Planetary Museum

Shen Changwen in the main control room nodded: "Once the symptoms appear, it will be a terminal illness if it is discovered again. What you said is that there needs to be some kind of feedback mechanism."

"Yes," Wu Xiaoqing said, "this is probably what the collection team meant—of course, he didn't tell me this directly."

"But for a long time, searching for the principle and mechanism of rebirth on this planet has been the goal that the search and rescue team has been paying attention to. This is a bit unreasonable-because rebirth is not directly related to the mission, even if it exists, it exists Being more on task is also a positive.”

"Only when people die can be resurrected, our long-term siege tactics have a strategic advantage, and we don't have to consider the moral cost of using nuclear bombs..."

"Before you also mentioned that this civilization has been castrated, an incomplete civilization, and I agree with this definition. But what I think is castrated is not that they have defects in their own physiological functions or spiritual self-confidence..."

"It's a more important part for an individual, or for a civilization, and it's also a part related to rebirth—the cognition of death."

On this topic, Wu Xiaoqing had thought in great detail. Some of these thoughts came from Rao Xin’s materials on the ways and means of defining civilization, and the other part came from Wu Xiaoqing’s own experience. Gradually accumulated during the task, the sensory impressions of people in the Ascension Realm:

"In my opinion, the biggest flaw of this civilization is that it has no awareness of death itself, or rather, no serious awareness..."

"Why are these flying people willing to do nothing, wasting thousands of years, and spend all day practicing swords? During such a long time in the Ascension Realm, has anyone heard the people here sing? Have you ever recited poems? Have you seen the inside of the building? Have you ever been to any cultural symbols with special significance? Such as paintings, sculptures or other things..."

"It stands to reason that for an immortal civilization, they have a lot of time to do these things. But no..."

"Even in words, their text content is poor and narrow. Related linguistic studies have pointed out that their vocabulary is only about that of ancient civilizations..."

"From a spiritual perspective, the creativity of these flying people is not even as good as some primitive people."

"The biggest reason for this phenomenon is the culture of death on this planet."

"Plato famously said that philosophy is an exercise in death."

"On Earth, precisely because each of us inevitably dies, life itself is a finite experience that is invaluable."

"It can be said that all the cultures we have built are rooted in the fear of death. It is because of the fear of death that we want to live a wonderful life, and that is why we want to leave something in this world..."

"Professor Shen, you should remember that the first primitive people we rescued, the witch in the cave knew how to paint murals, and they wanted to paint down what they experienced—these experiences are not only the spiritual heritage left to the tribe, but also the spiritual heritage they have in the cave. The traces left in this world."

"But what about these flying people? Each of them has died so many times, but no one has ever... Or, only a very few people have tried to record anything."

"There have been so many major events in this world, and every battery grab is like a world war... But we can hardly find any records other than dictation."

"The reason is simple, because they don't have this spiritual need."

"They clearly know that they can live after death - since they can live no matter what, then all the possibilities are still there, and the current state is not so important."

"And this point is actually very important-for individuals with a limited lifespan, time has a huge cost. With the cost, we will try to use some methods to try to save this cost loss, even if it is only a little bit. "

"But for flying people, the cost of death is almost 0, and their lifespan is eternity—maybe it's not practical, but in everyone's consciousness, they think so. That is to say, the average to fixed For a period of time, their cost is infinitely close to 0 - so they don't feel bad about wasting it."

In the main control room, after Wang Youquan and Xu Yan listened, they almost subconsciously wanted to laugh.

But turning his head to look at Yevgeny and Shen Changwen, he couldn't help but shut his mouth again.

Apparently, these two experts felt that what Wu Xiaoqing said was not unreasonable, but to them, the whole suggestion was very funny——a good thing like immortality, can be said to be a defect?

Wu Xiaoqing's root, obviously, must be envy, jealousy and hatred!

Not to mention, Wang Youquan and Xu Yan really discussed this issue in private.

Of course, what Wang Youquan and Xu Yan are concerned about is not the life and death of the Ascension Realm civilization, but the work benefits that are actually related to them. Since the flying people here can live forever, can you ask the collection team and help them do it? , do an operation or something... You don't need to learn to charge or anything, as long as you can live after death, it's better than anything else.

The two of them are still in the brewing stage of this topic. When they are ready to find time, they will bring it up to two experts together - and then relay it to the search and rescue team through the two of them.

From Wang Youquan and Xu Yan's point of view, these two old men, who are over 6 years old, are the ones who are most concerned about this topic, and they are also the core figures in the team. It is best for them to take the lead in this kind of thing. .

If they can really live forever...then they will make a lot of money.Even if you can't achieve immortality, it's good to prolong your life...

But now, the two experts seemed to be moved by Wu Xiaoqing's words, and they began to discuss with each other in a low voice.Wang Youquan leaned over and listened to a few words, he could understand all the words, the words were correct, and each one was in proper Mandarin, after all, he was teaching in a university.But what do these words mean? It's too embarrassing for Wang Youquan...

