Stellaris from the Automata Era

Then the protective shield expanded rapidly, eliminating everything that came into contact with it. No, it should be said that everything it came into contact with was broken into atoms.

It was not until it expanded to a diameter of several hundred meters that it seemed to rewind due to lack of energy.

After everything calmed down, Yan Luo and the box fell simultaneously in mid-air into the deep pit created by the explosion.

'boom'

Following the sound of something heavy falling to the ground, Yan Luo's voice was heard.

"It hurts.. um, doesn't it hurt?"

He almost forgot that this was a clone controlled by consciousness.

Originally, Yan Luo's clone should have been dissolved as well, but the sudden disaster seemed to subconsciously make him gather some instincts of his body.

Psionics...after a long period of development, has finally shown uses other than mind connection.

The dazzling yellow power now materialized around his body like a shield, which might be the real reason why his body did not perish along with it.

Also, because they do not have the fragile flesh of living creatures, they can ensure their safety even at heights that are enough to kill humans, and the pain of flesh and blood is beyond their reach.

"Sir!" It turns out that building a large enough laboratory does have its advantages. Even though it was dug out due to the accident just now, it has become a sphere of about 100 meters.

But it was a large building in itself. Rui, who had just been decomposed, directly replaced it with a new body and quickly chased to the scene of the accident.

After seeing that Yan Luo was still alive in the deep pit, she immediately slid down the edge like a slide.

"I'm so glad you're okay." Even though he knew the person before him wasn't the real one, he couldn't desecrate the clone.

If you think about it carefully, all human beings have been affected, and the death penalty will probably start.

But now is not the time to think about these things.

"Sir, the explosion reaction just now was identified as... the original magic element."

Chapter 274: Dragon and Observer

The first magic element...

This is the origin of the beginning of the extinction of mankind on Earth. From the moment the magic element descended on Earth, mankind was inevitably infected with the incurable white salt disease.

Even subsequent conjunctivitis and other diseases can be considered as variants induced by it.

Precisely because of its powerful destructive power on humans, after the humanoids took over human society, they have been committed to collecting it completely and exiling it back to its original world.

The human-shaped magic essence of today is derived from the original magic essence, which has been rendered harmless after a series of cultivation and transformation.

"We should have returned it long ago, why can we see it here?"

Although there was no clue from the reactions of the surroundings, the initial magic element had already begun to infiltrate the laboratory.

As the humanoid who knows the most about magic elements, especially the scientist Rui, his authority is unquestionable.

But compared to investigating the reason why the magic essence came back in the first place, she must first deal with the consequences of the magic essence leak.

"My lord, we must seal off the entire laboratory, especially your clone. Although we cannot understand how your body escaped, as someone who has direct contact with the magic essence, we must deal with any remaining residue."

Even though tens of thousands of years had passed, it seemed that humans still couldn't escape from the fear of magic.

If it was in the past, it would be fine, as the magic element would not infect the inorganic human form, but now there is only one human left on Earth.

They must treat everything related to magic with caution, and past tragedies must not happen again.

Yan Luo could understand their mentality. After all, it was just a clone and would not affect the actions of the original body.

It’s okay to keep it here in the scientific research lab for the time being.

So after looking around, he quickly walked to the edge of the box. Now in the entire empty pit, it was the most conspicuous thing.

"We need to re-examine it carefully. It's likely responsible for the initial production of magic essence. It has the same function as YoRHa's black box core."

"Yes, we will treat it more carefully."

After Rui finished speaking, dense footsteps began to be heard around him.

I guess the huge vibration in the laboratory has attracted the attention of security and other types of humanoids.

In just less than a minute, the edge of the deep pit above Yan Luo was filled with human figures.

Looking at the people who had arrived, Rui started his hosting work directly.

"Seal off the entire lab. From now on, only entry is allowed, no exit. Also, inform the higher-ups that we need to reactivate the humanoid and observer models of the magic element collection series!"

Perhaps after she finished speaking, she remembered that the current decision maker was Yan Luo, so she quickly turned around and explained to the humans.

"The magic element collection model is what we use to exile these unstable magic elements. As for the observer... sir, I may need to re-examine the situation in the other world. The original magic element cannot appear for no reason."

"Collector model and observer model?"

Yan Luo, who had once taken supplementary courses on the history of humanoids, still had some impression of them. In terms of time, they appeared at a time when the humanoid army was at its strongest.

At that time, the humanoids not only dealt a heavy blow to the vitality of mechanical life, but also recovered a lot of lost territories occupied by aliens.

Their main battlefield during that period was the tidally locked "Kingdom of Night" of eternal night.

To cope with specialized environments, a model called the 'Dragon' appeared on the battlefield, and the 'Observer' model was also created at the same time.

Because of the keyword "dragon", Yan Luo was able to remember it as well.

It can be seen that the humans at that time still had enough energy to do other things after dealing with the aliens.

But the situation took a sharp turn for the worse afterwards. According to the action records handed over by N2, it was obvious that during the same period, the aliens completely gave up micro-control of the battlefield.

All war commands will be fully handed over to their command network, namely N2.

Then the humanoids began to gradually lose their dominant position. After struggling for a long time, with the shortage of supplies, many of their incredible plans came to a halt.

This includes the black technology of "parallel world observation".

