40,000 Years of Cultivation

Under the leadership of Professor Mo Xuan, Li Yao and Ling Xiaole passed the double inspection by the Federal Army and the Secret Swordsman, and were each assigned to an immersive virtual cabin.

Li Yao slowly sank into the rich and viscous light red liquid.

This special "neural interaction fluid" contains a large number of artificial neuron components, as well as countless mustard grade brain wave feedback patches, which can not only stimulate all nerve endings in the body, but also conduct special simulated brain waves. , Connect the human brain and the crystal brain together, or in other words, connect the soul and the unifying spirit network together.

The difference between the low-end and high-end virtual cabins is mainly the difference between the "neural interaction fluid". Professor Mo Xuan uses the latest modulation and cutting-edge neural interaction fluid of the Federation, which can make people 100% realistic and completely immersed in the virtual The world-in the spirit world.

Before being completely swallowed by the "neural interaction fluid", Li Yao glanced at the rows of virtual cabins around him, the big figures of the military, the secret sword bureau, the government, and various research institutions stationed in the Baihua Star Region.

They are all here to attend the launch ceremony of tomorrow's "Tinder Project". At this moment, their spirits have all entered the spiritual world to visit.

Li Yao always felt a little hairy in his heart when he looked at a body that seemed to fall into deep sleep and couldn't help himself.

Fortunately, there is Long Yangjun guarding the law next to him.

Er, although this guy who doesn't know whether it is a dead **** or dead ladyboy is not 100% reliable, at this moment, Li Yao actually feels that she is more trustworthy than her teacher, Professor Mo Xuan!

"rest assured!"

At the moment before Li Yao was completely swallowed, I saw Long Yangjun blinking at him, as if to say so with his eyes.

"Huh!"

Before Li Yao's eyes, the light and shadow changed, and he instantly appeared in a new world, a quiet grassland, on a small mountain bag.

The sky is high and the clouds are pale, the breeze is scented with flowers, the mirror-like lake is slightly rippling, and the winding silver river passes through the quaint town.

Almost every household in the small town is hung with colorful wind chimes, jingle, indescribably quiet.

On the mountain in the distance, someone was singing aloud, singing folk songs with nine songs and eighteen bends.

There are also children who are flying in the sky as if carrying a huge kite—this is an illusory world. There is no need to follow the laws of the real world. As long as the computing power and spiritual strength are sufficient, all good things can happen.

"Most of the virtual worlds cannot be 100% realistic, or because there are too many people involved and the computing power of the crystal brain is insufficient; or because the remote communication across the world is too unstable and the delay rate is too high. It causes people from different worlds to be out of place; or because 100% simulation is too painful, it is very easy to cause accidents; but the most important point is the mentality."

Professor Mo Xuan's deep and hot voice sounded from behind Li Yao, "Even if it is 100% realistic, if people who enter it just treat it as a game and treat themselves as a player, how can they take everything seriously?

"Anyway, everything is fake, you can start again at any time, even if you don't follow the rules, you won't be punished too much, and you will be kicked out.

"The superposition of countless false mindsets creates a huge, weird, and false world. Therefore, it is not surprising that those "Civilization" expansion pieces for ordinary players to play are called "virtual worlds". .

"But this is not the case here. I assure both of you that this is the spiritual world, the home of the spiritual race, and the place we earnestly live and defend to the death. There are our own rules and rules here, even though I, the creator--"

When Li Yao looked back, he saw the true face of Professor Mo Xuan who had only been seen in the photos before.

It was the image of a burly man with extremely broad shoulders, bronze skin, unshaven beard, and unyielding eyes.

It's like some kind of... a mixture of camel and bull. As long as you determine a goal, no matter how harsh the environment is, you will unswervingly go on and walk all the way to the end, even if you fall, die, and turn into bones. It will take thousands of years to slowly wipe out his bones.

Professor Mo Xuan was wearing a gray-brown overalls, squatting on the ground, squinting, and gently stroking the delicate and moist grass on the ground. Suddenly, a small sapling grew from the place he stroked. The young sapling grew up in the wind, and instantly grew into an apple tree more than three meters high. Three heavy red apples hung from the top of the tree. They were so rich that sweet water flowed out, and they were so full that they were about to explode. They were clean and lovely like crystal Carved.

Professor Mo Xuan took off the three red apples, took a bite, and while chewing, he threw the remaining two towards Li Yao and Ling Xiaole and let out a contented sigh before continuing to the second half. In the words, "You must also abide by the rules here. At most, you, the distinguished guests from afar, are invited to eat two apples."

Li Yao and Ling Xiaole glanced at each other, and took a bite on the apple respectively.

"Kachakachakacha", the juice was like honey, but with a heart-pounding acidity, it rolled into their virtual throat, esophagus and stomach.

