Ancient-like lifeforms.

Yang Wei noticed the 'accurate' words of the three teachers.

The familiar feeling of dizziness struck again, but this time, although Yang Wei's body was unconscious, his brain was still active, and his perception was still there.

He saw a bizarre world, where the distorted starry sky was rolled up and curled up like a tablecloth, as if a basic linear dimension had been siphoned out, flattened, abstracted, and finally minimalist lines.

The space is like holes.

Yang Wei felt as if he was standing in a huge, incorporeal piece of cheese, constantly 'turning his head' to look around, but he couldn't feel his own entity.

This feeling lasted more than twenty 'breaths'.

Breathing is the rhythm of lung expansion and contraction recorded by Yang Wei's brain, and it is the intuitive perception of the fictional dimension of time by human beings with their own bodies.

In a trance, Yang Hao saw a blue-white fireball, and as his gaze quickly narrowed, he saw the orange-yellow outer atmosphere of the star.

It was alive, moving, burning itself, shining on the eight planets that were close to it.

Yang Wei suddenly realized what this place was, and he kept turning his head, trying to find it, until a call sounded, and he subconsciously opened his eyes.

"Boss ......"

At the end of the line of sight is the gray sky of Twilight of the Robots, and at the edge of the line of sight are animate metal buildings, with equilateral triangular elements filling all corners.

Yang Wei closed his eyes, trying to find the wonderful feeling just now, but in front of him was the boundless starlight.

"Did you see any hallucinations?"

"Hmm."

Ritsu's voice rang out again: "You've been asleep for more than a dozen galactic days, and your brain has inadvertently received a huge amount of information that it can't process, causing a certain amount of confusion. ”

"Confusion," Yang Wei's body was a little tired, but there was nothing unusual.

He sat up slowly, and saw the examiner standing quietly in front of him.

Grave keepers and rangers are not here.

The examiner changed into a robe that was closer to the aesthetics of galactic humans, with some simple lines drawn on the robe, and each check of the robe seemed to be an equilateral triangle.

The examiner's slender limbs and neck on the edge of the 'Uncanny Valley Effect' are also much more pleasing to the eye under the trimming of this robe.

"Young Ancient God, the strength of your consciousness body makes me look sideways, and individual beings have this level of stable consciousness, which can already be called peculiar."

The examiner used a simulated voice to speak the standard galactic lingua franca:

"In this short period of time, a lot of interesting things have happened to you, and if you are willing to share them with me, our next assessment will be very interesting.

"And I have to say to you from the bottom of my heart: thank you, you've managed to come back again."

Yang Wei nodded with a smile and slowly stood up under the 'support' of the law.

The law seems to have substance here.

To be precise, Yang Wei and Lu are here, the same form of existence.

Yang Wei cleaned up those messy thoughts in his heart and said with a smile: "Why do you want to thank me? ”

"Because you're back.

"You are back, which means that the probability of success in this assessment has increased by a few percentage points, then I am closer to the ideal of proving my own existence."

The examiner said warmly:

"Did you know that the second and third assessments are the most difficult ones, because many candidates are lost in their inflated desires.

This is the disadvantage of this kind of assessment, and it is almost impossible to tie the progress of civilization to an individual, and to require that individual to maintain a pure and noble character of mind.

"The technology you take here will allow you to easily gain great power, influence the environment around you, gain a sense of superiority, and activate more desires.

"You must be thankful that your Precursor mission has given you more concentration in the face of this assessment, which will last for a total of a hundred galactic years."

Yang Wei smiled: "Concentration? I like the word. ”

"Come here, do you still want to take this test?"

The examiner pointed to the inverted triangle building not far away.

Yang Wei shook his head honestly: "I'm sorry, in the past few years, I have been constantly traveling between several governments in the galaxy, and I have not had the opportunity to learn more. ”

"Understandable," the examiner laughed, "Actually, the Ranger hasn't been out for a while, which means that this large galaxy cluster is undergoing drastic changes and is about to enter a brief boiling era, and he needs to capture and record all the information." ”

Yang Wei raised his eyebrows slightly.

In other words, Twilight records all the information in the Milky Way.

"Information, this is an extremely important civilization content," the examiner said warmly, "Why don't we use this as a starting point to discuss the difference between the lower level 2 civilization and the 3rd level civilization, how do you understand it?" ”

Yang Wei had done his homework before he came, and the law helped him bet on a few questions, just enough to find some small knowledge points.

"What are the criteria for dividing the third-level civilization and the second-level civilization, I can't summarize it now," Yang Wei said, "I can feel that there is a huge difference between the two, such as the contrast between the Sherman Empire's Imperial Star Circle and the Falling Wind Empire's Ellandor Star. ”

The examiner motioned for him to continue.

Yang Wei groaned a few times and began to speak.

