Because of the game [Conflict Continent], most of the chaotic memories sealed by Joshua have been slowly erased and softened by the endless energy of more than a billion people day and night.
Similarly, because you can obtain reliable extraordinary inheritance from the game, it can be said that this game has become popular throughout the Mycroft civilization and has even become a part of everyone's life.
In this regard, Joshua and the entire Mycroft civilization can be said to be mutually beneficial. Without Joshua's resistance and destruction, it would be impossible for the chaotic memory to be softened and softened by the spiritual will of most ordinary people. On the other hand, without the multi-threaded, multi-faceted attempts and analysis of more than a billion people, Joshua's individual will alone, no matter how powerful he is, would not be able to solve tens of millions of people so quickly. Chaotic memories of different categories.
Only when both parties cooperate with each other can the effect be far greater than one plus one greater than two.
Up to now, several years have passed since the incident of the Evil God of Death. Most of the chaotic memories have been completely shattered and digested, and the knowledge contained in them has gradually been dispersed throughout the civilization as the game progresses, subtly. Enhance the power of the entire Mycroft civilization, and Joshua has benefited a lot from it. After all, he is a warrior who specializes in life energy and steel power. Even if he has a condescending state, he wants to learn quickly. The essence of other extraordinary powers also requires the cooperation and experimentation of other beings in civilization.
In fact, a few years ago, Joshua had invested in and founded many extraordinary organizations, such as the 'Human Progress Technology Group' that specializes in body modification, and the 'New Era Dawn' that tried to create a new fighting spirit practice method. ', and the 'Night-Light Society' that has been secretly researching chaos-related matters within the Winter Castle Academy. These are things that he himself does not have the time and energy to do, but it is necessary to do them. The warrior will Leave the matter to others, and you only need to control one general direction.
The results are also very exciting. The Human Progress Technology Group already has very mature experience and technology in human body modification. The elite team member, the alchemist Constantine is one of the more successful examples, and the New Age Dawn Society actually has There is another name, called the 'Winter Keep Champion Academy Fighter Alliance'. To put it bluntly, it is the group of fighting spirit practitioners who graduated from the Winter Keep Fighter Branch, not to mention the Luminous Society. The leader is No. 3, and there is even direct investment from the imperial royal family, specifically to study matters related to the Chaos Familia and the Evil God.
The progress of civilization is his progress. Extraordinary people can be independent of civilization, but it is not necessary. Both sides complement each other and can fully realize their potential. Progress is more comfortable and simpler than fighting alone.
This path of mutual support is the order that Joshua and other legendary strongmen settled on after thinking about it for a long time.
In the silver world, Joshua's will is like the invisible wind, like the invisible God's perspective in the game, passing over the floating continents one after another, overlooking the lives of many civilized heroes... Among them, those who have completed their daily tasks The best few civilized heroic spirits, the 'Lava Giant', 'Thunder Jellyfish' and the 'Rock-eating Giant Insect', have already reappeared part of their own race with the support of Joshua and are thriving in their own territory. , and with their hard work, the area and mass of the floating continent have become larger and larger.
However, there are exceptions, like the civilized heroic spirit of the Rock-eating Giant Insect, who said that he did not want to continue to be taken care of by Joshua in the greenhouse, but wanted to open up territory for the warriors and repay the kindness of rebirth while supporting himself. This semi-elemental life race that mainly feeds on metal-containing rocks will soon move away from the Silver World, carrying a repairing light beam with it to survive in a new world in the multi-dimensional galaxy that is suitable for the survival of its race... And the space they have spared The location is just right for a newly revived civilized heroic spirit.
"It has entered a virtuous cycle... A resurrected civilization becomes familiar with this strange world through heroic spirits, and then the heroic spirits revive their own race, teach them common sense and knowledge, reproduce again, and quickly shape into a brand new world under the guidance of me and the heroic spirits. An intelligent civilization... When the time comes, I'm afraid I can become a sower, and when I encounter a life world suitable for survival, I can sow an entire intelligent race."
Looking at this scene, Joshua couldn't help but nodded slightly. This was what he expected. Rather, the reason why he resurrected these failed races was to 'spread order' better and faster, and then through the These civilizations instill the 'knowledge and culture' belonging to the Mycrov civilization, allowing them to grow rapidly while becoming natural supporters of the Mycrov civilization, and even become members of the Mycrov civilization.
However, resurrection is not without cost. Some of Joshua's visions of extraordinary power, human body modification experiments, and testing of fighting spirit cultivation methods are too dangerous to be found with relatively fragile humans. , at this time, alien races with various attributes and talents are the best test subjects.
