7 Carve the word into stone

I've been to other planets many times, but only Planet 10 has given me this unique experience – whether it's stepping on the top of a mountain, or sailing the sea, deep into barren deserts and deep caves...... None of these make me feel strange and bored, as if I am walking in a familiar place, warm, cozy, and a little adventurous.

The earth did not impress me too much, the cold bulkheads of the Minerva and the Watcher did not have the breath of life, but Planet 10, the first planet I could walk freely, opened its arms to me, confided in me her delicate emotions, sent me her warm breeze and care, gave me the right to live, gave me the vitality to move forward.

That's what home feels like.

……

I remember the second time I visited Planet 10, I chose to land in the middle of that vast desert, and with the help of nanobots, I created a small desert basin. In the months that followed, the nanobots built a tall obsidian-based tower, used the slopes of the basin and the groundwater they drew to create vegetable patches and poultry sheds, and even though there was enough fresh water, I built a few dew collectors – making the desert an oasis a veritable "hermit's dwelling."

In the obsidian tower, I found a room to set up the equipment built by Mike, operated the rudimentary joystick, and projected the image on the wall, I officially turned on the "visual interference" mode, and arranged for the nanobots to gather in black human form to patrol the edge, attacking those who dared to approach, presumably the legend of this terrifying desert will soon spread. Of course, I didn't forget to build the path and lighthouse suggested by Wang Chen, and the scope of "visual interference" also eliminated these places, and then if you want to enter the center of the desert to find a hermit's dwelling, you can only take the sea route.

I took a lot of books from the Watchmen, and I put them in various rooms of the building recommended by the AI, and those who came to learn copied them if they wanted to, I wouldn't care, knowledge and stories were meant to be disseminated. But the PDAs, shotguns, and other types of books that I carried with me - those things that were far beyond the understanding of this era were still better hidden, so I designed a small secret room, using the stone wall as a secret door, and carved a diamond-shaped shape with an inscribed circle on the door, and then used a 3D printer to make a key with a wooden texture and the same shape, and carried it with me or hidden, so that after the arrangement, the "hermit's residence" was ready to welcome guests.

Before I do the same to let the wind out, I have to see how the isolated island where I lived when I first visited here is doing. Sailing on the ocean in a small boat, I returned here again after 8 years - no one. I searched the entire island, and found only traces of the storm, and all the familiar people and things were wiped out by the time of the past eight years.

What about my apprentice? He survived, fled back to the mainland, and lived in seclusion in a forest in the middle of the continent, the best evidence is that the forest began to drift from then on a thick fog that would never dissipate, so that people and animals who entered the forest were lost in it, and they could never come out again, he should have turned on the "visual jammer" to its maximum power, and it has not been turned off, even after his death. As a result, in the following generations of civilization, this forest and the vast desert have been given various terrifying names, accompanied by countless strange legends...... I only found out about this later.

(Foreshadowing of the Misty Jungle and the Desperate Desert Black Building)

I continued to search the isolated island, where the storm would wash away most of the place, except for the heavy stone walls. With great effort, I erected a stone pillar and buried it halfway into the ground, carving a deep ravine in the exposed part of it:

Watch Island

The square Chinese characters will not be blown away by storms, will not be corroded by rain, will not be buried in the earth and lose their traces - this name will live forever on the island, echoing the distant Watchman in the sky.

What a wonderful memory of this past. (This is also the secret of Overwatch Island)

…… Starting from the Watcher, enter the hibernation module of the cruising spacecraft, land on the planet through the No. 1 "capsule", live on the planet for 8 years, take the No. 1 "capsule" to return to the approaching cruising spacecraft, return to the Watcher, and enter the survival module to repair the body......

I don't know how many times I've gone through this cycle, and I'm numb enough to even stop calculating, no longer staring at the holographic display to check the time, and no longer listening to the AI tell me the time.

I just have to wait until the arrival of the human escape fleet on Earth. Although the time seemed far away, I could clearly sense the urgency on their side from the fragmented messages sent from Earth - the second interception failed, the third interception failed, and the escape ship had been launched...... It's good that they're ready to abandon Earth, and they're getting closer and closer to the final stage of Directive 6.

Even so, I still need to remove the "harvesting" control commands, which still have the potential to win a turnaround for the planet. As life on each planet is reduced to scorched dust, the command to return to the Watcher becomes more and more complex, and its role is becoming more and more powerful.

For example, the control command to transform into a large animal: it can command the surrounding N particles to gather on the user's body and turn into an organic state, becoming an additional controllable body tissue for the user, so I can see that some commands can turn people into giant beasts, and even imaginary creatures can successfully transform. When the command is dismissed, the extra organic matter will gradually dissipate as the N particles move, and eventually revert to the user's appearance - this is how the user becomes a small creature command.

What amazed me the most was the control of the small wormhole: the user pronounced a human-sized wormhole through complex commands, and achieved a long-distance jump - this is called teleportation by the newborn human, which can teleport both matter and the user and the things around it. The advent of this control command even dwarfs the traditional mode of transportation of the earth's civilization, which is also the most ideal way of leap that mankind has imagined countless times. Moreover, it can be seen from some control commands that have never been successfully used but have been harvested, that some newborn humans are no longer satisfied with spatial teleportation, and they have even begun to think about the possibility of space-time jump! Once successful, it will mark this time travel possible! But so far, this kind of directive has not been successfully developed, and there are only some attempts and prototypes. I suddenly remembered that there is also a "five-dimensional space" entrance on the watcher, once the control command that can travel through time and space successfully appears, will this "five-dimensional space" entrance become one of the exits of "time travel"? I even think that one day there will be a few new humans on this space station.

