"I really didn't expect that yesterday we were in a lot of trouble, and today you will take the initiative to come to see me so casually. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Sitting in his wheelchair, he turned slightly and looked up at the safety of Richard Williams, who walked into the rehab room alone, completely unable to understand what he meant by this.

"Don't worry, I'm definitely not playing Dior's idea, I'm just, there are some things I don't understand, and I want to ask you." Richard, who instructed his robot bodyguard to guard the door of the rehab room and make sure that his conversation with Ping An would not be heard by anyone else, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and sat down casually on a chair.

"I came here today just to ask you why you have no interest in immortality."

"Huh, do you need to ask about this kind of thing? Isn't the answer obvious? He raised his eyebrows and smiled, wondering why anyone would want the peace of immortality, and shook his head helplessly.

"I once read a story in a book about a priest who asked the choir kids, 'Do you want to go to heaven when you die?' The child replied yes. The priest then asked what you would like to do when you go to heaven, and the child replied that he wanted to continue singing hymns. Then the priest asked, if you need to sing hymns all the time for a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, a hundred thousand years, a hundred thousand years, do you still want to go to heaven? The child's face turned pale and he said that he did not want to go to heaven anymore. So you see, in fact, immortality can't be directly linked to happiness, can it? ”

"In my opinion, the reason why human beings have the luxury of immortality is because they have a attachment to this world. wealth, power, beauty; Family, love, friendship, there are so many things that can make human beings miss and do not want to leave. However, I believe that there are some people who, like me, think that even if they don't suffer any major setbacks in their lives, it is not easy to live in peace. ”

In the eyes of such people, there are indeed all kinds of precious happiness in life, but a long period of life is enough for us. When you are alive, you live in a down-to-earth and serious way, and when you die, it is just like after a busy day of hard work, it is just time to go to bed. Stretching life indefinitely, or erasing everything and starting over, will only make us feel bored and bored, but it will not bring us the joy of immortality. ”

"I don't know if you and the people who support you plan to upload your consciousness to the public in the future, I just know that even if this technology is popularized, I don't want to choose this way of living when I am dying. In my opinion, the finitude of life is precisely its preciousness and charm, and if you abandon your body in violation of the laws of nature, life will naturally be full of all kinds of mechanical repetition because of its infinite length, and then become dull and boring. ”

"Sure enough, as I expected, you and your partner Dior, you are all like Aoba, with such an attitude towards life that seems completely incomprehensible to me." Richard, who has never known that he is thirsty for more powerful power, breaks through more difficult limits, constantly surpasses and surpasses, conquers and conquers, and cannot understand what "one hundred and fifty years of life is enough".

It's just that even if he can't understand it, it doesn't prevent him from achieving the purpose of today's visit. "You are willing to bow to the limit of life and admit defeat and obediently surrender to death, that is your choice I will not intervene, I just need to know that the three of you who have such a concept of life do not have the leisure to resist and oppose the relevant research uploaded by consciousness, and this is enough."

Richard, who had ended the conversation in front of him that was considered to be the end of yesterday's confrontation, stood up and turned to leave, and left the medical area before Aoba came to pick him up and returned to the dormitory.

In the next few days, while Ping An was busy recuperating from his leg injury, Waisheng Yan took advantage of various equipment that was brought to the frozen planet by some members of the mothership escort team that afternoon to observe and study the thermal adventitious insects under the seabed in as wide a range and depth as possible.

Instruments that can operate indefinitely with the help of converted matter will remain permanently on the frozen planet, and are expected to continue to work for the next few hundred years, until an undersea volcano erupts and is replaced by a new type of equipment dropped by humans who have come to conduct new research through spatial coordinate jumping.

The short ten-day stay at the first exploration point passed quickly, and the advance team, which had harvested all kinds of valuable information on the frozen planet, immediately jumped to the second exploration point and continued their exploration and search mission as planned.

The route connecting the Earth to the sixth planet of the Karen star system, even if all the coordinates on it are combined, are not as good as a single sand in the desert or a drop of water in the sea, even if they are all combined with the entire universe. Therefore, it is obviously impossible to gain something from every single point of the projected detection point.

The wandering indefinite insects are too small for the universe to be encountered by the advance ship every day; Seven spaceships that have been lost for more than 500 years, and being able to be informed by Hope of the final outcome of four of them is already a low-probability event at the astronomical level, which can be called a miracle.

Therefore, for the next half a year, all the crew members of both the Hope and the advance ship were ready for nothing at all. It's just that a certain communication signal received near the seventh exploration point broke people's prior imagination and once again brought a shudder and jubilation to the entire human interstellar alliance.

In the vast and tranquil cosmic space with a pure black background, the advance ship hovering on the seventh exploration point has already advanced more than half the distance on the advance road.

The hull of the ship, which was constantly searching for traditional communication signals, most of the operators and medical personnel inside it were now gathered in the vast area specially reserved for Takami on the ship, and they were busy for the first physical test and training of the beta training camp of the joint machine operator.

In the bustling crowd, Edward and Peter, who had passed the brainwave test not long ago, were wearing various training equipment for themselves according to Renhua's instructions, and suddenly the radio sound sounded, but at this time, the news that the advance ship had received a communication signal from a human companion was loudly announced.