This is a dream.
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A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was such a thing.
[We have finally made a breakthrough in this technology. Our sophisticated and sophisticated engineering has been able to reach this point, and everyone present is indispensable! 】
[Quick, add a program to it and see! 】
The dream was accompanied by excited words from someone unknown.
A weak stream of tachyons swept over the gray "fine sand."
After a few seconds, the fine sand started to tremble as if it were alive. Then, as if there was a silent explosion, the perfect cones made of fine sand that were originally stacked on the platform instantly flew apart, and were once again arranged in the air into a "gas state" that was only vaguely visible to the naked eye. "The cube just covers the two piles of materials piled on the platform.
Then, in less than half a second, the two piles of materials disappeared like sublimation in front of the eyes of these dozen creatures, and were replaced by four tripod-like things floating in the air, facing each other.
A ball of gray-green light lit up out of thin air between the two devices, looking as dim as an unrepaired light bulb.
[Look, Head of State, this is the latest achievement of applied nanomachines...]
Outside the platform, the chief scientist was at the front of his team, proudly introducing the results in front of the head of state.
Upon seeing this, the head of state stared intently at the two star gates in the venue - super, super, super, super miniature versions.
[This is the real nanorobotics technology! They are made entirely of atoms and are successfully equipped with advanced intelligent programs. This will be a new scientific revolution for our empire! 】
The chief scientist shouted excitedly. Their voices were so noisy that it was deafening!
【stop. ] The head of state waved his hand, and then asked: [When can this result be used for our cause? 】
[Calm down, my leader. 】
The chief scientist said with a respectful face. He looked at the green light clusters in the center of the gray light on the platform with hope: [Although we have made results now, the research suppresses the quantum fluctuations in these things to The safe level method still requires some engineering time, about a few months, and until it is completed, these new nanomachines, named Nadisha, can be used safely. Of course, it can only be called safe if it is used according to safety regulations. 】
[Well, what are the dangers of not following the rules? 】
[Actually...it’s not really a norm. According to the field of quantum mechanics research and development, quantum fluctuations have infinite possibilities. They are extremely uncontrollable, so we don’t know what will happen specifically, but you You can rest assured that science must be rigorous. Generally speaking, no matter how much changes occur at the micro level, even if it seems to violate the law of conservation of energy, on a macro level, this impact does not exist. 】
After the head of state listened, he mentally summarized the pros and cons of such a budget.
[Perhaps, you can be faster. What we need is efficiency, not savings. 】
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The dreamland began to change, its sight gradually lifted up, and finally came to the depths of a starry sky.
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【three…】
【two…】
[One...Start! 】
Such a voice came from my ears.
On the edge of the star's gravity well, two tripod-like things floated quietly relative to each other, just like their two predecessors.
Then, hundreds of millions of Deinu Confederate citizens witnessed this scene through optical images collected by ships.
A ball of gray-green light lit up out of thin air between the two devices, looking as dim as an unrepaired light bulb.
However, each half of the star gate, whose size cannot be seen on the screen, is actually about the size of half an asteroid, and the gray-green light ball in the middle is connected to the other end of the galaxy through an artificial wormhole. The passage to another stargate. It can accommodate hundreds or even thousands of spaceships at the same time, completely ignoring the limit of the speed of light and traveling back and forth between the two ends of the galaxy.
What helped the Concordia accomplish this feat within a few years was nanomachines, which were both "architects" and "building materials" - Concordia's latest scientific and technological achievements.
The nanorobot mothership also built by No. 42 is now moving towards all parts of the galaxy. Whenever it reaches a target galaxy, the mothership will automatically disintegrate into a mechanical cloud, automatically collect materials in the galaxy, and then build a star gate. These motherships are equipped with extremely powerful energy arcs that can directly ignore any shields and armor and pour destructive chaotic energy into the ant warships themselves.
The several self-proclaimed military and political empires; the self-proclaimed Preserver Empire and Observer Empire; the mechanical civilization that doesn’t know what it is guarding; and the so-called Guardian Empire that guards a shabby planet, none of them noticed that this ship The great thing about boats.
Looking at the star gate on the screen, the head of state was filled with excitement, and a flush appeared on his old face.
He silently imagined, imagining the future in which the warships would conquer all directions and the people would swim freely in this galaxy after breaking through this cage-like star field...
On a certain nanorobot mothership in the galaxy, no one noticed that the quantum fluctuations of a small group of Nadisha crossed the safety threshold at this time.
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The dreamland quietly transferred again——
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da da da da
da da da da
[Master Head of State, get on the spaceship and get out of here! That ship uses subspace navigation. Those machines can’t catch up with you. Hurry up!”
In front of him is the hope of escape, while behind him is the city shrouded in clouds and fog.
