Chapter 49: True Friends
And after "Ralph" saw the old man in front of him, the original confusion and doubts on his face disappeared instantly, and he immediately bowed his head and said respectfully to the old man:
"Lord..... Excuse me, Your Excellency! I have lived up to your expectations, the mission on the Eden ......."
The old man, who had made Ralph extremely respectful, did not say anything immediately, he just looked at Ralph with eyes as sharp as an eagle, and after a few minutes of silence, Ralph, who had been staring at him, began to tremble all over, as if the old man could kill him by looking at him.
Seeing Ralph's reaction, the old man lowered his eyes and asked:
"You have received the "advanced" gift from the Church, but you have clearly failed the hopes of the Church, Ralph, everything you have now is what I have for you, and if it weren't for something more important, your life would not be worth resurrecting you with a blood-stamped body! ”
The old man's indifferent tone made Ralph's fear and guilt deeper and deeper, and he immediately stepped out of the cultivation cabin and knelt on the ground, ignoring his now naked body, and confessed to the old man in front of him:
"I'm sorry! I've really failed to live up to your upbringing, Lord Sect Master, but this time I discovered some bizarre secrets from the traitor who escaped from before, and it was the traitor who tried to destroy the "witness" before the end of his previous life. ”
The old man didn't say anything at this time, he closed his eyes as if thinking about something, as Ralph said, when he was mentally connected with the artificial blood mark on the "Eden" before, there was a strong attraction that made the blood mark go berserk, and it was instantly out of his spiritual control, and the remnant soul of consciousness was immediately swallowed up by the artificial blood mark that fell into a rage, which had a great impact on Hal Peter, a first-order bishop.
After all, every wisp of consciousness soul body is a gift of the power of the Holy Seal, which is also the basis for the Unity Church to control the blood seal and conduct bloody experiments in various parts of the Federation, and the traitor that Ralph said obviously has a lot to do with the source of attraction that caused the artificial blood seal to run rampant, and even the church traitor named Du Jin is the so-called source.
"Tell me everything you know! I will judge by the value of the information you have said that you are still qualified to stay in your place. ”
"Yes! Adult .............."
Ralph told Hal everything he had seen, including what he had seen in the last moments, and the First Bishop turned around and left in a hurry, leaving Ralph, who did not know what his future was holding, to sit there alone.
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On Du Jin's side, the offensive and speed of the corpse mutants did not decrease in the slightest, and there were many corpse mutants that Du Jin had never seen before, but he didn't dare to carefully observe these special mutants, and fortunately, after Du Jin ran with McCasse for a few minutes, he saw Li Mengyan's familiar armor outline, because his communication unit was no longer working, Du Jin could only raise his left hand and wave towards her constantly.
Li Mengyan also noticed Du Jin's movements, and immediately stopped Manuka's team that was still killing those fleeing disciples, and when Du Jin approached Li Mengyan and his party, McCass on his shoulder immediately said to Manuka:
"Luka, get out of here, I have a way to get out, get out of the medical deck first."
"Captain!"
"Father!"
Hearing that Merkas was still alive, Meluka and his party immediately shouted with joy, but they still immediately carried out McCas's order, and after taking Merkas from Du Jin's shoulder, the team didn't care about the scattered disciples, and immediately followed the marked path to prepare to leave the security center, and when they noticed the corpse mutants behind Du Jin, they realized how wise their decision was.
Along the way, Manuka's team didn't have any communication, just cared about leaving here, and Du Jin also remained silent along the way, for the source of the blood seal, he had actually guessed something, this kind of "weapon" that can infect and control other creatures through a certain ability radiation is absolutely impossible to be naturally generated in the universe, but should be created by a species with a very high civilization level, and the reason for creation is to prevent and intervene.
In Du Jin's world, there is such a theory for the cognition of space civilization: the Dark Forest Theory.
This concept is based on the assumption that before the beginning of the social history of mankind, all the social and political ideas and even moral ideals to which we are accustomed did not exist. Man is a lonely jungle beast, his intellect is the instrument he uses to fulfill his desires, and his deepest desire, or fear, is to survive and not be destroyed by others.
