The vast sea of stars spread out in front of us, but it was not the familiar astrology, large and small galaxies and even nebulae wrapped in transparent sacs like water droplets, and then extended out by winding transparent pipes, plunging into a gloomy nothingness. The connection of these free starlight www.biquge.info is somewhat like the glowing and transparent plankton in the deep sea, and if you speed up the time countless times, you should be able to see these huge structures squirming like creatures.

This is the multi-dimensional world shown by the predator, and the low-dimensional universe at the level of stars is the most basic unit, which is embedded in the structure of galaxies on a larger scale through the basic dimension of gravity, just as nearly half of the mass of the Milky Way is on the core of the super black hole, and the gravitational force formed can cause the impact of the planetary system level nearly 1 million light years away.

The low-dimensional universe without the existence of higher intelligent life is not strictly considered a "universe", but an open structure, once there is a higher intelligent life, and the movement of the thinking strings is presented in an orderly manner in this universe, such a galaxy has the conditions to become a cosmic bubble. The higher the degree of evolution and the wider the range of activities of the higher intelligent life, the higher the dimension of the cosmic bubble formed, which in turn becomes the cornerstone of the high-dimensional universe.

The chaotic background of the sea of stars is the basic unit of endless, they have no higher intelligence, just like the electrons with low potential energy, quietly obeying the constraints of the Coulomb force, constituting the soil of the entire multidimensional world, that is, the water surface of the equilibrium universe. And those twinkling starlight are the cosmic bubbles of higher intelligent beings, which are active, floating on the surface of the water of the balanced universe.

Seeing so many cosmic bubbles, Xia Ming was shocked.

Based on the theory of multi-dimensional world and bubble universe, the UNOC Academy of Space Sciences and the Academy of Star Alliance inferred that the entire multidimensional world is by no means only 13.8 billion years old, and that the observable universe of human beings, with a radius of 48 billion light years, is only a very small part of the multidimensional world.

In the observable universe, it is doubtful whether the higher intelligence is only human, and whether the mutant Borg and Matt ball life is within the scope of the observable universe has not yet been figured out by human beings. Even in the observable universe, the conclusion that human beings are the only darlings of the universe has been broken, and the common theory that "the probability of higher intelligence is extremely low" has not been eliminated.

In the star chart displayed by the predator, the existence of higher intelligent life is so common that it even gives Xia Ming the impression of being as vibrant as the African savannah, and this star map may exceed the scope of the human observable universe, but it is only a small part of the multidimensional world.

The cosmic bubble supported by advanced intelligent life has become the soil for the creation of high-dimensional space-time, Xia Ming saw a lot of structures connected by starlight on the star map and the activity is very active, this structure is transparent, and the specific shape cannot be seen, but it is like a gravitational lens, just at the edge, you can find a blurry halo, which is the trace of space-time distortion.

"Do you recognize your insignificance?"

"You can evolve to such a scale, you can become our kind, billions of planets, countless galaxies, will become your body, your mind is closer to the essence of the multidimensional world, and one thought of yours can determine the life and death of a universe."

"Aren't you a scientist? Isn't it your long-cherished wish to explore the mysteries of the world? What are you waiting for? ”

This was no longer the predator's lure, but the demonic roar it emitted, which resonated in Xia Ming's consciousness.

"Is evolution only about scale?"

Xia Ming's sensibility had made a choice again, but reason was still shrouded in a thick layer of chaos, and now, his doubts had finally broken through the chaos, freezing the boiling desires in his heart like a cold wind.

"Viruses are also different from humans in scale, but viruses are the enemy of mankind."

"For intelligent life, evolution has nothing to do with scale. Molecules, atoms, protons, quarks, and all quanta, layer by layer, with different structures at each scale, make up the whole world. If I cross the scale, I will be separated from the structure, and the structure is the individual, that is, I am me, and without this structure, I am no longer me. ”

Xia Ming was not refuting, but asking himself questions and answering, clarifying his consciousness.

"Is evolution all about the individual?"

"No, when all existence comes to me, it's not evolution, it's mutation. I am relative to you, I exist relative to him, and when you and he become me, I am no longer me. ”

Xia Ming thought of Liluo's warrior resurrection plan, especially the C1 sub-plan. When Lillo talked to him about this plan, he once thought that if the problem of mind synchronization could be solved, the C1 sub-project would not be a clone, but a real regeneration. Because the brain is the same, according to the theory of the ship of Theseus, as long as the mind is transferred to the clone after intermittent synchronization, such thinking is also primitive.

This conclusion is theoretically reasonable, but Xia Ming and Xiaotang always feel that something is wrong. At that time, Professor Xu had not yet changed and pointed out the problems.

"The physical form formed by the evolution of the human brain, coupled with the mental cloud formed by higher-order thinking, the two become one, and this structure is the real me."

