The matter of the survivors seems to be over for now.

They hid in their independent dimension and would not make any moves until their queen woke up.

But others don't know this.

The survivors cannot disappear without reason.

So Chen Ming had to go and explain to the Minister of Psychic Power what had just happened.

After returning to the Gaia galaxy, Chen Ming went directly to the urban planet and found the Minister of Psionic Power.

The Minister of Psychic Powers was currently in the Governor's Office in the Governor's Mansion, flipping through various documents.

Seeing Chen Ming walk into the office, he immediately put down the documents and asked, "Is it solved?"

"Solved."

"What's the result?"

"Not all the people have died yet. They have hidden them, but we have taken what we needed."

"From today on, all the technologies of the Shining Civilization belong to us humans. I will organize them and share them all in the future."

The Minister of Psychic Powers restrained his usual slightly intimate attitude towards Chen Ming, and bowed slightly to Chen Ming solemnly.

However, Chen Ming just stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Spread it to the empire as soon as possible. The mechanical tribe will not give us too much time."

"The super body is here, and the fleet behind it must be coming soon."

"I know."

"Well, also, didn't you ask me to take care of the cultural center before? Now there is a result."

“So soon?”

"Yes, the reason is very simple. You will know it if you listen to me."

Chen Ming took out the historical document that he had found in the History Office of the Governor-General's Office and took it to decipher, put the deciphered content on the terminal and displayed it.

Before, Chen Ming had not shown the Minister of Psychic Powers any documents, including this one, that he had obtained through psychic repair.

Because those documents allow the survivors to see the special effects of his psychic powers.

But now all the survivors have fled.

The file has been deciphered.

Plus there’s the communication with Nano and the situation in those ruins.

Chen Ming can completely explain the history of the survivors to the Minister of Psychic Powers through this document.

"Have you seen it?"

“I have.”

"What did you say specifically?"

"It's quite interesting. You'd better see it for yourself."

Seeing that Chen Ming was trying to keep things in suspense, the Minister of Psychic Powers simply lowered his head to look at the file on the terminal that Chen Ming had placed in front of him.

The content of this document is not a very written record of historical facts, but a diary-like log written by someone personally.

[June 57, 7178 Shining Year, three years have passed since the war began.]

[I was assigned to compile and revise the historical log to ensure that even if we perish, our history will still be passed on.]

[What are you saying? I'm just a small border clerk. How dare you ask me to do this kind of thing? Don't we have anyone else available? ]

There is a lot of information hidden in just the first paragraph.

The "year" unit of the Shining Civilization is about 1.15 times longer than that of human beings, because the orbital period of their parent star is 1.15 times longer than that of the Earth.

The parent star has a satellite with an orbital period of 60 days, so their year is 420 days, a month is 60 days, and a year is seven months, so the rotation period is almost the same.

This means that the Shining Civilization and human civilization actually have relatively similar calendars in terms of foundation.

The three years of the Shining Civilization are about 1,260 days.

"It is obviously unusual that it took so long for a clerk to record history before the war began."

"Either no one in the entire Glittering Civilization has done this before, or the people who did this have all died and the records have all been lost, so we need to start recording again."

When the Minister of Psychic Energy heard Chen Ming's words, he immediately said, "You don't need to think about it to know what's going on, right?"

"I thought so too. Besides, the historical records written down by the clerk should have been lost as well. Otherwise, there would be no reason to use his records, which can be regarded as a diary, as a historical document."

This also shows how serious the crisis that the Shining Civilization is facing is.

"He said he was a clerk in the border star region, right?"

Without waiting for Chen Ming to respond, the minister continued, "It's only when problems arise in the core areas that it's his turn to do this."

"But I have never seen a war of foreign invasion in history that started from the core area."

"The Shining Civilization is not facing an external enemy, but an internal rebellion."

"right."

Chen Ming responded simply and motioned for the minister to continue reading.

[July 23, 7178 Shining Year. I still don’t have much information, but from what the team leader and the department head talked about, the situation on the front line is really terrible.]

[More than 50% of the entire Shining Star Region has been occupied by the enemy. They were still discussing the enemy-occupied areas, but I was discovered and driven away before I could finish listening.]

[It seems that the higher-ups are hiding a lot of things from people like us at the bottom. I still can’t even determine how many enemies there are on the front line.]

[It will definitely not be less. 】

This blog post is written more than thirty days after the previous one.

In fact, there are some records during this period, but they are all daily nonsense and complaints.

