Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Choi Lingfeng was silent and his lips were as strong as the gates of the starship facing the vacuum of the universe.

Tang Dingyuan glanced at Li Yao, his eyes were more harsh, and his anger slowly saved up: “First the Red Lotus Project, and now there is a" rebirth plan ". How many more things on this ship do I not know? ”

“A lot.”

Choi Lingfeng's Phantom, “You are the captain of the Firefly. The captain must be fearless and brave enough to ride the wind! The ignorant are fearless. You don't need to know everything. ”

“I want to know. ”

Don Dingyuan stared at Choi Lingfeng's eyes, one by one, calmly but firmly said, “If you don't, let Ding Zhengyang speak. ”

Choi Lingfeng's lips - the gate that sealed countless secrets - trembled slightly for half a day and finally said: “In the past millennium, we have faced countless difficult and dangerous conditions, and contingency plans have been formulated for all situations. The ‘rebirth plan' is the contingency plan for the most serious, dangerous and deadly 'special crisis' situations. ”

Tang Ding said slightly: “I have never heard of ‘extraordinary crisis situations', ‘first level crisis situations' are already at the highest level. ”

Choi Lingfeng laughed: “No, the first level is not the highest. The first level is the first level. The so-called 'extraordinary crisis' refers to one fifth of the under-resourcing standards for subsistence and flight on board. The circulatory system and artificial greenhouses have been severely damaged. Follow-up resources will not rise to one half of the standards within 50 years, and will even continue to decline. This leads to the collapse of our civilization within 50 years and its total extinction within a hundred years. Oh, this is still an ideal state. In fact, because of human survival instincts and all kinds of madness before death, once everyone knows that we will perish within 50 to 100 years, it will not take this long, up to five years, and the social order will completely collapse. Within 10 years, the flames of civilization on board like fireflies will be completely extinguished.

Once the Speaker is aware of this situation, he or she has the authority and must initiate a 'regeneration plan' to reduce the population on board quickly, efficiently and steadily until a balance is struck between a sustainable recovery of population and resources.

Tang Dingyuan's voice began to tremble: “Why, how do you ‘reduce the population’? ”

Choi Lingfengdao: "Do you know the meteorite rains that struck the Firefly 728 years ago? The meteorite rain itself is not severe, it just breaks through the shell of our outer starship, but it carries a strange virus inside the meteorite, creating a major plague inside the Firefly, which reduces our population by 20 per cent. ”

“Of course, that was almost the toughest, darkest period of the Firefly. ”

Don must have wondered, “But wasn't the plague completely eradicated by us? ”

“Yes, the plague was eradicated, but the virus was not completely destroyed. ”

Choi Lingfeng laughed very strangely, “This is a very perfect virus, many mutations, spread through the air and fast, the symptoms are not obvious, the latency period is uncertain, once the attack is extremely deadly, and will automatically look for the strongest host priority infection, the more powerful the spirit, the faster the mutation and erosion, this can offset the host's efforts to adopt psychic self-treatment, in other words, it is a 'non-discriminatory' virus, neither ordinary people nor practitioners can escape its apparatus, the mortality rate is almost the same.

Our virologists studied it in depth in the lab, initially with the idea of refining a viral weapon to fight the empire, but later discovered that it had a fatal weakness that could easily be prevented and treated by a synthetic drug whose materials were produced in thousands of different worlds, and that synthetic methods were not too complicated.

In other words, even if viral weapons were truly refined, it would be difficult to strike the Empire seriously, and it would not be of much military significance to ravage one or two of their starships for a while at most.

But this special effect… is hard to refine aboard our ships.

So hundreds of years ago, experts began to refine viral weapons for a new purpose, and the end result was very satisfactory: it spread fast, it concealed symptoms, it was lethal, and it targeted the practitioners and ordinary people, and once it spread inside a sealed starship through an air circulation system, it could quietly and instantaneously reduce a large population, and most importantly, it possessed what we call a ‘half-life' characteristic that, as long as it spreads for generations, would automatically extinguish and not continue to spread.

This half-life is controllable and can be long or short.

In other words, it is a 'precise strike' viral weapon that, by controlling the length of the half-life and knowing the total number of people available for infection, can calculate beforehand how many people it can kill and, once the number of deaths has reached the target, it will collapse and extinguish with no after-effects.

