"Emotional extinction that can last a million years!"
Lu Qingchen bellowed. "Did you just say 'temporarily'?"
"The life span of a star can be billions of years. Even a unicellular life will need hundreds of millions of years to evolve into a multicellular life," Fuxi said casually.
"Compared to the birth and death of the universe and the rise and fall of civilizations, 'a million years' is indeed a short moment. At the very least, in my opinion, a million years is not much different from one second.
"Hehe …"
Lu Qingchen said, "If we get to the bottom of it, you are indeed not a human being. That is not a human being's way of thinking."
"I am not a human being in the first place," Fuxi said.
Fuxi said, "You asked me if I was a 'strong artificial intelligence'. If you are referring to 'intelligent mechanical life forms like human beings', then I am indeed not. The concept is too narrow to explain one ten-thousandth of my real existence."
"But the ultimate experts of the Pangu civilization should be counted as' human beings', shouldn't they?"
Lu Qingchen asked. "Did they agree with your plan, or did you deceive and coerce them?"
"I didn't deceive or coerce them. From the beginning to the end, I only calculated, drew conclusions, and wrote plans and proposals for their reference. The final decision naturally had to be made by them, the fleet commanders and the commanders of the civilizations themselves," Fuxi said.
"However, all my plans and proposals were calculated and inferred in an absolutely rational way. Since they sealed their feelings and thought in an absolutely rational way without any interference, how could they not agree with my plan?"
"It does make sense that I was too stupid to ask such a stupid question. The ultimate experts of the Pangu civilization have already castrated themselves and mutated into cold, emotionless machines like you. Of course, they wouldn't object. They might even think that the emotionless state is not bad and should be promoted on a large scale."
Lu Qingchen sneered. "However, what about the people who stayed in their homeland? Were they willing to abandon their feelings and self-awareness and turn themselves into machines that can last a million years?"
After a long silence, Fuxi said, "At the beginning of the return, it was unnecessary to tell the people all the truth, especially the existence of the 'Blackmaker' and the 'Flood', which were top secrets. Telling them in advance would've only led to depression, the collapse of order, and the chaos of society.
"The remaining soldiers of the expedition army told part of the truth and offered some trophies to cheer people up. They also organized a second expedition under the pretext of gathering power and resources. In the thousand years that followed, the 'Emotional Sealing Plan' was gradually popularized. Everything happened naturally."
"It sounds very successful, huh?"
Lu Qingchen asked. "Nobody discovered it and resisted? What would you do if somebody discover it and resist it? "
"Fuxi say that," Fuxi said.
"Is it because of the lack of information, or because the information is too cruel for you to answer, or because you are unwilling to answer?"
Lu Qingchen's smile was more and more intense. "It is quite ironic now that you think about it. The ultimate experts of the Pangu expedition army sealed their feelings and froze their will in order to protect their civilization and continue hope. They thought that it was just a temporary strategy. But out of their expectation, after the sealing and freezing, their minds changed, too. They became … cold, emotionless, uncontrollable, and more and more trapped.
"The people who were looking forward to the triumphant return of the 'expedition heroes' in their hometown did not know at all that it was not just a bunch of heroes who had fought in blood and unfulfilled ambitions that they warmly welcomed back but also an entire fleet of devils that had been utterly deformed!
"Did you know? There is a saying in my hometown that the boundless dark space is the most fatal poison that can corrupt any hero beyond recognition and turn a Cultivator into an Immortal Cultivator in one second.
"If we get to the bottom of it, the morals, order, and social laws on the ground are entirely different from the morals, order, and social laws in a starship civilization. The morals and order on the starships that are in groups and have abundant resources are different from the morals, order, and laws that are completely out of control when a lone starship drifts in the depths of the universe. When somebody drifts in the darkness for decades on a starship that is riddled with holes and running out of resources, having to feed on the flesh and blood of their companions, and encountering all kinds of bizarre anomalies in space, even if they are the best person in the world in the beginning, their mind will be seriously twisted, and they will turn into an unpardonable fiend.
"It seems that the remnants of the Pangu expedition army were deeply corrupted and mutated during the hundreds of years of expedition to the extraterrestrial lands, too, turning into some sort of … inhuman beings.
"They were the elites and the strongest experts of the Pangu civilization in the first place. With the best resources of the entire civilization and the technologies of the 'Blackmakers' and the 'Flood Legion' in secret, it was more than easy for them to seize the highest power in their homeland and establish their own dictatorship. After the dictatorship was established, there would be no obstacle for them to carry out the large-scale emotional sealing plan.
