Xi Yujin used his optical brain to click on it, wanting to see what websites were on the black box network of this starship. But the other party's black box network was empty, without any jump links, only a prompt:
"This local area does not apply to intelligent black boxes, sorry."
This was the first time Xi Yujin had encountered such a situation. He thought that black boxes were already very common in the universe. Either this starship belt really hated the intelligent machines, or the technology level in this place was very high, or both.
Xi Yujin thought about bypassing this civilization, but the other party's black box prompt had a "peace" mark. Once the port star is marked with this mark, it means that there is no civil unrest or invasion war in the galaxy, and passengers can come freely. Being timid is not Xi Yujin's style. At worst, he can just run for his life again. He sent a parking signal and drove the Tide Flat to fly to the starship belt.
Two people squeezed into the cockpit, looking at the increasingly strange celestial environment.
"Three thousand wormholes are the standard for passages during wartime." Ganuo put down the telescope and said, "The queen is going to send a large number of warriors, so stable wormholes are needed."
"Were all the wormholes we experienced dug by the Zerg?" Xi Yujin asked.
"Only a small number of them are created by the Zerg. Most naturally generated wormholes are less stable. The Zerg's technology can make the channels more stable. During wartime, the channels will be named after the queen plus the construction number." said Gano.
For example, the pilot ship that Xi Yujin took for the first time passed through a wormhole called "Surya".
The reason why the war was named "Super-Time and Space War" is that the Omnics transcended time, while the Zerg transcended space. The dense wormholes made the entire universe more accessible, and even the weakest races could encounter advanced civilizations. The technological levels of all civilizations grew explosively in the war and gradually became equal. Therefore, the technological level of the races that Xi Yujin saw along the way was not very different, but the cultural level was very different.
Only when the Tide Level got closer could the entire starship belt be seen.
It looked like barnacles closely connected to each other, floating in space. Most of them were bronze, with a few reddish brown. There was no metallic luster at all, but rather like the huge skeleton of a primitive creature. The starship belt snaked through the universe like a snake, with no end in sight. In the farther distance, there were twinkling stars. There were actually a large number of stars here.
"Those are the remains of a Zerg war base. The data does not show that it has been preserved." Gano also had a puzzled look on his face.
Following the prompt, the Tide Hit approached one of the barnacles. It slowly opened a hole, and there seemed to be rows of thick ribs inside. Ganuo explained that this was the style of their Zerg. The Tide Hit was like a small shrimp being swallowed by a giant whale.
The lights on the Tide Level could not see any living creatures until a light source appeared in the sky, and soft light shone from all directions, and a huge berthing cabin appeared in front of them. Xi Yujin noticed that the decoration inside used a lot of steel technology, which was incompatible with the biotechnology style outside, and had a sense of splicing.
A small door opened at the end of the docking bay, and a humanoid creature walked out.
"He...she...it looks very much like a human." Xi Yujin hesitated to choose personal pronouns.
The creature that came out was indeed human-like, but it wore a round glass helmet, a space suit-like outfit, and no hair. It stood on a suspended disc device, looking eagerly at the Tide Level, and it looked very lively.
The creature made the universal no-force sign and requested dialogue.
"Hello, distinguished guests from the Blue Planet. I have received your travel signal." It said enthusiastically, "Would you like to see the scenery of our starship belt? I am happy to be your tour guide. Please call me Ella!"
Xi Yujin thought secretly that if he suddenly met a tour guide while traveling, he would probably force him to pay and rip him off.
A passage extended from mid-air to the bottom of the Tide Level, with space suits of different sizes placed on it. Xi Yujin put them on the five little Rust Tribe members, and for concealment, he and Ganuo also put on space suits. Then they got off the ship together.
The gravity in the starship was set relatively low, and every step they took was like a kangaroo jumping. Xi Yujin naturally took Ganuo's hand and walked to Ella. This creature was much taller than a normal person, and his skin was very smooth when he looked closely. Ella gave them a warm hug, even the little rust tribe was not spared: "Welcome!"
"I haven't had such enthusiastic tour guide services in other galaxies." Xi Yujin said frankly, "Do starships come with many treaties that must be followed?" This was all he could think of.
Ella activated the hover disc and led them into the starship. It said:
"I can guess what you are wondering about, and I must answer two points for you. First, we don't have a commercial system in the Starfleet Belt, and I do this job purely out of interest. I don't charge any fees, but I have been paid, so please feel free to follow me. Here, every creature can freely develop his or her own hobbies. I guess you like traveling, wouldn't you be happy to have an encyclopedic tour guide? Or do you prefer something quieter, and I can keep silent too.
"Secondly, the Starfleet Belt does have many rules due to its unique geographical location and sparse biological population. We must be careful."
They came to the interior of the starship. The light was sufficient, making people feel happy. They first entered a room full of green plants. Large leaves reached the ceiling of the cabin. The flower disk of a queen flower exposed its black stamens, showing its vigorous primitive vitality. A gardener emerged from the jungle and greeted them.
"This is a park, which is very common on the cabin." Ella said, "We can't guarantee that the plants inside are completely harmless, so please don't destroy them."
"The history of plants on the ship is older than ours," the gardener said happily. "I fell in love with them the first time I saw them, and now I have finally become a gardener."
"By the way, if you are an aerobic creature, you can breathe moderately here." Ella pointed to the ceiling and reminded, "There are many filters and generators above this starship, and aerobic creatures can walk freely."
Behind the park is a long passage. Almost all of it is paved with steel, completely covering up the Zerg biological architectural style. You can observe the universe on both sides of the passage, and there are signposts at each fork.
“This is the restaurant.”
They came to a lobby similar to the dining hall on Earth, and a creature in a different space suit came out and waved a shovel at them.
