On the sacred mountain of the four-star science and technology star domain, a large swath of centipede is winding and crawling, its speed is almost comparable to that of a car, and around this centipede, there is a giant wolf with a pure white coat, just like a shepherd dog. After running back and forth, occasionally driving one or two centipedes that fell out of the team, he raised his limbs again, and patrolled and ran back and forth, looking really busy.
In contrast, a young man with a bald head, sitting on a centipede, holding a roasted meat leg, was gnawing at once, and occasionally picked up a gourd-shaped vessel, With a few mouthfuls pouring in his mouth, the look of smacking his mouth looks really leisurely and makes people jealous.
That's right, this is Ye Wushuang. Relying on a large number of centipedes, he recovered the prairie lone wolf beyond the holy rank. On this holy mountain, he can say that he has no scruples anymore, rushing upwards, killing monsters and roasting them to eat. Normally, what's more interesting is that the lone wolf on the grassland found him a gathering place for monkeys and made a few gourds of monkey wine, which really made Ye Wushuang feel that his trip was worthwhile.
With this large group of monsters, Ye Wushuang did not encounter any danger in the next few days. Even if there is danger, the big wolf and a group of centipedes will kill them in the bud early. In this way, Ye Wushuang was able to quickly climb to the heights of the holy mountain. It took almost three to five days before he had vaguely seen the top of the mountain. After he commanded the centipede group to continue crawling, a quiet and beautiful place The sight appeared in front of him.
This seemed to be a home for recluses. Ye Wushuang saw a wooden house when he looked at it. Roughly distinguishing it, there are as many as four wooden houses connected to each other, and the fence surrounding it is nearly three-thirds. One area is occupied by these four wooden houses. The other third of the area is a clearing area, with washed clothes and some semi-dried mushrooms. The remaining one-third of the area was reserved as a vegetable field, and a stream of running water was drawn from the outside to surround the whole vegetable field.
A few creatures that looked like chickens were looking at the vegetable patch out of the living water and cooing, maybe they were thinking of something in the vegetable patch. Occasionally a few finger-big fish sprang out of the living water, which immediately caused a scramble for a few ducks. The water drops brought up by the ducks flapping their wings, under the shining of the sun, reflect the touching colorful colors...
Ye Wushuangqing couldn't help taking a deep breath. With the fresh air and the lively vitality around him, there was an unprecedented throbbing in his heart. If the escape in the previous experience is to stop running for one day, then his ideal home should be like this. Simple but warm, this is indeed no different from Ye Wushuang's dream.
"It's a great mountain scenery" exhaled, Ye Wushuang looked at the surroundings with interest, this mountain scenery home made him feel very comfortable in his eyes. He even thought that if he hadn't had a task now, he would probably not help staying here, staying here forever, enjoying the peaceful and leisurely happy time.
"Squeak!"
The sound of the fence door being pushed open interrupted all of Ye Wushuang's feelings. Before he could fully pull his thoughts into reality, a slightly unexpected old voice asked loudly: "Hey, brother, is he from a resident at the foot of the sacred mountain
Ye Wushuang looked back and saw that an old man with his own shoulder height and a large basket on his back, pointed his finger at him, with a very kind smile on his face. Ye Wushuang looked around and made sure that there were no other people around. Only after he realized that the old man was talking to him, he smiled brilliantly. Ye Wushuang said happily, "Yes, I am a resident at the foot of the holy mountain. It's hard to climb up from below, your old man is..."
"I am the guardian of the holy mountain." The old man smiled slightly, and then pushed aside the fence to greet Ye Wushuang: "Come in and sit down. No other high-level being has ever come here. These days are really boring."
Ye Wushuang heard this and immediately took a big step and walked in the direction of the old man. According to the old man's words, he can clearly judge that the eight little guys in his mouth should be the founders of the eight great families in the four-star technological civilization. Because according to legends and records, apart from those eight people, no one can climb to the summit of the holy mountain by relying on any mecha like the current self.
