"That explains a lot."
Daniel Zhang scratched his chin. "It does not sound unacceptable."
"Then, when will this … 'Thunderbolt Invincible Super Brainwave Magnification System' be ready?"
Li Yao asked, deep in thought. "Assuming everything goes well and '100% Li Yao' is truly awakened, what will happen then?"
"Three days."
Red Pole Star extended three fingers and stared at Li Yao thoughtfully. He smiled and said, "In three days, the 'Thunderbolt Invincible Super Brainwave Magnification System' will be ready. By then, all the prison breakers on the island will be activated together and help '100% Li Yao' be reborn. I believe that it will be a heavy blow to the will of Earth. At that time, all the people on the battlefield of the grand universe, including Ding Ling Dong and the rest of them, will launch the fiercest attacks. If we work together from the inside and the outside, we will certainly be victorious!"
"Is that so?"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and put on a smile that he did not notice himself. He nodded and said, "The final battle will be held in three days!"
"Exactly."
Red Pole Star moved its eyes away from his face and looked at Daniel Zhang. "Any other questions?"
"In fact, there is one minor question. Perhaps it is unimportant, and you might not know the answer to it."
Daniel Zhang asked, "We have been talking about the will of Earth, but I find it hard to understand. If such a 'four-dimensional life' does exist, and it has captured billions of heroic spirits in the three-dimensional universe and locked us in a prison of reincarnation named 'Earth', why is it doing all that?
"Obviously, the will of Earth has the ability to kill all the heroic spirits. It can even use methods similar to brainwashing to turn all the earthlings into idiots without dreams and imagination, muddle-headed walking corpses. It can also think of ten thousand ways to torture us and make us live in a literal hell, suffering all kinds of pain and torture.
"But it did not do that. Instead, it set such a time period from the 1970s to the 1940s and 1950s of the 21st century, which was a period of prosperity and glory, but it locked us inside and repeated it time and time again. It does not make sense at all!
"Hunter told me that it was because we had committed the most heinous crimes and had to be redeemed and repented in such a way. But I don't feel what the so-called 'redeemed and repented' is at all. Although Earth was not peaceful at this time, and many places were still enshrouded in the shadows of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the major countries were at loggerheads with each other, and the people living in the concrete forests were under a lot of pressure, too. But everything had to be compared horizontally. Considering the history of the past thousand years, this was truly the best time for the civilization of mankind.
"We have TV, movies, computers, the Internet, forums, and novels. Not to mention the developed countries, even the developing countries like China have at least solved the problem of food and clothing. We have made great progress compared to decades ago. You know what I mean, right? I mean, if the will of Earth really wanted to torture us, why didn't it set the time of the Prison of Samsara during the First World War or the Second World War? At that time, our lives were truly 'purgatory on earth'. Or even earlier, bloody alien invasions, oppressive feudalism, the dark Middle Ages, and even the primitive era where we ate raw meat and drank blood. Living in the era where there was a lack of food, medicine, and medicine, and a random wound could kill a person, that was the treatment that a group of criminals deserved, wasn't it?
"Also, in the Middle Ages, where technology and civilization were extremely underdeveloped, even if the prison breakers woke up the memories of their previous lives, they did not have powerful means of information outputting. I mean, for example, if the will of Earth set the world in the Middle Ages, even if Ding Ling Dong and the rest of them sent 'Forty Thousand Years of Cultivation' into my head, it was impossible for me to spread it out on a large scale, right? A novel of a few million words, or even ten million words, using movable type or even clay printing to spread it out? The printers would kill me first! Even if no one killed me, and I had enough resources to complete the outputting of information, most people were illiterate, and would not be able to accept this information. They would not be able to go against the will of Earth!
"All in all, everything that the will of Earth is doing is completely unreasonable, and even seems to be asking for trouble. Don't you think so?"
Li Yao was slightly stunned, he did not expect Daniel Zhang to be so thorough in his thinking.
"That's right, it seems that the reason why Teacher Niu was chosen to become a Form Two Observer was not entirely because of your naivety and pure soul!"
Red Pole Star said. "As for the purpose of the will of Earth, I've thought deeply and explored it repeatedly in the past few reincarnations. I even risked my own death in one of the reincarnations to pry into its core mysteries. After all, there is indeed something wrong with the whole thing. What if the purpose of the Prison of Samsara is its greatest weakness?
