Volume 3 Chapter 154: Crazy Planetary Consciousness
In the silent universe, the shattered remains of the war star are still floating in the empty universe.
Autonomous mechanical aggregates shuttled through the battlefield, cleaning up the battlefield, and also collecting some information from some of the still intact databases.
Not far in front of the earth, the space jump channel has been opened, and space folding is constantly taking place in the channel, compressing the distance between spaces.
Until the space folding was sufficient for a jump of a hundred light years, the Earth began to move towards the jump channel.
At the same time, as the earth began to move, a large number of autonomous mechanical aggregates, as if they had received instructions, quickly returned to the earth.
Carrying all the information collected, it returned to the earth.
The next moment, the earth entered the space jump channel, and then the jump channel was closed.
The Earth has already arrived hundreds of light years away.
On Earth, Lin Xu has obtained the coordinates of the Cleansers' base camp from the Rebel Alliance after thousands of years of calculations.
The goal this time is to reach the Cleansers' base that is within calculations.
According to calculations, the Cleansers' base camp is near the center of the Milky Way, 10,000 light years away from the Earth's current location.
It is an area covering about a hundred light years, if the Rebel Alliance's calculations are correct.
The Cleansers' base camp is within this area of about a hundred light years, or maybe this area of a hundred light years is the Cleansers' base camp.
"Let's go and see what the Cleansers' base camp looks like." Lin Xu put down the information in his hand, lay on the beach, and looked up at the sky.
The light from the artificial sun in the sky swayed down and landed on Lin Xu.
Beside him, Nanzhu was applying sunscreen on his body that was exposed to the sun.
"Why apply this stuff? It's useless." Lin Xu came back to his senses and noticed what Nanzhu was doing.
"Atmosphere, atmosphere. Since we are at the beach, of course we should enjoy this atmosphere." Nanzhu said as she helped Lin Xu apply the sunscreen in one breath and then handed the sunscreen in her hand to Lin Xu.
"Okay, now it's Master Lin Xu's turn to help me apply it."
"You're right, the atmosphere is indeed important." Lin Xu thought for a moment, took the sunscreen and said.
"So Lord Lin Xu, please be careful and apply it to every corner." Nanzhu nodded in agreement and said.
Not far away, Lu Yao, who had just caught several large crabs from the deep sea, was feeling quite emotional.
As expected, a vixen is a vixen.
A distance of ten thousand light years can be reached on Earth in just ten months.
So when the time came to the 11495th year of the Departure Calendar, the Earth had successfully completed its last space jump of hundreds of light years and arrived near the target location.
The released autonomous mechanical aggregate has already begun exploring forward .
At the same time, hyperspace radar and quantum radar are also operating at full power.
However, there is no need to even wait to see the results.
Just by looking at that star region from afar, people on Earth already realized that something was wrong.
A faint black color enveloped the star field.
It is a darkness even darker than the darkness of the universe itself.
If you were in that star field, you probably wouldn't notice the darkness around you, which is darker than normal space.
However, civilizations outside that star field that have the ability to comprehensively observe this star field can easily see it.
A faint darkness enveloped that star region.
Even the light of the stars seemed to be coated with a layer of black edges.
"What is this?" Nanzhu lay on the porthole of the Qingfeng and tried to open his eyes wide, trying to see it more clearly.
"Why does this feel so disordered and dirty? But it doesn't look like it." Lin Xu hesitated.
"It is indeed disordered filth. No, it is better to say inertial filth." Lu Yao, who was already corroded by disordered filth, could see it more clearly.
Although she has been studying hard for so long and has not yet been able to clear herself of the disorder and filth that has contaminated her, she is indeed becoming more and more professional in identifying disorder and filth.
"Inert filth? That makes sense, but why is it so thin?" Lin Xu nodded and shook his head.
Even if it is inert filth, it shouldn't be so thin.
You must know that the disordered filth in the center of the Milky Way has become an inert filth that has lost the ability to assimilate order under Lin Xu's high-dimensional interference, but it is still as thick as substance.
"The autonomous mechanical aggregate has collected samples and is ready for testing." At this time, the on-duty Yinghuo suddenly reported.
"The test results show that it is indeed inert filth. Analysis shows that after the disordered filth fell into inert filth, it lost the ability to assimilate order and proliferate itself. Only a constant total amount of inert filth remains, and the inert filth continues to spread naturally, becoming thinner and thinner without increasing itself." Yinghuo quickly came to the conclusion and continued to report.
