——- The natural male to female ratio of the fairy is about 1:10. In the thousand-year peacekeeping war, the fairy males were almost all captured or killed because of their adventurous tendencies and more impulsive personality.
Bing Ling and Feng Ling were discussing in the laboratory, and the soft sunlight from the skylight cast on the empty floor and white walls.
"According to the calculations of sociologists, because of this gene, they will actively search for the faeries in the galaxy after entering space, and have a hobby of collecting faeries. Not only can we easily obtain their rescue, but we can even obtain their control, The leadership of their society. In this way, using a few faeries to control a large group of meek and intelligent life can guarantee the peace of the galaxy for thousands of years.” Feng Ling said.
"No, or no, you are doing this to put the suffering of the faeries above the future of the entire galaxy. This gene is useless to them and even harmful to survival, if you let them be because of this useless gene What if they can't go on smoothly on the journey of civilization?" Bing Ling flicked his sleeves.
"We have no time. The design of this species alone took me five hundred years. Perhaps this problem can be solved later."
Bing Ling opened her mouth and said nothing. Perhaps, she also wanted to leave a glimmer of hope for herself.
They walked out of the laboratory in silence. The sun was softly spilled on the outside glass curtain wall, the wind was blowing the long ice silver hair and tassels, and the drones shuttled back and forth, maintaining a false prosperity. The planet that once housed tens of millions of Fairies now only inhabits less than a thousand fairies, and there are also thousands of fairies rushing around the galaxy, suppressing one after another rebellion. Sometimes, Bing Ling even felt that she was just a tomb sweeper living in the magnificent tomb.
"I have determined that a planet that has not been polluted by intelligent life civilization may be the only one remaining in the galaxy." Feng Ling said suddenly, she opened the star chart, and the stars of the galaxy were spinning under the shining of the sun. On the edge of one of the spiral arms, a light spot is marked with the words "Target Planet".
Feng Ling magnified the light spot, it was an ordinary star, but the target planet was a beautiful blue planet with a gray satellite orbiting around it.
Feng Ling said, "Look, the geology is stable. The ocean occupies about 70% of the total area. The huge satellite creates a constant tide. Complicated life has evolved on it. Most importantly, it is on the edge of the Milky Way. No one has settled for a thousand light years around, so it has not been discovered by anyone yet, and I used a black hole graviton telescope to scan for a hundred years before I found it."
"That's why you called me here."
Under the clear sky, the faint moonlight of the Bing Ling flashed, the tassels and silver threads were blown up by the wind, and there were dandelions flying all over the sky.
"Yes, the trouble is that this planet is deep in the territory of the rebel alliance. I want to go deep into the rebel alliance, and then sow the seeds of hope on this planet." Feng Ling pointed to the survival tank behind him. Floating life.
Bing Ling did not speak, waiting for Feng Ling to continue to explain.
"It is not that difficult if it is just to release it. But once the rebel alliance knows that our inexplicable danger has penetrated into their territory, they will investigate the places we have been. Once they find this planet that may nurture civilization, With the cruel nature of these native species’ civilizations, they are very likely to make a preemptive strike and smash the entire planet. Therefore, at least the coordinates of this planet cannot be exposed, nor can we expose the things we bring to this planet." Feng Ling Say:
"In other words, it is not feasible to assemble an assault fleet and directly enter the destination to perform the mission. Therefore, my plan is like this. I have prepared for some time."
Feng Ling's finger clicked in the air a few times, and a metallic spaceship descended from the sky and landed in front of them. It is a typical Alliance transport ship, Freedom III.
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Feng Ling also brought out some documents from the rebel alliance, which were sufficient to ensure that they passed most of the alliance's interrogation.
"We will pretend to be a merchant ship that transports goods and travel within the Alliance. As long as we can break through the inspection of the Alliance border, this merchant ship that is not common in the Alliance should not encounter any trouble. The journey is very long, about a year. , We need to make several transfers to replenish fuel and other supplies." Feng Ling ended her speech.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go." Bing Ling said.
The soft sunshine always evokes Bing Ling's memory. It was a spring outing together with her sister, Han Ling, on an equally sunny morning thousands of years ago, accompanied by their parents. There are many little faeries who travel with them in the spring.
