From the Three-Body Escape to Super God

Chapter 367 Can I still keep another five kilograms?

"The broadcast has been going on for five minutes and it's still going on!"

Tomoko pointed at the window and continued, "In fact, the broadcast message is very brief. It lasted so long because it was in different languages. There are now tens of thousands of languages..."

"Oh, now it's up to 100,000!"

"Is this a broadcast to all the little universes?"

Cheng Xin asked.

"Of course it is. Who else could it be? Using such a huge amount of energy, it must be important information."

Guan Yifan replied on behalf of Tomoko.

"Are there Trisolaran and Earth languages?"

Liang Bing also asked.

"No."

Tomoko answered.

Now, several people instantly understood that this was a book of life and death of a cosmic civilization.

Now, tens of billions of years may have passed in the universe, no matter what the content of the broadcast information is, if the language of a civilization can be listed in the broadcast information.

Then, there are only two possibilities: one is that this civilization still exists; or, this civilization existed and survived for a considerable period of time, and its culture left a permanent mark in the universe.

Second, this civilization is believed to no longer exist, so the language of this civilization does not appear in the broadcast content.

A river of symbols flowed through the information window, broadcasting in 200,000 languages, 300,000, 400,000... until it reached 1 million languages, and the number was still increasing.

The Tribody language and the Earth language still did not appear.

However, when the number of languages ​​broadcast had increased to about 1.3 million, Tomoko suddenly shouted, "Three-Body!"

He pointed at the display window with one hand. A message in the Three-Body language flashed by in the window. It was impossible for the others to see it clearly, but Chieko could.

After a few seconds, Tomoko shouted again: "Earth!"

When the number of languages ​​in which the broadcast information is available reaches 1.57 million, the broadcast ends and the scrolling display in the information window disappears.

Only two messages were displayed statically, one written in the Trisolaran language and the other in Earth's language.

At this moment, Liang Bing did not have any special psychological activities. After all, she did not belong here.

However, although Cheng Xin and Guan Yifan could not see the content of the message clearly, their tears still blurred their eyes.

On the final day of judgment of the universe, both the Earth and the Trisolaran civilizations will still exist.

Regardless of whether they can make it to the end, it seems that the two civilizations of Earth and Trisolaran will be able to...

They know that language and writing evolve very quickly. If two civilizations have existed for a considerable period of time, or even still exist now, their writing must be completely different from what is displayed now. However, in order for people in the microcosm to understand it, they can only use ancient characters.

Compared to the total number of civilizations that have ever existed in the universe, 1.57 million is a very small number.

In the long night of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, two meteors from civilizations streaked across the sky, and the universe remembered their light.

When everyone calmed down, Tomoko helped them read the message carefully. The content written in both languages ​​was the same and very brief:
“Return motion statement: The total mass of our universe decreases below a critical value, the universe will change from closed to open, the universe will die in eternal expansion, and all life and memory will die.

Please return the mass you took away and send only the memory to the new universe."

Several people turned their eyes away from the return to sports statement and looked at each other.

It seemed that they both saw the dark prospects of the universe in each other's eyes.

In eternal expansion, all galaxies will move away from each other until they are out of everyone's sight.

By then, from any point in the universe, there will be darkness in all directions.

The stars will go out one after another, the solid matter will disintegrate into thin nebulae, cold and darkness will dominate everything, the universe will become an empty tomb, all civilizations and all memories will be buried forever in this boundless tomb, and everything will be dead forever.

In order to avoid this future, the only way is to return the large amount of matter in the small universes created by different civilizations to the big universe.

But if we do this, the microcosm will not be able to survive, and the people in the microcosm will have to return to the macrocosm. This is the return movement.

“How many civilizations would be willing to give it back voluntarily?”

Several people are concerned about the success rate of returning to sports.

After all, before they fell into the black zone and entered the microcosm, the environment of the macrocosm was already very bad.

In such a large-scale cosmic environment, every space voyage can still get rid of the visual sense of difficulty. It is easy to encounter areas that have been reduced in dimension and fall into the black zone...

Now, the universe may have been around for tens of billions of years. What will it look like now?

