In the command hall of Solin, Belltira looked at the holographic projection in front of her expressionlessly, while her spirit spread throughout the facility, and every piece of information that happened here could not escape her sight.

There is almost no obvious fluctuation of expression on the face of this mimicry incarnation. However, Belltila knew that her mood was not at all calm at all and a completely unfamiliar conversation with a civilization living on another planet was an unprecedented experience. As long as she thought of the historical process behind this conversation across the sea of ​​stars, she felt that every leaf of her was shaking slightly on the treetops.

Those who are following the developments here through remote networks must be in the same mood.

"The new text has been compiled, the transcoding has been completed, and it is being sent to Antaweien. Antaweien sends a confirmation message, the text has been sent, waiting for the other party to respond."

The report from the command seat came from the hall, and Belltila was still standing quietly in her position, staring at the holographic projection in front of her calmly like a plant. She saw a line of slightly luminous words appearing on the projection:

Star solver: "What will you do if we fail to cooperate smoothly? Do you have some...optional solution to this observation point four light years away? This question is purely due to our curiosity."

After that, there was a blank noise longer than the previous waiting period. The "Nei" seemed to be discussing how to answer this question. The vast sea of ​​stars was at least four light years. She couldn't see what was happening "opposite", but she couldn't help but imagine what state those "alien people" were in the current conversation...

Do they also gather many expert teams like the Thorin Command Center? Will they also discuss and try to speculate and interpret the group opposite the Star Sea that calls itself the "Loren Alliance"? Will they also feel joy and tension like mortals on this planet?

Is the society of "Nei"... caused a wave of turmoil due to this sudden communication? Are their leaders also paying attention to this conversation that spans time and space?

Belltila slowly raised her head, but her "eye" penetrated the roof dozens of meters thick above. The wooden structure and layered leaves were covered with layers of leaves. From the perspective of a giant tree, the vast sky was like a giant curtain hanging down in her perception. However, even this seemingly vast sky was just an inconspicuous atmosphere on the surface of this planet. Outside this atmosphere, there was a vast starry sky that was so vast that it had exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.

Four light years, this is a scale that makes all the disputes, gains and losses, life and death in the world seem insignificant in an instant. As early as the Gondor era, the mages realized the concept of the speed of light. However, until the destruction of Gondor, the "light years" were still limited to a "conceptual unit of measurement". It was so desperate that people at that time could not even imagine what kind of travel method could be used to embark on this scale. So this thing beyond understanding was ultimately classified as "the power of God" like other similar things...

Thinking about it now, the bad mental state of the gods on this planet is probably indispensable to the impact of these things that are randomly classified as "miracles"... The ignorant mortals who used to be ignorant only know how to move forward, but when they encounter problems that are really hard to explain, they always irresponsibly push them directly to the gods. But what can the gods do? They don't understand, so they can only go crazy...

If there was no theocratic Council, if there was no more and more disclosure of the mechanism of the divine operation in recent years, this blindness would probably lead to a doomsday that is no less than the demon tide.

A slight buzzing sound suddenly interrupted Belltila's slightly divergent thinking. She immediately looked at the holographic projection in the center of the hall and saw a line of text that was constantly translated into a common language slowly emerging on the screen.

Noy: "Yes, we have alternatives or your response is an accident for us. From the beginning, we have formulated a self-rescue plan based on the premise that "no other intelligent civilization can provide assistance within the predetermined range."

“Many, many years ago, we had sent out ‘observers’, who would go to the nearest measurement point to our planet, meet the standards, and send the readings of the magic tide there back to our home planet…

"To this day, the observers have been trekking in space for 126 years, but this long journey of four light years has not yet reached the end... It has entered the slowdown process, but it is still a certain distance from the predetermined observation point."

The text on the holographic projection stopped beating, and the entire hall had suddenly fallen into a strange silence. Belltila realized a fact behind the text, which made her eyes widen.