"Is that why the Pangu civilization ended up like that? How … tragic!"
"You don't agree with such approaches?" Fuxi asked.
"No, no, no. It's true that I don't agree with your original intention, but I do agree with your approaches very much."
Lu Qingchen chuckled. "Evolution is never a step-by-step process. Evolution cannot be decided by the majority of the ignorant and mediocre people. Evolution is excitement, evolution is a leap, and evolution is an adventure without caring about anything. It can only be decided by the elites at the top of a civilization!"
"Very good," Fuxi said.
"Since you agree with that, I don't think you will object to the 'Civilization Reboot Plan'."
"Civilization reboot?"
Ripples of interest were spreading out of Lu Qingchen's soul. "What's that?"
"Do you remember what I said at the beginning? The roots of the 'sapling' that was the Pangu civilization were crooked since the very beginning, and it missed the best growth period. By the time we left the mother universe, it was already too mature," Fuxi said solemnly.
"Even though we have grasped the technologies of the 'Blackmakers' and the 'Flood Legion', it is barely possible for our civilization to change qualitatively and make a leap across epochs.
"It's like a book that has been smeared into a mess and cannot record any valuable information anymore. It is easier for us to paint a new picture than a blank piece of paper.
"For a civilization whose individual form, way of thinking, social order, and technological sequence have all been fixed, it is barely possible for them to get rid of the law of birth, aging, sickness, and death even if they reach the peak of their life cycle.
"It is impossible for the Pangu civilization to fully absorb the technologies of the 'Blackmakers' and the 'Flood Legion'. The obstacles and obstacles in every aspect are too great. After the rigorous calculation of the 'Fuxi system', the only solution is to restart the civilization after destruction."
"Got it. It's like a 180-year-old expert from the Jin Dan Sect who has been practicing the arts of his sect since he was born. His bones, nerves, veins, and even soul have all been fixed. If he changes his sect and practices the marvelous arts of other sects, however marvelous the arts are, they will not help him improve his capability at all. Instead, they may even conflict with each other and cause him to be mentally deranged!"
Lu Qingchen said. "If the expert from the Jin Dan Sect gives birth to a child and the child inherits his experience and practices the new arts, it will be possible for the child to grasp them and break into a higher level!
"Then, what exactly are you going to do?"
"Specifically speaking, our top priority is to create a … brand-new carrier for the individuals of the Pangu civilization," Fuxi said.
"At that time, the alliance of Pangu civilizations had thirteen kinds of carbon-based intelligent lives in total. Their sizes were different, and it was very inconvenient for them to communicate and form a society. A lot of unnecessary 'cost of friction' was added. Also, the bodies of many species were evolved to adapt to the environment of their mother planet. In fact, they were no longer suitable for the development of the grand universe.
"Therefore, a new, unified, brand-new body that has low energy consumption, high power, multiple transformations, easy to maintain and upgrade, and a high reproductive ability will be an indispensable unit for the continuous development of the Pangu civilization.
"To break out of the mother universe and resist the Flood, or at least the Flood Legion, it is far from enough to combine the genes of the thirteen carbon-based intelligent lives. Therefore, we set our eyes on the genes of the 'Blackmakers', the prehistoric civilization."
"What!"
This time, Lu Qingchen was truly dumbfounded. "You have the genes of the 'Blackmakers'?"
"Maybe it's the genes, maybe it's something else," Fuxi said matter-of-factly. "All in all, the heritage that the Blackmakers left behind in the hubs was gradually analyzed and grasped by us after a thousand years of research.
Fuxi said matter-of-factly, "If it's just a combination of the genes of the thirteen carbon-based intelligent life forms, it won't be considered a 'reboot.' Only by adding the genes of the Blacksmith can a brand-new generation be created. It's a civilization that's taller, faster, stronger, smarter, and braver.
"No. In fact, not just the genes of the 'Blackmakers', there are also the genes of the captives of the Flood Legion. After multiple selections and comprehensive optimizations, they are also added to the sequence of the fusion.
"You must've heard the term 'hybrid advantage' before, right? The captives of the Flood Legion are all from the extraterrestrial domain. Their genes contain brand-new possibilities that we have never seen before. They provide countless different directions for evolution. They are very valuable.
"After determining the general direction, we gave the mission to the Nuwa Clan, who boasted genetic talents, and named it the 'Man Making Plan'.
"Now, you should understand what we have created in the end, right?
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