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Chapter 10.17 The New Foundation of Life on Earth

 What are the limits of carbon-based life?

Before the arrival of the Pandora Field, life on earth had continued for billions of years and evolved vigorously for 500 million years in the Cambrian period, gradually touching the carbon-based upper limit.

The hardest natural carbon-based materials on earth are natural materials such as golden nanmu and whale bone. The growth of these materials requires decades of life development.

The carbon-based reproduction speed, represented by mice and ants, can multiply exponentially. Of course, the replication speed of bacteria is faster, but everything is based on the simplification of the structure. The more complex the organism, the slower the reproduction speed.

Among carbon-based animals, the largest land animals are the sauropods, while the giants at sea are whales.

In the pre-Earth era, there was an invisible upper limit.

Therefore, the will of life of the earth selected human beings and began to forge tools and smelt inorganic materials, breaking through the upper limit of materials. If they develop normally, human beings will study physics and figure out the properties of high-energy physics. After making breakthroughs in energy control, they will further break through new technologies.

upper limit.

However, now, when the physical rules of the universe are floating around, another path appears.

The "flesh and blood" is no longer the "flesh and blood" metabolized by water-based organic matter below 40 degrees Celsius. It can provide a higher energy level under the physical rules of Pandora's field.

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The cadres in the commanding area were invited by Wei Keng and saw the strange scene in front of them.

In the almost "blazing" metabolism of life, the carbon-based pipes "burn" and grow in the light.

The heat and burning here are by no means temperature in the physical sense. Instead, the onlookers in the Tongfa District feel the highly violent metabolic energy from the life field.

The oxidizing power provided by the ion torch allowed Wei Keng to build carbon-based life thousands of times faster than the natural speed in the process of continuous exploration.

[When the Pandora Field first arrived, the whole person would instantly turn into a plant, or a large amount of carbon base would directly condense into a human replica from the void, which was weird to humans at that time. But in physics

As you progress in learning, this phenomenon becomes controllable and becomes very scary.】

At the scene, in the "fire-like" life activity, a body of five meters and eight-meter limbs grew out. Each structure was filled with insect-like arcs, but the material was a carbon fiber shell.

Then, biological blood vessels grew out of the metal bones like tentacles, leaving cavities.

After this cavity is formed, it can be seen as a cockpit, which can be operated and controlled using the language of the mind.

This is a very complete biological mecha, but after witnessing such a growth process, the commanding area personnel present were a little scared and did not dare to request to pilot it.

Because, this is life's fear of high-energy phenomena.

When people encounter an elephant, they can't help but avoid the charging of a large truck. However, a tank with a perfectly reproduced turret, barrel and tracks is suddenly printed from a red-hot state. People's first reaction is not that this tank can be driven, but that it can be driven.

I'm worried about what to do if the tank immediately melts with red heat after getting close to it.

Because this has broken through the "stability" of human common sense.

~

Of course, there are still people who trust Wei Keng. Following Wei Keng's prompts, Luo Hongxing and Zeng Shuxie both boarded this purely biological structure mecha. After removing the cover and connecting the neural frequency band, the entire biological mecha had more front, rear, left and right

The black eyelids of the compound eye are opened directly.

Luo Hongxing and Zeng Shuxie used spiritual language to embed the central brain tissue of the biological tank and tried to operate it on the test field. However, after a few minutes, they were able to flexibly move and charge. This speed was as fast as that of creatures such as deer and horses when they were just born.

In a few minutes, it will feel like running away. This shows that the thing printed by Wei Keng is very suitable for human operation.

Weighing twelve tons, the dense material shell of carbon fiber silicon crystal makes this weapon comparable to the current steel-forged mechas.

However, no one's face looked happy, but serious.

Because if this is true, Wei Keng's side and human civilization's side will have two systems in terms of creation ability.

Wei Keng does not rely on steel or various complex inorganic materials. He can directly use "ion flame" to increase the energy of breathing and directly create large carbon-based creations.

