On the silver-gray continent, under the white trees, when Lin Tuo heard the words of Governor Ueno, he bounced in his head and understood something.
And Governor Ueno is still narrating:
"As you know, humans themselves are in this large circular system. Normally, if there is no concentration of contribution points, then the spirituality consumed by humans will return to the spiritual world and become part of those star-like light clusters. .
At the same time, human beings can also absorb extremely scarce spirituality from the light clusters of the spirit world through rest to supplement themselves...
In this process, although one can enhance one's spirituality through practice, even a detached practitioner has a long life, or, to be precise, the life span of the body.
When they die...they will also return to the spirit world, just like you and me are now.
Well, in fact, in this space, you and me, compared with those golden light groups, the only difference is that we have the ability to remember and think, and the other is that we can move...
Aside from these, we are nothing more than one of the light clusters that transfigure the human appearance..."
Governor Ueno glanced at his surroundings. In the dark background, those "stars" that were near or far, floating in the dark spiritual world, said with some emotion.
Lin Tuo sternly said: "However, there are only a few people who can transcend."
"Yes, even with the development of an empire, it is impossible to force a person to detachment. Those people are always a minority.
For the vast majority of people, even if they have evolved, they only have accumulated too much spirituality in the body...
Wait until death, the memory dissipates, and the soul becomes pure energy. It will return to the spirit world with spirituality and become part of those light clusters. This is the cycle of life and death.
In fact, all human newborns have wisdom. From birth, there is only a ray of spirituality in the body, and it continues to be absorbed and strengthened with age until it reaches adulthood and completely stops. "
After a pause, Governor Ueno laughed:
In fact, when you observe, you will find that babies are always sleepy. One of the reasons is that babies have too little spirituality and must be restored through frequent sleep.
Lin Tuo's heart moved, the prayer candle is also spiritually dimmed, he needs to recover from a deep sleep, and the monk needs sleep meditation after the mental energy is exhausted...It turns out that there is such a layer in it.
"So, after the contribution point system was launched, human beings have become a ‘machine’ that provides spirituality to the emperor and governors to a certain extent? And this part of spirituality is stuck in the material world and no longer participates in the big cycle?"
Lin Tuo analyzed.
Governor Ueno sighed:
"Yes. Unlike human life and death, emperors and governors do not exist as long as they are still running, so the imperial people use themselves as a container.
Absorb spirituality from the spiritual world around the planet and provide it to us, so that our computing power will continue to increase, so as to provide better services to mankind...
The more human beings have, the faster this process will proceed. In this case, even if they die and return to the spiritual world, the spirituality they replenish will not be enough to absorb 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 and His Majesty among human beings have conducted simulation calculations to take this issue into consideration.
In calculations, human needs are actually limited. In other words, in the social relations of the empire, there is an upper limit on the energy a person can spend, entertain, and consume.
A small number of upper-level figures will exceed, but due to the constraints of the proposal system, when they want to mobilize more resources, they must pass a vote of all citizens.
More people, in fact, throughout their lives, the amount of consumption will not reach the quota allocated to them...Well, this is a little hard to understand... But you should understand. "
This is nothing incomprehensible... Lin Tuo muttered in his heart.
For example, it is like a network disk. Everyone is allocated a few T of capacity. In fact, most people are dissatisfied with it... Those crazy storage resources cause insufficient use. It seems that there are many, but in fact, it is very few... …
For these
minorities
who are consuming 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.
Because the total amount of resources is not unlimited, the crazy plunder of a few people will compress the quotas of most citizens, which will inevitably be vetoed by the majority of the people and cannot be implemented.
Not to mention, the contribution point system itself has made restrictions.
Of course, some special circumstances, such as this military operation in Ueno, need to reduce the entertainment consumption of citizens to supply the fleet...
But this behavior was approved by all Ueno referendums.
"So, you judged very early that this kind of consumption will not go on uncontrollably?" 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 grow, and the spiritual light clusters around the planet will be consumed enough to form a new cycle...
The worst case is to initiate a new proposal to stop our growth.
If the situation is really critical, people will pass a termination proposal to ensure survival. "
"It sounds okay, but according to my observations, not to mention the empire, even if you are in Ueno, you can no longer see any spiritual light clusters in the spiritual world around the planet." Lin Tuo said solemnly.
He still remembers that when a group of people first arrived in the Ueno star area, they found that the spiritual world in that area was extremely pure, with only ether, no spiritual light clusters, and no spiritual life.
The guess at the time was that it was cleaned up by the empires from a security perspective. 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 sighed suddenly and said.
"Memory upload?" Lin Tuo's expression changed slightly, "It's your resurrection technology? I know that your soldiers sent out have backed up their memories."
He knew about this.
Governor Ueno did not deny it, but said in a reminiscence:
"During the long development, the empires 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 by energy alone. Some basic evolutions, such as improving physical fitness and resisting diseases, can also be accomplished through surgery.
At a higher stage, not only has to pay a lot of hard work, but there are also talent limitations, not to mention resource issues..."
However, people always have a strong demand for their own continuation, and memory upload technology was developed under this demand.
According to research, human memory is attached to the soul, or its own spirituality. After death, it peels off and disappears and cannot be preserved alone unless the spirituality is preserved together..."
"And what you said is that the backup of tasks performed outside is actually a spiritual cut.
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 the body cultivated by living things..."
