Chapter 44 Family Secret History

Li frowned slightly, STC! It's actually this kind of thing. If it's true, then hiding this in the family is no different from hiding a horrible bomb. No, it's not that simple. If it's just a bomb, it's better. However, even if it is STC, it will not endanger the survival of human beings. Fei Wen will not be confused. There seems to be a lot of mechanical gods like this. Isn't it too exaggerated to threaten the survival of human beings?

"Yes, the mechanical religion has a lot of STCs, but none of them are so intact."

Li took a breath of cold air, "How complete is it?"

"Just like a new one."

STC, also known as the "standard construction template", is a nearly legendary machinery left over from the golden age of mankind. In the golden age, human beings mastered the navigation method of alien space and began to take their steps like the Milky Way. For the colonists, the universe was strange and full of all kinds of unprecedented dangers. And in a new planet, many things can't rely on the earth's supplies and must be made by themselves.

So how to make it? For example, on a new colonial planet, you need to use a tool of the right size to hold water, and it is better to have a certain degree of beauty. Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for the colony to ask for a batch of fragile ceramics from thousands of miles from the earth.

You can only make it yourself. Now the problem arises. How to make it? Human colonists living in the golden age can be proficient in many languages, can easily repair some kind of sophisticated instruments, have a deep understanding of spacecraft, or have a deep study of human biology, but few people know how to burn ceramics.

Not to mention in that era, even on the earth where Li lives, in the 21st century, in addition to relevant professionals, how many people will specialize in how to cook ceramics? There won't be a few, because it's completely unnecessary. If you want a porcelain cup, you can get it in a supermarket for just a few yuan. In a complete society, the division of labor has become more and more perfect and refined. You don't need to know everything, you just need to do your job well.

This is just ceramics. What if you need to cut wood? Logging is a dangerous job. Even professional loggers may have accidents due to careless care. Can unprofessional people be qualified for logging? What about fishing? Where is the fishing rod? How about building a house? How to collect stone? How to produce cement?

There are too many such problems. Some daily necessities that are readily available on the earth are so precious and rare in the new world. If you really want them, the best way is to produce them yourself.

And STC is such a machine. STC standardizes and programs all products on earth in the golden age, and then stores manufacturing methods in STC.

STC is like a fool's manual. As long as you know how to read, anyone can make whatever they need with sufficient suitable materials. From a piece of soap, a snow-white writing paper, to a combine harvester for farmland. As long as he strictly follows the steps of STC, he can make a tank even if he is alone.

Once such a machine is combined with automatic mechanical manufacturing, it will produce whatever you need.

STC's information is all-encompassing, and the scientific and technological level of human beings in the golden age is very high. In the eyes of people now, the technology of that era is no different from miracles. What human beings can do with machinery is simply magical and unimaginable, and it is difficult to understand. Nowadays, the king on the ground, the strongest war machine Titan in the legion, was only the guard used by the colonists to protect them in that golden age.

Human beings in the golden age are strong, rich, and also have the enterprising spirit of the colonial era. They are brave and innovative. If history continues so smoothly, the galaxy will undoubtedly belong to human beings. But such a great era was dramatically destroyed suddenly. Just like the legendary city of Atlantis suddenly sank in a flood, human beings in the golden age encountered a sudden subspace storm. The storm was so fierce, just like the legendary huge flood of the world. No, in terms of scale, the flood of the world is the same as that of subspace. The storm is completely two levels, and it can't be compared at all. After all, the annihilation flood was just raging on a planet, and that subspace storm swept the whole galaxy.

Of course, subspace storms are different from floods. Floods can directly flood the earth and destroy cities. Subspace storms only act in subspace and have no impact on creatures living in the real world. Except for those psionics, ordinary people will not feel anything at all. However, the originally stable subspace energy became tyrannical and manic. At this time, human beings could not enter the subspace navigation. The act of forced entry was tantamount to suicide. All the subspace navigation was cut off, and this was the only way for human beings to conquer the star sea.

As if it can't sail through subspace, how can human beings cross the long distance in light years?

Human beings have no choice. In front of nature, human beings always seem to be powerless. In the ancient Greek era, when the storm blew, the sailors could only shrink in the temple on the shore and tremble. They knelt down in front of the statue and begged for Poseidon's anger to calm down earlier. In the Milky Way in the golden age of human beings, when the storm in a different space blew, the pedestrians in the starry sky could only be trapped in the galaxy, far away. Looking at the starlight in the distance, he sighed silently.

