As dusk gradually approaches, a ray of rays of light in the distance has gradually retreated into the mountains, leaving only a little dark red afterglow shining on a small sky in the direction of the huge sunset, while a wider ink blue night is spreading from another direction. In the deeper night, starlight gradually appears, and the stars that people have looked up to for thousands of years are becoming more and more obvious in that ink blue.

Those bright spots that flash in the night sky carry the mortals of many magnificent imaginations and pastoral fairy tales? Perhaps even the most profound scholars of the Silver Empire cannot describe them one by one. The stars hang high in the sky, hanging high in areas that mortals cannot touch. The distant distance and eternal brilliance have a nearly divine meaning for the races bound by gravity on the earth. Therefore, since ancient times, countless divine stories have revolved around the stars and taken root in the hearts of mortals.

And these stories that describe the starry sky actually have nothing to do with the real and vast universe stars.

Amoen and Enya have personally confirmed that there is no kingdom of gods above the stars. The kingdom of gods is just a foreign space established by the thoughts of mortals. The countless stories pointing to the starry sky in the world are just a magnificent empty shell. For the universe outside this shell, mortals have never really come into contact with it, nor have they been prepared to contact it.

But the vast universe stars will not stop flashing due to the indifference of ordinary people - it is there, and everything in the depths of the starry sea is running endlessly. Now there is finally a sound that crosses the distance between the stars. Regardless of whether the races on this earth are ready, the sound has arrived.

Of course, all this is still unproven, but at least as far as Gao Wen himself is concerned... he believes that this voice is very likely to point to the starry sky.

After all, there are already starry sky visitors like Siren on this planet. The ancient fleet of the Dragon Clan even appeared in the records of the ancient Settlers and the alien coalition forces who embarked on an expedition with the fleet - so he was willing to believe that there were other intelligent creatures among the distant stars. They might have just opened their eyes and looked up at the sky, and are now sharing the world with the mortals of Loren.

The evening wind blew across the top of the Thorin tree and whizzed past the monitoring antenna. The giant magic net hub in the distance and the nearby monitoring antenna made a low buzzing sound. Belsetia seemed to suddenly wake up from her contemplation and said, "As for stars, astrologers have always had a vision beyond ordinary people. Since the age of Gondor, human magicians have successfully measured the distance between our planet and the sun and the ‘Ao’, and confirmed that the twinkling stars in the universe are all high-energy stars similar to the ‘Ao’. At about the same time, scholars of the silver elves made speculations, believing that our ‘Sun’ is actually a high-energy star that is similar to the ‘Ao’, but it is more gentle and does not burn violently..."

"I remember this. When I was a knight apprentice, my tutor brought a book from the city, which records a meeting held by human mages and elves, and debates about stars at the conference," Gowen nodded. "Scholars believe that it is precisely because of the gentleness of the sun that we can survive on this planet, and the excessive energy radiation of 'Ao's' will destroy any ecosystem close to it... On this basis, a Gondor magician once proposed the assumption that if there are also stars in the universe that are the same as our sun, without violently burning and suitable energy intensity, and there are solid-state satellites similar to ours in their appropriate orbits, then such an environment may give birth to alien life."

"No one knew the origin of the Siren in that era, no one knew that the mysterious creatures that lived in the deep sea came from the universe - even to this day, only a few people in the world knew this. This is because some popular science propaganda from Cecil was playing a role," said Belltila, sighing, "But in that era, the top scholars of the mortal countries had already turned their attention to the stars and even began to guess what those distant worlds looked like."

"But before they made further discoveries, the demon tide destroyed the powerful Gondor Empire. In order to make up for the huge scars left to this world after the demon tide, even the Silver Empire was dragged into a vortex that lasted for centuries, and all developments stagnated or even regressed for hundreds of years," Belsetia whispered softly, and the sound of Ye Hai flipping in the wind came from a distance. "Think about it now, it was a glorious but ignorant era. Our top layer had explored so far towards the truth deep in the world, but the main body of society had been stagnant. A demon tide came, and the Gondor Empire was instantly destroyed from the top magician to the bottom people - we knew nothing about the dangers of this world."

