Chapter 692: Conversation with the Swarm
Talos said: "Now, you have two choices. The first is to stay and accompany me. The second is to accept my test. If you pass, you can realize any of your wishes, but the way to realize it is determined by me."
"What if you didn't pass?" Romantina asked.
"Stay, keep me company."
Taros and Tais said in unison.
"How lonely are you?" Zhou Qing complained.
"This is the trouble of wisdom." The brain worm said through Tais, "Once the overall thinking of the swarm has a carrier and becomes a truly independent consciousness, it will instinctively desire to understand its own existence. If a group is the only one with wisdom, it will not have a sense of superiority. If it does not choose to sleep, it will only sink into depravity for a long time.
According to the swarm’s previous research, if the purpose is just to survive and pass on its own information, then individual wisdom and independent thinking are actually not necessary.”
Dugu Bo obviously couldn't understand: "What nonsense!"
Romantina, Rico, and the bunny girl also cannot agree with this idea.
Ettarga didn't understand at all and yawned.
"Interesting idea." However, Zhou Qing could understand the Zerg's way of survival, but he himself did not agree with it. After all, he was a human, and in their current team, there was an example of a woman with independent thinking -
Timitite.
For her, the past memory of herself being bound to the island, perhaps unconscious, might be easier.
After all, having independent thoughts and will made her experience countless pains, but she still had to live. Even after coming to the Abyss Ruins, she experienced more pains.
However, it was precisely because she had independent thoughts that she stood up again and no longer chose to escape, but chose to face her inner fears.
Although she had experienced two hundred years of loneliness, and under Zhou Qing's guidance, she finally mustered up the courage after a push, but if she did not have the idea of standing up for Namichi and Ettarga, she would not be able to grow no matter how Zhou Qing guided her.
[You can understand, but our ideas are different after all. ]
The brain worm admired Zhou Qing very much.
"It doesn't matter if they are different. We can seek common ground while reserving differences."
Zhou Qing comes from the modern era and knows very well that the so-called "those with different ideals cannot work together" does not conflict with each other in most cases when it comes to the basic need for survival. This is especially true for a species like the insect swarm that pursues "survival" and "being close to nature" to the extreme.
Of course, if the Zerg is really angered, perhaps they will adopt an "assimilation" strategy to make humans completely become part of the Zerg.
"Seeking common ground while reserving differences? There used to be more than 200 countries on Earth. Due to differences in culture, history and other factors, they had different political forms and ideologies, but they were able to coexist on Earth. This is indeed seeking common ground while reserving differences." Taros said.
"Well, I want to ask, is our Douluo Continent really a ball?" Romantina was quite curious.
"Yes."
Taros replied, "But it was not originally in this star system. Because the life of the sun in the original star system was about to end, humans at that time used scientific methods to build a planetary engine and started the plan of wandering the earth..."
Zhou Qing was stunned. He had a similar guess that Douluo Star was Earth, and he had confirmed this guess from the recorder on the fifth floor.
I just feel that the earth may have encountered some changes, such as the revival of spiritual energy, the outbreak of war among countries, the reshaping of continental plates, and so on.
But he never expected that it would be related to "The Wandering Earth"!
really!
Fantasy is false!
Science fiction is real!
Dugu Bo, Romantina and others were not much better off. They all doubted their lives - could humans on Earth advance the entire world through "science"?
"What is science?" Dugu Bo asked.
“An orderly system of knowledge based on testable explanations and predictions about the form, organization, etc. of objective things is knowledge that has been systematized and formalized.”
Taros spoke in a very formulaic way, and then added, "You can think of it as a method of understanding nature and society, observation, collection, analysis, classification, summary, and practical verification. Strictly speaking, the practice of soul masters and the invention and manufacture of soul guides are a scientific system based on the energy between heaven and earth. However, at present, you have not really realized this concept, and have not established more formulaic theories about this energy. You can only rely on experience to accumulate, which is very inefficient."
Having said this, Taros slightly raised her hand, and the energy of the surrounding heaven and earth gathered in her palm, burning into a ball of fire, which then turned into thunder, ice and other substances.
In her hands, all kinds of elemental energies appear to be extremely well-behaved. Even taking the element of fire as an example, it can form extreme fires of various colors.
The blue ice flame that makes the soul tremble and the golden flame that emits strong life energy are controlled by her at will.
"As you can see, once I master these formulas, I can transform the pure energy of heaven and earth into any element, and the ultimate that is hard to come by in the world of soul masters can be created at will in my hands."
“Those creatures that are born with the power of elements are only relying on the expression of genetic material and instinct. They don’t understand why they can use these abilities, nor do they understand the rules of the universe. So even if they are powerful, even if they have reached the so-called God King realm, and even created a four-dimensional space that is not bound by the rules of the universe, and want to continuously upgrade that space in order to truly break free from the constraints of the rules of the universe, they don’t understand that no matter how high the spatial dimension of the God Realm they created is, it will always be below the dimension of the universe and it is impossible to be truly eternal.”
"If they ever manage to make the space dimension reach ten dimensions, they will completely merge with the rules of the universe. Their memories, thoughts, and souls will spread throughout the entire universe... At this point, it's almost like being dead, emotionless and sexless, obeying the rules of nature and the universe."
Hearing this, everyone felt an inexplicable fear in their hearts, as if this was not just alarmist talk, but the truth.
Zhou Qing also believed that the Zerg had no reason to deceive them, and they must have deduced similar results in the past.
"I have a question."
The bunny girl asked, "Why are you telling us all this? Regarding the dimensions and stuff, except for the last sentence that made us uneasy, we don't understand anything else!"
"As long as he understands, it doesn't matter to you."
Taros and Tais who was controlled by the brain worm raised their arms at the same time and pointed a finger at Zhou Qing.
Everyone was surprised.
However, Romantina and Dugu Bo had both experienced the "Huo Zhan Ji Incident" and had some understanding of the God Realm, so they could understand why Zhou Qing knew all this.
The only thing I don't understand is -
Why did the Swarm tell them so much?
Shouldn't they be allowed to quickly choose one of the two options?
(End of this chapter)