Lin Tuo listened. Although he already knew this part of the knowledge, he still did not interrupt.
is like a part of the history that the other party said before, in fact, he has also obtained part through the rebirth ability, but it is obviously much rougher, far less specific.
"...According to the new technology, as long as the soul is intercepted after death, before returning to the spirit world, it can be stored into the emperor or governor for safekeeping.
can realize the long-term preservation of the soul... and then, only need to make a suitable body, and then import the soul, and the effect of ‘resurrection’ can be realized. "The governor said slowly.
Lin Tuo glanced at her: "The price is not small."
"It is indeed a lot of consumption," Governor Ueno sighed. "After the technology appeared, according to calculations, this technology could not be widely promoted.
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 implemented." Lin Tuo said.
"Yes." The Governor's illusory face was suddenly covered with sadness, "According to the calculation results, this technology should only be used as a reserve, not intended to be implemented, and it lacks the ability to fully implement it.
However, when people learned of the project, things moved in an uncontrollable direction. "
"This kind of large-scale experiment cannot completely get rid of human participation. Therefore, after the experimental results appeared, they immediately began to spread in the upper circles of the empire.
It is conceivable that due to the human desire for survival, many people immediately turned their attention and tried to use this technology...Even many practitioners who have achieved detachment are paying attention to it..."
Lin Tuo curiously said:
According to what I know about you, this should belong to the privileged domain, and it involves violating the emperor’s rules.
Governor said: "Yes, this has indeed touched the emperor's rules, and was rejected by his majesty.
However, those people are of course impossible to give up, but they do not have the ability to forcibly bypass the emperor's implementation, so they chose to make the details of this technology public to the public and conduct a lot of publicity.
put forward a proposal to establish an empire database.
Once the proposal is passed, every citizen will get the right to permanent preservation. After death, the supercomputer in the area will save it in the database, and can be resurrected by others at the expense of contribution points..."
"This proposal has great drawbacks, but it still passed."
Lin Tuo said that it was not an interrogative sentence, but a statement sentence. At the same time, he had understood the subsequent development and could not help being silent.
"Yes," the Governor sighed. "This proposal triggered a huge discussion at the time, spreading to various constellations. Many people raised the hidden dangers behind it, and many people refuted it.
The intensity of the argument is extremely rare.
can even be said to be the biggest incident since the birth of 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 coldly said: "Even if they know that the main service of this technology is still the upper level, even if they know that this will cause an unprecedented resource crisis?"
Governor suddenly said in a calm voice for a few seconds:
"The situation at the time was very complicated, and there were a lot of related discussions...In fact, before the voting results were announced, the entire public opinion was opposed to gaining the upper hand, and the advantage was huge..."
"I see." Lin Tuo had a complicated expression, pursed his lips, and finally did not choose to express any opinions on the matter, but sighed, "What then?"
"Then...the matter is finally irretrievable...
In order to build a database and save soul data, people have started a new round of improvement of our abilities, but the real imbalance is the soul preservation itself..."
"Originally, the soul returned to the spiritual world after death, supplementing the consumption of the spiritual light group, and realizing a large cycle. However, after the memory upload ability is spread, more and more people begin to choose to save the memory after death.
This part of the spirituality is completely left in the material world, after all, few of them can be resurrected...
So, the dead were intercepted, newborns are still emerging, the total population of the empire has not changed, but the spiritual light group lost its supplement and began to rapidly decrease. "
Partial birth, the spiritual light group is completely different from the ether. The ether is flowing in the spiritual world. It is absorbed in one place, and the rest will flow to supplement it, but the spirituality does not.
As the light clusters around the planet became scarce, people began to try to remedy it.
On the one hand, you should be aware of the reduction of spiritual consumption within the empire. For example, in Ueno, the limitation of human evolutionary quota and the rare contribution points are all manifestations of this ‘saving’.
In fact, in the past, the evolutionary level of the imperial people was higher than it is now, and spirituality was not so urgent at that time. "
"On the other hand, various star regions began to send special operations teams to use jump technology to explore star regions far away from the empire.
Capture the lords of the spirit world and the extraordinary items that flow into the material world.
Both of these can be ‘moved’, which means that they can be brought back to the empire for absorption, which is difficult for those spiritual light groups. "
Lin Tuo suddenly, he was still thinking before that, since the empire has mastered the bug ability of material transformation, why should it set up a special action team and fight with the lord of the spirit world so frequently.
Be aware that this unit was not set up to find the sand table, but existed a long time ago.
This makes sense. Due to the existence of the database, spirituality is gradually exhausted. If this problem cannot be solved, the worst result is that sooner or later the empires will convert all spirituality into souls and store them.
In the end, only a group of people remain alive.
Or worse, everyone becomes a stored soul, and there is only one "life" left 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 the planet destroyed by extraordinary objects?
It’s just that the "Destroyer" has changed from a "forbidden and extraordinary item" to an emperor made by humans.
Think further...Where does the sky full of spiritual light come from, and why does it contain various mysterious powers?
Lin Tuo shivered, and subconsciously swept his eyes beyond the silver-gray land, the floating and fixed
stars
all over the sky seemed to touch the secrets of the essence of the world.
Of course, it's also probably his crazy thinking...
Withdrawing his thoughts, Lin Tuo looked back at the illusory governor of Ueno, and said seriously:
"What you said really touched me, but what I want to know is the origin of the 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 tried is to solve the problem through technical means, and the derivation of the sand table is one of a series of experiments, that is, code-named YH2359."
