My mythical world

"We're recruiting. The ace strategy team is in urgent need of a defensive warrior. We will immediately open up wasteland and charge into the tenth floor of the prison."

In the dazzling Milky Way disk formed by the rotation of stars, there is a towering steel city of miracles, in which Gaians are shouting about life. The sound just now came from the 9th floor at the bottom.

Aincrad is not static. In fact, this majestic planet-like building is slowly rotating along the star every moment, and the hundred-story world is also changing all the time. This represents the world Changes, impermanent order, and true immutability are dead water.

Jiang Ping, who turned into an ordinary adventurer, played around as he pleased, admiring the most outstanding building in the virtual world. This is the most essential part of the Skynet network, symbolizing the wisdom of Gaia and the terrifying calculations of the two major intelligent systems. force.

Aincrad, with a total of one hundred floors, is like a social pyramid. The bottom floor is very large. As you go up the stairs, the upper space becomes smaller and smaller and more refined.

This is a symbol of the world's class structure. The lowest base has the largest number of civilians, followed by the first-level powerful people, and the top is the ruling class. They alone determine the fate of tens of millions of people. They have overwhelming power and influence a country's policies. But if Without bottom-level support, they are just a castle in the air and worthless.

"It's really interesting. This tower is not as simple as it looks. It represents the concentration of society and contains the cruelest and truest principles in the world." Jiang Ping, who was on the 21st floor of the dreamy forest, raised his head. The real top floor Not the ruling class, but the Tao and God who maintain the entire tower, the entire world, and the entire order.

The Emperor of Heaven and GOD, formed by the intersection of countless causes and effects, entangled consciousnesses, and laws, appear from time to time in the Ruby Palace on the 100th floor. They are the strongest BOSS in this world. No one can see them so far, let alone If the challenge is successful, they represent the "heaven" that is always invincible and the end point of evolution that is always pursued.

The Dream Forest on the 21st floor is a well-known resort in the virtual world. It is colorful, with colorful mushrooms and towering trees wrapped with glowing vines. From time to time, one or two nectar-gathering elves flap their two thin transparent wings and shuttle around. Among the lush leaves.

Golden evolvers are walking in groups on the green path. There are slightly fewer people here than in the starting town, and the quality is better. The higher you go, the fewer the evolvers are.

However, due to the special environment of the 21st floor Dream Forest, the intelligent system deliberately set up a resort here to soothe people's souls. Therefore, there are many people coming here from the bottom up or from the upper level. From time to time, high-level souls come specially to rest.

Walking out of the forest as beautiful as a fairy tale, the surroundings suddenly became brighter. The noise of the crowd became louder and louder. Jiang Ping saw a tavern built at the roots of a towering tree. The old roots were as vigorous as a dragon, and each one was surrounded by old roots. Original real wood tables are placed in the tavern and outside the tavern.

The vine seats made of tangled twigs were filled with Gaians chatting, dead people who had consciously uploaded to the Internet, and living people who were still living in Gaia. At this time, they were in the Root Tavern. The conversation was very pleasant and there was no barrier.

"Waiter, give me a gift of love." Jiang Ping also sat down here and casually asked the pretty waitress for a drink.

"Okay, please wait a moment." The waiter in a green maid uniform smiled beautifully and quickly handed over a drink as purple as the starry sky.

Jiang Ping took a sip, and the sparkling liquid flowed from his mouth through his throat and flowed through his heart, feeling moisturized. This taste was more real than the real thing. Even though it was a virtual formula, even if it was not a ritual, it could be done directly. The corresponding tactile signals are transmitted to your brain, but this gift of love still makes Jiang Ping very satisfied.

On the surrounding tree tables, there were people chatting and talking. People from different worlds and different classes were equal here.

On the log table to Jiang Ping's left, there was also a scholar in a white coat drinking tea and working. Based on these alone, it was impossible to tell whether he was a robot or a native.

There was a small auxiliary elf ten centimeters tall beating on his shoulder. The scholar swiped his fingers to bring up his own panel and was processing the work mentally.

The electronic elf on his shoulder was very naughty. He actually slid along the scholar's arm and jumped to Jiang Ping's table. He blinked at Kazilan's big eyes and stared at him while drinking. In the eyes of the electronic elf, each person, the table, and the world were everything. It is composed of rows of data, and although the person in front of it is exactly the same as the one around it, it still feels a bit alienated instinctively.

Even though he was sitting here, he felt like he wanted to fly into the sky at the next moment. This virtual elf actually felt that the other person was unreal.

