Chapter 11: The Munsteins
I don't know how long it took, the hood was loosened, it was raised, and the gripper was released. Luo Xingyu's mind regained consciousness, and he was in surprise, when the hatch opened, and a voice came down from the door: "Welcome, descendants of Munstan." It was a different language, but Luo Xingyu could understand it.
Luo Xingyu was blinded, he didn't know why this voice called him a descendant of the Munsteins, he suddenly remembered the story that Nazarea said about the Munstans, they are disembodied creatures, they are immortal, could it be that this ship is the spaceship of the Munstans? But why did this voice call him a descendant of Munstein?
"Are you a human or a machine?" Luo Xingyu asked.
"I'm a system left behind by the Monsteins."
"Are there any people alive on this ship?"
"No, they're all dead."
"But why do you call me a descendant of Munstan, am I a descendant of theirs?"
"Yes, I just tested your DNA, and scanned your appearance and brain, whether it is genetics, appearance, or brain structure, it shows that you are a descendant of the Munsteins."
"Why don't we know?"
"It's possible, it means that the person who nurtured you didn't tell you about this or any accident, come in and you'll understand, please come in, Descendants of Munstan, I'm waiting for you."
"Okay." Luo Xingyu said, walking towards the door, he also beckoned Tama, who was looking blankly, to go in together, but when he entered, when Tama was about to enter, he was stopped by several lasers and grids, and the voice said: "Non-Monstein people are not allowed to enter." When Luo Xingyu stepped back and went in again, the laser and the grid disappeared again. This cabin is only allowed to allow people with Munstein blood to enter, helplessly, Luo Xingyu had to ask Tama to wait for him outside, he walked towards the cabin, after he entered the cabin, the cabin door closed automatically.
The cabin is not big, it is circular, it emits a soft green light, a cylindrical thing stands in the center of the cabin, there is a seat in front of the column, with its back to the column, the bulkhead has a circle of screens, divided into four areas, there is a seat in front of each area, the system voice said: "Welcome to the green cabin, the descendants of Munsta, you are the first descendant of Munstein to come here, the system will be turned on for you below, please sit down in the middle seat." ”
Luo Xingyu sat down in his seat, and a hood fell from above. "Please stick your head in." The system said, this time Luo Xingyu was not afraid, but straightened the hood, put his head in, after the hood was fixed, a VR picture appeared in front of him, first a system started the picture, a pattern composed of stars and ripples in the middle, the background is a panorama of the Milky Way, and then a middle-aged man from Montatan who is similar to the image of an earthling man appears in the picture.
"Hello, the system has been opened, I am the image of the system, I will introduce you to the situation of the Munstein, if you have anything you want to ask, you can ask me."
"Earlier, you said I was a descendant of the Munsteins?"
"Yes, it has been verified."
"Did we make it?"
"No, you are natural beings, which means that our continuation plan has been successful."
"The continuation plan was successful? What do you mean? ”
"Only by telling the history of the Munstans will you understand, do you want me to tell me the history of the Munstans first?"
"Okay, you can say it."
"Okay, now please join me on a journey to the planet of Zestan." The system says.
Then a holographic map of the Milky Way star appeared, and the star map gradually zoomed in, and the coordinates came to a position not far from the center of the Milky Way, and a huge pale yellow planet hung in the sky.
"This is Munstan, one of the oldest planets in the Milky Way and our home, where we have lived for hundreds of millions of years. We are a very happy planet, our civilization is the oldest and most advanced civilization in the galaxy, we have no shortage of materials, we have everything we need, people basically do not need to work, labor is just a pastime, we live very happily, because we are so happy, so we ask for more, we hope for eternal life.
In order to live forever, our scientists have come up with countless methods, starting with improving physical fitness, repairing genes, changing medical methods, and even replacing all organs, but this way can only extend life a little, natural life is still limited, and you will still die.
Through the efforts of countless scientists, in the end, they can finally get consciousness out of the brain and save it in a kind of quantum brain, so that we can break away from the body and live in the quantum brain, as long as the quantum brain keeps the energy uninterrupted, we can exist forever.
At first, the quantum brain was very large, and we could only live in the quantum brain like a program, although we could live, but we could not move, which made us very dissatisfied.
Later, the quantum brain can be very small, about the same size as the human brain, and then we can add a bionic body to the quantum brain, and we will become a quantum human in the full sense.
