"Those beetle and mushroom people were lucky. In the foreseen future, they were unfortunately chosen by the Twelve as experimental subjects and died a few years earlier, but the reward they received was that they escaped in reality and were able to live for tens of thousands of years longer."
"Hmm... but those Three Realms Beetles that escaped the world earlier don't seem to be so lucky."
"They left the world simply to live longer, but ended up worse off than those who stayed on the original continent."
"Isn't this a kind of karmic retribution?"
"Now, let me savor this long-awaited blissful life!"
You lock onto a human-inhabited planet hundreds of light-years away and fly towards it.
[...]
This is a futuristic, technologically advanced planet.
It can no longer even be called a planet, but a gigantic, drastically altered machine creation.
Millions of years ago, this planet was a "yellow planet" where 94% of its surface was land, and the earth was covered in yellow sand.
However, the planet's surface is now largely encased in a steel outer layer, and its thrusters, thousands of meters in diameter, spew psionic tails millions of miles long, maintaining a speed that pushes it outwards at the limits of its current size.
This is a "yellow star in flight."
"..."
"Even though all four characters have been changed, I still know who you copied."
Humanity on the yellow planet is desperately trying to escape the encroaching cosmic membrane.
They have been on the run for millions of years.
"For the glory of humanity!"
"For the survival of humanity!"
"We must keep moving forward, keep escaping, until the very end of this universe!"
"The end of the universe?"
Tens of kilometers below that layer of steel on the Earth's surface lies human habitation.
You arrive outside a classroom that resembles an elementary school. A man who appears to be a teacher is lecturing on a platform, while a group of children aged seven or eight are quietly listening attentively.
Their technology is already capable of online teaching, robot-assisted teaching, brain implantation of memory chips, and even customized learning programs in virtual spaces, yet they still use this primitive and ancient classroom method.
[It's about making humanity more united and cultivating a corresponding consciousness... Those who understand, understand; those who don't, I won't explain further, but that's the gist of it.]
[You don't understand the languages and writing systems of the people on this planet. No matter how high your comprehension, without sufficient information, it's impossible to learn a language through brief contact. That's pure nonsense.]
"But you can use your mental power to instantly cover the entire planet, directly obtain a large amount of information, and learn it in a second—without needing to spend any more time in the future."
[You approached the situation with a playful attitude, standing outside the classroom, and began communicating with a seven or eight-year-old boy through a form of spiritual connection.]
"Hey, kid."
"Hmm?" The boy blinked. He thought he had just been hallucinating—no, he was hallucinating!
Even though he couldn't hear anything, he still felt someone calling his name in his mind, as if they were communicating with him through an information tower implanted in his brain.
"They really do have chips in their brains."
It's as if... he developed a second personality!
【"Who are you?"】
"I'm a super handsome guy from another star."
"You're lying! I haven't even seen your face, how would I know you're handsome?"
You simply projected your own face onto the surface.
[Boy: "Just average, I feel like they're not as good as me."]
"That's because your aesthetic sense is flawed!" you snapped angrily.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore." A slightly mischievous thought suddenly came to the boy's mind.
[He seemed to have your secret firmly in his grasp, chuckling as he spoke to you in your mind: "Stop pretending, hacker uncle, I've memorized your face. If I expose your secrets, you're dead!"]
【you:"???"】
"You wouldn't believe it! Right now, the information tower in my brain is locked into a child-like time frame, making it impossible for me to communicate with anyone."
"Hmph, you pretended to randomly input a signal to connect with me, trying to scam me out of my credit points, but you actually exposed your hacking skills. Do you know what happens to hackers when they're exposed these days?"
He laughed arrogantly: "Death penalty!"
"No, if he really were a hacker, wouldn't he know this if he hacked your child lock to communicate with you?"
You paused for a moment, sensing that the child's thinking was somewhat confused and contradictory, but having not interacted with a real person in years, you still went along with him, asking in alarm, "Then what do you want?"
"Simply transfer 200 credits to me using your hacking skills! Otherwise, I'll report you!"
"Sure enough, little boys in this age group are the most deserving of a beating."
[You slap him on the butt from a distance, making him, who was pretending to be listening attentively in class, jump up with a yelp.]
[Afterwards, he was severely criticized by his teacher in class, shouting that a hacker had controlled his body and manipulated his nerves, but no one believed him; instead, they thought he was just acting on his own.]
You originally planned to learn a little about the local situation through that boy, and quickly learn the language and writing through a spiritual connection, and then give him a chance or something afterward.
[Actually, I just wanted to offer a chance, to pick a lucky person and help them rise to the top in one step.]
[It turns out this brat was truly ignorant of his own limitations; at such a young age, his main trait was arrogance. This made you abandon that idea and find a place to learn about the local situation yourself.]
[Soon, you find the character and language databases, quickly learn them, and then find historical records to understand the past of this planet.]
You have found a draft of an escape plan dating back a million years.
Your complexion is gradually changing.
It seems... to be different from what you guessed when you first came out.
Millions of years ago, humanity on this planet entered the "near-space" era, capable of establishing space stations near the planet and exploring the cosmos from their home planet.
[It was around that time that they observed the expansion of the distant universe slowing down.]
They predicted using mathematical methods that the expansion of the universe will reach a limit in about 100,000 years.
At that time, there will definitely be completely new changes!
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