Growing Technological Intelligence
Looking at the Nair People's Chen Shu in the reply, the humans roughly understood what was going on.
However, there are still many questions. For example, what exactly is that Virtual Consciousness? Where exactly are the so-called Unknown Civilization Ruins? What level is the Unknown Civilization at? Why haven't we heard the Nair Civilization mention it before? And what exactly are the First Star Region, Second Star Region, and Third Star Region that the Nair Civilization mentioned? They sound like three separate forces.
As the First Fleet sailed toward its designated location, it replied to the Nair Civilization, inquiring about the specific reasons for these problems.
Meanwhile, inside the Lyra, experts, scholars, and Think Tank members from various fields were discussing the reply from the Nair Civilization.
"Gentlemen, if the Nair People are not lying, then they must have encountered that unknown Alien Civilization's ruins long ago. Under normal circumstances, they would not casually tell other civilizations about such things, so it is understandable that they did not mention it to us at the time."
One expert analyzed,
"Now, they must have reached a point where there is no other way. According to them, the Virtual Consciousness in that Unknown Civilization Ruins has taken control of what they call the Third Star Region and is launching a devastating attack on their civilization. This is what forced them to abandon everything and flee into space. However, that Virtual Consciousness does not seem to intend to let them go."
"Yes, and more importantly, they're all heading towards White Giant Star now," one person said worriedly.
Another person sighed, "Yeah, we don't know if that Virtual Consciousness is a mature one or a juvenile one. If it's a Virtual Consciousness like the Silver Mist Consciousness, then I think we'd better run away as soon as possible. Speaking of which, the Nair Civilization is pretty good; the first thing they did after discovering us was to tell us to leave this place immediately."
One of the Think Tank members nodded. "That's right. If it really is Virtual Consciousness, I also think it's best to leave. You all must not have forgotten the Silver Mist Consciousness. We can now be basically certain that Level 2 Civilization's technology cannot create such intelligent Artificial Intelligence. Therefore, the technology that can give birth to Virtual Consciousness must be at least Level 3 Civilization."
In other words, the Unknown Civilization Ruins mentioned by the Nair Civilization are very likely, like the Silver Mist we encountered back then, relics left behind by some Level 3 Civilization. But why are there so many Technological Crisis in this universe?
Immediately, everyone aboard the Lyra started discussing it.
"Who knows? As long as we can't mess with that kind of being, it's fine."
"No, did you notice the description of the Virtual Consciousness in the Nair People's reply? They said it was released by the Third Star Region, and there was no mention of the nanosilver Silver Mist in their writing. They only said that the Virtual Consciousness controlled the entire Third Star Region network and all its warship systems. Doesn't this mean that the virtual life form is different from the Silver Mist?"
"That is indeed a possibility, but it doesn't affect our decision to leave. I think we should leave now. If the Nair Civilization wants to resupply here, let them do it themselves. We'll resupply briefly after we reach the next Star System and continue on our way. Anyway, the Virtual Consciousness's target is the Nair Civilization, and it doesn't know about our existence. There's no reason for it to keep chasing us."
"Yes, the Nair Civilization told us to leave quickly, so we'd better get out of here. We can't stay here to help them fight off that Virtual Consciousness fleet, can we? That's a fleet of over 48,000 Lake-Class Warship. Who would be so foolish as to go head-to-head with it!"
"Liu Committee Member is right. Perhaps that Virtual Consciousness is not limited to just those fleets. You know, Virtual Consciousness is not like us, which requires a large number of personnel to control warships. As long as there are resources, they can build as many warships as they want, and their efficiency is also beyond our reach."
Based on the positions of both fleets, there is currently a 7-hour delay in communication between humans and the Nair People, which will decrease as the fleets approach each other.
Given the considerable time gap between phone calls, the New Government personnel aboard the Lyra were brainstorming and discussing the matter animatedly.
What they didn't know was that, according to the original plan of the First Star Region of the Nair Civilization, their arrival here was premeditated, which was the original plan to scheme against the Second Star Region to cause trouble for humanity.
If the plan had gone smoothly, the Nair People should have arrived at the White Giant Star's side long ago. But alas, fate is unpredictable and misfortune can strike at any moment.
The discussion on the plan had just begun when it was interrupted by a message from the Third Star Region. A refugee fleet then arrived, claiming to be from the Third Star Region and bringing with it news of its fall.
At first, the First Star Region didn't believe it, until several years later, when a massive fleet appeared in the Void of space. Following a brief resistance to buy time for the Nair People in the Pot Lid Vastness Star, the First Star Region fleet then joined the fleeing fleet from the Third Star Region on their interstellar escape, eventually reaching the White Giant Star where humanity resided.
Besides, what humanity doesn't know is that the reason why the Nair Civilization is so inept at Artificial Intelligence technology is entirely because after encountering the Unknown Civilization Ruins, the Nair Civilization discovered that there was an extremely intelligent Artificial Intelligence on those ruins.
The Nair People suspected that the cause of the destruction of the Unknown Civilization was the Technological Crisis, and therefore, since then, they have consciously imposed many restrictions on research into Artificial Intelligence.
Over time, this became a consensus within the Nair Civilization.
Unfortunately, the Third Star Region, which occupied the ruins of an unknown Alien Civilization, couldn't resist studying that Artificial Intelligence. In the end, it was indeed devoured by the Artificial Intelligence, and the entire network fell into Artificial Intelligence hands. Then, the Artificial Intelligence began to use the knowledge of the Nair Civilization to continuously enrich itself and iterate rapidly.
It eventually evolved into Virtual Consciousness, and then, in order to continue to grow stronger, it began to openly take over the entire Third Star Region Network and used the technology of the Nair Civilization to create a large number of robots, thereby gaining full control over the entire Nair Civilization home planet.
Some of this information was given to the Second Star Region by the fleeing Nair People of the Third Star Region, while some, such as the information about the Artificial Intelligence in the Unknown Civilization Ruins, was already known to the Second Star Region.
The reason why the Nair People of the Pot Lid Vastness Star were so concerned about human Artificial Intelligence technology was partly because they believed that humans already had a way to prevent the Technological Crisis.