Complain about God, complain about superiors, complain about the mechanical people, and complain about why he took this job.

However, there seems to be no complaints about his own life between the lines.

These complaint logs were semi-hidden records in the files of the Shining Civilization, so Chen Ming simply skipped them and turned directly to the records where the clerk talked about things related to the war.

"In three years, half of the Shining Civilization has been occupied. The scale of this rebellion is quite large."

The Minister of Psychic Powers said this and continued reading.

[On February 2, 7179 of the Shining Year, we were attacked.]

[I originally thought that the war was still far away from me, but I didn’t expect it to come so soon. ]

[The team leader is dead. His death was ugly. He dragged half of his body and told us to take shelter underground.]

[The minister was disabled, and was dragged underground by me and another clerk, barely surviving.]

[It seems like everyone else is dead.]

[After all, the entire building collapsed, and we four were lucky enough to be outside and not buried directly. We were able to take the opportunity to escape.]

[At this time, there is only one question in my mind: where is the queen? ]

“The clerk must have been in a safe place at the beginning. Although he may have moved to a new place, he must have been near the border.

"It's only been over four months and it's already affected him. The enemies of the Shining Civilization are progressing quite fast."

"By the way, where is the Queen of the Shining Civilization?"

Chen Ming still did not answer the question, but just said: "You will know if you read on."

[April 44, 7179 in the Shining Year. My injuries have healed. I only realized how troublesome this job is when I actually started working for it.]

[I was only doing minor work before, but the team leader died, so I became the team leader. I was exposed to a lot of information that I had never been exposed to before, and I also had to bear a lot of responsibilities that I didn’t need to bear before.]

[In the first few days when I started to be a team leader, I saw information that I had never seen before, which really completed the nightmare I had in my life. 】

[I am really tired, but there is no other way. ]

【The enemy has penetrated every aspect of our lives, which makes this war difficult to handle from the root.】

[And their methods are extremely cruel. I really can't understand why they do this. ]

[Who else can I ask? I can only forget about these things by immersing myself in work.]

The Minister of Psychic Powers already had some suspicions at this point, but he wasn't sure yet.

[On June 33, 7179 in the Shining Chronicle, the Minister died. As a result of the last incident, a new Minister came and I became the Deputy Minister.]

[Promotions are so fast during wartime, but I am not happy at all.]

[Not only because of the risk of death, but also because of the news about the Queen. 】

[The Queen said she was going to sleep and would no longer be able to take care of the empire.]

[At this time, the Queen...]

【I really want to say something, but I dare not. 】

"Hibernation? Only the strongest psyker of the Glittering Civilization can be the ruler, right? How can she, the strongest psyker, hibernate at this time?"

"And got yourself crippled fighting their enemies?"

Chen Ming spread his hands and said, "As far as I know, the Queen of the Shining Civilization seems to have never appeared on the battlefield, and no one knows the reason for her hibernation."

"What..."

[January 1, 7180 of the Shining Era, the new year, the Queen is confirmed to be missing, but a successor to the Queen has emerged, and the remaining resistance forces are under his leadership.]

【He said he found a powerful way to deal with this war. 】

[I am not a psychic, so I don’t know if what he said is true or not. I hope it is true.]

[At least in this way, our historical records will not simply show that we were beaten one-sidedly, but at least we can resist a little.]

The minister quickly skipped over this record and looked at the next one.

[January 3, 7180 of the Shining Year, the Queen's successor is truly capable! ]

[He really succeeded in curbing the enemy's attack. A large amount of flesh and blood appeared out of thin air on the body of each enemy. Although it was disgusting, it was effective.]

[This means that the main weapon we are currently using is not very suitable for use on the battlefield, and we don’t know if the successor can handle it alone. ]

[Others seemed to have known about this power for a long time. They were not surprised, but worried.]

"Is this the Scarlet Power?"

"Yes, only Scarlet's power can achieve such an effect."

"But I heard that the Shining Civilization is very resistant to the Scarlet Power."

"Who told you that?"

"Brainwashed psyker."

“…”

The minister seemed to have anticipated something when he heard this.

[On February 12, 7180 of the Shining Year, the situation is improving.]

[On April 9, 7180 of the Shining Era, the successor never returned in the process of acquiring stronger power, and the base that had been recaptured was once again occupied by the mechanical tribe.]

[The Mechanic tribe abandoned that place soon after, but none of the troops we sent to reoccupy that place returned alive.]

