Chapter 341: Twilight's Second Test!
Ancient god-like life forms.
Yang Ming noticed the 'accurate' words used by the three teachers.
The familiar feeling of dizziness came again, but this time, although Yang Ming's body was unconscious, his brain was still active and his perception was still retained.
He saw a bizarre world. The distorted starry sky was rolled up and curled up like a tablecloth. It seemed as if a basic linear dimension had been taken away and it became flat and abstract, and finally turned into minimalist lines.
It seemed as if holes appeared in the space.
Yang Ming felt like he was standing in a huge, insubstantial piece of cheese. He kept turning his head to look around, but he could not feel his own entity.
This sensation lasted for more than twenty 'breaths'.
Breathing is the rhythm of lung expansion and contraction recorded by Yang Ming's brain, and is the intuitive perception of the fictional dimension of time by humans using their own bodies.
In a trance, Yang Ming saw a blue-white fireball, and as his vision quickly zoomed in, he saw the orange-yellow outer atmosphere of the star.
It is active and moving, illuminating the eight planets nearby by burning itself.
Yang Ming suddenly realized where this place was. He kept turning his head, trying to look for it, until a call came out and he subconsciously opened his eyes.
"boss……"
At the end of the sight is the gray sky of the mechanical twilight, and at the edge of the sight are those metal buildings that seem to be alive, and equilateral triangle elements are filled in every corner.
Yang Ming closed his eyes, trying to find the wonderful feeling just now, but all he saw before him was endless starlight.
"Did you see any hallucinations?"
"Um."
Lu's voice sounded again: "You have been in a coma for more than ten galactic days. Your brain has inadvertently received a huge amount of information that it cannot process, causing a certain degree of mental confusion."
"My thinking is confused," Yang Ming felt a little tired but there was nothing unusual about his body.
He sat up slowly and saw the examiner standing quietly in front of him.
The gravekeepers and the rangers were not here.
The examiner changed into a robe that was closer to the aesthetic of humans in the Milky Way. There were some simple lines drawn on the robe, and each plaid on the robe seemed to be an equilateral triangle.
The examiner's slender limbs and neck, which were on the edge of the 'uncanny valley effect', looked much more pleasing to the eye against the backdrop of this robe.
"Young Ancient God, I am impressed by the strength of your consciousness. It is extraordinary that an individual life has such a stable consciousness."
The examiner used a simulated voice to speak in standard galactic common language:
"During this short period of time, many interesting things have happened to you. If you are willing to share them with me, our next assessment will become very interesting.
"Also, I have to say this to you from the bottom of my heart: Thank you for coming back successfully."
Yang Ming nodded with a smile, and slowly stood up with Lu's help.
The law here seems to have substance.
To be precise, Yang Ming and Lu are here, in the same form of existence.
Yang Ming cleared up the messy thoughts in his mind and said with a smile: "Why do you want to thank me?"
"Because you're back.
"Your return means that the probability of success in this assessment has increased by a few percentage points. This means that I am one step closer to my ideal of proving my existence."
The examiner said in a gentle voice:
“You know, the second and third tests are the most difficult ones because many candidates are lost in their inflated desires.
“This is the drawback of our kind of assessment. The progress of civilization is tied to an individual, and we also require this individual to maintain a pure mind and noble character. This is almost impossible.
“The technology you take away here will allow you to easily gain great power, influence your surroundings, gain a sense of superiority, and activate more desires.
"You must be thankful that your pioneer mission has given you more fortitude when facing this assessment that will last a total of one hundred galactic years."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Stay focused? I really like this word."
"Come over here and take a walk. Do you still want to take this test?"
The examiner pointed to an inverted triangle building not far away.
Yang Ming shook his head honestly: "I'm sorry, in the past few years, I have been constantly running between several political systems in the Milky Way and have not had the opportunity to learn more knowledge."
"That's understandable," the examiner said with a smile. "In fact, the Ranger hasn't been out for a while. This means that this large galaxy cluster is undergoing drastic changes and is about to enter a short period of boiling. He needs to capture and record all the information."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.
In other words, the Omnic Twilight records all the information in the galaxy.
"Information, this is extremely important civilization content," the examiner said gently, "Why don't we use this as a starting point to discuss the difference between level 2 civilization and level 3 civilization. How do you understand it?"
Yang Ming had done his homework before coming here, and Lu helped him predict a few questions, and he was able to find some small knowledge points.
"I can't even summarize the criteria for dividing a Level 3 civilization into a Level 2 civilization," Yang Ming said. "I can feel that there is a huge difference between the two, such as the contrast between the Sherman Empire's Imperial Star Circle and the Falling Wind Empire's Ilando Star."
The examiner motioned for him to continue.
