Chapter 135 Wishing Machine
"...Old man, are you kidding? Do you know what you're talking about? Maybe you should stop the adventures you've been taking and come back to recuperate? Otherwise, I should suspect your mental problems!"
A Scientist of the Fire Alliance who received the subpoena suggested this to the other end of the communication device, obviously he did not believe what the other party said.
But immediately after, the other party presented evidence.
"—Listen, I'm not kidding, you can take a look at the next picture. While not many other civilizations know about this, maybe we should think about it."
As he spoke, a video was transmitted to the big screen in front of the Fire Alliance scientist.
This is a city of indigenous civilization. From various details, it seems to be an indigenous civilization in the mechanical age.
Man-made machinery has begun to be widely used in production lines. Unemployment and employment at the bottom are the theme of this era.
However, the era of the aborigines is not the focus of this picture, but the number of "Titans".
These giant creatures with a height of 100 meters are wreaking havoc on the indigenous cities. In order to resist the pressure brought by such a body, their bones and muscles are far harder than ordinary metals.
As expected, the natives here have nothing to do with these titans. The "little things" that can be solved with one shot in the interstellar world are disasters for them.
Originally, the Tinder Alliance scientist thought it was another tragic death record of an aborigine, but he didn't expect that when the screen changed, it was given to an aboriginal child.
This child is holding a ball in his hand, and it seems to be making a wish from his posture.
Then an unbelievable scene happened to the scientists of the Tinder Alliance. I saw several luminous giant creatures suddenly appearing, fighting with those "Titan Behemoths", and it didn't take long to defeat those behemoths.
After the disappearance of these giant beasts, the ball in the hands of the indigenous child disappeared together with the sudden appearance of the giant luminous creature, and only the mess on the ground was still proving what happened just now.
This miraculous scene naturally shocked the scientists of the Fire Alliance, and hurriedly asked for more details.
"I now believe that you are not joking, tell me, what else have you found?"
"... I knew I would have made a bet with you..." The person on the other side of the communication muttered before continuing:
"This is an indigenous civilization that I accidentally discovered. With our attitude towards indigenous civilizations, I cautiously sneaked into this civilization and collected all their information."
“Originally I thought this matter would pass soon, just like we did before, either by leaving behind technology or taking the initiative to contact.”
"But what I didn't expect was that I found that this indigenous civilization had signs of artificial improvement! There are several vague records in their history that are difficult to find, but the great progress of civilization always occurs in these events."
"With doubts, I conducted an in-depth investigation, and soon discovered that a mysterious sphere called the 'Wish Wishing Machine' appeared in large numbers in their records, and became one of their symbols of belief."
"In many countries within this indigenous civilization, this mysterious sphere is used as the leader of faith, forming a social atmosphere with a strong idealism trend."
After saying this, the adventurer from the Fire Alliance took a deep breath before continuing:
"But I discovered that this mysterious sphere is actually an extremely sophisticated unmanned device. It seems to be receiving information, and then transmitting it to a place I don't know, and that place will use superb technology to fulfill the 'wish' .”
"I suspect that the vague 'big progress' in the history of the aboriginal people here is caused by 'wish', and therefore this aboriginal civilization still retains many ancient and stupid customs."
"In this situation... have you thought about anything?" The adventurer showed a searching expression, as if he wanted to know what the person on the other side of the communication device was thinking.
Then, they spoke together like a tacit understanding: "...This may be a sociological experiment conducted by a certain civilization here."
The two who were born in the Fire Alliance can naturally think of this matter. There are not a few behaviors in the galaxy that use indigenous people for experiments.
After all, it is more convenient to use those natives who don’t know anything than to use your own people to carry out dangerous experiments. Among them, the social Xu experiment is naturally one of them.
The magical "wishing machine" they now know and the effects it brings easily make them realize the purpose of the "wishing machine" here.
The Pyro Alliance itself is very opposed to using natives for experiments. If they see a similar situation, they will spare no effort to stop it.
But the level of technology used by this magical "wishing machine" has exceeded their imagination, and the civilization that conducts sociological experiments here must be irresistible to them.
If they choose to thwart sociological experiments here, it could spell disaster, both for them and for the natives.
Most interstellar civilizations generally don’t take natives seriously, and some violent authoritarian civilizations and extreme racial cleanliness civilizations don’t even treat natives as “smart creatures”. Slave trade and racial purification happen from time to time. thing.
If the sociological experiment here is disturbed, it is not impossible for the civilization behind it to vent its anger on the aborigines. At that time, it will deviate from the behavior of the Tinder Alliance to save the aborigines.
And this "wishing machine" is not as "driving" as it seems. In the history of indigenous civilizations, some people have made such a shocking wish of "destroying their own country".
His wish came true, and his country was destroyed by a meteorite disaster.
If someone makes a wish to "destroy this planet", then the result of this indigenous civilization may be self-evident.
"...But just ignoring it like this violates our long-standing program. It would be nice if we were stronger..."
"...There is nothing we can do. All we can do now is to continue to observe the natives here, and hope that they will not self-destruct..."
Information about this native holding the "Wishing Machine" was quickly reported to the home planet of the Fire Seed Alliance, and was unanimously approved: continue to observe.
Time goes by day by day, and the Tinder Alliance Observatory, which is responsible for monitoring the progress of this indigenous civilization, is also very concerned about this place, for fear that they will really unintentionally walk on the road of self-destruction.
But the more I am afraid of something, the more something will come.
One day, a "lucky guy" on this planet was favored by the "Wishing Machine" and held the mysterious ball in his arms.
Although the Tinder Alliance, which has been observing the movement of the "Wish Wishing Machine", seized all the time to find the "Wish Wisher", they still came a step late.
The "doomsdayist", who is cynical and has experienced a lot of malice, made a wish to the ball. He hoped that everyone here would die in a disaster.
—and then disaster actually happened.
The core of the planet began to heat abnormally, blowing up the entire planet to pieces in just half an hour, and all the natives on the planet died as a result.
It turns out that there is a planetary bomb buried here, and the civilizations conducting sociological experiments here seem to have predicted that the natives here will go extinct.
The Tinder Alliance failed to save even one person here, which made them very sad who had been committed to helping the natives.
But it is impossible for them to be the opponents of the civilization behind this experiment, so they can only hold a space funeral for these billions of indigenous people with guilt.
"...It's really a despicable social experiment..." Some Ignition Alliance workers drove spaceships to collect these indigenous relics, and at the same time kept cursing the civilization that planned all this.
They will record the history of this place in an archive, proving that these natives have left traces, which is the last they can do.
But as the work continued, they gradually discovered some familiar things among those planet fragments.
Since they stood in the interstellar space, they have been looking forward to an ancient civilization that is very kind to everyone.
They feel that this is what they will be able to get to this point in the future—a great civilization that puts an end to all acts of genocide and takes the protection of galactic creatures as its mission.
They’ve been working on it and want to start doing it now.
But at this moment, something familiar was found here, which made these workers fall into silence.
Finally, some of them sent the photos of these things back to the home planet, hoping that the top scholars in their own civilization would prove to them that all of this is "false".
Unfortunately, they soon received such a chilling news:
"...The style of these wreckages is very similar to that of 'Observer'. It seems to be a kind of bomb with great power? Where did you find it?"
(end of this chapter)