The world enters the age of myth

Professor Liu Qingshan paused and played several photos on the screen, "There are also the Gobekli ruins, representing the Sumerian civilization faction; the ancient city of Jericho, representing the Mesopotamian faction, etc. .These cultural circles were all born on the earth, and the derived civilizations all belong to the same cosmic community."

"The Yuzhu Kingdom we met should be considered a member of the Sumerian faction. The Sumerians on the earth are almost extinct, and their culture has not been passed down. However, the culture of the Yuzhu Kingdom has been passed down. It is really unpredictable. .”

"Historical events are vast, and the emergence of modern civilization is only a brief moment. Therefore, it is normal for scientific and technological civilization to be rare."

But no matter what, the Eastern culture branch is a huge cultural branch, because among the ancient civilizations, only the Eastern branch has been passed down to the modern era.

Professor Liu added: "On top of the cosmic community, there is the concept of cosmic rings, which means that the cultural roots are in the older Paleolithic Age. We have never encountered this kind of civilization that originated in the Paleolithic Age."

"Theoretically, there are far more civilizations in the cosmic ring than in the cosmic community, but we have never encountered them. This is because we are on different historical lines. The common origin is too early, so we cannot meet .”

"And most space tides can only move in the same cosmic community, so naturally we won't encounter these strange worlds."

"There may be a very small number of space tides that can move within the cosmic ring. According to the probability, it may be once in a hundred years."

The cosmic ring is a larger concept that can be considered as multiple different, almost parallel lines of history, with its point of origin in the earlier Paleolithic era.

The time period when the historical bifurcation occurred is too early, so the historical lines of the cosmic ring civilization can be considered parallel to each other, and naturally there will be no cultural commonalities.

Even if there is, it's just a coincidence.

"If you travel through the corridors of the underworld, you may be able to enter a larger cosmic ring. But you have to walk a long, long distance."

"Either we can use technical means to jump through space."

"By the way, we also verified a business card that Lu Yiming and Guo Weiqiang brought back. In the former 'hospital world', they met a group of blue-haired humans. Among them was a blue-haired girl who gave the business card to Guo Weiqiang, there is a small amount of DNA left on it."

Lu Yiming was stunned, this is really a very, very long time ago story.

When he was paralyzed during the Blood Demon Disaster, he entered the Lord God's Space for treatment and met those blue-haired people.

"...In the business card, we found a small number of epithelial cells. After DNA testing, we believe that the genetic structure of these humans is very different from normal humans. They may be an evolutionary branch of Neanderthals."

This news seems a bit shocking.

It turns out that the multiverse is so vast!

"But they should be considered humans, right?"

"So, the historical nodes of the same cosmic ring should be traced back to the Paleolithic Age, that is, the period from three million years ago to ten thousand years ago. To give a simple example, our branch evolved from Homo sapiens The humans in the cosmic ring may have evolved from Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Neanderthals, Thoreaus and Denisovans. Although they all belong to the human group, they also There was a clear difference.”

"It's even possible that reproductive isolation has occurred."

Of course, scientists are not sure whether reproductive isolation occurs. It may or may not occur. There are a small amount of Neanderthal genes in current human genes. The Neanderthal genes in East Asians are higher than those in Europeans, and Africans basically have no genes in this area.

Professor Liu was afraid that everyone would not understand, so he added: "Can you understand if I explain it this way? There were at least 17 or even more human races in ancient times! The history of each human race can be derived from a long river of time." Maybe in some parallel world, Neanderthals defeated Homo sapiens and became the overlord of the earth. This possibility certainly exists."

"But it is difficult for us to encounter this type of civilization."

"Xia Civilization is probably a powerful civilization at the cosmic ring level."

"Finally, there is the concept of universe domain. Domain refers to the collection of imaginable universes!"

This concept is more abstract and broader, and its common historical node is attributed to the origin of the universe!

As long as the universe is imaginable and can be understood using conventional logic, it is all classified into the "universe domain".

"Civilizations in the universe are even more extensive, including not only humans. Whether they are Homo sapiens or Neanderthals, they are all classified as humans. They may also be dinosaurs. They originated in the Cretaceous period."

"In a certain period of time and space, dinosaurs were not completely extinct by asteroids, but instead survived tenaciously. During the long evolution, a certain kind of dinosaur slowly evolved intelligence. Is this possible? We look at the dinosaur fossils of the past , a dinosaur with a developed brain named Troodon was discovered. As long as this Troodon is not extinct, maybe it will evolve into a civilization?"

