Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

"Can understand."

Xie Anan nodded. The old girl with a red apple face, a little fat, and shy but persistent, has now become a calm, calm and full-fledged middle-aged lady with the same mature elegance. It is the trust and worship of Li Yao in the depths of the eye. "This is a problem that many long-term hibernators have to face. It seems that Master is also like the teacher, and slowly becomes a 'flying family'."

"Flying Leap?"

Li Yao gave a slight glimpse and looked at Ding Lingwei. "What is that?"

"This is a new concept put forward by the senior hibernator, even though the old torage was put forward by the seniors. After transferring the "Tombstone Plan" of the preservation of civilization to Professor Mo Xuan, he has been engaged in research in this area, long-term hibernation. It’s just a means for us to achieve a certain purpose, but in returning to life, we have made the 'super long-term human hibernation' the purpose itself."

Ding Lingxi explained, "I am like you, most of the past 100 years have been hibernating, the time of waking up will not add up to more than twenty years, every time you return to the Federation, there is a feeling of human beings. .

"For the first time, I missed the wedding of Wu Maoyan and Xie Anan. The second time, I missed the birth and growth of their children... There are many, many, many things, all like glittering The shiny sands quickly passed away from my fingers, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t catch them.

"The feeling is really what you said. It has disappeared in a few decades. Our hibernates and normal people live in two different time dimensions, creating a strange... alienation, just like us. It didn't make much contribution to the construction of the new federation, but a beautiful and bright homeland came on its own, and we only need to enjoy its achievements."

"how could be?"

Xie Anan hurriedly said, "Master and Shi Niang have discovered three large-scale worlds plus the exiled government of the former Xinghai Republic. They also made a great contribution to defeating the Imperial Expeditionary Force. What is not contributing?"

"I know."

Ding Ling smiled and said, "This is not my modesty. It is just a very weird feeling. It is difficult for you to understand the 'crawling people' who have not been hibernating for a long time.

"In fact, the reason why I want to run for the Federal Speaker this time is, of course, to reconcile the relationship between the New Fourth and the Old Three, and try to maintain the balance between us and Jin Xinyue, but the more important reason is My selfishness, I really want to use this way to make myself and the new federation more closely integrated, to be able to reintegrate into the current federation, never know how to say 'Flying Leap', return to the ordinary 'crawling family' ""

When Li Yao heard Ding Ling's words, there was a very rare melancholy. It became more and more strange: "Flying and crawling people, what is it?"

Ding Lingyi will drink a glass of red wine and say: "I have been hibernating for a long time in the Xinghai after a long hibernation. After returning to the Confederacy, I feel that I am incompatible with the world around me. The long-term hibernator's return to the old predecessor chat, he happened to be doing research in this area, told me a lot of things, and sent me several notes.

"Because the old predecessors said that the upper and lower sides of the universe, to the ancient times and the present, the universe is a continuum of time and space, in this three-dimensional universe we live, time and space are originally continuous, linear, Stable, time passes by one second, the meaning of every second is the same, and the civilization living in such continuous time and space, for example, the current human civilization, is a turtle crawling slowly on the road of time. , so called 'crawling family'.

"But in fact, whether it is the Pangu, the Nuwa, or today's human civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago, we have discovered a way to transcend spatial continuity, that is, the Xinghai jump.

"Using wormholes, with the help of four-dimensional space, you can surpass the continuity of three-dimensional space. From this point, you can instantly reach another point beyond one million light years.

"Since the continuity of space can be surpassed, can the continuity of time be surpassed?

"In a sense, of course, that is the human body hibernation technology.

"Before the hibernation technology has not been invented and matured, the intelligent life living in our universe is all 'crawling people'. No matter whether you are an emperor or an emperor, one second is one second, one minute is one minute. At most, by stimulating the brain, in the virtual world, the illusion of time lapse is simulated, but that is false, and the real-time time flow rate is still the same.

"But for our hibernates, this is not the case.

"Even if this technology has just been invented, it is still very simple and inefficient. The hungry federations like you and me can sleep for a hundred years in a single breath. Before we go to sleep and blink again, the face is completely Two different worlds.