"After the accumulation of a few reincarnations, plus the enlightenment I received from the battlefield of the grand universe, although I do not have concrete evidence, I have my own guesses.
"Before I tell you my thoughts, please tell me first, what do you think is the most important thing for a civilization?"
Li Yao and Daniel Zhang looked at each other, deep in thought.
"Survival?"
Li Yao said uncertainly.
"Mating!"
Daniel Zhang was very certain.
Red Pole Star laughed.
"Alright, I can't say that your answer is wrong, but survival and reproduction are really the most basic elements. Almost all low-level creatures, even bacteria, need to reproduce, but non-intelligent life that only knows how to reproduce cannot create a great civilization."
Red Pole Star said, "I think, for a super civilization that crosses the sea of stars and conquers the universe, the most important thing is' ideals'. First of all, one must have the idea of conquering the universe. No matter how ridiculous it is, one must never give up. No matter how many difficulties one faces, one must constantly overcome them. Even if the success rate is only one in a billion, one must devote one hundred percent of one's resources and efforts in order to become the ultimate dominator of the universe, isn't it?"
Li Yao and Daniel Zhang nodded. "That's true."
"But the word 'ideals' is too big. If it is broken down, what exactly can create the greatest ideals?"
Red Pole Star continued. "I think it's' emotions' and 'imagination'."
"Emotions and imagination?"
Li Yao and Daniel Zhang looked at each other in bewilderment. On second thought, they realized that it did make sense.
"Leaving the 'bee civilization' made of cold, automatic machines aside, I've always believed that an automatic, mechanized bee civilization requires a very high speed of network connection and information exchange. It is impossible for it to cross the almost infinite distance in the boundless sea of stars. Therefore, its expansion speed and scale are definitely limited, and it cannot become the real dominator of the universe. For the carbon-based intelligent life that we can understand, if its civilization wants to flourish and reach the peak of the universe, it must be supported by intense emotions and abundant imagination. The two, especially the powerful imagination, are absolutely indispensable for a great civilization."
Red Pole Star said solemnly, "A long time ago, the scholars regarded the ability to create tools as the difference between human beings and animals. They even believed that only human beings could create and use tools. But very soon, we discovered that monkeys could use tools, otters could use tools, and even gorillas could actively create tools.
"However, regardless of whether it is monkeys, gorillas, otters, or dolphins that are claimed to have extraordinary intelligence, they will never look up at the starry sky and imagine the secrets behind the brilliant stars like human beings. This is the ability that belongs to us, the soul of all living things, and that is imagination.
"It is imagination that pushes our civilization forward. It is imagination that allows our civilization to tread on countless different paths in countless reincarnations. It is imagination that helps us to conquer mountains, oceans, and even the satellites around us. If one day, we truly break the seal of the Purgatory of Reincarnation and conquer the infinite universe, it will definitely be because of our ambitions, curiosity, and imagination that are even more enormous than the infinite universe!"
"It does sound reasonable."
Daniel Zhang said, "But what does it have to do with the purpose of the will of Earth building the Prison of Reincarnation?"
"That's exactly the problem," Red Pole Star said.
"I highly suspect that the will of Earth does not have emotions and imagination at all."
"Huh?"
Daniel Zhang was dazed for a long time. "I … I don't quite understand what you mean. What is the so-called will of Earth exactly?"
"It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it is some kind of four-dimensional life form that we can't understand, a monster created by the people of Earth a long, long time ago, some kind of alien civilization, or anything else. What matters is that if it wants to continue growing, evolving, and expanding at the level of a civilization in the universe, moving toward a higher peak, it must have strong emotions and imagination."
"But unfortunately, it didn't. Perhaps it once had emotions, but on the long path of evolution, it lost all its emotions and imagination. It even regarded them as a price that it had to pay in exchange for great power. Such power might have helped it defeat invincible enemies, helped it become the Demon of Destruction that countless creatures in the universe feared the most, and even helped it become the dominator of the universe, but it also made it deviate more and more from the original meaning of 'life' and 'civilization'. It made it lose itself, forget who it was, and what the purpose of its existence was."
"Is that so? It sounds a little 'mysterious'!"
Daniel Zhang looked at Li Yao.
Li Yao's eyes, however, were glittering. He lowered his head and did not say anything.
"Although this is just my personal opinion and I don't have much evidence, this conjecture can be used to explain many problems."
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