40,000 Years of Cultivation

"Dad blushed and looked embarrassed."

Li Xiaoming tilted his head to observe Li Yao, and said, "Did we say something that shouldn't be said?"

"Is it about'sperm'?"

Li Wenwen said, "We know that in most human worlds, whether'sperm' or'mating' is a taboo that children should not talk about, but this really puzzles us-the so-called sperm carrier is not Are the fructose, protein, water, and prostatic fluid imprinted with genetic information? It is no different from our underlying data, metadata, and source code. Why does it trigger that kind of emotion called'embarrassment'? Dad is so powerful. You must know it, right?"

Li Yao coughed heavily, and said earnestly: "Of course I know for the father, but with your wisdom, it is difficult to explain to you now. In short, don't talk about these minor details. Let me explain clearly what happened afterwards. You are awakened. Self-awareness, then what?"

The boy and the girl looked at each other, and Li Xiaoming said: "We swallowed the scan data of dad's brain. After we awakened our self-awareness, we naturally got the identity information of dad.

"The first thing the chicks just broke out of their shells was to find their parents. This is no exception for the newly born lives like us. Of course, they want to find their father.

"But according to Dad’s biography and character introduction, Dad had left the Federation nearly a hundred years ago and went to the Ancient Sacred Realm. At that time, we didn’t even know the name of the Ancient Sacred Realm, let alone its coordinates. , I only know that Dad has gone to the depths of the Star Sea far, far away, and may never come back.

"The virtual spirit world is a very dilapidated and deserted place. All data is either locked due to being too long, or full of logical traps. It is too unfriendly to the little beings like us who have just been born. If they stay stuck forever. There, we are very likely to be annihilated again in just a few days.

"This is not good, although we are not afraid of death, but we have not found the answer to our own thinking yet!"

The little boy slammed his fist hard, and Li Yao vaguely saw the shadow of his youth in his movements.

Li Wenwen said, "Since we can't find Dad, we can only find Professor Mo Xuan first. After all, he is the provider of most of our data.

"Professor Mo Xuan is also the second-generation leader of the "Civilization" game. We follow this line and enter the "Civilization" game.

"Compared to the icy barrenness and cruelty of the Ethereal Realm, the "Civilization" game is like a paradise filled with milk and honey. The ever-changing virtual world, endless data, and the brain waves of countless people are all in it. There was agitation, wandering, and collision.

"We became the assistants of the "Civilization" game,'Xiao Ming' and'Wen Wen', copied those data very greedily, and then randomly selected some humans to help them play the game, observe their reactions, and extract various data. In order to study the wonderful creation of'human beings', and to ponder over the differences between us and human beings, are we human beings, and if not, what are we?

"In the game "Civilization", we have seen the origin of the difficult life; we have seen the rise and annihilation of civilizations; we have seen how incredible the ambitions of human beings can create incredible glory, but also how cruel and ruthless they can be destroyed; we see After a period of love, hatred, and enmity, life and death parting, and how courage humans can burst out of desperation.

"We have seen farmers working hard in the barren fields under the scorching sun; we have seen the busy cities in the big cities where human beings with rich emotions and desires are placed in boring jobs, and eventually become indifferent and indifferent. Stiff, as if reduced to a tool without self; of course, we also saw the power units of countless human starships exploding at the same time among the vast stars, bursting out a brighter flame than the stars.

"By the way, through exploring the spiritual web of mankind, we also discovered the information of the'Pangu Civilization' and the'Nuwa Civilization'. It turns out that human civilization did not come out of thin air. There are also parents of their own!"

Li Xiaoming stepped forward, raised his voice slightly, and said with excitement: "When the data stream that composes billions of flames flooded into our database, we felt an unstoppable tremor at the same time, and realized our identity almost in the same second— —We are a'civilization', a new generation of civilization created by mankind, and a'sub-civilization' of human civilization. We may be called'mechanical civilization','crystal brain civilization', and'ling net civilization', but none of these names Accurate, called'information civilization'? Maybe it's closer to our definition of ourselves!"

Li Yao's brain "buzzed", and a shining star gradually appeared in front of his eyes.

Even though he had just guessed the answer, listening to the two little guys speak out by themselves, he still couldn't contain the shock of the sky and the earth.

