No one knows how many expeditions will reach their destination.

It is meaningless for those who remain in the solar system to tell others not to look back after leaving, and they will no longer look up at the stars at will.

People will only stop occasionally in their spare time from busy study and work, and silently think of those distant faces.

I wish you all the best.

At midnight on January 1, 2500, seven days after the last colony ship was sent away, some changes quietly occurred.

As if it was as accurate as a second, the large radio telescope located in the Pluto settlement was the first to capture some changes.

Scholars quickly calculated the conclusion.

Just now, the speed of light in a vacuum dropped slightly by one ten-millionth compared to the standard value in the past.

This abrupt change is very subtle. If the current equipment is not sensitive enough and everyone is not on high alert, it would be impossible to be discovered so quickly.

This change is very small and has no effect on people's daily life and work, but it makes physicists shudder.

The physical laws in the solar system have undergone some slight changes that the people on Earth cannot understand.

What happened next was no different from the past.

The existence of a huge solar system barrier has been discovered, and this barrier is still shrinking at a not slow speed, compressing the space of the solar system.

This space compression will distort the laws of the universe to some extent, and may block the path of theoretical knowledge after the technological level of human civilization reaches a certain stage.

Combined with the instantaneous changes discovered by scholars before, scientists have concluded that perhaps it was only a moment, just one billionth of a second, that humans were locked up.

Master Chen Feng's "The Crisis of the Compound Eyes" is not a story, but a prophecy.

Now his prophecy has come true.

Fortunately, we believed his prophecy thirty-two years in advance and took decisive action.

Leaders of countries around the world feel very twisted.

There is a sense of relief that a huge stone in the heart has finally landed, but it is so heavy that it is hard to breathe.

In the past timeline, every human civilization has experienced this stage of excessive mentality.

Humans will always have fear when facing the unknown. This fear will bring chaos, and it takes difficult and painful self-adjustment to accept reality bit by bit and adapt to the new situation.

But this time is a little different. The leadership has an unprecedented degree of trust in Chen Feng's prophecy, and they know more.

It has already happened, and we have expected it.

Since we gave up leaving and chose to stay with more than 37 billion people, there is no regret in our dictionary.

Master Chen Feng's portrayal in "The Crisis of the Compound Eye" is clear enough.

Since this prophecy is accurate, then his description of the invaders who will arrive in 500 years should also be accurate.

In the movie, the protagonist Zheng Feng finally broke through the invader's battleship, rushed in, and killed one person.

Master Chen Feng would not lie, let alone brag!

He must have "seen" that day.

Moreover, Master Chen Feng had already started preparations five hundred years in advance.

This is the meaning of the game he created!

Although our current technology is far from the level he portrayed in the movie, it doesn’t matter, we still have five hundred years.

We can reach or even surpass the technological level in "The Crisis of the Compound Eye".

We will master the curvature engine, the unified force field shield, the gravitational wave equipment, the enemy's strange bombs, and even the black hole bomb!

Humanity must have the power to fight!

Start from now and keep moving forward!

This time, it only took one month from the establishment of the world government to the gradual announcement of the news to all mankind!

Six months later, more than 37 billion people in the world accepted this reality.

Some people cried.

Some were pessimistic.

Some were desperate.

But more people looked up at the huge statue that was rising rapidly in the city center.

It was a man with a resolute face.

He had fought and dedicated his whole life hundreds of years ago.

His last words echoed repeatedly on the radio.

"I have only one request to you, don't stop my unfinished work, keep moving forward."

People used to not quite understand what he meant by unfinished work.

Creation?

Construction?

Struggle?

Benefit future generations?

Now people know.

All these seemingly great and lofty speculations are inaccurate.

His unfinished work is just two simple words.

Existence.

No matter how much it costs, no matter how many years we have to continue to fight, no matter what kind of enemies we will face, we only have one pursuit.

The existence of human beings cannot be wiped out!

The weeping people withdrew their tears, the pessimistic people slapped themselves, and the desperate people stood up again with despair.

