Chapter 304 Dimensional Erosion
【This ship has entered the third level of combat readiness. Citizens are requested to abide by the "Wartime Alert Law" by themselves, and do not go out if it is not necessary】
【The distribution method of materials will be changed from "go to the distribution point to pick up" to "delivery by staff", please pay attention to check and accept within the specified time】
【…】
Following the news from the border post, the entire "Light Chasing" civilization has entered a wartime state. Since the "Song of Dawn" home ship is the center of civilization, it is currently the least affected, with only a third-level combat readiness.
Although martial law has begun, it is still much more stable than the front-line defense supply fleet.
Sun Engineer hurriedly marched on the avenue. Occasionally, passing security personnel saw him, but they seemed to have greeted him in advance, turning a blind eye to him still on the street at this time.
It wasn’t that Engineer Sun did any bribery, it was just because of his special occupation, especially in wartime.
All the life support facilities of the home ship are the top priority of maintenance at this time. The engineers who used to have leisure vacations are now basically working with stimulants, and day and night are basically the norm.
Although the maintenance priority of the artificial sun in charge of the solar engineer is not so high, even if it is deactivated for a short time, it will not affect the ecology of the home ship, but this is also one of the "life support" parts of the spacecraft, so he also Became a "privileged person" in wartime.
Now that the chip in his body has been marked, it has become a mobile signal source, and all security personnel will know what he is doing, so they can move unimpeded on the street.
Although there is no privacy, this is the ecology here.
After turning around countless corners and passing through several divisions such as the "square area", "allocation area", and "labor reform area", he came to his work unit.
—a tall tower.
This is the place responsible for the life support system of the entire spacecraft. Besides him, there are many other staff members here. These are engineers who gathered here because of "wartime security".
However, the third-level combat readiness is not so strict after all. In their spare time, these engineers can also say a few words, and many people have noticed the arrival of Sun Engineer and greeted him.
After responding one by one, the solar engineer noticed that some unfamiliar engineers had also appeared in this place, and they seemed to be newly recruited by the government.
Curious, he learned the identities of those people from his fellow engineer.
"They...they are the maintenance engineers of the 'Level 1 Secret Building'. We don't know what that kind of building is, but it is probably related to our salary increase. It is probably an unknown production capacity building."
"But it's not me, those engineers are too idle... I've been working here for so long, I've never seen them leave, just gather here all day, and look at us and laugh... It can't be real' Privileged personnel'?"
Companion’s words made Sun Engineer understand that these people are probably the real “privileged personnel”.
After all, they are not machines, nor are they Gestalt conscious, and their quality is not that high. Even if this is a "planned society", there are indeed privileged personnel.
There will always be some positions that are relatively easy and can gain qualifications, and those who can airborne here are privileged personnel.
However, it is only possible to achieve this step. Although it is a "privilege", if the basic ability is insufficient, it is absolutely impossible to be assigned to this position.
Their privilege is just that the work they do is a little easier. Maybe even these engineers themselves don't know what the work they are responsible for.
So the solar engineer shook his head and entered the high tower, which belongs to the layer controlled by the artificial sun.
There are several solar engineers, but he is the only one who came today. There is no problem with the various data of the artificial sun, but he must stick to his post until the combat readiness is lifted.
It has been several weeks, during which the engineers have been rotated several times, but the combat readiness has not been lifted, but has been upgraded from level three to level two, which makes the sun engineers a little uneasy.
The only way he can get information is good, as if it is still a peaceful and prosperous age, but the upgraded combat readiness shows that the battle situation is not optimistic.
As if to confirm his premonition, he, or these solar engineers, received a "secret mission" from the government.
【Citizens whose serial number is: SE-086713392 please go to the "Control Tower" to gather】
This is a notification sent directly to the chip in his body. He came to the destination with anxiety, but found that the people who came seemed to be the same solar engineer as him.
The army personnel did not explain much, and directly took them to the disembarkation spaceship, and did not inform them of the purpose of their trip until halfway through their voyage.
"I think everyone should be more or less aware that we have actually started a war with the enemy a long time ago, and now it is indeed time for you to serve civilization."
"You are all maintainers of the artificial sun and are irreplaceable experts in this field. This time, your task is to restart the 'Outlier Sun'."
After that, they saw their mission target—a spaceship covered by a large number of weird plants. Judging from the style, it seemed to be another "home ship" of theirs.
"This is…"
"Yes, this is the home ship 'Dawn Star'. It is difficult for us to understand why it will be 'attacked' in our hinterland. We understand that this matter is very important to our battle situation."
"The only thing we know so far is the last announcement in the 'Dawn Star', which is 'Restart the Sun'."
"Please rest assured that the most elite special operations forces are operating with you, and they will ensure your safety on the 'Dawn Star'."
The solar engineers looked at each other, but couldn't say any words of resistance, so they had to log in to the "Dawn Star" with the team.
At this time, Li Wenyuan, who was five million light years away, gradually realized something.
There is no information related to "Fire Chaser" in the "Chasing Light" archive data, but the information synchronized to him by the leader of "Chasing Light" because of the battle has never been interrupted.
He also observed the behavioral logic of the "Fire Chaser" and the state of their individual group, and then thought of the Ether Dragon.
According to the self-reports of humans and Ether Dragon, Ether Dragon gradually declined because of "not adapting to the rules of the universe", and the wisdom of the past was gone, and it became a killing machine.
In the record of "Chasing the Light", it is also mentioned that the "Fire Chasing" was not in the current state of madness, but still maintained a civilized sense.
Although "Light Chaser" believed that "Fire Chaser" was infected by a virus in a certain war and lost his wisdom, Li Wenyuan knew that maybe what happened to "Fire Chaser" was similar to the ether dragon.
This civilization from the last cosmic epoch seems to have been eroded by the current universe, and it no longer adapts to the environment here.
(end of this chapter)