Just like the 'emotional spectrum' system that Joshua just came up with, before the Mycroft civilization officially uses it, he will definitely make a deal with these resurrected races and let them conduct an experiment first. He can guarantee fairness and justice, and the experimenters will all It was voluntary. As for the consequences of the experiment, whether it was death, madness, or no effect, it was hard to say.
No one has a problem with that because that's how the world works.
In fact, this approach is very similar to the 'civilization corrector', one of the natural disaster civilizations mentioned by the Great Khan of the Shepherd, except that what the civilization corrector does is to 'destroy the existing civilization and then build it from scratch. ', and what Joshua does is 'resurrection of an extinct race, and then reshape it from scratch'. If I have to use metaphors, the former is a terrorist with bloody hands, and the latter is someone who happened to be passing by and has the ability to resurrect. The kind-hearted uncle.
"Okay, everything is good. No heroic spirit is lazy, everyone is working hard."
After inspecting all the floating continents, Joshua's will emitted a wave of satisfaction, like an old farmer who saw leeks growing happily. After the wave, the warrior's will condensed and turned into a humanoid entity, landing in the world. Inside, among the endless crystal obelisks.
It can be seen that in the center of the world, the huge silver giant star is releasing endless light and heat, filling the world. The nine continents overlap each other, bringing about the alternation of night and day, and at the bottom of these continents , the obelisks standing densely like a forest, and Joshua's family members and countless silver fairies were flying among the crystal woods, repairing the possible cracks and damage on the seals of each obelisk.
At this time, most of the chaotic memories suppressed at the bottom of the obelisk have dissipated and turned into part of Joshua's power, but there are still about 10% to 20% of the chaotic memories that are still very stubborn. What the warrior landed this time is that The sealed place where one or two percent of the chaotic memories are located.
It can be clearly seen that the crystal obelisk in this place is much dimmer than other places. The breath of chaos is overflowing here. Even if many silver fairies come together to flap their wings, they cannot dispel the hazy mist.
However, when Joshua arrived, all the dangerous mist dissipated in his breath, causing the surrounding group of silver fairies to cheer innocently.
"Praise the Lord!"
"The power of the Lord shines upon the earth!"
This group of silver goblins did not go to goblin town to study, but moved directly from the world of Kallis, so both their behavior and reactions are very simple and innocent, not at all...lively like the elemental goblins. Joshua is quite satisfied with this. It's not that he doesn't like elemental fairies, but if all silver fairies become like elemental fairies, wouldn't his world become a second fairy land? Even if it's a compliment, it's always 'You are so handsome! ''Domination is awesome! 'Such debilitating words.
In fact, this is how those elemental fairies praised their queen.
"Run further later. Don't get close to here. It's dangerous."
In the past, every time Joshua came, he would communicate with his family members to understand the other party's recent situation and status. However, this time he had something to do, so after simply asking the other party not to get too close, he went directly towards this place. Walk to the core of the crystal obelisk.
After a few years, in an era when other legendary powerhouses are working hard to learn to recharge, and new legends and peak-level powerhouses are emerging one after another, Joshua also plans to completely solve the hidden dangers of chaos in his own body.
At the same time, on the way to the core of sealed chaos memory, Joshua was also thinking and recalling the powerful civilizations and races he had recently encountered in the multi-dimensional galaxy.
The Eldar, the Knowledge Receiver, the Star Shepherd, the Royal Court of Amos, the Thakur Order, the Lunde Civilization, the Walder Civilization, the Phoenix Void Behemoth... and other existences all appeared in the minds of the warriors.
Ignoring the out-of-spec 'Nebula Life' Emperor Amos and the 'End World Spirit Lord' Thakur Patriarch, these two incarnations can fight against the gods. I am afraid that the true form is much stronger than the true god. , the life that impressed Joshua the most was the 'Phoenix Void Behemoth' he encountered not long ago and the strange life forms scattered throughout the multi-dimensional galaxy, the 'Psychic Bugs'.
Although it seems ridiculous to compare the two together, in fact, in Joshua's opinion, although the Phoenix Void Behemoth is extremely powerful, in terms of life form, it is probably lower than the psychic Bugs...even on more than one level.
What I’m talking about here is not pure strength, but survival mode.
It may be difficult to understand, but here is an example to illustrate the huge difference represented by different survival modes.
A kind of creature, temporarily called the 'Hairless Naked Ape', they live in a primitive savage world, living in plains and forests. It has many competitors and natural enemies, such as tigers and forests in the woods. Wolves, lions and jackals of the plains. In addition, there are other apes in the same ecological niche as it, such as various hairy naked apes, baboon monkeys and orangutans.