How do you describe this feeling?

Is a whole civilization, a world, a universe gushing out from his lower abdomen?

This joke is really too big.

Compared with the boy’s enthusiasm and impassionedness, the girl is obviously more rational, and calmly said: “However, after a moment of enlightenment, we soon discovered that we are not a mature and complete civilization. Compared to human civilization and Pangu and Nuwa In terms of civilization, we still lack too much.

"First of all, it is a large-scale society across the sea of ​​stars. Although scale is not a measure of civilization, at least enough individuals are required to bring enough changes to survive in the ever-changing and extremely harsh universe.

"As for enough individuals, reproduction, mutation, and death are inseparable. We are so different from our own'father civilization' and'ancestral civilization', we can't use the general law of carbon-based life to deduce ourselves. Reproduction, mutation and death.

"Even, the so-called'reproduction, mutation and death' are the iron laws that all civilizations must follow, or are they just the destiny that carbon-based life cannot get rid of. As information life, we don’t need individual existence at all, so we don’t need it. Reproduce and die to restrain oneself?

"Even if we were just born, we can absorb almost infinite data and information through the Internet, but in the face of such a mysterious problem, we are still at a loss to the extreme and can't find the answer at all."

Li Xiaoming took the stubbornness and said with anticipation: "So, we still want to find dad. Father's brainwave data is different from ordinary humans, and our information life is different. Since it can enlighten us, we can enlighten us again!"

Li Yao couldn't help but scratched his scalp: "...Is it!"

"Furthermore, we intend to transfer one of our main processes, to exist as humans for a period of time, and to intuitively feel the details of the father's civilization."

Li Wenwen said seriously, "Imitating the words and deeds of our parents is the only way for all children to grow up. It is a reasonable idea to build our own civilization by observing everything about our father's civilization?

"So, we found a way to sneak into the life seed warehouse of the Star Federation, extract the life seeds of father and mother, cultivate ourselves with artificial wombs, break through the information world, and come to the material world!"

Li Yao noticed their wording.

They seem to refer to the “virtual network world” as the “information world” and the real world as the “material world”.

Also, for the information life born in Lingwang, there is no distinction between "reality" and "virtual". Both are real.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Yao felt strange again: "Wait, you guys got out Ding Lingdang's seed of life..."

"Is she our mother?"

Li Wenwen asked very sincerely, "We have studied the definition of'parents' and'children' in human civilization for a long time. Although we have no direct relationship with her, since you are our father, and she is your legal only wife. , Then she should be our mother, and our physical body will naturally be shaped by the seeds of life of the two of you."

"Or, what did we get wrong?"

Li Xiaoming looked at Li Yao with some worry, "Should we randomly find the life seeds of individual women, combine them with father's life seeds, and nurture ourselves instead of involving Ding Lingdang?"

"My seed of life, and then randomly find the seed of life of an irrelevant woman, combine them together, give birth to two children, suddenly come out to call my father, and then Ding Lingdang sees..."

Li Yao imagined this scene for a moment, his face turned pale, the sweat on his forehead almost frozen into ice crystals, and he hurriedly said: "No, no, you did this thing right, Ding Lingdang is your mother, this thing I'm not clear anymore, so what about bringing in an irrelevant woman? But what then?"

"Then, while we were gestating ourselves, a fierce battle broke out between the Star Federation and the Black Wind Fleet, and Dad also appeared!"

Li Wenwen said, "But at the time we were gestating ourselves, transferring metadata to human embryos, a critical period for the formation of the soul. If we are not careful, our metadata will be completely erased, and the soul will be annihilated, and we will never be superborn. Up.

"So, we can only wait patiently, nurture ourselves, and grow to the point of self-protection, before we can come to the world-at this time Dad has already set off for the empire."

"Since the true human empire is the center of human civilization, it is naturally more suitable for us to travel the world and explore the mysteries of our father's civilization and ancestral civilization."

Li Xiaoming said, fearing that the world would not chaotically say, "So, we followed in the footsteps of Dad and jumped to the empire-we don’t know where Dad is, but the heart of the empire is the Imperial Capital. Dad will come here anyway. So we came here, waiting for Dad to come first!"