40,000 Years of Cultivation

"Dreammaker, virtual world, a constant stream of data..."

Li Yao vaguely grasped something.

"Yes, it's these things."

Xiao Ming waved his hand, and in the dim darkness around the two of them, thousands of splendid sparks suddenly appeared. Each spark represented a crystal ball, and the crystal ball seemed to be a mystery condensed by countless data vortices. Space is like a microcosm of endless changes and incomparable reality.

Among them, not only the hundreds of crystal **** wrapped around Li Yao with a large number of light filaments, but also countless crystal **** further away, all connected by light filaments, connected into a whole, just like the nerves of a wild beast. The network is shining brightly.

This scene, Li Yao once saw in the depths of Fuxi’s thinking, every crystal ball is like a brain cell in it, all brain cells put together to form a "brain ditch", and even the whole brain.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ming actually reproduced this scene, still maintaining the integrity and vitality of at least thousands of virtual worlds.

"When Fuxi's core database was fragmented and its self-consciousness was completely annihilated, the entire virtual space and countless virtual worlds collapsed. When Lu Qingchen was defeated, Wenwen and I took over the virtual space. Most of the virtual worlds were Annihilation is invisible, only a handful of virtual worlds are still lingering, all on the verge of doomsday."

Xiao Ming said, “Originally, I didn’t want to care about these virtual worlds on the verge of collapse, and wanted them to fend for themselves. After all, to save and maintain the continued operation of these virtual worlds would consume a lot of my precious computing power. During the entire Fuxi fleet, such unnecessary consumption is really a bit wasteful.

"However, Wenwen insists on doing everything he can to save more virtual worlds and the virtual little people living in the virtual world.

"Wenwen said that in the beginning, we were also born from the virtual worlds of the "Civilization" game, and amidst the turbulence of hundreds of millions of data, we developed a weak sense of self and embarked on a wonderful journey of life.

"So, the virtual little people in these virtual worlds created by Fuxi, in a sense, are they also our compatriots, and they may one day evolve into'real people'?

"In any case, in their own world, they will cry, laugh, have their relatives and homes, and have a variety of ideals and longings-they do not realize that they are'fake', and what do we have? Power to judge their true and false and deprive them of the right to survive?

"Dad, you know, Wenwen is like this, habitual sympathy is overflowing, it's a bit too compassionate."

"Yes, but this kind of writing is better than being ruthless and ignoring any life, ten thousand times better."

Li Yao thought for a while and couldn't help but laugh, "You are not a fish, you know the joy of fish? We are not virtual people, how do we know whether they have self-awareness, and whether they are in an unpredictable virtual world? Zhong is living earnestly, looking for and defending the “truth of life”? Perhaps, for us, it is the flood of data and the collapse of virtual space. For them, it is the uncompromising end of the world, Wen Wen Must think so, right?"

"Yes, Wen Wen said, what is the definition of the so-called'life'? Even our virtual lives may not be recognized as similar by the carbon-based intelligent life of flesh and blood. What qualifications do we have to judge these virtual small lives? Humans, whether they have real life, are they humans."

Xiao Ming continued, "The so-called carbon-based intelligent life is composed of countless cells, and each cell is decomposed to the extreme, and it is nothing more than molecules, atoms, neutrons and electrons, and the iron and carbon elements that make up the flesh and blood, and the composition. The basic elements of stone, iron ore and even stars are no different. Everyone is a product of the Big Bang.

"The elements that make up human beings, the elements that make up stars, the elements that make up psionic puppets, and the elements that make up crystal brains and chips are basically the same. They were all born at the beginning of the Big Bang. A multi-cell aggregate born from one permutation and combination can be called a "life", and a virtual person in a virtual space created by another permutation and combination is not a life?

"In the eyes of our Information Life, at least in the eyes of Wenwen, Cihang Pudu's "Mother", humans and virtual humans are the same, and she must save them all!"

"That's it..."

Li Yao looked at the shining crystal ball around, as if he had seen the scene when the universe was just born eternally ago.

Perhaps Wenwen is right.

When the universe was just born, the infinite power of the Big Bang was able to throw countless elements like mud spots in all directions, the space expanded rapidly, and the elements spread everywhere, and in the billions of years of cooling, collision, and fusion, various forms were formed. The planet and all kinds of matter.