The survival of the hairless naked apes is very difficult. Even if they stay in groups, they cannot guarantee the continuation of the race. Generally speaking, they want to gain an advantage in the long history of life evolution and allow their race to continue smoothly. There are two options. One is The species has evolved a tougher skin, stronger muscles, a larger body shape and stronger bones. The other method is to have more children and reproduce more. Even if many are eaten by many natural enemies, there are still many capable Continue.
To achieve this change, the hairless naked ape can only hope and hope. What the former needs is to give birth to an extremely strong, extremely tall, King Kong-like mutant individual in the race, called Hairless King Kong for short. And this mutant individual relied on its own strength to produce more offspring. , and more Hairless Vajra appeared among its descendants, further modifying the genes of the Hairless Naked Ape, allowing the Hairless Naked Ape to gradually and completely transform into a Hairless Vajra, thereby gaining an advantage in survival and making a jump in its own ecological niche. , driving tigers, lions, jackals, gray wolves and other wild animals out of the forest.
The latter, like the former, requires a mutant so that the changed bloodline can be passed on with an advantage until it is completely changed - but regardless of when the mutation will appear, the process of bloodline change alone will take at least a few days. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of years.
This is the survival and evolution method of the 'beast', and it is also the survival and evolution method chosen by the 'Void Behemoth', the most powerful 'beast' in the multiverse, and the Phoenix Void Behemoth is no exception.
But the path chosen by intelligent life and 'civilization' is far different from that.
When many hairless naked apes were in panic all day long, hoping that a King Kong would be born in the race and start an evolutionary process that lasted for God knows how many thousands of years, suddenly one day, a genius appeared among the hairless naked apes.
—It has learned to use fire.
Of course, the order of things learned by hairless naked apes in different worlds may be different. Some may learn psychic powers, some may learn fighting spirit, and some may learn other things, but the general meaning is the same - give up on hairless naked apes. After a long period of 'genetic blood transformation', he began to learn to use fire, learn to use tools, learn to use bows, arrows, swords and guns, and magic and fighting spirit through 'imitation behavior' to survive in this world.
When a genius in a tribe can steadily ignite flames and create swords, bows and arrows, allowing the hairless naked apes to hunt prey at a lower cost than before and eat more nutritious food, all hairless naked apes will go 'Imitation', and the time required for 'imitation', and the difficulty itself, are far simpler than 'bloodline inheritance'.
'Using tools' is essentially a kind of mutation, which is no different from the mutation of a strong body shape. However, if the strong body shape is to be spread to all hairless naked apes in the world, it will take hundreds of thousands of years as a basic unit. It is even impossible to spread 100%, but using different tools, the evolutionary advantages it can obtain for the hairless naked ape are far greater than the physical fitness, the speed of learning is also fast, and the speed of spread is equally fast. This is a far better evolution than 'bloodline evolution' 'A more efficient 'knowledge evolution' survival mode, and at this point, the hairless naked ape can call itself a 'human being'.
Because since then, they have distinguished themselves from their previous selves and officially become a 'civilization'.
The essence of civilization does not lie in the body. The health of individual human beings is no longer the most important part of the survival advantage.
A short and unhealthy human being cannot even defeat a hairless naked ape with bare hands. However, if he has a bow and arrow in his hand, the hairless naked ape may have no choice but to turn around and run away. If he has a gun in his hand, ordinary tigers will not be able to defeat him. Not willing to risk an attack, and if this person is wearing an exoskeleton armor and holding a Gatling Wheel, good guy, even if this person is a malnourished asthma patient, it does not prevent him from chasing a group of ferocious beasts and chasing them away crying. mother.
If, in addition to that, he also knows magic, fighting spirit, and is a priest of some god, that would be even more incredible. With just ten years of education and extraordinary practice, he can turn thousands of wild animals into animals. The evolution process of tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years is of no use to the Warcraft, because with the same resources and time, if a Warcraft is born from the beast, humans can educate at least a few dozen extraordinary beings of the same level.
When the first hairless naked ape learned to use fire and learn to make spears, swords, and bows, it became him. It no longer existed in the same dimension as all the beasts. Their life forms were superior to all the beasts. above, because they have mastered a more advanced evolutionary model, which is 'knowledge and technology'.
Just as genes are the basic unit of life, spreading through replication and inheritance, and evolving through mutation and mutation, memes are the basic unit of civilization and culture, spreading through copying and imitation, and also rely on mutation and mutation (sparks of inspiration). Evolve.
This kind of evolution in knowledge not only spreads, learns quickly, and progresses even faster - the Stone Age lasted for about two million years, and even 10,000 years ago, humans were still primitive intelligent beings who could only use simple tools. Soon, in the next one or two thousand years, humans learned to forge metal weapons. The beasts of nature have not been able to make their claws so sharp for hundreds of millions of years. It took another one or two thousand years for humans to create muskets. , tanks, planes, missiles... all these processes are simply as fast as flying, and the beasts are no longer worthy of being compared with humans.