"It is my greatest joy to have other creatures praise my cooking skills! I must come and try it later!"
Ella introduced: "The food here is also free. If you feel hungry, please enjoy it. Our chef has a huge library of ingredients. But please be careful not to waste it."
Xi Yujin said: "I will look forward to this. Do you sell edible minerals here?"
Ella and the chef said in unison, "Of course!"
“This is a logistics conveyor belt.”
They saw two more tracks on one side of the corridor, and a humanoid creature was sitting on a parcel box stamping the packages. A cargo truck was moving along the tracks at a very fast speed.
Ella said: "If you need to move large materials, the logistics conveyor belt is your best choice. We will have logistics navigators to deliver them accurately for you. This is also free."
Xi Yujin observed for a long time and said, "You are all very happy, even if you are doing work that machines are more capable of doing."
"Machines can indeed do many jobs. But our fellow tribesman prefers repetitive manual labor. So machines were laid off and creatures took over." Ella's pride was mixed with a hint of contempt. "The will of creatures is supreme. Machines can never rule us."
The next place to visit was the museum. A staff member came out to greet them and said that due to force majeure, the museum was closed today.
Ella shrugged. “Sometimes work is enjoyable, but there are also unpleasant things like this.”
After walking through another corridor, they came to a panoramic viewing platform. Inside, there were Starship people standing in groups of three or four. This was the room with the highest biological density that Xi Yujin had ever seen. They all had no hair, and Xi Yujin was temporarily a little face-blind.
"This is the Planetary Art Exhibition Room. I hope you still remember that we are the capital of free art."
Ayla's pride was about to burst from its glass helmet.
It randomly touched an exhibition window, and countless tiny light particles floated up from it, gradually changing into different colors. Clear planetary orbits passed by Xi Yujin and his group, and the virtual planets were spinning around, with name tags hanging next to them. A string of characters flashed randomly:
"Starship Belt Planet Art Exhibition".
Xi Yujin exclaimed politely, but Ganuo, who was standing beside him, showed no emotion at all.
Ella introduced: "Our starship belt is a place where every creature can develop freely. We are born in space, so we are not bound by any gravity. We will never live on a planet. Different environments will affect our thinking about hobbies. If you live in an ice hockey world, you may prefer to make snowmen. If you live in a desert, you may care about water.
“We must break away from the constraints of our environment, place every choice equally before us, and then choose our future based on our natural interests.
“Nowadays, technology is developing rapidly. Apart from those of us who like manual labor, most of the starship residents are devoted to art.
"Our art is far beyond the reach of words. It is unique and a derivative of advanced fiction!"
Xi Yujin gave a timely round of applause, Ella smiled so hard that her eyes were closed, and even looked a little shy. Gano expressionlessly flicked away a virtual planet that was colliding with him.
"It sounds cool." Xi Yujin praised.
In this universe, high-level novel derivatives refer to comics, movies, games, etc. Different galaxies have their own unique derivatives.
However, sending pictures and videos between different galaxies is much more difficult than simply sending text, and there is a high possibility of missing limbs. Due to the limitation of signal transmission speed, these derivatives can only revolve around their own galaxies.
If you want to give these derivatives to creatures of other races, you have to consider their acceptance spectrum. Many cosmic creatures are color blind and some even have no eyes. Therefore, few creatures will buy high-level derivatives.
As for interactive derivatives such as games, the restrictions are even greater. The server alone is enough to make it difficult to connect across galaxies in real time, even if the black box is powerful. Merchants trade high-level derivatives either within a single galaxy or in a similar way to physical books, downloading them offline and playing them offline. Prices are rising, so the audience is naturally not as large as that of novels.
Only words, the purest words, are suitable for spreading throughout the universe.
Xi Yujin played two alien games on the spaceship. He thought they were fun and the stories were full of imagination, but the music was a bit harsh. However, the alien creatures were just average, with all the materials that were abused everywhere. Only the music was barely good. Alien games are hard to please everyone.
Ella in front of him introduced non-stop:
“We don’t live on planets, but we create for them. Every time we pass a planet, artists create an advanced derivative based on it.
"After our starship leaves, our art gallery will preserve that unique work forever. At the same time, the artwork will be packaged in a special way and preserved forever on the planet. We now have more than 6 million pieces of artwork..."
It turned off the particle effects of the star map and said.
"This is just a small branch of the Planetary Art Exhibition. Our starship belt is very long. If we walk from one end to the other, we will probably break our legs. Let's go get a walking disc! This way we can enjoy the scenery of the starship belt more conveniently!"
Ella was indeed a tour guide who loved her job. She took Xi Yujin with her to get a means of transportation and walked through the long corridor, watching the stars outside the window pass by so quickly.
Ella introduced them to other basic places in the Starship Belt, which provided them with everything they needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation.
But a cleaner clearly told Xi Yum that their nose was not a nose and their face was not a face. It was called Tula.
Tula snorted coldly and said meaningfully: "Our starship is self-sufficient. We don't need foreign creatures to participate in our art."
Ella was a little embarrassed and hurried to stop it.
Tula left on the circular disc, leaving behind a sentence: "The museum director is really blind. I really don't understand why it must hold this planetary art exhibition."
Ella returned to Xi Yujin with some apology. Xi Yujin didn't care about it and changed the subject: "What's the matter with alien creatures participating in art?"
At this point, Ella became full of energy again.
"For the first time, our planetary art exhibition will allow outside creatures to participate! Interested artists can choose a planet marked in the starship belt and make a derivative... If the production is good, the planet will be given to the artist as a gift."
What? Send an asteroid!
Xi Yujin's star instinctively exploded on the spot.
He must get the best of this!
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