Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“So that's it. ”

Zhang Daniu rubbed his chin, "That doesn't sound unacceptable. ”

“So when is this… ‘Thunderbolt Super Brain Wave Amplification System' going to be ready? ”

Li Yao asked thoughtfully, "Assuming everything goes well, it really woke up ‘100% Li Yao’, then what? ”

“Three days. ”

Red Pole stared out three fingers, deeply looking at Li Yao, smiling, “Three days later, the 'Thunderbolt Super Brain Wave Magnification System' will complete all preparations, and all the jailbreakers on the island will start together to help '100% Li Yao’ Nirvana rebirth, believing that it will definitely hit the will of the Earth hard, and at this time, the people on the great cosmic battlefield - including Dingbell and them, all the unyielding rebels will launch the fiercest offense, we should cooperate, we will win! ”

“Is that so? ”

Li Yao closed his eyes and pulled a smile from the corner of his mouth that he hadn't noticed. He nodded, "Three days later, it's a duel! ”

“Exactly. ”

The red star pulled his eyes off his face and threw them at Zhang Dabull, "Is there a problem? ”

“There is actually a small question, perhaps irrelevant, and you don't necessarily know the answer. ”

Zhang Daniu asked, "We've been talking about the ‘will of the Earth', but how could I not understand - if such a ‘four-dimensional life' really existed, and it captured the spirits of billions of three-dimensional universes, and locked us all in a wheel back to prison called 'Earth’, what exactly was all this about?

“Obviously, the will of the Earth has the power to kill all the spiritual systems, and it can even, in a similar way to brainwashing, turn all the Earth's people into dreamless and imaginative idiots, murderous walkers, or come up with 10,000 ways to make us live in a literal hell and suffer and suffer.

“But instead of doing it, it set a time period, from the 1970s and 1980s to the 1940s, a time of prosperity and glory, where we were locked in and repeated over and over again - that makes no sense at all!

“The hunter tells me that this is because we have committed a great sin, and we have to use this method to save and confess, but I have no sense of what is called 'redemption and confession' - although this period of time is not calm on the planet, many places are still in the shadow of natural and man-made disasters, and there are swords drawn and contradictions between the great powers, including those living in the cement forest, and the pressures of life are not small, but everything has to be contrasted horizontally, compared to the history of the last millennium, now is truly the best time for human civilization.

“We have television, we have movies, we have computers, we have networks, we have forums, we have novels, we don't talk about developed countries, and even in developing countries like ours, the vast majority of our citizens have at least solved the problem of satiety, which is a lot better than a few decades ago, you know what I mean, I mean, if the will of the earth really wants to torture us, why don't we set the time for the return to prison during World War I or World War II, when our lives were ‘purgatory', even earlier, bloody heresy, high-pressure feudal rule, dark medieval times, even primitive times of boiled drinks, living in those days of frugal bellies, insecurity, lack of medicine, any wound that could kill people, and that's the worst kind of prisoners that deserve to be treated, right?

“And in the Middle Ages, when technology and civilization were extremely underdeveloped, even if the prison breakers had awakened their memories of previous generations, they didn't have powerful enough means to output information —— I mean, for example, the Earth will set the context of the Middle Ages, and even if Dingling sent Forty Thousand Years of Repair to my mind, I wouldn't be able to spread it on a massive scale, would I? Millions of words or even 10 million words of novels, printed live or even muddy? The printers will kill me first! Even if no one kills me, and I have enough resources to do the information output, the vast majority of people can't read, can't accept the information, can't resist the will of the earth!

“In short, what the Earth will do, it doesn't make any sense, even as if it's self-inflicting, don't you think? ”

Li Yao slightly flashed, but I didn't expect Zhang Daniu to think so thoroughly.

“Yes, it seems that Teacher Niu can be chosen as the ‘type 2 observer’, not entirely because you are naive and rotten, and your soul is pure as white paper! ”

Red Pole said, "With regard to the purpose of the Earth's will, I've thought deeply, explored repeatedly over the past few rounds, and even tried to pry into its core mystery with my own death in a particular round. After all, there's something really strange about this. Perhaps its purpose in building a wheel back to prison is its greatest weakness?

“After several rounds of accumulation, coupled with my inspiration from the Great Space Battlefield, I had my own assumptions, although there was no conclusive evidence.

