Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

55 years ago.

The emperor's personal conquest.

At the far end of the galaxy, she defeated the main army of the Star Alliance with the disadvantage of ultra-long-distance combat, and ended a large-scale war that had spread across half of the galaxy for more than 300 years. There will still be small-scale frictions in the border areas of the empire, but most areas can coexist peacefully, and the people have a rare recuperation.

The emperor who originally planned to sail with a curvature of about half a year, passed nearly ten star tribes, and returned to the expedition fortress of the capital galaxy, after Major General Yang Haoyu received the coordinates of a mysterious site, decided to lead the leading troops and venture through the core area of ​​the Milky Way— —The part of the silver core, even passing by the silver core, taking a shortcut and entering this mysterious ruins.

This was unanimously opposed by all.

"The center of the Milky Way is a complex and dense source of radio waves. So far, few scientific expedition teams have set foot in it. Even the craziest interstellar islands will detour. The supermassive black hole of Sagittarius A is engulfing the majestic universe in the center of the galaxy all the time. Material." Yang Haoyu, who was still a major general at the time, said, "Your Majesty, your actions are tantamount to death."

"The opening time of that mysterious relic is only one month." The emperor said, "If we don't start now, that relic will never be opened again. We will pass it by."

"What does it matter? Your Majesty." Yang Haoyu said, "The things in the ruins are actually not important, compared to your safety."

"Haoyu, you don't understand." The emperor answered him, "When I looked up at the starry sky, I was thinking that there must have been countless civilizations in the Milky Way in the past billions of years. Where did they go? Why did the entire Milky Way There are only two large-scale regimes, the Empire and the Alliance, and all of them are human civilizations? Except for the pirates scattered in the neutral zone, what about other lives? What about high-level civilizations?"

"They all perished. That's why there are relics." Yang Haoyu said.

"If they all perish, will the empire perish?" The emperor asked him, "Why is there no civilization higher than the fifth level in the galaxy. I heard that the Federation has started to research and develop space technology. If they use space technology skillfully , Does it mean that they will step into the next stage of civilization before the empire? When will the alliance that entered the sixth-order civilization disappear?"

"When the central mastermind was born, we don't know at all. It's just a relic of a high-level civilization that was picked up by a wandering civilization before starving to death after leaving the solar galaxy. And we have developed for so long, what we have learned and gained is actually Haven't yet understood the tenth of what the Central Mastermind has brought us. What a curious and frightening thing it is."

She looked at the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way outside the window of the flagship, and sighed: "The greedy and endless curiosity about the universe has long been written into our genes. I can't think about what is in the shady universe, but if One day, if we lose our curiosity, it will also herald the decline of our civilization."

"When you stare at the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you." Yang Haoyu said, "The possibility of these happening a long time later is not worth your majesty's risking your life."

The emperor said: "If you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening. It's all worth it."

Zhou Qin paused to read the relevant documents.

"Do you...do you feel..." Zhou Qin asked hesitantly, "I have a strange feeling. The emperors of tens of years ago seem to have a very different personality from the emperors of today."

"The data show that a huge trauma can change a person's personality. Perhaps the departure of your father, Mr. Qin, hurt the emperor far beyond imagination?" Chen Cang said.

Zhou Qin smiled softly: "Do you want me to believe that the emperor has a deep affection for father? Chen Cang, you don't understand. If a person loves another person, his world will never tolerate a third person. But the emperor's wife and concubine The group... Even after me, there are more than a dozen underage brothers and sisters."

"Is not it?"

"She just intoxicated herself." Zhou Qin said, "She may be one of the dozens of most outstanding emperors in the history of the empire, but this does not conflict with her emotional mess. Instead of using 'love' to describe , might as well change the word...'obsessed'. I think she was just infatuated with my father to the point of intoxicating herself. That's all."

Yang Haoyu was not able to convince the emperor.

