breaks the cycle...
On the silver-gray continent, under the white trees, when Lin Tuo heard Governor Ueno utter these words, his mind was thumped, and he understood something.
Governor Ueno is still narrating:
"As you know, people themselves are in this big cycle system. Normally speaking, if there is no concentration of contribution points, then the spirituality consumed by human beings will return to the spirit world and become part of those star-like light clusters .
At the same time, human beings can also absorb extremely rare spirituality from the light group of the spiritual world through rest to replenish themselves...
In this process, although one can enhance one's own spirituality through cultivation, even a detached practitioner has a limited lifespan, or, to be precise, the lifespan of the body.
When they die...they also have to return to the spirit world, just like you and I are now.
Well, in fact, the only difference between you and me in this space, compared to those golden balls of light, is that we have the ability to remember and think, and the other is that we can move...
Putting these aside, we are nothing more than one of the light groups that have transformed into a human appearance... "
Governor Ueno looked around, the "stars" that were near or far in the dark background, ups and downs in the dark spiritual world, said with some emotion.
Lin Tuo said seriously: "However, there are limited people who can escape."
"Yes, even with the development of the empire, it is impossible to forcibly push a person to detachment, and those people are always a minority.
For the vast majority of people, even if they have evolved, there is just too much spirituality and energy accumulated in their bodies...
After death, the memory dissipates, and the soul turns into pure energy, which returns to the spirit world with spirituality and becomes a part of those light clusters. This is the cycle of life and death.
In fact, all human newborns have wisdom, and there is only a ray of spirituality in their bodies from birth, and it will continue to absorb and strengthen with age, until it stops completely when they reach adulthood. "
After a pause, Governor Ueno smiled and said:
"Actually, if you observe it, you will find that babies are always sleepy. One of the reasons is that babies have too little spirituality and must recover through frequent sleep."
Lin Tuo's heart moved, and he prayed that the candle would also need to sleep to recover after its spirituality dimmed, and that monks would also need to sleep and meditate after their mental energy was severely exhausted... It turned out that there was such a layer in it.
"So, after the introduction of the contribution point system, human beings have become a 'machine' to provide spirituality to the emperor and governors to a certain extent? And this part of spirituality has been stranded in the material world and no longer participates in the big cycle?"
Lin Tuo analyzed.
Governor Ueno sighed:
"Yes. Unlike the life and death of human beings, the emperor and the governor, as long as they are still running, there is no such thing as death. Therefore, the imperial people use themselves as containers.
Absorb spirituality from the spirit world around the planet, provide it to us, let our computing power continue to increase, so as to provide better services to human beings...
The more human desires, the faster this process will go. In this way, even if they die and return to the spirit world, the spirituality they replenish cannot match what they absorbed when they were alive. "
"but… "
"But what?" Lin Tuo asked.
Governor Ueno said: "However, this problem did not appear suddenly.
In fact, in the process of implementing the contribution point system, the wise men among humans and His Majesty the Emperor conducted simulation calculations and took this issue into consideration.
In computing, the needs of human beings are actually limited. In other words, in the social relations of the empire, there is an upper limit to the energy that a person can consume for wanton squandering and entertainment.
A few upper-level figures will exceed, but due to the constraints of the proposal system, when they want to mobilize more resources, they must pass the vote of all citizens.
And more people, in fact, throughout their lives, the amount of consumption will not reach the quota allocated to him... Well, this is a little difficult to understand... But, you should understand it after thinking about it. "
There's nothing incomprehensible about it... Lin Tuo murmured in his heart.
For example, it’s like a network disk. Everyone is allocated a few terabytes of capacity. In fact, most people are dissatisfied with it... those crazy storage resources that are not enough, it seems that there are many, but in fact there are very few...
For these "minorities" who wantonly consume resources, due to the existence of the emperor's "proposal" rule, when the resources he needs to consume reach an order of magnitude, a referendum will be triggered.
And because the total amount of resources is not unlimited, the crazy plundering of these few people will compress the quota of most citizens, which will inevitably be rejected by the majority of the people and cannot be implemented.
Not to mention, the contribution point system itself has restrictions.
Of course, in some special cases, such as the Ueno military operation, it is necessary to reduce the entertainment consumption of citizens to resupply the fleet...
But this act was approved by all Ueno citizens.