The strange space storm was so fierce that it completely isolated the earth from its colonies. Every human colony turned into an island, and the colony completely lost contact between colonies. Moreover, the STC network has also been devastated. All STCs have been completely destroyed, and almost nothing has survived.

After that, human beings inevitably slipped into a period of collapse and decline. For a time, the human species almost fell on the verge of destruction until the birth of the great emperor.

In a word, STC is a super cheater left over from ancient times. Just a broken STC, as long as part of it can still work, it can improve your technology level by leaps and bounds. Not to mention an intact STC, the information in this machine will be priceless for the Empire.

Why is the emperor so great that even the Martian mechanical believers who believe in the mechanical god have to worship?

It is precisely because the emperor himself has the black technology of the golden age that the knowledge he has directly conquered the believers of the mechanical religion. For these believers, the emperor can only be the messengers of the mechanical god and the saints. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the emperor himself is so erudite, and even a small number of believers believe that the emperor is The incarnation of the mechanical god in the world.

So STC is a very tricky thing. It may contain valuable technology and is extremely precious; but if it can't be used, then it is just an antique and can only be placed in the living room. The value of an STC is not the machine itself, but the information and information contained in the machine.

"So what can we do with this STC?" Li frowned and said, "There must be a lot of interesting things, right?"

"For example?"

"Gis a huge battleship, a forest of turrets, every shell has a terrible destructive power, and a huge and terrible war machine walking on the ground... Is there anything like this?" If there is, it will be developed.

"I don't understand. Are these things interesting?" Fei Wen snorted dissatisfiedly and complained, "After more than 9,000 years, why are you still the same as before, just like a childish little boy who likes firearms and weapons. It's so disappointing! What's the use of multiple turrets, warships, even if you have these things? As long as it is used for battle, it will be defeated one day. As long as it is used for destruction, it will not escape the fate of destruction. This kind of thing doesn't make any sense at all. It can't change the world. It will only make you fall into the fate of extinction. Brother, you don't understand and don't understand the meaning. For STC, you don't understand what it means!"

Li shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "You just think of me as a barbarian of the Stone Age. Tell me what's the profound significance of STC to replace the stone axe in the hands of me, a barbarian, except for something very powerful."

"What is really valuable is the knowledge left in STC. Only knowledge is the most precious thing. It tells us the 'principle', not the ridiculous things in mechanical theology, but 'truth', 'knowledge', and 'science'. These things make us understand that those machines are like He runs, so that he can understand why those machines run like that. He can even change the way we look at the universe.

"Oh," Li asked with a smile, "So what's the benefit to me?" Can truth replace my stone axe?

"In this way, we can not only make the same machinery, but also create greater machines. Electric lights do not grow from trees, and machines do not exist naturally. These things need to be created from nothing. Only by creating can we make progress and human beings move forward! The foundation of creation is knowledge. On the basis of this knowledge, our technology may return to the level of the golden age, and even hope to surpass the human beings in the 'golden age'. We can do better than them! Not to mention your stupid stone axe, as long as there is enough time, what can't human beings do? Carbon steel plastic axe, electromagnetic vibration axe, nuclear energy axe, these things are up to you!"

"It's really great, but you have to understand that you are heresy," Li said calmly, "If the Mechanical God knows what you think, they will put you in the main gun of the battleship and then fire at the black hole."

"Hahaha, heresy, do you think I'm heresy? It's really ridiculous. Mechanical God is a heresy. No, they are cancer, a cancer attached to the empire. Sooner or later, human beings will be destroyed by the stupid and unreasonable metamorphosis of the group. As for putting me in the battleship's main gun and shooting at the black hole," Feiwen smiled. "That group of stupid fools will indeed do this, because For them, they dare not face me at all. They can't refute my thoughts, so they can only destroy me physically. But they won't know all this, will they?

"If you don't say it, I won't say it, so this secret will be buried forever, and no one will know." Li shook his head with a sneer and said, "My sister, where did you get this naive idea? Don't you know that all secrets are like this at the beginning? They seem to be confidential, but they will eventually be leaked. No secret will be buried permanently. We can only cover it up temporarily. Sooner or later, they will know. What's more, the other party is a mechanical god. Their power is so huge. Even if we are in the Far East, outside the border of the empire, there is a manufacturing world in this galaxy. There are hundreds of mechanical slaves in my warship, and electronic prying eyes are everywhere.

