Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Understandable.”

Xie Ann nodded, the little girl with the red apple face in the past, a little fat, shy but insistent, has now become a peaceful, well-rounded, mature and elegant middle-aged woman, the only thing that remains unchanged is the trust and worship of Li Yao deep in her eyes, “This is the problem faced by many long-term hibernators, it seems that the master, like the master and sister, is slowly becoming a 'leap tribe'. ”

“The Jumpers? ”

Li Yao looked at Dingbell slightly, "What is that? ”

“This is an entirely new concept introduced by senior hibernators, who have been conducting research in this area since the transfer of the ‘Tombstone Plan' for the preservation of civilization to Professor Mo Xuan. Long-term hibernation, which was originally only a means to a certain end, is regarded as an end in itself. ”

Ding Zheng explained, "I, like you, have been hibernating most of the last 100 years, and my sobriety will not exceed 20 years. Every time I return to the Federation, there is a feeling that the species are human.

“The first time I missed the wedding of this wizard and Cheyenne Ann; the second time I missed the birth and growth of their children… and there were many, many things, all like glittering gold sand, flying away from my fingers, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch them.

“That feeling, like you said, disappeared for decades, and our hibernators and normal people lived in two different time dimensions, creating a strange feeling of alienation, as if we had not contributed much to the construction of the new Federation, but a wonderful and bright home had come to us, and we just had to enjoy its achievements. ”

“How can that be? ”

Xie 'an hastily said, “Master and Sister have discovered three thousand world plus the exiled government of the former Star and Sea Republic. They have also put up Khan Ma Kung Fu to defeat the Imperial Expeditionary Army. What do you mean no contribution! ”

“I know.”

Ding Zheng smiled and said, “It's not my modesty, it's just a weird feeling, you" crawlers "who haven't had a long hibernation are hard to understand.

“In fact, this time I'm running for President of the Federation, while trying to reconcile the new four and three worlds and maintain as much balance as possible between our side and the Golden Moon, the more important reason is my selfishness - I'd love to get myself and the new Federation closer together in this way and be able to reintegrate into the present Federation, never knowing how to say 'leapfrog' and return to the ordinary ‘crawlers’. ”

Li Yao heard Ding Zheng's words contained a very rare melancholy note, which became stranger and stranger: “What is it, the Flying and the Crawling? ”

"After a long hibernation, I've been alone in the stars for hundreds of years. When I returned to the Federation, I felt like I was out of touch with the world around me, so I went to talk to my elders who were also long-term hibernates. He was doing research on this, telling me a lot, and sending me several notes.

“Although Senior Shou said that the upper and lower quarters said that the universe is a continuous integration of time and space, in this three-dimensional universe in which we live, time and space were originally continuous, linear, stable, time passes every second, and every second has the same significance, and the civilization that lives in such a continuous time and space, for example, is now a human civilization, which is a tortoise that slowly crawls on the time avenue, so it is called the 'crawler'.

“But in fact, hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Pankos, the Girls, or today's human civilization have discovered ways to transcend spatial continuity, which is the jump of the star sea.

“Using wormholes, with four-dimensional space, we can transcend the continuity of three-dimensional space, from which we reach a point beyond a million light-years in an instant.

“Since the continuity of space can be transcended, can the continuity of time be transcended?

“In a way, of course, that's human hibernation technology.

“Until hibernation technology has been invented and matured, the intelligent life system that lives in our universe is all ‘crawlers’, whether beggars or emperors, ordinary people or practitioners, a second is a second, a minute is a minute, at best by stimulating brain nerves, simulating in the virtual world the illusion of slowing the passage of time, but that is fake, the rate of time flow in the real world, or the same.

“But not for us hibernators.

“Even when this technology has just been invented, it's a very humble and inefficient Federation of Stars and Glows, where hiberners like you and me can sleep for hundreds of years in one breath, and we face two totally different worlds before we go to sleep and after we open our eyes again.

“And what about civilizations with more advanced hibernation techniques, like the Pankos?

