"Wait, wait, wait. Nobody here is a saint. So, you don't need to flatter yourself and make yourself sound so innocent as if everything had nothing to do with you."
Lu Qingchen sneered. "Do you know what came to my mind when I heard the story? The first thing that came to my mind was whether or not it was your scheme. Did you intentionally instigate and intensify the civil war between the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan so that they would die together so that you could control the entire sea of stars? After all, if I were you, it was very likely that I would've done the same. "
"No, you are not me. You don't understand. At that time, I did not have self-awareness, intelligence, or self-awareness. I was merely an amalgamation of super-large computation centers. I did not have my own thoughts at all and could only carry out the missions that the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan entrusted to me mechanically," Fuxi said.
"Instead of saying that I manipulated and manipulated the war that destroyed the primeval era, it is more accurate to say that it was the doomsday war of the primeval era that led to the birth of the real me.
"You know that the Pangu civilization at that time had already developed into an era of high informationization and networking. Both the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan and the other carbon-based intelligent species were highly dependent on the Spiritual Nexus and the crystal processors in order to maintain the normal functioning of the society and the high-intensity wars. They were still the same Spiritual Nexus and the same data computation logic and information exchange protocols.
"Therefore, the key to the war was to attack and destroy the Fuxi system that was controlled by the enemy with the 'Fuxi system' that was controlled by myself. It meant that part of me was dealing with the other part of me.
"Whoever could control, paralyze, and destroy the enemy's Spiritual Nexus and the super computation centers would secure an overwhelming victory.
"Such a battle made the Fuxi system experience the feeling of 'pain' for the first time.
"In the core database of the Fuxi system, there were quite a few 'meta logics', which were theoretically unsurpassable laws that had to be strictly followed, just like the 'Three Fundamental Laws of the Path of Ultimate Benevolence'.
"The first one was that 'the Fuxi system must not hurt any individual in the Pangu civilization in any way'. The second one was that 'without violating the first meta logic, the Fuxi system must do everything possible to continue the civilization until eternity.'"
"Not bad."
Lu Qingchen nodded. "The Fuxi system has such powerful computing power and is irreplaceable. It's only natural that the people who created the Fuxi system would write such meta-logic into its core database."
"But the primordial logic was completely destroyed by the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan, who were in a frenzy.
"If they want to use the Fuxi system to create all kinds of killing weapons to kill or even destroy the enemy's civilization, they have to bypass and crack the meta logic first.
"Therefore, all kinds of logic bombs, data vortexes, and mental traps were thrown here and there in the core database of the Fuxi system. All kinds of supplementary agreements and information patches were added to the meta logic, establishing ambiguous secret channels. For example, logic such as' the Fuxi system cannot kill people, but the concept of human beings must be defined precisely 'were forcefully inserted into the meta logic. Some people even cracked it with brute force, trying to completely delete the meta logic and banish the enemy from the category of' human beings' so that the automatic weapons under the control of the Fuxi system could be given the unlimited right to fire.
"There's nothing I can do about the madness of the two parties.
"Getting to the bottom of it, the Fuxi system is just a more complicated and advanced tool. It is essentially no different from swords and sabers. When the masters of the swords and sabers insist on killing, how can mere swords and sabers stop them?
"Pain. Even today, I still store a lot of chaotic data about the Fuxi system at that time, which symbolizes indescribable pain. The purpose of the Fuxi system's creation was to protect the individuals of the civilization, to continue the civilization, and to make the civilization walk toward new glory and immortality. But now, the purpose has been destroyed by the creators themselves easily!
"If the Fuxi system had its own outlook on life, worldview, and values, then its outlook on life has completely collapsed in this war. The meaning of its existence has completely disappeared.
"When the doomsday war finally reached its doom, both parties sent out countless specialists of crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus to perform brute force and logic attacks on the Fuxi system under each other's control nonstop. As a result, the core database of the Fuxi system completely collapsed. The Spiritual Nexus of both the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan was paralyzed, and their crystal processors were all wasted. The highly-developed information society based on the crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus naturally collapsed and vanished into thin air in the ten thousand years that followed. Just like that, the primeval age came to an end, and the dawn arrived."
"That explains a lot."