There is no doubt that the religion that dominates the huge empire is the royal state religion. The belief in the emperor is unshakable in the empire. Almost 90% of the people in the empire are followers of the state religion. People living in millions of different worlds are chanting the holy name of the emperor. At the same time, the state religion has a planet belonging to the church - the world of the Holy See, armed to the church - a powerful nuns, and they also have a notorious trial. Court.

From this, we can see how powerful the Holy See is. They have their own territory, their own army, and their own courts.

And the teachings of the state religion clearly state that there is only the emperor, the only true god in the universe, and any other believers are infidels. The heretical Holy See has never been stingy with their judgment, which is the purification of flames.

The Holy See has unified the religion of the whole empire. You can't see other sects on the territory of the empire.

But in addition to the mechanical god religion.

No church that believes in other gods can live openly in the empire. "Freedom of faith" has never existed in the empire. The word freedom of faith has even been deleted in the Gothic dictionary. For the people of the empire, faith is only divided into two types, to the emperor. The belief, and the belief of heresy. And for those pagan churches, once found, the state religion will decisively give their emperors the anger - the nuns will not hesitate to burn these pagans and their gods into scum. But in this case, the mechanical god religion has always existed in the empire.

It can be seen that the power of mechanical theological religion. Although the mechanical theological religion rarely reveals its power on weekdays, the power of the mechanical theological religion can be felt in many aspects. For example, there is a seat in the "manufacturing director" of Mars among the four seats of the Supreme Council of the Empire and the Council of the Elders of the Empire, such as the powerful Church of the State. It acquiesced to the fact that mechanicalism exists. Not to mention that the Mechanical God Religion controls and monopolizes the scientific and technological knowledge of the whole empire. Hundreds of thousands, or more casting worlds, are running machines day and night, providing a steady stream of weapons, ammunition and various supplies for countless battlefields in the world. Once the mechanical religion goes on strike, the whole empire will face the possibility of paralysis.

"I know what you mean," said Fei Wen. "It's because of the strength of the mechanical church that I haven't done anything over the years, allowing those ridiculous clowns to sway around my territory."

"What's the matter?" Li began to step back and forth impatiently, "Do you still want to do something about the mechanical god religion? What do I mean? Why is it that things are already very troublesome now, and there is a more troublesome situation? And I don't know anything about it."

So what do you want to know? My brother."

"All things, why have you become like this? How did you live for nine thousand years? What's wrong with our STC? How can you be hostile to mechanical theism? Sorry, you are more like a believer of mechanical theological religion than the followers of mechanical theological religion. Your whole body is mechanical. You are simply," for a while. Li looked at the huge mechanical body in front of him, and he couldn't find the right words. "It's simply too mechanical!"

"What an embarrassing comment," Fei Wen said with a sigh. "Well, I'm too anxious. There are a lot of problems now. Fortunately, although time is precious, in order to let you understand clearly, it's worth spending so much time at once. Let's start from the beginning in an orderly way."

"Yes, we'd better be more organized."

"First of all, my body," Fei Wen explained calmly, "I don't know if you still remember. I've been different since I was a child."

"Yes, you love reading. You are very smart."

"But I am still an ordinary person. Even if I am called a 'genius' by ordinary people, it is useless. Geniuses will age and die, and the empire does not need geniuses. Especially in science, the old-fashioned mechanical teaching is dull and timid. Their conservatism is beyond the word conservative. The scope of the meaning of the word. Fei Wen said, "Brother, you won't understand my pain. As a genius, living is a painful thing in itself, especially living on the territory of the empire, living in this dark era. There is suffocating air around, and the depressing atmosphere makes you go crazy. You can't imagine that as a scientific researcher, the Mechanical Seminary would do those ridiculous but terrible things. The Mechanical Seminary prohibits all folk scientific research. They used all despicable means to persecute those civilian scientific researchers, arrest, assassinate and sentence them. They are so powerful that no one can resist. Once all STCs are found, they will be preserved as sacred objects and sent to Mars in the first place. STC is a sacred object of mechanical divinity, and all their power comes from this.