Chapter 168 [I don't think you have a reason to refuse]
Chapter 168 [I don’t think you have any reason to refuse]
The birth of a world, the death of a world.
The name of the parent civilization where [it] is located is no longer clearly identifiable in the message.
Or it can be temporarily called "X civilization".
Just as [it] said, the form of this civilization is completely different from the earth.
This is a civilization dominated by spiritual beings. They don't care about their appearance. In other words, this is a spiritual life.
Where this civilization was born cannot be verified in the huge and complex information. It may be a distant galaxy. There is no way to know how far it is from the earth.
Its social structure resembles a hive.
A mother body gives birth to countless lives according to needs.
It's just like the queen bee giving birth to a huge colony of workers, but it's a little more complicated than that.
There is nothing to describe their appearance. Because as [it] said, during the long history of this civilization, they conquered each galaxy and would breed life in the form most suitable for the local environment according to the local environment.
This can be proven from a message.
The place where Chen Nuo is at this moment is the matrix that this civilization put on the earth.
According to [its] description, the time cannot be determined, but it must have been before human history.
Civilization X believes that more than 70% of the earth's surface is water.
So after making judgments and calculations, they believed that the octopus shape was the most suitable shape for survival on the earth.
Therefore, on Earth, they chose to use octopuses as their appearance.
It must be noted that the matrix that was dropped on the earth was not a colonial detachment sent out, or an occupying force that invaded the earth.
But a seed of escape.
In the message, this X civilization has perished.
The reason for its decline and demise is because of a strange virus. Let's use the word "virus" to refer to it for the time being.
Actually it's not very accurate.
Because in Chen Nuo's concept, viruses can only act on the physical level of organisms and destroy physiological systems.
But the virus that led to the demise of civilization X did not act on the physical level of life.
It's a "spiritual virus".
This is fatal to a racial civilization with spiritual life forms.
If it were a virus in the general sense, this civilization could change its appearance at will.
But mental strength cannot be changed.
According to the description in the message, it is unknown where this virus was born. It may have been infected during the conquest of a certain galaxy... Unknown.
In fact, this virus is completely ineffective against other civilizations or races conquered by X Civilization's once glorious and huge civilization system.
It can only cause damage to civilization X, and this damage is fatal!
Civilization
This mental virus is deadly for two reasons.
First, it has an incubation period, and the incubation period is unknown.
The second point is particularly fatal for X civilization: in the social system of X civilization, every living individual born from the mother's body must have a spiritual connection with the mother's body to maintain his own life and strength.
Their life span and all their abilities come from the mother body, and they must maintain a spiritual connection with the mother body... This must be done every once in a while.
You can understand that the relationship between the matrix of X civilization and individuals is similar to a huge power source and countless large and small batteries that need to be recharged.
Once the rechargeable battery is exhausted, it must be connected to a power source for charging.
Individuals who cannot "recharge" for a long time will die.
Because of this special social structure and that kind of mental virus, it dealt a fatal blow to Civilization X!
Because of the fear that the mental virus would infect the mother body, the mother body, as the highest intelligent life of this civilization, issued instructions to cut off a large number of spiritual connections with individuals.
Caused a large number of individual deaths.
Then the civilization entered a period of decline.
Until the demise of their civilization, no way to deal with this mental virus was found.
Therefore, at the end of the message received by Chen Nuo, we saw repeated sections.
A group of individuals from Civilization
But because this virus has an incubation period that varies in length, it is impossible to find a pattern.
So Civilization
As a result, the scope of isolation became wider and wider... Because of the isolation, more and more tribesmen had to cut off contact with their mothers and died.
By the end of civilization, they had given up on most of the galaxies they had conquered during the glorious period of civilization, and had even reduced their territory to their home star.
However, he still did not escape the bad luck.
Maybe one day, after Mother discovered that an individual was infected with the mental virus and died, the social structure of the mother planet also collapsed!
Let me emphasize one more point here: X civilization is a spiritual life form, and their communication is through spiritual power.
Because this kind of special life form, from the beginning of their birth to the glorious period of civilization, they did not evolve anything similar to vocal cords.
Even words, they don't have them.
If there is a virus, you cannot communicate with your mental power. There is no communication between individuals, and there is no communication between individuals and their mother...
As a result, society collapses until it is destroyed.
Until one day, finally, there was a tribesman infected with the mental virus. When the incubation period was not discovered, the mental power connected with the mother body...