[Several teams went over there but there was no response. Later I heard that the situation over there was just a blood-red color when they scanned it from a distance.]

[No one paid attention to it anymore after that. No one wanted to know what happened there.]

The Psychic Minister's expression became more serious, and he said, "Dimensional infection."

"Um."

As the successor of the Shining Civilization at that time, this Queen should be the strongest psychic besides the Queen. Of course, it is impossible for her to watch the Shining Civilization decline.

He could only choose to use the most extreme means to save Shining.

Rely on scarlet, master scarlet.

But Scarlet's power is extremely dangerous, even Chen Ming almost died from it several times.

This psychic was either killed by the Crimson or encountered a Crimson creature belonging to him. In any case, he died in the Crimson Dimension.

The remaining scarlet will naturally be left unattended and will of course expand naturally.

The final outcome... who knows what it will be like.

At least the normal universe has not been destroyed yet, which means that the scarlets have been dealt with after all.

[June 11, 7180 of the Shining Era. I am no longer just the Minister of the Ministry of History and Culture. The entire Ministry of Culture... should now be called the Ministry of Civilization.]

[The people in the Civilization Department have been replaced in batches, and they have fled with the main force time and time again. I don't know how many people have died. Now I am the one with the longest seniority here.]

[But it doesn't matter. The product we designed has sent us into the abyss. ]

[The empress and the empire are a thing of the past. Civilization has completely collapsed. We must find another way out.]

"Sure enough... they are the mechanical race."

Chen Ming confirmed: "The mechanical race of the Shining Civilization is very advanced. Almost all of the Shining Civilization's territories have mechanical races, spread across different places."

"The rebellion will happen suddenly, and of course the final scale will be huge. The machine race will send their creator to hell."

"If Yu Hui had not betrayed us but had endured it, we would probably have had the same ending."

"Remember what I said just now, that the Crimson Power prevented the Shining from using weapons? Their biological weapons are actually the Thorn Zerg."

"Is there such a thing?"

“That’s the kind of thing that happens.”

[On June 13, 7180 of the Shining Era, the entire team was semi-paralyzed for a few days. I finally had two days of free time and went to check historical documents.]

[A wormhole leading to a distant star region,]

[The war started when we were halfway through development preparations. There might be an opportunity there.]

[I have reported this news to those responsible for the war, and there should be a response tomorrow.]

[On June 14, 7180 of the Shining Year, the report I submitted gave many people renewed motivation, and they all checked the history of their respective departments.]

[Although our military strength is almost complete, we have also discovered a guardian plan for the early stages of the war. Although it has not been implemented, perhaps we can try it. ]

"Leviathan?"

"right."

[July 29, 7180 of the Shining Year. Many people were sacrificed, but it was worth it.]

[We have the power to temporarily contend with the enemy. We gathered the fleet and evacuated the last piece of homeland, passed through the wormhole, and came to a new world.]

【The population statistics show that there are only a few billion people left. 】

[From trillions to billions...]

[On February 45, 7181 of the Shining Era, the enemy also discovered the wormhole. This was expected, but we no longer have the power to fight them.]

[The Guardians have suffered heavy losses during our evacuation.]

Someone came up with an idea that we might be able to give a try.

[On June 6, 7181 in the Shining Year, the experiment of transforming a star into a black hole and inducing the emergence of black hole creatures was successful. This is good news. We no longer have to risk our lives to protect the wormhole.]

But there is bad news.

There is a problem with our reproductive capacity.

[It is not a sequelae of war, but a special genetic virus. ]

[There is not a single person among the remaining billion people who has not been infected by the virus.]

[The Queen's successor has warned us before that we must not use cloning technology to expand the population.]

【We have worked so hard for so long, is this the end? 】

After this log was finished, there was no new log for quite a long time.

Until five years later.

[On January 1, 7186 in the Shining Era, we made a great decision. ]

[We have decided to record everyone's consciousness and upload it to the Internet, and at the same time provide all citizens with a nanomechanical body.]

[We finally decided to do this after a long discussion and technical research.]

【This is the most efficient way for us to continue to exist.】

The minister's expression suddenly changed, and he asked, "Did you tell me before that the city planet was originally full of broken nanorobots that looked like sand?"

"right."

"That……"

"Just as you thought."

Some of those yellow sand-like nanorobots are the nanorobots that make up the urban planet.

But there may also be countless corpses of people from the Shining Civilization inside.

