The Wandering Planet

Qiao Li followed Lin Wen into the headquarters of the current coalition government, where he met another old friend, Optimus Prime who still leads all the Autobots.

The appearance of Optimus Prime is still the same as before. For Transformers who can live for millions of years, 2,500 years is not too long.

You're back, Joey.

Contrary to the excitement of others, Optimus Prime just sent an ordinary greeting, as if he hadn't seen him for two days, and he didn't feel like reuniting after a long absence.

Probably because of the reason mentioned above, his age is already millions of years old, =.

However, Qiao Lv had a special feeling about it. After sleeping for 2,500 years, it was a kind of luck to have an old friend who hadn't changed at all.

Well, I'm back.

After a brief greeting, Qiao Lv followed Lin Wen into the meeting room.

Here he finally understands the overall situation now, the scale of this war is much bigger than he imagined.

The entire conference room was submerged in a huge hologram, and it was not the star map familiar to Qiao Lv, but a strange image that seemed to be composed of countless intertwined and entangled fibers.

Lin Wen said: So far, we have united 1.57 million human civilizations in the multiverse to launch the final challenge to Zero. This kind of war involves more than just the diameter of our current situation. The universe of 16 billion light years also includes countless parallel universes, and every existing dimension of the universe is a universe in a truly broad sense.

For such a terrifying scale, Qiao Lv was a little unimaginable. Even the giant hologram on the conference table was beyond his comprehension, and he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of this era at all.

For this reason, Ding Yi explained to him: Every fiber above is a parallel universe, and the whole universe is such a fiber bundle. The wandering earth can jump to the adjacent fiber, which is the truth of our past travel. Now they It has been possible to create such a rough model of the universe, but of course, in my opinion, it is still far away from the real unified model of the universe.”

Qiao Lv shook his head helplessly and said, Well, it seems that I am already behind the times, and I can't even keep up with your discussions.

It's okay, it's all normal. I didn't understand anything when I woke up, and I learned it slowly later.

In this new era, Qiao Lv couldn't help being unfamiliar with so many things that he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of the meeting. Now he knew too little.

Lin Wen said: If you have any questions, you can ask them at any time. This meeting was originally intended to answer your questions. After all, we still need you to complete the final mission.

Qiao Lv also understands that it is very difficult for him to directly intervene in the decision-making of the coalition government. For him, understanding what is happening now is the most important thing.

Okay, so my first question is, since it is said that the Zeroes can no longer sit idly by humans, what actions have they taken? Has the war already happened?

Yes, the war has already happened. Lin Wen said affirmatively:

It's just that this time the zero-returner is not using light particle strikes, dimension reduction strikes, or any weapon of the laws of the universe that we have ever imagined. It is more terrifying than we imagined, and it is also more elusive. After careful analysis , which I will name an antimemetic weapon.

what?

Sure enough, another term Qiao Li had never heard of appeared.

Ding Yi explained: Antimeme is a concept with self-conservation or self-shielding properties. For example, in your dreams, sometimes you feel that the dreams are very long for a few days.

What happened in the dream is specific and vivid, but when you wake up, you will find that the most recent memory is the night before, lying in bed with your eyes closed. In fact, if there is no distance between sleep and waking, it means that the content of the dream has been completely forgotten by us, but being forgotten does not mean that it did not happen.

Qiao Li immediately remembered his experience when he just woke up. Perhaps during the long hibernation, he had no dreams, but these dreams were all forgotten, just like what Ding Yi said about antimemes.

Ding Yi continued: However, even if you remember part of it, you will soon forget the dream after you wake up, and it is difficult to record the dream with an accurate description. If you want to share your dream with others , either remade from logic, or just plain nonsense. In short, it is extremely difficult to accurately describe what happened in the dream. This is an antimeme, always People can’t get the message out.”

Qiao Li probably understood a little bit, but he still couldn't understand how to use antimemes.

The above are just normal antimemes, each of us has experienced them. But the antimemes used as weapons are not so benign and harmless. For example, to make a person disappear in society, no one Remember his existence, and any records left behind will be forgotten like a dream. Then even if he is still alive, it is no different from death.

Such an idea also existed in Qiao Lv's mind, but he never thought that it could be used as a real weapon.

This kind of thing directly attacks our cognition, not only human beings, but also other races, and even mechanical life forms. Objects hit by antimemetic weapons will completely disappear from cognition, compared to physical The destruction is even more frightening. I think the purpose of the zero-returners is to completely erase the civilization, culture, society, and groups that are the concept of human beings from the universe, so as to completely cut off the possibility of inheritance. The final effect is, It is in this universe that humans have never existed.

This kind of thought made Qiao Lv's spine shudder. If the Return to Zero had his way, then human civilization would really be dead, and there would be no way to leave even a trace.

Can such a thing really be done?

It's not whether it can be done, but it has already begun to do so.

Lin Wen enlarged the hologram in the conference room, pointed to the fiber bundle above and said:

So far, we have cut off contact with human civilizations in at least 3,657 parallel universes, and considering that we actually only reacted not long ago, the actual number of human civilizations that have been victimized is at least twice the current count above..

The scariest thing about antimemetic weapons is that you don't even know when the other party launched an attack and when you were attacked.

The only thing we can do is to act as soon as possible to fight back, otherwise more and more people will disappear into thin air, and we don't even remember that they ever existed!