The Secret History of Mars

While we were talking, a group of people had already arrived at the island in the middle of the lake. When they stood on the island and looked at the building in front of them, they felt how majestic and shocking it was.

This is a five-story tower building, with a vertical plaque "Xuanhu Tower" hanging on the central axis of the second floor.

The crown part that looks like a banyan tree from a distance is actually the top floor of the tower. The linear connections hanging down like aerial roots are actually the energy connection pipes between the crown and each layer. They can still be vaguely seen from the outside. The five-color fluorescence in the translucent pipe is very similar to the energy pipe connected to the geothermal switch that Cui Xingmeng and Yuan Yizhou saw in the Seed Hotel.

At this time, the door on the first floor of the tower opened, and a Jiyue Qingfeng-like figure came towards them from a distance. Cui Xingmeng was the first to recognize that the person who came was Shui Zaitian, her seed custodian.

"Zaitian, why are you here?" Cui Xingmeng has always been familiar with him, not to mention that this handsome man is also her custodian, which makes her even closer to him.

"Ms. Xingmeng, this is my main workplace." Shui Zaitian was also happy to see Cui Xingmeng. "I went to the training center for a few days because you just arrived and needed to complete your transformation there."

"Elder Bao Xi has been waiting for you all at Jishi Hall for a long time," Shui Zaitian continued, "Mr. Yizhou, Miss Xingmeng, please come with me."

"He is your custodian? What does a custodian do?" Yuan Yizhou asked Cui Xingmeng in a low voice, "How many days has he been watching over you?"

"Yes, your wife is popular with handsome guys everywhere," Cui Xingmeng winked at Yuan Yizhou, "You'd better keep an eye on me, don't lose me." As she said that, she placed a small kiss on Yuan Yizhou's cheek. He stamped it and appeased his jealous fiancé.

"However, I don't know exactly what the custodian does. After I woke up in the training center, my mind was very confused. I probably scared him by asking a barrage of questions. When their elders came, he disappeared. , this was the first time I saw him after that." Cui Xingmeng recalled, "The scene in our room at the Seed Hotel, you heard from the receptionist, was also set by him, as well as our breakfast. Since he said it was his It’s a major workplace, you should just go in and take a look.”

The two people were muttering in a low voice as they followed the others and filed into the Jishi Hall on the first floor of the Xuanhu Tower.

Upon entering the Jishi Hall, the first thing that caught the attention of Cui Xingmeng and Yuan Yizhou was a huge circular screen suspended in the center of the rotunda. The screen was densely covered with pixel-like progress bars, and each progress had a slightly different color. Different, Cui Xingmeng found that there are mainly three colors: white, yellow and purple.

This place is completely different from the cold and sparsely populated scenes on Mars that the two of them have visited in the past few days. The entire hall surrounds this suspended ring screen, with many workstations distributed, and there is a person busy in front of each workstation. Directly below this circular screen is a circular operating console, and standing in the center of the operating console, contemplating deeply, is Elder Bao Xi. Hearing the sound of people entering the hall, Elder Bao Xi raised his head and nodded to everyone, but had no intention of coming over.

"So your custodian is a clone?" Yuan Yizhou said to Cui Xingmeng, pouting at the workbenches. Only then did Cui Xingmeng notice that the staff at the workbench in the hall all looked exactly like Shui Zaitian! ! There's just a slight difference in color, only Shui Zaitian's skin is blue, the others are all white!

"What's going on? Zaitian, why do you have so many...twin brothers..." Cui Xingmeng did not say the words clone after all. She felt that it was blasphemy to Shui Zaitian.

At this time, Elder Yan took advantage of Yuan Yizhou and Cui Xingmeng's inattention and gave Ye Qinghe and Shui Zai Angel a wink. The two of them understood. Shui Zaitian responded to Cui Xingmeng's question, "Miss Xingmeng, do you want to see these of mine?" What are the twin brothers doing? Let me show you my work area, they are also seed keepers."