So the death knell of civilization X was sounded.
As the mother body of the highest wisdom of the entire civilization, it had to make the final decision.
It cut itself apart, leaving behind some clean lives that were not yet infected, and discarding the vast majority of lives that were infected or suspected to be dangerous.
Then, he abandoned his home planet, abandoned all his people and individual lives, and began a long escape.
Finally, naturally, I escaped to such a remote and remote place on earth.
According to the description in the message, during the escape process, because it was afraid that it would not run far enough or that the mental virus would spread in too large a circle, the remaining mother body spent almost all its strength to extend the escape distance as far as its energy could.
the limit reached.
The earth is not a designed escape target, but a random target after the power is exhausted during the escape process.
This civilization does not have many restrictions on the environment in which it can survive...the earth is just a foothold it has chosen unintentionally.
Then, here it chooses its shape before falling into slumber:
octopus.
This is determined by the fact that 70% of the earth's surface is water.
After calculations by the mother body, it is believed that the shape of the octopus is most suitable for the environment on the surface of this planet.
When Chen Nuo accepted this message, there was one thing he didn't understand.
It's the form of an octopus...
Was it created by the mother body based on the earth's environment?
Or was there a creature like the octopus on the earth itself at that time, and the mother body was just copied?
This was not made clear in the message.
And just when the mother body arrived on Earth, an accident happened.
Chen Nuo didn't know what this accident was, and it wasn't mentioned in the message.
The mother body fell somewhere on the earth, that is, in the ocean...
Before falling, the mother body tried its best to breed a batch of [seeds], which were scattered on the earth.
These seeds are the last bits of tribesmen, that is, individual lives, that the mother body used her remaining power to give birth to before she unexpectedly fell.
Some of the shapes of these beings are octopus-shaped, while others are in the form of other creatures.
After all, the mother made the optimal choice at the time: not to put all her eggs in one basket.
It gave birth to some creatures suitable for the sea and some creatures suitable for the land.
Then, he fell into a long sleep.
These seeds are born with the same mission to find the mother body!
Find the matrix and activate it!
For some unknown reason, the batch of seeds that were born did not seem to complete their mission.
It seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
Therefore, the mother body has been sleeping ever since it fell to the earth.
I don’t know what happened in this process after tens of thousands of years, what accident happened, so that the first batch of seeds did not come to activate the mother body according to their mission.
This is unknown.
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These messages seemed very large and complicated, but through spiritual transmission, Chen Nuo accepted them all in just a minute or two.
Most of Chen Nuo's questions have been satisfied by these messages.
But there are still some questions.
Since... before the mother body fell into sleep, a batch of seeds were conceived in a hurry.
Well, those seeds did not find the mother body according to their mission.
So, how did Hisako Ishii...or rather her former master, the leader, know about the existence of everything here?
Where did the octopus that serves as the "key" come from?
These issues were not explained in the message.
Because these messages were left by the mother body...it was already on the bottom of the sea and about to fall into a long sleep. It didn't know what happened to the seeds in the outside world.
So naturally it cannot be passed on to Chen Nuo.
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In Chen Nuo's view, this X civilization is interesting, but it is also extremely dangerous!
The interesting thing is that they have no so-called sexual relations at all, nor do they have so-called love, family, or social relations.
In their social structure, the smallest unit is the individual.
There is no sexual reproduction, and every tribesman is an individual born from the mother's body.
Their heritage is also very interesting.
The history, skills, knowledge, etc. of all civilizations do not need a carrier to be recorded.
Rather, it is directly instilled into the individual from the mother at the place of birth.
There is no so-called learning period and growth period for every civilized individual, that is, a tribe. From the moment he is born, he is a qualified member of a civilization and has mastered all the skills it requires.
Naturally, this civilization does not have the profession of "teacher".
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However, this civilization is also very dangerous!
As a kind of spiritual life, or in fact, it can be regarded as a quasi-spiritual life, but it cannot reach the level of a complete spiritual life.
Because they have not completely surrendered to the shackles of the physical body...the survival of their civilization must also rely on the environment and a physical body that can adapt to the environment to build and survive the civilization.
No matter how you put it, this kind of civilization is extremely terrifying.
Especially for the earth.
Once the mother body is activated, it is natural to understand what to do next!
Colonize! Rebuild their civilization!
On Earth!
So what about the Earth’s indigenous associated civilization, humans?
This question still needs no explanation!