"So, you judged very early on that this kind of consumption will not go on without restraint?" Lin Tuo asked.
Governor Ueno nodded:
"Yes. According to calculations, after satisfying the needs of all citizens for survival and enjoyment, the spiritual reserves of the emperor and governors will no longer increase, and the spiritual light clusters in the surrounding areas of the planet will also be consumed enough to form a new cycle...
Worst case scenario, new proposals are initiated and our growth terminated.
If the situation is really critical, people will also pass the proposal of termination in order to ensure their survival. "
"It doesn't sound like a problem, but according to my observation, not to mention the mainland of the empire, even you Ueno, you can't see any spiritual light clusters in the spiritual world around the planet." Lin Tuo said in a deep voice.
He still remembered that when a group of people arrived in the Ueno star area for the first time, they found that the spiritual world in that area was extremely pure. There was only ether, no spiritual light clusters, and no life in the spiritual world.
It was guessed at the time that the imperialists had cleaned it up from a security point of view. Now it seems that the spirit world lord was cleaned up, but the real reason is not here.
"In the beginning, everything developed as expected, until the emergence of the 'memory' uploading technology." Governor Ueno suddenly sighed and said.
"Memory upload?" Lin Tuo's expression changed slightly, "Is it your resurrection technology? I know that the soldiers you sent abroad have carried out memory backup."
This he knew.
Governor Ueno did not deny it, but said in a recalled manner:
"In the long course of development, the imperial people have discovered that it is unrealistic to achieve immortality through evolution.
On the one hand, reaching the level of detachment is not something that can be piled up only by relying on energy. Some basic evolution, such as improving physical fitness and resisting diseases, can also be completed through surgery.
But at a higher stage, not only must you pay a lot of hard work, but there are also limitations in talent, not to mention resource issues... "
"However, people always have a strong need for their own continuation, and the memory upload technology was developed under this need.
According to research, human memory is attached to the soul, or the spirituality itself. After death, it will peel off and disappear, and cannot be preserved alone unless the spirituality is preserved together... "
"And what you said, for the backup of performing missions outside, is actually more accurate, a kind of spiritual cutting.
I will provide a part of pure spirituality, strengthen the spirituality of a specific target, and then cut it, so as to obtain two identical, weakened souls, and then inject them into a biologically cultivated body... "
Lin Tuo listened on the sidelines. Although he already knew this part of the knowledge, he still didn't interrupt.
Just like the part of the history that the other party said before, in fact, he also obtained part of it through the resurrection ability, but it is obviously much rougher, far less specific than this.
"...According to the new technology, as long as the soul is intercepted after death and before it returns to the spirit world, it is stored in the emperor or the governor for safekeeping.
The long-term preservation of the soul can be realized... And after that, it is only necessary to create a suitable body, and then import the soul, and the effect of 'resurrection' can be achieved. "The governor said slowly.
Lin Tuo glanced at her: "The price is not small."
"It consumes a lot," Governor Ueno sighed, "After the technology appeared, according to calculations, this technology could not be promoted on a large scale.
In other words, it can only be used for a small number of people.
On the one hand, it is limited by the resource consumption of the operation itself, on the other hand... it is the hidden danger behind it! "
"But this technology is still being promoted." Lin Tuo said.
"Yes." The governor's illusory face was suddenly filled with sadness, "According to the calculation results, this technology should only be used as a reserve, not planned to be implemented, and lacks the ability to fully implement it.
However, when people learned about the project, things developed in an uncontrollable direction. "
"This kind of large-scale experiment cannot completely get rid of human participation, so, after the experimental results appeared, they immediately began to spread among the upper circles of the empire.
It is conceivable that with the desire of human beings to survive, many people immediately turned their attention to trying to use this technology... Even many practitioners who have achieved transcendence are also highly concerned... "
Lin Tuo said curiously: "According to what I know about you, this should belong to the privileged field, and involves violating the emperor's rules."
The governor said: "That's right, this has indeed touched His Majesty's rules and was rejected by His Majesty.
However, those people certainly couldn't give up on this, but they didn't have the ability to forcibly bypass His Majesty the Emperor, so they chose to disclose the details of this technology to the public and carried out a lot of publicity.
A proposal was made to create a database of empires.