Suspicion reinforces this hostility between people, so they will try to deprive others of them until all threats cease to exist. Thus a powerful individual can achieve maximum security through indiscriminate attacks, but he is constantly under the threat of others, and he will not be able to live in fear until he is killed by the stronger. Yes, it's the state of the Dark Forest.
The premise of its establishment is as follows (the one in parentheses must also be true)
1 Survival is the first need of civilization (axiom)
2. Civilization continues to evolve and expand (here it equates to the need for an infinite number of survival resources)
3. The total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged (here it is equivalent to limited survival resources)
4 The existence of cosmic Chinese is quite common
5. Technological explosion (equivalent to technological superiority is not sufficient security)
The way the chain of suspicion is analyzed is not the key, in principle, if you don't read your mind 100% correctly, then everything is a threat to you. Judging from other motives, it is morality and law, as well as the social division of labor, that breaks the chain of suspicion on earth.
The premise of Hesse's theory is that the existential crisis caused by the above five points and the gloom of the overall environment are just as if a person lives in an environment with a great conflict of interests and a very fierce struggle, the chain of suspicion cannot be broken, and the law of the jungle will be enshrined.
The reason why the dark forest theory can be established is also because the density of civilizations in the universe is too great, and the pressure of competition is too great. Even if it is extended to the multiverse cosmology, it can also prove that all god-level civilizations are very afraid of the seed civilization that may develop, and they will spare no effort to eliminate these threats.
Because the immutable law in the universe is that once two civilizations collide with each other, the advanced one will definitely destroy the other, and the more brain-opening part of this series is that there are still many people who believe that even today's human beings are not the aborigines of the Blue Star, but invaded the Blue Star tens of thousands of years ago, and after defeating the original "Turkish civilization", they became the next generation of masters.
Of course, including Du Jin himself, some people have raised some questions about the law of the dark forest, such as why the cosmic society must be like nature? There is also the fact that Blue Star has been exploring extraterrestrial civilizations and emitting a lot of radio messages into space, so it stands to reason that our location has been exposed, why haven't there been other space civilizations to destroy us?
In fact, even if aliens receive our messages, how do you make sure they can read them? Can they understand you when you talk to ants? So there are five auxiliary corollaries to this, first, that civilizations in the universe have only a minimum degree of goodwill, second, that communication will inevitably reveal the location of civilizations, third, that the competition between civilizations is as cruel as that of a dark battle, fourth, that it is difficult for different intelligent species to communicate with each other, and fifth, that any civilization has a long lifespan.
And what Du Jin can confirm is that the civilization that made the blood mark is definitely a murderous and cold-blooded powerful civilization, and the weapon of the blood mark is simply a bug-like existence for living beings, according to what Li Mengyan said before, the infection of the blood mark has no signs, and the outbreak is almost completed in a short period of time, when the entire crew of the "Eden" began to have symptoms of high fever and skin ulceration, and a large part of them also hallucinated and caused them to start hurting people for no reason, But before the isolation means on the ship could be deployed, the corpse mutants began to appear explosively.
Everything happened very quickly, many people didn't know what happened before they died, Du Jin's mood was a little heavy along the way, and the main goal he decided to survive in the blood mark world was to find a way to intervene in the large-scale infection of the blood mark and produce corpse mutations, but along the way, in addition to witnessing the horror of the blood mark, the way to prevent and solve it was not found, this sense of helplessness and the fear and uneasiness brought to Du Jin by the pursuit of the corpse mutant, which made his will continue to be depressed.
Along the way, Du Jin and Li Mengyan encountered a lot of corpse mutants, they seemed to be heading in a certain direction, under the leadership of Manuka, everyone could be regarded as a frightening and dangerous battle, after all, now that Mercas has been rescued, Manuka's goal has become to join the team left in the buffer cabin on the medical deck, which means that they only need to move forward while ensuring their own safety, and non-essential battles can be avoided.
When Manuka returned to the buffer cabin, he felt a little uneasy from afar, and he led the team to quickly pass through the gap in the alloy valve that they had forcibly opened, only to find that the garrison of the guards was bloody, and the corpses of soldiers and corpses of the corpses were mixed together, exuding the smell of death.