"Speaking of which, I've always had a question. According to the Fallen, there's no such thing as a parallel world. So, what were you observing?"

really..

It can be seen here that the human form theory and the fall create an essential paradox.

From a feeling point of view, Yan Luo actually didn't know who to trust, but... being able to calculate pi accurately to the end of the cycle represents the top of technology, and Fall seems to be more reliable.

But a humanoid figure with magic also represents a lot of uncertainty.

Even Rui, an authority in humanoid science (magic) and law, finds it difficult to explain such a question.

But she still gave a good explanation.

“My Lord, I am not sure who is right between us or the other party. After all, science is always accompanied by misunderstandings and errors. It is difficult to make inferences before seeing the essence.

And this time, restarting the observer will allow us to re-examine the original omissions, and perhaps it can also repair the errors in scientific and technological theories. After all, we haven't even explored the universe before."

The technological model of humanoids is really easy to use. Compared to other lying humanoids, this type of model may be the most energetic in the entire humanoid group.

This made Yan Luo feel relieved.

"Just go ahead and do it. I'll take care of the rest for you. It seems I'll also take care of the finality of your accident."

It has indeed been dealt with.

This time, due to his carelessness in researching the accident, he has been implicated.

Even though it is just a clone at present, it can be regarded as the real body with the blessing of Yan Luo's consciousness.

What responsibility does the main criminal need to bear for human harm?

Anyway, the punishment is definitely not to send him to his room, so that's already a reward for the T-doll, okay?

In short, the most likely punishment would be starting with the death penalty and going up to the destruction of the relevant models.

The only science... He meant that a god-level scientist cannot be defeated like this.

"Anyway, I'll leave it all to you. Just tell me if you need anything. Oh, and don't stop researching the box."

Yan Luo was frantically adding to the burden, and after giving the instructions, he quickly switched his consciousness and went to his main body to comfort the other humanoids.

The results of the research on the box seemed to come out faster than he had imagined.

Chapter 275: Another box was discovered

About two days passed, and after Yan Luo had dealt with those more intimate humanoids, the chief researcher Rui also finished his research on the box.

Although she had promised Yan Luo that the research would be conducted cautiously, in fact, what she meant by caution was just finding a larger laboratory.

At the same time, the extra personnel were evacuated, and then no one cared about it at all. The scientific experiments went on as usual, and the body was destroyed.

No, why does this behavior look like Mao-style bomb disposal?

After two bursts of magic, which made the restarted collection models complain bitterly, they finally cracked the information hidden in the box.

"Just as we expected, this is indeed an information storage device."

According to scientists, as an information storage medium, the box itself should be a harmless device.

There's not even any mention of self-destruction in it.

As for why it caused such a huge deep pit in the laboratory?

That means there is another explanation.

"Because the magic energy it uses is different. It... uses the original magic energy to drive it! Our magic energy is completely incompatible. The magic energy burst is entirely because it needs to convert and expel the excess magic energy."

Although the names of human-shaped magic elements and the original magic elements are the same, they are already very different from each other.

It can be understood as the difference between original and fan work, using the magic elements of humanoid secondary creations to create original magic items.

That's fans forcing the official to use high voltage electricity to power household appliances. I just want to ask you if it will explode or not.

After the reverse transmission, the redundant magic elements will inevitably go through a transformation process. After all, mysticism is originally about the lower level submitting to the higher level, and theoretically, mutual fusion is possible.

The bad thing is, the two magic elements are actually in the same position...

Even if it's a knockoff, you can't call it an AK56 when you see the Type 47. (The Type 56 rifle is an AK knockoff. It looks and acts like an AK, but the problem is it's not called an AK...it has its own name and is recognized.)

Therefore, the two kinds of magic power not only determine the superiority but also life and death. Fortunately, there must be built-in protection measures, and the box, unable to bear the weight, directly expelled them all.

"In the end, we used the magic essence we collected to open it."

"So what do we get in the box?"

"It's a star map."

Rui turned on the projector and played images of the entire universe.

It seems... that more and more people are sending maps to Yan Luo recently...

"Different from what we got from 11b, this is an unfamiliar star region, a more distant location, 8000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus."

I have heard that human scientists in the old days once observed a replica of the solar system.

And I have always suspected that there is a system similar to the Dyson sphere there.

So it has always been one of the evidences for suspecting extraterrestrial life.

Speaking of which, Yan Luo has always wanted to complain. People at that time didn’t even discover the nearest habitable star. How could they break through the limit of the speed of light and see the habitable star above at a distance of 8000 light years?

Even though the Earth is now striding towards the universe, we can only investigate galaxies one by one.

The greatest black technology of emotions has always been ancient (modern), right?

"Eight thousand light years is a bit far."

Yan Luo stared at the star map and said helplessly.

Before, a one-way trip to Maomeng would take them at least half a year, and that was a direct flight across 3,000 light years in the subspace.

If we use super-space technology, because of its winding and roundabout nature, it seems to take longer than sub-space at present.

As for the 8,000 light-year-long Cygnus, I'm afraid we should also start with years.

But the problem is that no matter how far the journey is, he seems to be willing to go.

If he thought about it carefully, these items seemed to be marking the mission locations for him. There must be some conspiracy involved, right?

Yan Luo didn't seem to make up his mind immediately.