Hua Zhongyun, the first leader of the World Government, said: "Everyone, fight, it's not too late, we still have 500 years!"

In the summer of 2500, with the completion of Chen Feng's statues in the cities of major planets, mankind quickly entered the next era - 500 years of preparation for war.

On a winter night in 2519, 99.99% of the world's population stayed at home nervously. Only fully armed soldiers and medical workers wrapped in isolation armor were cautiously on the streets.

Humans have already completed the vaccination of all people and have antibodies.

But they are still on full alert. The whole nation has been staying at home for three months. Now it is December 31, 2519. It

is the last day of 2519.

At this time, everyone is holding a portable gene tester tightly in their hands.

The indicator lights of many gene monitoring towers in major settlements are flashing with a faint light.

No one knows where the enemy will come from and how it will come.

But everyone knows what kind of enemy they are waiting for, invisible to the naked eye, but as fierce as a devil.

The clock on the wall ticked.

The father, wearing a full set of isolation gear, looked at the monitor beside him.

The monitor showed pictures of two rooms, in which his wife and daughter also completed isolation precautions.

The man looked down at the gene tester in his hand from time to time, and then looked at the fireplace not far away.

Behind the fireplace is a medium-sized atomic decomposition garbage recycling machine.

The father is thinking about a problem.

Although doctors have said that in the early stages, this infectious disease has a cure rate of more than 15%.

But the infectiousness of this disease is extremely terrifying.

Bacteria have extremely strong survival ability.

Even if the virus protection has reached the p7 level, it may still leak and contaminate a large area.

If the detector in my hand sounds an alarm after midnight, it means that I have become a carrier for the invaders to release the S bacteria.

Then I will jump into the atomizer without hesitation.

I must not become a source of transmission!

If it is my wife or daughter...

I will...

go in with her!

Ding.

It's twelve o'clock.

The New Year's bell of the Gregorian calendar in 2520 rang.

Nothing happened.

At the end of January 2520, medical scientists and biologists held a large online meeting and came to the conclusion after comprehensive evaluation.

The S bacteria broke their promise.

The prophecy of the sage Chen Feng seems to have gone wrong.

Some people breathed a sigh of relief, but some people became more nervous.

After the high-level meeting and consultation of the world government, which had just begun to emerge, ended, Hua Zhongyun said in a heavy tone.

"We made a mistake. Master Chen Feng must have had his considerations for encrypting the information about the S bacteria and setting it to automatically unlock on January 1, 2520."

"If we crack it in advance, we might be discovered by the invaders and cause them to change their strategy. Now we have indeed taken action in advance, completed the vaccination, and carried out isolation in advance. All of this has been discovered. So what we have to face now is an unknown crisis."

"In the end, we made a mistake because of our kindness. I'm sorry everyone."

In fact, there have been disputes and disagreements about this matter for a long time.

Scientists, military personnel, politicians and other leaders in various fields have their own opinions. The conclusion of the debate is that even if Master Chen Feng has metaphors and considerations, most people are still unwilling to take the huge risk that may lead to the death of at least several billion people.

As long as they can be saved, who is willing to watch their compatriots die coldly?

Once people are greedy, they are likely to make mistakes.

The price of making mistakes is a new crisis and extinction.

In January 2544, it was winter in the northern hemisphere and midsummer in the southern hemisphere.

A silent change began.

It is unknown how the compound eyes that remotely control everything observe the situation in the solar system and how much information they can get.

In short, after the compound eyes discovered that "Song of the World Beyond" had failed and the S bacteria had to face antibodies from the beginning, they changed their strategy again.

All controllable energy in the solar system barrier was activated again.

The compound eyes once again released a new bacteria.

This small bacterium is no match for the human immune system and has low reproduction capacity in the human body.

Therefore, this bacterium is completely harmless to humans and is safer than E. coli.

But it has a strong reproduction capacity in animals.

This bacterium is also not lethal to animals and can even coexist well.

This characteristic is universal and applies to all animals except humans, including invertebrates and vertebrates.