Seeing that Cui Xingmeng did not refuse, Shui Zaitian took Cui Xingmeng towards the workbench area. When Yuan Yizhou saw that Cui Xingmeng was still within his sight in the hall, he did not follow him. Instead, he moved his attention to the center of the hall. He knew that he was the invitee of the two elders on this think tank trip. There was obviously something going on and they did not want Xingmeng to be present. Seeing that Cui Xingmeng had been pulled away by Shui Zaitian, Elder Bao Xi walked out of the circular operating table and walked slowly towards Yuan Yizhou.

Walking directly opposite Yuan Yizhou, Elder Bao Xi did not rush to speak, but carefully looked at the earthling in front of him who looked exactly like him. Elder Cang Xi said that he was very similar to himself, which should not mean his appearance.

The seeds of the Shiyi Period Earth Experiment did indeed carry the original genes of himself and Elder Cang Xi, but the evolutionary results of each generation had more or less genetic defects, and the neuron connections in the brain were not too prominent. If the Yuan Yizhou in front of him can achieve 100% brain neuron connection with the help of Shaozhong Zhuyu, as Ye Qinghe said, then he does have the hardware conditions to enter the Taiyi True Void Realm.

The question is whether his layout and ambition and other software skills can control this hardware condition, or he will still have the same side effects as Ying Zheng. This is a question that he and Elder Yan must figure out today.

"What are you two elders worried about?" Yuan Yizhou got straight to the point.

"Mr. Yuan, what do you think of intelligent civilization?" Elder Bao Xi asked in return.

"Intelligent civilization tends to self-destruct." Yuan Yizhou said straightforwardly. Last night Xingmeng had already talked to him in detail about how she and Elder Bao Xi traveled to Mount Olympus, especially the cooling star core. It was the source of the countdown to Martian civilization, which made Xingmeng very sad. A sense of fate and sympathy for Martian civilization made Yuan Yizhou comfort her for a long time.

"Tell me about it." Elder Bao Xi said without comment.

"Actually, the cooling star core is only an external cause and is not the culprit of your civilization entering the countdown." Yuan Yizhou said coldly, "What really sounds the doomsday knell for the Martian civilization is your own highly developed technology and expanding wisdom. "

"Inflated wisdom?" Elder Bao Xi was very interested in this word and repeated Yuan Yizhou's words.

"From yesterday to now, I am just taking a peek. If I were to make a wild guess, Elder Bao Xiang would not mention it to Xingmeng. The darkest time in the history of Mars should be a period of unprecedented development of Martian wisdom and technology. "Yuan Yizhou continued to talk eloquently, "In this period, expanded wisdom plays the role of God in one's own life. If I guess correctly, this is the ivory tower of the Martians, giving the Martian civilization hope of another chance."

Bao Xi looked at him silently for a long time, and then asked, "Do you think people on earth will do better? Is this your hope?"

"I don't know, but at least we still have a chance to change this ending. From this perspective, we are willing to become this hope." Yuan Yizhou said leisurely.

"If one day you need to make a choice between your lover and the common people, how would you choose?" Bao Xi asked the question he wanted to ask the most.

Yuan Yizhou did not answer immediately. He turned his attention to Cui Xingmeng who was in the hall and said slowly, "I don't know what common people you are talking about. Xingmeng's excellence and fraternity are far above mine. She is my lover. She is also my common people, and I am willing to protect everything she cares about!"

Bao Xi and Elder Yan exchanged glances, turned to Ye Qinghe and said, "Their training starts here."

Ye Qinghe nodded and called Cui Xingmeng, who was still looking around in the hall with Shui Zaitian, "Miss Xingmeng, come here, we are going upstairs."

Cui Xingmeng heard Ye Qinghe calling her and asked loudly, "What are you doing upstairs?"

"Take you and Mr. Yizhou to visit our ivory tower on Mars!"