Xiling Empire Chapter 1349: Initial story
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At the beginning of the story, it was an ordinary World, an ordinary planet, and an ordinary beginning.
It is a small dot in the endless starry sky. A fine dust in Universe, like every planet where life was born, is fortunate to care for this solid planet composed of rocks, metals, and sulfur-rich minerals. After a solar storm blows the ground, charged particles and a strong magnetic field penetrate the surface rock layer, and the first silicon - sulfur macromolecule with self-replicating ability is coincidentally assembled from the shallow springs on the planet's surface. This silicon - sulfur macromolecule became the most complex compound of throughout history on the planet, and also became the beginning of the whole story-it luckily survived the change of the material of the hot spring, luckily and accurately completed the first copy, luckily in the heat The spring temperature maintained its own stability. In the slow and pure luck of "reproduction", it took tens of millions of years to cover the bottom of the hot springs, and then slowly spread out. It gradually aggregates, mutates, and merges with other substances of surroundings or other mutant macromolecules. Symbiosis, struggle, compromise, the seeds of life take root and germinate. After simply copying for hundreds of millions of years, the first organisms that can be called "cells" evolved from these continuously copied silicon - sulfur soups.
The original biosphere of the parent star started underground.
It took another hundreds of millions of years for this cell, which is made of polymer sulfide, to slowly "learn" how to combine together with other cells to form a more complex, more suitable living organism for migration and migration, and for the first time. Free to swim in the dark geothermal soup.
The original underground hot springs have been on the verge of disappearing over time, but the underground “water” system of the parent star has a network structure, and has learned that the freely moving archaeological creatures swim from the depleted hot spring to another nutrient-rich Hot spring, and slowly approaching a shallow underground river that leads to the surface. In the end, these ignorant little life settled in an ancient open lake, began the next stage of complication, and for that fate One day-set foot on the ground-make preparations they do not know.
Originally running on the mother planet, it is a small life creeping on the ground. Maybe they are a bit like squashed lizards. Maybe they have tails with degenerated tail fins. Maybe they have sharp small ones. Nails come to grab the smooth hot spring rock bed-even ancestors can only rely on guesswork and repair of the remains to imagine the appearance of these ancient small life. They speculate that these earliest parent star creatures will have blue-white scaly skin, silicides constituting their bones, and fibrous sulfides constituting their soft internal organs. They have not yet evolved eyes, because neither dark hot springs nor lake bottoms This organ is needed-these blind reptiles once left the ancient geothermal sources and the underground rivers where nutrients are becoming scarce, and now they have left the same lake: a epic-like adventure legend. They used their fragile limbs to carefully grasp the dry surface rocks and climbed to the ground. The thick atmosphere of the original parent star rolled up and the cold wind was blowing on the wet skin of these small creatures-perhaps some timid individuals retreated But thankfully, the brave among them looked up and greeted this unprecedented dry air current. At this moment, two billion years have passed since the solar storm that sowed life on the parent star.
When these small creatures ran in the vast and desolate land of the original parent star, and gradually multiplied and spread to large scale, a decisive turning point appeared: Ancestor Anthus called this turning point the Great Storm Year.
The original parent star of the Heroes is a huge planet. According to the data provided by the ancestors, it may be three times the size of Earth, and it has a powerful liquid core. It is covered with super large scale mountains and rift valleys unimaginable in on the Earth: these mountains and rift valleys are endless and meandering through the entire crust, almost like the corrugated paper in the divided breeding tank, cutting the entire planet into several In the part where the whole crust is depressed, mountains and rifts cannot continue, but there is a huge ocean barrier. In this way, the original parent star is naturally divided into several regions, and the natural environment of each region is completely different. The biggest difference is even like two planets-this high-difference surface will cause too much turbulence in the atmosphere, combined with the overactive sun next to the parent star, which brings about the occurrence of every a period of time on the parent star. The dramatic climate change, and various ultra-large-scale meteorological events unimaginable in on the Earth, the size and intensity of the original parent typhoon are several times that of on the Earth. High convection strong winds will spread even four out of five planets - although every time period between this phenomenon is very long, but each occurrence, have led the planet turned upside down.
And this time, there was a unique storm brewing on the parent star: larger than the planet throughout history and any storm since then-it swept the world, causing World-like rainfall and hurricane weather, the parent star has the largest area The central part of the storm ocean dropped by several tens of meters, and the impacted tsunami devastated the surrounding Continent. The floods were torrential and inland. Fate seemed to be planning to give a foot to this earth-shaking planet, so it has the most mountains in the northern hemisphere. The place caused a large-scale crust collision: the high mountain range appeared a rift, the flood from the coastal area drove straight in, coupled with the hurricane and heavy rainfall, this massive shuffle-like meteorological event lasted for nearly half of the parent star year.