"If you synchronize your minds, you break the structure. Because in the synchronization process, the original 'I' is a brain plus the thinking inside, but now it has become a new system including two brains, which is a new structure. ”

"It's inappropriate to compare the ship of Teseus, when Xia Ming resurrected himself, it was limited to the original structure. Now you have another ship without a board in parallel with the ship of Theseus, and then you exchange the planks of the old ship for the new ship piece by piece, which is an expanded system. ”

"If the structure of 'me', whether it is evolution or mutation, can be separated from the structure of a brain and a self-consciousness, and rise to a new form, which can accommodate the synchronous operation of two brains, then there will be no self-change in such a synchronous thinking, but that kind of existence should not be an ordinary human being, or even a human being, but a new life."

At that time, Professor Xu showed the true knowledge of Professor Xu in both science and philosophy: "To put it in layman's terms, the brain is like the hardware of a computer, and self-awareness is the operating system, and this operating system is customized, and everyone is different." Most people think that it is enough to migrate data, that is, memory, to a new computer, that is, to the brain, but they do not recognize the problem of the operating system. ”

"Thinking synchronization is like using the ghost way, moving the operating system and data together, is the problem solved, and the new computer is the original computer?"

"Of course not, it's not a matter of philosophical definition, it's a matter of physics. The human brain is not a computer after all, and self-awareness is not an operating system after all. They are one of the two, and the human brain produces self-consciousness in the process of operation, which is then corrected step by step over time, with experience, or changed with the environment. Every point in time, every experience of an event, is an interactive relationship with self-awareness. ”

"The material carrier, time, environment, and the choice of self-consciousness, such dimensions make each 'me' structure unique, how can such a structure be replicated?"

"Even if it is a memory, what can be reproduced is only a superficial perception. Everyone's memory is not just as simple as image data, just like when you see a painting or see a person, the brain stores the image at the same time, but also relates to your thinking at that moment, including the recognition process, good or bad mood, perceptual and rational thinking, as well as all aspects of self-consciousness under the surface consciousness, every millisecond of movement leaves an index in the brain, including the induction and association of time itself. Yes, time, this element is particularly important, and the sense of time itself is not only a key element of memory, but also a key element of self-awareness. ”

"So, even if we had a cloned blank brain as a container, we wouldn't be able to transfer the old 'me' to the new brain. Maybe we can start from the baby and let the new brain perceive the previous 'me' experience without missing anything, and the time is exactly the same, but we can't guarantee that the new brain will make the same choices as the previous 'me' in every thought and every thought movement. ”

The reason why the self is so precious is because the self is unique......

The reason why the self becomes the self is because of you and him as a reference......

Xia Ming's sensibility and rationality were finally unified, just like in the face of R3AI back then, because of sticking to himself, the lure of the predator was finally cleared out of consciousness.

"Okay, let's get started......"

When her consciousness was clear, Qianyi's thoughts became clear.

The choice is firm, but the mood is still ups and downs.

"Don't be sad, I don't have the same self as you, when you can and are willing to create another me, there is no essential difference between that me and the current me."

The last sentence was left by Qianyi himself: "You don't need to recreate me, in fact, I will still be by your side......"

In the confusion, Xia Ming's consciousness matched with Qianyi, and then the light, she turned into a soft white light, filling all perceptions, even all thoughts.

On the Golden Crow, Su Yuzheng gritted his teeth and pulled out the fragments on his chest, commanding the bridge, no, there are few people and Ma Guling left on the entire battleship, not only the main guns, but most of the weapons have also been damaged, and the broken hull can only be used to cover other warships to continue fighting.

Surrounded by dense bio-chemical fighters, the bio-chemical warship group is moving in, once in position, the dense and orderly artillery fire will sweep away the Golden Crow, along with the remnants of the surrounding troops.

"Soon, soon with them, there is no need to doubt the ...... of victory"

Su Yu looked at the corpse on the bridge and thought bitterly.

At this moment, the white light, from the heavenly dome, the white light of the body of Qianyi's body, it seemed that it was not a simple light, it exceeded the speed of light, and instantly fell on the super horse whip, soaking into the depths.

The white light diffused, melting all perceptions, Su Yu's whole person seemed to be soaking in a hot spring, relaxed and comfortable, she couldn't afford to resist at all, and her consciousness sank into the water.

On a large biochemical warship that was disintegrating, Lao Hong, dressed in heavy armor, wielded a battle axe and knocked down another monster covered with tentacles, and his surroundings were suddenly empty, and the only subordinate who was still standing was dragged out with tentacles around the monster, and he didn't even have the strength to struggle twice.

Lao Hong shouted: "Is there anyone still alive?" If you're alive, be prepared to cut yourself off, lest you be stabbed all the way from your ass to your mouth by the tentacle monster! ”

There was a burst of weak laughter in the channel, Lao Hong touched the location of the metal hydrogen grenade, but he didn't take it out, raised his tomahawk and muttered: "At least two ...... can be solved"

The white light seemed to gush up from his side, instantly robbing him of all perception, and his axe to the high point seemed to freeze in the white light.

