw Kaelias look back at the human children standing across the street. Kaelias remembered the reminder her future self gave her before leaving.

Sometimes, the best warning to those who take violence for granted is the force and violence they are completely unable to resist.

As the person who operated the Shell of the Corrector, Carlisle knew very well the backgrounds and pasts of these children across the street. These children originally lived in this building with their parents and uncles and aunts. Although the family's living conditions were not very good due to the shortage of supplies caused by frequent wars, they could still barely get by. Their father and uncle would bring some snacks for the children after returning from work every day, and these children would share them with their good neighbors upstairs and downstairs. Although the two fathers and uncles worked hard every day, the money they earned was enough to support the whole family, and occasionally there was even enough to buy some additional imported daily necessities smuggled in. Although the life of the whole family was not good, it was not bad either. The owner of a small shop downstairs was also very friendly and kind to the children, and often gave some of the food in the store that was about to expire but not expired for free to the hungry children who had just returned home from school.

Until one day, when several children came home from school, they did not see the shop owner uncle and aunt who ran a shop downstairs from their home and had smiling faces and were a little bald, nor their parents who welcomed them home with open arms, and the two uncles and aunts who were very kind to them and often gave them sweets in private, but a pile of ruins of houses collapsed after a bombing. Everything the children were familiar with was gone. Their parents, uncle, the shop owner and his family, and all the neighbors living in the same building were all buried under the rubble, with no trace of their bodies left.

After that day, several children became orphans and were adopted by local international relief organizations, but they still come back here and recall their happiest times in the past and the days when they were accompanied by their families.

Half a year after being adopted, one day, they suddenly saw two people who had brought them to the orphanage, a doctor and a driver who were said to be from Doctors Without Borders, being carried back from outside covered in blood. The doctor had fallen into a coma due to excessive blood loss when he was carried out of the car, and the driver was also covered in blood. Although he was still conscious, he had to be carried out of the car by others.

One of the doctors did not survive and lost his young life due to excessive blood loss and untimely treatment.

According to the information learned from the driver afterwards, the two men were transporting a batch of medical supplies through a checkpoint when they were unarmed and were suddenly shot by the checkpoint soldiers. The doctor sitting in the passenger seat was hit in the abdomen and thigh by the bullet that penetrated the car door and soon lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss. The person sitting in the main driver's seat was luckier and was only shot in the left shoulder. In the end, the driver barely drove the car back and the medical staff on the scene responded urgently. The doctor and the driver tried to give first aid, but the doctor eventually died due to excessive blood loss. Afterwards, several children saw the driver with bandages on his hands and left shoulder, sitting alone in the corner, silently wiping away tears. The doctor was a good friend of his who he had known for many years. The two of them were often responsible for transporting medical care, food and other supplies here to provide assistance to the people living here who were trapped under the high walls. But that day, the two had already shown their relevant documents, and less than ten meters after safely passing the checkpoint, they were suddenly shot by several soldiers from the side and rear for no reason. While driving away from the scene, the driver seemed to hear the soldiers behind him who shot at him laughing. Looking at his companion who had become a cold corpse, the driver was both angry and helpless.

In the eyes of the children, they had known the doctor for only a few months. During that time, he frequently visited them and provided free medical care to the children and staff at the orphanage. He and his driver always brought plenty of food and fruit to the children, making him very popular among the children. Shortly before his death, the orphanage staff had expressed their concern for the doctor's low supply of food and medical supplies, hoping he could provide some assistance. On the day of his death, the trunk of the car he and his driver were driving was filled with food and medical supplies for the children. Several of his colleagues had arrived at the orphanage hours early to provide guidance on the use of medical supplies, but what they found was a bullet-riddled car and the doctor and driver, who had been shot at by soldiers guarding the checkpoint.

Even more infuriating was the official news report afterward. The superiors of the soldiers guarding the checkpoint who had fired on the vehicle claimed that their troops had opened fire on a vehicle carrying terrorists that day, successfully wounding two terrorists who had attempted to break through the checkpoint. The doctor's colleagues and the orphanage staff knew all too well. There were no terrorists in the vehicle; only the doctor and the driver, along with a vehicle full of medical supplies and children's food. They were unarmed and simply wanted to provide whatever assistance they could to the children of the Eighth Orphanage and the residents living beneath its walls.

.........

Unlike beaches anywhere else on Earth, the beaches here are covered in garbage and sewage. In the distance, you can see several warships patrolling on the sea level. It is these warships patrolling near the coast that have cut off one of the few ways of survival for the residents living under the high walls in this area.

Kylias, who was walking on the beach, left one footprint after another on the sand with an expressionless face, and from time to time stared at the warships in the distance, and the densely packed and irregularly distributed buildings on the other side, where you can often see the ruins collapsed by explosions.

"Xixi, have you ever thought about the complex reasons that cause this phenomenon?"

"The reasons are complex... too numerous to count. Historical factors, the inertia of social development, artificially provoked conflicts, the persecution and slaughter of those who think differently, and the endless internal friction of the human species. The reasons are simply too numerous to count..."

"Many people believe that simply eliminating a few regional hegemonic countries and interest groups will resolve the problems here and elsewhere in the world. But you and I both know that this is simply impossible. This kind of problem cannot be solved by simply eliminating a few hegemonic countries and interest groups. Only by completely reversing the development model of human society to a healthier one can the prerequisites for this problem be permanently eradicated."

"If we don't change the entire development model of human society and civilization, then what happened here will only be repeated elsewhere in decades or even centuries."

"Civilization can never be sustained by creating enemies. Conflict between people will only plunge human society into an endless sea of ​​blood and corpses. A verbal dispute will escalate into a street fight, then into community and racial divisions, and finally into war. When war escalates further, it will become a world war and complete destruction."

"In this universe where the speed of light is capped, relying solely on expansion and the transfer of contradictions will never allow civilization to survive for tens of thousands or even millions of years."

"Humanity currently cannot fully understand how it, and the society and civilization it forms, function. Human social structure has not kept pace with technological advancements. Human society has persisted in this sub-healthy state for thousands of years, and it's time for change."

"Humanity, your species is mired in divisions both large and small, and in the endless cycle of factionalism and discord that must end."