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Chapter 1229 Listening to the voices from light years away

The quiet night sky envelopes the world like a giant screen. Even though the brilliant artificial lights on the earth make the twinkling stars look a little dimmer than before, the cold starlight itself will not care about the lights on the earth. They will quietly overlook all living beings, and watch in the vast and dark space one world after another where civilizations may have reproduction.

What is happening on those distant planets at this moment? I'm afraid the best playwrights can't outline even if they exhaust their imagination.

However, some information that is faster than light can bring greetings 6.12 light years away, allowing those who are looking up at the stars to know that there is also a vibrant world in the distance.

Tyr raised his neck and stared quietly at the twinkling starlight. The dim silver light shone on her beautiful and delicate scales, making the sirens feel a lot more elegant and quiet out of thin air. Gao Wen rarely understands what this deep-sea creature who sleeps most of the time is thinking, especially at this moment.

"What are you thinking?" He couldn't help but break the silence.

"What a beautiful starry sky... the once strange scenery looks quite familiar now," Tyr said softly, "We have been watching this starry sky for millions of years. How many civilizations have died under our gaze in these millions of years?"

"… On the scale of light years, the demise of civilization is not as good as the flash of stars. I think it doesn't make much sense to discuss this topic before we master the ability to travel in the sea of ​​stars."

"That's right," Tyre smiled, "we should think about something more practical."

"When it comes to something more practical, I suddenly had an idea about the sender of "Cangxing"," Gao Wen's mind flew around, and new guesses gradually took shape, "You said... do they not really master super-light speed communication technology?"

"Oh?" Tyr raised his eyebrows, with a puzzled tone, "Are you suspecting that our communications technology experts have made a mistake? Is it wrong to identify ordinary signals for super-light communication?"

"No, I believe your experts. I just suspect that the sender of Cangxing is not as 'clever' as we imagined,'" Gao Wen shook his head and said his guess. "The reason why they use super-light communication to send such a simple and primitive signal format is perhaps not that they have any clever and long-term plans, but because... they can only send those things."

Tyre frowned: "You mean..."

"I'm not sure which 'level' thing' of superluminal communication belongs to in the entire aerospace technology, but I guess this level is definitely not low - after all, even the dragons of Tarnold have never mastered this kind of thing. The development of technology is often linked together. Although there are situations of advanced development in some fields, the overall level of various technologies in a civilization should be roughly balanced. The development of a technology often means follow-up in a large number of related fields, and various technologies are based on each other and complement each other is the norm," Gao Wen said slowly, "So, if the sender of Cangxing has fully mastered the superluminal communication technology, they are probably no longer a race that is stuck on their home planet, and may even have become... another 'starter'."

"It makes sense..." Tyre nodded slowly and muttered thoughtfully.

"In addition to the 'greetings' sent by Cang Xing, has your antenna array captured other super-light communications in the starry sky?" Gao Wen asked with a serious look, "Even if it's just a short clutter?"

"No," Tyre shook his head immediately, "After confirming that the signal sent by SK-32-A was super-light communication, Antaweien also deliberately scanned the entire sky that the antenna system could cover, but no second super-light communication was found..."

"So, most of the senders of Cangxing are not a civilization that has fully mastered super-light speed communication technology - otherwise it would be impossible for the starry sky near them to be so 'quiet', can you imagine? It's like a race mastering the skill of making fire, and hundreds of years have passed, and the area where this race survived has not even a wisp of extra blue smoke came out..."

Tyre reacted instantly: "Unless the 'torch' is not theirs, they neither know how to raise the second fire nor what else this 'torch' can do besides sending a signal!"

Gao Wen nodded and said slowly in a low tone: "This is just a possibility."

"... Then who is this torch?" Tyr asked subconsciously, "This... this is a 'torch' that can transmit signals at super-light speed in space at a light-year scale..."

Gao Wen did not answer for a moment, but just raised his head and looked up at the starry sky quietly. In fact, the truth was about to come out. Even Tyr himself thought about the most likely answer to this question - who else could it be besides the set sail?

Gao Wen thought of the information he saw in the log of Cangqiong Station, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: the legacy in the starry sky... It seems that there is indeed more than one place.

Tyre had already set his eyes on Gao Wen at some point. She stared at the "human pioneering hero" in front of her for a long time, and suddenly said without a trace: "It's really rare."

"Yes, if the situation is really as we guessed, a civilization that has not yet rushed out of the parent star has obtained a super-light communication device, then this is indeed quite rare..."

"I'm not talking about this," Tyre shook his head, "I'm talking about you, it's rare."

"Me?" Gao Wen pointed at himself in surprise, "What's rare about me?"

"I rarely find people who can talk about these topics among the landlords. I have no intention of discrimination or ridicule, but the landlords do not know much about the universe, and you are an exception. Not only can you keep up with these topics, but you even have a lot of thoughts on your own. This is very rare, and you still maintain a strong curiosity and flexible mind in this area to this day... This is even more rare," Tyr said with a serious look, "I don't know many landlords, but I have heard my sisters describe many monarchs or commanders on the land, among whom there are many people with outstanding vision and knowledge, but they are always entangled by things on the earth, political, military, people's livelihood, national threats and interests... These are all things that I will have a headache when I listen to them.

"You also need to face these 'entanglements', which I can see with my own eyes, but to my surprise, your attention to the starry sky and your desire to explore the unknown have never faded."

Gao Wen looked at Tyre with a serious look at this moment. He didn't have many opportunities to hear the other party say so many words on weekdays. This guy probably spent all his awake time today on this conversation: "...Is this a compliment?"

