40,000 Years of Cultivation

"What do you mean?"

Li Yao inexplicably thought of the "Ultimate Test" in which the voice of the Yuanshi clan once told him that the civilization leader "Wan Zanghai" who had fled the earth had launched a madness in a trance, claiming to see countless "ghosts from the earth" following far away. Behind their fleet.

At that time, Li Yao didn't take this sentence seriously, thinking it was just an illusion caused by Wan Zanghai's old age and guilt.

But what if it is not an illusion?

Li Yao shuddered deeply, "This is impossible. The meteor shower did not directly hit the earth, but rushed towards the sun, triggering a solar storm that spread to the entire galaxy, devouring Mercury, Venus, the earth and even Mars. All the water is evaporated, and the ground is sinking into flames. For days, weeks or even months, no life - even bacteria and viruses can survive in such an environment."

"For carbon-based life, yes."

Gu Wuxin said, "But who said that there is only one form of life, and who said that the'sun' itself cannot be another form, another level, and another sense of life?"

Li Yao was shocked: "What, make it clear, what do you mean!"

"Want to know the truth about the destruction of the earth, wait until the information bridge between me and the main civilization is completed, we will link into the main civilization together, and then read the massive amount of information, and even return to the time of the destruction of the earth, go personally Feel the despair, struggle, and sublimation!"

Gu Wuxin opened his arms and said, "I just want to tell you that the feeling of being linked into the super body... is unique, incomparable, and without any cost or any sequelae. You don't have to worry about your own will and emotions being obliterated, you only You need to completely let go of your own soul and write a special super information interaction protocol in the soul, so that your soul will become one of the endless computing nodes in the "big universe super-information unity", sharing all information with others, All thinking, all emotions and wisdom will do.

"After joining the super body, your life has been upgraded-just like the evolution of single-cell life to multi-cell life, a radical and reborn upgrade. From then on, you are not only yourself, you are not just like this. Living in a lonely and ridiculous body, you will become all the computing nodes in the superbody, you will become all the compatriots around you, you will live in the network, in the'cloud', you will use the unified hyperinformation exchange protocol, Tear the void, cross the galaxy, and live in the bodies of 10,000 or 100,000 or 1 million or 100 million compatriots almost without delay. Within a second, you can feel 100 million different emotions. And way of thinking, learn from the life experience and good memories of 100 million people, and share your emotions, your will, your way of thinking and memory fragments with 100 million people... Your soul can even exist in countless environments at the same time On different planets, countless kinds of weird creatures use these "monsters" to enjoy life in various forms, to gain new philosophies and insights, and to condense the meaning of life exclusively for you.

"Ultimately, you will no longer be a small, weak, stupid, selfish, impulsive, dusty human being, but will live as a'condensation of billions of life', and you will be completely complete. Completely integrate into human civilization and into the universe, you are human civilization, and you are the universe!"

"……I do not understand."

Li Yao was silent for a long time, then took a breath and said, "I only know that in this universe, no matter what you want to get, you have to pay the corresponding price, and every time a guy like you appears, tell everything. When it’s beautiful, it’s almost always a lie."

"I know you won't understand, that's why I said,'Xia Chong can't talk about ice'."

Gu Wuxin was silent for a moment, and said, "Before linking to the superbody, I didn't understand it, and I felt extremely proud of my small, lonely, and closed self-what a blind and stupid pride that was!

"But in the end, I chained into a small superbody composed of thousands of immortal palace people and Hongchao captives-our small-scale super information exchange protocol is far less than the real main civilization superbody in the universe. Huge, vast, profound, and unpredictable, but it has already made me feel extremely happy and moved. It made me deeply feel that my past self was really in vain, it was a mess of single-celled life, which I am proud of. The things that are protected and guarded have no meaning at all, and now is the real beginning of life.

"As Gu Wuxin, I live in such a weak body.

"I can also be a monster, with a short life cycle of only a few hours, and I must completely burn out the fire of life deep in the cell in an instant.

