The vast sea of ​​stars is vast and vast, and there are endless possibilities in the endless stars, and the endless darkness hides these possibilities in it. As a planetary civilization that has not yet broken free from the constraints of gravity, when people look up at the sky, they can only guess the appearance opposite the sea of ​​stars by imagination and reasoning. Therefore, in this case, every message coming from the sea of ​​stars will particularly stimulate the nerves of the people who look up.

The sunset has gradually sunk to the edge of the horizon, and the daylight in late autumn has begun to appear short. The celebration atmosphere of the Victory Day celebration has not completely dissipated from the city. You can still see the crowds of celebrations and vendors selling souvenirs on the streets outside the window. Street lights are lit up one after another in the distance, and in the gradually dim sky, twinkling stars can be seen.

Frost Sky has not yet appeared in the sky—but it is there.

Gao Wen stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the study, looking at the starlight faintly in the sky outside the window, his expression seemed more serious than before, and Amber's voice came from the side: "It seems that you care a lot about this..."

"There is a civilization that can send super-light communications to us in the sea of ​​stars. This matter is of course worth paying attention to," Gao Wen did not look back, but just spoke slowly. "For civilizations that have begun to notice the starry sky above their heads but have no ability to truly enter the universe, the feeling of survival in the world is like trekking through the night. We cannot be sure what is in the darkness around us, nor can we be sure whether the companions who may exist nearby may be enemies or friends. We have noticed the existence of the night, but we have not yet had the ability to light up the lights to disperse the night - this stage is the most stressful state.

"Over the years, we can be sure that at least one figure was walking with us in the night. This figure was holding a torch in his hand, but did not notice us who were still in the darkness. But suddenly, he seemed to have noticed that there were other people in the darkness around him. Now this figure is looking towards the place where we are hiding... I think you can understand this feeling."

"...Indeed, I understand too much," listening to Gao Wen's metaphor, Amber's hair suddenly stood up, "It's like being kicked out suddenly when he was in a sneaky state. I was shocked to think about it."

"...When walking alone, I hope someone will walk with me in the night. There is really a peer who has a nervous and resistance first," Gao Wen sighed softly, "I can only blame the sea of ​​stars for being too vast, which contains too much uncertainty."

Amber thought for a while: "But then again, in fact, we are the one who takes the initiative in a sense. After all, we have known the existence of 'them' for so long, but 'them' does not know us. Even now, the alien civilization that sent signals does not seem to be sure whether the 'unknown civilization alpha' exists or not. We are always hiding in the dark... Generally speaking, this is the more nervous side."

"It is undeniable that the situation you said does exist," Gao Wen said slowly, then frowned in confusion, "So sometimes I also doubt that the civilization that sent the signal is really an advanced group than ours? If that signal is not a trap, then their performance is too naive and reckless. If that signal is a trap... Then a civilization that has the ability to conduct super-light speed communication should also have the ability to conduct high-precision deep space scanning. The Siren once mentioned that deep space scanning is a pre-technical technology for super-light speed communication, so the civilization that sent the signal cannot not know our existence..."

"Didn't you say that the 'technology tree' of different civilizations may be completely different," Amber looked serious. "It is possible that they have jumped on the technical line. Maybe they have found a different development path from the Siren, so they did not point out the deep space scanning skill."

Gao Wen looked at the shadow assault goose who was seriously analyzing with a weird look: "To be honest, you followed me to say these 'special nouns' all day long. Do you really understand what they mean?"

Amber was immediately confident: "I only understand part of it, but I can't talk nonsense yet? A simple matter of association with context..."

It's really awesome to talk to others when he doesn't understand it. Gao Wen thinks this is really an amazing talent.

Thanks to Amber for this interruption, Gao Wen also felt that his emotions were relaxed a lot. He breathed a sigh of relief and saw that the sunset outside the window had completely fallen to the end of the earth. Only a tiny red color spread over the city along the clouds. The starry light became more and more eye-catching, and the starlight in the Frost Sky gradually floated in the night sky - the agreed meeting time was coming.