However, if what the old man said is true, how old is he
Ye Wushuang glanced at the old man strangely, and then forced the thought back into his stomach before stepping into the old man's manor. It’s just that he seems to have forgotten one thing, that is, after coming to this holy mountain, he did not restrain his subordinates and pets, so when he moved forward, except for the white wolf sitting on the spot. In addition, those centipedes immediately followed.
"Let these little guys stay outside." The old man frowned slightly, and after speaking to Ye Wushuang, he turned and walked into the house. At this time, Ye Wushuang noticed the centipedes following him. After a moment of stunnedness, he immediately ordered the leading fiery red centipede to bring all the subordinates to a place not far from the manor. A place to rest.
After finishing this, Ye Wushuang followed the old man into the wooden house and took the tea from the old man. Before Ye Wushuang had two sips, he couldn't wait to ask: "Old man, I heard that as long as you climb to the top of the holy mountain, You will get a set of exercises that belong to you. Many years ago, those eight people obtained the exercises with you. After these many years, can I also get the exercises with you."
"Young man, do you really want the exercises?" The old man seemed to know that Ye Wushuang would have such a question. He glanced at Ye Wushuang without any surprise. He said a little amused: "That's just some of the lower level. I didn’t expect so many people to dream of getting them. You know, in our place, these gadgets are things that even the most ordinary civilians are not necessarily willing to learn.”
"Huh?" Ye Wushuang raised his eyebrows and asked anxiously: "Old man, what do you say..."
The old man smiled slightly, and before Ye Wushuang finished speaking, he interrupted his words directly: "I say that, I don't want to go astray. This four-star scientific and technological civilization is just an intermediate civilization. All things, in my opinion, are not worth mentioning. If the family had not sent me to guard this place, I am afraid that I would not necessarily set foot in this backward civilization in my life."
"Backward civilization!" Ye Wushuang's pupils suddenly enlarged infinitely. After he woke up, he immediately asked eagerly: "Old man, you said that this four-star technological civilization is only an intermediate civilization, then, what do you mean... "
"Yes, in my hometown, that is the most high-end civilized world in this vast and praised universe." The old man said such a rock-shattering thing, but it was like saying a trivial thing, indifferent. Ye Wushuang smiled, and he continued: "The first time you heard such words, you were very surprised. Actually, it's not a big deal. In this endless universe, there is nothing that can't exist."
Ye Wushuang lowered his head, snorted for a while, and couldn't say a word. What the old man said was so shocking that Ye Wushuang was so nervous that he would not be able to accept digestion for a while. .
The old man obviously expected this again and smiled faintly. He continued: "Young man, you don't have to be too surprised. In this universe, everything that happens is nothing more than normal. Just like the birth of a planet. , Development, prosperity, and ultimate destruction are the laws of the universe. No one can save or change anything. Everything is just letting it go."
Ye Wushuang raised his head, looking at the old man's indifferent, very strange thoughts could not help but surge in his heart. Just like this old man, using his life to witness the birth and destruction of the vast universe, in him, Ye Wushuang actually feels a taste of eternity and vastness, just like the indifferent universe, every While these planets are all watching the destruction of other planets indifferently, they are also gradually becoming annihilated in their development.
This is a very strange feeling, especially after this feeling, Ye Wushuang unexpectedly gave birth to the old man in front of him, a person is a cosmic absurd feeling.
Shaking his head, Ye Wushuang hurriedly expelled these absurd ideas from his mind, and then he organized his thoughts very carefully before he asked a little expectantly: "Old man, you said that above the four-star science and technology star domain, there is Your hometown is a more high-end civilization, so you can definitely understand the things in other low-end civilizations under the four-star technological civilization. Isn't that true?"
However, after asking, Ye Wushuang found out that he didn't seem to have asked anything substantive. After all his thoughts, he realized that it was really because he heard the old man's words, and the things he didn't understand were real. It was too much, so for a while, there was a feeling of not knowing what to ask first. It's like a hundred thousand why are placed in front of you, you can't wait to look through it for a while, but you can't see the things that you most want to get the answer to come up.
The old man smiled faintly and said: "No one will really pay attention to low-end civilizations, because those low-end civilizations themselves are not worthy of respect from high-end civilizations. It's like you are a superior person in a certain place. , You don’t care about the situation of others at all. Although some low-ranking people have a very moving spirit in themselves, their status is not a respectable existence."