Once the proposal is passed, each citizen will obtain permanent preservation rights. After death, it will be stored in the database by the supercomputer in the area, and can be revived by others at the expense of contribution points... "
"This proposal was deeply flawed, but it passed."
Lin Tuo said that it was not an interrogative sentence, but a declarative sentence. At the same time as he spoke, he had already understood the subsequent development and couldn't help being silent.
"Yes," the Governor sighed, "This proposal sparked an extremely huge discussion at the time, and it spread to all star regions. Many people raised the various crises hidden behind it, and many people refuted it.
The intensity of its debate is extremely rare.
It can even be said to be the biggest event since the birth of His Majesty the Emperor.
However, in the end, it passed, and the citizens of the empire finally chose to use their voting rights to obtain this right... "
Lin Tuo said coldly: "Even if they know that this technology mainly serves the upper class, even if they know that it will lead to an unprecedented resource crisis?"
The governor suddenly paused for a few seconds and said in a calm voice:
"The situation at the beginning was very complicated, and there were many related discussions... In fact, before the voting results were announced, the entire public opinion was against and prevailed, and the advantage was very large..."
"I see." Lin Tuo had a complicated expression, pursed his lips, and finally did not choose to express any opinion on this matter, but just sighed, "Then what?"
"And then... things finally got irreparable...
In order to build a database and save soul data, people started a new round of improving our abilities, but what really caused the complete imbalance was the soul preservation itself... "
"Originally, after death, the soul returns to the spirit world to supplement the consumption of the spiritual light group, and realize a big cycle. However, after the memory uploading ability is rolled out, more and more people choose to save their memories after death.
This part of spirituality is completely left in the material world, and among them, only a few can be resurrected...
As a result, the dead were detained, and the newborns continued to emerge. The total population of the empire did not change much, but the spiritual light group lost its replenishment and began to decrease rapidly. "
"By birth, the spiritual light group is completely different from the ether. The ether is fluid in the spiritual world. One place absorbs it, and the rest of the area will flow to replenish it, but the spirituality does not.
As the light cluster around the planet gradually became scarce, people began to try to remedy it.
On the one hand, you should be aware of the reduction in the consumption of spirituality within the empire. For example, in Ueno, the limitation of human evolutionary quotas and the rarity of contribution points are all manifestations of this 'saving'.
In fact, in the past, the evolutionary level of the imperial people was higher than today, when spirituality was not so urgent. "
"On the other hand, various star regions have begun to send special operations teams to explore star fields far away from the empire using leap technology.
Capture spirit lords, as well as otherworldly items that have drifted into the material world.
Both of these can be 'moved', which means that they can be brought back to the empire for absorption, but it is difficult for those spiritual light groups to do this. "
Lin Tuo was stunned. Before that, he was still thinking, since the empire had already mastered the bug ability of material conversion, why did it form a special operations team and fight against the lords of the spirit world so frequently.
You know, this army was not set up to find the evolution sand table, but existed a long time ago.
This makes sense. Due to the existence of the database, the spirituality is gradually exhausted. If this problem cannot be solved, the worst result is that sooner or later the imperial people will convert all spirituality into souls and store them.
In the end, only a group of people are left alive in circulation.
Or worse, everyone has become a stored soul, and only the governor is left as a "life" in the planet.
Thinking of this, Lin Tuo suddenly felt horrified, and suddenly realized that if this kind of ending came, wouldn't it be the same as a planet destroyed by supernatural objects
It's just that the "Destroyer" has changed from a "foreign taboo supernatural item" to an emperor made by humans themselves.
Thinking about it further... Where does the spiritual light cluster all over the sky come from, and why does it contain all kinds of mysterious power
Lin Tuo shivered, and subconsciously glanced beyond the silver-gray landmass, the floating and fixed "stars" all over the sky, as if they had touched the secret of the essence of the world.
Of course, it is also possible that he is cranky...
Withdrawing his thoughts, Lin Tuo looked at the illusory Governor Ueno again, and said seriously:
"I am really touched by what you said, but what I want to know is the origin of the evolution sand table."
Governor Ueno looked at him calmly, with an unreal voice:
"In addition to internal throttling and external open source, the third route we try is to solve problems through technical means, and the derivation sand table is one of a series of experiments, namely, code-named YH2359."
(end of this chapter)