Soul of Burning Steel

[That is a story that happened a very long time ago, far longer than any civilization]

[A story that happened to a group of life-and-death mayflies that were born after the primordial fire lit up the multiverse brilliance, floating around the brilliance]

Born in the void, the froth after the flame burns, in the leftovers that conceive the world, in the quiet and boundless light, there is a simple structure, or in other words, a simple life appears in the world.

It has no name, and it is still the same until now. If you have to describe it, then you can only call it 'mayfly', because its lifespan is so short, I am afraid that in some worlds, there is no time for a simple day.

This kind of life has neither 'self' nor 'wisdom'. Its simple structure can only do one thing, and that is to 'record' everything around itself, and then 'transmit' it to other individuals—this is Mayflies who don't know when they were born and when they will die form a small cycle in the eternal light.

The death of each individual mayfly will eventually give birth to many young mayflies, and before that, it will entrust all the information it records to another adult mayfly—collecting information is the process of their self-strengthening . Immediately afterwards, this adult mayfly will do the same thing, handing over the memory of the previous mayfly and its own memory to the next mayfly, and in this long process of passing on, the new generation of mayfly When it matures, a new cycle begins again, and the cycle of mayflies becomes larger.

Naturally, the information carried has also become larger.

The adult mayflies pass on their own memories one after another, and the larvae that are also dying grow up quickly and become the carrier of a new generation of records and transcriptions—the information that is constantly passed on and interacted between many different individuals , from the initial small instinct that can be completed with one information interaction, it gradually becomes larger and larger, and even needs more mayflies to complete records, and even requires the entire group of mayflies to gather together and transfer to each other without interruption. Transmitting to each other, occupying their eternal mission of all 'time and lifespan' except self-separation before death.

Birth, memory, being transmitted, transmission, death, division, birth, memory, being transmitted, transmission, death, division... Eternal and endless reincarnation is their instinct, their mission.

The entire mayfly group has become an increasingly large memory stick, an extremely large information base.

As for them, they absolutely cannot stop for a moment, cannot have a moment of rest—for the life of mayflies, they cannot hesitate, think, or hesitate.

They must be in eternal motion, in eternal transmission, in eternal death, and then divide themselves, and then give birth to new things-they have no eternal sleep, no rest, no stagnation, because 'sleep' means 'death',' "Pause" means "lost", even if only one ephemera makes a mistake and gives up its mission of recording and transmitting information instinctively, it will cause a "missing" of part of the information, which represents eternal "forgetting".

But at this time, the mayflies still don't understand what 'forgetting' means. They just maintain their own huge cycle, repeating the cycle endlessly.

Then, a long time passed.

The ephemeral mayflies spent endless time in this increasingly large and vast cycle, until one day, other 'civilizations' discovered them.

That is a race born in the derivative world of the primordial fire. After long evolution and development, these complex intelligent creatures bathed in light finally walked out of the void and began to wander the heavens... and when they came to the vicinity of the primordial fire, They found these simple and unintelligent swarms of mayflies swimming around the light.

They are not the oldest creatures - compared to mayflies, there are more powerful or weak initial monsters. Mayflies are born in the glorious realm long after the multiverse environment has stabilized, far inferior to the oldest beasts born in chaos.

Their power is not strong either—the essence of individual mayflies is a simple mass of energy information knots. The information and energy carried by this kind of thing are extremely small, and the energy of hundreds of thousands of mayflies is not even enough to light a candle.

They don't even have intelligence—pure information interaction just represents the basic record and memory of all mayflies from the beginning of birth, from the first mayfly, most of which are meaningless redundant information, let alone ignited A spark of intelligence, even worse than multicellular organisms.

They are not huge, and they are even completely tiny - the size of a mayfly is not even comparable to bacteria, and this is even the smallest "life" that many civilizations can find in the void.

However, their clusters are enormous.

Their number is endless.

Even, the light-tending collective even turned into a hazy, dim mist covering a small part of the endless light of the primordial fire.

They are not ancient, not powerful, not smart, not huge, but they still exist, from the ancient beginning to the present—until today, there are other life forms that were born later than it, evolved into intelligent creatures, developed Civilization, then, came to this place.

The information carried by curious intelligent species has become the "second light" that mayflies can accept in addition to the initial fire. It is a variable, an inducement, and an "infinite possibility" besides the eternal cycle of mayflies.

That is the beginning of the birth of 'wisdom', the beginning of the birth of 'self', that is, the beginning of the birth of 'possibility and future',

He, They, at that moment, really opened their eyes, raised their heads from the self-enclosed, self-circulating shell, and looked at this vast multiverse.

[The ancient initial civilization taught the ephemeral mayflies many things. They taught each other to think, judge, and respond to external actions. They led an isolated group to the big stage of the multiverse, and then taught What do they call friendship, beauty, hope and love]

[Of course, they also taught them what 'forgetting' is]

After a long time, the civilization that enlightened the mayflies disappeared. Where did it go? That memory, even the power of steel in the multiverse, is too old and blurred, and even searching for the memories of countless evil gods can't find any traces. This is not surprising. After all, the evil god appeared after the future sage, and the truth of this incident may not even be remembered by the future sage. How could the steel giant look at the memory of that era.

However, perhaps there are no other messy reasons, that civilization is likely to be destroyed in a long time, and then forgotten.

It was an extremely novel experience, a loss of information, an end of a cycle, a disappearance of the past, and the coming of a real 'death'.

And that was the beginning of the birth of 'future'.

[No...never allowed]

【We...do not accept any forgetting】

The spark of wisdom was ignited.

The mayflies were able to realize that the opposite of the so-called memory... is forgetting.

And this is absolutely unacceptable to mayflies who are always remembering everything and remembering everything forever.

[This mayfly that lives and dies, the memory of its life will eventually be entrusted to other mayflies as proof of its existence. If the same kind of mayfly forgets, then they have never existed at all, which is equivalent to the lack of mayfly groups Part of that great and long record is no longer complete]

[Forgetting is eternal passing—even more terrifying and frightening than entering the event horizon of a black hole]

This is unacceptable.

Joshua's voice and will shook the multiverse, and in that short moment, everyone heard, saw, and understood the eternal cycle of the little mayfly, and the "awakening" of the final spark—and In this regard, the giant god was silent for a moment, and then among all the guesses, Shen Sheng confirmed all existing conjectures.

[This is the beginning of "Future Sage\