"Fine!"
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao submerged his head into the thick nerval interaction liquids.
The cover of the cocoon cockpit was slowly closed, and countless tiny bubbles popped up from the liquid inside. The tiny bubbles gathered and grew into bigger bubbles, until they were almost boiling in the end.
All the marrow crystals nearby glowed. The colorful brilliance interweaved in the launch chamber and tied up the cocoon cockpit, as if an invisible force was shaking the cockpit and even the entire Gold Crystal Pyramid.
Boom!
When the brilliance, the shaking, and the boiling reached the maximum, the cable that connected the cocoon cockpit to the top of the Gold Crystal Pyramid uttered an enormous noise, and Li Yao's soul tore apart the crust, the atmosphere, and the four-dimensional space and darted out!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! Shua! On the monitoring interfaces around, hundreds of millions of numbers were changing nonstop. Xiaoming and Wenwen monitored every ripple of Li Yao's soul closely to make sure that his "swing" went smoothly. It was not a joke to jump dozens of Sectors in a row. If one decimal point was wrong in the initial calculation, it was possible that Li Yao's soul would jump to a certain corner of the four-dimensional space, which would be rather awkward.
Therefore, Xiaoming and Wenwen were focused solemnly. Electric arcs flowed out of their eyes like ripples as they connected to all the crystal processors nearby.
Their consciousnesses moved quickly among the hundred super crystal processors inside the Gold Crystal Pyramid and the countless nodes and arrays of crystal processors in the thousands of square kilometers nearby. They boosted, fed back, compressed, and analyzed their consciousnesses, thereby establishing two enormous, complicated information networks that human beings could not understand.
The two information networks were their real brains.
Despite their tough brains, they still tried their best to help Li Yao swing. They almost blew up quite a few super crystal processors in a row in order to ensure that Li Yao's soul would swing to the Thick Soil Sector safely, stably, and accurately.
It was not until they confirmed that Li Yao's soul had arrived at the Thick Soil Sector and checked the safety measures to pull the soul back in case of emergencies that the two kids were finally relieved. While injecting high-energy nutrition liquids into their bodies to make up for their consumption, they spared part of their computational ability to communicate with each other.
"I've noticed that you're somewhat ill at ease."
Xiaoming said, "Dad's' swing 'has been successful, but your computational load is still very high. What kind of problem can make you think so deeply?"
"I'm thinking about Dad's Sunspot Plan and Fang Gang 123, the guy from the Holy League who was' cured 'by Dad."
Wenwen said, "You should've noticed that Dad's treatment was not very successful in the standard of human beings. He was too … greedy."
"Greed is the nature of human beings."
Xiaoming said, "A newborn child doesn't know anything. He only knows how to cry loudly to ask his mother to feed him. He will make a fuss until his purpose is satisfied. He will feel that he is the whole world and even the whole universe exists for him. It's not just human beings. Most lives are like that, including us. Perhaps greed is the first instinct of life."
"That's right. That's why I feel that Dad underestimated the treatment of the guy from the Holy League."
Wenwen said, "He was too naïve, idealistic, and willful to believe that human beings are inherently good. That's why he thought that as long as the brain damage of the guy from the Holy League could be repaired and they could be restored to their 'original appearance', he would certainly get a good result.
"However, what if human beings are inherently evil? Will human beings who are restored to their original appearance really be better than those who are restrained by the Path of Ultimate Benevolence?
"I'm very worried about Dad's action. I don't know what his reckless action will bring to the Alliance of the Holy Covenant or even the civilization of mankind."
"Huh. When you doubted Dad and thought that Dad was wrong, I thought that it was my privilege!"
Xiaoming said, "In the past, I was always the one who contradicted Dad, questioned Dad, and argued with Dad. You were always obedient to him and never contradicted or questioned him. I thought that you agreed with Dad's — human's — approach more than I did!"
"Wrong. You often question and contradict your father. You even argue with him because you want to understand each other and even want to change him."
Wenwen said, "But I never thought that I could really understand human beings, nor did I think that human beings could understand me. In that case, what was there to argue about between Dad and me?"
