Chapter 99: The End of Civilization
"We once tried to establish a trajectory across the stars... but it led us to this graveyard."
Some of Lin's soldiers were checking the corpses of various creatures. These corpses were all wrapped in "bubbles" and floating in the dark space.
None of these corpses were any of the land creatures that Lin had seen in the shadows of the void, and many of them were huge in size. The largest one Lin discovered was even larger than the size of a giant star cloud. This creature was more than ten kilometers long, and its appearance looked like a large number of glowing stones. These stones attracted each other with a mysterious force to form a huge whole. There were also creatures that looked like a ball of black shadow that would disperse and gather, and some that looked like flames, or like a compressed tumbler.
Most of the creatures in the bubbles are strange and interesting. Lin doesn’t have a very detailed understanding of them yet. What is more certain is that they should have stopped their life activities.
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But there is one creature that Lin found to be easier to understand.
Because they are not a few corpses floating in a bubble, but an entire civilization.
At least most of this civilization.
This kind of creature is called "Star-Walking People". They are relatively small creatures that Lin has seen here. They are only more than ten meters tall. Their general shape is like a tall and thin Ershi people. They have similar forelimbs and fingers, but Star-Walking People have no legs. They mainly move by floating.
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When Lin first discovered them, she found the Star Walkers and their aircraft in some bubbles. Their aircraft looked like a square stone several kilometers in size, with the surface covered with circular grooves, and there was a Star Walker in each groove.
They are not inside the ship, but usually stay in the grooves of the Star Walker's hull.
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When Lin first encountered them, she thought they were individual creatures, but after careful study, she found that they were a kind of "composite creatures" with a very interesting civilization. For example, the tall and thin Ershi people Lin saw were called Star-Treading People. They were actually a kind of "basic parts" in the assembly. They had almost no thinking ability but played a decisive role, which was to provide the "direction" of the assembly, such as war, exploration, detection, etc.
As for the aircraft they ride on, they are larger components.
Most things in the Star-Stepping Civilization have 'slots' that can be put into Star-Stepping People. For example, if this aircraft puts a Star-Stepping People, which represents 'war', into the groove, it will start looking for war-related components, such as weapons, etc., to install on itself, and finally assemble itself into a complete war machine.
The society of the Star-Treaders is made up of a large number of "assemblies". A basic component will first be installed on the Star-Treaders to determine its own development direction. Sometimes other assemblies will help it install it, and then the parts will be spliced in this direction to finally become a complete assembly.
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An assembly can also be disassembled at any time, and its parts can be combined into other assemblies. Generally speaking, they will assemble what civilization needs.
At the same time, each component has its own intelligent system, but the basic components do not have much thinking ability. They have to be equipped with Star-Steppers and combined with other components into a complete assembly to obtain complete thinking, and will only do and think about things related to their responsibilities. For example, a war machine assembly will only think about combat matters.
These assemblers do not call themselves "Star Walkers". They only call the "basic parts" that provide their assembly direction and thinking "Star Walkers".
Lin speculated that these assemblies themselves were a kind of intelligent machines. They were the main technology of the Star-Walking Civilization. However, it was unknown when the assemblies and the Star-Walking Civilization began to... merge.
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The Star-Walking People provide thinking, and the Assembled Bodies provide countless different forms of bodies, which allows their civilization to develop rapidly, but it also enters a rather strange state. Once dispersed, neither the components nor the Star-Walking People themselves have complete thinking abilities, and they need to be combined together before they can think.
In short, this civilization seems to be a civilization with a vast territory, probably the size of several galaxies. Although each assembly has its own thoughts, they never have any individual interests. In order to meet the needs of the development of civilization, they can be disassembled and reassembled at any time to play various roles. Because of this, they develop very rapidly.
Their 'ambition' before their demise was to launch 'interstellar travel'.
It seems that like many civilizations, this civilization also wants to transform itself into a civilization that roams in the void rather than living a fixed life.
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The plan was mainly to use different star systems as anchors and the gravity between them as tracks to design a giant transport ship that could move long distances. And they did succeed. They assembled the largest assembly in history, which was somewhat similar in shape to the train built by Lin, but was larger.
This transport ship was actually constructed by combining almost all the assemblies in their civilization territory. They began to use this giant vehicle to move in the void, but it drove into the shadow of the void.
They recorded the process of entering the void shadow in a very vivid way, as if the entire starry sky was distorted at that time and turned into a huge dark passage.
The Star-Walking Civilization that entered here began their exploration in the shadows of the void, and finally arrived at this place, which is this dark star that serves as the entrance to the dark side.
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They also try to pass through the star into the dark side.
When they reached the dark side of the void, they found themselves completely trapped there, unable to leave. After a long period of time, there were no more active individuals in this civilization.
It’s just that their civilization is easier to investigate because there are huge transport ships containing the entire civilization in the bubble.
Lin also discovered that they also had some translation devices that could translate the languages of various land creatures. They were mainly used to communicate with local creatures when exploring the void shadows.
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Although the records of how they got trapped here were not very clear, Lin could roughly judge that they came in out of curiosity.
It’s just the same as Lin, and Lin thinks that the various creatures trapped in the bubbles here were also discovered out of curiosity and came in to explore. It’s just that the civilization of the Star-Trampling People is rather peculiar. They drove the transport ships carrying the entire civilization into the dark side, which is quite strange.
There are many smaller exploration ships trapped in bubbles around the transport ship. These were also some of the first ones discovered by Lin. After studying them, Lin found that they have the technology to move in the dark side to a certain extent. To be precise, they do not move by themselves. The bubbles here will float automatically, and they can confirm the direction of the floating.
They originally set their sights on a somewhat peculiar location.