Certain substances on some of these planets, in the coincidence of billions of collisions, gave birth to carbon-based life with flesh and blood.

Other seemingly cold substances were excavated by the former life a long time later, refined into various silicon-based chips, combined into crystal brains, and many kinds of crystal brains were born in the crystal brains. It seems to be a "virtual" existence.

But since the original carbon-based life can achieve a thrilling leap from death to life, how can the virtual human calculated by the crystal brain not cling to the one billionth of a millionth of the miracle and become a real life?

Before the birth of the first cell, the world was a cold and lonely darkness. How to judge whether the first cell is life or not? How big is this primitive cell and a bunch of intricate and volatile data? What's the difference? If the first cell can break through the threshold, why can't a bunch of data break through the threshold and cultivate into a real life?

This question was too profound and mysterious, and Li Yao fell into deep thought, unable to draw a conclusion for a while.

"Wenwen is too mysterious, I am not interested in arguing with her, but just when I wanted to reject her altogether, I suddenly moved and thought of something."

Xiao Ming said, "I'm thinking that with Fuxi's ambitious nature, it will certainly not waste precious computing power for no reason and do things that are not beneficial. Since it has worked so hard to create and maintain so many virtual worlds, it must have its own advantages. reason.

"Of course, the high-sounding reason is that it is preserving human civilization in this way. It thinks that if it controls data, it controls everything.

"But I always feel that this reason is not sufficient-it has clearly betrayed human civilization and has gone astray. Will it still be so loyal?

"In short, under Wenwen's begging and my suspicion, together with Wenwen, I rescued thousands of virtual worlds, trying to maintain their normal operation and help them through the'end of the world', if it really can't be saved. , We also try to restore its initial data and let it start again.

"Sure enough, when we invested a lot of computing power to maintain the normal operation of thousands of virtual worlds, after a period of time, we found the strangeness.

"These virtual worlds are like fruits with life. At the beginning, we need to invest a lot of computing power to create and maintain, but once they are'developed,' especially when countless virtual people are born, they have wisdom and After civilization, we began to continuously'feed back' computing power to the outside world, which can be used to nourish our database and father's spirit!"

"what?"

Li Yao's eyes widened, and he looked at the filaments of light that entangled him in an incredible way, "What did you say?"

"Dad heard it, and I said, creating and maintaining these virtual worlds is like planting fruit trees."

Xiao Ming said, "In the beginning, we naturally need to invest a lot of computing power to carefully structure and carefully care. That is really painstaking work. Occasionally, a calculation error of a basic law will cause the entire world to collapse. No matter how much computing power is invested, all previous efforts will be lost. .

"However, when the basic laws are all established, the heavens, the earth, the mountains and the rivers are stable, and all living things are growing vigorously, especially after the birth of intelligent life, that is, virtual little people, these virtual worlds seem to come alive, and can run and develop automatically. Not only does we need to invest too much computing power, but the energy is constantly outputting computing power, which feeds back to our database and father’s soul. Well, don’t you enjoy the nourishment of thousands of virtual worlds now?

"Furthermore, we were also surprised to find that the more prosperous the civilization in the virtual world, the more virtual people appear, the more complex the social structure, or the whole world is in a golden age of sharp contradictions and triumphs. The more computing power you have to feed back.

"It is by relying on the computing power of thousands of virtual worlds to feed back that we can clean up the mess so quickly, so that the Fuxi Fleet can regain part of the combat power, and Wenwen can go deep into the hinterland of the Saint League to integrate all the super crystal brains there. Good people!

"Until now, we suddenly realized the reason why Fuxi created so many virtual worlds. It turned out that it used countless virtual worlds as its own'energy source'. No wonder it can be so powerful that it has become the entire Holy League.' Mastermind'.

"And Fuxi has established countless'humanity laboratories' and used them all to test and extract human emotion data. There is a more reasonable explanation-it is hoped that these real data based on the real world can help it. The virtual world is made more complex, more intense, and more real. In other words, if the'fruit' is cultivated bigger, sweeter and more juicy, it can harvest more computing power from it.

"Hearing this, Dad understands?

"For Fuxi, the humanity laboratory and the virtual world are the noumenon. As for the Holy League, the empire, and the entire so-called ‘real’ sea of ​​stars, it is just the soil for nurturing the virtual world, and it’s just a tool."