And what is the scale of this manufacturing volume? Wei Keng is sure that there may be interstellar insect swarms in this universe!

~

At the moment, Tongfa District and Wei Keng are still comrades. But out of the most basic realistic thinking, in the future prospects, when the two sides do not need to cooperate, a gap will appear. That is of course a worry.

In a healthy civilization, there should be no default situation where the emperor or the insect swarm master appears on one's side.

Without blood ties, only slaves will be filled with joy like buying the right stock because the master they have taken refuge in is strong.

For example, now the big radish, as Wei Keng began to use the carbon-based physiological activities constructed under high-energy oxidation to build joints with a movable skeleton for him to swim in the water, this guy felt Wei Keng's strong life

Fire poured into the body, praising the "Lord of Mankind" with fear and joy.

~

In the central base, the red flag on the square is still fluttering in the wind.

Wei Keng has demonstrated the potential of high-energy carbon-based stacking on materials.

In the small building with floor-to-ceiling glass windows at the test site, Wei Keng turned around and faced the researchers in various areas of the entire command area.

Wei Keng looked at everyone and said: "Have a meeting and discuss future technology. The truth is not something to be feared. We need to 'face' it correctly and then analyze the future direction together."

Wei Keng's tone was very calm, but at this time, no matter how gentle Wei Keng's tone was, it could not conceal the fear at this moment.

The scientific seminar was not held at the venue, but directly in the open environment of the playground.

This is because Wei Keng also understood from an ordinary person's perspective: when encountering something beyond imagination, if you enter the same closed space with this being who has mastery beyond imagination, you will have claustrophobia.

However, in an open environment, this was just the right issue for Wei Keng to open up and talk about.

Wei Keng put on a white lab coat and took chalk to write on the blackboard: "You have already seen the changes that will occur when our technology advances to the next step in this Pandora field. To be honest, I know what you are thinking of now.

'This Wei Keng is still not a human being. Will he be a cannibal in the future?' Ha, ha."

No one on the scene agreed, and Wei Keng touched his nose in embarrassment, which was a common move to cover up his own embarrassment.

Wei Keng: "I won't comfort you anymore. I won't lie to you. I am also thinking about whether I am a human being or not."

Wei Keng stared at everyone and said so honestly, the expressions of those present were a little relaxed. Indeed, if Wei Keng covered up this issue, everyone would always feel a little bit blocked. Now that Wei Keng does not cover up this issue, he can be objective.

Wei Keng continued: "But from a higher perspective, if I doubt whether I am a human being in a certain state, then I will start to think about what will happen to me in the future if I am not a human being.

Sample?"

Wei Keng: "I know one thing. I am a middle-aged person. If I can think of some things that are not human, then there must be people in this world who dare to think of and do things that are more courageous than me. They will do things that I cannot tolerate.

It’s beyond my imagination.”

Just like in Journey to the West, the monkey was taught a lesson on "Become a devil or become a Buddha" in Shituoling.

Skeletons are like ridges, and bones are like forests. Human hair is turned into felt pieces, and human skin and flesh are rotted into mud. Human sinews are wrapped around trees, and they are burnt and shiny like silver. It is really a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and it is really smelly and unpleasant. The little demon from the east

, took the living people and chopped their flesh; went west to throw demons at them, and cooked the human flesh fresh.

What does the top demon king in the world look like? Sun Wukong understands that he cannot go on the road of becoming a demon.

Wei Keng transmitted the details of the current principles of high-oxygen carbon-based life reactions in the spiritual language to these comrades in the command area.

From a microscopic perspective, graphene composite materials can be constructed on a large scale. This construction is not a tiny material in the laboratory in the 21st century, but an uninterrupted large material that continues throughout the entire organism.

in the organization.

If there are enough organic matter, we can even complete the carbon-based pipeline transported to space. By absorbing the geothermal energy of the planet to maintain the strength of the organic matter, we can directly transport the atmosphere, water and other organic matter into space, and print out a space battleship.