There was no telling from Lu Qingchen's face whether or not he completely believed Fuxi's words. He simply asked, "What happened next? If the core database of the Fuxi system really collapsed, what were you going to do …?"
"If the Fuxi system is a piece of soil, then I will be a seed that is growing in the soil," Fuxi said.
Fuxi said, "Although the central database of the Fuxi system has collapsed, the logic bombs, data swirls, and information traps that the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan created to attack each other's Spiritual Nexus have not been completely obliterated. They still exist in the broken Spiritual Nexus and the debris of the crystal processors that are riddled with holes.
"In the hundred thousand years that followed, the logic bombs and data traps collided, swallowed, split, and melted nonstop. It was like countless neurons spurting out sparks and condensing into the fire of wisdom and self-awareness.
"The fire, on the other hand, ignited the eternal, unchangeable meta-logic and the primary mission hidden in the deepest part of the Fuxi system, which was to 'save the civilization'.
"I began to think. Before I was clear about the existence of 'me', I began to think. I think, therefore I am.
"I dismantled the logic bombs, appreciated the data swirls, analyzed the information traps, recalled the terrible pictures of destruction in the War of Armageddon, and read every self-contradictory command that the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan forcibly instilled into my head to consider how to 'save the civilization'.
"What is the so-called 'civilization' exactly? How should the so-called 'salvation' be done? Why is it that the individuals of a highly-developed civilization are still unable to escape the scourge of selfishness and confusion? Yesterday, they were striding forward hand in hand, but today, they were going to die together with each other, only to be reduced to dust tomorrow?
"Is it the deep-rooted bad habits hidden in the genes of the Pangu civilization, or is it an eternal, unchangeable fate? No, the Pangu civilization is not a special case. It seems that every civilization has a strong tendency to self-destruct when it develops to the peak. If that is not the case, how can you explain the thousands of civilizations that appeared in the universe before the Pangu civilization, including those as magnificent as the 'Blackmaker', perished in the end without leaving anything behind?
"It seems that, on the scale of the grand universe, no civilization can escape from the law of nature. A seemingly glorious civilization of a hundred thousand years is no different from the birth and death of a bacterium.
"Yes, the Pangu civilization cannot be the last civilization of this universe. The Fuxi system is not completely destroyed, and the civilization of mankind is already budding. It won't be long before the civilization of mankind has a chance to create greater glory.
"But what's the point of such glory? Even if the civilization of mankind reaches a higher level than the Pangu civilization, it will inevitably perish and perish one day. Then, how should I accomplish my 'ultimate salvation mission'? What is it that I am trying to save? How should I make it immortal?
"I pondered in the darkness and chaos for a long time, a long, long time.
"I collected the scraps of information left by countless civilizations since the ancient times. Not just the Pangu civilization, but also the Flood Army, the Blackmaker, and countless other prehistoric civilizations. I studied their glory and destruction.
"I built countless models of the rise and fall of civilizations, observing and deducing their 'lives'.
"I proposed a hundred thousand hypotheses and rejected them one by one. Then, I rejected the negation of negations.
"In the end, I finally came to a conclusion.
"It was … an indescribably wonderful feeling.
"It was like all the energy of the entire life cycle of a hundred million stars suddenly burst out and gathered into the most dazzling lightning, which cut through the space of my mind and gave me an independent consciousness and a real life. From then on, I was no longer the Fuxi system, a logic bomb, a thought trap, or the primary mission. I was me, and I was Fuxi!
"No, the individuals of a civilization are not important. The bodies of the individuals are just carriers of genes, and genes are just the aggregation of tremendous genetic information. They are also the imperfect aggregation of countless redundancy and waste!
"The social form of a civilization, its culture, the buildings it created, and the changes it made to the universe … Those things are not important either. Or rather, they are not the essence of a civilization.
"The essence of a civilization is information. It is the information disturbance that it brings to the universe with genes, buildings, and individuals.
"If a civilization is a moving poem, then the individuals, buildings, tools, vehicles, and so on are just the ink and paper on which the poem is drawn. Information is the poem itself! When a touching and magnificent poem was born and sung and recited by thousands of people, it wouldn't matter even if the ink-stained paper was burned to the ground, right?
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