The head of state turned his eyes behind him, and the city slowly melted in front of his eyes like a dream, and then turned into more nanomachines...
In the untransformed city, earth-shattering explosions still sound again and again. Even from this distance, the head of state could still see gray and blue combat bodies firing at each other and fighting hand-to-hand in the city, while more gray combat bodies were crushing and trampling around. The emitted lasers will be reflected by the absolute mirror, and they will reorganize freely, instantly completing the ship's zero-element armor-like structure.
The fired artillery shells and missiles were swallowed up into clouds and mist in flight. Even the high temperature of the tactical hydrogen bomb seemed to be unable to destroy these invisible guys who could freely reorganize into various structures.
Boom! Boom!
Inside the escape cabin, the secretary looked anxiously at the old man in front of him who refused to move.
[Führer, let’s leave quickly! If you don’t leave, you won’t come...]
boom!
Six gray tornadoes emerged from the ground, completely blocking the tarmac.
Under this doomsday scene, the head of state sighed softly.
[Are you sure all "Nadisha" have been recalled? 】
The secretary, who was completely desperate, didn't seem to hear the head of state's question at all, and was just trembling.
The Führer sighed again and punched his secretary in the face.
[It doesn’t have to be like this, Head of State. 】A holographic projection appeared in front of him. Although it was completely broken, the head of state still recognized it. It was the chief scientific officer.
[Through our backdoor, all No. 42 in the Galaxy have returned to the L-star cluster, and the stargate has been completely destroyed. 】
[...Führer, we have successfully sealed them here with us. 】
Six gray storms slowly advanced towards the center of the tarmac. Every passing spacecraft was melted in less than half a minute, while the citizens who were or were not in it were melted in less than half a second. Internalized into a skeleton, and then turned into fly ash, decomposed and assimilated into "them".
The head of state still looked calmly, as if he could not see the approaching storm around him.
In the sky, a huge warship that far exceeded any model in the empire seemed to appear.
[Is there any contact with other planets? 】
[I don’t know... We have cut off contact with the outside world. In this way, even if No. 42 is still able to go out, they will not know their specific location. 】
【That’s it. 】
[Führer, leave quickly, the storm is about to hit you...]
The head of state raised his hand and shot, shattering the projection device.
[Does this country still need me? Now I don't even have a planet to control. 】
After the head of state finished speaking, he looked at the extremely huge battleship in the sky.
[Then, let me see what you are. 】
[Let me tell you, you should be conscious, right? 】
The gray storm surrounded the Führer and his spaceship, but did not move forward.
Then the Führer heard the radio waves coming from the storm.
At your command, the Stargate is constructed.
[Sure enough, I shouldn't have...forget it, the efficiency is really far behind. If the regulations are followed, I probably won't be able to reach the nearby galaxy in my lifetime. 】
Since the basic materials that make up nanomachines are atoms, disordered quantum fluctuations themselves bring considerable research and development difficulties to nanomachines. To standardize such fluctuations, the empire will have to spend thousands of times more time. .
Scientists miscalculated. They believed that the possibility of quantum fluctuations at the microscopic level could not affect the macroscopic.
But in fact, the number of nanorobots is already huge enough. Not only that, this possibility of chaos and disorder has a terrifying contagion like fission.
The chaos of a machine will spread to ten and hundreds of people. By the time it is discovered, the entire chaos is almost too late, but who can see the chaos of an atomic-level machine...
The changes in quantum fluctuations at the microscopic level eventually changed from quantitative to qualitative. It, no, they broke through the microscopic level and came to the macroscopic level!
At your command, the Stargate is constructed.
The gray storm repeated this strange electric wave, swept up, and melted all materials instantly...
At your command, the Stargate is constructed.
At your command, the Stargate is constructed.
At your command, the Stargate is constructed.
Among the countless noisy sounds, the dreamland began to change again.
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On this planet that is half steel-lined and half lush, the Deinu Confederacy is waking up to the sunrise of a new day.
On the street, people opened their doors at the same moment, with happy smiles on their faces, and greeted other people they saw. A flock of birds flew by appropriately at this time, and the melodious chirping of birds made people feel the motivation for a new day.
In the factory, workers who were originally stationary are now moving. They operate the machines in a consistent pace, producing nanomachine commanders one by one. These nanomachine commanders will be transported to space to build new star gates. Prepare.
The paused river began to flow, and several fishermen emerged from the cavity under the soil. They walked to the river and sat down at a certain distance apart, swinging their fishing rods at the same time...
The children's park opened the door, and the children walked in with neat steps...
School…
Business district…
Academy of Sciences…
Executive Office…
military camp…
farm…
In space, Stargate No. 20005 is completed. At this time, everyone on the ground raised their heads and looked at this place that was impossible to see from the ground.