Chen Nuo didn't know whether humans would accept an alien civilization sharing the earth with them. Anyway, he would definitely not want to.
What if it’s not sharing, but being enslaved or ruled?
Then the answer to this question will be easier to find: the vast majority of humans will not be willing.
So, if there is a confrontation...
Facing a civilization of spiritual beings, almost all the weapons of human civilization today are ineffective and act directly on the physical level.
None of them can completely kill this X civilization. It may be able to kill a large number of individuals, but for the pure spiritual body of the mother body, nuclear bombs are also ineffective.
And as long as the mother body does not die, it can endlessly give birth to new individuals.
cannot be completely destroyed.
It is foreseeable that once this matrix wakes up on the earth or regains its strength...
For human civilization, it must be a disaster!
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Chen Nuo put away his reverie, and then sighed softly: "So now, what are you going to do?"
"Awakening the Matrix."
[It] answered Chen Nuo with a message.
"The mother's body has accumulated and recovered some energy during its long sleep. Although it is far from the optimal period, it has reached the standard for awakening. It's just that awakening the mother's body requires a lot of mental strength."
Chen Nuo nodded: "So, I am a qualified charger?"
"In terms of your language system, this metaphor is very appropriate."
Chen Nuo shook his head: "Although I am very confident in my mental power, if I want to awaken a matrix that can represent a civilization, is my mental power enough?"
[Its] answer is very direct: "Not enough."
"What should we do?"
"Okay..." [It] seemed to be silent for a while after saying this, as if it was searching for the best and most suitable language.
After a pause, [it] found a suitable metaphor: "It can be divided into periods. Provide some at a time, and after repeated many times, the awakening standard can be achieved."
"Multiple times? How many times?" Chen Nuo asked.
"According to my search of you and the quantitative assessment of your mental power, if you were to awaken it alone, you would need to repeat it fifty to fifty-five times individually. The approximate value is within this range."
Chen Nuo was silent for a while.
Then he asked: "I am an Earthling. What good will it do to me to awaken your matrix?"
"During the process of awakening, you can connect to the mother's body and receive mental feedback from the mother's body."
[Its] answer surprised Chen Nuo: "The mother body does not need your power to survive. Its own mental power has grown to a sufficient standard for awakening. What it needs is an activation step, that is, awakening.
But in the process of awakening, every time you provide mental power to the mother body... your own mental power will also be fed back by the mother body.
Your mental strength will also be strengthened.
A simple conversion is probably: how much mental power you provide to the mother body, how much mental power you can increase!
Perhaps, the word "provide" is not accurate.
To be precise, this is an exchange."
Chen Nuo was surprised.
First, I was surprised by the huge amount of mental power required by this matrix... I had to input mental power fifty times...
Don't forget, every time you enter, your mental power can double!
Then the next input is equivalent to inputting the original two mental powers of oneself, and the obtained amount is still doubled again!
The third time is equivalent to the original four selves!
With such geometric growth, it still takes more than fifty times!
The second surprising point is...
If my mental power can increase like this...then...
After fifty exchanges and geometric growth, how terrifying will my mental power reach?
I'm afraid that even a powerful psychic like a wizard would explode and die if he even looked at me!!
It is indeed the mother body of a powerful civilization that once occupied countless galaxies!!
Chen Nuo sighed.
"What if I say no?"
[Its] answer is very direct: "I will kill you and take away your spiritual power by force."
"Then what?"
"Then the other three people will receive all the gifts from the mother body, enhance their abilities, and then they will go out and become a new batch of seeds to find new people for the mother body to 'charge'. Well,
The word recharging is borrowed from your metaphor."
"Do you believe you can kill me?"
"Yes, based on the magnitude of the mental power you have displayed, you are far from my opponent. I can mobilize the mental power of the mother body to control you and kill you.
The fact that I did not forcefully retrieve and indoctrinate you before was completely out of respect for a guest who might awaken the mother's body.
We are a civilization, not beasts.
Moreover, once you provide the mother body with the mental power to awaken it, and truly connect with the mother body...
You are equal to our civilized people."
Chen Nuo smiled bitterly: "Then I really want to thank you for the preferential treatment before..."
"Believe me, once you are connected to the mother body and experience the experience of infinitely increasing spiritual power, you will not regret it.
For you, a backward race that still relies on physical and physical aspects, the experience of infinite growth in spiritual power will be difficult to give up once you try it.
This is an evolutionary direction!
An opportunity to evolve from lower organisms to higher organisms.