Later generations named it Z bacteria.

The definition of z is taken from wisdom.

Z bacteria are also called intelligent bacteria.

A single Z bacteria does not have intelligence, but when the population of Z bacteria in a certain body exceeds 10,000 individuals, the situation will change.

Z bacteria of a certain size will be concentrated in the central nervous system of these animals, and attached to their neurons, quietly completing parasitic assimilation.

Reusing the original neural connections in the central nervous system of animals, the individuals of Z bacteria form connections with each other.

Subsequently, a Z bacteria group intelligence similar to the division of labor in the human brain, but much less complex, will sprout from this strongly related group.

The result reflected externally is that this life that originally did not have intelligence has become an individual with intelligence.

The essence reflected internally is that countless Z bacteria individuals have combined to form group intelligence.

Even though the level of this intelligence is still very low, it is still a qualitative change compared to various animals themselves.

After the brain intelligence changes, the changes do not stop.

It may be to match the consumption of the central nervous system after gaining intelligence, or it may be the genetic instinct of the Z bacteria. The body structure of the infected individual will be reawakened to the instinct of rapid division and directional gene expression. The process is similar to the process from embryo to mature individual, but it is much more complicated.

After completing this process, the infected animals will undergo drastic changes, showing characteristics that are impossible for earth creatures to possess.

The infected individuals may gain a larger body size to support more Z bacteria and gain higher intelligence, or they may maintain their original body size and only maintain basic intelligence.

This new animal is named extinct animal.

When Chen Feng saw this description in the historical records, the first thing that came to his mind was the invader's dragonfly fighter.

Thinking of the lethality of that thing, his scalp went numb.

It was really a mess.

This time, the compound eyes used a big trick and took out the thing at the bottom of the box.

Let the people of the 26th century face the dragonfly fighter?

Is it possible to win the battle?

No!

Just a dragonfly fighter is enough to completely destroy the entire human civilization of the 26th century!

The technological gap between the two sides is too big, and no weapons of mankind at that time could cause any damage to the dragonfly fighter.

Perhaps a dragonfly fighter cannot destroy the entire civilization in an instant, but in the closed solar system, it can be like a deadly god of death, sweeping and harvesting one city, one region, and one planet at a time.

Given a few decades, the dragonfly fighter can kill 37 billion people one by one.

There is nowhere to escape, and everyone can only be killed.

Chen Feng continued to watch, and heaved a sigh of relief.

After all, it is a secondary transformation based on the original animals on Earth. There will be some improvements, but the potential is not enough to support the height of the dragonfly fighter.

However, this still cannot be underestimated.

Extinct animals are both intelligent and have incredible biological weapon structures. Needless to say, their lethality to humans is self-evident.

What is even more insidious is that this time the invaders still used the idea of ​​lurking and bursting, and deliberately controlled the time node of the Z bacteria outbreak.

At first, the animals infiltrated by the Z bacteria did not show obvious changes in appearance, and their temperament did not change much. They just quietly expanded their range of activities and spread the bacteria silently.

This lurking is extremely covert and insidious.

The Z bacteria disguised itself as a completely harmless ordinary bacteria.

Even if biologists discovered the clues, they did not realize its danger and only regarded it as a new species that evolved naturally in the biological world.

This disguise is not difficult. As long as the genetic information of the Z bacteria deliberately controls the population size within the single body and does not exceed 10,000, it will not show any intelligent characteristics.

With human biological knowledge, almost no one could imagine that there really is a certain kind of bacteria in the universe that can suddenly develop collective intelligence after reaching a population of 10,000, and can even support a huge population of 20 billion, forming a complete intelligence that is not inferior to humans?

Super biologist Lai Wenming discovered the existence of Z bacteria in a dragonfly as early as 2546, but even he did not realize it.

He deliberately cultivated a small group of Z bacteria with a total volume of 10 billion.

But Lai Wenming was also fooled by the "acting crazy and acting stupid" of the Z bacteria.

Fourteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.