Chapter 1139 The Creation of the Final Critical Point
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Enya's words were like a cold wind, and Gao Wen, who was about to get excited, calmed down instantly from the inside out. His face became calm, and he carefully savored the information revealed behind the "extinguishing", It took a long time to break the silence: "Extinguished... What kind of extinction? Do you mean that they all became extinct for various reasons?"
"Those signals flicker in the distance like lights in the night, perhaps due to technical limitations, the flickering lights can only reveal extremely limited information, and sometimes the information is so simple that it can only convey the meaning of 'I am here', Then at a certain moment, some signals will suddenly disappear, and no new news will come—there are too many secrets and truths buried in the vast cosmic space, and I can’t see anything in the darkness.”
Enya spoke slowly, as if picking up those yellowed pages in the long and vague memory.
"I don't know what happened to them. Just like other minds trapped on this planet, I can only guess the end of those civilizations through speculation on known phenomena, but some of them... I successfully deciphered From the information they sent, it is basically certain that they were either destroyed by natural disasters or died by gods."
Gao Wen subconsciously repeated the last words of the other party: "Death to the gods?"
Enya said softly: "Death to the gods—their own gods. In the very few signals that have been successfully deciphered, I have indeed heard them make their final cry in the wrath of the gods, even if the voice spans far The stars are still so miserable and desperate that it is unbearable to hear."
"So just like we guessed before, if there are intelligent beings on other planets, and if their world follows the natural laws we understand, then they will also face everything we face..." Gao Wen lightly Taking a breath, "After they developed to a certain level, they also triggered the 'final rebellion' ceremony, which led to the loss of control of the gods and the destruction of the world..."
Enya didn't speak, but Gao Wen asked after a pause, "Then what happened to being destroyed by natural disasters? What kind of natural disasters are they?"
"Those signals that are lucky enough to be transmitted across the galaxy are mostly vague, and few can transmit clear and detailed information, especially when the 'natural disaster' breaks out, the civilization that sends the message is often in chaos. It's even more serious, and they can no longer organize manpower to launch orderly 'dying cries' into outer space," Enya said quietly, as if analyzing a dead body in a calm tone, telling Gao Wen about her past hundred years. The cruel clues I have been exposed to for tens of thousands of years, "So, the description of the 'natural disaster' is very messy and broken, but it is this messy and broken state that makes me almost sure that what they encountered was the 'magic tide' .”
Magic tide.
At this moment, Gao Wen's expression didn't change at all. Although strong ripples had already been stirred up in his heart, these strong ripples only confirmed the speculation he had had long ago.
Enya's conclusion was within his expectations - the magic tide is not limited to this planet, but a common phenomenon in this universe, they will sweep across the entire starry sky fairly and periodically, and wipe out civilizations in the stars time and time again. records left in .
The golden giant egg in the room remained silent. Enya seemed to be carefully observing Gao Wen's expression. After a moment of silence, she spoke again: "All of this is just my conclusion based on the observed phenomena. I dare not It is guaranteed that they are all accurate, but one thing is certain-this universe is more prosperous than we imagined, but it is also more dead. There are countless flickering candlelights of civilization in the dark and deep starry sky, but under those candlelights, is Many more graves that have long been extinguished and cooled."
"These things...does the Dragon Clan know?" Gao Wen suddenly asked curiously.
"They only know a small part, but no dragon dares to go deeper," Enya said calmly, "In the long time of 1.87 million years, there have been dragons who have been watching the stars in the starry sky at the critical point of danger. movement, but I blocked all signals from the outside world and interfered with their perception of the starry sky, as you know, looking up at the starry sky was a taboo thing in Tarrond in the past."
"But the gods of their gods have been paying attention to the voices among the stars, and have even done so much research." Gao Wen looked at the golden giant egg in front of him with a strange expression, "If any dragon can't look up at the starry sky , then how do you..."
"Close your eyes and listen carefully," Enya said, with a smile in her tone, "Do you remember? On the top of the Great Temple of Tarrond, there is the highest observatory. I often stand there and listen Voices from the universe—it is a dangerous thing to actively step into the starry sky, but if those signals have already reached this planet, passive listening will not be so easy to lose control.