"I understand a little bit." Ye Wushuang nodded, and then said again: "Then, old man, you can teach me the unique technique that belongs to me now."
"No, no, young man, have you misunderstood me?" The old man quickly stopped Ye Wushuang, and then said amusedly: "Did you think that I meant to despise you by saying this just now. Or is it? Do you think that you are a low-end civilized person and won't attract any attention from me at all. Some inferiority want to learn combat skills, and then leave here to continue your own business?"
Ye Wushuang smiled embarrassedly. Indeed, what the old man said just now naturally made Ye Wushuang think that he was a person from a low-end technological civilization. According to the old man’s words, even No matter how persistent and persistent he is, he won't win the respect of this old man. Or to put it simply, a character like himself, in his eyes, is basically an ant-like existence.
In fact, in any conversation between the upper and the lower, the two people will have two different minds.
The old man smiled slightly. Seeing Ye Wushuang's expression like this, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "You are a frank and honest child. The reason why I said that to you just now means that I treat you as the same level. The existence of, otherwise any upper person will not say this kind of inner thought to the lower person. You should understand that you are actually no weaker than the existence of the upper-end scientific and technological civilization."
Ye Wushuang nodded, and asked in a puzzled way: "Old man, I am indeed a person from low-end technology, why do you think of me as an existence of the same level? I am even from a four-star technological civilization. There are also characters who come out of a low-level civilization. Such a low-level civilization should not be enough to attract your attention. I really have a hard time understanding this matter."
"Hahahaha!" The old man suddenly looked up to the sky and smiled, staring at Ye Wushuang for a long while, until Ye Wushuang felt a little creepy, he continued, "In fact, I know you came from an alternative two-star civilization. People who are not supposed to belong to this scientific and technological civilization, I don’t know why, those three-star scientific and technological civilizations, why they discovered the existence of your planet, or that the planet you were originally on was simply A place abandoned by an alternative technological civilization. Oh, forget it, that’s something that belongs to another plane of civilization. I won’t say more about it here."
"Old man!" Ye Wushuang yelled hesitantly. The old man hadn't answered the last question, and now the new question came out again. What two-star science and technology civilization, alternative science and technology civilization, another plane civilization, these things make Ye Wushuang not understand at all, and they all sound dizzy, and now they are vomiting out of this old population. Ye Wushuang didn't know what to say.
"Don't worry, don't worry, we have a lot of time, wait for me to talk to you slowly." The old man clearly saw Ye Wushuang's doubts, and raised his hand to stop Ye Wushuang from wanting to continue to ask questions, Wei Wei After sighing, the veteran asked Ye Wushuang more solemnly: "Young man, do you know what defines the origin, development, prosperity, and destruction of a civilization?"
"I don't know these things" Ye Wushuang murmured in his heart, imagine that he was just a person from a magical planet. If Sister Lin Lan took him to the earth, maybe by now, if he doesn't die, You might still think that Lan Linxing is the whole world. How can I know that there is a saying that there is a universe, and there are still countless planets and life in the universe.
"Let me tell you a little bit." The old man didn't know if he had good patience, or he hadn't spoken to anyone for a long time. He smiled slightly and opened the chatterbox and said: "The origin of civilization is the emergence of wisdom. Creatures are a symbol. No matter what kind of situation such creatures exist in. As you can see, in addition to humans and beasts, it is possible to have wisdom, and with wisdom, civilization will be born. , As for the level of this civilization, it is determined according to the degree of intelligence of such creatures."
Ye Wushuang didn't dare to ask more now, he didn't understand everything anyway, so it was better for the old man to say it step by step. Fortunately, although Ye Wushuang didn’t understand, he was not a stupid person. After carefully listening to the old man’s words, he immediately woke up and asked: "Old man, since the origin of civilization is calculated like this, then Was his development just based on this kind of intelligent creatures, making tools and then starting to calculate."