The primitive biosphere suffered heavy losses in this reshuffle, but it did not completely die out-miraculously, this became one of the reasons for the very different civilization structure of the later Greeks: primitive creatures were sent to all parts of the planet Corners, and start to evolve again in those environments where the difference between the world and the near planet is different. Silicon - sulfur-based life adaptability is tenacious, and the resistance to temperature and humidity is often tens or even hundreds of times that of carbon-based life, they survive tenaciously in all corners of the parent star, and eventually evolved more than ten incredible life system.
The difference between each life line is just like Alien creature!
Then there is the story of the Heroes—because of the previous “Great Storm Years”, global organisms have evolved a dozen or so completely isolated lineages, and half of them have successively produced intelligent life, which is Primitive Greeks: Yes, the Greeks are not a single race. They evolved independently in the strange environment of the parent star. They were born with several kinds of creatures with essential differences, although they all have the shape of humans and walk upright. , But that is the result of being disturbed by the information of the star field. If you put the together of the Greek people who belong to different tribes of the two mother star eras, you will definitely think that they are Alien from two planets!
This may also be an ancient cause of the "branch tribe" of Xiling Apostle today.
Xi Ling civilization is a relatively rare "multi-species mixed civilization", that is, multiple distinct species of wisdom originated on the same planet, and have reached the stage of civilization, and finally formed a mixed civilization, they are compatriots , Is a sibling under the same civilization, but its life form has reached the point where they think each other is Alien-it is so exaggerated.
This kind of "multi-species mixed civilization" is probably very new in the conventional world outlook of earthling, but for me, this concept is not the first appeared, look at the species composition of the Salvation Army: they are from the same A planet. This is the case with the Greeks. They are composed of several distinct intelligent species-these intelligent species at the same time are also the template for the future Xiling Apostle.
Like many ordinary races, the major races on the original parent star also experienced wars at the first contact, and due to the fundamental difference in the life form, these wars are extremely tragic-Ancestor Anthus is talking about During the period of history, some names were constantly mentioned: Scorpio, Safa, Storm-these are the mother star groups in ancient times. When the Xiling civilization has not yet formed a unified whole, this planet has been cultured by several The species segmentation dominates, and its division and opposition are even far better than the most chaotic era of on the Earth.
But just like the ordinary race who persisted to the Universe era, after the initial war - fusion, the Greeks or successfully changed from opposing ethnic groups into a unified civilization and began to explore their Universe.
The "multi-species mixed civilization" has a unique advantage, that is, they develop faster in the field of scientific research and exploration, so the Greeks have mastered superb aerospace technology in a short period of time and are exposed to After the material World limit began to study how to jump out of their Universe-and the disaster came suddenly at at this moment.
The abyss that broke out in an inland colony destroyed this promising civilization almost instantaneously and crossed the final line of defense of the parent star in a short time.
This outbreak of at the same time in the abyss is also the original source of Xiling Apostle's "origin hatred".
Despite the stubborn resistance of the Greeks, with their power, they are not yet ready to fight against the enemy such as the abyss. Coupled with the huge scale of the Abyss power faced by the original mother star at that time, the Greeks finally had to Accept the fact that their Universe is slowly collapsing, and that any fleet and artillery are ineffective against such infamous enemies.
The Xiling people used the last resources and the time they fought to create an ark that can cross Void. On the day when the original parent star was completely covered by the abyss, they began to escape from their hometown Universe: This is the Xiling civilization throughout history face For the first and last time the abyss broke into the abyss, and the birth of Xiling Apostle was shortly after that.
"We are losing ground in the process of fighting the abyss. It is an" enemy "that cannot be explained with common sense. It is invisible, intangible, and unanalyzable." After the first half of the talk, he finally talked about the abyss war and the birth stage of Xiling Apostle, "We do n’t even know it is a certain kind of evil enemy, or just an irresistible natural phenomenon in Universe, we only know that in the end everything is It became an enemy: the longer the battle with the abyss, the stronger the hostile forces we faced. This was a battle that was impossible to win from the beginning. In the end, the coalition government had to decide to give up its homeland and jump out of Universe. "
"This must have been a very risky move in those days." Shandora nodded and said.
"Yes, adventure, extreme adventure," Anthers exhaled. "We have not fully mastered the technology of jumping out of World-about the precise model of multiverse, the indescribable and dangerous environment between multiverse, And how to conduct a controlled navigation between World, these technologies are all in the exploration stage, we just know that there is a broader space in addition to our World, and we just know how to use a mathematical rate device to generate a Void environment The order field of survival, the war against the abyss has reached the stage of having to escape.
