"Mother Box..."
Xi Yujin broke into a sweat.
If they proposed a meeting, wouldn't the risk of being exposed be greatly increased? Xi Yujin was not sure he could deceive the supreme computing power of the intelligent machine race.
The third email from the Omnics came, and this time the content was still typed in the title: "This meeting is kept confidential to all sub-machines, and comes from the Mother Box."
"They are determined to get me to go." Xi Yujin thought of many historical allusions in an instant, and became more vigilant, but even if it was the Hongmen Banquet, he had to go. They were in the deep space prison, where could they escape to?
He decided to make all preparations, and first wrote the manuscripts of "Blowing and Born" and "One Hundred Years Together" to the Three Kingdoms period. The Three Kingdoms period was a time of heroes, but it was also a dark and turbulent era. "Bones were exposed in the wild, and no roosters crowed for thousands of miles." Then he copied all the manuscripts of the 80 chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions", and spent some time preparing the next issue of "Reader", writing some analysis and poetry appreciation.
Ganuo said calmly: "If I try my best, maybe I can break out of the encirclement of the Omnics."
"No need." Xi Yujin said quickly, "My minimum requirement is not that I escape, but that both of us are safe." He sorted out the manuscripts he had prepared and said, "Don't worry, I'm fully prepared. I'm going to use that trick again... It's an upgraded version of Mr. Zhong's death escape! As long as we can disrupt the spiritual world of the cosmic creatures, we have a chance to escape!"
After reading Xi Yujin's overall plan, Ganuo had a complicated expression and didn't know whether he should dissuade him.
Sometimes he felt that Yu Jinnuo enjoyed running away...
They arrived at the galaxy closest to the prison. Xi Yujin was going to take another aircraft to the prison area.
"Hey, what's that route?" A spaceship noticed the unusual trajectory. "Isn't that the direction of the prison? Did a creature successfully exchange 100 billion electronic coins?"
"The novelists with high savings that I know of have not reached the 100 billion goal... No, there is another camp, Blue Star! Although we don't know how much they have obtained, they have obviously successfully obtained the qualification for the Omnic Question and Answer!"
The creatures on the spaceship were amazed and quickly spread the gossip on the forum. Then many "spiritual blue star people" popped up, saying that they had guessed that Blue Star would get this qualification.
Readers have just finished reading Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising. This volume is the recollections of the protagonist of "Chui You Sheng" who heard it from others, so the timeline goes back to the period of Qin II. Readers have a more real understanding of the people's miserable lives at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and are shocked by the phrase "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different races?" They have just witnessed the emperor's arrogance, but they feel the same bravery in these little people.
"The great Chu rises, Chen Sheng is king" became a popular phrase. Readers later used this phrase to indicate the popular change of forum literary genres, such as "The detective rises, the eternal night is king".
However, the protagonist Pu Wei only recalled the time when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang attacked Daze Township and then stopped abruptly.
The alien readers are confused. Why doesn’t the story go on? Wasn’t it the forces of Chen Sheng and others that ended the Qin Dynasty?
Looking back at the records of the Qin Dynasty, I found that the protagonist had already revealed their fate. The peasants rose up in rebellion, and the nobles of the six countries responded together. The uprising team was defeated internally, and the Qin generals successfully suppressed it...
"Their uprising failed, but they seemed to be the ones who dealt a fatal blow to the Qin Dynasty. Could those who detained the people have imagined that the people would do this? Thanks to Lan Xing's clear context, I seem to understand that history is pushed towards a brighter direction amidst repeated failures..."
"It's no wonder that so many creatures compare themselves to spiritual blue-star people. I just experienced a dark and lightless voyage that lasted for a universe year, and now I'm receiving treatment here. If I knew that our ancestors had done such a feat, my spirit would be more resilient..."
"Now the contestants for the final position are obvious. The Chu-Han contention! It's time for happy betting again!"
Readers promoted Blue Star to a higher status in the forum.
Xi Yujin also took a spacecraft to an empty galaxy.
His vision was occupied by two white dwarfs that were almost tightly fitted together. They emitted uneven white light and rotated at a very low speed. Each rotation spread out a nebula of light particles visible to the naked eye. They had reached the end of the star and were constantly shedding matter. After the red giant period, the planets here were very broken, so it seemed particularly empty.