But this did not mean that the team of forty people died here, when the Manuka appeared through the gap in the alloy valve, someone noticed them, and after seeing the armor familiar to the commander of his team, the nineteen soldiers appeared from the corridor behind the bunker in a dark corner, and after establishing the identity of the Manuka, one of the soldiers immediately ran in front of him and gave a federal salute and said:
"Sir!"
"What's going on here?! Why is it ..........?"
The soldier then replied in a heavy tone:
"Sir, Mike (see Chapter 35 for details) After he was treated, he seemed to see many hallucinations, and then he turned into the kind of monster we saw along the way, although we solved the mutant him as soon as possible, but the other corpse mutants sensed us, and they attacked us everywhere, and we have been here according to your orders, sir, but the casualties are .............."
At this point, the soldier stopped, and McCass, who had already been laid down, stepped forward and patted the soldier's armor, and said to him in a resolute tone:
"You're doing a great job! These brothers died for me! Thank you! ”
"Captain, your arm!?"
It was only then that Manuka and the other guards noticed McCass's empty right arm, and because of the urgency of the situation and the clothes he was wearing, they didn't notice the lack of McCas's body, and they noticed McCas's injuries.
"Medic, trauma team! Fast! ”
Manuka immediately called the remaining three medical personnel in the entire personal guard, and McCas waved his hand first, he pointed to Du Jin behind him and said:
"I'm fine! If it weren't for this Dr. Du Jin, I would have been turned into the corpse mutant you see by those cult-disciples of the Unity Church, and it is already very worthwhile to exchange an arm for a life, there is no need to delay time here, we have to get out of here quickly. ”
Du Jin could feel that his gaze was obviously much friendlier, but because of the damage of the helmet, the intermittent picture did not make him have a good observation angle of the surrounding situation, and McCas didn't say much, and walked in the other direction with the remaining thirty people, with his authority as the captain, he could call some hidden passages and freight elevators.
Li Mengyan also had the opportunity to check the armor on Du Jin's body at this time, but even if it was only judging from the degree of deformation of the helmet on Du Jin's head, Li Mengyan already knew the situation of this set of armor.
"The structure and system have failed, Du Jin must have experienced some very tricky battles, I am afraid that it is because of the damage to the structure of the helmet that his armor system will be affected by the previous range magnetic field, fortunately he did not have an accident!"
Li Mengyan looked at Du Jin, who was in a trance, thinking that these high-intensity battles made him a little "depressed" who didn't have much combat experience, she grabbed Du Jin's hands and then put away her head, revealing her soft face and looking at Du Jin, and comforting in a gentle tone:
"Du Jin, I know that what you encounter is not easy to accept, but don't be too confused about yourself, among the people I know, you can fight so many one-in-one sect-disciples to rescue Captain McCass, such ability and perseverance are already extremely rare, when we reach the scientific research deck and find a way to get out of here, leave this ship, believe me! Du Jin, you have the ability to fight against blood marks, and we will save more people when the time comes! ”
I have to say that Li Mengyan's comfort is really effective, Du Jin's originally somewhat melancholy nerves stabilized, as Li Mengyan said, he can't save the dead people, he can only keep looking for ways to save more people in the two worlds, Li Mengyan's reminder made him realize that the black blood mark in his mind, and the ability given by it, is definitely a solid foundation for fighting those red blood marks, and he must continue to use this ability to really find a way to fight.
And what makes Du Jin even happier is that McCasse also has to go through the scientific research deck, he believes that since the previous owner of his body has discovered some secrets, then there must be some key information or items in his research room, even if it is not good, Du Jin can find some advanced technology storage devices, and bring them to the present world can become a help for him to quickly improve his scientific research status, in Du Jin's opinion, the risk of those few blood mark fragments in the current world is too great, and he can rest assured that he must be dealt with and sealed as soon as possible.
Needless to say, the importance of the explosive technology blowout to Xia Guo is needless to say, you must know:
Science and technology are an important factor and an important force in promoting the development of modern productive forces, and the rapid development of modern science and technology has rapidly transformed into real productive forces, which has changed the laborers, labor tools, labor objects, and management levels in the productive forces. Science and technology are mastered by laborers, which has greatly improved people's ability to understand, transform, and protect nature, and has enhanced their productive labor capacity.