At that time, the lights on the streets were still the same, in addition to the sound of waves hitting the beach, there were also noisy fairy voices. At that time, what Mom and Dad said to themselves was "What are you waiting for, let's go."
Then... Mom and Dad, after all, they left because of time, because they chose to let her and Han Ling live forever. She and Han Ling, as well as the many faeries now scattered throughout the galaxy, are the first new faeries and the last generation of faeries. The cost of overcoming time must be extremely heavy.
The price of longevity is long-term death.
The price of eternity is loneliness.
"Hello? Then let's go, don't be in a daze." Feng Ling interrupted Bing Ling's contemplation, and Bing Ling recovered, looking at Feng Ling who was full of energy and seemed to never worry about the doomed tragic ending. She was also infected by this cheerful vitality.
"Sister! Where are you going?" A young girl who resembled Bing Ling rushed over from a distance. Her plain dress couldn't cover the waist that was gripped by Yingying, and she stepped on her long, smooth legs. Wearing white embroidered shoes, shoulder-length silver hair with a small white flower. The face is as beautiful as her sister, but slightly more playful and less melancholy.
"Han Ling! Didn't you take over my job?" Bing Ling asked slightly angrily, but her brows were filled with joy.
"When I got there, someone had already taken over, and she said that I was too young to do this kind of work, and drove me back. Obviously everyone is about the same age." Han Ling said.
Thousands of years ago, in the fairy galactic empire, scientists successfully solved the secret of aging and mastered the method to modify the fairy embryo genes through genetic engineering to make them immortal. The unique triple helix gene structure of the faerie makes the faerie the only race in the galaxy that can accept this genetic modification. For a while, almost all newborns have received genetic modification. Who wouldn't want their children to live healthy and happy forever, especially in such a stable world? Overcoming time itself has been the greatest achievement since ancient times.
However, the cost of this genetic engineering was not revealed until decades later: children born through genetic engineering, no matter what methods, cloning or artificial insemination are used, will not be able to reproduce offspring, and as physics has made breakthroughs in information entropy research, It also reveals an iron law of life:
Senescence is a prerequisite for the ability of organisms to reproduce. If you don't age, you can't breed offspring.
The price of longevity is long-term death.
However, even if this law is revealed, the "old fairy" who has the ability to reproduce refuses to give birth to offspring that will age and life will become difficult over time. In just a few hundred years, they will age and be able to multiply. The so-called "old faeries" of future generations are extinct. And Han Ling was the last fairy to be born, and because of this, he was loved by all the faeries. So far, I haven't seen much of the coldness and cruelty of the universe. Perhaps this is also a struggle against reality.
"Sister is going to a very far and dangerous place," Bing Ling stroked Han Ling's hair, "You can rest at home."
"No, I want to go with my sister!"
What followed was a long quarrel between sisters, and finally Bing Ling promised that after returning, he would tell Han Ling what he had seen and heard for three days and three nights, and then Han Ling left with great enthusiasm. But Bing Ling faintly felt that younger sister didn't seem to be as angry as she was on the surface?
"She's lonely." Feng Ling supported her heavy glasses, and at this time she turned back into a serious scholar.
"She must get used to being alone."
Most of the planet of the fairy capital is covered by oceans, forests and lakes. The forests are dotted with small artistic buildings. They were built in different ages. The buildings of the fairy are still as clean as new after thousands of years, but now There is no one.
It's just that there is a huge city in the center of a continent, and what Bing Ling has reached is the center of this city. And in the center of the city, is a tall silver spire.
In the silver spire, there is no one, only ancient AIs, doing what should be executed by the fairy thousands of years ago. The super quantum computers on which they live are arranged along the tower, and at the top of the minaret, a fairy wearing an ancient military uniform sits alone in an empty office. She listens to the transmission from tens of thousands of light years away. It is an Old voice.
"Ling, the galaxy has been poisoned by the battle of ideas between the fairy and us for more than a thousand years. Instead of letting trillions of people die in the war, let us put this war to an end."
The fairy spoke with a cold and elegant voice.
"As you wish."