He sorted out his thoughts and turned to look at Amber: "Here I'll help me stay a little later."

Amber slapped his chest: "Don't worry if you know, I'm familiar with this."

...

In the neural network, a special encrypted space, a breeze suddenly rolled up in an endless and open white flower field. The breeze blew across the sea of ​​flowers, and then turned into a white round table and several gorgeous seats surrounding the round table. Then, several figures appeared one after another. Gao Wen, followed by Rosetta Augustus, who had a serious expression and a thin body, then a dazzling light appeared. A tall and beautiful blonde figure walked out of the light, which was Belsetia Morning Star.

Generally speaking, Gao Wen used conventional holographic projection to hold such remote meetings, but this time the situation was special. He set the meeting address in the "White Flower Sea" of the neural network. Long before the Wasteland War, the Cecil-style communication network had appeared in the territory of the Tifeng and the Silver Empire. Although it was still in its infancy, at least in places like Obsidian Palace and the Elf Royal Court, there was a complete set of magic equipment that could communicate with Cecil in real time, including the Magic Network terminal and the immersion cabin.

However, whether you use it frequently is another matter. Rosetta was obviously not adaptable after entering the cyberspace. The ruler of Tifeng looked down at his body in the default mode, raised his hand and snatched it, and couldn't help but mutter softly: "...It's indeed an incredible technology, which can really be simulated to this level..."

Then he looked up at Gao Wen and the Silver Queen, and greeted the rulers of the other two empires with a decent attitude.

"Welcome to this sea of ​​flowers - this is the encrypted space I have prepared for special meetings," Gowen nodded to Rosetta and Belsetia, signaling them to sit at the round table before speaking, "This is the first time we have met in this form, but as you can feel, it is almost as real as the real world, and there is no need for any extra adaptation. Just treat it as meeting in the real world."

"I think this is more convenient than the real world," Belsetia smiled, and after she sat down, she knocked on the table, and a beautiful tea set appeared in front of her. "The real world cannot do such things."

Rosetta next to him immediately glanced at the Silver Queen in surprise, but before he spoke out, Gao Wen was already surprised: "You seem to be quite skilled."

"I have always been interested in this new technology," Belsetia said with a smile. "Although the number of immersion chambers in the Silver Empire is still small and the corresponding network has just begun to be built, my courtiers and I have begun to study how to use this thing efficiently - and speaking of this, the "broken network" in the previous war period was really frustrating."

Speaking of this, she glanced at Rosetta Augustus next to her: "His Majesty Augustus, don't you use it often? The networking conditions between Tifon and Cecil should be much better than those of the Silver Empire."

"...I've only used it once or twice, and I don't usually spend much time on it," Rosetta said with a stern face, "but Matilda and Hadillon seem to use it often, and I've seen them use it."

Immediately afterwards, he looked at Gao Wen, who held the meeting: "Let's talk about the serious matters, why did he suddenly contact us and chose such a special...conference form?"

"It has to do with the 'star sea signal' we have been receiving," Gao Wen nodded, "We have parsed the disturbing content from the recently captured signals, but the specific situation... we have to wait for several other participants to explain. The reason why we selected the meeting address in the neural network this time is because of these special participants."

"Special participant?" Belsetia frowned in confusion, as if she had guessed something. Almost as she finished speaking, a twisting light curtain suddenly appeared in the air beside the round table. Immediately afterwards, flowers and vines grew rapidly in the light curtain. In the gorgeous light and shadow, an elf old man with a calm face stepped out of it.

After seeing the figure of the elf old man, Belsetia was a little confused for a moment, but soon she realized the identity of this "incarnation", and a look of shock suddenly appeared on her face: "You..."

"I'll be here for the meeting," Amoen showed a gentle smile and nodded slightly to Belsetia. "Just call me Amoen here, or call me the code name in the Theocratic Council, 'Mr. Deer'."