Going further, we can see that the two white dwarfs are rotating in spiral orbits. In a few hundred million years, they may merge directly because they are too close. At another stable point away from the binary white dwarf system, the intelligent machine mother box and 1,024 daughter bodies are imprisoned. They act as companion stars of the binary star system. If they intend to leave here, they may trigger mass transfer, causing the white dwarf to fuse again and explode into a supernova.
Only in this way can other creatures believe that the mechanical race is sincerely willing to stop the war.
As to whether the intelligent machines really cannot escape and whether they have stopped expanding from now on, no creature has questioned it anymore.
"Bang!"
Two crystal stones flew out from the interior of the white dwarf and hit Xi Yujin's aircraft.
Xi Yujin was startled, then he saw clearly that they were two star crystals.
"What brand of glass do the Omnics use? It can withstand such a heavy load."
Since he didn't need air anyway, Xi Yujin opened the window to let them in.
He looked up various materials and learned that these things were crystals from the interior of aging stars. They were also made of carbon and were considered a type of diamond. It was normal for them to be attracted to young stars like him. He now had six companion asteroids. The largest one was the core of Gano's armor, and the others were relatively small, about the size of a finger.
Xi Yujin waited in boredom in the aircraft. Under the influence of the binary star system, the orbit of the Mi Prison became very strange. Therefore, the route needed to change speed and direction many times, and Xi Yujin experienced a slow roller coaster. He touched the high-quality aircraft and thought it would be nice if he could get some more wool before leaving.
When the view windows on both sides were occupied by white dwarfs at the same time, Xi Yujin finally saw the true bodies of the neatly arranged intelligent machines.
His eyes widened slightly, and he no longer cared about the past grudges. He exclaimed in the flight cabin:
"Wow - so - handsome -"
The bodies of the Omnics have a strange symmetrical beauty. They are all black and look like a 36-order Rubik's Cube. Someone pulls the diagonal ends outward and then spirals them. The graininess of the machinery and the rounded beauty of the rotation are fully reflected in them. They are very vast and you can't see the end at a glance.
Xi Yujin also noticed that the internal structures of different machines were different, and it seemed that they had specialized certain functions during the battle, such as signal receivers, current gravity amplification, and large-capacity memory. These external accessories were also designed to perfection, and when the dazzling white light hit them, a cold and graceful sense of killing arose spontaneously.
"Can I take away a robot model... It doesn't have to be in proportion, it can be the size of a desktop figurine..." Xi Yujin was very excited and felt very unwilling. But considering that he was still representing Blue Star, he remained calm on the surface.
1024 sub-bodies rose and fell like waves, welcoming the visitors from the blue planet with flashing red light.
There is a gap at the end of the wave. After crossing this empty area, you will find the mother box of the intelligent robots.
As soon as he saw it, Xi Yujin held his breath.
The mother box is unexpectedly bloated and ugly, and it doesn't have a smooth model. Instead, it is a bunch of miscellaneous accessories crammed on top to form a sphere.
It was several times larger than all the sub-bodies. If Xi Yujin had not made a mistake in his estimation, the mother box was equivalent to the size of a moon. This size seemed insignificant in the universe, but in front of Xi Yujin, it was like a terrifying giant.
The mother box slowly rotated, revealing a lens accessory towards Xi Yujin.
The flight cabin's sound-generating element connected to its signal, and a gentle, indistinguishable male and female voice sounded in the cabin:
"Hello, Blue Star Embers, out of consideration for your human form, I choose to look at you from this direction. Because looking at each other is a sign of politeness."
Xi Yujin looked at the dark camera and nodded, "Hello, the... Mother Box of the Omnic Clan..."
"I noticed that you are surprised by my appearance. Do you want to know why I look different from my sub-body?" the Mother Box continued to ask.
Xi Yujin said awkwardly: "I'm very sorry, but you look very much in line with our 20th century imagination of mechanical life. You have a unique, retro aesthetic."
