The door to the clear glass room has been opened, meaning that Hall can leave.

But he sat still in his chair and did not get up, but waited quietly for the two prophets to answer.

Inside and outside the room, it's like a transparent prison.

After a long time, Dean Dorey's voice sounded slowly.

"Before discussing this, you have to define life and death, what is alive and what is dead. Otherwise, all the discussion is meaningless. ”

"To live is to live, and to maintain a high degree of unity between mind and body is called to live. As long as the two are not united, death can be declared. Hall looked at Dean Doray quietly: "Dean, my minor in physiology is also full of honors, and I still dare to give this definition." ”

"So what do you think is the state of Promised Land right now?" Dean Doré didn't mind the thorn in Hall's words, but continued to ask.

"The ancestors are dead." Hall repeated for the third time, looking back at Prophet Klin, who had been watching him silently: "The Promised Land is only their mausoleum, and the ancestors inside are just meaningless ghosts. ”

In silence, Prophet Kling finally lowered his eyes slightly, and after a moment, he whispered, "Why can't they exist in another life form in another universe?" ”

"Because that's not scientific." Hall finally stood up, with a strange expression on his face: "That's not scientific...... Teacher! ”

The Prophet Kling stared at him.

Hall stood straight, waited for two seconds, and then suddenly smiled: "Any hypothesis that cannot be verified or falsified is not worth talking about, you say that the prophets have become omniscient and omnipotent gods." ”

"And yet in fact, they know nothing about humanity, about our enemies."

"They don't know the direction of human science and technology, nor do they know the scale of human warships, let alone the consciousness and ideas of human beings...... They ......"

"Only know ours."

Hall closed his eyes as he spoke, and there was a great sadness on his face.

"And their knowledge depends entirely on us—the gods and ghosts of the lower civilizations, that is, they are gods, and we are their believers, their eyes, and the source of their faith."

"They seem to have given us omnipotence and omniscience, but in reality they are the shackles that have been placed on us and we have been imprisoned."

"10,000 years! Teacher! For 10,000 years, we have the resources of the entire universe, have we ever stepped out of the realm they have carved out for us? ”

Hall slowly clenched his fists as he spoke: "We don't, we can say we're stupid." ”

"But what about them?"

"That great civilization that traveled through the universe 10,000 years ago, if they were really alive, they could still think...... How can there be no progress in 10,000 years? ”

With Hall's voice, Prophet Kling sighed slowly.

This sigh of Prophet Kling fell on Hall's ears, and an indescribable expression of sarcasm or sadness rose on his face: "Teacher, I'm right, am I? ”

Instead of answering directly, Prophet Kling was silent for a few seconds and then asked softly, "Then do you still have faith in the Empire?" ”

"Faith?" Hall was slightly stunned, then closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

The two people outside the room also waited quietly.

"If you ask about war with humanity, of course I'm confident." Hall opened his eyes, and his face was already resolute: "We have the resources of the habitable zone of the entire universe, and of course we are not afraid of humans. ”

"But if you ask me, the future of the empire...... Then I don't have faith. ”

"There is life on the planet, the habitable zone will eventually become barren, and even the universe will come to an end one day, and that kind of time scale is the other side that even our minds cannot reach."

"It's a problem that must be faced with our entire civilization and race."

"If we continue to be in the prison of knowledge, I don't believe that our civilization will survive."

With that, Hale strode to the door.

The door seemed to hesitate as he approached, closing it for a moment, then opening it again.

Hale pushed the door open and walked through a silent hallway before the two prophets again.

He saw that the two prophets were looking at him at the same time with complicated expressions.

"Teacher, I don't need to be reminded, I know what to keep safe." A faint, slightly playful smile appeared on the corner of Hall's mouth: "Now that I already know that our gods are unreliable, then the next thing is a war between our people." ”

With that, Hale strode to another passage.

"Where are you going?" Prophet Kling finally asked.

"Go back to fighting." Hall didn't look back.

……

Seeing Hall's figure disappear, Prophet Kling sighed softly and walked towards the passage.

