Text Chapter 1837 In the River of Time

"Understandable."

Xie Anan nodded. The old girl with a red apple face, a little chubby, shy but persistent, has now become a peaceful, calm, round, mature and elegant middle-aged lady. The only thing that remains the same , is the trust and admiration for Li Yao deep in the eyes, "This is a problem that many long-term hibernators have to face. It seems that Master, like Master Mistress, is slowly becoming a 'Leaping Clan'."

"Leaping Clan?"

Li Yao was slightly startled, looked at Ding Lingdang, "What is that?"

"This is a brand-new concept proposed by senior hibernator Gui Shishou. After handing over the 'Tombstone Project' to preserve civilization to Professor Mo Xuan, he has been engaged in research in this area. Long-term hibernation originally It’s just a means for us to achieve a certain purpose, but Gui Shishou regards ‘ultra-long-term human hibernation’ as the end itself.”

Ding Lingdang explained, "Like you, I have been in hibernation for most of the past hundred years, and the total time of waking up will not exceed twenty years. Every time I return to the Federation, I feel that things are right and wrong. .

"The first time, I missed the wedding of Wu Mayan and Xie An'an; the second time, I missed the birth and growth of their child... There are many, many people, many, many things, all of which are like Shining The shiny golden sand quickly passed through my fingers, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch them.

"That feeling, as you said, disappeared out of thin air for decades. We hibernators and normal people live in two different time dimensions, which creates a weird... sense of alienation, just like our It didn't contribute much to the construction of the new Federation, but a beautiful and bright homeland came by itself, and we just need to sit back and enjoy its achievements."

"how could be?"

Xie An'an hurriedly said, "Master and Master's Wife have discovered three Great Thousand Worlds plus the former Xinghai Republic's government-in-exile, and made great contributions to defeating the Imperial Expeditionary Force. What is no contribution!"

"I know."

Ding Lingdang smiled and said, "It's not that I'm being modest, it's just a very weird feeling, it's hard for you 'reptiles' who haven't hibernated for a long time to understand.

"Actually, the reason why I want to run for the Federal Speaker this time is, on the one hand, to reconcile the relationship between the New Four Realms and the Old Three Realms, and try to maintain the balance between our side and Jin Xinyue's side, but the more important reason is that For my own sake, I really want to use this method to make myself more closely integrated with the new federation, to be able to reintegrate into the current federation, and to return to the ordinary "reptilian clan" from the "leap clan" that I don't know what to say .”

Li Yao could hear a very rare melancholy in Ding Lingdang's words, and it became more and more strange: "What are the Feiyue and Reptiles?"

Ding Lingdang drank a full glass of red wine, and said: "After a long hibernation, I wandered alone in the sea of ​​stars for a whole hundred years. After returning to the Federation, I felt that I was out of place with the world around me, so I went to find the same The long-term hibernator Gui Shishou chatted with the old man. He happened to be doing research in this area, told me a lot, and gave me several notebooks.

"Senior Gui Shou said that the upper and lower directions are called the universe, and the past and present are called the universe. The universe is a continuum of time and space. In the three-dimensional universe we live in, time and space are originally continuous and linear. Stable, time passes by second by second, and the meaning of each second is the same, and the civilization that lives in such a continuous time and space, such as the current human civilization, is a tortoise slowly crawling on the road of time , so called 'reptiles'.

"But in fact, whether it is the Pangu and Nuwa tribes hundreds of thousands of years ago, or today's human civilization, they have all discovered a way to transcend the continuity of space, that is, star sea jumping.

"Using wormholes, with the help of four-dimensional space, one can transcend the continuity of three-dimensional space, and from this point, reach another point millions of light-years away in an instant.

"Since the continuity of space can be surpassed, can the continuity of time also be surpassed?

"In a sense, of course, it is the human hibernation technology.

"Before hibernation technology was invented and matured, all intelligent life in our universe were 'reptiles', no matter beggars or emperors, ordinary people or cultivators, every second is every second, every minute is every minute, At most, by stimulating the brain nerves, the illusion of slowing down the passage of time can be simulated in the virtual world, but that is fake, and the time flow rate in the real world is still the same.

"But that's not the case for us hibernators.

"Even in the Xingyao Federation, where this technology has just been invented, it is still very crude and inefficient. Hibernators like you and me can sleep for hundreds of years at a stretch. Before we fall asleep and after we open our eyes again, what we face is completely Two different worlds.

