The Secret History of Mars

"When you can freely upload and download all the memories and thoughts in your brain to different bodies, you have achieved a certain sense of soul immortality. But is this eternal life or eternal peace?" Ye Qinghe said with a bitter smile.

"So here are the memories and thoughts of all Martians?" Yuan Yizhou re-examined the rows of smart memories, which looked like a central computer room on Earth. "Then why don't you have a central AI, or something like a super brain?"

"The Presbytery made a choice on this issue a long time ago. We don't want our civilization to become a soul that has lost its carrier. The diversity of species is the lowest risk and the chance of survival in this cruel galaxy." Ye Qinghe said slowly , “In other words, we want to step back from the role of God and give our civilization an unknown but evolvable future.”

"The purple level of wisdom is not your God, so what is it?" Cui Xingmeng asked.

"Purple is indeed the highest level of wisdom on Mars. Only brain neuron connections, more than 90% of the carriers, can withstand its load. Many of our elders in the elders have this level of wisdom," Ye Qinghe explained, "But if you want to maintain activities at this level for a long time, the carrier made by its asexual reproduction will spend a lot of time absorbing energy in the nutrition cabin, so many elders finally chose to return to chaos and no longer download their souls to Any carrier, but the wisdom is stored here for reference by the current elders."

"In other words, the elders of your elders' house will either go to jail in the nutrition cabin every day, or upload and download their souls every day, or they will return to chaos and die?" Cui Xingmeng said sympathetically, "Isn't there any other way? ?”

Ye Qinghe took a deep look at Yuan Yizhou and did not answer. He thought to himself, "Yuan Yizhou's naturally evolved body that can carry the purple level of wisdom has been the dream of the elders of the Presbyterian Academy for thousands of years. What will the three elders of the pioneer group do?" Report it to the Presbyterian Council, and what will the Presbyterian Council do?"

Yuan Yizhou ignored Ye Qinghe's gaze, his deep eyes cast a shadow.

"Qinghe, you said there are various carriers upstairs?" Cui Xingmeng said as if to adjust the atmosphere when the two of them had their own thoughts. "Can we go up and have a look?"

"Come with me." Ye Qinghe said and continued to go up the spiral staircase. "The third floor of the Xuanhu Tower is a compilation library, which mainly extracts, classifies, and compiles the information from the second-floor intelligent library into a format that can be used for human-machine interconnection and download identification on the fourth floor. Our smart customization and confidentiality level settings are also in It’s done here.”

As soon as Ye Qinghe finished speaking, the scene on the third floor appeared in front of him. If the air-root-like pipes outside the tower were already very spectacular, then the entire third floor was even more breathtaking. The densely packed pipes shone with various fluorescent colors and penetrated from the floor. It comes out and flows into the oval-shaped cabin suspended high and low in the air, and then branches into thinner pipes and inserted into the ceiling.

"What are compiled in your gene bank are not just human genes?" Yuan Yizhou saw these oval cabins and suddenly remembered that he noticed Ye Qinghe's pupils when he drank the first glass of Zhuyu grass juice at Miemeng Gallery. It's oval.

"Human genes only became popular on Mars during the Stone Age." Ye Qinghe was not surprised that Yuan Yizhou asked, "In the previous eras, the genes of mainstream species were all here, but now the chances of being selected are very low. Less. Otherwise, why do you think Elder Cangxi has the head of a human and the body of a snake in your mythology?"

"You said that our myths and stories are not completely fabricated, so what is the truth?" Yuan Yizhou took the opportunity to ask.

"You have so many fairy tales, which one are you specifically asking about?" Ye Qinghe said teasingly.

"Why don't we talk about Empress Nuwa and the five-color stone patching up the sky?" Cui Xingmeng wanted to know most what great things Elder Cang Xi, who had the same ancestry as him, did on earth back then.

"Let's start with our other elder Pangu, who has returned to chaos," Ye Qinghe recalled. "He first built the natural environment of the earth laboratory and transformed it into one suitable for carbon-based life to survive. climate.”

"Pangu is your elder. He is also called Pangu here?" Cui Xingmeng is a little unsure. Why are Nuwa, Human Emperor Fuxi and Shennong Yandi all called Mars that are different from the earth's name? Is this Pangu our Pangu?

"Elder Pangu has always had only one name. When he returned to Chaos, you humans had not yet appeared on the earth. Naturally, you would only hear the stories passed down by the elders later, and you would not give him a name yourself." Ye Qinghe said laughingly.

"Then what?" Cui Xingmeng was a little embarrassed and quickly changed the subject.

"After the laboratory was set up, it was natural to start sowing seeds." Ye Qinghe continued, "We preserved all species three million years ago when the climate of Mars began to deteriorate. After Elder Pangu's Nirvana of Chaos Elder Cang Xi became the first designer of the Earth Laboratory. Together with the pioneers of the Elder Academy, she selected the stronger species on Mars and cultivated them on Earth first, such as the dinosaurs you are more familiar with. "

"Dinosaurs are also species cultivated by Martians on Earth?!" Cui Xingmeng said in surprise.

"Yes, because the pioneer elders at that time believed that to be able to inherit the most advanced wisdom of Mars, one must have a strong enough body. Among many species, dinosaurs have incomparable advantages." Ye Qinghe explained, " Facts have proved that the elders’ choice was indeed reasonable. Dinosaurs quickly became the overlords of the earth in a short period of time. Just when Elder Cangxi began to gradually download the civilization of Mars onto the dinosaur carrier, an accident happened.”

"The asteroid hit the earth and the dinosaurs became extinct." Yuan Yizhou continued after roughly clarifying the context of that era.

"Yes, this extraterrestrial disaster was completely unexpected by Elder Cang Xi and the Elder Council. Before Elder Cang Xi could ask for help from the home planet, the Earth Laboratory fell into ruins." Ye Qinghe said regretfully, " Nearly tens of millions of years of careful cultivation came to naught overnight, leaving Elder Cang Xi in seclusion in Yigelu for a long, long time."

"After Elder Cang Xi came out of seclusion, she proposed a brand new earth experiment plan to the Elder Council," Ye Qinghe admired. "She summarized the reasons for the extinction of dinosaur species. One of them is that our strategy places too much emphasis on the energy of the body. Level and strength, we want to cultivate a perfect carrier first, and then put the development of wisdom and brain on the agenda. This leads to the fact that when dinosaurs encounter sudden external disasters, they have no ability to protect themselves and adapt, and can only wait to die. .”

"So Elder Cangxi suggested that in the new round of earth experiments, the physical body of the selected species may not be the strongest, but it must evolve at the same time as its own wisdom and brain. Both are indispensable." Ye Qinghe continued to recall, "This strategy has opened a new era of earth experiments, allowing mammals with small bodies but considerable brain capacity to enter the stage of earth laboratories."