"Our technology has given us a deeper understanding of the nature of life and celestial bodies in the universe. Our humanistic concepts are different from yours. Your rationality dominates social behavior, but we are just the opposite. Our sensibility dominates. Social behavior!¡±
"In other words, those guys are actually a group of guys weaving their own dreams in a comfortable environment, warm and humid. Since the beginning of evolution, we have not known what cold and drought are, and since we began to learn to make biological tools, there are no more What an existential crisis.¡±
"Our lifespan is very long, but our reproductive ability is very weak. We often cannot reproduce a single offspring within a lifespan of thousands of years, and technology develops too fast. More importantly, the earth was much larger than it is now. At that time, the diameter of the earth was It is more than 26,000 kilometers long, and the surface area is more than four times that of today. Therefore, there have been no disputes over interests between us. We have almost never encountered any wars. We don¡¯t know what killing is. There is no existential crisis. We focus more on art and religion!¡±
Lu Xuan smiled bitterly and said: "This kind of society is not far from heaven in our opinion! However, you said that the diameter of the earth at that time was twice as big as it is now?"
The old dragon man (called them "dragon men" from now on) sneered: "Heaven also has its end. Our technology quickly allowed us to enter the universe. We encountered another civilization, which allowed us to understand for the first time what is War, what is killing and destruction without mercy? We call them shells. They have no homeland. Maybe they have had one before, but it is obvious that they have abandoned their homeland and wandered in the universe. When they encounter galaxies, they will be able to Loot all the developed resources, and then continue to drive the spaceship around"
Lu Xuan suddenly said: "Like nomads?"
"Indeed, they are like nomads in the starry sky, but their destructive power is much more powerful than nomads. Wherever they go, they extract metals from the cores of planets and extract metallic hydrogen and deuterium from gaseous planets. Tritium, if they have the technological power to extract star resources, I think they will never be lenient. The planets they plunder will become planets full of harmful waste. At the same time, because the star core is extracted, the volume will collapse several times!"
"You said that the diameter of the earth used to be twice as large as it is now. Is this because they extracted resources from the earth?"
The old dragon man was stunned: "Of course not, they did not attack the earth. In fact, their technology is weaker than ours. Although we paid a huge price, we still defeated them. They did not even have the strength to break through the solar system's defense circle. , and as an interstellar nomad, the Shell tribe does not have to fight head-on with a nation like us who are dedicated to managing the planet, so we signed a peace treaty!"
"But decades after they left, the earth was hit, and a neutron degenerate matter the size of a fist was sent to the earth!"
"Neutron degenerate matter?" Lu Xuan couldn't help but be surprised. This kind of material is actually the neutron star material mentioned before. From a microscopic perspective, neutron degenerate matter is caused by extremely high external pressure, and Pauli cannot The compatibility principle prohibits different constituent particles from occupying the same quantum state. Therefore, reducing the volume will force the particles to enter a high-energy state, thus generating huge degeneracy pressure. Because the constituent particles are different, electron degenerate matter and neutron degenerate matter are also produced. Merged matter corresponds to white dwarfs and neutron stars respectively. As for what matter black holes are, humans still don¡¯t know.
In fact, the metallic hydrogen that Lu Xuan and the others have been pursuing is also a degenerate substance.
From a macro perspective, a neutron star is an object between an ordinary material object and a black hole. It is very dense, so large that ordinary humans cannot even imagine it. One cubic centimeter of volume contains hundreds of millions of tons of matter. Due to its extremely high density For it, any material is as easy as an iron anchor breaking through water, so the planet will be quickly perforated. This material will penetrate from the other side of the planet, and will be sucked back due to the gravity of the planet. After penetrating the planet again, the planet will become riddled with holes and will disintegrate soon.
"If that's the case, the earth no longer exists?"
The old dragon sighed: "I said, our technological strength is actually stronger than theirs. Since they can use neutron degenerate matter as weapons, of course we have ways to deal with it!"
"The simplest method is to use a force field controller to isolate the force field it emits. In the end, we controlled this piece of material. Although the earth was damaged, with our technological strength, there were no casualties. In order to show our strong technological strength, we even built a museum for this piece of neutron degenerate matter. After the war, we have matured a lot. Since the other party does not keep its promise and attacks us without authorization, of course we will not sit still and wait for death. , so?We planned to fight back, but then disaster struck before we had time to fight back! "
"The so-called disaster is very simple. Eight of the ten children born that year were unawakened!"