The advantage of quantum people is that we can migrate between bionic bodies, between bionic bodies and quantum masters, one bionic body is wasted, we can change to another bionic body, we can also live in the quantum masterbrain when we don't want a body, so we finally solve the ultimate problem, we have defeated death!
Because the migration of consciousness from the physical body to the quantum brain is irreversible (the physical body and life are one, and the physical body will die as soon as it is separated from life, so it is impossible to relocate consciousness to a physical body that is originally alive), although we have lost our physical body, we can live forever.
After being immortalized, all the people on our planet are gradually quantized, and after all of them are quantized, although we have preserved the genes of natural life, we no longer have children, and the population will no longer increase.
We live happily and happily, but as time goes by, we find that there are many inconveniences, such as some delicate and soft, overly flexible work that we can't do, because our bionic body is machined, not so flexible and delicate, and many parts can only be done by very delicate people, that is, natural life can do, without these parts, our body will have problems, the main brain also needs these parts, and our supply will also have problems.
And we can no longer breed natural life to do these things, because they are also Munstein, why do they have a natural life to die, while we are quantum life can live forever, this will cause injustice and hierarchy, it will cause conflict, and we can't quantize them when they are about to die, so that quantum life will increase infinitely.
In order to solve this problem, we came up with a way to create artificial humans, we do not use the genes of the Munstein people to cultivate life, but use an artificially edited gene to create life, we do not give them the same mind and consciousness as people, so they can not be regarded as real people, but only as a physical robot, let them die a natural death, which solves the ethical problem.
As soon as the idea was proposed, it was immediately agreed by all quantum people.
Soon the first generation of androids was manufactured, and then after improvement, the second and third generations were created immediately, their maturity period is very short and the aging period is very short, they enter adulthood within a few years of birth, and they will die soon after entering the aging period, although their lifespan is only forty or fifty years, but the aging period is more than thirty years, they are strong, flexible, and agile, and can replace most of the work that robots can't do, everything is perfect. We call the cyborgs Senu, which means race over slaves.
In this way, we live happily for a thousand years, and perhaps for another ten thousand, ten million years, forever, but the creation plays a joke on us, or the creation wants to punish us by the hand of an artificial man, because we have despised him.
At some point, the Sennu became self-conscious, and we did not know when they began to rebel, and we remained in the dark until one day, when a large group of Sennu suddenly rebelled, and the rebellion soon spread to most of the planet, because we had been too peaceful and defenseless, our army was nothing but decoration, and our weapons were rusty and moldy.
Soon a large number of our quantum humans were wiped out, the mastermind was destroyed, and the rebellion was later quelled with the help of the hastily prepared mechanized corps, after which we lost nearly a third of the population.
After the riots subsided, we began to learn our lessons and began to reflect on whether it was right to do so, but we still needed the services of androids, and there was no way to leave them. The result of our lesson is to remodify the androids, downgrade their abilities, implant stamen tablets in their brains, closely monitor them, and destroy them as soon as they are found to be resistant, and instead of reflecting on our own mistakes, we go further and further down the wrong path.
In the course of the riot, some of the Sethians seized several ships and escaped from Munstan, and since they were infertile, we weren't too worried about what threat they posed to us.
But more than a thousand years later, a huge alien fleet came to our planet, and we found out that they were Sethians, and at this time their appearance completely changed, they became stronger, their bodies were larger, but their heads became smaller, I don't know how they reproduced, maybe they had genetic mutations, maybe they found the genetic control system of the spaceship, multiplied and changed themselves, anyway, they have survived, and developed to a considerable size.
We knew they were coming back this time to take revenge, and we asked for forgiveness and asked for peace, but received a cold refusal. They have used our technology to the same extent as us, and we only have a mechanized corps at our disposal, and the Sennu on the planet have joined forces with the mutant Sennu outside the planet to rebel against us, dealing a devastating blow to us, and we know that our future has come, this is our own mistake, and we are to blame, and we deserve retribution.
Our bases began to be breached one by one, the main brains were destroyed one by one, and the quantum people were killed one by one. The mutants want to exterminate us all, leaving no one behind, they are cold-blooded, ruthless, cruel, and ignore our pleas, we know that it is also our own fault, that we did not give them good feelings, and that it is too late for us to repent.