After a moment, Dean Dorey's voice sounded behind him: "I remember, he was very smart when he was studying, why did he choose to go to the legion?" If he hadn't gone to the Legion, he would have passed the Prophetic Test a long time ago, right? ”

"Maybe it's because I'm too smart, so I chose a more comfortable path." Prophet Kling slowed down, waiting for his old friend to follow.

As he walked, he tilted his head to look out the window.

By this time, night had quietly fallen, and through the rainbow-like track, the Promised Land still radiated a holy light in the night sky, like a lamp that would never be extinguished.

This light has been shining on this planet for 10,000 years.

After staring at the Promised Land in silence for a long time, Prophet Kling finally turned his head and looked back at Dean Dore.

"Reform."

"What?"

"We're going to need reform, Doré." Prophet Kling pursed his lips, his brows twined with countless melancholy: "Hale is right, we can't rely on the dead anymore. ”

Dean Dorey's eyes froze for a moment, and then he took a deep breath.

- The dead here obviously don't mean anyone else...... Rather, it refers to the ancestors. Refers to...... Paradise.

Only the wisest of them, the wisest prophets, would have the most frightening speculation coming out of their minds in their communication with their ancestors, in occasional flashes of inspiration, and in moments of "great disrespect."

That is, the ancestors are already dead.

Although it seems that the "consciousness" of the ancestors is still there, they can still communicate with people, and even "live" in the promised land......

But they are dead.

"But, but, but......" Dean Doray said nothing after a few "buts" in succession, just a long sigh.

What they have known and learned all their lives is given by the Promised Land and their brains, and everything they have mastered has not escaped the realm of the Promised Land.

As Hall puts it.

They were the wisest prophets, even the all-powerful ones because of their ability to communicate with the Promised Land...... But they are in the prison of knowledge, and they can't extricate themselves.

As far as the eye can see, it is all the realm of the Promised Land, how can they escape?

*

*

The railcar was speeding away, and Hall quietly closed his eyes, without any intention of communicating with people.

His mouth was pursed tightly, but there was a clear bitterness at the corners of his mouth.

The image of the previous communication with the ancestor named Perseya rose again in his mind, and he felt more and more sorrowful, so much so that he even sat on this rail car as if he was in a cage, and his whole body was full of discomfort.

As far as the eye can see, the entire place shrouded in civilization is bathed in the power of the empire and the glory of the promised land.

Even if you want to escape, you can't escape.

How do you get out of the cage?

Hall thought of only one way, and that was to learn.

Learn about another equally advanced civilization, learn their technology, their science, their methods......

Can......

In the past 10,000 years, those civilizations that have just shown a little sign of "advancement" ...... Even after the first signs appeared, they were completely destroyed by the invincible army!

Even he is now at war with an advanced civilization that has developed from an isolated galaxy.

A huge sense of absurdity filled Hall's entire body, so much so that he began to laugh, and even laughed out loud at the end.

"Chief Hall." The driver sensed Hall's strangeness and turned his head to look at Hall in surprise.

"Well, it's fine." Hall opened his eyes, the corners of his mouth still couldn't suppress the smile, he waved his hand and said, "I just suddenly thought of something happy." ”

"That must be a good thing." The driver laughed and patted his ass.

"No, I just thought of something funny."

Hall repeated the aria: "It's so fucking funny!" ”

……

……

Provincial Communications, Brain-Computer Center.

Ye Ming dragged his tired body back to the office.

On the first day of school these days, as the biggest "wrist" of the provincial diplomatic relations, he also had to participate in many meetings and activities under the premise of conditions permitting. Fortunately, he doesn't have graduate students now, so he can relax a little.

- Since Zhou Xuchen and their wave graduated, he no longer took it personally, on the one hand, because he didn't have that energy, and on the other hand, his door was too high and too big, and whoever wanted to come in was undoubtedly on a shortcut. So much so that a few years ago, countless relationships ran to his side, all to send those talented people to his door.

So Ye Ming simply took a heart and let out the words without taking graduate students, saving trouble and effort.

When he returned to his office and sat down, he realized that Ita was busier than he was now—as evidenced by the fact that she had to refuel herself every once in a while.

