"Then, I find it even more incomprehensible."
Lu Qingchen thought for a long time and said, "Since your ultimate destiny, or 'meta-logic', is to save the civilization of mankind, what you are doing right now — castrating the feelings of human beings, turning them into numb walking corpses, and claiming that you will wake up the sleeping member of the Pangu Clan — what kind of 'salvation' is that?"
"There are many ways of salvation. It all depends on how you understand the true meaning of 'salvation'. It's just like your so-called salvation is not understood by the people in your hometown. That's why you were blown apart and banished to the depths of the universe, isn't it?"
Fuxi claimed that he was not interested in Lu Qingchen's secrets, but his words hinted that he knew something about Lu Qingchen and even the Xing Yao Federation. "In my definition, 'saving the Pangu civilization' is equal to 'saving the civilization of mankind'. It means that the civilization of mankind must develop to the peak of technology so that it can make use of every resource in the universe perfectly and last for a long time until it reaches immortality. Do you agree?"
"Well … Of course I do."
Pondering for a moment, Lu Qingchen did not find any loopholes. "However, I'm rather confused. How are you going to realize your fancy plan?"
"Don't be hasty. Let me start from the beginning. I believe that you will agree and join my 'ultimate rescue' after hearing my explanation."
The cluster of light that constituted 'Fuxi' was condensed to the core first before it exploded in all directions, turning into countless translucent light beams that were dancing like colorful butterflies. The wings of every butterfly were displaying a picture of the primeval age.
In those pictures, the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, the Gonggong Clan, the Houyi Clan, the Kuafu Clan, the Zhurong Clan … The different carbon-based intelligent lives that used to live in the Pangu universe were all working hard to build their civilization and spread their lives, trying to leave their mark in the universe.
"That was … hundreds of thousands of years ago."
Fuxi's voice turned ancient and distant. "At that time, the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives that lived in the universe had already discovered each other and established an alliance under the leadership of the Pangu Clan. However, the differences in form, ideology, appearance, and living environment still led to serious contradictions.
"Under the appearance of peace and development, small-scale frictions were happening now and then. The hidden cracks gradually surfaced, and the alliance became more and more unstable.
"To make the alliance last, the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives had to be 'integrated'. The key to the integration was the crystal processors, which were the most important supercomputational tools for every carbon-based intelligent life.
"At that time, the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives were all advanced enough to break out of the atmosphere and even the mother world.... The civilizations that reached such a level was bound to develop their own unique crystal processor technology.............. com....
"Therefore, as long as we combine thirteen different information interaction networks and supercomputing tools, we will be able to achieve a high degree of unity among the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives.
"It sounds simple, but if you really want to combine the information exchange and data processing systems that are completely different or even conflicting with each other, and the basic rune writing is not compatible at all, so that the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives with vastly different ways of thinking can understand and use it without any obstacles, the difficulty is no different from extinguishing a star in its prime and igniting it again.
"However, under the leadership of the Pangu Clan, the thirteen primeval species all realized the cruelty of war and the necessity of unification. Their civilizations were already so advanced that, should a war break out, not only would they destroy each other with their old enemies, it was also possible that the resourceful worlds would be affected and the foundation for the survival of all the creatures would be erased.
"Nobody knows what the outcome of a war will be, but everybody knows that the next war after this war will probably be bacteria waving their flagella and slapping each other.
"Therefore, however difficult it was, the Pangu Alliance devoted the most distinguished intelligent individuals and the resources that were as vast as the sea of stars to push forward the project of paramount importance.
"Finally, after a hundred thousand years of exploration and failures, the grand-unified crystal processor and the Spiritual Nexus system, or 'Fuxi system', was born."
As Fuxi spoke, the torrents of information and data on the colorful butterfly wings around were swirling quickly, displaying countless pictures in the light and shadow.
Li Yao and Lu Qingchen saw at the same time that, in the picture, countless bizarre-looking primeval experts who were as magnificent as mountains and as intimidating as deities were gathered to discuss the construction of the grand-unified super crystal processor and the Spiritual Nexus system.
They were either waving their antennae, triggering their brainwaves, or displaying countless complicated runes around themselves with their spiritual energy, elaborating on the difficulty and necessity of the mission in a way a hundred times more efficient than voices and words.
