In the fifth year of Cecil, the last week of the harvest month, Neuy and Loren ushered in the last super-light speed communication between the two civilizations before the arrival of the demon tide.

When the huge sun in the Sorin region rose to the highest point of the sky, leaders of every country of the Loren League connected to the listening port of the communication link. Four light years away, the wise men of the Neuyi people also connected to their data networks.

The one who made the voices on behalf of the two civilizations was still Gao Wen, and the other was still the "witch" Nova.

For this special day, Gao Wen even left Cecil City and came to the command center of Thorin Giant Tree in person. He will complete his last conversation with the Neu people in this hall that played an extremely important historical mission. Although this will not have any impact on the communication process between the two civilizations from a practical perspective, as a mortal, he always has to pursue symbolic meanings of one kind or another.

In the Thorin command hall, all the operating seats were full, and all the control terminals were on standby. The flashing runes and magic glow were quietly flowing on the magic metal belts on the walls and roofs. Magic net terminals lit up one after another in a low buzzing sound. The "mind hub" pillar directly connected to the computing center was standing quietly in the center of the hall. The lights on its alloy shell were flashing, indicating that it had established a connection with the translation assistance array, data center and other facilities.

A strange solemn and silent atmosphere enveloped this huge place. Every operator in front of the seat sat in his position in an almost solemn manner. Although it does not require so many operators to be on duty at the same time to maintain a superluminal communication, on this special day today, "attendance" itself is their responsibility. Gao Wen sat on the platform where Ribeltilla incarnation was on weekdays. He was staring at the holographic projection in front of him with a calm face, watching the numbers above jumping little by little.

Belltila stood quietly beside Gao Wen, her perception extended along the huge nervous system to the canopy of the giant Thorin tree. She listened to the huge array of antennas buzzing softly in the wind. After a certain buzzing, the familiar and gentle tremor finally appeared in the atmosphere. The greetings four light years away arrived on time.

"Received the Noi communication signal." Belltila said immediately, and it seemed like a switch. The hall, which was originally in a stagnant state, was busy in an instant and the translation assistance array began to automatically translate the information that had been entered into the database due to frequent use into Noi's common text. The recording device began to perform the archive operation. The holographic projection in front of Gao Wen shook slightly, and the clear text appeared in front of him: "Nei called Loren and we are all well."

"Loren is very happy to hear your voice when he received the call," Gao Wen took a light breath and said with a slight smile. "This will be our last communication before the magic wave arrives."

"Yes," the text on the holographic projection paused here, and then a message continued, "regardless of the result, we are very happy to meet friends like you in this long watch. Neuy is willing to regard Loren as an eternal ally, and the strong friendship between us will be like a blood kin across the sea of ​​stars until time and destiny will end us."

"We are the same. The encounter with you will be the most valuable harvest of the Loren civilization since its birth and development," Gao Wen said slowly, "Are you ready for it?"

"We have done everything we can do. Calculated by Loren's time, the Neui has spent 1,400 years facing this doomsday, and in the last day before the doomsday comes, nothing is waiting for us to complete," the characters on the holographic projection beating, "We have stopped now, the wise and the elders are waiting for the arrival of the challenge in peace and calmness. For the Neui, the spear and shield are already in hand, and the rest... are only waiting for the enemy to come."

Then, the message of "witch" Nova paused for a moment, and new content came: "Where are you? Friends, where has your preparations been done? When the demon tide comes to Noi, there is not much time left for you...."

"We have completed the solution and injection of the final key at the data level, and the preparations for activation of the planetary shield have been completed. Now the only remaining construction work in space will be completed within one to two months," Gao Wen said frankly. "After you start facing the magic wave, Loren will complete all the preparations as planned. Don't worry about us. Everything is going on according to the schedule, even slightly ahead of schedule."

"Then, I wish you all the best," the message sent by "Witch" Nova was refreshing in a row. "We will wait for the end of this storm under the protection of the unified mind, and look forward to the day when communications resume. "

As the "witch" Nova said just now, all his efforts have been done. In the past few days, all data handover work has been completed between Loren and Noy. The two civilizations that cannot be touched by each other have reached this moment with this ever-contact super-light communication wave. When the demon wave is still in the last ten hours, there is no more to do on both sides. Today's last contact is not to exchange any important technical information, but more like a farewell.

Goodbye is for the next meeting, and good night is for the next dawn together.

"Received the image information." Belltila suddenly said, and then the data processing equipment in the hall began to work. In front of Gao Wen, a picture began to gradually emerge from the holographic projection. It was blurry at first, but it soon became clear. He saw a land that he had never seen before, with green mountains rising and falling in the distance, and a wide river flowing through the plain from the other side of the mountain. A sun, much smaller than the Loren Sun, shining on the earth. The strange alien city shines brightly on the plain at the foot of the mountain like jewelry in the sun.

A line of text appears below the picture: "A few years later, you are welcome to visit here."

"Send them the image of the giant Thorin tree," Gao Wen pondered for a moment, turned to Belltila and said, "We sent them greetings at first, and welcoming them here."

After a while, the video data was sent, and the reply from "witch" Nova soon appeared in front of Gao Wen: "It's really... amazing! I've heard your description of the "Sorin Giant Tree", but I didn't expect that she was so amazing. The whole city was just a corner under her feet... Ms. Belltila's 'original' is this giant tree, right?"

"Yes, this is the 'miracle' left after a certain disaster," Gao Wen laughed. "One day, we also welcome you here to visit Bell Tira will welcome you here."

"We are looking forward to the arrival of that day, the witch," Nova said, and then she paused for a moment. "Then at this point, the planned communication content has ended, but this channel will remain connected until the moment when the magic tide interference cuts off the super-light communication."

