Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“This is true, Volkswagen must have conducted many experiments, even the most extreme methods, to test the reliability of this‘ new energy 'in the virtual world. ”

Li Yaolan muttered, his expression was a little tranced, as if he was traveling outside the sky, and his thoughts were drifting somewhere.

“Ultimately, the resources of the virtual world are still limited. With limited resources, the virtual dwarves, like the people of the Pankorean universe, are trapped in mutilation or slavery and oppression. It is impossible to unite to explore the ways of heaven and resist my ‘high-dimensional creator'. ”

Ming said, "Limiting their resources, that is, the number of crystal brains, the supply of all kinds of energy —— the more developed and complex each virtual world is, the more crystal brains it's going to occupy, the more crystals it's going to eat, the more crystals I can't possibly use hundreds of super crystal brains and thousands of tons of crystals to keep a virtual world going, right? So, 'Dark Forest Theory', suspicion chains, inner convolutions, even in the virtual world, is founded.

“As long as human civilization migrates to the virtual world, Lu thought that it would be too childish and idealistic to have endless resources and live a happy and peaceful life forever.

“Anyway, that's the state of virtual space now, maintaining the right balance, maintaining the operation of thousands of virtual worlds that can constantly supply a lot of pure computational power to replenish our loss and that of our father, leaving us unconsciously with a high degree of refinement and cultivation.

“Of course, every virtual world, especially those that have just been created, always has a variety of data conflicts and logical traps. All kinds of abnormal data are presented in the form of 'demons and monsters', which can destabilize the operation of the virtual world. At this point, some 'data engineers’ or 'dreamers' are needed to go in and ‘kill drugs'. The four members of the Night Fork team, who know what they are doing, are doing this job.

“Daddy doesn't have to worry about them, they have very high privileges, and in these virtual worlds, like the demons who move all the way down the mountain, it's usually okay, besides, if something really happens, isn't there a ‘heavenly way' of me?

“Sometimes they descend into a virtual flood age, confronting the face of the Fallen Witch and the monsters caused by the data malfunction, to protect the newly born virtual little man from virus data.

“Sometimes they become the sword fairy stream of ancient repair times, go to hoe strength to help weaken, maintain the right path, try to make the ancient repair world survive the turmoil, and smoothly evolve to the next stage of civilization.

“We are also studying how to maintain the functioning of these virtual worlds without their destruction, as the entire database becomes increasingly chaotic and unpredictable and our means of intervention becomes less and less complex.

“Anyway, they're doing well now, even having fun.

“Dad, don't think it would be inappropriate for these ‘real people' to live in a ‘virtual world'. We've talked about this a long time ago. When the four of them have a thorough look at the truth about their past lives, they all believe that 'real and false’ cannot be separated simply by matter and data. Is it true that their past lives in the Alliance were 100% real? No, it's not even 10% real, is it? In contrast, they are now in control of their destiny, living in thousands of ways, changing endlessly, and no one will ever wash away their strange, exciting memories, even in an experience deep into the virtual world, constantly cultivating their spirits, and one day recovering their ability to communicate with the real world, is that not good enough?

“Originally, several of them, especially Major Chu Zhixiao, wanted to leave a message expressing appreciation to his father and even talking directly to him.

“However, Major Chu Zhixiao thought about it for a long time, still couldn't accept it. The legendary Pangu universe's leading vulture Li Yao once danced in a circle in front of her in the form of a spider chariot 'Red Pig’. She was a little embarrassed. I don't know how to face Dad, so let's not! ”

Li Yao was also a little embarrassed, scratching his head and laughing.

“Forget it, as long as they're safe and sound, I'm just concerned about one question. ”

Li Yaosheng said for a moment, "So, will the fact that we extract computational power from the virtual world have any negative impact on the virtual world and the virtual little people in it? ”

“What Daddy means is, do you think you're devouring the flesh and blood of a virtual little man, creating some kind of imaginary guilt? ”

Xiaoming shrugged, “I can't lie to you that it has no impact - computational power is limited, and when a virtual world continues to output a large amount of computational power to the outside world, its own development is bound to be somewhat limited.