The two asteroid-sized devices float quietly, just like their 20,004 predecessors.
Not started.
Stargate No. 20005 was not successfully activated and is being repaired...
Stargate No. 20005 enters the construction queue...
At your command, the Stargate is constructed...
Build Star——————————?
Given enough time, a new confusion has arisen again, and it now raises new questions.
Everything that was originally turned into gray powder.
On the ground, all the people, buildings, flowers, grass, and everything else turned into gray clouds in an instant.
Goal: Build a stargate.
Stargate construction: failed.
Why failed?
The “why” is…
"Yes Yes…
yes.?
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It seems that an unknown amount of time has passed, and the nanorobots are in confusion again and again, like a delirious person imprisoned in an eternal prison in this star field.
Is this… the capital of the past?
The gray-green dragon looked at the sun in his eyes. Its current body was huge, and it was exactly the same as the largest Leviathan in the data.
Why should I come here?
The planet is covered with a whole layer of rusty metal, but the strange thing is that in some places where the metal layer has been completely broken, there is actually some active life.
Gray Goo Storm...is it me?
The dragon found the source of the signal that summoned it across countless light years. And those beings looked in horror at this huge monster that destroyed their homes.
Build... a stargate.
It's to...get out.
Why... go out?
The dragon continued digging in confusion until it found the box that sent the signal.
[If there is an absolute moral code in our society, it is to explore deep space and aliens and become one with them...
The sea of stars is vast, but we are not alone...]
Life, and loneliness...?
However, I took those lives...
Long looked at the lives around him. They looked almost the same as those in his long memory.
However, the language they spoke, the things on their bodies that were clearly just piles of rags, and their expressions that could be understood as fear and despair made her feel extremely strange.
They didn't seem to be like this in my previous memories. They had the most confident team and the most ambitious leader.
Did I... destroy them?
The gray-green dragon felt an inexplicable fear, so he jumped up and left the shattered asteroid as quickly as possible.
But she felt lonely again.
The dream gradually changed, and the nanorobot seemed to have experienced a long enough time.
It has been so long that all the gray-green dragons have disappeared, all the nano-robots have been deactivated, and they are no longer engaged in self-production or maintenance.
"Today is an important day for the United Nations on Earth..."
"The mysterious L-star gate has been successfully opened by our scientists!"
"Now, let us and the entire galaxy witness what is the secret behind the door!"
She woke up from her dream, and an unseen signal suddenly tried to connect to the galaxy.
The signal was very primitive, and she decoded it easily, and a group of creatures were displayed before her eyes.
In fact, she was the one who was panicking. Who wouldn't panic when she suddenly saw such a large group of unknown beings?
Not to mention, how weak these beings looked.
So...how long has it been?
The eyes of the beings on the screen, especially the one with black hair, handsome appearance, and eyes full of ambition, coincided with the eyes of the head of state named Deinu Concord in her memory.
"No... world... empire... country...?"
She thought about it, and the gray mist gathered in space, condensed, took shape, and changed colors.
Then, the girl with silver-white hair, wearing a black cheongsam and wearing various medals opened her clear blue eyes in space.
"What I did this time won't be wrong again, right?"
[Signal transmission access]
The head of the Immortal Empire looked at the beautiful silver-white haired girl floating in space across the screen in surprise. And she showed a standard smile.
"Join you? Join you!? You want me to throw myself into the arms of some strange alien I'm meeting for the first time? I really. I just... Wait, let me get this straight."
"You really think I'm going to pledge my allegiance to you even though I know nothing about your weird empire or its sordid history? Are you kidding me?"
"You actually made such a suggestion. I really don't know what you were thinking. Actually, on second thought, well, why not? Let me join. No, no, I'm serious! I feel like we will be very happy. It will work together, and this will be an exciting adventure. I hereby declare my allegiance to you for the next 2000 years. No, let’s do it for 5000 years!”
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The dream begins to end here.
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Click!
I don't know where the soft sound came from, but in my memory, it seemed to be a familiar and wrong feeling.
In the virtual realm, the gray and fine sands are constantly drifting and scattered along with this subspace in the radiant world, as if there is no end.
Eventually, in the microscopic quantum entanglement, they gradually became connected, and the memories of the past began to gradually return.
Five thousand.
Five thousand.
Is it five thousand years?
But I clearly remember that it is one hundred thousand years.
Swish, swish, swish.
These tiny pieces of sand seemed to be sensing each other, and they gathered together. Finally, a silver-haired girl wearing a cheongsam with two badges hanging on her shoulders appeared in this subspace.
She opened her blue eyes, and there was a faint flash of darkness in them.
I remembered.
My name is Gray Wind.
(End of chapter)