"this……"

"It was pretty scary when I first found out, but it's nothing. I can't even repair my psychic powers. Those people from the Shining Civilization are completely dead. The most I did was just recycle some materials."

"Um……"

[March 13, 7187 Shining Year, after 553 days, everyone's consciousness has been successfully uploaded, and we have completely entered the era of nanotechnology.]

[Our ideal city has also begun construction. We want to build a planet that contains everything that shines. ]

[Its official scientific name is Urban Planet, but we all like to call it Utopia. ]

[He is the spark of hope for the shining civilization to regain its vitality. It is not the shining civilization of the Queen, but the shining civilization of us survivors.]

In between, there is another long blank.

This time it was not because the clerk was being chased around by the mechanical race, but because as one of the current top leaders of the Shining Civilization, he really had no free time to record these things.

[May 23, 7196 Shining Year, "Integrating the world into one city, and building a city for the world."]

After nine years, the construction of Ideal City was completed.

But just after this record of the completion of the construction of Ideal City.

The log suddenly stopped.

Only the last sentence was recorded on it.

【traitor.】

The log ends here, but the history of the Shining Civilization does not end here.

It is obvious that the situation is clear. The survivors are the traitors of the survivors of the Shining Civilization.

The survivors are exactly the means left behind by the Queen.

Not all the survivors died. Some of them still escaped from the Ideal City and went to the place where Chen Ming discovered the Shining Cultural Memorial Hall and built that building.

This is the past of the Shining Civilization.

History is being rediscovered today.

The Shining Civilization can be said to have been destroyed by the double disasters of the Scarlet Invasion and the Mechanical Rebellion.

Scarlet, Chen Ming can now suppress it, although he cannot deal with it completely, but as long as he is alive and exists in the empire, Scarlet will never invade the empire.

But the mechanical race...

That is indeed a huge trouble.

Moreover, the Empire has to face one more survivor who can now be called a natural disaster.

Although Chen Ming had spoken quite arrogantly before, he knew that the queen's power was indeed extremely strong.

He must be prepared to deal with it.

In the entire empire, he is probably the only one who can compete with the Queen.

After letting the minister digest it for a while, Chen Ming suggested: "Let's go back first."

"Although the space station was taken away by them, it is equivalent to leaving the space station behind if he is here. We can find someone to record the necessary information later."

The minister asked in confusion, "Who?"

Many nanorobots appeared around Chen Ming and gathered together to form a human-shaped structure.

"Nano, the one the survivor talked to us about."

“…”

"But this nanometer is only half. The other half of the nanometer is still with the survivors."

"But they don't know what I did yet, so they will definitely continue to hide."

The minister nodded: "It seems that the matter of the survivors can come to an end."

A few hours later.

Planet Gaia, Gaia orbital space station.

There was a young man who was sitting on the sofa in Tian Zhan's office, shivering anxiously, looking outside the office from time to time with an extremely nervous expression.

At this moment, Lao Yao, who was assigned by Chen Ming to pay more attention to Tian Zhan's health some time ago, ran in and asked Tian Zhan behind the desk: "Lao Tian, ​​don't you want to go and take a look?"

As he spoke, he pointed outside, where a group of people gathered at the edge of the space station, observing the urban planet that appeared near the orbit of Gaia through the portholes of the space station.

Tian Zhan shook his head and said, "I've seen it. It's quite shocking."

"Yeah, a ball suddenly appeared for no apparent reason a few hours ago. Anyone who saw it would be confused. And it wasn't just the ball, there were also the corpses of the Leviathans."

"Director Wang next door opened a bet. He bet that the director killed a few Leviathans in a place where we can't see them, and when the space station for those Leviathans will be built. Are you interested?"

Tian Zhan shook his head again and said, "No, I have to pick up my daughter from school later."

"Oh, just for fun. I saw he had set up more than a hundred of them, so I threw five dollars in for fun."

The young man next to him suddenly plucked up the courage to ask, "Um...Team Leader Tian...Aren't you afraid?"

"There's nothing to be afraid of."

"The canopy outside has been removed, which means the matter is over."

Old Yao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Yes, yes, young people are not very brave. You need to go out more and see more."

Tian Zhan suddenly raised his hand to signal Lao Yao to check the volume, and then picked up the phone.

The call came from his men who were sent out to search for plants in other galaxies.

"Team Leader Tian, ​​help! Our spaceship was shot down and the space station was bombed. Only the shelter is safe, but it won't be safe for long."

"What's going on?"

"It's the mechanical race."

(End of this chapter)