"But even so, it's not easy to do so... Every time I stand on the observatory, I have to fight against two forces at the same time, one is my own resistance and fear of the unknown deep space, and the other is my own as a The gods have the urge to destroy the mortal world, so I will carefully control the frequency of my trips to the observatory, and keep myself at the critical point of losing control."
Listening to Enya telling these secrets that no one else has ever known, Gao Wen couldn't help asking curiously: "Why did you do this? Since doing so will cause you so much pressure..."
"Curiosity," Enya said, "aren't you curious?"
"...nature and instinct are inconsistent, right?" Gawain shook his head with a wry smile after a moment of astonishment, "Do you know that the things you described reminded me of a... spread in my hometown?" ' theory."
"Your hometown...the hometown of wanderers outside the territory?" Enya's tone changed, "What kind of theory?"
"The big filter," Gawain sighed softly, and explained patiently, "a filter mechanism that stands in front of all civilizations and determines whether they can be lucky enough to step out of the starry sky—we believe that life comes from nothing and does not exist." The process of gradually developing into an advanced interstellar civilization can be divided into several stages, and at least one of these stages is extremely dangerous and the chance of survival is slim. Some kind of crisis will lead to the extinction of almost all species in this stage, so that they will eventually Unable to step out of one's own planet, and this harsh screening and elimination mechanism is the 'big filter'.
"We can't be sure when and in what form the big filter will appear. Before we actually step into the starry sky, we can't be sure whether a civilization has passed the test of the big filter by luck, or the test is still tomorrow... But in This world seems to have an answer to this problem that plagues scholars."
"Are the tide of magic and divine disasters the 'big filter' we have to face?" A gentle and calm voice came from the golden dome, "Ah, this is really a novel and interesting theory... Extraterritorial wanderers, it seems In your world, there are also many scholars with brilliant eyes who are paying attention to the deep mysteries of the world... I really hope to get to know them."
This question has already involved complex areas that are difficult to answer, and Gao Wen cautiously stopped the topic before going deeper—in fact, he has said many things that he would never say to others on weekdays, but he never thought he could. Talking about these topics involving the starry sky, the future, and extraterrestrial civilizations with people in this world, a certain feeling that a confidant is hard to find made him want to continue to discuss more things with Dragon God.
"You just mentioned that you have at least 'listened' to the voices traveling through the universe hundreds of times," he thought of a new question, "and the senders of those signals at least did not encounter divine disasters when they sent out the calls, Does this mean that the very act of constructing interstellar communication does not, in and of itself, cause the gods to run amok?"
This is very critical, because "Where is the final critical point where the gods lose control" has always been the most concerned issue of the Theocratic Council and past disobedients.
At present, scholars have separated the "collective out-of-control phenomenon of all gods in the world" from the "divine disaster" corresponding to a single deity's out-of-control, and named it "the ultimate divine disaster". Before the crisis of the gods out of control, the "ultimate critical point of divine disaster" means the limit of the development of mortal civilization in this world. The more accurately we can grasp this critical point and all related technical limits, the more countries can achieve the ultimate goal. Prepare as much as possible before the real disaster, so that mortal civilization will have a greater chance of survival in the future.
So far, the "ultimate critical point of divine disaster" deduced by the Theocratic Council is based on the "final disobedience" determined by Tarrond's coming-of-age ceremony, that is, "mortal civilization, by virtue of its own technological accumulation, allows explorers to substantially, physically Detach from the mother star and step into the space environment that civilization has never explored”, scholars have been able to confirm that this behavior will lead to a symbolic “final disobedience”. If it survives, it means the freedom of man and god. It is the death of civilization.
But there are still many uncertainties at this critical point. The biggest question is - will the "ultimate disaster" really erupt at the stage of "final disobedience"? Is the conclusion drawn from the example of the Dragon Race the "standard answer" to the law of the gods? At a certain stage before the final disobedience, is it possible for the ultimate divine disaster to erupt?
If the explorer's substantial, physical separation from the parent star would lead to the ultimate disaster, what about the preparation stage before the spacecraft launch? What about the stage of observing the starry sky on a large scale around the world? What if mortals launched an unmanned probe? If...another interstellar civilization sent greetings to this planet, and the mortals on the surface responded to this voice, what would happen?