"So, this area has gradually become like this due to the spread of inert filth for countless years." Lin Xu nodded to show that he understood.
"But isn't this the base camp of the Cleaners? Could it be that the Cleaners were influenced by the inert filth and became what they are now, cleaning the river system regularly?" Nanzhu guessed.
"But didn't the people of the Rebel Alliance say that it was their betrayal that caused the Cleansers to lose control?" Mu Xiyue asked puzzled.
"There is no conflict. Perhaps the inert filth here is related to the ancestors of the Rebel Alliance. It's just that I didn't detect the breath of inert filth on the warships of the Cleansing Fleet." Lin Xu said, recalling the Cleansing Fleet he had seen before.
“Indeed, there is no inert and filthy aura on the Cleansing Fleet.” Lu Yao also said.
"Then what's going on? Did the Rebel Alliance make a mistake in their calculations?" Nanzhu asked puzzledly.
"Their calculations should not be wrong. If they were really wrong, it would be impossible for the calculated location to be this star field wrapped in inert filth." Lin Xu shook his head and said.
While everyone was still discussing this, Yinghuo suddenly reported new news.
"Hyperspace radar has discovered the Cleansing Fleet at the edge of the inert filth, ten light years to the left and front, and is exchanging fire with the Cleansing Fleet."
"What? The Cleansing Fleet is exchanging fire with the Cleansing Fleet?" Nanzhu was stunned for a moment, and even doubted for a moment whether Yinghuo, the artificial intelligence that could not make mistakes, really made a mistake.
"Yes, both sides are Cleanser fleets and are exchanging fire," Yinghuo replied.
So everyone looked at each other for a moment, and finally everyone turned their eyes to Lin Xu, waiting for his decision.
"Let's go and take a look." Lin Xu ordered.
As a result, the space jump channel was opened again in front of the earth, and the space folding in the jump channel began.
About seven or eight hours later, the space folding in the jump channel had spanned a distance of ten light years.
Immediately, the earth rushed into the space jump channel.
Go and see the scene of the internal strife within the Cleansing Fleet that everyone is curious about.
In the blink of an eye, the Earth crossed a distance of ten light years.
When he appeared again, he had arrived at the edge of the inert filth area, and he also saw the battlefield where the two sides were fighting.
It was already the final stage of the war, and all that was seen scattered throughout the universe were fragments of various Cleansing Fleets.
In the past, countless ordinary races had to go through untold hardships to take down a piece of armor from a Cleansing battleship.
It is spread all over the universe, everywhere.
The remaining Cleaner warships were still bombarding each other.
Even the appearance of the Earth did not stop the fighting between the two sides.
Both sides continued fighting as if the Earth did not exist.
However, both sides of the battle separated half of their fleets and rushed towards the earth.
It looks like they are going to fight with the Earth while fighting each other.
"What kind of logic is this? They are obviously unable to protect themselves, but they still want to divide their troops to fight us?" Nanzhu said in confusion.
"Maybe it's because we have curvature navigation technology, which triggers the cleaning standards ." Lu Yao guessed.
"So while they are fighting each other, they also want to cleanse us? But why are they fighting each other? And what should we do? Fight back?" Nanzhu didn't know what to do for a moment, so he had to look at Lin Xu .
"We must fight back. These Cleansing warships are merely following established procedures rigidly. Even if we want to say something, they won't listen. So, don't expect to get along with us in a friendly manner until we find the overall procedure for controlling the Cleansing fleet." Lin Xu ordered.
Then, above the earth, a large number of autonomous mechanical aggregates rushed out of the earth, combined into temporary battleships in mid-air, and pounced on the cleaning battleships of both sides.
Soon, in the outer space, huge Cleansing warships of tens of thousands of meters in size were shattered by the attacks of relatively smaller temporary warships of more than a thousand meters in size.
If the many civilizations ravaged by the Cleansers in this river system saw this scene, they would be filled with disbelief.
But Lin Xu didn't pay any attention to these. His eyes were always on the two Cleansing fleets that were still bombarding each other in the distance.
"Lazy and dirty." Lin Xu muttered to himself.
"One of the parties was affected by the inert filth. Is this the reason for the fight between the two parties?" Lu Yao was also observing.
"Is it because the Cleansing Fleet entered this star field that some warships were affected by the inert filth?" Mu Xiyue asked puzzledly.
"No, that shouldn't be the case. It's more like the Cleansing warships have been preventing the warships affected by the inert filth from leaving this star field." Lin Xu shook his head and expressed his thoughts.