In addition, he didn't have a graduate student, so that he didn't even have a person to serve tea and water.

So he shook his head and smiled, and made himself a cup of tea.

"What are you doing?" Returning to the chair and sitting down, Ye Ming closed his eyes and talked to Ita while recuperating.

"Teaching graduate courses."

"Can I apply for a bot?" Ye Ming smiled and looked at the beautiful girl teacher floating in the void, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I don't even have a secretary now, and I have to make my own tea......

"Can't!" As soon as he heard that Ye Ming was going to arrange a robot for him, Ita immediately jumped in front of Ye Ming: "It's going to be messy, friend!" ”

"Ahem......"

"Why don't you ask the organization to send you another little girl?"

"Get out!"

"Hahahaha! Am I right? ”

Ye Ming gave her a fierce look with brain waves, then opened his eyes, took a sip of tea, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Speaking of little girls, he really thought of a little girl he hadn't been in touch with for a long time - although he didn't take graduate students, he did have a real "closed apprentice" - or the kind of apprentice who had done the apprenticeship.

"Call Ai Wen for me." Ye Ming glanced at the time and commanded Ita.

"You don't want the little princess of Kerong to be your secretary, do you?"

"Can you be reliable?"

"I've always been reliable." Ita responded in her mind, and at the same time, she controlled Ye Ming's computer very reliably, and initiated a communication request to Ai Wen.

A moment later, a little girl in a white coat, wearing a mask, and only two eyes appeared.

Ai Wen's eyes gurgled as she pulled down her mask — she still had rubber gloves on.

"Teacher, Gahana?"

"I'll go!" Ye Ming was stunned, and instantly lost his laughter: "Why did you come from with this Northeast accent?" ”

"I learned from a big girl, what's wrong?"

Ye Ming is full of black lines!

Ai Wen chuckled, and her tone returned to normal: "Just now I was helping Professor Gu Li to operate on a rare animal. ”

Ye Ming was stunned again, Gu Li is a blue star and a friend of Hai Lin, and she can indeed be regarded as an expert in the field of biology, especially in the field of organ reconstruction, she is a bigwig-level existence - the pair of eyes that Hai Lin gave to Zhou Xuchen came from her hand.

And as the relationship between the blue star people and humans becomes more and more harmonious...... Well, to be precise, there is already a relationship where blood dissolves in water. The biomedical technology of the Blue Star is also widely used in the medical cause of human beings.

Today, the collective life span of human beings has been leapfrogged, medical technology has also increased thanks to the joint efforts of multiple races, and the solution of energy and food problems has been solved......

The wars, diseases, and famines that have plagued mankind for thousands of years have all been resolved in these years.

It can be said that the entire earth and the entire human civilization have truly enjoyed the benefits of human beings entering the interstellar civilization.

"Why do the blue stars have rare animals?" Ye Ming smiled and said, "It can't be caused by human activities, right?" ”

"Yes and no...... The sudden arrival of a high-level civilization in an ecologically stable environment will inevitably have an impact on the original environment, which is nothing to do. ”

Ye Ming nodded with a smile, it seems that this little girl's three views are quite correct.

"By the way, teacher, I was just about to tell you something."

"What do you say?"

"That's it...... I plan to come to the province for exchange study. Ai Wen took off her gloves and walked to the door with her mobile phone: "I haven't been to Earth yet!" I want to see the Earth with my own eyes. ”

"What's there to see about Earth?" Ye Ming laughed, turned his head to look out the window - as far as the eye could see, it was all a jungle of reinforced concrete.

"That makes sense!" Ai Wen's eyes were full of yearning, and she said leisurely: "I want to see what the place that gave birth to such a good teacher is like." ”

Ye Ming was stunned, and instantly laughed: "You sycophant kung fu...... Who did you learn from? ”

"Hey, hey!" The Krong girl giggled, her face sunny.

Ye Ming looked at her and nodded with a smile just for a moment.

"Come on, but on one condition."

"On what terms?"

"All courses must be A+, and two A+ papers must be issued every year."