Science and technology are the primary factors in the development of modern productive forces and economic growth, and have increasingly become the decisive factors in the development of productive forces and economic growth. This is all the more true from the perspective of the practice of economic development in developed countries.
The advanced nature of modern science and technology has a leading role in the development of productive forces, and the second technological revolution that took place at the end of the 19th century was a turning point in the changes in the relationship between science, technology, and production. Prior to this, the relationship between production, science and technology was mainly manifested in the fact that the development of production promoted technological progress, which in turn promoted the development of science.
Therefore, Du Jin has to use the advanced technology of the Federation in the Blood Seal World that has entered the space age, and make his Xia Kingdom become the dominant force of the Blue Star as soon as possible, even if the blood seal fragments unfortunately begin to infect, Du Jin must leave a way back for his world, instead of repeating the mistakes that Du Jin saw in his previous fantasies.
In front of the economic strength between Xia and the beautiful country has not been much different, but if from the perspective of the dynamics of scientific and technological output, after 5 years, we will start from different fields in science and technology, a little bit more than the beautiful country, and this trend can be said to be basically irreversible, of course, the input-output cycle of basic science is longer, but if the time is given another 10 years, that is, 30 years later, around 2040, Xia will comprehensively surpass the beautiful country in science and technology and become the first in the world.
But Du Jin now has no time to wait for more than ten years of progress, he wants to give Xia Guo a strong medicine, otherwise according to Du Jin's common sense and experience, before he pulls out the current civilization to the space civilization, the beautiful country is the biggest obstacle, you must know that the standard of space civilization is: the sign of civilization at this stage is that the world has been truly unified, that is, the civilization has achieved unity within the civilization.
In this way, we can greatly reduce the consumption and time of various contradictions and disputes within civilization, so as to have better energy and sufficient time to focus on the development of physical science. As well as the development of space beyond the home star and the exploration of the universe, only in this way can the entire civilization go further.
Because if a civilization only relies on its own home planet, the height it can reach is limited, because after a long time, all the resources of the home planet will one day be consumed by the civilization on the home planet, and at that time, it is also the time for the entire civilization to self-destruct, the development of space outside the home planet and the exploration of the universe are the ultimate development direction of all civilizations in the universe, and it is also the only way to enter a higher civilization.
And the hidden danger of advocating dictatorship and force in the beautiful country cannot always exist, and he made up his mind about the next direction, Du Jin looked at Li Mengyan who was still relieving his emotions in front of him, and had to admit that the persuasion of a beautiful woman and the relief of an elderly polymath, regardless of the content for the time being, the efficiency and role of the former will obviously be better, but Du Jin already has Si Qing in his heart, even in another world, Du Jin still instinctively refuses to be too close to other girls.
He gently withdrew his hand from Li Mengyan's hand, and then said in a rejuvenated voice:
"Thank you! I really think too much, and Li Mengyan, you're right, there are more people in this world waiting for the "help" of that power in me, and I really don't have time to feel here for too long, and ........."
Du Jin paused, and said slowly towards Li Mengyan:
"Ralph, I've made him pay with my own hands, I hope it makes you feel better."
Li Mengyan's body trembled, her eyes flashed with tears, even if it was not her hand, but Ralph's death was already her explanation to herself and to those who were killed by Ralph, Li Mengyan immediately thanked Du Jin with an unusually bright smile:
"Thank you! Du Jin, Ralph has always been a sting in my heart, and now that he has paid his due retribution, I can rest assured that I can do other things, by the way, since Du Jin has solved such an important thing for me, Du Jin, you will call me Mengyan directly in the future, my friends call me that, I don't want you to be a special case. ”
Du Jin nodded, it is an experience along the way, Li Mengyan doesn't know how many times he has saved his life, if it weren't for her, even if Du Jin has a little power given by that black blood mark, with his personal thinness, let alone killing Ralph, I'm afraid it would be a joke to come to the medical deck alive, in this world, Li Mengyan is the only friend he can trust, so he didn't refuse, but nodded and said solemnly:
"Dream ..... Mengyan, thank you for everything you did for me before. ”
"There's no need to be so nervous, let's go!"
Li Mengyan smiled and waved her hand, and the two of them followed the team not far in front of them.