Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 947: Top of the Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel, top floor.
Under the guidance of the master of the nest, Ke Lan successfully passed through the "gaps" between the chaotic space fragments on the top of the cloud and came to the top floor of the Tower of Babel.
This nest belongs to the fourth ring of the eight trials of the Tower of Babel. After Ke Lan passed through the cloud top, there were four more trials waiting for him, but this time, Ke Lan was forced to "skip class".
The owner of the hive city has been traveling between these space fragments for tens of thousands of years. Although the ever-changing laws of time and space cannot be mastered by humans, some loopholes and backdoors are not difficult to find.
With the help of these loopholes, after Ke Lan crossed over seventy-nine times in a row, the view in front of him suddenly became clear and he came to a huge "altar".
The owner of the hive city told Ke Lan that when the Tower of Babel was first built, it was announced to the outside world as a religious building used to offer sacrifices to the "great gods", but in fact, it was the most important stronghold of the Night's Watch organization, without a doubt.
Although the saying "the darkest place is under the lamp" is a bit old-fashioned, it is indeed true. For tens of thousands of years, the true purpose of the Tower of Babel has not been exposed.
With the help of space technology obtained from Zelo's "peers", the Night Watch added a large number of folding spaces and transmission channels in the Tower of Babel, which not only connected the various secret bases on Alpha, but also stuffed an "other-dimensional space" in the Tower of Babel that was large enough to accommodate the entire Yaguna Tor.
The familiar giant teardrop-shaped battleship was suspended less than two kilometers away from the altar.
One hour ago in the outside world—
"The top floor of the Tower of Babel is where the Night Watch made the God's Coffin. It also stores a portion of neutralized 'original energy' without any god's imprint. Injecting this energy into the God's Coffin can strengthen it once again." The Nest Master said to Ke Lan, "Originally, this part of the original energy was to be injected into the God's Coffin multiple times, but the Alpha civilization did not have that much time, so they could only seal this energy in this place and wait for the next human civilization to complete this task."
"Then if we inject this source energy into the God's Coffin, can we create..." Before he finished speaking, Ke Lan rejected his idea, "No, it shouldn't be possible. It's too far away... Even if all the energy is injected, the God's Coffin is still a semi-finished product. The creatures created may not even be as good as those of the gods' followers."
"Yes, it's too far away." The Hive Master sighed, "This plan cannot be completed by one or two civilizations. Even if everything goes smoothly, it will take a long time to slowly fill the deep gulf called 'gap'... It takes hundreds of millions of years for single-celled organisms in the ocean to evolve into intelligent organisms that can create civilization. The gap between us and Him is countless times greater than the gap between single-celled organisms and intelligent organisms."
"It sounds desperate." Ke Lan said, "It's a good thing that these night watchmen can still hold on. Most individuals in a civilization without a hive consciousness would not be willing to do such a thing . It is too far away from the present. Not to mention compared with the lifespan of an individual, even the lifespan of the entire civilization is like a fleeting moment in comparison."
Ke Lan paused, and then continued, "As far as I know, most of the residents on the Ark are not willing to sacrifice their current lives for a distant future... It's like using all of a person's belongings to buy a lottery ticket with a chance of winning that is infinitely close to zero. Even if the lottery ticket really wins by sheer luck, the prize money will have to wait for countless thousands of years before it can be collected by his descendants... or even someone who has nothing to do with him.
"On the contrary, if he doesn't buy this lottery ticket, his current life will not be affected in any way, nor will his future life. He will live out his ordinary but fulfilling life according to the original trajectory. Not only him, but also his son, his grandson, and his grandson's son will all be the same... Not only is the goal of the Night Watch out of reach, but even the impending destruction is still out of reach for individuals."
"Coming soon" and "out of reach" are two completely conflicting adjectives, but when used here, they are not contradictory at all.
Gods are to humans as humans are to mayflies, or even more so.
"No, it's not out of reach... Alpha can't hold on for much longer." The Hive Master suddenly emphasized, "Your arrival has accelerated Alpha's destruction. That being may notice the changes on this planet at any time. By then, it will be too late... You may not even have enough time to pass the baton to the human civilization of another time and space."
"So you want us to continue wandering with Alpha... and this 'Earth'? Until..." Ke Lan asked.
"The target of the entire planet is too obvious. Even if "He" didn't notice it, the change in the gravitational field caused by the planet's drifting in the surrounding space is enough to alert the nearby cosmic clans. Some of the giant starships built by the clans of hostile alien gods will disguise themselves as drifting celestial bodies to launch surprise attacks on the target."
"Then can we let Noah's Ark set sail again?" Ke Lan raised his eyebrows. "If it weren't for the deliberate guidance of the Alpha Civilization, I'm afraid that everyone on the Ark would have died in the long interstellar voyage... Even if we are lucky enough to let Noah's Ark find another planet suitable for human habitation, that planet has probably been taken by the gods' clan first. It is even possible that it is a trap set by them to "hunt" other civilizations... As for letting the Ark drift in the universe like this, even if it does not encounter other civilizations, it will be difficult for the Ark to be self-sufficient forever relying on itself..."
During the 900 years that the Ark had been drifting, there had been 19 resource crises severe enough to cause human extinction. Each of these 19 resource crises ended in a very dramatic way: either an external exploration ship found an asteroid with rich resource reserves; or a genius scientist or a team suddenly broke through a technical problem, solving the crisis...
Ke Lan originally thought that it was all luck and that human civilization was destined to be extinct... But after knowing the truth, he realized that without the secret help and guidance of the Alpha civilization, the human civilization on the Ark would have been extinct countless times already.
Now that the Alpha civilization has disappeared, how many crises can the Ark survive on its own?