"I remember you described this situation accurately," Belltila suddenly looked at Gao Wen. "The top and bottom are seriously disconnected in the field of knowledge, and there is no connection between cutting-edge technology and social productivity... How do you say it?"

"The knowledge structure at the top and bottom levels completely lost its continuity, and cutting-edge technology could not be transformed into the productivity of the entire society, which eventually led to serious development imbalance, and the disaster resistance and recovery of civilization were greatly weakened. When a world-class disaster broke out, the only few upper-class elites were unable to protect the entire civilization, or even unable to protect themselves. Occasionally, the individuals who survived were unable to rebuild society due to the rupture of knowledge, which eventually led to the rapid destruction of the entire civilization - this was how the Gondor Empire ended," Gao Wen casually said the theory he had summarized at the beginning, and then looked at Belltila unexpectedly, "Have you seen the things I wrote?"

"...I'll take a look occasionally," Belltila said, seemingly unnaturally, "at least that will help me summarize how everything will die."

"...No matter what, reading more books is always good," Gao Wen touched the tip of his nose, then sighed, "Oh, it's a pity that many countries are still following such an old path..."

"After all, for the order created by the extraordinary, it is the easiest and safest choice to concentrate all knowledge and wealth on one point," Belsetia chuckled and shook her head. "Fortunately, Ansu has been reborn from the ashes, and Tifeng has carried out reforms earlier, and the Silver Empire...that group of parliamentarians have also become much more awake over the years."

Gao Wen did not respond for a moment, but looked into the distance with some trance, watching the edge of the canopy of the giant Thorin tree gradually being stained with silver light. After a moment, he suddenly said: "From a certain perspective, the demon tide in Gondor back then... might have saved the lives of all mortals in the whole world."

Belltila was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously: "Why do you say that?"

"On the eve of the demon tide, Gondor and the Silver Empire were already on the verge of exploring the starry sky. The magicians have theoretically analyzed too much knowledge about the stars - they just haven't taken that substantial step," Gao Wen frowned. His voice was calm and thought-provoking under the night sky. "And once that step is taken, the largest 'curtain' of mortals when they recognize this world will be lifted, which will lead to the ritual 'final disobedience' happening in advance, and the mortals at that time..."

Gao Wen did not continue, but Belsetia was already shivering. At this moment, the night wind had stopped, and a rustling sound of leaves shaking deep in the canopy of the giant Thorin tree. Belsetia was the first to break the silence: "So if the demon tide did not erupt, scholars from Gondor or the Silver Empire would be very likely to try to explore the starry sky... What happened to the dragon clan more than a million years ago would have happened to us!"

Gao Wen nodded slowly, his voice becoming particularly low: "But we may not have the good luck of the Dragon Clan. We can withstand the fusion of the gods at the critical point of being exterminated, and find opportunities in time to bow our heads to survive."

"So the demon tide back then was actually saving the entire mortal civilization from a macro perspective?" Belsetia widened her eyes, "It sacrificed the Gondor Empire, but protected all mortal kingdoms except the Gondor Empire. What do you mean?"

"Thinking of this way will make the Demon Tide seem to be an elaborate action. It is best not to make such assumptions in the absence of evidence," Gao Wen shook his head immediately. "Besides, even if it is really a 'handwriting' of some existence, we are destined to be unable to get an answer - the only one who can perform this 'take action' may be a god, and we cannot ask the gods for the situation."

He paused for a moment, and said in a strange tone: "At least there is no way to do it for the time being..."

While talking, he was secretly calculating in his heart. Though he thought that although it seemed that it was impossible to find someone to collect evidence for this matter, maybe he could try to ask Enya for the situation after going back... Although the retired dragon god could not do anything now, at least compared with his time on duty, she now has a high degree of freedom in words, and there are some things that can be asked directly.

