"Ah, so this is the Civilization Tombstone—or no, the Mechanical Prison."
In his previous life, Gao Gong had never seen a real "Mechanical Prison," but he had witnessed the miserable sight of players being turned into biological canned food, so he had always been deeply wary of the Third Mechanical Revolution.
However, when he saw the "Mechanical Prison" for real, he found that it not only looked nothing like the "prison for carbon-based species" he had imagined, but was actually damn beautiful.
Silver-gray diamond-shaped metal strips interwove into a domed birdcage. Cobalt-blue fluorescent circuits were etched across its surface, and whenever an electrical pulse swept through, the entire prison brightened and dimmed, expanding and contracting like it was breathing.
The only thing that could prove it was a "Civilization Tombstone" was the huge number of "special inscriptions" on its surface. Although he had no idea what language they were written in, seeing them was like witnessing the fall, disintegration, and extinction of one civilization after another.
"Quantum script?"
If it wasn't quantum script, it couldn't possibly have such flashy effects.
"This is Cosmic Deathscript."
"Oh, that thing."
The Civilization Council had recorded a total of 15,129 types of advanced cosmic scripts. These scripts were not tools for internal communication within civilizations. Rather, they possessed mysterious powers and even scientific research value.
For example, the most famous "Cosmic Codex" was said to be capable of revealing the origin and end of the universe.
"Cosmic Deathscript" was one of them as well. Its ranking was neither particularly high nor particularly low.
Moreover, its origin was rather ominous—from the perspective of a civilization's leader.
Whenever an ascended civilization perished, a special fluctuation would remain within the ruins of its civilization coordinates.
Once enough "civilization-death fluctuations" had been collected, "Cosmic Deathscript" would be born.