After the first batch of arks left, there was no audio. The high-power communication antennas we equipped for it failed in the Void for a short time. The second batch of arks used new discontinuous communication technology. It was leaving. After his hometown, he maintained a a period of time connection with base, but soon lost the news-it seems that the attempt to jump out of Universe is like suicide, but there is no other way, we must continue to launch the ark. There is no time to study a stable navigation plan, and there are not enough resources to launch more unmanned test ships. The coalition government has already abandoned the mother star defense circle. In the last period of time, the Xilin clan shrank in the galaxy. In the last colony on the other end, watching the whole Universe slowly collapse in front of my eyes, the starlight from the deep space probe is getting dimmer day by day, and the light and shadow between the nebula are twisting and crazy every day. We are in such an environment. All things at hand are made into an ark, no matter whether these simple things can persist in Void until they reach the next safe World, they must run out without any doubt ... "
"Hometown World may be located at the cutoff point of the Void quadrant," Shandora suddenly whispered, "The only difference between navigating in the quadrant and cross-quadrant is the communication method. The communication system of the first ark must be Designed for continuous work in Void ', so after crossing the quadrant, those arks disappeared ... do n’t care about these, please continue. ”
Anthers nodded, he knows that most of him ca n’t understand Shandora's explained: "The last situation finally improved-the pressure of race extinction can make mortal collapse crazy, or it can give us the explosive power of desperate life, we Finally figured out the key to sailing in Void, and made rough navigation equipment-sounds ridiculous? The ark that was originally launched was not even available for navigation equipment, just like the original man made, even rudder and sail Like no canoe, in Void can only drift forward, this is the original ark. "
After the new technology came out, it immediately became a manned spaceship: As we just said, we have no time and resources to conduct unmanned experiments. The abyss is pressing step by step. Any new technology must be transformed into a real thing as soon as it appears. Then send a group of brave volunteers. At that time we could not grasp the law of abyss propagation. Its non-linear propagation led to the possibility of extinction every day. Therefore, we can only send people out at such a chance to prevent the last ‘safe window’ from being missed. In the end, we feel that the last time has come, that the power of destruction is only half a light-year away from the final barrier, and there is no time to develop new navigation technology or build a new ship-the coalition government decided to launch all the spaceship manufactured, fully loaded Everyone who can take it, jumped into Void. "
Based on the experience of the pioneers using life, the last batch of arks barely moved forward in Void. We even got in touch with several spaceships that were launched earlier and successfully merged with them, but more early spaceship still has no news-they are like floating **** thrown into the turbulence to detect the water potential, they have been swept away by Void. "
Since that day, Xi Ling ’s hometown era is over, the coalition government announced a reorganization, and with the approval of the whole people, we abandoned the moderate federal and parliamentary system, and the entire civilization was transferred to imperialism-Xiling Empire was established on the Ark . "
In order to survive, we decided to abandon our interests as individuals and arm ourselves with this efficiency, obedience, solidarity, loyalty and bravery to this wandering civilization. Everyone knows that as a wandering civilization that may overturn at any time Only in this impersonal way can you survive. "
Despite fleeing the parent star, the anger of the Heroes ’revenge has never subsided. We remember the tragic history of the destruction of our homeland, and we have been trying to find out the truth of the disaster-scientists believe that Universe collapsed It is not a natural phenomenon. The hometown World was destroyed by something that is abnormal and does not belong to our Universe. During a long period of research, they finally determined that this thing came from outside the World, from the depth of Void, and in the Ark After the fleet encountered some Universe fragments, they determined that more than one World was destroyed by this force. This last point is very important: we thought that the destructive power disappeared after destroying the hometown World, but it still exists, and it is a common phenomenon in multiverse, which makes the Greeks in exile. Zhongneng has a continuous motivation: revenge. "
In the end, scientists decided to call this power: the abyss. "
No one still knows the properties of the abyss, whether the pattern attached to the two-dimensional plane is material or energy or something, but at least the object of revenge is unprecedentedly clear. Some other things happened to at this moment. We found that many shortcomings of ourselves as mortals will prevent us from persevering in exile for too long. We will be afraid, we will shrink, we will lose our fighting spirit over time, and most people ca n’t do it. 100% confession with others, it is difficult to trust each other absolutely. These shortcomings become more and more obvious as the exile continues-in this way, the qualitativeness of the abyss and the face of their own shortcomings work together to finally let The new government decided to create a new form of life and input all the materials of the Greek civilization into these new lifes to let them take over the flames. "
"Actually, the original project started as early as World in my hometown," Antherston paused and mentioned more secret. "That was when the hometown World battled the abyss. We found that the abyss was more likely to infect the will. Vulnerable ordinary people, so someone once proposed to make a ruthless combat weapon to replace ordinary people Soldier to fight the abyss. The name of the original body was also mentioned at that time, so it can be considered that the original body was The proposed project. Only because the war situation has turned sharply, we finally failed to make this ideal life, and in the early days of exile, due to survival above all else, this plan was temporarily put on hold, until later we have a chance to breathe , The original manufacturing plan was restarted. "
"This is the origin of Xiling Apostle." Ances exhaled and said wearily.
(It is said that the Xiling Empire bar is now organizing essay essays, and interested Apostle(s) can go to see it-just on the home page.)