Belltila didn't know what Gao Wen was thinking for the past few seconds of silence. She just asked curiously: "Then are we 'ready' now?"

"...No one knows, even I don't know," Gao Wenben can use his identity as an "outdoor roamer" here to be mysterious, but he looked at Belltilana's already heterogeneous figure and finally chose to tell the truth. "I once said that when it comes to divine disasters, many things cannot find an accurate 'variable'. We cannot predict the critical point of the gods' madness, nor can we calculate which step we need to do to prepare for 'final disobedience'... The only thing we can do is to do everything possible to check for omissions in the process of development, so that we can make our survival more likely when the 'that day' comes."

"This is not like what the terrible 'outsider' should say," Belsetia said suddenly, "but I feel a little relieved when I hear you say this."

Gao Wen smiled and did not respond to the other party. After thinking about it, Belltila spoke and brought the topic back to the "signal": "Do you think... if that signal really comes from Frost Sky, what kind of civilization would its sender be? I mean... what is its threat?"

"This is not easy to judge," Gao Wen frowned. "From common sense, they have the ability to send signals across such a long distance to our planet, which shows that they have more advanced technologies than us, at least more advanced communication and detection technologies. However, before we crack the transmission methods of those signals and improve our understanding of the stars, no one can be sure whether those "senders" send signals simply rely on powerful technology or environmental coincidences. Furthermore, communication and detection technologies are only one of many technologies, and they cannot be used to judge the sender's technical strength in other fields.

"To use an extreme point example, perhaps this communication method across the starry sky is actually incredibly simple. Even the primitive man carrying a stick can project his own ideas on the distant stars, and we just happened to have not discovered this simple principle..."

Belsetia thought for a while and couldn't help laughing: "Your example is too extreme."

"Example, just an example," Gao Wen raised his hand and waved it. "I just don't want you to be too nervous. There is another thing I need to correct... or just remind you that although the signal appears after the main antenna points to Frost Sky, it does not mean that it comes from Frost Sky."

"Frost Sky is just a constellation. The celestial bodies that make up it are very likely to be distributed in a very vast starry sky, and are distributed in three-dimensional ways. The celestial bodies that emit signals can only be said to be in the direction of Frost Sky, but where does it come from... it still requires astrologers to work hard to calculate. Now it is wrong to say that the signal comes from Frost Sky, which is astronomy-based."

Listening to Gao Wen's words, Belltila couldn't help but cover her forehead. Bellsetia, who was beside her, also muttered in a low voice: "I haven't heard Uncle Gao Wen's preaching for many years..."

Gao Wen: "…"

He was a little amused, but as a night wind blew across the treetops, his mood gradually relaxed a little.

"Maybe we're too nervous," he said, "it's just a sudden visit to our world, and judging by the large number of mathematical concepts it carries at the beginning, it's more like a 'greeting' to introduce itself, indicating to another group of wisdom in this vast dark universe that they are also a group of intelligent creatures that can communicate - I know this idea seems too optimistic, but before we figure out what the symbol at the end of that message means, we can still be optimistic."

"Well, I do like optimism," Belsetia breathed, thinking, "I will also bring those symbols back to the scholars of the Temple of Stars. The elves are not weaker in cryptography and language than humans, and there may be some help in our ancient records... You shouldn't mind the silver elves being involved in this matter, right?"

"Of course not," Gao Wen said immediately, "as I said at the beginning - this is a big event for all mortals, and I plan to make this project public throughout the league."

His tone was very sincere, but he did not say everything he was thinking.

Now that the technology of the entire monitoring system is in the hands of Cecil, the core secrets of the main antenna array will definitely not be shared. Moreover, even if other countries have obtained technical information, they may not be able to imitate this top magic device. On the premise that the only monitoring channel is completely monopolized by Cecil, this project is made public to the whole world. In fact, it is essentially to allow various countries to contribute their cryptography, philology and astrology experts, and use the investment of a large number of technical personnel to exchange for a "participation" quota.
Chapter completed!