The virus, known as the ‘Born Again Virus', is the key to the rebirth plan and may bring about the rebirth of the endangered Firefly. ”

Tang Dingyuan couldn't believe his ears. He stared at Choi Lingfeng for a long time: “You guys, you have secretly studied a virus weapon, not to fight the enemy, but to kill your own people, your own compatriots, those who you swore to protect! What difference does it make between you and a fairy fixer? ”

“Yes.”

Choi Lingfeng calmly said, “Assuming you are a fairy fixer, you are responsible for implementing the Rebirth Plan. Think about it. What exactly will you do? Of course, isolate the chamber where ordinary people, the lowly 'original' lives, from the chamber where immortals, the 'real people', live, and simply place the virus in the original's chamber; or let all immortals take special effects beforehand; even at the refining stage of the virus weapon, find a way to weaken its aggression against the Awakening Root, so that it infects only ordinary people, not the Immortals, right?

After all, in the eyes of fairy repairers, ordinary people are the garbage population, it is useless and cumbersome. Since the resources are insufficient, reducing the number of garbage population is a natural thing.

But that's not how we do it, and I can decrypt all the programs of the Rebirth Plan from you, and we don't isolate all of them or who's going to take them beforehand, and even, for insurance purposes, our forefathers have long since destroyed all the drugs and all the materials that can be refined.

Once I decide to drop the virus, it spreads instantaneously across the Firefly, randomly killing the prey it sees, and no one is immune, whether it's the fixer or the average person, even myself, could be infected and eventually die.

You see, the ancestors who made this decision did not see themselves as‘ supermen ’who could decide the life and death of‘ mortals', whether they were practitioners or ordinary people, like everyone else, who obeyed the fate verdict, many would die, but many more would carry their baggage and move on in the dark universe.

It would be nice to say that the ancestors who drew up the Rebirth Plan were deluding themselves, but I think this is probably them… we are the biggest difference from the Immortals. ”

Don Ding's distant heartbeat and breathing became extremely difficult. The two rows of teeth bite so hard, it makes me think that even if a starship were placed in his mouth, it could be severely chewed by him: “No matter how you argue, I still can't accept it, absolutely not! ”

“So, Dingyuan, why don't you tell me what to do? ”

Choi Lingfeng sighed in his breath, “Assuming that now, as captain, you know very well that only 100 people on board have enough resources to barely survive, but we have 200 people, 200 mouths to feed and never fill your stomach, what would you do? ”

Tang Ding fell far into contemplation, mute silence, and his voice was much lower: “The cultivator, the cultivator should not do this, so...”

“If you think the practitioner should not be so dark. ”

Choi Lingfeng faintly said, “It's just because someone is blocking you, help you get rid of these dark, dirty and cruel things first, my captain. ”

In the cell, Ding Zhengyang made a “quack” laugh like a crow: “Captain, you know the truth about the Rebirth Plan, don't you? Tell me, is the guy who's going to make this plan a real fixer? No, I'm not the first fairy builder on the Firefly. There's already a fairy builder on this boat. It's already occupied by a fairy builder! ”

Choi Lingfeng cold-blooded: “Ding Zhengyang, we didn't implement the" rebirth plan "until the end. The Firefly survived. ”

“Yes, it did, but it's just because you're lucky enough not to have an 'extraordinary crisis'! ”

Ding Zhengyang laughed, “But luck will not always be so good. If we do not encounter the Imperial Claw Fleet or the Federation of Stars and Glows, the Firefly will continue to drift towards the depths of the stars and oceans, towards the rare unknown. As the starships age slowly, within hundreds of years, the 'Extraordinary Crisis’ will surely occur!

Don't argue with me. I'm the first mate. I know every screw on this boat.

In other words, within hundreds of years, even if the Empire hadn't caught the Firefly, the Firefly itself would have been swallowed up by darkness and turned into a tiny ‘civilization of fairies'!

You see, one day, we will all become fairy practitioners, I just... just one step ahead!

This is the theory of Lu Light Dust. The cultivator is only a 'special variation form' in a stable environment with sufficient resources, but in the dark universe, scarcity of resources and dramatic changes in the environment is the norm, so the cultivator is the general expression form of ‘Superman'! ”