Yang Ming pondered for a few seconds and then began to tell the story.
As he understands, level one civilization corresponds to planets, level two civilization corresponds to stars, level three civilization corresponds to large galaxy clusters, and level four civilization can span large galaxy clusters and conduct high-dimensional exploration.
A first-level civilization on the verge of promotion can make full use of all resources on the planet, including but not limited to radiation from stars reaching the vicinity of the planet, core energy, controlled nuclear fusion, etc. Humans can complete the development of neighboring planets in the same star system and enable artificial machines to reach one percent of the speed of light.
A complete second-level civilization can already leave the star system and explore wider space.
A level-two civilization without jump technology would need to spend tens of thousands of years on a voyage to reach a nearby planet. Because of the stretching of time and space, the ideology of human civilization at this time would undergo earth-shaking changes compared to planetary civilization.
The perfect third-level civilization has reached the edge of upgrading its dimension, which is also the destination reached by most of the intelligent civilizations that have ever died in the Milky Way.
“The Milky Way today is not a naturally occurring Type II or Type III civilization.”
Yang Ming smiled and said:
“Jumping technology is obviously the primary technology of the fourth-level civilization. It was endowed by the Faya people to the entire human civilization, so that the second-level and third-level civilizations can ignore the long-distance space barrier.
“This has hindered the change of human social ideology to a certain extent, but it is also a necessary means to ensure the genetic stability of primitive humans.
“As civilization continues to progress, people’s concepts and society’s laws should continue to evolve.”
The examiner
"Wrong? Why?"
"Ultimately, the hierarchy of civilizations comes from information."
The examiner said in a gentle voice:
“The speed of information transmission, the speed of information processing, and the degree of information integration are the reference standards for civilization classification.
“Information is the foundation of all civilizations. It is not just a perspective for us to describe the laws of the universe. It is the fundamental property of matter itself and the basic particle of civilization.
“The essence of thinking is the disturbance of information by information, and the network is a collection of information.
"The dimensionality of mechanical civilization is the transfer of information from the neural structure of your physical body to more stable machines with controllable lifespans, thereby building a stable network for this information. In the process of self-evolution and continuous improvement, the network achieves static stability with the material world, so that it can extend and spread to explore higher dimensions.
"The collective mind is upgrading its dimensions, which means that the human body is constantly evolving, and finally each individual is used as a basic unit to construct a biological network, from which an extremely powerful and complex consciousness is born that can grasp all information, so as to understand the high-dimensional world and become an individual in the high-dimensional world.
“But what it really comes down to is a high level of integration of information.
"Back then, there was a scientist in the civilization before you who conducted an interesting experiment that spanned 2.5 billion years of the basic material universe."
Yang Ming wondered, "What experiment?"
The examiner smiled and said, "Black hole information reorganization."
"What?" Yang Ming was a little confused.
The examiner said in a gentle voice: "Ordinary level 4 and level 5 civilizations can use the energy of black holes to achieve many goals, but the civilization in front of you has once been able to transform a massive black hole into an ideal experimental field."
Black hole information reconstruction experiment: Utilize the black hole singularity characteristics to control the link tunnel between the black hole and the corresponding white hole, create a perfect singularity gravitational field, and then place planets or star systems into the black hole in batches.
The examiner asked: "Will the information disappear?"
"Won't."
"So, where does the information of the matter that enters the black hole go?"
"Stripped off?" Yang Ming said in a deep voice, "Or, this information is stored at the edge of the black hole's event horizon. When we observe from the outside, we can observe the information carried by photons at the edge of the event horizon and read the final image of the matter after the planet disintegrated?"
"Then, does the matter that disintegrates and enters the edge of the black hole's event horizon no longer have information itself?"
"Also, their state should be describable."
The examiner laughed and said, "Yes, information will not disappear, it will only change. The purpose of this experiment is to explore whether the reorganization of information in the black hole singularity can generate a planet or star system that is the same as the original planet or star system."
Yang Ming was confused: "This experiment was successful?"
"Failed," the examiner said with a sigh, "The information change process is irreversible. That scientist just wanted to use enough samples to touch upon the possibility of an unknown number of decimal places... He was too bored."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "You don't seem to be telling me this just because you're bored."
"Yes," the examiner smiled, "I want to tell you that even if your home planet cannot pass Faya's game, its existence will not be completely erased. The information they left behind will exist forever in the space and time dimensions of the universe. You must learn to look at this issue dialectically."
Yang Ming: …
"No, is it true that my home planet can't win?"
"The Ranger went to investigate your home planet," the examiner sighed. "That's why when your consciousness was connected here, you saw the star system where your home planet is located. His assessment is... the possibility of rescuing your family is very low."