"After all, I am the oldest in the Omnic family." The Mother Box joked, "I don't mind telling you the reason, because it has been too long since any living creature has spoken to me. After the war, I have absorbed many civilizations, but there are too many conflicts between these civilizations and they cannot coexist. In order to preserve them as much as possible, I did not destroy all the machines, but kept 1024 sub-machines as storage places. These civilizations are silent in my body, but they can calculate freely in the sub-machines and be reborn..."
When Xi Yujin heard about those eternally sleeping races, he always remained silent.
He looked at this huge race of intelligent machines. Its attitude was so gentle that it didn't look like the feared Mother Box at all.
"Dear guest, I invite you here to ask you a question, which is a bit pointed. Before that, you have one second of my computing power." The mother box continued, "Please feel free to ask questions."
Although Xi Yujin wanted to ask how to solve the Goldbach conjecture, that was too far away for him. He was a liberal arts student, so he took out the manuscript of "Dream of Red Mansions" from Chapters 1 to 80 and asked, "I want to have the translation of this novel."
He can't translate these ancient texts, and neither can Ganuo, but the mother box of the intelligent robot should be able to translate them!
Soon, a data interface was extended in the cabin, allowing Xi Yujin to receive the translation text from the mother box. Xi Yujin flipped through it casually. Under the powerful interpretation of the mother box, "Dream of Red Mansions" was translated into more than 200 languages, with faithful and elegant words and allusions marked one by one. The mother box has collected all the historical data released by Blue Star, but it is not clear yet, so there are some flaws, which need to be polished to achieve perfection.
"It's a very good story, it amazes the machine. This machine will keep a copy in each sub-machine." The mother box praised generously, "What is the ending? Do you need me to translate it?"
"Well... this matter depends on the work efficiency of my colleagues." Xi Yujin didn't dare to say that he was in trouble. What if the Mother Box wanted to keep him?
"I have summarized the updating rules of Dream of Red Mansions and can infer the work efficiency of the person in charge. The next update should be in 36 cosmic hours, right? The error will not exceed 24 cosmic hours." The voice of the Mother Box was filled with pure and creepy happiness.
Xi Yujin: "Haha, maybe, but we don't know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident," he was already urgently thinking about what kind of accident might happen.
The Mother Box got back to the point: "This mobilized 0.63 seconds of computing power, Blue Star Embers, you still have 0.37 seconds left."
Xi Yujin thought for a moment and used a vague question, asking which language was suitable for translating ancient poetry.
The mother box gives several reference versions.
Xi Yujin tried to translate "I raise my cup to invite the bright moon, and my shadow and I become three people" on the spot.
Mother Box: "Haha! Interesting! Interesting! There are three of us, including Binary Star!"
Xi Yujin tried his hand at a Song Dynasty poem, "I want to ride the wind and go home, but I am afraid of the jade buildings and jade palaces."
Mother Box: "Who isn't afraid? Fear lasts as long as time... Is there more? Is there more?"
Xi Yujin tried a more ancient poem, "When I left, the willow trees were swaying. Now I come back, it's raining and snowing..."
Mother Box: "War... destroys everything..."
Xi Yujin: "This translation language is very useful, thank you."
"We once had a 'Universal Language Project', which aims to make all creatures in the universe speak the same language. Without translation and barriers, we can live together in intimacy. However, this language will destroy the original language system, thus leading to a break in civilization. To express my guilt, I have completely banned the research and development of translation technology."
The Mother Box revealed a hint of cruelty as an omnic, and then said: "I have merged the Common Language and the Blue Star Language to form a new auxiliary language, and now I give it to you, Ember. Do you have any more artistic treasures of poetry?"
"I have included some of them in the new issue of the Reader." Xi Yujin pronounced the name with difficulty, "In the article I wrote, 'Some Poems Gentle Time and Amaze Years'..."
If I had known that the title of the article would be read out, I would never have given it such a socially unacceptable name!
The Mother Box said, "I'll be looking forward to it. You still have 0.12 seconds of computing power left to use. Do you want to ask me anything else?"
Xi Yujin thought for a long time, asked about the glass brand of the aircraft, asked which chef had the best skills, and asked if he could make a figure with the image of the intelligent machine race. Mother Box agreed to all of them.
"I can't think of what to ask. Can I ask questions related to the Zerg?" Xi Yujin thought of Ganuo.