"It may also be that the Trilobite Man originated in the Triassic Period and evolved from trilobites. The insects evolved into civilizations that did not even exist in the age of dinosaurs. Is this possible?"

"Or maybe chimpanzees have evolved intelligence, monkeys have evolved intelligence, dolphins have evolved intelligent civilization, and become dolphin people, replacing humans. These are all possible."

"So, they may not even be human races, they may be other races. Even if the probability is very small, if we zoom into the entire multiverse, it can almost be said that this type of race must exist. In such a multiverse collection, we will It’s called the cosmic domain!”

The scope of cosmic communities, cosmic rings, and cosmic domains increases in sequence.

Professor Liu Qingshan introduced it here, and everything suddenly became clear, "There are two universe domains in total. The first is the physical universe that evolves strictly in accordance with physical rules. The other one is the idealistic universe domain."

"Xia Civilization should be a cosmic ring-level, powerful interstellar civilization, one of the strongest at the bifurcation of human history."

"But placed in the universe, it is not necessarily the strongest."

"We Yunhai, as a member of human civilization, should be a powerful civilization at the cosmic community level. For eight thousand years, we can be considered a relatively powerful historical branch. We should have such confidence. If we grow into an interstellar civilization, we He is one of the strongest in the universe."

"If we develop the ability to jump through space, we will be a cosmic ring-level civilization."

"What about outside the universe?" Lu Yiming asked, "Is there a broader concept?"

Professor Liu smiled and shook his head.

Outside the universe is the unimaginable universe, full of incomprehensible weirdness that cannot be explained by conventional logic.

Conventional logic is the basis of human thinking, just like "If you sow melons, you will get beans if you sow melons," and "If a stone is thrown into water, it will sink." These are all normal logics.

Since it is unimaginable, there is no need to study it.

Professor Liu finally said: "You don't need to worry too much. According to current observation and analysis, unless we invent the technology of space jumping, it will be difficult to encounter a civilization stronger than ours. Moreover, even if the concept is enlarged to the universe, There are also mostly weak civilizations, and powerful civilizations are extremely rare."

"Among human civilization, we are indeed the overlord of the current cosmic community, or at least one of the overlords."

Ding Yuan also sighed: "Yes, the civilization stronger than ours is most likely an interstellar civilization. Since we can build space battleships and planetary fortresses, there is no need to wander on the Yang River. Only weaker civilizations can Wandering aimlessly.”

"Actually, our Unkai, including the Hope, had a pretty good foundation before the catastrophe. At least we have retained a bit of industrial foundation, and our talent pool is pretty good. That's why we have the possibility to grow... Others Ancient civilizations, no matter what they encountered, were really hard to develop.”

He cleared his throat: "Then, since we need to speed up development, Comrade Lu Yiming will be solely responsible for the action of hunting down the evil god. Although we are the dominant force in Yanghe, we can only protect ourselves and win what we can. Opportunities must be fought for.”

"From a moral perspective, these ancient civilians should be resettled as much as possible. We have the internal space of the planetary fortress and there is no shortage of land."

"If you have any other opinions, why not share them here?"

It is naturally very important to recognize your own strength.

If you are very strong but don't know it, you will undoubtedly waste many opportunities.

Just like the original Hope, there were actually several opportunities to increase strength, but they were given up because they pursued safety too much.

Hunting evil gods is not a massacre of human beings. It does not bring any burden emotionally and morally, and it achieves multiple goals. As long as the risks can be controlled, it was quickly approved by most members of the meeting.

Next, everyone discussed the resettlement policy of ancient civilizations.

Of the 10,000 square kilometers of land in the world, the Unkai has occupied 6,000 square kilometers, and there are millions of square kilometers of development space underground, so there is no shortage of land.

There is no problem in letting the remaining four thousand square kilometers be settled by ancient civilizations and absorbing the talents of these civilizations.

People really can't do such things as genocide...

No matter what, a complete set of rules must be formulated for the whole world, and all civilizations must collectively abide by these rules and act instead of being in a chaotic atmosphere with each other, causing conflicts or even wars.

For example, the newly arrived Yuzhu civilization has become a very good experimental product. How to manage these Yuzhu people without causing too much interference to themselves is a test of political wisdom.