The two of them had no choice but to stare at the picture sent back from Wu Xiaoqing - they couldn't understand the words, but the picture was still simple and clear.

The method of cutting the whole island is like cutting watermelon by a chef in a restaurant—this is different from cutting watermelon at home.

Ordinary people eat watermelon by themselves, with a knife in the middle. If there are few people, they take a spoon and eat it directly. If there are many people, they cut it into fans. The size depends entirely on the mood.If you want to be more elegant, cut it smaller, and if you want to be more bold, cut it bigger - the big deal is to wash your face with the watermelon rind when you eat it at the end.

But in the restaurant, before the watermelon is cut, the chef has already determined the shape of the watermelon on the dinner plate in the future-it must be a standard thin slice, so that guests can eat small slices, which makes the watermelon appear more. It's easy to get up.

In order to achieve this effect, watermelon often does not choose to cut on the long side of the oval like at home, but cuts on the short side, and then cuts the remaining part into even parts ...

That's exactly what short hair customers are doing now.

The shape of the entire island looks more like an ellipse, but it is flatter than ordinary watermelons, more like a football shape.

The red laser cuts along the long axis, but it doesn't completely cut off, but keeps a lot of connected parts in the middle.So some parts of the entire island have cracked, but the structure of the island has not fallen apart.The purpose of doing this is naturally to prevent this huge island from being uncontrolled during the cutting process and causing unnecessary risks.

After the cutting of the long axis, the short hair guest began to peel off part of the structure of the island along the short axis, piece by piece.

The "each piece" cut out is several kilometers long and wide, and the thickness is no more than ten meters.

Before each small piece is cut off, the short-haired guest will call four or five members of Qianyangmen in advance to use flying swords to fix the surrounding and center of the piece of "watermelon". After the small piece is completely cut off, Let them start the flying sword together.

After that, the five flying swords were like the pilot ships of the five ports, dragging the targets and easily pulling them towards the outer direction.

After leaving hundreds of meters, Feijian will return again and continue to guide the next piece...Wu Xiaoqing doesn't care about where these "construction waste" will eventually go, many cut slices will soon collide due to different speeds , piled up into strange shapes, but those are already several kilometers away.

Soon, around the original island, there were more and more small island fragments that were cut off. From a distance, these large fan-shaped objects were like slices of bread floating in the air, and they were different from the original island. At the same time, the island itself began to shrink in size.

After more than three hours, the place where the original island existed was almost blank, but around them, in the originally empty space, there were hundreds of new sheet-like "islands".

The first part of them that was cut off has stopped more than ten kilometers away, but the part that was cut off is still moving towards the distance along the inertia. The collision along the way naturally produced particles of dust and pollution along the way... At least in Wu Xiaoqing's field of vision, the surrounding area was relatively comfortable, but now a large area of ​​gray dust has appeared.

Fortunately, there are no urban management in this world, otherwise their actions would definitely be defined as illegal disposal of construction waste.

"It's all done?" subtitles appeared in the glasses.

"Yes," Wu Xiaoqing said, "I was looking for you."

Wu Xiaoqing pointed to the last remaining part of the entire island in front of them—that was a cubic metal structure that surrounded the invisible target area.

Standing in front of it, Wu Xiaoqing felt as if he was looking at a building that had been abandoned and was about to be blasted anytime.

On the outer wall of the building, you can still clearly see the neat traces scanned by the laser pointed by Qian Yang—Wu Xiaoqing knows that it is just a normal phenomenon when metal is melted by high temperature and then cooled in situ.

But at this moment, he still had an illusion, as if he was facing a living creature, and every trace seemed to be the healed scar of this huge creature.

This huge cube now has only one entrance and exit, which was cut by the short-haired guest before, a standard circular window.Wu Xiaoqing zoomed in on the image at the window, but couldn't see anything—it was still pitch black inside.

In the past, the functions of using glasses were assisted by the search and rescue team, and the functions in them were automatically called.

But this time, Wu Xiaoqing started to try to debug by himself.This pair of glasses can detect the movement of people's eyeballs - he only needs to use his eyes to easily control its operation.

There are many functions for glasses to collect information, such as conventional optical information, advanced thermal motion analysis - which can be understood as a black technology version of infrared sensing, and then structural analysis of unknown principles, and even spatial dimension analysis...

In other words, in front of this pair of glasses, it can correctly identify even a part of the high-dimensional world.Of course, such high-end functions are far from being used here.

In fact, just through structural analysis, Wu Xiaoqing easily saw everything contained in the dark round window in front of him.

Wu Xiaoqing opened his mouth wide, as if he couldn't help but say something, but his mouth only moved, but no sound escaped from it.

"Wu Xiaoqing, what did you see?" Shen Changwen in the main control room couldn't help asking.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't answer, he was still watching.

Half a minute later, Yevgeny couldn't help asking a question in Russian.

Wu Xiaoqing still didn't answer, and his attention at the moment was obviously not in the building in front of him.