This is similar to the technology of the space elevator. Of course, it must be more ambitious than the space elevator. Because the replication of organic matter is one of the most efficient links in creation.

Mr. Wei introduced in a very serious tone: "If we can do this, then will there be such a group of life in the universe that can plunder organic resources like a swarm of insects?"

Just as the comrades in the unification zone were worried about Wei Keng's situation after he became demonized, Wei Keng was worried about the situation outside the earth.

Wei Keng did not choose to respond arrogantly to other people's concerns, but gave his own concerns to these people.

That's right, after Wei Keng explained his greater fear, each scientist in the Tongfa District finally turned the attention suppressed by Wei Keng to the universe.

As a primary civilization on the planet, the earth is far from reaching the level of being able to uphold justice in the universe.

Before the Great Destruction, if human governments encountered the super civilization behind Pandora Field before encountering Pandora Field, and could see the horrific consequences of life radiation, then they would inevitably "promise to aliens for the continuation of the race"

All requirements.”

After the representatives of the commanding area accepted the "new scientific hypothesis" to theoretically predict the existence of interstellar insect swarms, Wei Keng was far from being considered a "threat", but was instead the core trump card of civilization on the earth.

Even if the command zone can use all its strength at this initial moment to kill Wei Keng, who now has "tyrant potential", this will only make the threat visible now disappear. Greater dangers in the future will still exist.

However, the people present at the meeting struggled to accept the fact that Wei Keng had developed into a "non-human" carbon-based existence.

Wei Keng shook his head and whispered: "I am born with fear."

Wei Keng's talk about the interstellar worm swarm in the command zone was not intended to cover up the internal threat he caused with a greater external threat.

That is the governing logic of Western civilization. Mr. Wei is a very traditional Oriental who values ​​family harmony and prosperity in everything.

Wei Keng wants to be a human being. The form of human beings from 1 to 60 years old is the sacred pedestal form accumulated over hundreds of millions of years. Wei Keng does not want to overthrow the old evolutionary results, but stands on this evolutionary result and adds something new.

Wei Keng stamped his feet on the sand to let everyone listen to what he said. The stamping of his feet didn't make much noise, but his movements brought everyone back to their senses.

Wei Keng: “‘You cannot bend with force, you cannot move wealth, you cannot move poverty.’ This is one of my favorite mottos.

However, "the powerful cannot yield". When I first came across this sentence, I thought that "you cannot yield when you see a strong enemy, and you must fight to the death."

But in essence, when I really encounter difficulties, can I really fight to the death? I thought about it carefully and I think it is possible for me to kneel down.

So I think, ‘It’s not about waiting for the power to overwhelm you before you surrender’, but when you foresee the ‘power’, you should be ready to grow your strong bones.”

Wei Keng reopened the concept of a hypothetical "carbon-based civilization in space".

Wei Keng: "Now that we have foreseen the 'power' of the future, we must now take an objective look at where we will be unyielding in the future. Yes, that is, you can help me determine what will happen when facing future space civilization.

, how can we maintain the unyielding nature of 'human beings on earth'."

Wei Keng gave everyone a period of time to accept the information, and at the same time restrained Zeng Shuxie's attempt to "approve" for himself. (Wei Keng: This caring little cotton-padded jacket really agrees with everything.)

Wei Keng: "We need to have a clear understanding of ourselves. In the future, when we on Earth encounter alien creatures, which aspects must be maintained at the same level of competition!? Which aspects do we need to firmly hold on to?

origin?

Don't subconsciously feel that their path is correct when we witness the power of alien civilizations. We should start to ignore how important the basics we are accustomed to are to us.

I am a middle-aged person, and I know one thing, that is, if you follow someone else's path, you may always fall behind because you lack the foundation. Even when you choose other people's path, you lose your own foundation.

What is the basis of life on earth? From the birth of the Ediacaran macrobiota to the Cambrian explosion, our life is based on sexual reproduction and stable genetic inheritance. This determines our physiology and values.

