Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

Not only that, after integrating with other star-class battleships, the Navigator also possessed weapon systems and sophon shielding devices.

Now, it will become quite difficult for the Trisolarans to find such a flying fortress in this vast universe.

The farewell ceremony began on the fifth day.

In addition to Chang Weisi, there are nearly 10,000 immortals who participated in this mission to die.

Because their purpose was not to get rid of water droplets but just to attract attention, Chang Weisi reduced the functions of the ships again and again.

Eventually, each ship will only need a few hundred people to operate it.

Humans suffer from the lack of artificial intelligence. Otherwise, there would be no need for human control. They could simply set up a navigation program to attract water droplets.

Of course, the Trisolarans shouldn't be so easily fooled. If they really discovered that there was no one on the ship, they probably wouldn't be fooled into giving chase.

"If one day... you have the chance to return to Earth, please bury my name tag in my home in Moscow."

At the farewell ceremony, a soldier from the Bear Country took off the name tag on his combat uniform and handed it to Zhang Beihai.

The latter took it and kept it carefully in his pocket.

"Trust us, we will definitely bring it back."

The rest of the immortals also handed their name tags to the people in front of them.

"If I can return to Earth, this is my bank card password. There's still some money in it. Spend it for me. It doesn't matter. I can do anything with it."

"If I could go back to Earth, bury me in my home... Never mind, just find a random place to bury me. My home is in the underground city, and it seems to have been blown up by the water droplets."

Are you afraid of dying?

Of course I'm afraid.

After all, their bodies might never float back to Earth.

They will be buried forever in this endless darkness of space.

But it's all worth it.

For the eternal survival of mankind!

……

Looking at the blue dots disappearing into space, Zhang Beihai let out a long breath.

"All crew members on the ship have entered hibernation. We must continue our escape."

Although the Navigator has stored a large amount of food, the ecological circulation system can be maintained for a long time.

However, based on the principle of saving as much as possible, Zhang Beihai put tens of thousands of people on the ship into hibernation.

This was also what Lin Xuan prepared for them in advance. There were tens of thousands of hibernation devices. As long as there was enough energy, they could sleep until the end of time.

After waiting for everyone to fall asleep, Zhang Beihai came to the control module of the ship.

He wanted to put the thing that Chang Weisi gave him in it.

At this time, Chu Yan and Dongfang Yanxu had been waiting there for a long time.

"Senior, you were...really planning to escape?"

Dongfang Yanxu still remembers the scene when Zhang Beihai ordered the entire ship to enter deep sea state. She said that her judgment would not be wrong. Zhang Beihai obviously wanted to escape, but Chang Weisi took a step ahead of him.

But that's why everyone can survive.

And now, through Chang Weisi's words, he learned that this predecessor had been planning this escape two centuries before she was born.

"It's not important." Zhang Hokkaido said.

"Then if... I mean if, I really tried to stop you, would you have shot and killed me without hesitation?"

"Correct."

Zhang Beihai answered without any hesitation. He said this, and this is what he did in the original plot.

"Well, I hope that day will never come." Dongfang Yanxu said, then turned and walked towards the hibernation center.

"Old Zhang, are you from the Trisolaran race? Why are you speaking so directly?"

Chu Yan on the side joked.

"I just want her to face the facts in advance. The universe is not a fairy tale, but a dark forest full of crises. We have now taken the first step for mankind. Next, if we want to survive in this dark forest, we must learn the ability to protect ourselves." Zhang Beihai said without turning his head.

"That's true. You see this more clearly than I do."

"Do you need me to accompany you for a while?" Chu Yan leaned against the wall of the ship and looked at Zhang Beihai.

"No need, you go to sleep too. I will wake you up when I feel tired." Zhang Beihai still didn't look back.

"okay!"

After everyone left, Zhang Beihai slowly took out the USB flash drive that Chang Weisi had given him.

This thing was quite common in his time, but in this era, it seems a bit like an antique.

I don’t know what Lin Xuan was thinking when he made this thing. Of course, he has no idea what is inside it.

After searching for a long time, Zhang Beihai finally found the socket for the USB flash drive.

The interface seemed to be designed separately, as if it was manufactured specifically for reading this USB flash drive.

The moment Zhang Beihai inserted the USB drive into the interface, a holographic projection of a woman popped up in front of him.

"Artificial Intelligence Cheng Xing - acquiring ship information."

"Acquisition completed, checking the star map to confirm current location."

"Automatic navigation will begin soon. To ensure smooth sailing, I will scan the star systems near the ship at any time to see if there are any Earth-like planets that can be mined for fuel."

"Is it possible?" Zhang Beihai was delighted when he heard that.

He had heard of the artificial intelligence created by Lin Xuan, but he didn't expect that Lin Xuan would make such a big effort for his plan. He actually gave this thing to him through Chang Weisi.

"Yes, you can rest assured. Lin Xuan has already set up a complete star map route for me. During this process, I will mine the necessary resources from nearby planets to replenish the ship's fuel or upgrade the ship's power."

"This will be a long journey. We will search for a new home for humanity in space. If you find it boring, you can choose to hibernate for a while. If you encounter a step that requires manual operation, I will take the initiative to wake you up."