In his understanding, the first-level civilization corresponds to the planets, the second-level civilization corresponds to the stars, the third-level civilization corresponds to the large galaxy cluster, and the fourth-level civilization can cross the large galaxy cluster and carry out high-dimensional exploration.

A first-level civilization that has reached the edge of promotion can make full use of all the resources on the planet, including but not limited to radiation from the star to the vicinity of the planet, earth core energy, controlled nuclear fusion, etc., and human beings can complete the development of neighboring planets in the star system, allowing artificial machines to reach the speed of one hundredth of light.

A complete second-level civilization has been able to leave the star system and explore a wider space.

The second-level civilization without the transition technology needs to spend a voyage based on 10,000 years of time units to reach the nearby planet, because of the stretching of time and space, the ideology of human civilization at this time will change dramatically compared to the planetary civilization.

The consummate third-level civilization has reached the edge of ascension, and it is also the end point of most of the intelligent civilizations that have died in the galaxy.

"Today's galaxy is not a naturally occurring second- or third-level civilization."

Yang Wei smiled:

"Leap technology, which is clearly the primary technology of the fourth-level civilization, has been endowed by the Faya with the whole of human civilization, so that the second- and third-level civilizations can ignore the remote space barrier.

To a certain extent, this hinders the change of human social ideology, but it is also a necessary means to ensure the genetic stability of primitive humans.

"With the continuous progress of civilization, people's ideas and social laws should continue to evolve."

The examiner nodded with a smile: "Your point of view sounds reasonable, but it is wrong. ”

"Wrong? Why? ”

"At the end of the day, civilization is graded by information."

The examiner said warmly:

"The speed of information transmission, the speed of information processing, and the degree of integration of information are the reference standards for the classification of civilization.

"Information is the foundation of all civilizations, it is not just a perspective from which we describe the laws of the universe, it is the basic nature of matter itself, and it is the basic particle of civilization.

"The essence of thinking is the perturbation of information by information, and the network is a collection of information.

"The ascension of mechanical civilization is the transfer of information from the neural structure of your physical body to a more stable and controllable life of the machine, so as to build a stable network for this information, and in the process of self-evolution and continuous improvement, the network reaches static stability with the material world, so that it can be extended and spread to explore higher dimensions.

"The ascension of collective thinking is the continuous evolution of the human body, and finally with each individual as a basic unit, a biological network is constructed, and then an extremely powerful and complex consciousness body that can grasp all the information is born from it, so as to understand the high-dimensional world and become an individual in the high-dimensional world.

"But at the end of the day, it's a high level of information integration.

"Back then, in the civilization in front of you, there was a scientist who conducted an interesting experiment, which spanned 2.5 billion years of the basic material universe."

Yang Wei wondered: "What test?" ”

The examiner smiled: "Black hole information reorganization. ”

"What?" Yang Wei was a little confused.

The examiner said warmly: "Ordinary fourth-level civilizations and fifth-level civilizations can use the energy of black holes to achieve many purposes, but the civilization in front of you has been able to transform massive black holes into an ideal experimental field. ”

Black hole information reorganization experiment: Using the singularity characteristics of black holes, the link tunnel between the black hole and the corresponding white hole is controlled to create a perfect singularity gravitational field, and then planets or star systems are put into the black hole in batches.

The examiner asked, "Will the information disappear?" ”

"No, it won't."

"So, the matter that goes into the black hole, where does their information go?"

"Stripped?" Yang Wei said in a deep voice, "Or is this information stored at the edge of the event horizon of the black hole, and when we observe it from the outside, we can observe the information carried by photons at the edge of the event horizon, and read the last image of the matter after the disintegration of the planet?" ”

"So, the matter that enters the edge of the black hole's event horizon after disintegration doesn't itself have information?"

"Yes, their state should be describeable."

The examiner laughed: "Yes, the information will not disappear, it will only change, the purpose of this experiment is to explore whether the reorganization of information in the singularity of the black hole can generate a planet or star system that is the same as the original planet and star system." ”

Yang Wei looked confused: "This experiment was successful?" ”

"Failed," the examiner snorted softly, "the process of information change is irreversible, and the scientist just wants to use enough samples to touch the probability of not knowing how many decimal places...... He's so boring. ”

Yang Wei smiled: "You don't seem to be boring when you say this to me. ”

"Yes," the examiner smiled, "I want to tell you that even if your home planet can't pass the game of Faya, their existence will not be completely erased, and the information they leave behind will exist forever in the space and time dimensions of the universe, and you must learn to look at this dialectically." ”

Yang Wei: ......

"No, can't my home planet really win?"

"The Ranger went to inspect your home planet," the examiner sighed, "that's why your consciousness came here and saw the star system where your home planet is located, and the evaluation he gave was...... The chances of rescuing your family are low. ”

Yang Wei was a little speechless.