The next second, she heard Gao Wen's voice suddenly coming from the communication device: "The civilization they can sail in space has passed the 'coming-coming ceremony', and immediately start asking."

Gao Wen, who was far away in the southern border, had already stood up from his chair at this time. Even the amber next to him was staring at the magic net terminal on the desk. When "Nei" said their "original plan" that had been implemented for 126 years before the establishment of today's communication, what shocked Gao Wen the most was that they were able to conduct interstellar travel itself!

Stepping out of the planet and entering the universe on the planet on the continent of Loren means that mortal civilization completely gets rid of the shackles of gods and moves towards adulthood. According to the Theocratic Council's research on the laws of the movement of gods and its understanding of every season of intelligent species already present in the history of this planet, this process is obviously not an exception.

As long as other planets follow the same cosmic laws as Loren, and as long as the thinking logic of other intelligent groups is not deviated to the extent that the Loren tribes are completely incomprehensible, even in a foreign land of a few light years or hundreds of light years away, the "alien" will definitely have this process of "primitive worship - birth gods - two-way shackles - moving towards adulthood" and face the situation of "disobedience failure" and "civilization survival" at the final stage of this process.

This is not a simple process. The dragons of Tallond have proved to the world with heavy status quo to the world that the price needs to be paid to take a wrong step in this process. However, experts from the Theocratic Council believe that a path that is lower and easier to achieve exists. As long as you take the right path in the early stage of breaking away from the shackles, it is not an unimaginable thing to pass the coming-of-age ceremony at a lower cost. However, there seems to be no such example on this planet, and the countries of the Alliance can only grop on this road.

The Star Explorers on the Solin Control Hall had already begun to prepare for the text of a question to "Nei". Gao Wen controlled his sudden excitement and sat down slowly again. He took a deep breath, felt his heartbeat recovering little by little, and his eyes swept over the printed paper that was particularly warm. In the short words, he revealed another civilization that was as difficult as the countries of Loren, which lasted for thousands of years.

Interstellar broadcasts that lasted for 1,400 years, observers who had been traveling in space for 126 years... This group called "Nei" also looks as tough as the sentient beings in the continent of Loren, as warned by the poem left by the Settler, and they are not intoxicated by this illusory quiet night.

As for the time scales such as "one thousand four hundred years" and "one twenty-six years" mentioned in these conversation records, they are all like the previous "light years". The data Gao Wen has converted from units to the computing nodes on the Solin Giant Tree. They have been converted into Loren's calculation units.

Sir Scott Plantin, who interpreted the alien "dictionary" in the Viplanton Observatory hundreds of years ago, was a professional scholar. The "basic knowledge base" sent to the stars also contained a "standard time rule" with standard star flickering as the reference value. At this point, pioneers have paved the way for future generations.

A light click sound came from the printing device, and then the shaft and gear began to rotate. Amber subconsciously shouted softly: "Something is coming over there!"

Gao Wen controlled his excitement and immediately pulled the paper out after it left the machine. On it was the latest conversation record between the Star Resolver and the "Neiren" of the Solin Control Center:

Star Explanator: "We have some questions that may seem presumptuous, but this will help both of us to improve our understanding. Does there be a 'god' in your world?"

Noy: "Yes, of course, we have our own religious and belief system, and there are gods over you?"

Star Explanator: "Yes, we also have our own gods. So the second question is, when you... send an "observer" to the universe four light years away, hasn't it caused the gods to lose control?"

After this question, there seemed to be a long time of blank waiting on the "Neiren". In addition to the "Blank Wait" mark on the printing paper, there was also a long list of ellipses. It was not until almost the end of the paper that Gao Wen saw the reply from "Neiren":

"The observers we sent out are our gods."

This time, not only Gao Wen stood up suddenly, but Rosetta Augustus and Belsetia Morningstar, who had been listening quietly in the communication interface, both stood up in shock.