It is not a pity for us to die, but in order to keep the Munstans alive, we have decided to escape from Munstan and find other planets, so that Munstan's natural life can be continued on other planets, and after completing this mission, we will close ourselves forever and enter eternal rest.
In the end, we managed to escape only six ships, they are: Tais, Titan, Taihao, Taida, Taining, and our ship is called Tais. After we reached this planet, we were hit by a planet and crashed into the power system, and we ended up crashing here. We still have a lot of quantum people alive, we investigated the planet, and found that in the survival of their life, when we were ready to nurture the natural life of the Munstein people and put it into it, we found that the gene pool was contaminated by nuclear weapons, and we were afraid of the emergence of variants, so we did not dare to release them, so we had to destroy them.
We have no way to repair this spaceship, just like that, we are trapped on this planet, we are tired of life, after losing our bodies, we have also lost a lot of good feelings and feelings, we have found that eternal life is not a kind of happiness, but endless emptiness and boredom, the purpose of our survival is to continue our offspring, now this goal is no longer possible, we have no point in surviving, so we decided to commit suicide collectively.
This system is the system we left behind after committing suicide. Because we have other ships, we hope that they can successfully land and nurture life, and if they succeed in nurturing natural life, and the descendants of Munstan are lucky enough to be here, I hope they can learn about our history and our experiences. We have been waiting on this planet for millions of years, and the kinetic energy of this system can be maintained for 10,000 years, and within these 10,000 years, no one can turn it on, and it will shut itself down forever.
Now that we've waited for you, you're the first Munstein descendant to come here, do you now understand why I'm calling you Munstan's descendant? ”
"But why don't those who nurtured us tell us this secret?"
"Our plan is to cultivate natural life, without interference, let you develop naturally, and not artificially improve your technology, we are only protecting in secret, so it is possible that they don't tell you in the early stage, because we don't want you to repeat our mistakes, maybe they can't wait that long, maybe they encounter some accidents, like us."
"Oh, you just said that there are six ships: Tais, Titans, Taihao, Taida, Taining, and we may be the descendants of the Titans, because we have a legend about the Titans in history, saying that we are their descendants, maybe it is they who hint at us in this way."
"Possibly."
"What do the androids you just said look like?"
"Okay, you'll see right away." The system says.
At this time, the first, second, and third generations of androids and mutants appeared on the screen, and Luo Xingyu found that the mutants were snakeheads!
"Oh my God, they're smugglers!"
"Smugglers, what smugglers? Have you seen them? ”
"I've seen it, I escaped from them, and now they're already invading other planets, and this planet could also be the descendants of the Munstans, because they have a legend about TEDA."
"Oops, it seems that they are developing very fast, they have actually arrived here, if they can't stop them, it is likely that the entire galaxy will be occupied by them."
"So what to do, is there a solution?"
"Their technology is also learned from us, we can't defeat them because we don't have physical natural life, now this system has all our scientific and technological materials, if you can, you can call some of the descendants of Munstein to learn."
"But I'm only one person now, and I can't leave, and I can't leave now anyway, or I'll learn first."
"You're alone?"
"I'm alone."
"That's enough, you learn to try it first, you can learn as much as you can."
"Okay, how do I get started?"
"Our technology is divided into four parts: faster-than-light navigation and communications, high-strength plateau sub-materials, offensive and defensive weapon systems, and biomedicine, which part do you want to learn first?"
"How much time does each part take?"
"It depends on your progress, each part is as short as a few months or as long as a few years, and if you are not talented enough to learn, you can't learn it in a lifetime, it depends on your acceptance and understanding."
"Oh, okay, then I'll go out and rest for a while, and I'll start later." Luo Xingyu said.
"Yes," the system said, and let go of the hood. Luo Xingyu got down from his seat, walked out of the cabin, and found that Tama had been waiting outside the door for more than two hours. Luo Xingyu briefly explained the situation in the cabin to him, saying that he needed to study in the cabin next, and he didn't know how long it would take, if Tama didn't want to wait, he could go back to the spaceship first, Tama said that he was willing to stay with him, and Luo Xingyu immediately hugged him to show his gratitude.
They found a clean room in the cabin next to it that they used as their lounge. They brought food, but not much, Tama said that if the food was not enough, he could go down the mountain to hunt nearby, and Luo Xingyu held his hand again to express his gratitude. They ate the food they brought over in the lounge, and then rested for a while, and Luo Xingyu entered the green cabin again.