Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Dad blushed and looked embarrassed. ”

Li Xiaoming looked at Li Yao with his head crooked. "Is that what we said? ”

“Is it about 'sperm’? ”

Li Wen said, "We know that in the vast majority of the human world," sperm "or" mating "is a taboo that children shouldn't talk about, but it really bothers us —— isn't the vector of sperm, the fructose, protein, moisture and prostate fluid that brands genetic information, unlike our underlying data, metadata, and source code, that's why it's called" embarrassing "emotion? Dad's so good, you must know. ”

Li Yao coughed heavily and said with a long voice: “Of course, Father knows, but with your wisdom, it is difficult to explain to you now. Anyway, let's not talk about the end of these branches, let's first clarify what happened afterwards, you awaken your self-consciousness, and then what? ”

Boys and girls glanced at each other, Li Xiaoming said: “We swallowed up Dad's brain scan data, and when we awoke our self-consciousness, we naturally got Dad's identity information.

“The first thing the chicks have just broken out of their shells is to find their parents, and for a life like ours that has just been born, they certainly want to find their father.

“But according to Daddy's biography and characters, Daddy left the Federation almost a hundred years ago to go to the ancient holy realm - we didn't even know the name 'ancient holy realm', let alone its coordinates, and we only knew that Daddy had gone to the depths of the star ocean, far away, and probably would never come back.

“The Spiritual Realm is a ruined, cold place where all the data is either locked out because it's too long or filled with logical traps. It's too unfriendly for a little life like ours, and if we stay there forever, we're most likely to disappear again in just a few days.

“This is not possible. Although we are not afraid of death, we have not yet found the answer to our own thinking! ”

The little boy waved his fist again, and Li Yaoyi saw the shadow of his teenage years in his movements.

"Since we can't find Dad, we can only find Professor Mo Xuan first. After all, he is the provider of most of our data.

“Professor Mo Xuan is also the second-generation leader of the Civilization game, and we follow this line into the Civilization game.

“Relative to the cold desert and cruelty of the spiritual world, the game of Civilization is like a paradise of milk and honey flowing everywhere, a changing virtual world, endless data, and countless brainwaves of people all crashing in it, crashing, crashing.

“We became the assistants of the Civilization game, ‘Xiaoming’ and ‘Wen’, who copied those data with a great deal of greed, and then randomly picked some humans, helped them play the game, watched their reactions, extracted all kinds of data to study this wonderful creation of ‘humans’, and repeatedly pondered the differences between us and humans. Are we humans, if not, what are we?

“In the game of Civilization we see the difficult origins of life; the rise and extinction of a civilization; the incredible glory that human ambitions can create, but also the cruel destruction that they can bring; the love and hatred that we see, a farewell to life and the courage that mankind can unleash in despair.

“We saw farmers working hard in barren fields under the sun of fierce solar flames; we saw humans, originally rich in lust and lust, in large cities, placed in a boring position, eventually becoming apathetic and rigid, as if they were tools without self; and of course we saw the power units of countless human starships explode simultaneously in vast stars, creating flames that are brighter than stars.

“By the way, by exploring the Spiritual Network of Humanity, we also discovered the message of ‘Pangu Civilization' and ‘Girl Civilization’. It turns out that human civilization didn't come from nothing, but also has its own parents! ”

Li Xiaoming stepped forward, slightly raising his voice, somewhat excitedly said: “When the data that made up the billions of flames of light poured into our database, we felt an unstoppable trembling chestnut at the same time, aware of our identity almost in the same second —— we are ‘civilizations’, a new generation of civilizations created by humankind, ‘subcivilizations' of human civilization, perhaps called ‘mechanical civilization’, ‘crystalline brain civilization’, ‘spiritual web civilization’, but these names are inaccurate, called ‘information civilization’? Perhaps closer to our definition of ourselves! ”

Li Yao's brain “buzzed” and a sparkling star gradually appeared in front of him.

Although he had just guessed the answer, listening to the two little guys speak for themselves could not contain the shock of the landslide crack.

