"What do you mean?"
Li Yao somehow remembered that in the ultimate test, the voice of the Primeval Clan had once told him that 'Wanzanghai', the leader of the civilization who escaped from Earth, had gone mad in a trance and claimed that he saw countless' ghosts from Earth 'following their fleet far behind.
At that time, Li Yao did not think much of it and thought that Wanzanghai was just hallucinating because of his old age and guilt.
But what if it was not a hallucination?
Li Yao shuddered hard. "That's impossible. The meteoroid shower did not attack Earth directly but lunged at the sun, triggering a solar storm that affected the entire galaxy. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and even Mars were swallowed. All the water on Earth was vaporized, and the ground was drowned in flames. For days, weeks, or even months, no life — not even bacteria or viruses — could've survived in such an environment."
"For carbon-based life, yes," Gu Wuxin said.
"But who says that life has only one form, and who says that the 'sun' itself cannot be a different form, a different level, and a life in a different sense?"
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. "What? Explain yourself. What do you mean exactly?"
"Do you want to know the truth about Earth's destruction? Wait until the information bridge between me and the main civilization is established. Then, we will be linked to the main civilization together. Then, we can read tremendous information and even return to the time when Earth was destroyed to experience the desperation, struggle, and sublimation in person!"
Gu Wuxin opened his arms and said, "I only want to tell you that the feeling of being linked to a Superbody is unique and unparalleled. Also, you do not have to pay any price or suffer any sequelae. You do not need to worry that your self-awareness and your feelings will be erased at all. All you need to do is to completely open your soul and write a special Super Information Interaction Protocol into your soul so that your soul will become one of the infinite computation nodes in the 'Super Information Unity of the Grand Universe' and share all the information, thoughts, feelings, and wisdom with other people.
"After you join a Superbody, your life will be upgraded, just like the world-shaking upgrade from a unicellular life to a multicellular life. From then on, you will not be just yourself, and you will not be living in such a lonely and ridiculous shell. You will become all the computation nodes in the Superbody, and you will become all the compatriots around you. You will live on the network and in the 'clouds'. With the help of the Super Information Interaction Protocol, you will tear apart the void, cross the universe, and live in the bodies of ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, or a hundred million compatriots almost without any delay. In one second, you will be able to feel a hundred million different feelings and ways of thinking, absorb the life experiences and beautiful memories of a hundred million people, and share your feelings, your will, your way of thinking, and your memory pieces with the hundred million people. Your soul will even exist on countless planets with different environments at the same time in the bodies of countless bizarre-shaped creatures. You will be able to enjoy a variety of life forms in the way of the 'monsters', receive new philosophies, and condense the meaning of life that belongs to you.
"In the end, you will no longer be an insignificant, weak, stupid, selfish, and impulsive human being. You will live as a 'collection of billions of lives'. You will completely and completely melt into the civilization of mankind and the universe. You will be the civilization of mankind, and you will be the universe!"
"… I don't understand."
Li Yao was silent for a long time. Breathing softly, he said, "I only know that in this universe, whatever you want to get, you have to pay a corresponding price. Also, every time a guy like you shows up and says that everything is perfect, he is most likely lying."
"I know that you don't understand. That's why I said that a summer insect cannot talk about ice."
Gu Wuxin was silent for a moment, too. Then he said, "Before I was chained to a superbody, I didn't understand it, either. I was extremely proud of my insignificant, lonely, and closed self. What a blind and stupid pride it was!
"But in the end, I was chained to a tiny superbody made of thousands of people from the Divine Palace and the captives of the Flood. Our small-scale Super Information Interaction Protocol is far less vast, profound, and unpredictable than the real superbodies of the main civilizations in the Universe Ocean, but it is already enough to make me feel extremely happy and touched. It makes me feel that I have lived in vain in the past. I was almost an ignorant single-celled life. The things that I was proud of and protected were meaningless. Right now, it is the real beginning of life.
"I am Gu Wuxin, and I live in such a weak body.
"I can also be a monster whose life cycle is only a few hours, and I have to burn out the fire of life deep inside my cells in an instant.
