ACT050: I, human!
The Gendaya ancestors were a powerful race that once built a highly developed civilization. Many of their things operate beyond the comprehension of modern human beings, so much so that in the religious period when human beings were still very ignorant, ancient people were once considered to be the "true gods" who created the world.
But such a powerful race has now disappeared without a trace, leaving only some relics for humans to guess and make up for their former glory. Human beings have always wanted to know how the ancient people disappeared, and various conjectures can be described as different opinions, but just now, Zhao Jian learned the true idea from Xia Weier's mouth.
The ancients were self-exterminated!
The Gendaya ancestors are a race that has developed to the extreme, from the earliest organic life forms to the later energy life forms, the ancestors evolved independently and made a lot of optimizations to their bodies.
In order to adapt to the universe, they energized their bodies, and had both physical and energy forms, which could directly absorb the radiation of the universe to survive. And this kind of evolution also made them immortal, coupled with the efficient "combined reproduction", the population of the ancestors once increased geometrically.
The so-called "combined reproduction" is a very miraculous and faintly heavy way of reproduction in the eyes of humans.
The Gendayan ancestors also had the same gender as humans at the beginning, but later they felt that gender was an obstacle to "true love", so they evolved autonomously, erasing the gender characteristics of the body, and became a veritable asexual race. And when it comes to making the next generation, not only gender is not holding them back, but even numbers. 1 person, 2 people, or even a lot of people, each person takes out a piece of DNA, and "rub it, rub it" is a whole new individual.
This special way of reproduction once made the ancient people happy, and everyone got together to "give birth" and play when they had nothing to do. Newborns, on the other hand, are born to automatically absorb the radiation waves around them, grow into adults within a few hours, and gain knowledge directly from the "parents" present through the radio waves, and then happily participate in it.
By the time the ancients began to react, their numbers were so large that they were about to get out of control!
"Miss Shavier, what do I think of these Gendayans when you say that...... A bit funny, isn't it? ”
After listening to Shavier's narration, all the three people present had a feeling of collapse of their three views, Zhao Jian, who had been "attacked" by the ancients, was somewhat better, and Hood and Arizona simply held their foreheads and remained silent for a long time. Many ship girls actually have a grateful longing for the ancient people who created them, but when they found out that their idols were a group of boys and a comic race that was overborn to the point of overpopulation, their minds were already humanized and they were instantly disillusioned!
"Miss Shavier, you said that there was a population explosion among the ancestors of Gendaya, is that why they destroyed themselves? In addition, when they were overborn, didn't the government come forward to stop them? ”
"The ancestors did not have the concept of a state, or they once had, but then they were disbanded, and some of their behaviors may seem quite neurotic to humans, but the overall environment of the whole race is there, and you can't just look at it with human thinking. The population explosion was not the direct cause of the Gendayan extinction, but it was the trigger for the extinction to begin. ”
After the population was over-inflated, the ancestors didn't care at first, anyway, the universe is so big, no matter how large their population is, it is just a drop in the ocean, but some dangerous "sprouts" have quietly formed.
"Suicide, it is this terrible mental illness that has ruined the once incomparably prosperous Gendaya civilization."
"Wait, wait! Is mental illness contagious? ”
Xia Weier's words made Zhao Jian have a grotesque sense of "the second disease will also die".
"As I said before, the Gendaya ancestors were energy-based beings who could communicate with each other with spirit waves, and even built a brain domain network that covered the whole people. Although there are countless individuals in the whole race, there is a unified will all the time, which is why they do not need state organs. ”
"So the kind of psychosis you are talking about has started to spread through this brain domain network?"
Zhao Jian, who has experienced the Internet era, immediately understood what Xia Weier meant. If the ancestors are regarded as a computer, then this brain domain network is the Internet, and suicide disease is a virus, which can be spread through the network.
"It is not known how the original root cause of the virus came about, and the whole process from the complete outbreak to the end of more than 99.99% of the ancestors was only as short as a blink of an eye. Trillions of ancestors developed intense feelings of despair under the influence of the virus, and then decomposed themselves, and only a few survived. ”
"Hey, since there are still survivors, shouldn't it be easy to restore the population with their undisciplined and efficient breeding ability?" Arizona hurriedly asked.
"It was easy in theory, but after that catastrophe, the survivors all cut themselves off from the brain domain network. They were afraid that the tragedy would happen again when the population grew, so they went into hiding. Some ancestors chose to sleep, while others chose to end with their own will in the long loneliness. ”
The destruction of the ancestors of Gendaya is both sad and ironic, and the brain domain network that wants to gather the wisdom of the whole people ends up harming the entire race with mental illness. And their extinction also caused their cities to collapse with them.
The ancestors were the great power that controlled the energy, and almost all of their cities on the ground were made of energy, and very few physical materials were used. Without the control and maintenance of the ancestors, only self-disciplined energy facilities like the Domain Wall and physical equipment such as the Star Gate could continue to operate, which is the real reason why humans can't find many relics of ancient people.
It took more than two hours for Chavier to tell the rise and fall of the ancients, and after the lecture, the three listeners could not calm down for a long time. Zhao Jian subconsciously touched the back of his head, and couldn't help but worry that he would want to commit suicide, and at this time, Xia Weier suddenly asked Zhao Jian a strange question.
"Brother Zhao Jian, you are the only 'human' here, can you tell me how you think of your own race?"
When she said this, Xia Weier deliberately used the word "human" to metaphorically guess what the other party meant by Zhao Jian, and after a little consideration, he took a deep breath and said his truest thoughts.
"What do I think of humans? I really can't say that too clearly. Human beings are too complex, especially human nature, at least in my opinion, super complex! You can see in us all the sins of the world, but like two sides of the same coin, we also have all the virtues at the same time. So I think that human beings are neither good nor bad, but there is infinite potential and hope for eternity! ”
"Looks like you like humans too! Then I can rest assured. ”
"Hey, hey, hey! What kind of dumb riddle are you two playing, why do I get more and more confused the more I listen? ”
"I'm also wondering, are you two really meeting for the first time today?"
Arizona's eyes roamed back and forth between Zhao Jian and Shavier, and his eyes seemed to ask again, whether the two of you have an "adulterous ♂ relationship", although Hood is not so explicit, but he also has the same suspicion in his heart.
Just as Zhao Jian guessed, Xia Weier did see Zhao Jian's "true body", but she did not "recognize the master" as Zhao Jian expected most. Essentially, the Celestial Maiden is a lifeform with the same energy as the ancestors of Gendaya, so in the countless years since it was activated, Shavile has also evolved and become more autonomous.
Ever since Zheng He's fleet passed by her door, Xia Weier had been secretly observing human beings for hundreds of years. She believes that the current world is already the era of human beings, so after her first contact with human beings, she took the initiative to integrate into this society, relying on her unique position to maneuver between human countries while maintaining relative independence.
But the appearance of Zhao Jian surprised her very much!
The registration scan when entering the port made Xia Weier discover that Zhao Jian's body had the "characteristics" of ancient people, and the energy in his body was not only very rich, but also in the growth period. Knowing how powerful the ancient people were, it could be said that she knew his abilities better than Zhao Jian himself, and she also knew how much damage he could bring to the human world if he wanted to do evil.
In order to confirm the other party's thoughts, Xia Weier took the opportunity of the tea party to get Zhao Jian in front of him, and then deliberately used the information of the ancients as a cover to test him on the side. Fortunately, Zhao Jian's answer was quite satisfactory to her, and through guò to test the pulse and observe the changes in the pupils, Xia Weier, who was "old" and refined, was also sure that Zhao Jian did not lie to herself.