"And those civilizations whose hibernation techniques are more developed, such as the Pangu?

"Li Yao, I still can't remember the Pangu people you met in the Kunlun ruins, but I have been sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years!

"Of course, he was just killed when you woke up, and you haven't had time to face a completely strange world.

"But let go of your imagination and enter the perspective of this Pangu people. If you think that 'you' is not being killed, how do you face a completely different world after hundreds of thousands of years, facing those at your feet? The "descendants" who are leaping and screaming, and facing the stars, do not have a similar loneliness?"

Li Yao lived and fell into deep thoughts.

Ding Ling said: "Although the older generation believes that with the development of hibernation technology, the damage and loss to hibernates is getting smaller and smaller, and more and more hibernators appear. The civilization of technology will sooner or later be divided into two parts, the 'creeping family' composed of non-sleepers, and the 'flying family' composed of hibernators.

"The world of crawling people is continuous, stable, and linear. They use every bit of every minute to burn life, build homes and civilizations, and enjoy stable loved ones, friends, happiness, and emotions.

"But for hibernating people who have traveled for decades and hundreds of years, the time is not continuous, non-linear, fragmented, it is like a mighty river, the flow of the river is extremely slow, but the river is Exposed some stones, the hibernator was originally a fish in the river, but once jumped out of the water and grew wings, you can use the wings and the power of bounce to fly forward quickly, see the river in the far distance, the new world, Everything that they originally left behind, seemingly frozen in the 'river', is gradually divesting its original meaning.

"You also said, but the eyes are closed and closed. The Stars Federation has undergone earth-shaking changes. Your loved ones and friends have different encounters and growth. Some people die, more people are born, enjoy. Their slow, even and stable emotions.

"This is only a hundred years. If you hibernate again, sleep again for three hundred or five hundred years?

“Is there any meaning to the ideals, goals, moral system, world outlook, outlook on life and values ​​that have revived after five hundred years?”

Li Yao was speechless, and there was a picture in his mind that could not be described with pen and ink. It was extremely gorgeous and extremely bleak. When he gave birth to a chilling feeling, he even turned out to be faint... Looking forward to it?

Ding Lingwei seriously said: "Although the older generation believes that when some people master the ability to jump forward in the long river of time, their understanding of value, morality and even 'life' itself will be completely different from others. Like a turtle crawling slowly on the ground, like a bird flying in the sky, it is impossible to understand each other. The bacteria do not know what to do, and the summer insects cannot speak the ice. This is not a senior, who is a lower-level problem, just Two different life choices, one is 'continuous life, crawling family', and the other is 'discontinuous life, Feiyue family'. The difference between them is probably greater than the difference between the self-cultivator and the cultivator. many."

Li Yao thought that the electric turn, had to admit that the old guy who lived for a thousand years, said that it is a bit reasonable.

I think it’s really funny. The old guy’s body is obviously a green old turtle. He just called others “crawling people” but he is a “flying family”. This is a stink in a certain sense. Face?

"Right, why didn't you see the old?"

Li Yaodao, "Isn't he saying that he wants to be a witness to all the major events in the Federation, and the mega-revolutionary news of the empire's counterattack war, he does not run out to record?"

"The realm of returning to the old is improving."

Ding Ling said, "He has completely entered the field of the 'Flying Leap'. Perhaps there is nothing worth pursuing and paying attention to in the red world of time. I have not seen him for a long time, maybe he Crouching into an unknown corner, slowly 'flying' to the next millennium.

"When we last met, he still said that the individual 'flying family' has been so mysterious, if a whole civilization has chosen to actively hibernate itself, once every thousand or ten thousand years to thaw, in time The Yangtze River continues to leap forward and evolve into a 'time-crossing civilization'. What would it look like? He would like to find such a non-linear civilization in his own way.

"As for us, we have just experienced a hibernation for a maximum of 100 years. It is not really a 'flying family'. It is at most an incomplete form between the crawling and the Feiyue. The old concept slowly disintegrates. The concept has not yet formed, and naturally it will encounter various incompatibility. Although the older generations have named such troubles as 'time-over-time', 'overtaking the symptoms brought by the timeline'."