"A pretty high praise," Tyre nodded seriously, "You are the first person who can be praised by me."

"I am very honored, but I have a question," said Govent seriously. "Don't you sleep every day? Where do you get the time to think about so many complicated things?"

"Don't you know? Siren can also think about problems when they sleep - our mental activities never stop. In other words, once they stop thinking, the Siren will die," Tyr said while shook his tail. "After all, we are a relatively slow race. If we don't use all our time, it will be useless..."

"You are also doing sober thinking activities when you sleep?!" Gao Wen widened his eyes in shock. This was something he had never heard of before, and even more unexpected. Tyre's appearance, which was the illusion of humans on weekdays, made him feel that Siren is a kind of intelligent race that has the ability to transform but is essentially similar to humans. It was not until this moment that he realized how huge the difference between this group of elemental creatures and humans is essentially elemental creatures. "That means... you won't dream?"

"As an individual, ordinary siren, really don't dream - of course, we can also force those overly immersed 'sleep thinking' as siren dreaming, but this is a bit far-fetched," Tyr shook his tail tip and explained seriously, "There is only one siren who can really dream, and that is Eva..."

"Eva..." Gao Wen recalled the knowledge behind the name and said thoughtfully, "I remember this is your 'race spirit'?"

"Is the spirit of race? It's not wrong to understand it like this," Tyr laughed. "Eva is a collection of all sirens. You can regard her as the largest, invisible siren, the 'element core' of us as the whole of water element. Some foreigners cannot understand such an invisible existence, but for us siren, Eva is a real individual, and she is also the only siren who can 'dream'. Among sirens, individuals with special talents can perceive Eva's dreams. These individuals usually include the most powerful tidal master and deep-sea witch, and of course our queen - the queen can almost always see Eva's dreams, and sometimes she will share with us the wonderful scenery she sees in her dreams..."

Gao Wen listened carefully to the incredible things that Tyre said, and after a long time, he couldn't help but mutter: "Your race is really incredible..."

...

The sound of the waves was like a gentle song, passing along the surging water into the spacious and sophisticated bedroom. Petia woke up from his sleep and opened his eyes in a ball of elements condensed from pure water.

Her long silver-white hair fluttered in the pure water ball, but soon shed all the money behind her head under the control of her master. Petia swam out of the pure water ball, and her clothes changed into a luxurious but light blue long skirt that did not affect her movement. She glanced at the direction of the door, and the deep-sea maid Rosalia appeared in front of her almost at the same time with a stream of water.

"Your Majesty," Rosalia swam forward two steps, "You woke up a little later today than you normally would."

"I saw Eva's dream again," said Petia. "She seems to love dreaming lately."

The maid Rosalia suddenly showed an interesting expression on her face: "Eva's dream? What have you seen?"

"The specific content is a bit blurry. I only remember seeing the endless sea, like the endless sea like my hometown. There is no land on the sea. There are still many lives thriving in the ocean, including creatures like sirens, and... races I don't know, and some giant structures like ancient ruins or monuments floating on the ocean..." Petia rubbed his forehead, "That's all, it's an inexplicable scene... After all, it's just a dream."

"Maybe Eva saw the scenery seen by her fellow countrymen in the distance in her dream? We were one in Eva's dream..." Rosalia smiled and said comforting words, "No matter what, what you see doesn't seem to be a bad scene."

"Afar..." Petia said softly, reminded by this word, "Is there any progress on the ultra-light array?"

"There is still no signal from any immigration ship," Rosalia shook her head gently. "In addition, the monitoring of SK-32-A is still in progress. It has been more than three days since the last signal was received. According to the rules you have mastered, the next time ultra-optical communication should be more than ten minutes."

"Well," Petia nodded and swam towards the corridor - this is the royal district of Anta Vien. The entire area is located inside the deep water barrier. The sea water from his hometown fills every corridor and every room. Of course, he can only swim when going out. This is a very convenient and comfortable environment for the Siren. "What about scanning the surrounding sky?"

"Nothing was found," Rosalia shook her head, "and only received a few very weak low-frequency calls, which were conventional signals emitted by light waves or starar pulses. They may have been floating in this space for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, constantly circling in the cages formed by the star system, and the civilization that launched them has been dead for many years."

"...Even if they haven't died, we have nothing to do," Pertiya sighed. "It's a problem that can only answer and not fire. Is the resonant crystal still unmistakable?"

"Sadly, Master Hathaway said she was powerless - the resonant crystal was damaged very thoroughly, and the planet lacked the key materials needed to re-cast crystals. Although the energy technology and rune knowledge shared by the Cecils with us are easy to use, their two technologies are not helpful in repairing superluminal communication arrays. In addition, we have also tried several natural materials recently discovered from the deep sea, and they do not meet the requirements..."

"Well, this kind of thing is not urgent," Petia nodded slightly, "Just let the deep-sea witches do their best."

"Yes, your Majesty."

In the golden sand beach of Io Continent, the Anta Vien stranded area, a complex communication tower stands on the tail deck of the giant immigration starship. The base of the tower is wide open, exposing its precise components inside and the system lights that are slightly flashing deep in some structures. As technicians, the "deep sea witches" are busy inside and outside the tower, checking the receiving module that has just been repaired and adjusting the unstable core system.

Above this tower, several communication components that have resumed operation are floating under the support of the invisible force field, slowly rotating around the tower body, and the streamlined alloy structure points high to the sky. In the morning sun, its metal shell is reflected in a piece of gold and red.
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