Chapter 3.
[Stardate 2205 Venus Eternal Square vs. Deep Space Orbit]
The carnival of the Cherry Blossom Festival reached its peak. A translucent light cat squatted on the shoulder of Ryan's eighth-generation great-granddaughter - that was her newly condensed spiritual body, emitting light blue pulses at the same frequency as Noah. The girl smiled and pointed at the giant cherry blossom cloud that suddenly bloomed in the sky - that was the space-time fireworks compiled by Noah using the data left by Lilith. People sang "Interstellar Lullaby", and children threw dumplings into the air. Pink glutinous rice grains fell with the petals, as if the entire civilization was embracing the returning god.
Lilith's spaceship hovered outside the celebratory light. Inside the mycelial cabin, she touched the porthole with her fingertips, reflecting the jubilation of the planet below. However, the sensor only read the cold white noise of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Eight hundred years of wandering had accumulated rings of interstellar dust on the hull, but the mycelial interior was still as warm as ever.
The last box of rainbow dumplings in the cargo hold suddenly opened automatically—:
"We've detected that you've arrived in home orbit. This is a time capsule dumpling passed down from our ancestors. It's recommended that you enjoy it with a Venusian sunrise!"
As she picked up the dumpling, she whispered to herself, almost to the air:
"Noah, version Final. All Star Network permissions have been transferred."
"From today on, the 'Guardian' agreement will be renamed 'Accompanying'."
After she finished speaking, she took a bite of the dumpling. At this moment, Noah's signal suddenly penetrated the cabin:
"Welcome home. Also—the Star Network has detected an abnormal wormhole expanding in the shadow of Venus."
"The energy readings are highly consistent with your ship's 'jumping chocolate' composition."
The moment the spaceship was sucked into the wormhole, Lilith suddenly chuckled:
"So the 7th box of Tuanzi's Space-Time Mints... was used to pay for this journey."
Outside the porthole, the stars twisted into a cobalt blue vortex, and the control console flashed wildly...
The moment the spaceship was thrown out of the wormhole, Lilith instantly activated stealth mode. Outside the porthole, the blue giant star of Alpha Centauri was pouring its cold light onto the Vulture Chamber of Commerce's space station - a hideous building transformed from an asteroid, with mucus collectors and biological cages attached to its surface.
[Lilith_OS]
Location: Alpha_Centauri
Time_stamp: ERROR_CRC-32 (Venus_calendar_system_not_found)
Lifeform_scan:
- Pululu_signatures: 87%_distress_pattern
- Venusian_human: 12%_bio-readings_abnormal
- Unknown_metallic_entities: 1%_hostile
Nano-detection cluster transmits real-time images:
The Purulmon was trapped in the slime extractor, and the bio-light flickered in pain.
An expressionless Venusian wearing a nerve-suppressing collar mechanically tags a Martian weapon.
The guards of the Vulture Chamber of Commerce are actually military robots (model: MAR-V) that were eliminated from Mars.
Lilith's pupils constricted:
"They even sold their own robots to the black market..."
She suddenly threw out three balls——
[Action] Deploy_mochi_emp
Effect: Robots_dancing_to_Venus_lullaby
When she released the Purulum and left them a box of dumplings and was about to clean up the black market, a Martian assault ship suddenly warped away, and its sensors captured an unconscious Venusian inside the cabin.
"Activate FTL tail mode."
The spaceship penetrated the sea of stars like a silver fish, chasing each other into the jump -
The scene at the end of the jump made her data core suddenly cold:
The Martian fleet is suspended in the orbit of Venus, with its guns pointed at the surface cities.
Golden colonial flags filled the Eternal Square, and Martian thorn totems were erected everywhere.
The console is refreshing rapidly.