Three days later, they led a mobile division, set off ahead of schedule, and penetrated into the 7000 light-year-long galactic core, where they saw tens of thousands of nebulae and star clusters, and stars were produced and aged.Young stars burst out with fiery light and heat, announcing their arrival to this silent universe.

Countless dust and matter left over from the early days of the universe shone in violent chemical reactions, shining brilliantly, illuminating all the worlds like daylight.

Magnetic fields, black holes, and gravity converge here.

Everything looks so primitive and vibrant, and everything seems to be swallowed up silently in the twilight years.

They worked hard all the way and arrived at the location near Sagittarius A - the vicinity of the mysterious supermassive black hole.

This should be the location of the largest black hole in the Milky Way, with a diameter of more than 4400 million kilometers. The source of radiation from here is ejected from its accretion disk, and the ejecta spreads for several light years.

It has the mass of 400 million Celestial stars, and the light around the event horizon makes it look like a shiny disk of metal spinning at a crazy rate every ten minutes.And it erupts with a bright X-ray flare every day, which has brought unprecedented troubles to fleet navigation.

Even if they wanted to skip its territory far away, Sagittarius A still roared at the intruders like a furious landowner.

It was in this extreme environment that challenged all academic boundary theories that the fleet probes discovered a new substance.

"This field." The emperor looked at the field on the Pope analyzer and delineated a block, "Have you observed it for ten days?"

"Yes, Your Majesty," said the researcher.

"Haoyu, when the flare erupted, there was only this small-sized area, probably within a range of less than one meter, and our instruments could not detect X-rays. It was as if something was blocking the front of the spacecraft. "

The emperor said: "There should be some substance there. I want to go and see."

"No. That location is very close to the black hole. It's too dangerous." Yang Haoyu said, "Even if I want to go, I have to go."

"You are worried about me, and I am also worried about you." The emperor joked, "If I really sacrificed my life for the country, remember to assist Zhou Yuan to adulthood when I go back, but it seems that the child is not very interested in becoming an emperor. Interested... you can just leave it at that. The will is in my computer, and the password is—"

"His Majesty!"

"Okay. No kidding." The emperor became serious, "I will go in person."

The emperor's spaceship has been gone for a long time.

Even disappeared on the monitoring instrument for a while.

It was so long that Yang Haoyu thought she was in danger.

But she finally stepped on the flagship's plywood. When she stood in front of Yang Haoyu, there was already a difference in her dark eyes, but she couldn't see it at that moment.

"Your Majesty, what did you find?"

His Majesty the Emperor didn't speak. She raised her hand. In a transparent force field matrix, there was a translucent dark black substance floating in the matrix. The substance was like a dark ghost, floating in the matrix, and even emitted a kind of black-purple lightning.

They obtained 10 grams of this unknown substance at a position very close to the black hole.

These substances exhibit completely different properties from existing substances.As we all know, the basic particles that make up matter in the universe are molecules, atoms, protons, neutrons, etc., but the fleet came to an astonishing conclusion in subsequent experiments. The basic particles that make up these unknown materials cannot be human beings. any particle known—a property unique to dark matter.

At the same time, this substance showed a metal-like conductivity and heat resistance in the initial test, so it was identified as a dark matter metal.

"A name?" the emperor asked Yang Haoyu.

Yang Haoyu thought for a while: "Since it is dark matter, remove the horizontal line next to the word dark, right?"

It was divided into three parts in the following decades.

One was presented to MW Dynamics as a reward for their outstanding contributions to the Imperial Dynamics business over the years.

One copy was transferred by Yang Haoyu to the First Military Fort Research Institute for safekeeping.

The last copy was delivered by the emperor himself to the Imperial Research Institute.

In 55 years, the dark has been studied in all aspects, it is not so much a metal as it is a pure energy.

In other words, if you need it to be metal, then it is metal.

No matter what kind of scientific field, what kind of research project, as long as there is a need, there are always things that can be applied in the dark characteristics.

It doesn't look like a substance, but it is a substance.

More like a product of idealism.

