Lulu observed for a while before turning around, she turned to look at Shu Yunpeng: "I'm sorry, I didn't even invite you to sit...... Have a seat! ”

As she spoke, she asked for two drinks and said, "Finally, we can rest!" ”

"So it's your job to observe the movements of the Canis Major dwarf galaxy?" Shu Yunpeng said: "I'm sorry, I'm hindering your work." ”

"Colonel Shu misunderstood what I meant," Jones Lulu took a sip of her drink, "I mean, we have finally landed, and we no longer need to face the darkness of space, and we can live quietly for a while in the face of unpredictable changes and endless dangers." ”

"Hehe, yes," Shu Yunpeng nodded and said, "Samantha passed by last time, and the various things that the interstellar voyage experienced were very uncomfortable. ”

"Yes, incredibly uncomfortable......"

Shu Yunpeng groaned, and couldn't think of what to say for a while. The conversation with Jones Lulu just now made him feel extremely shocked, and he didn't come back to his senses for a while.

He drank his drink and tried to calm his mind: "You really don't value feelings at all? ”

"It can't be said that we don't attach importance to it, we can only say that we start from reality in everything."

"How long have you been thinking this way?" Shu Yunpeng continued to ask:

"It's been a long time...... Jones Lulu thought for a moment and said, "This rational way of thinking ensures that we can stick to the right choice in the most severe circumstances, even if we make mistakes for a while." ”

"I understand that for you, saving the race from extinction is the first priority, and the individual must obey this need," Shu Yunpeng said as accurately as possible: "What I want to know is that in your eyes, these children are just tools to save the race?" ”

"So to speak," said Jones Lulu proudly, "we wouldn't need these children if it weren't for saving the Jones race." Our cloning technology can ensure that we live with heaven and earth. ”

"You have no feelings for them other than the need to save the race?"

"How is that possible?" Jones Lulu said, "We love these kids! ”

"If they can't save your race, will you still love these children?" Shu Yunpeng was waiting for this answer, so that he could go straight to the key point: "If they really can't bear the responsibility of saving the Jones race, will you abandon them very rationally?" ”

Jones Lulu was speechless for a while, and honestly admitted: "I really haven't thought about this question......"

"You should really think about it!" Shu Yunpeng smiled: "Let me tell you, I told Samantha about her child, and a very bright smile appeared on her face. I believe that her smile this time is definitely not out of reason, but emotional, from the bottom of her heart! ”

Jones Lulu didn't speak. Shu Yunpeng felt that in order to adapt to the rigors of interstellar travel, the Jones people suppressed the expression of emotions. Because they have been suppressed for so long, they think that this is their nature. Therefore, when asked about this, most of them did not think about it.

Well, their way of thinking, that's what they think is rational. As for whether it was rational or not, he didn't dare to judge.

"How old are you......" Shu Yunpeng knew that she couldn't answer when he saw that Jones Lulu was no longer answering. He thought that Jones Lulu had just said that their cloning technology could ensure that they would live with heaven and earth, so he changed the subject: "I mean, how old are you?" ”

"How old am I?" Jones Lulu looked at Shu Yunpeng with a strange expression, and then smiled again: "Guess! ”

"I can't guess......" Shu Yunpeng hesitated: "It's probably tens of thousands of years old......

"Long live?" Jones Lulu smiled and smiled happily: "Based on your Earth years, I should probably be more than three and a half million years old!" ”

The cup in Shu Yunpeng's hand fell to the ground, and his mind went blank again.

"Why are you so surprised, Colonel Shu?" Jones Lulu laughed, "I'm still young, do you know how old Samantha is?" In Earth years, it should be 10 million years old......"

"How is this possible?" Shu Yunpeng was like five thunderbolts, completely dizzy. A 10-million-year-old Jones woman, he can still let her give birth to a child, which makes him feel like he is in a dream!

"Nothing is impossible!" "Our microscopic technology is more advanced, and cloning technology theoretically guarantees that we will never die, so we rarely have children," Lulu said. ”

"I don't understand," Shu Yunpeng was finally able to speak: "The cloning technology on our earth can also clone exactly the same person, but it can't inherit the ontological thinking, so the cloned person is another individual entirely." Don't you ......?"

"Yes, we are able to transmit consciousness and transfer the mind of the body to the brain of the clone body!" Jones Lulu seemed to be saying something very common: "What is the point of cloning a human being if he can only clone the body and not preserve the basic thinking of the body?" ”

"You guys are really powerful,......" Shu Yunpeng muttered to himself.

"It's not surprising, after all, we are a civilization of hundreds of millions of years!" Jones Lulu said calmly.

