After listening to Zhang Yuan's whimsy, John exclaimed excitedly, "Can quark? You think beautifully! But this kind of possible science fantasy is really beautiful......"

The people in the surrounding cafes all looked at it curiously, so much so that John quickly held back his excitement and gradually quieted his voice.

They talked with great interest about the humanistic changes, technological changes, and difficulties encountered in the new civilization, and recalled the past.

John used to be a pessimistic scientist, but now he is completely absorbed in the vast amount of knowledge thanks to new technologies, and is full of anticipation for the future.

There are indeed many technologies that can be realized, including nanobots, artificial cells, and other highly complex things, which have been stuck for a long time in the past, and now they can continue to move forward. In the future trading market, humanity should also be able to gain a lot of new knowledge and have peaceful access to a more powerful civilization.

John shifted the topic from the technical level to other directions, he recalled his experience in the virtual world, told a few short stories, and couldn't help but sigh: "The reason why we feel that it is beautiful is because the whole society is still advancing, there are all kinds of new things to explore, and there are expectations for the future." ”

"If we don't make progress, human beings will always fall into a vicious circle of internal games, and no matter how good it is, it will become unpleasant."

"Yes", Zhang Yuanshen agreed, "In a spotless world, there will always be so many loopholes to exploit...... I've been wondering, is what we're looking for constantly changing? ”

"Just like the heat death of the universe, once in the heat death state, all the atoms are evenly distributed, and there is no possibility.

"What we seek is to avoid this state of eternal stagnation...... Eternal change? ”

John was silent for a while, "You're right, and I hate that kind of longevity. A dead civilization is naturally gone, but the living civilization is also unchanged, which is really unbearable. Sometimes, it's better to be alive than dead. ”

Everyone in the virtual world has their own different encounters.

But if you don't have the ability to think for yourself, it's hard to get back into the real world.

John is undoubtedly one of them.

"Therefore, as described in the historiography of the new civilization, our first goal is the pursuit of eternal progress, the second goal is survival, and eternal progress is always the first goal!"

"Whoever stands in the way of this progress is our enemy."

This should be the common philosophy of all transcendental beings.

After being silent for a while, Zhang Yuan asked again: "Have you met other old acquaintances?" If anything, it's nice to be able to chat and drink coffee together, and although it's nice to be with young people, there's a lot of things, and there's always a bit of a generation gap with them. ”

"I didn't look for it too deliberately, but I guess I've seen seven or eight of them. The return of the entire transcendent has not officially begun, we are the first to return, the experimenters, the number will not exceed a hundred, you don't expect too much. ”

John shook his head: "Moreover, it's been so long, I don't know if they have returned to this world, and I don't know if they are still the people they originally knew, hey, it's probably just to find disappointment for themselves." Or maybe they will come back when restrictions are lifted, or maybe they won't. ”

"When I saw you today, I couldn't help but run over to say hello, and I felt very happy...... There's no need to put yourself under psychological baggage. ”

Zhang Yuan sighed softly.

Yes, it's been so many years, after so many reincarnations, every time you die of aging, you will witness the departure of relatives and friends.

The more I experience it again and again, I will gradually see this.

What is the most important thing for a person to live in this world?

It's yourself!

No one but yourself will be able to accompany you to the end.

Every reincarnation, there are new relatives and friends, a new life, if you indulge in nostalgia for old friends, indulge in the past, then, personal eternal life, will be a kind of pain.

This person will be lost in the virtual world and will no longer be able to return to reality.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan smiled: "Then, for our new life, cheers!" ”

"Cheers!"

With a bang, the two lightly touched the cup, and Zhang Yuan took a small sip and joked, "The air is full of philosophy." ”

"Haha, we are all philosophers, but if a society is full of philosophers, it can't do anything!" John said, "Society needs more doers!" ”

"Doer!"

After the party, Zhang Yuan returned home with a hint of unfinished business.

Habitually turning on the computer, he found that the mailbox was full of scientific research documents, and his colleagues in the group were already discussing the next improvement plan with great interest. There were also some letters, which were questions asked by scientific researchers from other research institutes, and Zhang Yuan settled down and patiently replied one by one.

It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the evening that I finished replying to all the documents and read the book for a while.

Recently, he inexplicably fell in love with a book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" written by the writer Marquez thousands of years ago.

The book depicts the changes in Latin America in the 20th century through the lens of a family. People are always lonely with each other, and it is difficult to unite the scattered forces in an effective way. A person with ideals and baggage is often assimilated by the whole society, just like the fact that Latin America did not rise in the end, the transformation of a society is too complicated.

Among them is this sentence: "You hate those people so much, you have fought with them for so long, and in the end you have become like them, and there is no ideal in the world that is worth such a sinking." ”

Everyone who has the ability to be complex, but chooses simplicity, knows the weight of this sentence.

It's also a normal day for him......

In this way, time passed year after year, and the time to the interstellar trading market was slowly approaching, and the speed of the entire fleet began to slow down gradually.

Zhang Yuan joined the queue of interstellar diplomats as he wished because of his outstanding grades, but his usual work was still the same as before, and there was not much change, except for the occasional personal quality training for diplomats......

Through news reports, it can be known that the entire fleet has received communication information from the outer ships of the Rim Thai civilization.

Simple contact with each other has begun.

It is expected that in three years, the two main motherships will stay in the outermost void of the trading market, and then they, the diplomatic representatives, will take some small spaceships to the exchange.

After all, it is a trade between civilizations and civilizations, and it is impossible to go out with all the staff like buying vegetables in the vegetable market, and the vast majority of the population will be in the mothership. It would be enough to send some elite representatives.

"There are still three years...... Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, looking forward to that day.

A great journey will finally come to an end, and I don't know what human beings can gain in the end......

Occasionally, one day, when I meet an old friend, I look at each other and smile, and talk about wine, which can be regarded as a small surprise in life.

As John said, Zhang Yuan is the one who returned to the real world relatively early, he only experienced 5 reincarnations in the virtual world, and was kicked out by the artificial intelligence "Sita".

And 5 reincarnations is the minimum standard, and if someone has more reincarnations than him, he may diverge in the real world for fifty or sixty or even a hundred years.

The entire new human civilization society is not yet ready for the return of a large number of transcendentals, so after so many years, Lin Xuanxuan, Li Zhendong, and Ichiro Yamamoto have not been found, and Zhang Yuan did not care too much. They may still be in the virtual world, sticking to their ideals and beliefs, but it may be worse...... There is no way to force anything, everything can only rely on themselves.