It is what you need it to be... But this is impossible, matter has its own peculiarities, no matter can become all matter.

Just like the famous double-slit interference experiment[Note], which blurred the boundaries between science and theology.

So at MW Power Company, dark became the ultra-high purity fuel for the ignition device.

And in the Imperial Research Institute, it has become the force field isolation device of the spiritual spy...

It's as if human beings have entered an unknown realm before they are ready. As for whether this realm is the realm of gods, or just opened Pandora's box... In fact, no one knows.

Zhou Qin closed the file, and he remembered the terminals of the row of spiritual spying devices in Laboratory No. [-]—he hoped that it would be best if such a substance never existed...

His hand slid across all the documents, and suddenly stopped on one document...

——Gene Adaptation Algorithm.

"At the end of watching the video, Elise heard Kajiwara mention the matter of genetic matching?"

"Yes." Chen Cang said.

Zhou Qin opened that document...

The content is empty, nothing.

"You once said that you were able to escape by manipulating the genetic matching." Zhou Qin suddenly asked Chen Cang, "The original sample should be more than just me and Elise."

"In fact, there are nearly [-] samples of suitable genes in the entire Emperor Star category." Chen Cang said, "Through the huge network system of the master brain, the detection has already begun since infancy. But these [-] samples, Because of education, growth, illness, death... until the end, the only ones who are most suitable are you and Lanxia."

"What if I didn't accept the genetic match? What if I refused the emperor's request and resisted?"

Chen Cang was quiet for a while and said: "I told you that there is a thing called fate. Your character, experience, and background will definitely make you have a tendency to choose. Fate is just the embodiment of this choice."

"So..." Zhou Qin said, "I will definitely return to Emperor Star, and I will definitely accept genetic matching, and complete the final mark with Elias."

"Yes."

"So in order to match me, what does Elias have to pay?" Zhou Qin asked without hesitation, "Is it his everything?"

There was a moment of silence in the air.

Zhou Qin took a heavy breath: "Everything. Isn't it? This is the fate you set for him?"

"Your Highness."

"This is why you manipulate Kajihara, and even confuse the emperor, to conduct in vivo experiments in the Life Research Institute?! Find me a match. Then when we finish marking, you can escape from the central mastermind and leave the quantum core ?”

"Your Highness, you misunderstood. Why would I do such a thing?" Chen Cang's voice became hurried.

"Aren't you the one who has been in touch with Kajihara in front of the computer screen?" Zhou Qin said.

"It's not me, Your Highness." Chen Cang said, "I won't deceive you. The gene matching is done by the main brain. It was indeed done by my main body. I can't deny that I was able to escape the prison of the main brain thanks to this." ...but... I have not manipulated Kajihara, nor have I had any personal contact with him, nor have I or my body that still exists in the main brain. In fact, in the database I have, the emperor has never given Kajiwara Kazunari gave specific experimental orders. The person who arranged the progress of the experiment on the computer doesn’t know where he came from.”

"Who is that contacting Kajihara?"

Chen Cang was silent for a long time, as if he was tracing the source of the information. After a while, it said: "I don't know who it is. But on the network of the Life Research Department, he cleaned it very cleanly. It is almost impossible to trace. This IP address , the last place it appeared was at the border of the empire..."

"Chen Cang."

"exist."

"You know what I can do to you. So don't lie to me."

"I know, Your Highness." Chen Cang said with some seriousness, "Please believe me, I didn't lie to you."

an AI.

Chen Cang thinks of himself this way, he feels that even if he is good at simulating various emotions of human beings, the depression of not being trusted today will never be simulated.

This emotional program is all too natural.

It's so natural that it doesn't look like a program.

Another three minutes and 41 seconds passed before Chen Cang heard Zhou Qin say to him: "Pack up all the useful materials and take them home. Check again when you have time."

"Your Highness, do you believe me?" Chen Cang felt that there were some jumping programs in his data stream, which looked like small bubbles.