The nerve endings of Li Yao and Ling Xiaole both sent extremely happy signals to the brain.

"The two think--"

Professor Mo Xuan looked at them calmly, "Is the moment you cheated just now, is it real or virtual?"

Li Yao pondered for a moment: "The professor seems to have something to say?"

Professor Mo Xuan smiled slightly and shook his head and said: "Nothing, look, the small town at the foot of the mountain is home to one hundred and twenty-two spirit races. Under some of the most extreme and luckiest circumstances, it is very likely to become a human being. After hundreds of millions of years of civilization, the last homeland of the local Federal Army, the Secret Sword Bureau, government departments, and academic institutions will be there. Will the two of you go down and join them?"

"no need."

Li Yao moved in his heart and said, "I am more interested in you, Professor Mo Xuan, let's walk around here, take a look, and have a chat!"

"I'll testify!"

Ling Xiaole held the big apple and winked his eyes, "Special Envoy Lin is indeed very interested in Professor Mo Xuan, especially your'virtual life project'. I have asked me for a lot of information!"

"Yes."

Li Yao opened his arms and felt the oncoming breeze to his heart's content. He distinguished the 17 different floral fragrances contained in the wind, and found that it was exactly the same as the real world, and could not find any flaws. "I didn't understand why Professor Mo Xuan gave up. I have studied the'Virtual Life Project', but after seeing this small'spiritual world', I suddenly understood that with such a delicate small world, who cares about the'virtual life'?"

Professor Mo Xuan took another bite of the apple, wiped away the juice from the corner of his mouth, and smiled: "Who said I gave up the research on the'Virtual Life Project'? In fact, that project is close to success!"

Li Yao was stunned, his whole body stiffened: "...what, professor, you really created a virtual life? Where is it!"

There was a mess in Li Yao's mind, and thousands of strange thoughts popped up in an instant. Who knew that Professor Mo Xuan pointed to the town in front of the small mountain bag: "It's far in the sky, right in front of you, isn't it all there?"

After that, he pointed to himself, Li Yao and Ling Xiaole, "There are three of us, aren't we virtual beings?"

Ling Xiaole was also confused: "Professor Mo Xuan, what are you talking about, I don't understand!"

Professor Mo Xuan finished gnawing the apple in two mouthfuls, digging a small hole in the grassland, burying the virtual apple core, carefully covering the soil, clapping his hands, and taking a serious look at Li Yao: "Really right." Life' is very interested. Have you read a lot of my theories and materials?"

Li Yao nodded vigorously.

"Then you should know that with the current level of crystal brains and spiritual nets of the federal people, it is absolutely impossible to create a new life out of thin air in a thousand years."

Professor Mo Xuan said seriously, "I have proposed on many occasions that the public should not be misled by third-rate fantasy novels and grandstanding entertainment products. With our crystal brain level, we want to create a highly developed and intelligent And autonomous consciousness can threaten the virtual life of human civilization. The difficulty is equivalent to giving you a handful of archaea and a primitive planet. Is it possible for you to evolve the archaea into a dinosaur within a thousand years?"

Li Yao had thought about this issue a long time ago and shook his head: "No, professor, I think your analogy is wrong-archaea is far behind dinosaurs in all aspects, but the relationship between crystal brains and humans is not the case. Many crystals The computing power of the brain far exceeds that of ordinary people a hundred, a thousand times or even ten thousand times. In the vast sea of ​​computing and data collision, how can you know that a whole new life will not be born, but it has powerful destructive power just after birth?

"Imagine that if there is an archaeal bacterium with a diameter of one kilometer and a phagocytosis and movement speed that is terrible than a dinosaur, then it is normal for the dinosaur to have instinctive fear of it?

Professor Mo Xuan was taken aback, looked at Li Yao a few deeply, and laughed from the bottom of his heart: "Very well, you really deserve to be a master from Xinghai Republic, you can think of this level, your current thoughts, and When I started the "Void Spirit World Project" decades ago, it coincided.

"At that time, I also thought so. Although it was said that the birth of virtual life did not happen overnight, and only after thousands of years of chance and coincidence, there was a one-in-a-millionth chance of success, but there was always a faint trace in my heart. Not reconciled, I want to find a way to transform the huge computing power of the crystal brain into real consciousness and intelligence.

"I believe that virtual life will eventually be born. In this case, it must be controlled by us rather than the empire and the Holy League. Even if we want to eliminate it, we must first have a deep understanding of its origin, development and evolution. .

"With this purpose, several other researchers and I used twelve of the most advanced'Beijing' super-crystal brains in the Federation at the time to open up a small virtual world. Using what I have experienced, it is between life and The state of the "virtual spirit body" between non-life is named, called the "virtual spirit world"."