Chapter 35 Missing Radioactive Elements, the Third Civilization
End of 1000 years.
Yan Xia also woke up.
What a long time, he stayed in "Divinity" for another 1,000 years.
He has experienced so many things in these 1,000 years, and has also witnessed the development of a virtual world, and the decline and rise of countless countries and races.
This made him feel and learn a lot.
Even in "Divine Inspiration", a technological kingdom has been born, which will become a simulated kingdom, in which both NPCs and players will provide "imagination resources" for reality in the technological kingdom.
During these 1,000 years, he did not let Ella, who was following him in the virtual world, report information from the outside world. He believed that Ella could handle everything.
If Ella couldn't handle it, then knowing it wouldn't be of much use.
In the wandering civilization he represents, he is the decision-maker, and Ella is equivalent to a brain group. What he does is make decisions and make plans, and sometimes make correct decisions that exceed Ella's computing power. Every proposed plan is Things Ella does.
"The fleet will head to Proxima Centauri now, first to Proxima Centauri c."
Yan Xia had received complete information the moment before exiting hibernation.
He knew now what to do next.
Proxima Centauri c is not yet fully developed compared to Proxima Centauri b, so landing on Proxima Centauri c is relatively safe.
"Yan Xia, I don't recommend that you go to Proxima Centauri."
Ella said from the side, using an avatar with a serious expression.
Yan Xia looked at it and felt that it was too worried.
"Ella, you have completed the iteration of the electromagnetic shield. Even large-mass dark matter missiles may not be able to penetrate my defense."
"You don't need to worry about my safety."
Ella shook her head slightly.
"I'm not worried about the threat that Proxima Centauri civilization will pose to you."
"Yan Xia, come with me."
It turned and walked towards the experimental area, and Yan Xia followed curiously.
The experimental area in the spacecraft was no longer empty. Passing by the biology laboratory with hundreds of brains at the door, Yan Xia walked to the main chemistry laboratory.
All the technologies here serve chemistry, and are relatively large-scale. Their function is to observe smaller particles and analyze macroscopic chemical phenomena, as well as conduct experiments on other chemical properties.
Ella controls more than a dozen robots in the laboratory to start working.
A robot walked up to Yan Xia, holding four test tubes in its hands, which contained soil, metal, liquid and nothing.
"What's this?"
"It's just some random things collected from Proxima Centauri c. They haven't passed special screening."
"These three test tubes contain all the elements on Proxima Centauri c, including solids, liquids and gases."
The robot pours the contents of four test tubes into four instruments.
The instrument's analysis appears on a screen within the laboratory.
"Did you notice anything unusual?"
Yan Xia looked at the information on the screen, and then counted uncertainly.
"82!"
"Did you just say that all the elements on Proxima Centauri C are here?"
Yan Xia felt that Ella must have made a mistake. There should be 94 types of elements with relatively high abundance in nature.
However, Ella hummed.
"Yes, it's 82."
"None of these 82 elements are radioactive, which means that there are no radioactive elements on Proxima Centauri c."
"In these 1,000 years, I have made a lot of efforts to find radioactive elements, and even mobilized a lot of resources, but nothing has been found."
"The same is true on Proxima Centauri b and Proxima Centauri d."
Yan Xia thought for a while.
"Could it be because Proxima Centauri itself is a red dwarf star and does not have as much energy and gravity as the sun to create these heavy elements?"
This is the only possibility.
"It doesn't exist. Although red dwarfs cannot synthesize radioactive elements on their own, Proxima Centauri is not very old. It is likely to be a second or even third generation star. It will absorb and merge radiation from other supernova explosions at the beginning of its formation. A lot of radioactive elements.”
"Besides, radioactive elements are not only heavy elements. The reaction of light elements may also produce radioactivity, such as carbon 14. Rays and asteroids in the universe may also contain radioactive elements."
"But I have not observed any form of radioactive elements in the entire Proxima Centauri galaxy. Even element 83, bismuth, which is only weakly radioactive, is lacking."
"It is precisely because of the scarcity of radioactive elements that the Proxima Centauri civilization turned to studying dark matter. Their civilization is longer than human civilization. It took 780,000 years to go from level 0 to level 1."
"After the discovery of dark matter, their civilization entered an explosive stage. It only took 6,000 years to go from level 1 to the current level 1.9."
Yan Xia knew what Ella wanted to say.
Since radioactive elements can definitely be produced according to the laws of nature, but now they are missing, it must be the work of civilization.
If it is not done by the Proxima Centauri civilization, then it is another civilization.
That civilization was collecting radioactive elements and continues to do so until now.
The third civilization!
This is what Ella wants Yan Xia to be wary of.
The method of collecting these radioactive elements is definitely not mining like mining. It is more likely to use a technology that only works on radioactive elements for large-scale absorption.
And this absorption will not be observed macroscopically.
This technology may be related to the four fundamental forces. After understanding the light civilization, Ella has analyzed that the level 2 civilization may make in-depth development in the four fundamental forces.
A civilization with such super means to directly absorb elements may have reached a level above level 2.
The foundation of level 2 civilization may be - grand unification!
Yan Xia thought of his previous conjecture about the universe.
Observer!
Perhaps the first observer to observe Proxima Centauri was not him, but another civilization.
"Is there any definite evidence?"
Ella called up a picture.
"This is what I collected, a huge vacuum bubble, the entire Nanmen Tribody system is shrouded in it."
This evidence is enough to prove the existence of the third civilization.
"It can absorb radioactive elements, and perhaps it can also absorb stable basic elements."
"Are the elements in the solar system also absorbed in this way?"
Yan Xia was terrified when he thought about it carefully.
"We may be being observed now."
"I don't know whether this civilization is benevolent or malicious."
"Have they discovered us and launched warships to fly towards us?"
"Maybe they are in the Proxima Galaxy right now, but we can't find them."
"We don't know any of this."
He thought about it carefully and made up his mind.
"If we have been observed, then no matter where we go, we can't escape the sight of a higher civilization than us."
"In this case, we can't retreat, we can only continue to develop."
"Civilization Federation... maybe we really need to build a real civilization federation to resist higher civilizations."
"So, Proxima civilization is something we must control."
"Ella, use my cells to cultivate a clone, and he will represent me to communicate with Proxima civilization."
"I will hide in the dark after that."
"You should also shift more attention to the Hundred Eyes Star, vigorously develop technology on the Hundred Eyes Star, so that the Hundred Eyes tribe can receive our complete technology and develop."
"We must quickly reach level 2."
"Only by completing the grand unified theory can we glimpse the means of level 2 civilization."
The technological gap between civilizations makes the means of advanced civilizations almost invisible in front of lower civilizations.
This huge sense of crisis lingers in Yan Xia's heart.
At this time, he has become the Proxima civilization 1,000 years ago, and has become a prey!