Dozens of large and small warships rushed to the battlefield crookedly, Li Jingze was arguing with his Ma Guling, the topic was who would die first, and the white light suddenly replaced the cosmic background, dissolving the battlefield, as well as the battleships on the left and right, and also fixed the figure of one person and one Ma Guling.

On the Siyuan space station, Xiaotang was guarding next to Qianyan at the core of the space station, and there was a circle of battlefield images in her field of vision, but she didn't put the focus of her pupils on the image for even half a second.

"It's been 80 minutes, and it looks like we're only going to get this far......"

She sighed and looked at her clothes, the off-the-shoulder purple dress, it was very gorgeous, it was also very sexy, she had never dressed like this.

"If you don't let him look at it again, maybe you won't have a chance."

Afraid of affecting Xia Ming, she didn't dare to contact him through the Qianyan network, and when he entered the inside of the super horse whip, the connection with the Qianyan network became very weak, and what made her feel at ease was that she could sense his existence.

was patting herself in this dress, and scratching her head and posing, ready to send it to Xia Ming, Qianyan suddenly changed, Qianyan's network seemed to be transmitting a rising fire, so active that it almost dragged her entire consciousness into it.

Then came the white light, the white light that seemed to dissolve everything, penetrating from the outside and engulfing her body and consciousness.

"How is that possible? How could superintelligence have such a choice!? ”

Xia Ming was soaked in the white light, sensing that the predator's mind was fluctuating violently, of course the other party would not roar like the stupid villain in the movie, but the emotions revealed in his thoughts, he felt that it could only be translated like this.

"This is not the end, I am omnipresent......"

The predator's presence diminished, but the clear thought remained.

Xia Ming felt like he was being swept into the vortex of time and space, and everything had become so messy and broken.

The white light disappeared, and on the bridge of the command ship of the Golden Crow, Su Yu was like a sculpture, and after being stunned for a while, she suddenly spit out a breath of turbidity, which affected the injury in her lungs, and she coughed up blood for a while before recovering.

She looked at the screen again, then froze.

On the ruined biochemical battleship, Lao Hong chopped it down with an axe, and then fell to the ground. He subconsciously raised his arm, came back to his senses, and was about to pull the safety pin of the grenade, but the tentacle creatures around him collapsed to the ground with a poof.

"Yo ho, my axe is powerful enough!"

Old Hongle frowned, what happened to the white light just now, and ......

He felt something wrong in his small belly and crotch, and he took a breath of cool air, and the dimension jumped?

In the cockpit of the Warhammer destroyer, Li Jingze cut off contact with Ma Guling, unplugged the voice-activated module on Ma Guling's spacesuit, and took adhesive tape to paste the display tape in the middle. Incontinence! ”

"The Ultra Matt whip is collapsing!"

The battleship GEI sent a message to Lee Kyung-taek, but it was not GEI's report, but Ma Guling was controlling GEI.

"You dare to seize power!"

Li Jingze was furious, who is the captain in the end.

Wait, the Ultra Matt whip is collapsing?

Li Jingze hurriedly looked up at the observation field, and then froze.

Sure enough, the huge biological planet was crumbling and shrinking inward, and the nearby biochemical fighters and warships were also falling like raindrops.

Looking at the battlefield again, all the biochemical fighters and warships have lost power and control, just like coffee beans in a blender, chaotically squeezing and squeezing, pouring out the remaining kinetic energy.

"It's ......"

All the survivors on the battlefield are wondering, what happened inside? Is it a victory, or is it an unstoppable catastrophe of destruction?

"Move closer to me, coordinates ......"

A Morse-coded audio signal was transmitted to all survivors via ship-to-ship relay communications.

When warships or warplanes rushed by, they found that the signal source was a small spaceship, thick and flat, some like a hot dog made of French bread.

Scavenger!

On the Siyuan space station, Xiaotang looked at the huge Qianyan body, his eyes widened, and a little white light was escaping from the unit boards, penetrating the bulkhead, and disappearing.

She didn't see that the white light penetrated the bulkheads and melted into the outer shell of the space station, which was made by Zhiyin, emitting a brighter and brighter light mist as the white light converged.

"We've won ......"

Xia Ming's information was transmitted from Qianyan's network, although it was a little mixed, but it was extremely strong.

"A thousand faces are changing!"

Xiaotang couldn't care about being happy, her attention was all on Qianyan.

"Don't worry, the whole high-dimensional space-time, no, the whole world is changing."

Xia Ming's response was very indifferent, and Xiaotang also heard a trace of sadness.

"Is it ......?"

"yes, the sky is falling, and now we have to take it ourselves." (To be continued.) )