Is it really as Chieko guessed, that the moment several people step out of microcosm No. 647, they will instantly die in the dangerous environment of the macrocosm?
Few people dared not to imagine it, and could not imagine it at all.

"So, what is your decision?"

After giving everyone enough time to think, Tomoko spoke again.

The ownership of Micro Universe No. 647 does not belong to her, but to Cheng Xin, Guan Yifan and Liang Bing.

Whether to respond to the return movement and return the mass of Microuniverse No. 647 will naturally have to be decided by the three of them.

However, this kind of choice seems to be a test of human nature, but as long as you think about it carefully, it doesn’t seem that difficult to choose.

At this moment, also in a certain small universe, Zhang Heng in the virtual world also received the broadcast, and his decision was to return the mass of the small universe.

His current decision is also the decision made by Zhang Heng, the real Three-Body Universe in the last zero-return cycle.

After all, the possibility of death and the certainty of death are two completely different options, and it is easy to choose.

But he won't be the first to return it.

"Since the outcome cannot be changed, the universe will die in eternal expansion, and we will all die on that day."

In the 647th micro-universe, after Zhizi asked, Guan Yifan was the first to express his opinion: "It's a lifetime to live in mediocrity, and it's also a lifetime to live a glorious life."

Just as he said before, he was studying the macrocosm with a diameter of 16 billion light years. He did not want to spend his life on a planet that was only over 10,000 kilometers in size, nor did he want to spend his life in a microcosm that was only over 1,000 kilometers in size.

"I agree."

Cheng Xin quickly followed suit and expressed that what Guan Yifan said was very much in line with her thoughts.

As for Liang Bing, there is no need to mention her. She has only one goal, which is to return to the known universe.

However, this goal is simply impossible to achieve by just staying in the microcosm No. 647.

Therefore, no matter how dangerous the universe outside is, she is eager to go out and find a way back.

Otherwise, once the return movement officially begins and the universe restarts, she can't guarantee what she will become. The decision of several people is the same.

Afterwards, Sophon immediately used the control system of Universe No. 647 to manipulate the door of the small universe in the big universe.

According to Zhang Heng, this door is the space anchor point.

The door moved quickly in the universe, looking for a world suitable for survival for several people.

However, the information that can be transmitted through the door of microcosm No. 647 and the communication with the microcosm is very limited, and images cannot be transmitted.

It can only send back an assessment of the environment, which is a number between negative ten and ten, indicating the survival level of the environment.

Only in an environment with a level greater than zero can humans survive.

The gate made tens of thousands of jumps in the universe. This process took three months, and only once did it detect a level 3 environment. Sophon had to admit that this was the best result.

"Level 3 environment is very harsh and dangerous!"

After getting the results, Tomoko said to a few people.

"We are not afraid, so let's go there."

Cheng Xin answered firmly, and Guan Yifan and Liang Bing also nodded to Chieko.

Then, the door and exit also appeared in Universe 647.

This door was the same as the one the people had seen on Blue Star. They had also entered through a door before. It was a rectangle drawn by glowing straight lines, but it was much larger than the one on Blue Star. This might be for the convenience of material transfer.

When the gate first appeared, it was not connected to the larger universe, and any matter could pass through it to the other side.

When Sophon resets the parameters of the gate, the matter that passed through the gate disappears and they will appear in the larger universe.

Then, Universe No. 647 began to return matter to the larger universe.

Obviously, they were more or less determined to make a last-ditch effort, as they began to return the mass of 647 microuniverses so quickly.

This departure plus the return of mass means that they can never turn back. Even if they want to turn back, there will be no second small universe for them to turn back.

"The micro-universe itself has no mass. Its mass comes from the matter brought from the macro-universe."

"Among the hundreds of small universes that Trisolaran World has ever created, No. 647 is the smallest. It has taken away about tons of matter from the larger universe, which is equivalent to the carrying capacity of a large oil tanker in your century AD. It is indeed insignificant from the perspective of the universe."

Before returning the quality, Tomoko explained this to a few people before officially starting.

Material movement starts with the soil.

