It was a sign of temptation and crisis.
To be honest, today’s human beings were really eager for a safe place to develop steadily.
So at this moment, Chase Lu, Dasin Ding, and other scientists were full of expectation and worry.
“It can be assumed that their intelligent signal only has the ability to send and translate. It cannot automatically obtain control authority…”
A linguist suddenly said.
“The matter of putting it into the central computer will be discussed later. Without absolute assurance, we must not take risks.” Chase immediately shook his head and denied the linguist’s proposal.
It was a matter of life and death for 200000 humans and a million dwarfs. Of course, he couldn’t take that risk.
“Let’s assume that this message is true.
So, four keywords are mentioned: The Cleaners, The Devils, The Guardians, Safe Zone.
On the whole, it seems that a kind of existence called ‘The Guardians’ has constructed an area called ‘Safe Zone’ to resist ‘The Cleaners’ and ‘The Devils’.
In addition, the word ‘The League’ is added before ‘The Guardian’… ”
Dasin analyzed.
“First of all, let’s talk about the so-called ‘The League’. Is it even possible that there’s a league in the dark universe?” Chase nodded.
Then he lost in thought.
He had always believed that the dark forest theory must be followed in this dark universe. The so-called ‘The League’ was supposed to be bullshit.
Dasin nodded, “Since it is a league, it must be composed of two or more civilizations. Just like us and dwarfs, which is possible to coexist peacefully.
There was also the possibility that these civilizations had been in contact with each other since they did not know the dark forest theory in the first place.
Then, after many years of co-existence, they had been integrated with each other and could no longer be separated. Then it was possible to form a league.”
Chase shook his head, “What you said is reasonable.
But the odds are still tiny.
Moreover, even if there is such a possibility, it is only suitable for a very small number of civilizations to form a league.
In this message, since there is the saying of “The League of the Guardians, The Group in the Third Space Field”, then this kind of possibility can be basically ignored.”
Chase was as cautious as ever.
However, Dasin and others nodded and felt that what Chase said was also reasonable.
“The second possibility is to have an extremely powerful civilization as the leader and contact many weak civilizations to form a league.
Under the suppression of powerful civilization, the dark forest theory will be temporarily invalid.
But why did this powerful civilization do so?
Didn’t they know that the elimination of these many small and weak civilizations will make them get more benefits? Maybe it’s pure kindness or moral sense? ”
Chase asked
“You’ve got to be kidding. It’s almost impossible.”
Chase shook his head and directly denied Dasin’s hypothesis.
“Since the idea of ‘The League’ is basically untrustworthy, what is the authenticity of this piece of message?”
Chase looked at scientists.
“According to the Convention, to deceive people, there must be true and false information at the same time in the message in order to make people fear and be cheated.
So the Cleaners and the Devils seem to be true.
I just don’t know what kind of existence these two nouns represent.
The Cleaners may be the one who destroyed Planet B, and what is the Devils? ”
Facing the terrifying unknown, Chase was worried.
“Well, you’re right.”
Dasin nodded, “The universe is so big that what we don’t know is beyond our imagination.
Perhaps, with our current level of technology, it is ridiculous to speculate on such existence.”
“Yes, it would be great if there was really a safe zone that would allow us to develop science and technology at ease.”
A linguist exclaimed.
Chase and others all nodded, which was really what they expected most.
“Let’s put it on hold.”
Chase looked at the message on the screen again and said, “At least the universe we see is dark.
So we have to see everything in a dark way.
Relying on ourselves is always better than relying on others.
Besides, we are not so unlucky that we would meet the Cleaners and the Devils on the way to Epsilon Eridani.
Now we are less than a light-year away from Epsilon Eridani, less than a year’s journey. Let’s go to Epsilon Eridani first.”
Chase thought about it for a moment, but finally, he deleted the message. Then, without any hesitation, he accelerated all the way to Epsilon Eridani.
Although it was said in this message that it contained the manufacturing method of primary over-distance communication instruments, Chase and others did not believe that they could obtain these technologies without being destroyed.
In order to get the manufacturing method of an over-distance communication instrument, they must put this code into the central computer and let it run automatically.
However, Chase and other scientists were unable to determine whether the message contained malicious code.
“Do not bring unnecessary danger to yourself because of greed.”
Chase thought firmly.
Eight months of sailing time was a blink compared to cosmic time.
But for humans, it was incomparably long.
Fortunately, it was still safe.
During this long journey, Chase and others finally saw for the first time the matter other than their own human fleet.
It was a large meteorite directly about 30 meters long, with a total mass of about 10000 tons. It was mainly composed of dry ice and iron.
Here, it was the Oort of Epsilon Eridani and the boundary of Epsilon Eridani’s territory.
The Hope Fleet would really enter the Epsilon Eridani region after passing through this area.
Because its mass and age were much smaller than that of the Sun, the material in the Oort of Epsilon Eridani was only 0. 6 light-years away from the main fixed star, almost half of the distance from Oort to the Sun.
Of course, at this distance, her brightness was no different from that of other fixed stars. It was still just a bright spot without seeing any details.
At the moment of seeing this meteorite, Chase felt like crying.
After several years of the long journey, he had no way to tell anyone about his loneliness.
Even his wife, or Reba Chan, who was about to marry him, he didn’t tell them too much.