Chapter Thirty-Eight: Not Human After All?
"Is it up to his tsundere?!" Li Zhen also scolded angrily.
Zeus left him with a message that surprised him a little - because of the Ascension Technique. The information shows that the technique has made initial progress and can be tested for the first time. But it wasn't the complete ascension he had imagined, but just an out-of-body experience—he had to return to his own body at the end.
But if it really comes to the final step, Li Zhen can't leave now - he can't abandon his wife and children. But if it's just an out-of-body experience, he can give it a try. Because in this respect, he has a considerable advantage.
The Ascension Technique is different from what many people imagine. Most people think of the word "ascension" when they see it—the soul of a god who leaves the body and becomes an immortal being.
Unfortunately, if the problem was really that simple, this technique would have been feasible a long time ago - using computers to simulate human thinking, and then inducing human consciousness into it. Just because humans can't do this now because they can't build computers that can process the huge amount of information that the human brain has, doesn't mean that theories aren't feasible.
And the dinosaur civilization must have done it - a civilization that can build the moon must be unimaginably powerful in the field of computers. The reason why they didn't do that was because they knew that it was in vain.
After uploading consciousness, there is always a need for a carrier. Even if it takes a lot of effort to build the carrier and upload everyone's consciousness...... And where to put it?
If it is not safe to put it on the earth, if it is launched into space, who knows when the equipment will break? Who knows if the road will be unlucky enough to be destroyed by a meteorite? That's not called the Ascension Technique, it's called the Death Technique.
The ascension technique of the dinosaur civilization. In fact, it can be explained by another word for cultivating immortals: sanctification of the flesh. The immortals tempered their bodies, and after the most reluctance, they flew to the fairy realm one by one. In the case of the dinosaur civilization, it is to decompose a person's body and transform it into a form of energy. Then use this energy to form a "field", a "field" that can carry the mind. In the final analysis, I am still myself, but there has been a "qualitative transformation".
How powerful is it to transform a person into pure energy? Li Zhen didn't know, but it was estimated that the power must be unimaginable. An individual is made up of such energies...... That must be far from being comparable to some magnetic field state......
When he thought of this, Li Zhen's eyes suddenly widened and he realized a rather astonishing fact.
Does this mean...... Those guys have mastered the method of completely converting an object into energy??
And this method is in the hands of Shen Mu??
He sighed deeply. It would have been great if it hadn't been for Gaia—since it had mastered such a powerful force, it might be a few years or a few decades away. The Old Gods are no longer a threat. That's when people could choose to exterminate it at great cost. Or make peace with it – that's what it would be like to be proud.
He shook his head regretfully and looked at the planet beneath him.
Unparalleled beauty indeed. The last time he saw it that way was five years ago — but by then he was ready to die. Now he has a very good life, and both parents are complete. He has a wife and a son.
Both father and mother are doing well. When I thought I was dead. They were devastated. But Zhang Kesong took the second elder to South Luzon. Treat them as if they were your own parents. But at that time, she was the "god" in people's hearts, and small citizens like her father and mother always felt that they had taken advantage of others, and they had been living a depressed life. Instead of living in the presidential palace, he lived in a private house somewhere in the city.
At that time, Southern Luzon was not as prosperous as it is now, and it is hard to imagine how much they suffered. It wasn't until they came back later that they really regarded Ke Song as their daughter-in-law - and moved happily.
Until now, Li Zhen felt that they liked Kesong even more than himself. It's a joke, of course, but it seems like it's what it is. He can understand them - they are all kind ordinary people, and Kesong "Great Grace" they will take to heart for the rest of their lives.
And Kosson's father ......
I came to Southern Luzon only last year. From the point of view of the Empire, his sentence has not yet expired. From Southern Luzon's point of view, it sounds absurd that he is a family member of the supreme head – the father of the president of the republic is serving a prison sentence in another country.
The Luzon people had been negotiating with the Empire until last year, when the Emperor issued an amnesty at the expense of speeding up the export of techniques. However, the old man now lives alone in an apartment somewhere in South Luzon and rarely sets foot in the presidential palace. The world outside has undergone drastic changes, but he is imprisoned and can barely experience the terrible transformation. On the one hand, that's a good thing, but on the other hand, this person has completely derailed from the world.
Li Zhen even heard Kesong say on several occasions that the reason why his father was not extradited to Southern Luzon was because he himself refused to leave the empire.
And the reason ...... Zhang Kesong was a little gloomy when he said it, and Li Zhen was a little surprised.
Because the former director of the Imperial Secret Service Office thought that Zhang Kesong had committed treason.
Li Zhen could not understand the ambivalence of the old man—on the one hand, he had betrayed state secrets, and on the other hand, he had extremely deep feelings for the country that had locked him up. Contradictions and unity both appear in the same person, living in harmony.
Maybe everyone is such a contradiction.