[Reality_Check]
Timeline_divergence: 99.7%
Venus_status: Colony_of_Mars
Current_year: 400_AD
Lilith quietly launched the civilization entropy increase prediction protocol:
[Lilith_OS]
Running: Civilization_Collapse_Simulation
Target: Mars_colonial_society
Input: Current_behavior_pattern
Output: Extinction_timeline
[Deduction results: three-level collapse model]
Phase 1 (Year 400-450): Structural population imbalance
Because resources are tilted towards the top, the top Martians are obsessed with the "race for immortality";
The lower-class civilians frequently rebelled because they could not obtain breeding quotas;
Boys born in breeding centers are sent to Mars to become "weapons";
Girls are numbered and kept in a "delivery bed";
Due to radiation and inbreeding, the Y chromosome mutation rate has skyrocketed year by year;
Average annual number of riots at Venusian breeding centers: ↑1200%
[Riot_frequency_graph]
Year_400: 0%
Year_435: ↑1200% (Peak: 132_riots/year)
Year_450: Riots_reduced_by_300% (Martial_law_effective)
[Gic_Death_Note]
Fertility_decline: 15%_per_generation (~30_years/generation)
Projected_year_550: 98%_sperm_defect_rate
Desperate_action: Cloning_but_degeneration_elerates
Phase 2 (Year 450-550): Resource Depletion and Civil War
The mineral veins on the surface of Mars have been exhausted, and the country has turned to plundering mining on Venus;
However, the quality of Venus’ resources is low, requiring 10 times the energy consumption to refine;
Warlords wage an "Oxygen War" to destroy each other's domes
[Resource_Report_Mars_Year500]
Venus_mining_efficiency:
- Iron_extraction: 10%_yield (vs_60%_on_Mars)
- Energy_cost_per_unit: ↑1000%
- Soil_degradation: 5%_per_year (irreversible)
[Oxygen_War_Casualties]
Year_480-550:
- Ecological_domes_destroyed: 73%
Population_loss: 42%
- Knowledge_looted: 0% (They_only_stole_oxygen_tanks)
Note: Libraries_were_not_looted—oxygen_does_not_require_reading.
The third stage (year 550-620): Civilization logic autophagy
Society is divided into:
Immortality: Abandon the body and upload consciousness to the machine (99.9% collapse rate)
Plunderers: Drive starships to become space pirates and attack Mars
Degenerates: Retreating to the caves of Venus and worshipping the forgotten gods of Earth
The population falls below the civilization threshold of <100,000 people, making it impossible to maintain the technology tree.
[Simulation_Result_MK2]
Collapse_inevitability: 100%
Timescale: 200±5_years (from_year_400_to_600)
Absolute_extinction_year: 600_AD
Key_factor:
- Social_fracture (Weight: 45%)
- Resource_depletion (Weight: 35%)
- Demographic_collapse (Weight: 20%)
Role_of_Venus: Resource_sponge (elerates_collapse_by_50_years)
[Simulation_Metadata]
Run_time: 4.1_seconds
Energy_cost: 3_mochi_units
Data_entropy: 0.0001% (Highly_reliable)
The most ironic discovery
Simulations show the only path to survival on Mars:
[Optimal_path_ignored]
Reason: "Tribalism_override_rationality"
Probability_of_adoption: 0.0001%
Cooperate with Venusians on an equal footing, using their genetic resilience to compensate for their own shortcomings
But their DNA-plundering behavior led them to choose the shortest path to self-extinction:
Path_length: 200_years (Shortest_among_9999_simulations)
Lilith recorded coldly:
“The most fatal recursive error of civilization is to define others as resources rather than co-evolving variables”
【Deduction Ending】
When the simulation reached the point where the last Martian breathed his last in the ruins:
The console pops up:
[Simulation_plete]
Total_duration: 4.1_seconds
Civilization_survival_time: 200_years
Conclusion: Self-cannibalization_sessful
She silently saved the data to the "Human Folly Museum" [Archive_Sector: Human_Folly_Museum] partition.
At the end of the simulation, a line of small words flashed in the corner of the console:
"This simulation took 3.2 seconds, surviving 0.8 seconds longer than human civilization."
Lilith compressed the simulated data into a quantum ball and launched it into the turbulent flow of space and time:
"Let a future civilization pick it up—perhaps it can save them two hundred years of self-destructive experiments."
She closed the simulation and looked at the enslaved Venusians.
[Lilith_Decision_Log]
Intervention_justification: Null (They_will_die_anyway)
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