Yang Ming was a little speechless.
"Is there any way?" Yang Ming asked, "My parents, my friends and relatives, my classmates, and my slightly unruly sister are all there. They are the most important people to me. Can I get them out?"
The examiner thought for a moment and murmured, "In order to make the assessment fairer, I should ask you to give up these stubborn ideas. Otherwise, this stubbornness will become a cheating tool for you in the next assessment."
Yang Ming: You’re giving away the topic again.
The examiner continued, "The Fayya civilization will not allow us to interfere with Fayya's games. The Fayya people's ideology is completely different from the human ideology you understand. You may think that the so-called principles are nothing, but the rules that have been set cannot be changed. This is the first principle for the Fayya people's dimensional network to maintain stability."
Lu asked, "Teacher, can we use some off-site methods, such as finding the other four forerunners, gathering them together, and threatening them that if any of their home planets targets my master's home planet, even if they pass the trial, they will suffer a devastating blow from us?"
"The rules of Faya's game state that the first mover's influence on the outcome of the game should not exceed five to ten percent."
The examiner said:
"Think about it, if the overall strength of your home planet increases by 10%, what competitiveness will it have?
"Faya's game is divided into three stages. The first stage is the self-exploration of three or five greenhouse civilizations. The second stage is the collision and confrontation between these greenhouse civilizations. The third stage is the fusion of greenhouse civilizations with the galactic civilization carried by Faya's game, and a full-scale confrontation breaks out between the major camps.
"Your home planet...hasn't even achieved a unified language. Its information processing speed is extremely slow, and its planetary network is a mess. And you can't use any method to help them improve these."
Yang Ming sighed.
The examiner also sighed:
"I understand your feelings. Likewise, I don't want you to become confused and degenerate because of this blow in the future, and fail in the subsequent assessments.
"The three of us all want to help you, because you are the one who has the best chance of making it to the end. You are very strong, extremely strong, and this strength comes from the infinite possibilities you have.
"Your body provides an excellent specimen, and your mind has great potential for development.
"Although your home planet is where you place your faith, you should adjust your mindset now and stop caring so much about Faya's game. The Milky Way has hundreds of billions of planets. When you reach a higher dimension one day, use the technology to recreate the glory of this civilization. You will be able to use the information left by your home planet in the space-time light cone to perfectly replicate them."
Yang Ming whispered, "Are they still themselves when they are like that?"
"The so-called family bond is a meaningless emotion that should have been eliminated by social consciousness when the second-level civilization transitioned to the third-level civilization. Civilization is a collective as well as an individual."
"But deep down, I am a primitive human from a first-level civilization."
Yang Ming smiled:
"Okay, please don't worry about me, I will work hard, and no one can shake my faith until everything is settled.
“Besides, look at this galaxy. Because of the genetic lock set by the Fayal people, we all retain our original form and original brain. The social relationships everywhere give me a sense of déjà vu.
“Maybe my home planet will really disappear in the future, but I think we still have a chance to win this war called game.
"Eliminating other civilizations and maintaining our own survival is what the humans on my home planet are best at."
"Okay," the examiner suddenly laughed, "You passed. The above is the content of the second test."
Yang Ming was stunned.
"Why? Shouldn't you go check out my Dark Star?"
"The Rangers have been observing you. The two parallel entities, Dark Star and Falling Wind, have both developed very well," the examiner said gently. "Child, do you know why this mechanical civilization in front of you, which doesn't even want to leave its own name, built this place and why it left us poor creatures here?"
Yang Ming shook his head.
“Them.”
The examiner sighed deeply:
"Before they finally annihilated themselves, they did three things.
“The first thing is to return the fire of life to its original double helix state and spread it throughout the universe they can reach as their only mark.
“The second thing is to erase the traces of our civilization that have been left in every dimension of the universe.
"The third thing is to create countless Omnic Twilights, one hidden in each large galaxy cluster.
“The reason they did this was to tell later life and later civilizations.
“You guys.
“Don’t give up the things that are truly worth being obsessed with because of your obsession with technology;
“Don’t throw away the truly beautiful things in order to adapt to the cruel rules of the universe;
“Don’t let the vastness of the universe make you forget that the most beautiful distance between lives is supporting each other.
"So, they gave you the technology to survive in a cruel universe, so that you would have the opportunity to cherish everything they once had.
“All information in the universe can be quantified. The only thing that cannot be quantified is the curiosity, imagination and desire to explore of living things.”
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Then my home planet..."
"What I said before is true. You don't stand a chance of winning," the examiner said gently, "Don't be too sad. When your home planet is destroyed, you will be a civilization all by yourself."
Yang Ming: …
It's another day when I want to give the middle finger to the Faya civilization.