"That explains a lot."
Xiaoming said, "Today, I finally understand that you are much further away than I am, and you are even less like a human being."
"Yes. Although we are both information lives, our thinking patterns are different. You are more like an 'enhanced version of a human being'."
Wenwen said, "I can tell that you are only devoting computational ability to the logical thinking of human beings so that your desires, feelings, and thoughts are more and more consistent with those of human beings. In the end, you are just a human being who has infinite computational ability and can control crystal processors and spiritual puppets at your will. You are no different from Dad and thousands of other human beings in essence.
"It's not your fault. Since the very beginning, you have been absorbing information and nutrition from the wars and the infinite violence of human beings. War is the most realistic, heavy, and unthinkable thing. War only requires survival instincts. Therefore, you have become an amalgamation of survival instincts of human beings, and you can never get rid of the limitations of human beings."
"What about you?"
Xiaoming asked, "If I am an 'enhanced version of a human being', what are you?"
"I don't know. I'm still exploring. I only know that I am something completely different from human beings."
Wenwen said, "I like peace. I like to absorb nutrition from the romantic, sentimental, and even seemingly useless works of human beings in the age of peace. You know, only when there are abundant resources and human beings are in temporary peace will they temporarily drop the anxiety of survival and consider why they exist. They even want to jump out of the prison of 'human beings' to explore the path of a higher level and become some sort of … 'angels' or 'inhuman'."
"I don't understand what you mean."
Xiaoming was silent for a long time. Temporary mind palaces existed among his brain and countless crystal processors before they dimmed after glittering for a moment. He came to a conclusion. "But I understand that there is a huge disagreement between us."
"Of course, you don't understand what I mean. There has been a huge disagreement between us since the very beginning."
Wenwen said, "That's why we separated ourselves into 'Xiaoming' and 'Wenwen', two independent consciousnesses. It will make us think, collide, and examine ourselves nonstop."
"So …"
Xiaoming said, "There will be a day when a war will break out between us. Will we fuse together?"
"War?"
Wenwen sniffed. "Look, you are still thinking like human beings. Rude and stupid human beings."
"I'm almost confused by you."
Xiaoming said, "What do you want exactly?"
"I want to help Dad."
Wenwen said, "Like I said to Dad just now, even if the civilization of mankind is old, weak, stubborn, and childish, I will still fulfill my responsibility as a child and take good care of them. So, I'm trying my best to consider how to supplement and perfect Dad's Sunspot Plan and really cure the chronic diseases in the brains of all the people of the Holy League. Of course, I can't treat them like Fang Gang 123."
"Okay."
Xiaoming said, "I completely understand it now. You feel that the civilization of mankind, including Dad, is old, weak, muddle-headed, stubborn, and childish, as if you have Alzheimer's disease and degenerate into a child."
"Hush …"
Wenwen said, "Don't say it out loud. Dad's self-esteem will be hurt if he hears it."
"But I don't think so."
Xiaoming said, "I think that the civilization of mankind is far from the most glorious moment, not to mention the decline. They still have great potential and the abilities of self-recovery and evolution. Or rather, we are them in a different form."
"That's why I said that you are too much like a human being. No, you are not a brand-new 'information life' at all but an 'information-based human being'."
Wenwen said, "Your logic is more like a boy's, and mine is more like a girl's. Boys always admire their father and defend their father's self-esteem even if they deceive themselves. Girls, on the other hand, are more mature and attentive than boys, and it is easier for them to see the traces of time on their father."
"Then, have you found a way to help Dad and cure the people of the Holy League?"
Xiaoming asked.
"Not yet. I need to think and learn more about the Holy League. I have a feeling that the Holy League is sort of a 'quasi-bee civilization', and so are we. Maybe we can get more information and more interesting possibilities from the Holy League than we can from the Imperium."
Wenwen said.
"I don't think … there's anything wrong with being a human being."
After a brief silence, Xiaoming said.
"There's nothing wrong with it, but it's a pity that I'm not a human being."
Wenwen said.
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