"Row!"

Zhang Beihai nodded slightly.

Since Lin Xuan has already set it up, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore, and he can stay in the hibernation cabin for a while.

After repeatedly studying the reliability of this artificial intelligence, Zhang Beihai left with peace of mind.

After waiting for about ten minutes and confirming that Zhang Beihai had entered the hibernation chamber, Cheng Xing, the artificial intelligence in the holographic projection, slowly spoke.

"A total of 1,743,000 construction blueprints have been stored. We are currently scanning the route for any planets that can be mined."

"A total of 141 ship upgrade projects have been created. It is expected that the speed of the spacecraft will be upgraded to 10% of the speed of light within 30 years, and the speed of the spacecraft will be upgraded to the curvature drive engine within 21 years..."

"A total of 75 planets have been created for construction projects, and it is expected that the construction of the gravitational wave transmitter will be completed within 40 years..."

"A total of 13 optional star chart routes have been created, which will be revised from time to time based on actual conditions. The final destination of the 13 routes is the same."

"Route destination: Centaurus, Proxima Centauri."

Chapter 146: Zeroers and Troubleshooters

The universe is dying.

time.

Time is something eternal and indestructible. It is the axis of everything, driving all life from birth to death.

At that time, the universe will be destroyed, and only the god of death will live forever!

And at the midpoint of the universe, there are two civilizations that have been fighting for who knows how long in the long river of time. It seems that they have existed there since the beginning of the universe.

With their battlefield as the center, a radius of 500 galaxies has been covered by the death zone. This is the result of their deliberate control of the scope of the battlefield. Otherwise, there will be more areas destroyed.

The dead zone is the deadest thing in the universe. It is composed of dead lines that cover the entire battlefield.

In the dead zone, the speed of light is reduced to 0, and no life can survive in the dead zone.

Maybe, but that doesn't make any sense.

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, time slows down as an object approaches the speed of light.

In such a dead zone, even if you stand still, you will reach a speed exceeding the speed of light.

In that case, it stands to reason that time would flow backwards, and life in the dead zone would even be able to travel through time and space.

But the universe is dead.

It goes from birth to development and then to destruction.

Everything will be different, but time is eternal.

They cannot go back to the past, just like the grandfather paradox, in the long river of time, they can only move forward.

But the speed of light in the dead zone is zero. From the outside, it is as if the time has been paused in the dead zone.

In such an area where the speed of light is zero, any life is meaningless.

They are all just specimens in the dead zone, forever bound by the chain of time.

The ones who caused all this were two civilizations in the universe - the Zeroers and the Troubleshooters.

Both the Zeroers and the Troubleshooters were once old servants of the universe.

If we trace back to their origins, they originally came from the same civilization, but on the road of evolution and ascension, they developed very different ideas, which led to their division into two.

Troubleshooters are the administrators of the rules of the universe. The universe has rules, whether they are physical rules or something else. Everything in the universe runs according to certain rules, but no one knows who created these rules. Perhaps everything was already destined when the universe was created.

We are all bugs, turkey scientists.

We get excited about discovering some universal law and think we have found the truth.

But in reality, it is just a subjective guess made by turkey scientists based on the feeding time of farmers.

Discover the rules and use them.

This is what most civilizations are doing. Even advanced civilizations as powerful as the Zeroers and the Troubleshooters are still just bugs bound by rules.

How to transcend?

Unable to transcend!

Everyone is born within rules, and we are all dependent on rules. This is the dependency theory.

Like the Dark Forest Principle, dependency theory also has two self-evident axioms.

First, the upper civilization sets rules for the lower civilization through knowledge transfer, and the lower civilization gains the favor of the upper civilization by learning the rules.

If one excels in study, he will become an official. Confucianism has already given the answer in the theory of governing a country.

In a country, who is the most supportive of the interests of the upper class? Is it the chivalrous and patriotic people? Or is it the eloquent merchants?

neither.

The people who support the upper class the most must be the scholars.

Why do officials have to study the Four Books and Five Classics? This is itself a reflection of the rules of the upper-class civilization on the lower-class civilization.

Those who live by rules are naturally the ones who uphold the rules the most.

And this leads to the second cosmic axiom.

“The premise of technological explosion is the accumulation of humanities and social sciences, and ideological enlightenment guides the future of science and technology.”

This is not difficult to understand. The improvement of ideological cognition is itself a way to transcend rules. The more thoughts transcend the constraints of rules, the higher the possibility of technological explosion.

But it is the same as the first axiom. The improvement of thought can only get infinitely close to higher rules, but can never transcend the rules, because all our roots have been rooted in the rules from the beginning.

We are a branch on the big tree of rules. No matter how high we stand, our feet are still connected to the roots below.

Rules are like layers that wrap around us. Even if our thoughts are raised to the highest level, we can only get infinitely close to the rule makers themselves.

Does a grand unified theory of the universe exist? Maybe it does...

But we will never know, because outside of it, there are still new rules wrapped up.

What is the purpose of the universe?

Maybe it will just trap everyone to death.