“Li Yao, remember the Pangu tribe you met in Kunlun ruins, but you slept for hundreds of thousands of years!

“Of course, you just woke him up and killed him before he could face a completely strange world.

“But let go of your imagination and replace this Pangu perspective, assuming that 'you’ have not been slaughtered, how on earth are you going to face a completely different world after hundreds of thousands of years, face the ‘descendants’ who jump and scream alive at your feet, face the stars, there is no such loneliness? ”

Yiu Li caught up in a deep thought.

"Though seniors believe that with the development of hibernation technology, the harm and loss to hibernators is decreasing and more and more hibernates appear, any civilization that masters this technology will sooner or later be divided into two parts, a ‘crawler' composed of non-hibernates, and a 'leapfrog' composed of hibernates.

“The world of the crawlers is continuous, stable and linear, burning life with every drop of every minute and second, building homes and civilizations, enjoying stable loved ones, friends, happiness and all kinds of emotions.

“But for those hibernating over decades and centuries of light, time is discontinuous, non-linear, fragmented, it is like a huge, shaky river, the river water flow extremely slowly, but the river surface reveals some stones, the hibernates were originally fish in the river, but they jumped out of the water, they grew wings, they can use their wings and bouncing force to move forward fast, see far ahead in the river water, a whole new world, originally they throw behind, everything that seems to be frozen ‘river water’ is gradually stripping away its original meaning.

“As you also said, it's just a kung fu with eyes closed, and the Starlight Federation has changed dramatically. Your loved ones and friends have had different encounters and growth, and some have died, many more have been born, and enjoy their slow, even and stable joy and sorrow.

“It's only a hundred years, what if you hibernate again, another 300, 500 years?

“Do old ideals, goals, moral systems, worldviews, life values and values mean anything to you when you wake up again after 500 years? ”

Li Yao mute silently, a picture emerged in his mind that cannot be described with a pen ink, extremely brilliant and miserable, while creating a chilly and chestnut feeling, he actually hid some... Expect?

Ding Zheng said seriously: “Although seniors thought that when some people mastered the ability to jump forward over time, their understanding of value, morality, and even 'life' itself would be completely different from others. That is like slow-climbing turtles on the ground, and birds in the sky that are electrically controlled, it is impossible to understand each other. The fungus is unclear, the summer worm is unspeakable. This is not who is more advanced. The question of who is lower is just two different life choices. One is' continuous life, the crawlers’, and one is' discontinuous life, the leaping tribe '. I'm afraid the difference between them is much greater than the difference between the repairer and the fairy. ”

Li Yaoxin thought electrically and had to admit that the old man who had lived a thousand years of happiness said a little bit of truth.

Think of it as funny, this old guy's body is clearly a green hairy old turtle, but he prefers to call others “crawlers” and call himself “leaps”. Is that kind of stinking shameless?

“By the way, how come you haven't seen old age? ”

"Didn't he say he was going to be a relative of all the major events in the Federation," said Li Yao, "big news like the Empire Strike Back," and he didn't come out to record it? ”

“The realm of old age has risen again. ”

Ding Zheng said, "He has completely entered the realm of the 'leaping tribe'. Perhaps time has passed slowly in the red and dusty world. There is nothing worth pursuing and valuing anymore. I have not seen him in a long time. Perhaps he has plunged into an unknown corner again, slowly 'leaping’ to the next millennium.

“The last time we met, he was still saying that the individual 'leaping tribe' had become so subtle, what would it look like if an entire civilization chose to actively hibernate itself, thaw it every millennium or 10,000 years, continuously leap forward in the long river of time, and evolve into a 'time-breaker civilization'? He wanted to look for such a nonlinear civilization —— in his own way.

“As for us, we have just experienced hibernation for up to a hundred years, it is not really a ‘flying tribe’, at most it is between the incomplete form of the crawling tribe and the flying tribe, old ideas slowly dissolve, new ideas have not yet formed, naturally we will encounter various types of maladaptation, although seniors call such defilements‘ timeless disorders’, ‘disorders brought about by transcending the timeline’. ”