Chapter 635: Silicon-based people

Half an hour later, the press conference officially began.

The light in the venue suddenly dimmed, and then, in the center of the venue, a halo suddenly appeared, and two strangely shaped aliens revealed their bodies.

One of them, similar in appearance to Po, was actually a round Panda, and the other, or rather, could not be called a human, because it was just a mass of diamond-shaped crystals with various thorns on the surface, and the crystals rotated in mid-air, showing a strange light under the light.

Obviously, one side represents a carbon-based civilization and the other represents a silicon-based civilization.

Although Chen Xin had read the relevant materials of the silicon-based civilization before, and knew the racial classification of the silicon-based people, it was also the first time he had really seen the silicon-based people.

Ah Bao on the side seemed to see Chen Xin's thoughts, and introduced: "Mr. Chen, these two are the hosts of this auction, one is from our Panda tribe, the famous auctioneer Mr. Lumi, and the other is from the iolite crystal family in the silicon-based civilization, Mr. Violet. ”

Chen Xin nodded knowingly.

The racial division of silicon-based civilizations is similar to that of carbon-based civilizations of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and viruses, and is mainly divided into plasma civilizations, crystal civilizations, and silica civilizations.

The plasma civilization is mysterious and extremely rare in the universe, and according to Steel, there is only one sixth-level plasma civilization in the entire Virgo supercluster, and it is still in the distant Flying Kite Galaxy.

The essence of silica civilization is all kinds of stones, but it is extremely difficult for ordinary stones to evolve into life, and they do not occupy the mainstream in silicon-based civilizations, but are the most widely distributed among various crystal groups, such as quartz, blueline, andalusite, syanite and so on in nature.

Most of the crystal civilizations evolved from clusters composed of various mineral single crystals, and the Amethyst civilization, one of the top seventh-level civilizations in the Virgo supercluster, is the purple tanzanite.

The host of the press conference in front of him, Mr. Violite, whose ancestral origin is iolite from the silicate mineral.

"Hello friends from the Carbon-Based Alliance and the Silicon-Based Alliance, and welcome to the Dark Market Seven for our once-in-a-decade Dark Market Auction. I'm the auctioneer, Lumi of the Panda clan, and next to me is Mr. Violet from the Iolite Crystal Clan, and we will serve you today. ”

Lumi was the first to speak.

The surface of the body of Sumire Blue, who was standing next to him, began to glow with colorful light, which would be transmitted to everyone through radio waves, infrared waves, visible light waves, and ultraviolet waves.

Chen Xin soon heard the acoustic signal converted by the electromagnetic waves emitted by the violet: "I am the iolite crystal family violet, and I am very happy to meet you here today. ”

Chen Xin looked at Lumi and Violetine in the center of the hall with great interest, although biologically speaking, the difference between silicon-based civilization and carbon-based civilization is only the difference between the basic elements that constitute life, but in a sociological sense, the different ways of communication between Lumi and Violetine just now have fully expressed the essential difference between silicon-based life and carbon-based life.

Carbon-based life communicates through language and writing, and what individuals think and think may not be directly expressed by language and writing, which is the so-called closed-minded effect, and lying is the innate skill of every carbon-based civilization individual.

Silicon-based beings communicate directly through brain waves, and when individual lives communicate, what they think will be directly expressed with brain waves.

That is, they don't lie, their thinking is transparent.

This leads to a huge sociological difference between carbon-based and silicon-based life.

Carbon-based life transmits and inherits knowledge through language and writing, and the speed is completely incomparable to that of silicon-based life's direct communication, which is almost the difference in the speed of reading calligraphy and hard disk.

Therefore, for carbon-based civilization, the initial development period is extremely long, and it may take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years to form a scientific civilization in the true sense.

But once the barriers of scientific understanding are breached, the effects are explosive.

This is a phenomenon that is prevalent in carbon-based coalitions, the explosion of technology.

That is, a native carbon-based civilization has stepped from a low-level civilization to a high-level civilization in a very short period of time without external interference.

This is also an important reason why mankind has been able to cross from the age of steam to the interstellar age in just a few hundred years.

Of course, with the current crowding of life in the universe, there are very few primitive civilizations that are truly free from the technological explosion of external interference, and the existence of human beings is only a special case.

Compared with carbon-based civilizations, silicon-based civilizations do not have a similar technological explosion.

Due to the lossless transmission of knowledge and experience, there are characteristics within the silicon-based civilization that cannot break the authority and are difficult to innovate, and the absolute correctness hinders the rapid development of the civilization, so the development of the early silicon-based civilization is uniform.

It wasn't until the interstellar age, encountering other civilizations, coming into contact with each other, and even breaking out into war, that silicon-based civilizations produced a similar technological explosion.

In a sense, the emergence of two major political entities in the universe, the Alliance of Carbon-based Life and the Alliance of Silicon-based Life, is inextricably linked to the sociological differences between carbon-based life and silicon-based life.

Chen Xin once saw such a joke from the database of the Tianqin civilization.

Legend has it that about 2 billion years ago, a carbon-based civilization that had just entered the early stage of the third level encountered a fleet of mid-level alien civilizations near the Oort cloud in their star system.

This is the first time this civilization has come into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization.

They sent a friendly greeting to each other, asking why they had come to the system.

As a result, the other party replied directly: I am here to occupy you.

This is a fleet of silicon-based civilizations that have come to pioneer the system.

As a result, a protracted war broke out, and no one expected that this war would kick off the prelude to a war between carbon-based and silicon-based civilizations, which lasted for a full 2 billion years, from a third-level civilization to a seventh-level civilization, affecting the entire Virgo Supercluster.

Until now, this war has not ended.

For carbon-based civilizations, silicon-based civilizations are simply stupid, uniform, collectivist, and no fun are their hallmarks, a bunch of uncivilized barbarians who are simply unable to communicate.

For silicon-based civilizations, carbon-based civilizations are a bunch of shameless bastards, full of lies and deception, and such a disgusting race should be erased from the universe.

It is only in places like the dark market that carbon-based life and silicon-based life can be seen living in peace, but even so, the living areas of the two are clearly separated and do not interfere with each other.

Therefore, an auction like today, hosted by a carbon-based person and a silicon-based person at the same time, is a rare spectacle in the entire galaxy.