It seemed that the worldview was instantly shattered and reshaped, and the natural laws that had always been accustomed to were turned upside down. Even Rosetta, who always had a stern face to maintain a serious attitude on weekdays, staring at the moment, and the hall of the Thorin Control Center was silent for a moment. The subversive facts took away many people's words. This strange silence was finally interrupted by Tyre, who had been listening to the phone until now:

"Antaweien's communication, the core temperature of the super-light speed communication array has risen sharply and the hardware is about to reach its limit!"

Gao Wen woke up in an instant.

Antavine's superluminal communication array is not in good condition, and can only be said to be barely available. Although the Siren have optimized its working mode as much as possible, adjusted the information transmission and reception mode to a low-frequency communication process with lower load, and allocated a large amount of encoding work to the computing center of the Solin Giant Tree, this only tried to delay the burning time of the main antenna working.

In fact, it was a miracle that the thing could last until now, but the conversation with the "Neiren" really brought too much impact information that Gao Wen subconsciously forgot about this matter.

"Saying the situation where the communication is about to be interrupted, and ask another question at the same time!" Gao Wen spoke quickly, "Ask them about their relationship with the gods!"

In the hall of the Solin Control Center, the Star solvers completed the compilation and conversion of text at an unprecedented speed. The data transmission system lived up to expectations and sent the converted encoding to Antaweien. After a brief delay, a piece of inquiry turned into an information jolt through the star space, and instantly passed through the stars at a speed far exceeding the speed of light.

Star Explanator: "Due to equipment cooling requirements, our communication system will be temporarily shut down and maintained and will be restarted in the near future. Before that, we want to know a question: What is your relationship or pattern of getting along with the gods?"

Almost the moment this question was sent out, Tyre's voice came into everyone's ears: "The main antenna burned down, and the super-light communication array was shut down."

"The sensitivity of the monitoring antenna is adjusted to the highest," Belltila, who was standing in the control hall, immediately shouted loudly, "I inform the ancestors of the Peak Monitoring Station to assist in capturing signals and never miss the reply from the 'Neiren'!"

Although only Anta Vienne's superluminal communication array can send out signals, the "monitoring stations" set up in other regions can still receive communication signals. Now that the main antenna has been burned, the alliance has temporarily lost the ability to communicate actively, but at least... everyone still has the chance to hear the reply from "they".

Every second of the next was as long as a thousand years. Everyone, whether it was the technicians in the Thorin Control Center, the three imperial leaders far away in the capitals of the Three Empires, or the fairy technicians far away in the Ancestor Peak, held their breath and fell into silence, as if they were afraid that a breath would interfere with the invisible signal in the starry sky. The tense atmosphere continued until the indicator light in front of Belltira, which represented the signal received by the main antenna, began to flash.

"The main antenna receives a signal! The Star solver is deciphering!"

After a moment, the reply from "Neiren" finally appeared in everyone's eyes

"We have achieved coexistence with our gods and lived in the parent planet together."

In the study room covered with a blue velvet carpet, Gao Wen slowly put down the paper in his hand and leaned on the high-back chair and spoke thoughtfully: "It seems...this is the answer."

"Coexistence has been realized..." Amber on the side frowned and muttered, "They used the word 'realized'... Does it mean that their relationship with gods was also 'dangerous', and they achieved this better state after some effort? And what they said 'coexistence'... What do you think does it mean?"

"Apart from the Noy people themselves, any guesses we make are blind guesses," Gao Wen shook his head gently, "The information we have now mastered is enough for us to think for a long time."

At this moment, Belltila's voice rang out from the Magic Net terminal: "We received a call from...Neiren again, and they seemed to want to confirm whether we were offline."

Gao Wen's mouth trembled slightly, and at this moment he seemed to feel a faint embarrassment filling the universe...

"Keep the monitor and record," he sighed helplessly after a moment of silence, "we can't respond now."

As he said, he looked up at Tyre in another communication interface.

“Antawayen…”

"I'm practicing, I'm practicing," Tyre waved his hand without waiting for Gao Wen to finish speaking, "The Great Witch Hathaway has already penetrated into the main antenna."
Chapter completed!