"So, how many years will you live if you don't clone?"

"About three to five hundred Earth years!" Jones Lulu thought for a moment and said, "Do you earthlings all yearn for eternal life?" ”

"Yes, eager to do so!" Shu Yunpeng replied: "Don't you want it? ”

"How so?" Jones Lulu drained the drink from the cup in one gulp: "Do you still want it?" …… You ask us if we long for eternal life, and I think, maybe we once longed for it, but now, can't tell. ”

"I can't tell what it means?" Shu Yunpeng settled down, Jones Lulu said that she had lived for more than three million years, and Samantha had lived for tens of millions of years, which really gave him an unprecedented spiritual shock, making him difficult to calm down for a while: "Is there anyone who doesn't want to live?" ”

"Yes," said Jones Lulu, "and that's it, Colonel Shu, I can't say any more." ”

After leaving Jones Lulu, Shu Yunpeng somehow returned to the mothership where he lived, he couldn't remember clearly. Jones Lulu told him, and he didn't know how to understand it. A race with a history of hundreds of millions of years of civilization, can the earthlings still understand their way of thinking and their code of conduct?

He couldn't figure it out, his head was a mess.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Xiang Zidan was surprised when he saw him: "Your face is not good, it is ugly, what did you encounter?" ”

"It's okay......" Shu Yunpeng tried his best to control his emotions: "You go and call Commander Zhang and all of them over, I have something to say." ”

The people he wanted to call were there, and he told them what he had said to Jones Lulu. He tried his best to recall, trying to restore Jones Lulu's original words, and everyone was shocked to hear it.

"How so? …… I don't understand, they ......" Zhang Jingyi muttered, almost incoherent, and the others simply couldn't spit out a word.

"I'm sure Jones Lulu won't lie!" Shu Yunpeng said gloomily: "There is no need for her to lie. ”

"In this way, the demise of mankind is ironclad!" Sister Zhen is quite calm. Her leg was treated by the Jones and was able to walk: "They ...... They ......"

Even Sister Zhen was speechless, and she didn't know what to say. Shu Yunpeng looked at Sister Zhen and guessed that she had something to think but couldn't express it for a while, so he asked her, "Did you think of something?" ”

"You asked her if there was anyone among them who didn't want to live, and she said yes, right?"

"Yes!" Shu Yunpeng said: "She said: 'There is'!"

"Find out why one of them wouldn't want to live!" Sister Zhen said: "I think that as long as you figure this out, some things will be easy to understand." ”

"The problem is," Shu Yunpeng muttered, "That's the end of the conversation, she doesn't want to talk about it." ”

"You've got to get her to say it!" Sister Zhen said: "I see that there are cats here! ”

"That's right, I think Sister Zhen is right," Zhang Jingyi also said, "They have lived for so long, we definitely can't imagine that feeling." Since some people don't want to live anymore, it means that this is the point of disagreement among them. If we can figure out why those of them don't want to live, maybe we'll find the problem. ”

"Is this the key? How do I not think? Emily was puzzled: "Among us earthlings, there are also people who are impatient and choose to commit suicide, why is the problem?" ”

"That's different," Xiang Zidan disagreed with Emily's statement: "Those who commit suicide among us earthlings are all for personal reasons. And the people who don't want to live among the Jones seem to have something to do with them living too long, and it doesn't sound like a very small one. This means that some of them don't want to live, and the reason is not personal! ”

Shu Yunpeng's mood had gradually calmed down, and he was silent, listening to Zhang Jingyi's gossip discussion. As he listened, an idea began to pop into his mind. He decided that he would go to Jones Lulu again, and even if she didn't want to answer, he wouldn't give up.

A drowning person sees a straw and has to hold on, even if the straw is just a phantom.

"Lulu," Shu Yunpeng came to Lulu's mothership early the next morning, "There is one thing I still don't understand. At the beginning, after the war on Earth was over and we settled down, we extended an invitation to you to come and live on Earth, but you refused. And now, the catastrophe has struck, and the earth is in danger, but you have come to the earth, what is going on? ”

"We seem to have told you this," Lulu said, "we don't want to die in the vast universe, so we regard Earth as our final destination." ”

"In other words, you have given up," Shu Yunpeng said, "interstellar travel is full of dangers, and the unknowable variables are too great, too arduous and too painful. It's like you've been running for thousands of years, and you've finally run to Earth, but unfortunately you've encountered this unexpected catastrophe, so you don't want to struggle anymore, do you? ”

"I've said enough, Colonel," Lulu said calmly, "I can't say anything more!" ”