"I can even be the first generation of immortal palace researcher thousands of years ago. I was invited by the so-called'captive of the flood tide' early in the construction of the immortal palace, and established a small bureau in the isolated Pangu universe. The regional hyper-information exchange protocol has absorbed all the life information of thousands of elite researchers in the days to come, allowing everyone to live in the mind of "Gu Wuxin" in the form of information.

"Look, flesh, blood, cells, genes, everything is appearance, only information is the foundation of life, information information information, information constitutes everything in the universe, as long as you have information, you can control everything as you like."

Gu Wuxin’s voice sometimes came from his body, sometimes from the body of the indigo **** or devil, or nine-headed griffin, or phantom jellyfish, or skinned jackal, and even became the voices of thousands of people overlapping together, from the foam. From the depths of the sea.

In the sea of ​​bubbles, there was a shocking wave. In the hundreds of meters high wave, pink flesh was constantly squirming, as if forming thousands of different figures, staring directly at Li Yao and many human powers. He made a stern cry: "Join us, join us, join us, and share all information with us!"

Li Yao's goose bumps all fell to the ground.

"What kind of pervert do you think... I am?"

He rubbed his hands vigorously, "Tell me to let go of all the information in my brain, so that any cat or dog can see my most private memory and read my thinking mode? This, this, this is more than directly obliterating me. Free will and emotions and desires are even more terrible, it is like forcing me to make the browsing and downloading records of my portable crystal brain public! You can think of such a heinous, extinct thing? Madmen, you are a group of lunatics through and through. !"

"Judging from the magic weapon and crystal brain technology you use, you have entered the information society, and even have a unified superluminal network covering all star regions of the Pangu universe, right?"

Gu Wuxin’s voice was still near, far and near, left and right, from the creeping fleshy touch of himself, monsters, and the sea of ​​foam, “In this case, you should be very clear that the so-called evolution of civilization is more and more The process of informationization and sharing.

"In the primitive society of rumao drinking blood and slash-and-burn farming, each individual receives and outputs very little information. Primitives do not have their own names—this kind of vital identification information is rarely conducted with other cave tribes. Information interaction lacks the impulse to transmit their own information, nor the desire to spy on other people’s information. Each individual is a separate and self-enclosed node. Survival has exhausted all their energy. What else to talk about? The information is unified, because the entire civilization is a mess.

"In the Middle Ages, intelligent life has conquered the entire continent and even the entire planet, becoming the well-deserved'spirit of all things', but their information interaction is still extremely poor, and there is neither the need for information transmission nor the means to read information. Except for the situation in their own family and at most in their own villages, they are completely uninterested in information from the outside world. This is the so-called'darkness and ignorance'.

"However, as the technological explosion has brought about earth-shaking changes in the social form, the evolution from an industrial society to an information society is only a momentary thing. You will find that with the rapid advancement of civilization, the needs of each individual for information interaction, They all have exponentially improved, more than hundreds or thousands of times higher than their ancestors hundreds or thousands of years ago?

"I don't know what the human civilization is like, but in the history of our Pangu civilization, almost all carbon-based intelligent life has experienced such an information explosion when it leapt from the industrial age to the information age.

"In the information explosion, everyone has been indulging in various official news, public forums, and expert self-media'carpet bombing' of information since they wake up in the morning. Each terminal is like a non-stop rapid fire. People’s brains are bombarded like a cannon. The information they read when they eat breakfast is almost the amount of information that their ancestors could only receive for a year or a half hundreds of years ago. Even so, they are still in eternal life. In the unsatisfied “information hunger”, even halfway to work and study, you have to bury your head in various terminals, read and share information through various channels, as long as you leave the terminal for one second, it will happen. The feeling of being abandoned by the whole society.

"This is one aspect of information reception, followed by the output of information.

"Also relying on terminals and various online channels, they can display and output the details of their daily lives in every detail, what they ate, what they wear, and who they met, including their shallow and barren. The thoughts of —— without any force, they are born with the urge to expose themselves and strip themselves completely. All the information that composes their entire lives are uploaded to the terminal and the cloud in their entirety, using their own hands. !

"My question is, have you ever thought that it is just the initial stage of the information society, which is like this. Then when the information society continues to develop for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, it will come naturally and logically? What did it evolve into?"