Information from Space

Yue Yuan hasn't gone into hibernation recently, so he probably has about ninety years left to live. This is the expiration date of his Life Elixir; after that, he will enter a normal life cycle.

Taking into account his normal aging process, he has about 190 years left to live, according to the results of Yue Yuan's most recent physical examination.

If nothing unexpected happens, more than a hundred years later, Yue Yuan will awaken Zhu Pete and others, and then pass away.

However, an unexpected event occurred at this time.

The message appeared in Yue Yuan's hands—or rather, in his Built-in Chip— without needing to be reported.

Speaking of Built-in Chip, it is worth mentioning that human beings have made great progress on the basis of the past, and the technology of Built-in Chip has been popularized by the general public.

It should now be called Brain-Assisted Chip.

As its name suggests, it is implanted at the intersection of many nerves in the back of the head, connecting with the human nervous system, and can be considered an external auxiliary central CPU of the human brain.

In addition to the central chip, there are many Function Chip. However, these functional chips are generally not implanted in the back of the head, but in the subcutaneous part of the hands, feet or other tissues of the body.

The Function Chip and the central chip are interconnected, giving the implantee a variety of abilities that would be comparable to magic or immortal arts in Earth Era.

Because it is no longer limited to internet access, but also includes data transmission between people, interaction with real mechanical equipment, and so on.

In today's fully automated society, people with Function Chip can do many things without lifting a finger, such as scanning objects, quickly storing documents they see, communicating with their own auxiliary robots, and identifying the other party's publicly available identity information.

Of course, some functions still require specialized modifications to specific organs. For example, the scanning function requires specialized modifications to the eyes in terms of neural connections and signal processing. Alternatively, a scanning probe can be worn.

However, these are not the most noteworthy achievements, because the most important breakthroughs are in assisting the brain's many functions, such as complex calculations, memory aids, and data modeling.

Among them, memory-assisting technology is the most representative. It can stimulate the memory area of the brain, which can significantly improve human memory when the function is activated.

With this feature, people who already have a good memory are very likely to become the legendary Photographic Memory.

Of course, this only applies when the function is enabled. The reason is that when this function is enabled, there is a process of stimulating the brain's memory area. For this reason, the function cannot be kept on all the time, because research has found that keeping this function on for a long time can have some negative effects on the human brain.

For example, symptoms such as hallucinations and mental confusion may occur.

Under normal circumstances, this function can be safely used for about 30 to 60 minutes. After that, the brain must rest for several days before it can be used again. Entering the Human Body Overclocking mode extends the safe time by approximately double.

Scientists are investigating the problem and striving to make further progress in this area, aiming to eliminate memory as an obstacle to human learning new knowledge.

Of course, some scientists believe that true, permanent Photographic Memory is not a good thing, but rather a bad thing, because forgetting is a self-protective function of the human brain.

Forcing oneself to remember everything and never forget anything could ultimately lead to neurological disorders. Therefore, these scientists believe that humanity should take a different path in Brain Chip technology.

That is chip memory, which uses the Brain Chip's function as a tool to store information, and then retrieves it for the brain's thinking to analyze the information when needed.

In the scientists' descriptions, this process is similar to the brain retrieving information from memories and then performing various analyses.

This saves the brain a lot of memory burden and eliminates worries about the aftereffects of Photographic Memory.

The New Government did not show any bias in supporting either of these two paths. After all, in an era where Strong Artificial Intelligence is fully utilized, human scientific research resources are plentiful, and there is no need to restrict some of these research projects as before.

Therefore, at this stage, what limits human scientific research is not resources, but talent, scientists, and Research Personnel.

The number of scientists born from a population of five billion is still far too few compared to the highly specialized Credits of Level 3 Civilization.

Getting back to the main point, after receiving the news, Yue Yuan immediately went to the Command Center of the Lyra.

When he arrived at the Command Center, many scientists, linguists, secret police, communications experts, and other relevant personnel were already there and analyzing the message.

"Chief, this is an unprecedented information frequency. We can now preliminarily confirm that it is a Clear Code message with repetition. Based on our experience, it should be a broadcast message. We have analyzed more than half of the accompanying dictionary, and we estimate that we will be able to read the full content of the message in another twenty or thirty minutes."

As Yue Yuan floated into the Command Center, he heard the voice of a communications expert. He followed the sound and looked at the workstations of the relevant staff, finding them diligently analyzing the unfamiliar information.

Strong Artificial Intelligence has also been involved in the analysis.

Humanity has considerable experience in analyzing this kind of information from the universe, so all defensive measures were in place before we began.

"A broadcast message? It can't be from the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance, can it?" Yue Yuan muttered.

"Definitely not," the communications expert replied readily.

In fact, Yue Yuan only said this in case of any unforeseen circumstances. He naturally remembered the way the Silver Heart Alliance Broadcast appeared, which did not require any human analysis or deciphering.

"Why now of all times? It seems they ran too far while playing a chase with the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, escaping that Safe Star Region." Yue Yuan looked at the group of experts working hard, while pondering what humanity should do next.

Receiving such a clearly intelligent message from space indicates that this star system is no longer safe.

However, Yue Yuan and the human leadership are no longer as terrified of unfamiliar information from the universe as they were before, naturally because recent human development has given them confidence.

As long as we don't encounter an advanced civilization, humanity really has nothing to fear.

Of course, being unafraid doesn't mean being careless. After all, those who dare to broadcast in space are either inexperienced civilizations or powerful entities like the Silver Heart Alliance. Oh, and perhaps there are some other strange events.

What exactly this message from outer space is, we'll have to wait several tens of minutes to find out. As for how the message was received, it wasn't transmitted directly to the Red Dwarf Star where we are located, but rather received by probes deployed outside the red Dwarf Galaxy.

That is why humans do not yet realize that their position has been exposed; otherwise, the situation at the Lyra Command Center would be quite tense.