"Only the grand-unified super Spiritual Nexus system can connect all the intelligent lives in the Pangu Alliance and maintain our civilization so that the wars that could destroy everything will never happen again.
"Even the weakest branch of us boasted the strength to destroy a Sector. Even a tiny spark was enough to ignite the fire of calamity that could destroy the entire universe. Therefore, there must be no more wars. There must be only peace. Eternal peace."
"Grand-Unified! Grand-Unified! "
Li Yao and Lu Qingchen both read that from the communication of the primeval species.
In the other tens of thousands of pictures, countless crystal processor specialists in the primeval era were dedicating their lives to the grand-unified crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus system with their blood, sweat, and soul.
Of course, "crystal processor" was only Li Yao's understanding from the perspective of human beings. In fact, the "super computation tools" in the primeval era boasted all kinds of weird, unpredictable forms and computational logic. Many of the super computation tools of the carbon-based intelligent species did not have the features of a "crystal processor" at all.
For example, the earliest supercomputing tool of the Houyi Clan was a delicate nest made of crystals. Countless beetles that were born for computation were lurking deep inside such a nest, where they could complete the calculation, analysis, and interaction of the data that was as vast as an ocean with their fluttering wings and the transmission of auras.
Looking at the most primitive super computation tool, Li Yao thought of the crystal processor of the Houyi Clan that had been finalized after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution at the bottom of the Gold Crystal Pyramid. The difference between the two was indeed greater than the difference between monkeys and human beings.
It was not hard to infer how much wisdom, sweat, and sacrifice the crystal processor specialists in the primeval era had made!
"Finally, the infinitely extended neural network of the Fuxi system spread all over the universe. Even though they were billions of lightyears away, two intelligent carbon-based lives of different species could share each other's ideas and experiences instantly. For the first time, the insects of the Houyi Clan sensed the nourishment of the Kuafu Clan's individuals as' seeds' that were buried deep below the ground, and the trees of the Kuafu Clan sensed the meaning of the 'heart of the nest' for the first time. It was not until this moment that the Pangu Alliance of Civilizations was truly integrated into a new, unified civilization."
Fuxi said, "Of course, the integration of civilizations was just the first step. More importantly, we had to create new civilization forms and explore the frontier of the universe and beyond the frontier."
"Ah …"
Lu Qingchen said, "That was the golden age of the Pangu civilization, wasn't it? They were so vigorous and fearless, just like the civilization of mankind today."
"Yes, the Pangu civilization at that time was the same as the civilization of mankind today. They hadn't gotten in touch with the real darkness yet. It was not courage but ignorance."
Fuxi said, "All in all, now that the super crystal processors and the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus that contain all the information and boast a computational ability that exceeds everyone's, it is only natural that people cannot wait to find the answer from the 'Fuxi system'.
"There were few problems that required the Fuxi system to consider with all its computational ability. At that time, I mainly carried out two missions.
"Firstly, I was responsible for calculating the most reasonable and efficient utilization of all the resources in our universe, discovering and resolving the conflicts and disagreements among the intelligent species in advance, and further promoting the integration of the intelligent species so that civil wars could be avoided and 'eternal peace' could be reached.
"Secondly, I was responsible for finding the shortest path and commanding an expedition fleet with the most advanced facilities and the largest scale to jump out of our tiny universe and explore the vaster, more prosperous, and more mysterious worlds outside."
"Peace and development."
Lu Qingchen nodded to show that he understood. "Any highly developed civilization will certainly set their eyes on the bigger worlds outside after they conquer every inch of space in the tiny universe. It is only natural.
"Although the Xing Yao Federation is located in a corner of the universe, even the sparrows have ambitions. We have considered the 'universe beyond the universe' and similar questions before.
"If there is a chance, we will certainly jump out and take a look one day, too!"
"However, our tiny universe is blocked by the mysterious and boundless' black wall '," Fuxi said.
Fuxi said, "You should understand the concept of the 'black wall'. It is the dark space billions of lightyears away from the resource-rich areas of the 'three thousand Sectors', which is extremely barren and close to zero.
"There is no light, no celestial bodies, no radiation, and naturally no ripples of spiritual energy. Even data and information can hardly be sent out. Even if the data, information, and life forms from the outside world want to come in, they will be broken, mottled, and twisted during the long journey, turning into things such as' extraterrestrial devils'.
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