Each of these questions is not groundless worry-each of these questions is marking the critical point of the end of the world, marking the survival range of the entire mortal civilization.
Enya obviously knew what Gao Wen was worried about, so she was very cautious when answering this question. After thinking for a long time, the former god broke her silence: "I think it is not the gods who really decide whether the gods will completely lose control. It is not exactly a symbolic 'ultimate disobedience' ceremony, you should consider the meaning behind this ceremony."
Gao Wen frowned: "What is the meaning behind the final disobedience ceremony?"
"Mortals have come into contact with the truth beyond the realm of cognition, and this 'truth' is irrefutable and unshakable," Enya said, "As a god, I don't know how to look at this process from the perspective of mortals The ... meaning that arises, but you can imagine, if there is a person who firmly believes that we live in a flat world and not a planet, who firmly believes that the sun is a ball of light that rises and falls from the edge of the earth, It's not that the planet under our feet is moving around the sun, so how can he break this cognition?
"No voices from outside, because those voices may be lies; no common knowledge, because everyone in the world may be deceived; not even images from space, because the images can be faked...
"No matter how bizarre these explanations are, as long as they can be explained, then the person who believes that the earth is flat can continue to put himself in a closed-loop and 'self-consistent' model, he does not need to pay attention to the real shape of the world, He just needs his own logical barriers not to be breached.
"Unless, let him see it with his own eyes."
Gao Wen listened carefully to what Enya said, and couldn't help frowning: "I understand what you mean, but this is exactly what we haven't understood—even if there are so few observers among mortals, it's difficult Going to space, using their own eyes and experience to personally confirm the appearance of the known world, this only changed their "personal cognition" that's all, how did this individual behavior produce ritual The effect has affected the changes in the entire ideological trend? Why did the gods, the product of the ideological trend, lose control because a few humans suddenly saw the scene outside the world?"
"...This shows that you are still in a misunderstanding," Enya suddenly laughed softly, "The stubborn and poor guy I just said needs to 'see with his own eyes', not any mortal who launched into space, but the gods themselves."
Gao Wen: "You mean..."
"Your understanding of thoughts is a bit one-sided," Enya said, "Gods are indeed born from the thoughts of a large number of mortals. This is a macro process, but this does not mean that the only way to make gods lose control is to make thoughts produce macro Change—sometimes a microscopic tributary creates ripples that can destroy an entire system.
"If the gods are regarded as a huge 'entangled body', then this entangled body includes all the cognitions of all living beings in the world on a certain thinking tendency. Take me as an example, I am the gods of the dragon clan, then my The essence includes all the cognition logic of the dragon clan to the world in the age of mythology. These logics are tightly entwined like a ball of thread. Even if there are thousands of threads, all the threads are included in the ball of thread. In other words - it is closed loop, extremely xenophobic, and rejects the intervention of outside information.
"Then it only needs to have a thread end out of the order of the thread ball, and the probe jumps out of this closed-loop system, which is equivalent to breaking the basic rules of the thread ball.
"Under normal circumstances, within this closed-loop system, it is almost impossible to have such a 'jumping thread', because the trajectories of all thread ends have been determined, and the thread itself is also preventing the occurrence of cross-border behaviors. The closed-loop system itself cannot generate a "window" for one of its members to leave the system, so in most stages of civilization development, the only way to make the thread ball collapse can only be the gradual overload and chaos of the entire system. The theory I understand is that 'the drastic changes in group thoughts on a macro level led to the loss of control of the gods', that is, the quantitative changes in the thoughts generated by a large number of mortals in this closed-loop system lead to qualitative changes, and finally destroyed the entire system.
"The closest example to you is God of War.
"In another case, information outside the closed-loop system intervenes in this system. This information is completely beyond the control of the 'string'. It only takes a little bit to make a certain thread jump out of the closed loop, which will make the original self-explainable The system suddenly became self-consistent, it—that is, the gods—a 'factor' that violated the rules appeared in the original perfect operating logic, no matter how small the scale of this factor was, it would pollute the entire system.
"The closest example to you is me."