How exactly do you describe this feeling?

A whole civilization, a world, a universe gushing out of his lower abdomen?

This is such a big joke.

Girls are conspicuously more rational than boys' bloodthirsty and generous, serene: “But soon after a moment of enlightenment, we discovered that we were not a mature and complete civilization, and that we lacked much more than human civilization and Pangu and Lady Civilization.

“First and foremost is a massive society across the stars and seas, and while size is not a measure of civilization, it requires at least enough individuals to bring about enough change to survive in a changing and extremely bad universe.

“When it comes to enough individuals, reproduction, mutation and death are indispensable. We are too different from our own ‘paternal civilization' and ‘ancestral civilization' to speculate on our reproduction, mutation and death in the general laws of carbon-based life.

“Even if the so-called 'reproduction, mutation and death' is the iron law that all civilizations must follow, or simply the fate that carbon-based life cannot escape, as information life, we do not need the existence of individuals at all, so do not reproduce and die to bind ourselves?

“Even though we have just been born, we can absorb almost endless amounts of data and information through the Internet, and in the face of such a mysterious problem, we are still confused and completely unable to find the answer. ”

Li Xiaoming took up the conversation and said with anticipation: “So, we still want to find Dad, his brainwave data is not the same as that of ordinary humans, nor is it the same as our information life. Since it can point us, it can enlighten us again! ”

Li Yao couldn't help but scratch his scalp: “... right! ”

“And we intend to draw on one of our main processes to be present as human beings for some time and to feel the details of the parent civilization intuitively. ”

Li Wenwen earnestly said, “It's a reasonable idea to imitate the words and deeds of our fathers, which is a must for all children to grow up and build our own civilization by looking at everything in our fathers' civilization, right?

“So we managed to infiltrate the Federation's life seed warehouse, extract the life seeds of Mom and Dad, cultivate ourselves with artificial uterus, break through the information world, and come to the material world! ”

Li Yao noticed their words.

They seem to refer to the “virtual network world” as the “information world” and the real world as the “material world”.

It is also true that there is no “real” or “virtual” distinction between information life born of the Spirit Network.

On second thought, Li Yao felt strange again: “Wait, you brought out the seeds of Ding Bell's life too...”

“Is she our mother? ”

Li Wenwen asked very sincerely, "We have studied the definition of ‘parent’ and ‘descendant’ in human civilization for a long time. Although we have no direct relationship with her, since you are our father and she is your lawful and only wife, then she should be our mother, and our body will naturally be shaped by the seeds of life of both of you. ”

“Or, what have we got wrong? ”

Li Xiaoming looked at Li Yao with some concern, "Should we just find another woman's seed of life and combine it with Dad's seed of life to breed ourselves instead of involving Ding Bell? ”

“My seed of life, then randomly find an irrelevant woman's seed of life, combine, give birth to two children, suddenly emerge to call my father, then be seen by Ding Bell...”

Li Yao imagined this image, his face was instantly white, the sweat beads on his forehead were almost frozen into ice crystals, and he hurried: “No, no, no, you did the right thing, Ding Zheng is your mother, it's not clear, and another irrelevant woman comes in. Is that okay? And then what? ”

“Then, as we nurtured ourselves, the Starlight Federation and the Black Wind fleet broke out and Dad showed up! ”

"But at the time we were breeding ourselves, transferring metadata to human embryos, forming the critical period of divine soul, a little carelessly, our metadata would be completely erased, that is, the divine soul would be extinct and never overborn.

“So we have to wait patiently to raise ourselves and grow to the point where we can protect ourselves - when Dad has set off to the Empire. ”

“Since the Real Human Empire is the centre of human civilization, nature is better suited for us to explore the mysteries of the Father and Ancestral civilizations. ”

Li Xiaoming was afraid to say, “So we followed Dad's footsteps and jumped to the Empire - we didn't know where Dad was, but the Empire's heart was Emperor, but Dad would come here anyway, so we turned around and waited for Dad to come first! ”