Seeing the elf climbing up on his table and watching him drink, Jiang Ping stretched out a finger to tease it, gently pushed it down, then turned it over with his fingers and pushed it over, "Little guy, you want to drink too?"

Seeing this, the tumbling elf angrily bit his finger, unable to shake it away.

At this time, the assistant who was working on the side looked over strangely. In his impression, this little guy would not be so naughty and would take the initiative to tease others.

"Sir, have you just arrived on the 21st floor?"

Jiang Ping nodded and looked around the bustling surroundings, "I just arrived here. The scenery is very good, so I stayed here for a while. You don't seem to be someone who has lived here for a long time. You came down from the upper level for a vacation?"

The scholar nodded, opened the virtual panel in front of him, and got down from the tree table. The vigorous branches that made up the wooden table were moving and entwined, and they were connected to Jiang Ping's table. Soon the two parties had closed the table, and the scholar was carrying The green liqueur arrived opposite Jiang Ping.

"I'll buy you a drink."

The scholar opened his hand downwards, and the electronic elf biting Jiang Ping's finger glared at him angrily, turned around, climbed onto the master's hand, and sat on his shoulder again.

"Then let's have another cup of Blue Galaxy." Jiang Ping waved to the waiter, without shirk, and left as he came.

Soon a glass of blue liquid containing the wine that evolved from the stars to the sea was served.

Jiang Ping drank a drink with the scholar and sipped the wine with his eyes closed. In an instant, it was as if the Big Bang reappeared in the taste buds, a crazy black hole swallowing desire bloomed in the throat, and a white hole of infinite matter erupted in the heart and lungs.

If he had a real body, his scalp would probably be numb to the point of exploding. Even his soul body would have the illusion of being in a state of ecstasy, not in this world, and ascending in the daytime. It is indeed the signature wine of this tree root tavern.

"Okay, okay, okay."

Jiang Ping opened his eyes again and sighed three times. He looked at the scholar opposite him again, "Give me a glass of wine, and I will naturally return the gift. I see that your spirit is unstable and the frequency is high and low. You have been having trouble at work recently. Where? Talk to me, it might help.”

"Can you tell my mental state?" The scholar was a little surprised and seemed to be very proud of his own strength. "Do you know which floor I came down from?"

Jiang Ping put down his wine glass, naturally he didn't know which floor he came down from.

"I just came down from the Galaxy Carousel on the 89th floor. Several god-level evolvers there just held a strategy meeting and planned to break through the cosmic black brain on the 90th floor. Are you sure you can help me?" The scholar also raised his hand. Holding his own green wine glass, he looked at the chaotic world around him with a slightly complicated and worried look.

"But what you are thinking about is not conquering Aincrad, nor evolving your body and soul, but other things." Jiang Ping said calmly.

"Yes, I have recently, no, I can't say recently, but since I was very young, I have looked up at the stars and wondered, is our world real? And then I grew up step by step, and the more I learned, the more confused I became. , especially after talking with a light person, he asked me to solve the ultimate problem of how big the universe is, which deepened my confusion.

Does the edge of the world contain the truth of the universe and the secret of the world? Whether our world is man-made or accidental, it seems that there is no man-made phenomenon at present, but considering that during the conversation with Light Man, he had many scruples and mentioned the words "God's Forbidden Zone", I have to consider that maybe there is really a statue The Creator God of Light.

It's a pity that the two sacred objects from ancient times have not been found. I don't know whether they are in the universe or on Gaia. If they existed, maybe it would clear up my doubts. "

Is it true that every top scholar will go from science to philosophy? After listening to the scholars' doubts, Jiang Ping thought in his heart. The 89th floor is already the highest floor that the Gaians can conquer. It represents tens of billions of Gaians. The top handful of people, and that’s from the perspective of history.

"Actually, I think you're putting the cart before the horse a bit." Jiang Ping reminded the other party kindly.

The scholar was very puzzled by this answer. He asked: "Why do you say that exploring the truth and searching for the truth is not what we pursue? If I didn't have this desire for knowledge and exploration, I would not be where I am today." "

"I think that instead of focusing on studying the illusory reality and virtuality, it is better to devote yourself to the evolution of practice. Pursue the end, and maybe the answer will come to you." Jiang Ping looked at the most powerful man of our generation carefully and said sincerely advice.

"You mean that the end point of evolution can answer my questions?" The scholar considered a few words, then shook his head, "It's too far away. Now we Gaians have just left their home planet and created controllable nuclear fusion, and can barely achieve it inside the ship. Energy circulation enables interstellar navigation.