Zhou Qin didn't answer it directly.He felt that if he observed Chen Cang's energy flow at this time, he might be able to see it wagging its tail happily.

"Let's go." Zhou Qin looked at the time, "Elise took Bai Rong and Charin to the downtown area, and we stopped by to pick them up."

"Okay, okay." Chen Cang said quickly, compressing and packing all the data in an instant.

Zhou Qin stepped out of the gate of the Life Research Department.

It feels like the temperature outside the door is one or two degrees Celsius higher than inside.

"Let's go." Zhou Qin said to Du Bin.

"Okay, Your Highness. Then... what about Director Anderson?" Dubin asked.

Zhou Qin glanced at the ashen-faced Van Anderson, and said, "His dismissal notice should be on his way."

Accompanied by Charlene, Elise went to meet a group of children who were not too old.

Alphas, Betas and Omega's are available.

When everyone saw him, they were as bright-eyed as Chalin, and as enthusiastic as Chalin.

Elise couldn't help smiling at their childish words.

The whole afternoon slipped away unknowingly.

When he was leaving, some children shouted to him: "Xia Lan, come on! Our support team will always support you!"

"Charlene, your group of friends are really interesting." Elise and the others walked in the boulevard.

"Really?" Charlene raised his eyebrows proudly, "Actually, we used to contact each other online, and today is the first time we have met."

"So it's a meeting with netizens?" Elise understood, "I did this kind of thing when I was young."

"Lan Xia is also very young now, what are you talking about?" Charin said to him, "Secretary Bai, don't you think so?"

"I think so too." Bai Rong nodded.

"I think so too," said another voice.

Elise looked up, Zhou Qin was standing on the boulevard, smiling at him.

The setting sun made the golden leaves shine brighter, and Zhou Qin was wearing a long gray trench coat today. He stood between the tree-lined road and the fallen leaves, as if he had been waiting for the arrival of Elis.

"Your Highness." Elias saluted him.

"Does Lanxia feel better today?" Zhou Qin asked him.

"It's much better. Thanks to Charin and Bai Rong for accompanying me."

"That's good." Zhou Qin took him for a walk in the boulevard, and gave Charing a calm look.Charin wanted to say something, but Bai Rong grabbed him and dragged him to the back.

"Aren't you busy at work today?" Elise asked him, "Leaving get off work so early?"

"Actually, I went to the Imperial Institute today." Zhou Qin said.

Elise froze.

"Sorry, I didn't tell you." Zhou Qin said, "But I think it's better for me to intervene in this matter. After all, you have experienced enough yesterday."

"And what happened?" Elise asked him.

"I just wanted to report to you, Lan Xia." Zhou Qin said with a smile, "Including the few doubts you raised yesterday, I have learned something."

Zhou Qin told Elias about the general situation.

Finally, he mentioned the unknown person Kajihara talked to.

"IP can only be traced to the border of the empire at most?" Elis thought, "That's the farthest the central mastermind can trace..."

"What did Lanxia think of?"

Elise thought carefully for a while before saying, "Maybe I didn't tell you that your elder brother, the second prince Zhou Run, forged an identity after graduating from the military academy and sneaked into the Federation for a while."

"when did it happen?"

"It's very early." Elis said, "I just entered the military academy at that time. It was a long time before I heard His Royal Highness King Jing mention this matter. He said to beware of some people in the alliance."

"Maybe we should find an opportunity to visit the Alliance." Zhou Qin said, "We just need an opportunity to leave the capital galaxy."

At this moment, Elise's communicator lit up.

He looked down at the email that flashed in the communicator, was startled, then looked up at Zhou Qin, his expression became complicated and strange.

"Maybe this is the opportunity we need?" He asked Zhou Qin.

Elise raised her wrist and projected the email message in the communicator into the air. Zhou Qin saw the title of the email

——There are signs that Yeshan's "high-level silicon-based civilization relic" is about to be opened again.

Sender: Central Mastermind.