"Loren's superluminal communication array will also remain standby until communication is automatically interrupted," Gao Wen nodded slightly, "Let's rest for a while, Miss Nova."

"Okay, goodbye Mr. Leader, I look forward to contacting you next time."

...

The sunset gradually approached the earth. Standing on the canopy of the giant tree of the Thorin, you can see that nearly one-quarter of the magnificent sun had sunk under the layers of branches and leaves on the edge of the canopy. The orange-red sunset spread along the edge of the canopy. Looking from afar, it was like the sunset igniting the horizon and spreading illusory fire on the top of the giant tree.

Gao Wen came to the top of the canopy of the giant tree of Thorin. He stepped on huge leaves as solid as the earth. The towering antenna arrays whimpered slightly in the wind behind him. In this place far away from the earth, even the summer wind seemed particularly cool. In this pleasant wind, there were some nameless birds that settled on the top of the giant tree. They flew from afar in the afterglow of the sunset, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared deep in the gap at the edge of the canopy.

Gao Wen suddenly thought that for these birds, the giant Thorin trees are their safe shelter. Before nightfall, these little creatures who are under protection will return to their nests. However, for mortals who have left the category of "beast", the shelter of nature is no longer enough to continue ethnic groups and civilization. If sentient beings want to survive in this world, they can only build their own place to settle down.

He raised his head and looked for the starry sky in the increasingly dim skylight, but at this moment, dusk was approaching, and even the brightest stars in the sky were hidden in the light brought by the sun.

The sound of branches and leaves rubbing from the side came from the side, and Belltila's figure condensed from a ball of flower vines. She walked to Gao Wen and looked up in the same direction. After a long time, she raised her hand and pointed to a certain position in the sky: "In this direction, the brightest star is next to the Neuyi people. But now I can't see it."

"I know, after all, the sun has not set yet." Gao Wen nodded.

At this time, Belltila seemed to suddenly remember something: "Do you know? When we first learned that our observation device could not get the correct parameters due to the interference of the sun, many people even began to hate this huge sun. An atmosphere of cursing the sun and lamenting the future even appeared in the ranks of some scholars."

"...It's better to say that it's hating this giant sun, it's better to say that it's hating fate full of malice. It's hating that fate arranges us to live on a satellite orbiting a gas giant planet," Gao Wen smiled and shook his head, "But what's the point of this hatred? The giant sun has no malice. Without it, our planet wouldn't even have the chance to give birth to life, and there's no malice in this world. It's like this, it just operates like this."

"Who doesn't know this?" Belltila seemed to smile, "But when facing the desperate and arrogant darkness, how many people can stay awake like you without resenting the unfairness of fate? This is human nature."

Gao Wen just smiled, but didn't speak again.

After all, human nature cannot withstand too much test from the individual level, but survival is composed of continuous tests, which is doomed to set down frustration and temporary sinking will be a normal state in the mortal community, but the pride and preciousness of civilization lies in this.

Although there are always people behind, although there are always people who fall down in the test, choose to retreat or fall into darkness under pressure, there are always individual flaws and failures. However, as a group and a whole, it always stubbornly tries to survive. Sometimes you will feel that the world is full of quagmire, that there are people around you, that life is dark and light is hard to find, but from the perspective of the group and on a longer span, things are not that bad.

Those who fell behind for a short time have now followed, those who were depressed for a moment have now been cheered up, those who once cursed the sun and lamented their fate under tremendous pressure, have never really withdrawn from this contest with the doomsday. In this moment, the huge sun that was gradually sinking under the horizon. Its sinking is a link of the natural cycle, and the night clubs will cover the earth, but it will always rise again.

In the command hall, the countdown representing the Neuyi tide is gradually heading towards the end. In a calm communication channel, the voice of "witch" Nova suddenly came: "I am watching your star, it is so bright."

Another incarnation of Belltila was staying in the hall on standby. When she saw this, she spoke, "This is Belltila, I thought you were going to rest."

"Ah, it's Ms. Belltila," Nova responded quickly, "I said that the witch will not be tired, and I have nothing to do when the tide comes, this setter satellite will protect my mind, but the communication between me and the surface will be temporarily interrupted. Although they have sent me many things to kill time, I think... my favorite thing should be to study the countless stars here. I will often look at you and wait here to hear your voice."

"So that's it," Belltila thoughtfully, then she glanced at the countdown next to her and said, "By the way, Nova, there's still a little time. I have something to give to you."

"Oh? What's it?"

"It is a poem. The Settler left it to our planet. I want to give it to you and to your ethnic group. As a civilization that also inherits some heritage from the Settler, I think it has some meaning to both of us."

Belltila said slowly, then she recalled the short poem, a look that the setter left a hundred and eight hundred thousand years ago turned into a message flowing between the four-light-year starry sea.

"...Don't be immersed in this illusory quiet night... The night will eventually be broken...

“…Don’t indulge in your warm cradle… The cradle will capsize one day…

“…Don’t sleep in the shelter of the soul… Sooner or later, the shelter of the soul will become an unbreakable shackle…

"Let's go, before the stars flash, let's go, before the long night ends...

"If you don't set out quickly, the day will come..."

The equipment in the hall was buzzing, and Belltila quietly listened to the "sound" coming from the antenna array. After a moment, a message from the other side of the star sea appeared on the holographic projection in front of her: "Thank you, it's great."

Countdown to zero.

On the top of the canopy of the giant Thorin tree, the last ray of leaping glow in the sky finally sank under the horizon. The cloud-like crown rising at the edge of the sun wheel turned into a shadow remaining in the retina. The quiet night wind blew from the direction of the plain, and in the night wind, the towering antenna array finally gradually returned to silence.

Gao Wen looked at the dark night in front of him, and the voice of Belltila came from his ears: "Communication with Noy was interrupted."
Chapter completed!