Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Then go on. ”

It said, "Yesterday we heard the story of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves in One Thousand and One Nights, and we heard Alibaba's brother, Gossimo, enter the cave to carry treasure because of greed, but forget the spell of opening the cave door, being found and killed by bandits —— what happens next? ”

Actually, it's been heard a lot of times.

But Pepe was still tired of saying it, and it listened with great interest.

When Alibaba received news of her brother's death, it strangled Alibaba; when the bandits found out that someone had stolen the body of Gossima, Shundo, and found Alibaba's home, they hung their hearts with Pepe; and when the wise maid Marquina finally came up with a way to wipe out the Forty Thieves, she took a sigh of relief with Pepe for the Alibaba family.

Deep in its folds of thought, it grows countless pearl-like bumps, which are its nerve synapses.

When it is tired, these “pearls" emit dim yellow light, and when it is angry, these “pearls" emit bright red light, and when it roams the stars and feels bored, these “pearls" emit dark blue light, and when it is very rare and nervous, these “pearls” alternate to emit short, tingling seven-color light.

As for now, the brilliant light of colour is flowing slowly like a daze, turning the deep fold of thought into a beautiful lake, representing its deep immersion in the story of a girl, two very different mindsets, or two different souls, gently responding and resonating deeply.

“Thus, Alibaba told his children and grandchildren the secrets of the treasure trove in the mountains that they had inherited for generations and continued to enjoy the endless wealth of the mountains, becoming the richest family in the city and living happily ever after. ”

Peppe puts two pink, lotus-looking feet in his flesh-eyed brainwaves, as if he was really playing with the crystal clear lake, "Okay, the story of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves is over. Do you still want to hear a new story, Shannua? ”

In the past, it was always satisfying to hear Peppe tell three or five stories in one breath.

But today, somehow, it seems like a strange lightning bolt has swept through its vast and swollen neural network, giving it a little new, very strange thought.

“No.”

It said, "I don't want to hear new stories, I want to… ask some questions. ”

“Problem?”

Pepe was slight, and Shannua rarely asked her questions, let alone with such a serious tone, "What do you want to know, Shannua? ”

“I still don't understand much about Alibaba and the Forty Thieves. ”

It said, "Why would a bandit's boss hide so much treasure instead of sharing it with his peers - you said that treasure is important to your race in exchange for everything that makes you feel happier, so why hide happiness instead of sharing it with everyone? ”

“This…”

Peppe blinked her eyes and her little face floated with embarrassment and confusion.

“Also, if Alibaba wants to share happiness, why not just ask the bandit's boss? ”

It also asked, "Anyway, the bandit's boss has so much treasure, and then Alibaba's children and grandchildren can't use it for centuries, so at first Alibaba asked the bandit's boss if he wanted it, there was no reason for the bandit's boss to refuse, right? ”

Pepe's lips curled up, his nose tipped up, his eyebrows wrinkled and his little face blushed.

“Marquina, the wise maid, is not the leader of the bandits, why deceive the bandits hidden in the crocodile? ”

And it goes on to say, "In other stories, you've told me that deception is wrong and that it's wrong to hurt each other, but here, Marquina first deceived the bandits, and then killed them all with hot, hot oil —— unlike my race, when you die, all memories and heirlooms disappear and are completely extinguished. Why does Marquina seem to be praised for doing such a cruel thing? ”

“That's because the bandits want to kill the Alibabas, including the maid Marquina! ”

Pepe finally found an answer to the question, “This is a plot. How can it be cruel for a good man to kill a bad man? ”

"Conspiracy? ”

It thinks, "Is that one carbon-based intelligent life, to kill another carbon-based intelligent life, to find ways to implement information blocking, information interference and information misleading? But how do we know which carbon-based intelligent life is good and which is bad? Okay. Do we have to kill the bad guys? ”

Pepe can't say it again.

The girl raised her mumps for a while and looked at the confused green light of the other side's synapses and could only surrender with her hands raised: “I don't know, Shannua, these stories were written a long time ago by my ancestors on Earth, all about what they were doing when they were just getting out of obscurity. I don't understand many concepts, and I don't understand why they were doing this... cheating on each other, hurting each other, taking possession of things they didn't need at all.

“Perhaps, at that time, they were not really ‘intelligent lives', but a bunch of retarded fools who often did something unexplainable. ”

“Perhaps, you races are a bit silly, and a lot of things can't be explained. ”

And it said, "For example, why are you calling me the Void Hunter?" I clearly never hunted —— if ‘hunting' is one carbon-based life that hunts another at all costs, then my race doesn't have the concept of 'hunting' at all, and you should know that we eat only the planet, directly crushing, devouring crystals and minerals, and don't need to eat other carbon-based lives. ”

“I don't know, it was a long time ago, when our ancestors had just escaped from their destroyed homes and were frightened by the vast universe, and you looked so different from us. ”

Peppe said, "Probably my ancestors feared that your mother would hurt them, like a hunter catching a prey, so why don't you call yourselves" empty hunters "? ”

“Strange, 'cause we look different, so be scared? ”

It's been thinking for a long time, and it's still incomprehensible, "But Alibaba and the Forty Thieves are all your people, but they have to watch out for each other, cheat on each other, hurt each other —— you said that your ancestors had never seen any alien stars before, and their biggest enemy was themselves, so why should they be afraid of an alien star? ”