Chapter 1846: In the long river of time (2/2)
”Even when this technology was just invented, the Star Federation, which is still very crude and inefficient, hibernators like you and me, can sleep in one breath for hundreds of years. Before we fall asleep and after we open our eyes again, what we face is completely Two different worlds.
”And those civilizations with more advanced hibernation techniques, such as the Pangu tribe?
”Li Yao, don't remember the Pangu clan you met at the Kunlun Ruins, but he slept for hundreds of thousands of years!
”Of course, he was beheaded by you just after he woke up, before he had time to face a completely strange world.
”But let go of your imagination and substitute the perspective of this Pangu tribe. If you are not beheaded, how will you face a completely different world after hundreds of thousands of years, and face those under your feet? The'descendants' who are alive and yelling, facing the stars of the sky, are there no loneliness of the same kind?”
Li Yao was startled and fell into deep thought.
Ding Lingdang said: ”Gui Shoushou senior believes that with the development of hibernation technology, the harm and loss of hibernators will be less and less, and more and more hibernators will appear. Anyone who masters this Sooner or later, the technological civilization will be divided into two parts, the ”crawler tribe” composed of non-hibernators, and the ”flying tribe” composed of hibernators.
”The world of reptiles is continuous, stable, and linear. They use every minute and every second to burn their lives, build their homes and civilization, and enjoy stable relatives, friends, happiness and various emotions.
”But for hibernators who have been hibernating for decades and hundreds of years of light and shadow, time is discontinuous, non-linear, and fragmented. It is like a mighty river. The flow of the river is extremely slow, but the river surface is discontinuous. Some rocks were exposed. The hibernator was originally a fish in the river, but once it jumped out of the water and grew wings, he could use his wings and the power of bounce to fly forward, and see a brand new world in the river far ahead. Originally, they left behind, everything in the seemingly frozen'river water' was gradually stripping away its original meaning.
”You also said, it's just a matter of opening and closing your eyes, the Star Federation has undergone earth-shaking changes. Your relatives and friends have different experiences and growth. Some people die, more people are born, and enjoy With their slow, even and steady joy, anger, sadness and joy.
”This is only a hundred years. What if you hibernate again for three or five hundred years?
”Does the past ideals, goals, moral system, world outlook, outlook on life and values have any meaning for you who have regained consciousness five hundred years later?”
Li Yao was speechless, and a picture that could not be described with pen and ink appeared in his mind. It was extremely gorgeous and extremely bleak. While giving birth to a chilling feeling, he unexpectedly faintly looked forward to it?
Ding Lingdang said earnestly: ”Senior Guishoushou believes that when some people have mastered 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, then Like a tortoise crawling slowly on the ground, and a bird flying in the sky, it is impossible to understand each other. There are two different life choices, one is'continuous life, crawler race', and the other is'discontinuous life, leap race'. The difference between them is probably even greater than the difference between a cultivator and a cultivator. Much.”
Li Yao was thinking about it, and had to admit that Gui Shoushou, an old guy who had been happy for a thousand years, said something reasonable.
It's really funny to think about it. This old guy's body is obviously a green-haired old tortoise, but he just calls others a ”crawler”, but he calls himself a ”flying clan”, which is a kind of stinky. Face?
”By the way, why didn't you see Guilao?”
Li Yao said, ”Didn't he say that he wants to be the witness of all the major events of the Federation, he won't run out to record such big news as the'Empire Strikes Back'?”
”Guilao's realm has improved again.”
Ding Lingdang said, ”He has completely stepped into the realm of the'Feiyue Race', maybe in the red world where time is slowly passing, there is nothing worthy of him to pursue and pay attention to. I haven't seen him for a long time, maybe he will He dormant in an unknown horn, and slowly ”leaped” to the next millennium.
”When we met for the last time, he was still saying that the individual'Feiyue Race' is already so mysterious. If an entire civilization chooses to actively hibernate itself, it will thaw once every 1,000 or 10,000 years. Leaping forward continuously in the long river, evolving into a ”time-strider civilization”, what will it look like? He really wants to find such a non-linear civilization-in his own way.
”As for us, we have just gone through hibernation for at most a hundred years. It is not really a'Feiyue clan.' At most, it is an incomplete form between the crawler and the Feiyue clan. The concept of ”has not yet formed, and naturally will encounter various maladjustments. Senior Gui Sushou named such troubles as ”time-out syndrome”, ”sickness caused by going beyond the timeline.”