It would not take tens of thousands of years just to explore and conquer the universe, not to mention the continuous evolution and transformation in the end. The difficulty is too high, the time span is longer, and the number of variables is unpredictable. Even with all my genius, I can't live this long. "

He paused and continued: "The most terrifying power in the world is time. In such a long evolutionary history, my body will also age. In the end, unless it is transformed into a special energy body similar to data, I will not be able to reach the final step. But This is not what I want. To get rid of the physical body and become a data life, an energy life, or even an imaginary life. Although it is strong for a while, it loses its humanity and, in a way, cuts off the possibility of its own evolution. "

"It seems you want to take a shortcut." Jiang Ping commented.

The scholar frowned, seeming to be very resistant to his evaluation. Taking shortcuts on the road of science is not a good word, because it often symbolizes the failure of rushing to achieve success.

".I just want to realize my dream in my lifetime." The scholar said after taking the last sip of green liquid.

He stretched out his hand and pointed at everything around him. This action threw away the electronic elves on his shoulders, but the scholar said indifferently: "Look at them, look at everything around you. If you hadn't already known, this Skynet world The center is constructed from data and mental power.

Can you imagine that the tree chairs we sit on, the wine we drink, and the air in the space are all virtual? I just wonder if our world is another fake game. "

The more you know, the more confused you are. Those who don't know are fearless.

"Let me tell you a story. Maybe you will understand my consciousness better.".

"What story?"

"The Blue Bird"

There was a little prince who was rich and healthy since childhood. He had everything in the world. He had food and clothes. But he always felt unhappy and was depressed all day long. Therefore, the king and queen who loved him found a wizard to enlighten him.

The wizard said: "Happiness is a blue bird. You just need to lock it in a golden birdcage to get what you want. "

So the little prince was so excited that he took the golden birdcage out of the palace to look for the bird, regardless of his parents' opposition. He traveled through mountains and rivers, suffered a lot, was deceived, and after decades, he got nothing. When he returned home, he was surprised to find that the blue bird of happiness was in his home.

After searching everywhere, it was easy to find. Unfortunately, after such a long time away from home, his parents had passed away, and the blue bird that was still at home suddenly flew away, and the little prince could no longer catch it."

After Jiang Ping finished telling this not-too-long story, he looked at the scholar quietly.

The scholar pondered for a moment, thinking about the meaning of this fable in his mind, "I have never heard of this fable, nor in the legends of the major ethnic groups in Gaia, but there are similar stories. This is not something you made up, right?" The scholar asked in confusion.

Jiang Ping tapped his fingers on the wooden table: "Just because you don't know doesn't mean there is no one."

The scholar was too arrogant, thinking that he was well-read and there was no story he didn't know.

"Instead of frantically searching for answers, it is better to constantly improve yourself. Maybe you can find them accidentally along the way." The scholar muttered to himself, still reluctant in his tone.

Seeing this, Jiang Ping could only helplessly point out a clear way for him in the end, "There are shortcuts you want to take. This planet contains the most precious and powerful treasures in the universe. As long as you make good use of it, you can find any answer."

"What treasure?" The scholar asked immediately, and the electronic elves who climbed up from the ground along the heels also looked curiously.

Jiang Ping stretched out his hand and showed it, "Look at everything around here. There is strength in numbers. Aren't these the strongest treasures of Gaia?"

The scholar was very smart and immediately knew what Jiang Ping was referring to, "Do you mean the collective subconscious spiritual sea? But the problem is that we have used this sea to build a Skynet network that is completely incomparable to reality. It has been used to the extreme, allowing the dead tribesmen to live forever in it, and constantly providing power for the development of reality. Delaying our tribe's destiny."

"No, no, no." Jiang Ping shook his head, "What do you think the star sea is? What you are using now is only one percent of it. To.

Do you know where this infinite subconscious spiritual sea was born? It was born when the universe was just beginning, when this planet was still a hellscape. With the appearance of cells, the birth and death of organisms, this sea of ​​stars continued to grow and was gradually used by the first generation of Gaia civilization, the first generation of cosmic civilization, the white hairy people.

After that, civilization rose and fell and was destroyed several times. The most precious civilization crystal left after the transformation was this infinite spiritual sea. It is the diamond of the universe and the beauty beyond the world. "

The scholar opposite was dumbfounded. He had never expected that the spiritual sea that they had already used had such great potential.

"Go ahead and develop it. The collection of all the civilization crystals, biological consciousness, and collective subconscious spiritual sea at the beginning of the birth of the planet is much more powerful than you think. The imprint of consciousness of all living beings, cause and effect fate are all in it!" Jiang Ping said with certainty.