Also unexpected to me was the "carving the command into the stone", some newborn humans use the method of controlling the charged particles in the N particles, "recording" their own control instructions on objects such as stones, and set to activate this command under certain conditions - to put it bluntly, it is like the principle of old-fashioned tapes, but this kind of creativity brought me is very profound, I can't help but wonder if there is no "harvest", then what kind of civilization and technology will these newborn humans develop in the next time? The result of this "carving of instructions into stone" was called the "Spell Stone" by the people on Planet 10, but this was a later thing.

There are also some control instructions that can also be called miracles: if there are instructions that can reduce the molecular activity of someone or something, the actual effect is to slow down aging and prolong life; Some do the opposite, increasing molecular energy and enhancing the agency effect of people or things, which is actually to enhance the ability of the human body, but at the cost of accelerated aging - a bit like the consequence of not entering the survival pod; There are also control instructions that can be used to divinate the future, which sounds very evil and the actual effect is unknown; There are also commands that can read memories and control dreams, but they are quite complicated, and even if I don't delete them, the AI will not choose such long and complex instructions to pass on to the Minerva......

I printed out these magical control commands, and while I also have the ability to control N particles, I rely more on the most commonly used nanobots, so I don't have many control commands that I can use, and I don't know how to do it—and I don't plan to learn them. Still, there will be people who want this-

For example, the "hermit" on the current planet 10.

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Once again, I came to the "Hermit's Residence" in the middle of the desert on Planet 11, and I found the person who inherited the status of "Hermit" in this era, and was also my twenty-second student. Since he was always dressed like a black robe and had almost no hair, I always called him "Daoyan", and he himself recognized the name so much that I forgot what his original name was.

(Who is this person?) "Teacher", of course)

Among my many "successors", he is not the most intelligent, but he is the most obedient, so obedient that I can tell him about the Stars Project and he is not afraid of him leaking secrets, so obedient that I can give him the key to the secret room in the obsidian building without worrying about him fiddling with the contents, so obedient that I can make him die for me with a false promise that I will take him to Earth...... Such a person is really perfect to me. Dao Yan's only flaw is that he does not have the ability to control N particles, but what does it matter, he only needs to teach ideas and concepts, science and technology, and control commands have a lot of similar "unrealistic" and "useless" reputations on these planets.

To be honest, after going back and forth so many times, I'm tired of playing the game of "Hermit", and maybe after this meeting, I won't be visiting these different planets as often.

I handed the controls to Dao Yan from the ones I had printed out earlier, and instead of looking as pleased as expected, he told me that there were some "spells" that they had already seen the same or similar, which was not surprising. However, he still thinks that "space-time teleportation" is a good development direction, and is willing to leave these control instructions for follow-up work. (This is also the source of the prophetic magic, which became the premise of the events of the later call to the future)

Dao Yan hadn't officially started his work as a hermit at this time, so there were no other apprentices here, but he was diligent and maintained the facilities well, there were enough resources in the vegetable and sweet potato fields, and even the dew collector was not broken, and I was very proud of the meticulous attention to detail of this kind of work as my student - even if the emotion was meaningless.

"I'm going to create a couple of 'Amplification Spell Stones' to enhance the efficiency of the Dew Collector so that I don't rely on groundwater." When Dao Yan said this, I acquiesced to his thoughts, but in fact I was indifferent to the things here. "I've carved some words into the stone wall of the room, would you like to see it?"

"Carved what?" I'm not going to see it myself, just ask for the answer.

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest, survival of the weak, survival of the fittest, success and defeat ......"

"Are you suggesting that the students are going to compete with each other?" I admire how many words can be used to express the same meaning.

"Let them have a sense of crisis and speed up the efficiency of 'development'." He replied. Well, that's a good idea! "I noticed that there is a hidden button on the controls of the fog and shadows, and the instructions for use note that it is a 'safe' function, you didn't tell me before."

"Really?" To be honest, I don't remember a little, so I can only respond to him, it turns out that Mike also designed that kind of thing! "This 'insurance' can be used as a last resort...... You can force ...... wake up," he said, but I didn't bother to listen to it......

"Does the rumored purple comet have anything to do with you...... There is some kind of coincidence with the timing of its appearance and the timing of your visit and departure...... "Purple Comet? He wasn't talking about the trajectory left by the "capsule system" when it crossed low earth orbit, and it was possible, but I couldn't explain it to him, so I chose not to answer.

"Teacher, do you have anything on your mind?" Dao Yan asked with concern, he probably thought that my indifference was due to worry.

"I'm thinking about how to solve some of the problems that come after." I'm referring to solving the human fugitive fleet from Earth.

"Are you afraid of death?" I'm a little embarrassed by this question, and theoretically speaking, I'm not really "alive", and I certainly don't care about the abstract concept of "death". Without waiting for me to answer, he continued, "You may be able to use this 'Reincarnation Spell Stone' with you. He handed me a well-protected "Spell Stone".

"What does it do?" I asked curiously.

"When you die, your soul is reborn in someone else."

- That's a scary answer!