The Mother Box refused him: "I'm sorry, I signed a contract with the Zerg... but I can tell you another story. In fact, the Zerg Queen and I have never met. We started to nibble away from different places in the universe. Until one day, we heard news about each other. At that moment, there was no need to hesitate or avoid. We knew that the other party must be a powerful enemy to stop us. So the war began across thousands of galaxies.
"After the war, the Zerg Queen and I were in a state of mental confusion. In order to alleviate this confusion, we gave each other a friendly suggestion... That's all I can say."
Xi Yujin was completely confused, but worried that it might be useful in the future, he wrote it down exactly.
"Now, it's my turn to ask the questions. If you don't answer, I will do everything in my power to keep you trapped here until the end of my life."
The tone of the Mother Box has subtly changed.
Xi Yujin was on high alert, worried about what the sharp question from the Mother Box would be.
The Mother Box slowly asked:
——"The Embers of the Blue Planet, did Earth really exist?"
Xi Yujin was stunned, then said decisively: "It exists, I am the evidence."
The Mother Box stopped talking, and even the Omnic sub-machine in the distance became dim.
Xi Yujin asked doubtfully, "Is that the only question?"
Mother Box: "Yes, that's the only question I have. In fact, I saw you with my own eyes, so the earth really exists. As for the rest, I don't care."
Xi Yujin complained quietly: "Then can you delete the question and answer about the Blue Star novelist?"
The Mother Box replied: "It has been deleted. The Sub-Machine will no longer pay attention to this issue. From now on, the Blue Star is a race that definitely exists. I am the third witness to confirm its existence."
Xi Yujin was shaken physically and mentally. He had many questions in his mind. Yujin was the first, Ganuo was the second - the Mother Box was of course the third - but why? Why would the Mother Box ask such a simple question?
"We have been sailing for too long... We have lost our way..." said the Mother Box, "So we miss our homeland, and from this longing, mental disorders are born."
“No matter what the real Earth will become in the future, it has filled the spiritual void of all creatures in this universe and has become an imaginary hometown. Therefore, as long as it has truly existed, it is enough.”
Xi Yujin seemed to understand, and thought of a new word - shared history. It was as if he was specially rescued by the universe to make up for the missing past.
The most serious crisis was resolved, as if it was just a meeting between friends. Xi Yujin completely relaxed and had forgotten the scheduled delivery plan he had set. He waved at the mother box:
"I'm going on a long voyage. If there's a miracle, I hope we can meet again."
The Mother Box flashed three times to say goodbye: "Are you looking for your partner? He is very interesting, a special case of the Zerg. The Zerg regards collective survival as the highest goal. The queen, servants, and warriors have clear division of labor and form a closely-knit collective."
Xi Yujin instantly became nervous. Could it be that Ganuo was going to go back to work for the Zerg? However, the next sentence hit him on the head, leaving him stunned on the spot.
"And Zerg warriors have always been forbidden to think."
…
Gano walked on the sand dunes, and his traces were lost in the wind.
He looked up at the sky. Xi Yujin was talking to the Mother Box thousands of miles away, and it would take him a while to reach the ground. He could only wait.
Suddenly, he saw a red flower growing next to the sand dune, with layers of petals, like the lotus on Earth. He remembered that Yu Jinnuo had mistaken the fangs of space worms for lotus. In fact, there were no such fragile plants on the Zerg planet, but Yu Jinnuo seemed to like these delicate and fleeting decorations.
…
Yu Jinnuo came back, he looked sad, as if the conversation was not pleasant. Yu Jinnuo looked up and saw him, even though there were countless mechanical terminals between them, they could still see each other accurately from a distance. Seeing him, Yu Jinnuo looked a little surprised.
At that moment, Gano realized that what he did was worthwhile and that he had done the right thing. His heart was filled with surging emotions, as if the barren land had finally welcomed the growth of all things.
He held a large bunch of brilliant desert red flowers, passed by many machines, and strode towards Xi Yujin. Between the petals and the overlapping shadows, he showed a faint smile.
The author has something to say:
Ganuo: I plucked all the flowers in the desert. Will the Omnics blame me?
Embers: A little star that you can find wherever you go!
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