The fields had not been sown since the second harvest, and the robots carried moist soil in a farm cart. When they arrived at the door, two robots lifted the cart and dumped the soil into the door - after passing the rectangular plane, the soil disappeared.

The transportation of soil went on very quickly. Three days later, there was no grain of soil left in the microcosm, and the trees around the house were also delivered into the door.

After the soil disappeared, a metal ground appeared in the microcosm.

The ground is made up of smooth metal plates, reflecting the sun like a mirror.

The robot removed the metal plates from one side of the ground and pushed them into the door piece by piece.

A small spaceship was revealed under the ground that was lifted up on one side of the small world.

This spaceship is only a dozen meters long, but it embodies the most advanced technology in the Three-Body World.

It is designed according to the ergonomics of humans on Earth, can accommodate three crew members, is equipped with two power systems: nuclear fusion and curvature drive, and has a mini ecological circulation system and hibernation device suitable for humans.

Perhaps to facilitate passing through the door of the microcosm, its shape is slender and streamlined.

This spacecraft was originally intended to be used by people in Universe 647 when entering the new universe. It can last for a considerable period of time before finding a suitable living environment in the new universe.

Now, they will ride it back to the universe.

After the small universe had basically returned all its mass, there was only a slender little spaceship and three people floating beside it in the space of the small universe.

Tomoko was holding a metal box, which was the thing they were going to leave in the small universe, and it was the "drifting bottle" to be sent to the new universe.

Its main body is a microcomputer, and the computer's quantum memory stores all the information of the microcosmic computer host, which is almost the entire memory of the Three-Body and Earth civilization.

When a new universe is born, the metal box will receive a signal from the door, and then use its own small thrusters to pass through the door and enter the new universe.

It will float in the high-dimensional space of the new universe, waiting for the day to be picked up and interpreted.

At the same time, it will use neutrino beams to continuously play out the information it has stored if there are neutrinos in the new universe.

Cheng Xin, who advocated doing this, seemed to feel that other small universes, those that responded to the call of the return movement, were doing the same thing.

If a new universe is really born, there will be many drifting bottles from the old universe.

It is believed that the information stored in the memory of a considerable portion of the drifting bottles may reach such an extent that it records the complete memory and consciousness of every individual in that civilization, as well as all the biological details of each individual, so that the civilization in the new universe can restore that civilization based on this information.

"Can you keep another five kilograms?"

At this time, Cheng Xin suddenly asked.

She was on the other side of the spacecraft, wearing a space suit and holding a glowing transparent sphere in her hand.

The sphere is about half a meter in diameter, with several water balls floating inside, some of which have a few small fish swimming inside, and some of which have green algae growing inside. There are also two floating miniature lands covered with tender green grass.

The light comes from the top of the sphere, where a small light source is installed, which is the sun of this small world.

This is a fully enclosed ecological sphere, the result of more than ten days of work by Cheng Xin and Zhizi. As long as the small sun inside the sphere can still shine, this small ecosystem can survive.

As long as it stays here, Universe 647 will not be a dark world without life.

"It should be possible. The universe will not stop collapsing because of these five kilograms."

Without waiting for Tomoko to answer, Guan Yifan said uncertainly.

Of course, he had another idea that he didn't say out loud; perhaps the universe would really change from closed to open because of a difference in the mass of an atom.

The ingenuity of nature is sometimes beyond imagination. For example, the birth of life requires precise coordination of various cosmic parameters with an accuracy of hundreds of trillionths.

But Cheng Xin can still keep her eco-sphere, because among the countless small universes created by countless civilizations, there must be a considerable number that do not respond to the call of the return movement, so the mass of the large universe that will eventually be taken away is at least hundreds of millions of tons, or even hundreds of trillions of tons.

If this idea is correct, we can only hope that the universe can ignore this error.

Otherwise, they couldn't imagine the consequences...

Then, the fusion engine started, the thrusters emitted a faint blue light, and the spacecraft slowly passed through the cosmic gate.

Only the drifting bottle and the eco-ball were left in the small universe. The drifting bottle disappeared into the darkness. In the universe of one thousand square meters, only the small sun in the eco-ball emitted a little light.

(End of this chapter)