"What do you mean?" Mu Xiyue was a little confused.
"Do you remember the calculations of the Rebel Alliance? This is most likely the base camp of the Cleansers. If that is the case, then a large number of Cleansers warships must have been affected by the inert filth." Lin Xu guessed.
"So, normal Cleanser warships are preventing Cleanser warships affected by inert filth from leaving this star field?" Mu Xiyue suddenly realized.
"But normal Cleansing warships are cleansing all civilizations in the entire galaxy that possess curvature navigation technology! How is this different from being abnormal?" Nanzhu complained.
"There must be a difference. The Cleansing Fleet affected by the inert filth will inevitably become more crazy. Maybe even civilizations without curvature navigation technology will be cleansed together. It is even possible that the entire river system will be directly destroyed." Lin Xu guessed.
Lin Xu didn't know what the Cleansing Fleet would do after being affected by the inert filth, but it would definitely be something far crazier than it was now.
"So, the Cleansing Fleet is saving civilization at the same time as it is cleansing it?" Nanzhu said a little strangely.
"Maybe the Cleansing Fleet is using what they think is the right method to save civilization." Lin Xu said with a smile.
"This." Nanzhu was speechless for a moment.
Soon, the battle in the starry sky was coming to an end.
Whether it was the two Cleansing fleets attacking the Earth or the Cleansing fleets bombarding each other from a distance, all that was left was a pile of wreckage.
There is no more Cleansing Fleet in the starry sky.
But soon after, space jump channels opened in the starry sky, and a large number of cleaning fleets were rushing to the battlefield.
"Are these normal cleaning fleets that have not been affected by the inert filth?" Lu Yao quickly figured out which side the fleet that had partially rushed out of the jump channel and was heading towards the earth belonged to.
"It seems that they are coming for us this time. They are determined to kill us." Lin Xu sighed as he looked at the increasing number of Cleaner warships in the starry sky.
"Why are there so many? There are more than a hundred times more than the Cleansing Fleet we killed last time." Nanzhu's eyes widened as he looked at the increasing number of warships that covered the sky.
"It's not surprising. This is the base camp of the Cleaners. It's normal to have more warships." Lin Xu didn't feel surprised.
"Lord Lin Xu, do you want to continue fighting?" Nanzhu asked.
"Forget it. This is the base camp of the Cleansers. There will be no end to the fighting if we continue like this. Besides, we are not here to fight." Lin Xu shook his head and said.
"But we are already surrounded, can we still run away?" Nanzhu said as he looked around.
"Isn't there still a gap?" Lin Xu said with a smile.
"Gap? Ah, there are indeed very few warships blocking the inert and filthy area! What's going on?" Nanzhu asked puzzled.
"I guess it's their procedure that doesn't allow them to enter the inert and dirty area." Lin Xu guessed.
"I understand. The main control program is afraid that the Cleaner warships will enter the inert and dirty area and be contaminated, just like those Cleaner warships that have already been contaminated." Nanzhu reacted immediately.
"It's just right. We need to investigate what's going on in this area. Let's just rush in." Lin Xu ordered.
So the next moment, the curvature engine on the earth started running at full capacity, rushing towards the inert and filthy area not far away at a thousand times the speed of light.
Along the way, there were Cleansing warships intercepting from time to time, but unfortunately, under the escort of temporary warships, the Cleansing warships were powerless and could only be blown up one by one.
Finally, the Earth easily broke through the encirclement and entered the inert and filthy area.
As the Earth entered the inert and filthy area, the pursuing Cleaner warships stopped chasing one after another.
At the same time, the space jump channel in the distance is still opening, and a large number of Cleaner warships are still coming in an endless stream.
Soon, tens of millions of Cleansing warships filled the entire star field, densely packed.
Lin Xu felt a little emotional after watching this. It was like stirring up a hornet's nest.
Even if you are not afraid, it will be troublesome if a fight breaks out.
However, all these Cleansing warships stopped at the edge of the inert and filthy area.
Just watching the earth moving further and further away.
Finally, the Cleaner warships opened the space channel again and left one by one.
"With so many of them, how long will it take to beat them? Fortunately they ran away." Nanzhu said as he slapped the weapon with some fear.
"Strange, I thought that after entering this inert filth area, the Cleansing warships affected by the inert filth in this area would come out to chase us." Lu Yao said puzzled.