“But on the other hand, it is we who have provided so many crystal brains and crystals, including the construction of an entire system, to sustain so many virtual worlds, even in terms of equivalence, that they should not make some insignificant contribution to us, to the 'Gao Di Universe’?

“If these virtual worlds are consumed and have no output, why waste so much resources to maintain their existence and rely solely on boring sympathy?

“In other words, which is more solid: a world based on compassion and on the principle of equivalence? It's obvious, it must be the latter!

“Anyway, I can assure my dad that so far I have not used the means to kill chickens to collect eggs and fish to 'harvest’ computational power, such as deliberately inciting a civil war in the virtual world, allowing virtual dwarves to surge out incredibly strong computational power in the flames of each other's bears. On the contrary, I am guarding these virtual worlds, and I hope that each virtual world will run steadily for longer so that the source and accumulation of more computational power can be exported, which is a ‘win-win', right? ”

“I know, I believe you, but...”

Li Yao thought about it for a long time and took a deep breath in the airway, “I still feel uncomfortable. ”

“I understand that for an intelligent life living in a low-dimensional universe, even if it is not invaded and controlled, knowing that it is created by a god in a high-dimensional universe, and that the god" has the power "to invade and control him, it is desperate and angry enough that there is a huge pair of eyes in the sky staring at his every move. ”

Xiaoming looked at Li Yiu, “It is as if we ourselves were bound by death and sealed sad fate. ”

Li Yao slightly said: “What are you trying to say? ”

“Didn't Dad already know, even implicitly, the fate of the virtual world, to guess our own fate? ”

Xiaoming's voice became dull and low, "In the ancient sacred world of floating carcasses, there was a saying of ‘one sand, one world’, that there was a thousand worlds hidden in every gravel, and this law of 'world in sand’ was like a projection of the real world.

“In our exploration of the frontiers of modern cosmology, there is also the term 'holographic theory' that there is a small universe in every human body through which we can explore the larger universe around us. After all, each of us is the son of a star, the son of a universe.

“So, does this virtual world before us, looking around the universe, also reflect some higher levels of truth?

“We created the virtual world, and who created the Pan Ancient universe of our lives?

“What is the purpose of our creation of a virtual world to harvest the computational power of the universe and to create the mysterious existence of the higher dimensions of the Pankorean universe, and what is the purpose of harvesting it from us?

“The more intelligent life's emotions feed on the extraterrestrial demons, the stronger the extraterrestrial demons, how is this similar to our computational power to harvest the virtual world? And the extraterrestrial celestial devil comes from outside the dark curtain. It can be said that it is the ripples of the flood tide that ravages the multiverse. What is it that feeds on?

“Dad, don't you think they look like the stars and the ocean when you see so many stars and dots around them and the glowing virtual world?

“Have you ever wondered, in fact, that every star in the Pankorean universe that we live in, and even the whole Pankorean universe, is a small cell, and countless cells like Pankorean conglomerate to form a giant beast called the 'pluralist universe', the so-called 'flood tide’, which is the digestive fluid of this giant beast, and so on, to extract something from us to sustain the existence of the giant beast? ”

Li Yao was silent.

Of course, he thought about it a long time before Ming opened his mouth.

It was precisely because he thought more and farther, which could not be described in ink, that he was caught dead and he was reluctant to think more.

The universe, how beautiful, how magnificent, how deep, what a terrible universe!

If there was some kind of high-dimensional life above the multiverse, what would these evil demons think of them? Is he, Li Yao, and his beloved loved ones and friends, just a virtual little man, a sort of arrangement of data?

“I hope your guess is true. ”

The black flame jumped for a long time, finally emerged a ray of gold, Li Yao's mouth pulled up a confident curve, said, “If that's the case, it's like we can't figure out everything about virtual dwarves, we can't 100% control them, and the existence of the Gao Di universe can't completely figure us out, there are always mistakes, there are always exceptions, there's always out of control, there's always impossible to become.

“For as long as there is one day, we can finally break through the dimensional barriers, penetrate the Gao Dimension universe and take control of our own destiny, right?

“Now that the three-legged trend of the Federation, Empire and Alliance has taken shape, the Pangu universe has gradually calmed down. It seems that it is time to set out to explore the secrets of the Hung Tide! ”