"Uh..." Belsetia's eyes couldn't help but fall on the head of the elf old man in front of her, swept over the letters "Highway Deer", and used her strong willpower to control her urge to ask, "Okay, Amoen...Your Excellency."

Rosetta also realized who the "participants" in front of him were. Although he had already known the situation of several senior consultants in the Theocracy Council and knew that these "formerly gods" are now working and living with ordinary people, but knowing that seeing the incarnation of the God of Nature in this almost real cyberspace is another matter, especially the incarnation has a name of "highway deer" above his head, which made Emperor Tifeng, who has always shown a calm and calm attitude, show a little astonishment on his face: "'God of Nature'... It seems that this matter is really extraordinary."

"Are you the only one here?" Gao Wenze glanced behind Amoen and found that only the God of Nature appeared in the venue. "Ms. Milmina and Ms. Enya didn't come?"

"They are studying something, they're very busy," Amoen shrugged, "let me come first-they say they'll be there later."

"Are you doing research... OK, then don't wait for them now," Gao Wen nodded, and after Amoen sat down, his eyes turned to Rosetta and Belsetia in front of him, "I want you to see one thing first."

After saying that, a phantom of a document appeared in front of him. When the phantom turned into solidity, he divided it into two and sent it to the two imperial rulers.

Rosetta's eyes swept across the file quickly, and his expression immediately became extremely serious.

"As you can see, the civilization that has been sending signals out suddenly has some changes," Gao Wen said in a deep voice. "They changed their past style of sending information without any purpose, and instead sent such a 'letter' with a very obvious communication intention. They were calling the 'Unknown Civilization Alpha' with a purposeful call and hoping to get a response, which is a situation that has never happened before."

"...Is the 'Unknown Civilization Alpha' mentioned here we are?" Belsetia raised her head from the document and looked at Gao Wen with a bright look.

"Unsure," Gao Wen shook his head, "our current technology cannot tell whether this signal is directed in our direction or wide-area broadcast as usual, and it is even more impossible to determine whether the sender has locked the coordinates of our planet."

"So it's not ruled out the possibility of being a trap," Rosetta rubbed his ring and spoke slowly in contemplation. "They may not know where we are, or even whether there are people in their broadcast range, so they use this method to make us actively 'provoke'."

"This information mentions the Settler...and the keywords like the stars flashing," Belsetia focused on another crucial message, "The amount of information here is too large."

"Facts have proved that the setter has indeed left footprints on not only one planet," Gao Wen nodded. Of course, he also noticed this part of the details. "We can boldly judge that the world where this civilization sends the message survives is also the planet where the settingter has stopped. And what the settingter left on that planet has a profound impact on this "Send civilization". Judging from the information content, this sending civilization's understanding of the Setter and the "Stars Flashing" is probably much deeper and clearer than us."

Rosetta frowned. He had never let his mind fall into such a complex, chaotic, busy state of thinking like today. This suddenly appeared in front of him was so unprecedented, beyond his previous experience in dealing with any problems. In fact, except Gao Wen, no one on the scene would have thought that he would suddenly face the problem of "extraordinary civilization exchange", but he still maintained his rationality and calmness, and slowly spoke in his thinking: "No matter whether this message is a trap or not, the sender obviously has an extremely important secret, the flashing stars and the cycle... Frankly speaking, this reminds people of the demon tide."

Regardless of whether the sending civilization was fishing or not, at least the "bait" was real, this is the fact that it was placed before the three imperial rulers.

But that is not enough to make them make reckless decisions.

"The most critical issue now is that we are not sure whether this civilization sends the message is good or bad," Rosetta said. "They did express their willingness to communicate friendlyly and help each other in the messaging, but to be honest, I dare not believe it rashly - there are so many things on our planet that people dare not trust easily, let alone a billion kilometers away."
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