"And what about those civilizations with more advanced hibernation technology, such as the Pangu clan?

"Li Yao, do you still remember the Pangu tribe you met in the Kunlun ruins, but he has been asleep for hundreds of thousands of years!

"Of course, you killed him just after he woke up, and he hasn't had time to face the completely strange world.

"But let go of your imagination and put yourself into the perspective of this Pangu tribe. Assuming that 'you' have not been beheaded, how on earth are you going to face the completely different world hundreds of thousands of years from now, and face those who are under your feet? The 'descendants' who are alive and kicking and screaming, facing the stars in the sky, are there no loneliness of their own kind?"

Li Yao was stunned and fell into deep thought.

Ding Lingdang said: "Senior Gui Shou believes that with the development of hibernation technology, the damage and loss to hibernators will become smaller and smaller, and more and more hibernators will appear. Technological civilization, sooner or later, will be divided into two parts, the 'reptile family' composed of non-hibernators, and the 'leap family' composed of hibernators.

"The world of reptiles is continuous, stable, and linear. They use every minute and every second to burn their lives, build their homes and civilizations, and enjoy stable relatives, friends, happiness, and various emotions.

"However, for the hibernators who often span decades and hundreds of years of light and shadow, time is discontinuous, non-linear, and fragmented. It is like a mighty river. The flow of the river is extremely slow, but the surface of the river is Some stones are exposed. The hibernator was originally a fish in the river, but once he jumped out of the water, he grew wings. He could use the wings and the power of jumping to move forward quickly. Originally they left behind, everything in the seemingly frozen 'river' was gradually stripping away its original meaning.

"You also said that the Xingyao Federation has undergone earth-shaking changes just by opening and closing your eyes. Your relatives and friends have different experiences and growths. Some people die, and more people are born. Enjoy Watching their slow, even and steady emotions.

"This is only a hundred years, what if you hibernate again, for another three or five hundred years?

"Do the ideals, goals, moral system, world outlook, outlook on life, and values ​​​​of the past have any meaning for you who wake up again five hundred years later?"

Li Yao was speechless. An indescribable, extremely gorgeous and extremely bleak picture appeared in his mind. While he was feeling shuddering, he felt a little... looking forward to it?

Ding Lingdang said seriously: "Senior Gui Shou believes that when some people have mastered the ability to leap forward in the long river of time, their understanding of value, morality and even 'life' itself will be completely different from others, then Like a tortoise crawling slowly on the ground, and a bird flying fast in the sky, it is impossible to understand each other. Asahi bacteria don’t know the dark, and summer insects can’t talk about it. It’s not a question of who is higher and who is lower. There are two different choices of life, one is 'continuous life, reptiles', and the other is 'non-continuous life, leaping family', the difference between them is probably even bigger than the difference between cultivators and immortals many."

Li Yao's thoughts changed, and he had to admit that Gui Shishou, an old guy who had been happy for a thousand years, had a point.

It's really funny when you think about it, this old guy's body is obviously an old green-haired turtle, but he just calls others "reptiles", but calls himself "leaps". face?

"By the way, why didn't you see Gui Lao?"

Li Yao said, "Didn't he say that he wants to be a witness to all major events in the Federation? Why doesn't he come out and record such big news as the 'Empire Strikes Back'?"

"The realm of returning to old age has been raised again."

Ding Lingdang said, "He has completely stepped into the realm of the 'Leaping Clan'. Perhaps in the mundane world where time is slowly passing by, there is nothing worthy of his pursuit and attention. I haven't seen him for a long time. Maybe he Dormant in some unknown corner, slowly 'leap' to the next millennium.

"The last time we met, he was still saying that the individual 'Leaping Clan' is already so mysterious, if there is an entire civilization that chooses to actively hibernate itself, thawing out every thousand or ten thousand years, in the time period What would it be like to keep leaping forward in the long river and evolve into a "time-traveling civilization"? He really wanted to find such a non-linear civilization in his own way.

"As for us, we have just experienced at most a hundred years of hibernation, and we are not really the "Leaping Clan", at most, we are incomplete forms between the Reptiles and the Leaping Clan. The old concepts are slowly disintegrating, and the new The concept has not yet been formed, so you will naturally encounter various discomforts, senior Gui Shou named such troubles as 'overtime syndrome', 'diseases caused by transcending the timeline'."