"I can also be the first-generation researcher of the Divine Palace thousands of years ago. In the early days of the construction of the Divine Palace, I was invited by the so-called 'captives of the Flood' and established a small local Super Information Interaction Protocol in the Pangu universe, which was isolated from the rest of the world. In the days that followed, it absorbed all the life information of thousands of elite researchers so that everyone lived in Gu Wuxin's head in the form of information.
"Look, flesh, blood, cells, genes, everything is just a surface. Only information is the foundation of life. Information, information, information, information constitutes everything in the Universe Ocean. As long as you have information, you will be able to control everything at your will."
Gu Wuxin's voice came over from his real body now and then from the indigo godfiend, the nine-headed griffin, the colorful jellyfish, or the skinned wolf. Sometimes, it even turned into the overlapping voices of thousands of people and came from the depths of the ocean of bubbles.
Crazy tides were raised in the ocean of bubbles. In the tides almost a hundred meters high, pink tentacles were wriggling nonstop, as if they were made of thousands of different shadows. They stared at Li Yao and the human experts and shrieked miserably, "Join us! Join us! Join us! Share all the information with us!"
Li Yao felt that he had goosebumps all over his body.
"What kind of pervert do you think I am exactly?"
He rubbed his hands hard. "You want me to open all the information in my head so that any random cat or dog can see my most private memories and read my pattern of thinking? This — this — this is even more dreadful than erasing my free will and feelings directly. It's almost like forcing me to make the browsing and downloading records of my portable crystal processor public! How can you think of such an unpardonable, inhuman thing? Lunatics. You are a bunch of lunatics from head to toe! "
"Judging from the magical equipment and the crystal processor technology you are using, you have already entered an informationized society. You even have a unified lightspeed network that covers every space zone in the Pangu universe, haven't you?"
Gu Wuxin's voice was still sometimes far and sometimes close, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right. It came from himself, the monsters, and the squirming tentacles in the sea of bubbles. "If that's the case, you should know very well that the evolution of a civilization is the process of becoming more and more information-based and sharing.
"In a primitive society where people ate raw meat and cultivated land, each individual received and output very little information. The primitive people did not have their own names, which was an important piece of identification information. They rarely exchanged information with other cave tribes. They lacked the urge to transmit their own information, and they did not have the desire to pry into other people's information. Each individual was a node that was cut off from each other and sealed themselves. Survival had already exhausted all their energy, so there was no need to talk about unifying everyone's information, because the entire civilization was a tray of loose sand.
"In the medieval era, the intelligent lives had already conquered the entire continent and even the entire planet, becoming the well-deserved 'spirits of all living things'. However, their information exchange was still extremely poor. They had neither the need to transmit information nor the means to read information. Other than the situation of their own family or, at most, their village, they were completely uninterested in the information of the outside world. This was the so-called 'darkness and obscurity'.
"However, as the technological explosion brought about a drastic change in the form of society, the evolution from an industrial society to an information society happened in an instant. You will notice that as the civilization advanced rapidly, each individual's need for information exchange increased exponentially. It was hundreds or thousands of times higher than that of their ancestors hundreds or thousands of years ago.
"I don't know what's going on with the human civilization, but in the history of the Pangu civilization, almost all the carbon-based intelligent lives experienced such an information explosion when they leaped from the industrial age to the information age.
"In the information explosion, everyone was addicted to the 'carpet bombardment' of the official news, public forums, and expert media when they woke up in the morning. Every terminal bombarded people's brains like a rapid-fire cannon that never stopped. The information they read during breakfast was almost the amount of information their ancestors received hundreds of years ago could only receive in a year and a half. Even so, they were still in an insatiable 'information thirst'. Even when they were on their way to work or study, they had to bury themselves in various terminals, reading and sharing information through various channels. As long as they were away from the terminal for one second, they would feel abandoned by the entire society.
"This was just one aspect of the information reception. Next, there was the information output.
"Also relying on terminals and various network channels, they could display and output the details of their daily life, no matter how trivial it was. What they ate, what they wore, who they met, and even their shallow and barren thoughts. Without being forced by anyone, they were born with the urge to expose themselves and strip themselves clean. All the information that made up their entire life was uploaded to the terminal and the cloud completely with their own hands!
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