"The unawakened? What is that concept?" Lu Xuan asked curiously.
"Our race is different from yours. Except for those born with stunted development, almost all of you can gain wisdom through enlightenment. But we are different. Our genes are extremely stable, and our genes are born with codes for storing knowledge. We The knowledge of the previous generation can be passed directly to the next generation through inheritance, and theoretically it is impossible for such 'unawakened people' to appear!"
The old dragon man touched the little dragon man's head and said: "Just like this child, he has no intelligence at all. Except for his better brain, he is no different from those creatures at all, and yet all our descendants have this problem. A state of 'no intelligence', and this trend has also begun to extend to our ordinary members. The wisdom of ordinary members has also faded, and our civilization has begun to die. During this period, we have exhausted all means to find out The root cause of this incident!¡±
There was a look of ridicule on the old dragon man's face: "During those crazy days, some people even proposed the idea of ??purifying the bloodline, killing those members who gave birth to 'unawakened ones' and whose wisdom has deteriorated, to ensure the survival of the race. Continuation, the sad thing is that the madman actually succeeded, he kidnapped the entire race, don't they understand that our race belongs to the triple helix gene, and nothing will change for tens of millions of years!"
"Furthermore, his high-pressure cleaning policy was not successful. Instead, it caused a sharp decline in the number of our ethnic group. Our population, which originally took millions of years to reach 30 million, was reduced to less than 100 in just two years. Thousands of people, that bastard almost destroyed the entire race. Not only the population, but even the technology industry retreated for decades. In the end, no way was found to save our race. Finally, one of us came up with the concept of 'spirit'! "
"Spirit?" Lu Xuan's heart moved. The old dragon man, like everyone else, chose to use the word "spirit" to express a concept. Could it be the same thing?
"All things have animism. This is originally the concept of primitive religion, but it is not necessarily wrong. Intelligent life often makes correct decisions under instinctive choices. Now you humans have also proposed the concept of 'Gaia consciousness'. However, in his concept, Gaia¡¯s consciousness is not composed of all life and material cycles, but is the physician possessed by the earth itself. Based on this, that person proposed the ¡®feeding theory¡¯!¡±
"The Earth is a magical place. It is a small planet but has a strong magnetic field, which can isolate harmful rays from the outside world. The movement of magma releases a large amount of gas, forming a dense atmosphere. The right distance from the sun gives it a suitable temperature. , this is simply the cradle prepared for life. If all of this is controlled by a consciousness, then can this phenomenon be regarded as this consciousness nourishing life? Then what is its purpose next?"
"It's easy to explain here. If we assume that an energy that can constitute wisdom can be named 'spiritual energy', and living things, especially intelligent creatures, can possess and develop this spiritual energy, then' Its purpose is very simple, the purpose of raising intelligent creatures should be this kind of 'spiritual energy'!"
"The earth has suffered a huge blow from the neutron star material, and may need more spiritual energy to remedy it. Our descendants will lose their wisdom precisely because they are deprived of spiritual energy. So in the end, based on this theory, we divided into two groups. One group built a long-distance spaceship, just like those interstellar nomads, deciding on the principle galaxy and abandoning their homeland. However, our group chose to build a sanctuary on the earth, the "last homeland". Through our research on "spirit" and Understand, we have used our technology to isolate external influences, which is the place you see! But obviously we are wrong. A hundred years have passed since the birth of this little guy, but he is still confused. In fact, they may not be right. , voyage"
Lu Xuan frowned and said, "Indeed, according to what you said, if the voyage is really the way out, the Shell people you meet may not be of that level!"
The old dragon man smiled slightly and said: "You are really quick-thinking. If the theory of 'spirit' is correct, then after leaving the planet, without the absorption of the planet, there will be a huge explosion of spiritual energy, and a large number of race members with spiritual energy will It will appear, and the entire racial civilization should have a leap-forward development!"
"But the reality is obviously not like this. After leaving the planet, their evolution became slower and even retreated. The relationship between the planet spirit and intelligent life may not be a feeding relationship, but a symbiotic relationship, just like a crocodile. And Yan Chidori!¡±
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