"Is there any way to do it?" Yang Wei said, "My parents, my friends and relatives, my classmates, and my little rude sister are all there, they are my most important people, can I take them out?" ”

The examiner thought for a moment and muttered: "In order to make the assessment fairer, I should ask you to give up these stubborn ideas, otherwise this stubbornness will become a cheat that only belongs to you in the next assessment." ”

Yang Wei: It's going through the question again.

The examiner continued: "The Faya civilization will not allow us to interfere in the game of Faya, the ideology of the Faya people is completely different from the human ideology you understand, you may think that the so-called principles are nothing, but the rules set cannot be changed, which is the first criterion for the stability of the Faya people's ascension network. ”

"Teacher, can we use some off-the-field methods, such as finding out the other four forerunners, gathering them together, and threatening them that if anyone's home planet targets my master's home planet, even if they pass the trial, they will suffer a devastating blow from us?" ”

"The rules of the game of Faya, the influence of the forerunner on the outcome of the game should not exceed five to ten percent."

Examiner Says:

"If you think about it, if the overall strength of your home planet is increased by 10%, what is the competitiveness?

"Faya's game is divided into three stages, the first stage is the self-exploration of three or five greenhouse civilizations, the second stage is that these greenhouse civilizations begin to collide and confront, and the third stage is the fusion of greenhouse civilizations and the galactic civilization carried by Faya's game, and a full-scale confrontation breaks out between the big camps.

"Your home planet...... There's not even a unified language, it's slow to process information, and the planetary network is a mess, and there's no way you can help them improve it. ”

Yang Wei sighed.

The examiner also sighed:

"I understand your feelings, and I don't want you to let yourself be confused and degenerate because of this blow in the future, so that you will fail in the follow-up assessment.

"All three of us want to help you, because you're the one we've seen, the one with the most hope of making it to the end, you're strong, you're incredibly powerful, and this strength comes from the infinite possibilities you have.

"Your body provides an excellent sample, and your mind body has great potential for development.

"Although the home planet is the sustenance of your faith, you should adjust your mentality now, don't care so much about the game of Faya, the galaxy has hundreds of billions of planets, when you reach the high dimension one day, use the technology we have passed down to you, reproduce the glory of this civilization, you will be able to use the information left by your home star in the light cone of time and space, and perfectly reproduce them."

Yang Wei said in a low voice: "Are they still them?" ”

"The so-called family bonds are meaningless emotions that should have been eliminated by social consciousness when the transition from the second-level civilization to the third-level civilization. Civilization is both a collective and an individual. ”

"But in my bones, I am a primitive human from a first-level civilization."

Yang Wei smiled:

"Well, please don't worry about me, I'll work hard, and no one can shake my faith until the dust settles.

"And, look at this galaxy, because of the genetic locks set by the Fayas, we all maintain primitive forms and primitive brains, and the social relations everywhere give me a sense of déjà vu.

"Maybe my home planet will really disappear in the future, but I don't think we have a chance to win this war called the game.

"Knocking out other civilizations and keeping ourselves alive is what humans on my home planet do best."

"Okay," the examiner suddenly laughed, "you've passed, and that's all for the second assessment." ”

Yang Wei was stunned.

"Why? Shouldn't you go to my dark star? ”

"The Ranger has been observing you, and the two parallel subjects of Dark Star and Falling Wind are developing very well," the examiner said in a warm voice, "Child, do you know why this mechanical civilization in front of you that doesn't even want to leave behind its own name, why did you build this place, why did you leave us poor creatures?" ”

Yang Wei shook his head.

"They."

The examiner let out a long sigh:

"They did three things before they finally annihilated themselves.

"The first thing is to return the spark of life to the initial state of the double helix, sprinkled with the universe they can reach as their only imprint.

"The second thing is to erase the traces that one's civilization has left in all dimensions of the universe.

"The third thing is that countless intelligent twilight machines have been made, one hidden in each large galaxy cluster.

"The reason they did this was because they wanted to tell later life and later civilization.

"O you,

"Don't give up the things that are really worth clinging to because of your attachment to technology;

"Don't abandon the truly beautiful things in order to fit in with the cruel rules of the universe;

"Don't forget that the most beautiful distance between life and life is to support each other because of the vastness of the universe.

"So, they have given you the technology to survive in the cruel universe, so that you may have the opportunity to value what they once had.

"All information in the universe can be quantified, and the only thing that cannot be quantified is the curiosity, imagination and desire to explore living beings."

Yang Wei smiled: "Then my home star ......"

"What I said before is true, there is no chance of winning," the examiner said in a warm voice, "Don't be too sad, when your home planet is destroyed, you alone will be a civilization." ”

Yang Wei: ......

It's another day to give the middle finger to the Faya civilization.

(End of chapter)