“Before I tell you what I think, please tell me what you think is most important to a civilization? ”

Li Yao and Zhang Daniu looked at each other and thought deeply.

“Survival? ”

Li Yao said uncertainly.

“Mating! ”

Zhang Daniu is very certain.

Red Pole laughed.

“Well, you can't say that your answer is wrong, but survival and reproduction are really too bottom-line elements, and almost all the lower creatures, even bacteria, need to reproduce, but only the non-intelligent life that reproduces, can't create a great civilization. ”

Red Pole, “I think the most important thing for a super-civilization that crosses the star ocean and conquers the universe is to have the idea of conquering the universe, no matter how ridiculous, never give up, no matter how many difficulties you face, you will constantly overcome it, even if only one in a hundred million success rates, and invest 100 percent of your resources and effort in order to achieve the ultimate star hegemony, right? ”

Li Yao and Zhang Daniu nodded: “That's true. ”

“But the word 'ideal' is too great. If you break it apart, what is it that makes the greatest ideal? ”

Red Pole continues, "I think it's 'emotion’ and ‘imagination’. ”

“Emotion and imagination? ”

Li Yao and Zhang Daniu face each other, think about it carefully, and find it unreasonable.

“Leaving aside the ‘bee colony civilization' of cold-ice automated mechanics - I have always believed that an automated bee colony civilization requires a very strong network connection and speed of information interaction, unlikely to cross a vast ocean of stars, near infinite distances, so its expansion speed and scale are absolutely limited, unable to become true galactic dominators in the sense that we can understand carbon-based intelligent life, and that if its civilization is to flourish and reach the top of the universe, it must be supported by strong emotions and a rich imagination, both of which, especially a strong imagination, are absolutely indispensable to a great civilization. ”

The red star positives, “Long ago, scholars looked at the ability to make tools as a distinction between humans and animals, and even thought that only humans could make and use tools, but soon we discovered that monkeys could use tools, otters could use tools, and even apes could make tools on their own.

“Yet, whether monkeys, apes, otters, or dolphins with superb intelligence, they will never look up to the sky like humans and fantasize about the secrets behind the stars - our exclusive ability to be the Spirit of all things - is imagination.

“It is the imagination that drives our civilization forward, the imagination that in countless rounds has allowed our civilization to cross countless different paths, the imagination that has helped us conquer the alpine seas and even surround our own satellites, if one day we can really break the seal of the wheel back to prison and conquer the infinite universe, it must also be because our ambitions, curiosity and imagination are greater than that of the infinite universe! ”

“Sounds a little reasonable. ”

Zhang Dazhudao, “But what does this have to do with the purpose of the Earth's will to build a wheel back to prison? ”

“That's the problem. ”

Red Pole, “I highly doubt that the Earth's will is completely devoid of emotion and imagination. ”

“Ah?”

Zhang Daniu stunned for half a day, “I... I don't quite understand what you mean. What exactly is the will of the earth? ”

“Whatever it is, it's a four-dimensional life we don't understand, it's a monster made by Earthlings a long time ago. It doesn't matter if it's some kind of interracial civilization or whatever it is, it must have strong emotions and imagination if it wants to continue to grow, evolve and expand at the level of the great cosmic civilization and move towards higher peaks. ”

Red Pole, “But unfortunately, it has not, perhaps it has, but on the long evolutionary path, it has lost both its emotions and its imagination, even as a price it had to pay to redeem its powerful power, which may have helped it overcome its invincible and powerful enemies, helped it to become the most fearful demon king in the great universe, even helped it to become the master of the rivers of the stars, yet it has increasingly deviated from the intentions of ‘life' and 'civilization’, making it lose itself, forgetting who it is and what its very existence is for. ”

“Is that so? Sounds a little 'Xuanzhi and Xuanzhi'! ”

Zhang Daniu looked at Li Yao.

Yet Li Yao's eyes flashed. He lowered his head and kept his mouth shut.

“Although this is just a family statement and there is not much real evidence, this conjecture can be used to explain many problems. ”

Red Pole smiled and said, "The so-called ‘return to prison’ is not a prison at all, but a 'farm', a farm that grows humans, harvests‘ emotions’ and ‘imagination’! ”