Like himself, who loved his present life so much, promised Zeus to be the first to test it. When he agreed to him before, Li Zhen felt that the progress of that research was still far away, at least a dozen or decades later. Such a time span will always make people unconsciously ignore many things - such as the pain of parting.
But now he's got the news: it's progressing faster than he thought.
This means that maybe this year, maybe just a few years later, he will step into that uncharted territory. Once the time span was shortened from decades to years, he had to take into account ......
Are you really willing to do it?
For the sake of human civilization!
- As soon as such a slogan is shouted, no kind of sacrifice is worth it. But he knew that he was not a short name in historical sources. Nor is it an inconspicuous character in a big database - for a person, he himself is the world.
Even if he made a sacrifice for such a noble purpose, Li Zhen still couldn't help but hesitate. Because it wasn't a short but intense battle. In battle, the mind is tightly grasped by all kinds of fierce emotions, and it is possible to make any choice in an instant, and it is not surprising that it even chooses to die together.
But now it was an even longer war, and the time left for him to choose was terrifyingly long. The most terrible thing is not the enemy itself, but time. Time has the potential to destroy all courage.
At the moment, he really didn't know if he would be able to say without hesitation if that day had come, and he was facing the people closest to him—those who wanted to spend the next many days with him as usual. Let me do it.
Li Zhen thought about a lot of things. But after all, there is no clear answer. So at the end of the day, he could only take a deep breath and say an unbreakable truth like many ordinary people who encountered such a situation-"Damn." ”
Then he lowered his height and watched the earth come back to him. The sky gradually turned blue. The sun is shining again.
And Kitagawa Harumi was still waiting for him further down - the four missiles were held by a huge ice disk. It seems to be giving Li Zhen an exhibition. She looked up intently as Li Zhen landed beside her. Then he pointed into the distance: "I saw someone flying away." ”
Li Zhen was a little surprised by her big ice blue eyes, frowned and said, "Why are you still staying here to blow the wind?" ”
Kitagawa Qingming shook his head slightly and smiled: "I wanted to see the gods fight, but you are too loud." I didn't dare to come over. I want to ask you what to do with these things. ”
Li Zhen squinted at the four missiles and pouted: "Leave it to the ground to deal with." On the bright side, now we are also a nuclear state. ”
Kitagawa Qingming frowned in surprise: "That's it?" You don't ask where these things come from? I don't know what the man is throwing a nuclear bomb here? ”
"From Russia." Li Zhen thought for a while and said, "The target is not us, it's the ancient gods." I guess the local rebels went crazy and got this thing out - you know, once it's in troubled times, everyone has it. But the local government is also strange, this kind of thing can fall into the hands of the rebels - it is estimated that someone from within staged a coup d'état, and it is almost over. ”
Kitagawa Qingming looked at him for a while, exhaled and said, "It's the big mess you guys caused, and today is just the beginning." Right now, there must be a lot of people in the world who are dying, there must be a lot of firefighting going on in the whole world—you...... Don't you feel guilty? ”
The two of them fell silent for a while, and then Li Zhencai said, "This is nothing compared to the sacrifice I will make for you. ”
"You're a little bit arrogant." A smile appeared on the corner of Kitagawa Harumi's mouth.
Li Zhen smiled and shook his head: "Shouldn't I?" Or do you have to be humble? That's too tiring. If I could, I would like to preach it as much as possible, so that if I die, everyone in this world will want to sacrifice my parents, wife, and children on the altar because they remember me well. Men, don't just want this for the rest of your life. ”
“…… Your consciousness was not so low in the past. ”
"So we used to live tired." Li Zhen said with a smile.
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When he returned to the surface, he threw a bunch of aftermath to his lieutenant and went to Kozon alone.
Right now, Kesong was lying on the bed, his hands resting on his stomach, and there were words in his mouth, not knowing what Lu Dao was talking to her son. Li Zhen pushed open the door, sat down on a sofa by the door, and looked at it for a while.
It took more than a minute for Ke Song to notice his presence, and he sighed and asked, "What happened just now?" I was almost wheeled into an emergency shelter - what are you doing there? ”
Li Zhen smiled and shook his head: "I don't think you're nervous at all-I almost flew off the earth just now, thinking that there would be radiation on my body, so stay away from our son for the time being." It's not a big deal, there's a bastard who gets nervous. ”
He just said the matter, and added at the end: "I really haven't figured it out, what is this grandson doing this?" What's wrong? ”
Zhang Kesong frowned and propped himself up. Leaning against the head of the bed, he picked up the orange juice on one side and took a sip.
Then she said uncertainly, "Maybe...... Maybe ......"
Originally, he frowned, but after saying two "maybe", he suddenly burst out laughing, and raised his eyebrows: "That person is quite interesting." ”
Li Zhen was stunned: "Interesting? Hell he's dropping a nuclear bomb at me! ”
"Whoa!" Ke Song glared at him and motioned for him not to teach his son badly.
But Li Zhen muttered in his heart - that little bastard didn't know how many inappropriate children he had overheard.