"You are very smart." The old man nodded, and then continued: "The prosperity of civilization means that this kind of intelligent creature completely dominates a planet and is a sign of the time when it reaches its highest peak. And destruction, It refers to this kind of intelligent creatures, from prosperity to decline, or refers to the theory that in that civilization, it is still unable to get out of the planet, and the destruction of the planet leads to the destruction of the end."
"Oh, I understand." Ye Wushuang nodded, and immediately thought of that civilization on Lan Lin star, when he left, it should have been destroyed. But now it seems that in the universe, this kind of destruction does not seem to be a strange thing. Even looking at this old man's expression, the so-called destruction of civilization in his eyes is probably a commonplace thing.
Thinking of this, Ye Wushuang immediately asked the old man again: "Old man, do you know that a civilization called Earth should belong to the **** civilization, what stage is it now?"
"That place." The old man smiled and said, "That place belongs to a strange civilization. They have been living and developing. Since the emergence of intelligent creatures, the place has been developing and has never stopped developing. Step. Even if they developed from the original last civilization to the current peak of the lower civilization, I can only say that the intelligent life in this place is a life with a strong pioneering spirit. Oh, if I don’t remember If it's wrong, you should have come from that place too."
"Yes." Ye Wushuang nodded, and came to the earth from the magic planet. He regarded himself as a human being on earth a long time ago. Now that he heard the old man praise the human being on earth so, he naturally felt proud.
"Haha." The old man smiled again and said calmly: "That is a nice place. Your luck is really good. Well, you have experienced several levels of civilization, then I will ask you, according to yours In terms of perspective, which is higher and lower between civilization and civilization, what is the basis for judging it."
"This..." Ye Wushuang was dumbfounded, wondering how did I know this stuff, and said that I don't understand anything, the old man still asked. But on the face, he still shook his head respectfully, indicating that he knew nothing.
The old man said: "One-star civilization is calculated based on the ability to make usable tools. Just like the earth you were on, you can use stone tools as a sign at the beginning. Two-star civilization refers to the ability to use all kinds of ordinary tools. The development of more efficient tools is a sign. For example, on the earth, you can make machinery by hand, and use machinery to create another kind of machinery. The three-star civilization has the ability to travel in space, and the four-star intermediate civilization The sign of is the perfection of mechanical self-intelligence. As for the five-star civilization, you will naturally know when you get there one day."
"Oh." Ye Wushuang nodded, thinking that he learned something again. However, it seems that these things did not help much to rescue the Earth and Sister Lin Lan. After pondering for a while, he raised his head again and asked the old man: "Then, the division of these civilizations represents Gao Level civilization is destined to be much stronger than the people of the next level of civilization. Isn’t that true?"
"It's true." The old man nodded and said: "High-level civilizations can even change the structure of the human body, change the structure of all living things, and achieve the existence that makes low-level civilizations stand up from the mountains. Just like me, I am alive now. For tens of thousands of years, this is simply impossible for lower civilizations. Because the natural life span of human beings is only a mere over a hundred years, but our civilization can be possessed for you, almost unlimited. s life."
Ye Wushuang stared at him. Although he had expected that this old man would have a very high life span, he couldn't have imagined that someone could live for tens of thousands of years. Isn't this the longevity that the people on earth said? Not the same. Oh, this old man may seem to be old, and I don’t know if someone who has lived for so long, like the little fat guy said, he has a long tail after a long life.
Thinking of this, Ye Wushuang couldn't help but looked behind the old man's ass, only to find that the little fat guy was completely nonsense.
"Don't look, how can people grow tails, unless civilization can go backwards." The old man interrupted Ye Wushuang's words dumbly as if he understood what Ye Wushuang was thinking in his heart, but then he looked straight and murmured. He whispered: "Speaking of civilization retrogression, such things have really happened. On the earth you have stayed on, there have been such things many times. The most recent civilization retrogression should be more than a thousand years ago. "
"A thousand years ago?!" Ye Wushuang's whole body was shaken. The old man's words immediately reminded him of what the little mecha had said. As his thoughts turned, he immediately leaned over his head and expressed to the old man that he was very interested in listening. What they said about the small mecha, the ancient mecha civilization on the earth thousands of years ago, suddenly never prospered. The truth that suddenly declined.