"Unless, the number of Cleansing warships in this area is actually limited." Lin Xu thought for a while and said.
"This area is only a hundred light years in scope. For a Cleansing warship that can make space jumps, this distance can be reached with just one space jump. Unless, those Cleansing warships that were affected just now are already the last contaminated Cleansing warships in this area." Lu Yao further expanded his thoughts.
"Finally, did we come here by chance? Just happened to witness the destruction of the last battleship?" Lin Xu was a little unconvinced.
"Since it is the Cleaners' base, or at least it used to be a base, there should be a warship manufacturing factory, right? Could it be that the contaminated warships that were just destroyed were just produced? And now the factories in this area are still producing contaminated warships?" Lu Yao thought for a moment and guessed.
"Every time a new warship is produced, it wants to leave this area, and then it is blown up by the Cleansing Fleet guarding the edge. This makes sense." Lin Xu nodded and said.
"So if we can find the Cleaner battleship manufacturing factory here, even if it is contaminated, we should be able to learn a lot of information about what happened ten thousand years ago, right? Maybe we can find out what happened ten thousand years ago, and maybe we can also find the location of the relics left by humans in this river system." Nanzhu said with sudden enlightenment.
"That's right, but looking at the number of contaminated Cleaner warships that were destroyed, the scale of the factory may not be large. The inert filth spreads extremely slowly, and the Cleaners may have moved the factory before it spread to the factory area, leaving only a small factory behind. Fortunately, the range of a hundred light years is not particularly large, and you can always find it if you look carefully." Lin Xu said as he thought about various possibilities.
In this way, the earth is sailing rapidly in this star field shrouded in inert filth at a thousand times the speed of light.
Because of the special nature of the Earth as the home planet of mankind, inert filth has not invaded the Earth.
A few days later, the Earth approached a galaxy.
Lin Xu looked at the star shrouded in a faint black color in the galaxy from afar, and especially the slightly strange-shaped planets in the galaxy, and frowned.
"Have these planets been affected by the inert filth? I thought the impact of the inert filth on order was not that great. I didn't expect that even the planets could be affected to this extent." Nanzhu said with some emotion.
“If it were disorder and filth, these planets would have disappeared by now, completely becoming part of the disorder. And now there are only some changes in appearance, but they can still maintain order and have not been assimilated by the disorder. This is already very good.” Although Lin Xu frowned, he still expressed his understanding.
“But the appearance of these planets is too abstract.” Nanzhu couldn’t help but complain.
In fact, it’s not just Nanzhu. Lin Xu also feels an unbearable chill when looking at those planets.
After all, those huge planets now seem like living things, twisting their huge tentacles.
Lin Xu even saw eyes formed by storms appearing from time to time on a huge gas planet that was a hundred times the size of the Earth.
Those eyes looked like the real eyes of some giant creature, staring at the starry sky in the distance.
Also staring at the earth getting closer and closer.
In an instant, even densely packed eyes appeared above the huge gas planet.
At the same time, a large amount of tentacles composed of gas waved and rolled towards the earth, as if they wanted to roll the earth into the gas planet and be swallowed by the gas planet.
"Could it be that these planets really have consciousness?" Lu Yao said with a frown.
"It's not impossible, it's just a crazy consciousness." Lin Xu looked at the huge gaseous planet that seemed to be twisting its body and moving towards the earth.
Finally, I couldn't help but stretched out my hand.
In an instant, the higher-dimensional consciousness was opened, and it used the higher-dimensional consciousness to conduct higher-dimensional interference in the space where the gas planet, which was a hundred times the size of the earth, was located.
The next moment, the space where the gas planet was located briefly changed the rules of physics.
Everything seemed to pause for a moment.
The huge planet, which was originally waving its huge tentacles arrogantly, began to collapse inward in an instant.
In just a blink of an eye, a huge gas planet that was a hundred times the size of the Earth was crushed by Lin Xu with one hand.
The Earth then opened up a path forward, broke through the turbulence remaining in the universe after the explosion of the gas planet, and continued to fly towards the interior of the galaxy.
"Planets can actually produce consciousness? How is this possible? This is unscientific." Nanzhu couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Yes, it is unscientific, but this is a disordered zone after being polluted . Even if it is inert and dirty pollution, it is still a kind of pollution. Under this kind of pollution, many rules of the universe will be in an abnormal and distorted state. It is not impossible for a planet to develop consciousness." Lin Xu said with some emotion.
Nanzhu wanted to say something, but for a moment he didn't know where to start.