This is knowledge and technology, which is the process of 'memetic information evolution'.
Rather than saying that the essence of human beings is repeaters, it would be better to say that the essence of civilization is repeaters.
If extraordinary power is added, then the beast may be able to barely sustain it for a while. After all, the initial strength of this power is too high and is different from the fur of minions, and extraordinary power can also give birth to ordinary beasts like the Void Behemoth. A terrifying 'beast' that no civilization can face or defeat.
"However, there is no need to compare like this, because civilization also has its own powerful existence - such as the legendary strongman in Mycroft's world, and the various war weapons produced by Sanctuary Civilization and the 'Black Mist Matrix' thing."
"The existence of the unconscious."
"A conscious being."
“Conscious cognition.”
“Itself is knowledge.”
"Changing pan-consciousness."
Joshua's classification of survival mode can be roughly divided into the above five levels.
Compared with the primordial soup where no life exists, macromolecular organisms and single-cell and multi-cell organisms that have no self-awareness but can self-replicate their characteristics and inherit them are a higher level of survival mode than non-existence.
Compared with mature multi-cellular organisms, such as sponges, various beasts, insects and other life forms that have evolved to have self-awareness have a higher level of survival mode. They can consciously change themselves and influence things more efficiently. The whole world.
But instead of abandoning the slow evolution of the physical body, we use 'memes', 'knowledge', this kind of 'ideas' that can reproduce and evolve to form society, civilized humans and all other intelligent life. Their life model is a level higher than that of mere instinctive creatures and slaves of genes. This is the survival model at the level of 'conscious cognition'.
As for the legendary strong men, gods, and all kinds of strong men who rely on knowledge and extraordinary power to transcend their own life forms, it can be said that they have taken the steps to advance to the survival mode, but they have not yet fallen behind.
Their existence form is already a super life form, immortal and immortal, with almost no similarity to ordinary things. However, there is no essential difference between them and ordinary intelligent life forms. They can only be said to be very powerful intelligent life forms. If anything, they are immortal and may be half a level higher than ordinary beings.
So, what about a higher level, a life that 'is itself cognition', and is itself a meme...
Walking slowly among the crystal obelisks, Joshua exhaled. He couldn't help but recall the time when he was studying the 'Psychic Bug' and was puzzled.
It is completely unclear how the 'psychic bug' lives, how it reproduces, how it appears, and how it moves. Its material world entity is entirely composed of spiritual energy, but why does this section of spiritual energy appear? Is it really a life that exists entirely in the form of memes
Could it be that this thing that seems to have no intelligence, just like a cosmic cockroach, is actually a 'memetic life form' that is a level higher than humans
"Actually, not necessarily. After all, no one knows whether psychic bugs are intelligent or not - maybe that's just the appearance we see. Maybe, throughout the multi-dimensional galaxy, seemingly ordinary psychic bugs are actually huge His overall life and wisdom may be vaster than all of us combined. The Phoenix Void Beast is nothing more than a 'beast' that is extremely powerful. It just exists in this world and is not worth mentioning at all."
Of course, Joshua wasn't really thinking about which one was stronger and more advanced, the 'Phoenix Void Behemoth' or the 'Psychic Bug'. He was just comparing the two to figure out what was more important.
—Primitive life exists in the world. Beasts exist in the world. Civilization understands the world. The legendary strong man tries to understand the truth and the world, and the psychic bug may have become a part of the world, that is, a universal phenomenon.
"If we say legend, it is a super life that is half a step beyond ordinary intelligent life."
Thinking of this, the warrior whispered to himself: "Then, the evolution of 'sages' who have clearly surpassed legend and even more than one realm... I am afraid they have reached a point where they can change their 'cognition'."
This is Joshua's vision of 'changing universal cognition', that is, the 'sage' survival mode of 'changing the world and changing the truth'.
exactly.
Just when Joshua's thoughts ended, he arrived at his destination.
Joshua raised his head and looked at the super giant crystal obelisk that was 4,521 meters high in front of him, as well as the chaotic memory suppressed in it, exuding endless fluctuations of 'malicious chaos'.
The drifting black mist was like thick asphalt permeating the air, which was extremely unpleasant.
"Before I step forward."
Looking at this stubborn memory that could not be softened and decomposed even after years and billions of people spent day and night, Joshua, who was radiating silver light, shook his head while raising his hand.
"It's time to clean up and deal with the stubborn stains."
6,400 words, which is considered a double update. Please give me a monthly pass.
(End of chapter)