"I'll ask you first, he said, the Great Juggernaut...... People of the same era as him? Zhang Kesong said.
Li Zhen didn't understand why she asked this, so after thinking about it, she replied, "Yes." What he means is that both the First Great Juggernaut and he are the first generation. He also despises these species now. Say they're like monkeys. ”
"Oh......" Kesong asked again. Before you...... You sucked that person away. ”
When she said this, she frowned again, as if she remembered that incident and felt quite uncomfortable: "You absorbed that person, but that person, according to you." In that person's consciousness, the 'egg' is actually dominant. Right? ”
"Yes."
"Then it's equivalent to you absorbing the 'egg' as well. Then according to your statement - the egg is part of the Great Juggernaut. Equivalent to one-half of it. Ke Song looked at Li Zhen and pointed his finger at him, "Isn't it equivalent to." Can you be seen as a 'big juggernaut'? ”
She then deliberately widened her eyes and covered her mouth with her hand: "Oh my God, then I'm not ...... Well...... God's daughter-in-law? ”
Li Zhenlong was stunned by her logic, and it took a long time to react - the last generation of the Great Ruler split into the Yellow Emperor and the egg, and he inherited the bloodline of the Yellow Emperor, and later absorbed the egg......
Think about it this way......
His eyes widened as well: "Huh? Am I a god? ”
"It's beautiful, you!" Zhang Kesong smiled and threw a pillow at him.
Li Zhen caught the pillow and laughed too—in fact, he laughed that it was not easy to find such a daughter-in-law. In other words, what woman in this world could know him as well as the one in front of her, and now be so calm and calm when discussing these shocking questions?
It's like an ordinary couple sitting in the living room after dinner, watching a TV series and chatting, but the conversation is all about "where to drop two nuclear bombs tomorrow, which planet to blow up the day after tomorrow" - who can do it so calmly?
He didn't finish laughing here, and Kesong said again: "Haven't you figured it out yet?" The man must have felt very lonely—because his old comrades were gone, and now his so-called kindred men were all little children. So...... He treats you as a friend. Otherwise, why do you think he would pull you to babble so much when you went to the kingdom of God by yourself? It's all about drinking tea and chatting! ”
"Because in fact you are the Great Juggernaut!"
Li Zhen was stunned again - he thought a lot about Zeus's gentle attitude towards himself, and he also gave himself a lot of explanations.
However, he has never thought like Zhang Kesong!
Just because she's a woman, that's why she can lean this way?
He was speechless for a moment. But Zhang Kesong became excited and continued to himself: "Hmm...... There were four nuclear bombs flying over the Russian side, and he happened to come out to look for you, and when he caught up, he stopped them. He must have felt that he had done you a great favor, so he rushed to look for you to please him. ”
"But you think, he looks down on humans, and maybe he doesn't like to pretend to be a human and run down to you. But he wants to show you merit, but it's not good to go in front of you, put those things out, and say, "You see I'll stop you with four nuclear bombs, right?" ”
“…… Why not? Li Zhen frowned and asked.
Zhang Kesong stroked his forehead with his hand: "My God, where is your emotional intelligence?" Let me ask you, if one day you find something for Yuanshan that he wants very much, and you are a very twisted person and have a very proud temperament, will you go up to him and say to him, Yuanshan, I found what you want, or will you just throw it on the table in front of him, turn around and walk away, and steal fun in your heart? ”
The corners of Li Zhen's mouth twitched, and he hesitated: "It's not the same thing, right?" ”
Then he glared again: "But it's a nuclear bomb!" ”
"And did you bother catching them?" Zhang Kesong asked, "He knows that you can definitely do it!" You're the Great Master! ”
At this moment, Li Zhen stopped talking.
Zhang Kesong came to his senses and wrenched his fingers: "So that's actually the case - your little friend thinks that he has made a meritorious service, and he looks for you to report the good news, and throws stones at your window." As a result, without saying a word, you pushed open the window, jumped out, and raised your hand to reward someone with a big mouth - it's no wonder he's not mad! ”
"That's why I said, that's an interesting man!"
Li Zhen wanted to say - but he also asked me to be the tester for him!
But on the one hand, he never mentioned it to Ke Song, because he was afraid that she would worry. On the other hand, he felt that even if he really said this, Kesong would say - I said that you are his little friend, and I didn't say that you are his father, and he must not be too good to you.
So Li Zhen was so told that she couldn't talk back, and wanted to say that she thought things too simply, but in her heart, she inexplicably felt that Ke Song was too reliable - thinking of Zeus's previous performance, isn't that what happened? After the end, he had no choice but to shout: "You still help him to speak—aren't you afraid that your son will be scared?!" ”
Zhang Kesong pursed his lips and smiled: "Then I didn't say that you beat it wrong - that's a bear child!" No matter how cute a kitten or puppy is, it's not a human after all! ”
The last sentence of the last sentence made Li really comfortable. (To be continued......)