Chapter 340: Ultimate Fear
"Alas...... It seems that I haven't reached that height, I still can't understand it," Shen Jian shook his head helplessly, what if he really reached that level, but found that he was not as he thought. Just a thought can turn everything in the universe into ashes, how can he ensure that his actions can not be swayed by his subjective feelings?
Perhaps, ruthlessness, is the best solution.
A person without emotion will never be swayed by emotions, he looks at everything, does not distinguish between right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, and only does things according to his own instincts. But in that case, how can it be considered alive?
"Senior, I really don't understand how to choose," Shen Jian lowered his head, "This ability is too powerful, and the weight it brings to me is incomparable, I can't bear it." ”
Di Hongkun knew the meaning of Shen Qian, Carl and Space originally meant to merge Zhe and Shen Qian's consciousness into an extremely powerful will, but because Zhe had a problem, now all this can only be borne by Shen Jian alone.
"What do you think of the Sage, and what should you choose?" Di Hongkun did not answer Shen Qian's question of choice, but asked Shen Jian rhetorically.
Shen Jian thought for a while, and said gloomily: "The sum of the sage's place, from the principle of the eight winds, is suitable for lust between the world, no hatred, no desire to leave the world, no desire to look at the world, take the power, give up your own 'desire', without desire, there will be no love, and without love, you can achieve no profit and indisputability." ”
"That's right," Di Hongkun affirmed, "Now Your Excellency is bent on pursuing the path of the saint, but the ending of the holy rao is there, is it confused?" ”
"Yes," Shen Jian nodded, "I know what I'm going to be in the end, but I don't know how to prepare...... Well, it's back to the beginning. ”
"Please forgive the old man for being ignorant, but he can't solve your doubts for 50,000 years," Di Hongkun said slowly, "Maybe Your Excellency's opinion is what the official saint did." ”
"Perhaps," Shen Jian stood up disappointed, "it seems that there is no answer here that I want." ”
Di Hongkun: "Calling Your Excellency here this time, there is still something to discuss. ”
"What's the matter?" Shen Jian asked.
"Excuse me, what do you think of eternal life?" Di Hongkun asked suddenly.
"How can you ask such a question...... Shen Jian pinched his chin and sat down: "People are afraid of death, and we have been pursuing the way of eternal life for many years, which is a beautiful thing." ”
"Then what does Your Excellency think of justice, and can eternal life uphold justice?"
Shen Jian was stunned and smiled, "This is almost the same as my question, but if you think about it carefully, it is very different. ”
"What do you mean by that?"
"First of all, why do intelligent beings want to live? There has been no ultimate answer to this question for thousands of years, and we want to know this answer, and even more so to live a long life or even live forever, which has been the pursuit of people since ancient times. This shows that people have an instinctive fear of death, and even want to escape it at all costs. But there is one person who is not, Carl claims to have deciphered the secret of death, so our fear is based on the unknown, in the end, it is a 'desire'," Shen Jian analyzed, "until the Kamigawa lifeforms truly gain eternal life, they have a higher pursuit, whether it is justice or depravity, these are the continuous explorations of civilization in the process of evolution, so it is impossible for eternal life to always adhere to justice." ”
"Even if you can't do it?"
Shen Jian nodded, "Their will is strong, but they are also changing, I don't think their individuals will stick to it forever." Moreover, the maximum lifespan of a civilization is only 200,000 years, and every time it reaches this point, it will be inexplicably annihilated, which is an insurmountable obstacle, so there is no such thing as eternity. ”
"The Ultimate Fear ......"
"Yes, no matter how the main biological civilization develops, it will always encounter stronger force majeure; Under the master biotechnology, it is insurmountable. The universe cannot accommodate the highest wisdom, and wisdom cannot break through the universe, so it cannot be understood. They define it as ultimate fear, that is, an insurmountable obstacle to wisdom. Shen Jian remembered what Yan had taught him before, the longest known history of intelligent life was no more than 200,000 years, and the universe had existed for at least 13 billion years, and it was impossible to understand the huge universe with the knowledge accumulated in these two billion years.
In the ultimate state of fear, all of these perceptions can be completely wrong. For example, the development of our science and technology has explored the edge of the universe; When the wisdom of civilization explores the edge, it will find that no amount of scientific and technological theory, nor the knowledge accumulated over the past hundreds of thousands of years, can define the edge of the universe, but it exists. Therefore, there must still be a knowledge that civilization does not know that can decipher all this, decipher Karl, the god of death, who is impenetrable even the highest intelligence, and define it as the ultimate void. And the knowledge of this world will surpass the known wisdom in all respects.
But now, the Void does exist, and there are Void-level gods or civilizations.
The civilization of the nebula has developed for 100,000 years, and when they think that they have reached the top of wisdom and can be eternal, it is undeniable that they cannot be the first such civilization, the universe was born for 13.7 billion years, and even if it goes forward for 10 billion years, there may be quite a civilization, they are eternal and passed down to the present day; But we can't find it at all, and neither can the most intelligent envoys. Even the Kamigawa Civilization Grand Clock, which can perfectly communicate and solve the entire Cosmic Tree, cannot capture the existence of even older civilizations.
This is not in line with the logic of the universe.
So if they exist, they must not be mainstream creatures, and even more likely, they exist as some kind of cosmic universe, planning everything in the dark, isn't this exactly the same as the Tao?
Thus, ultimate fear becomes what the most intelligent person really fears.
When Shen Jian thought of this, he had to re-examine himself, he was ultimately a god at the void level, so it was impossible to interpret it with the wisdom of known civilizations, that is, no one or god could give him any revelation!
Perhaps the Twins of the Universe themselves are unknown, fearful, and full of uncertainty, and it is in this way that the Twins of the Universe are able to connect the void with intelligent life.
So at this point, Shen Jian realized that the center of it all, whether it was the Tao or the Sage, revolved around one word, 'balance'!
Light and darkness, good and cruelty, justice and evil, all these oppositions remain at a certain point, and the same is true of void and intelligent life. You may wonder why the Void God didn't destroy these intelligent civilizations, but why did they destroy them?
Imagine that ruthlessness and desirelessness make them powerful and indisputable, forming an invisible barrier that when certain civilizations are about to break through, the void reverts to relying on their own will to erase them, and over time, it reaches equilibrium.