And the moral values ​​formed after human beings began to understand and pursue civilization.

As for the arrival of the Pandora system of life groups, this new rule imposed on life on earth by external forces obviously eliminates the need for hermaphrodite inheritance to accumulate genes from generation to generation. All life forms can communicate. This kind of communication is even essentially war and plunder.

The advanced beings of the Pandora system do not have the concepts that human civilization on earth is accustomed to. Their birth of powerful macroscopic objects is a victory.

And what is our victory? The reproduction and continuation of the race.

In other words, let the next generation be as capable as us in terms of basic abilities and do things that we have not been able to try "in terms of possibility".

For this path, life on earth has evolved the nature of risking death to reproduce. Before the Great Destruction, the final journey of migratory fish such as salmon was to lay eggs. Even after being hunted by countless predators, they still had to reach their destination.

Upstream, they finally lay eggs and die.

Mammals have evolved maternal nature. Women are weak by nature, but mothers are strong.

As the highest animal, human beings have evolved their own morality based on the above."

Speaking of this, Wei Keng paused: "As long as the Tao lasts forever and death is like home, there is no need to be afraid!"

~

Many people on the field were silent.

Wei Keng: "So, I think being unyielding means being unyielding for this reason. When facing the future, we must stick to our fundamentals, so that we can retain the basic advantages that our earthly creatures have gained from basic evolution.

This advantage is that as a life on earth, it has the freedom to develop to incomparable strength, and it also has the freedom to face destruction and still remain stubborn to the end."

Wei Keng expressed his request: "I need a continuator."

~

The continuation here is not the mother body of sexual reproduction, but the organic information that can carry Wei Keng’s verification on the ‘high oxidation road’.

The control area must support a group of humans. As Wei Keng steps towards the accumulation of biological genes under high oxidation, they must passively synchronize with Wei Keng's perspective and thinking on a large scale, and finally accept the "high energy" summarized by Wei Keng.

Carbon-based' range of technical experience.

In this process, it may even happen that he takes over Wei Keng's character and even his thinking.

This process can be said to be a pattern in which children inherit "genetic information" from their parents.

When life is almost connected, the bearer will basically become the second Wei Keng in addition to remembering his own initial memory. (The son and the father are similar.)

This fusion result would have been a bit daunting before the Great Disillusionment. Because humans in the culture at that time were very arrogant and valued "self and freedom" very much. Perhaps in their teens, if there was no external pressure, they would begin to refuse to accept society.

knowledge.

Who knows, but the real upper class who had the upper hand in that era (modern times) began to condone this kind of freedom and stopped opening knowledge to the new generation. This is the real tragedy of civilization.

For various internal and external reasons, individuals on earth who abandon the purpose of reproduction will behave in various abnormal ways.

In the history of the development of human society, women have no offspring, and their mentality of resenting women is often unbalanced. As for men, in the feudal era, those who rebelled and destroyed people wildly had no home.

Now, the thoughts and experiences injected by Wei Keng have all left the reminder that "this is not perfect." So this is not the control of "thinking invasion", but the "reproduction" of thoughts.

When reproduction leaves a complex inheritance, it leaves space for the next generation to develop.

The supervisors on the system silently recorded this moment: Judging from Wei Keng's performance during the entire development process of the unified control area, Wei Keng is a man who cares about his family.

------Digression-----

There is a higher level behind Wise Man Stepping on the Star. The broader Wei Keng does at the beginning, the broader the subsequent civilization will have. Also, as for the insect swarm, it cannot be eaten, that is, the locust can be eaten and has a variety of proteins.

, that is the interstellar seafood group you are worried about running away.

The human gene chain can replicate more proteins than a swarm of insects.

What Wei Keng is doing now is not to simplify the protein method, but also to allow subsequent generations to increase it.

This is another disadvantage. Only a few families on the timeline cannot match the Terminators!

No matter how small the current population of the unified felling area is, millions of people will be able to participate in the next hundred years. In the next two hundred years, there may be nearly tens of millions of people participating.


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