Chapter 1846: In the long river of time (1/2)
”Understand.”
Xie An'an nodded. The little girl who used to have a red apple face, a little plump, shy but persistent, has now become a peaceful and calm middle-aged lady full of mature and elegant temperament, the only thing that does not change , Is the trust and admiration of Li Yao deep in the eyes, ”This is a problem that many people who have been hibernating for a long time have to face, it seems that Master, just like Shiniang, is slowly becoming a'Feiyue Clan'.”
”Feiyue Clan?”
Li Yao was startled slightly, looking at Ding Lingdang, ”What's that?”
”This is a brand new concept proposed by the senior hibernator Gui Shoushou. After transferring the ”Tombstone Project” to preserve civilization to Professor Mo Xuan, he has been engaged in research in this area. It's just a means for us to achieve a certain goal, but in Guishoushou's place,'super long-term human hibernation' is regarded as the goal itself.”
Ding Lingdang explained, ”Like you, I have spent most of the past 100 years in hibernation, and the total time I spent awake will not exceed 20 years. Every time I return to the Federation, I feel like everything is right and wrong. .
”The first time, I missed the wedding of Wu Ma Yan, this stinky boy, and Xie An'an; the second time, I missed the birth and growth of their children... There are many, many people, many, many things, all like sparkling The shiny sands quickly flowed through my fingers, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch them.
”That feeling is really like what you said. It has disappeared out of thin air for decades. We hibernators and normal people live in two different time dimensions. We have a strange... alienation, just like us. It has not made much contribution to the construction of the new federation, but a beautiful and bright home will come on its own, and we only need to sit back and enjoy its achievements.”
”how could be?”
Xie Anan hurriedly said, ”Master and Madam Master discovered three great worlds plus the former Xinghai Republic's government in exile, and they also made great contributions to defeating the Imperial Expeditionary Army. What do you mean by no contribution!”
”I know.”
Ding Lingdang smiled and said, ”It's not that I am humble, it's just a very strange feeling. Those of you who haven't hibernated for a long time are hard to understand.
”In fact, the reason why I want to run for the Speaker of the Federation this time is to reconcile the relationship between the New Four Realms and the Old Three Realms, and try to maintain the balance between our side and Jin Xinyue’s side, but the more important reason is that My selfishness-I really want to integrate myself with the new federation more closely in this way, and be able to reintegrate into the current federation. I never know what to say about the ”flying clan” and return to the ordinary ”crawl” Family'.”
Li Yao heard that there was a very rare melancholy in Ding Lingdang's words, and he became more and more strange: ”Feiyue tribe and Crawler tribe, what are they!”
Ding Lingdang drank a full glass of red wine and said: ”After a long hibernation, I spent a whole hundred years alone in the sea of stars. After returning to the Federation, I felt that I was incompatible with the world around me, so I went to find the same thing. The long-term hibernator's Guishoushou senior chatted with him. He happened to be doing research in this area. He told me a lot of things and gave me several notebooks.
”Gui Shoushou senior said that the upper and lower squares are the universe, and the universe is the continuum of time and space since ancient times. In this three-dimensional universe we live in, time and space are originally continuous, linear, and Stable, time goes by every second, every second has the same meaning, and the civilization that lives in such continuous time and space, for example, the current human civilization is a tortoise crawling slowly on the avenue of time. , So it is called the ”creeper”.
”But in fact, whether it is the Pangu and Nuwa tribes hundreds of thousands of years ago, or today's human civilization, they have discovered a way to transcend the continuity of space, that is, the star sea jump.
”Using wormholes and four-dimensional space, one can surpass the continuity of three-dimensional space. From this point, it instantly reaches another point a million light-years away.
”Since the continuity of space can be surpassed, can the continuity of time also be surpassed?
”In a sense, of course, it is the human hibernation technique.
”Before the hibernation technology was invented and matured, the intelligent beings living in our universe were all'crawlers.' Whether beggars or emperors, ordinary people or cultivators, one second is one second, and one minute is one minute. At most, by stimulating the brain nerves, the illusion of slowing down the passage of time can be simulated in the virtual world, but that is false, and the flow of time in the real world is still the same.
”But for us hibernators, that's not the case.