Chapter 2386 Chaos Before the End

Hearing Long Yangjun's words, Li Yao shuddered.

The virtual black tide in front of him seems to have turned into a starless universe.

The seemingly dark void is the best protective color, because what hovers outside the darkness is a power that is a hundred times darker than darkness, an unstoppable power...

"Even if you guessed right"

Li Yao's voice was like the cold wind blowing from an ice cave, carrying a piercing chill, "Sealing yourself, you don't have to completely deprive yourself of your emotions, right?"

"need."

Long Yangjun sighed, and said, "In the past, we thought that the Pangu civilization was due to the extreme shortage of resources, and it had to be calculated carefully to obliterate the seven emotions and six desires. After all, all kinds of violent activities and even the most extreme wars brought about by emotions will greatly accelerate the consumption of resources. Consumption, leading to premature depletion and collapse of the closed world.

"But that's just one of the reasons, a less important one.

"Second, and more importantly, emotion brings desire, and for a highly developed intelligent life body, its strongest desire is definitely not the primitive survival and reproduction, but the desire to seek knowledge, to explore, to seek The outer world is constantly marching, sprinting, and breaking through all boundaries, all the way to the edge of the universe, and then to the ambition of the universe!

"Even if the leader of the Pangu civilization at that time could disband the expedition fleet, and even destroy a series of technologies such as crystal brains, spiritual nets, and how to use psionic energy, it is difficult to guarantee that these technologies will not be destroyed in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years later. Will be sneaky and developed again, and there will be ambitious and unscrupulous young people who will drive a new generation of starships assisted by artificial intelligence and powered by psionic energy, rushing out of the three thousand worlds!

"After all, the universe is too big. Even the 'small' three thousand worlds are actually an incomparably vast sea of ​​stars. It is absolutely impossible to fortify everywhere. As long as there is a heart, someone will be able to escape.

"It's still the same sentence, always remember this sentence, even if a ship, a person, or even a cell in this world can't escape, if you escape, if you are scanned by Hong Chao, then it's over!

"Then, in order to prevent problems before they happen and solve this problem from the source, it is not enough to just destroy the technology and dismantle the starships, but we must also completely eradicate desires, such as thirst for knowledge, desire to explore, curiosity, and even imagination. When looking up at the vast sea of ​​stars, an individual who has no fluctuations in his heart is the safest existence for the Pangu civilization as a whole.

"And if you want to kill desire, you must first suppress emotion. 'Love' and 'desire' are two sides of the same coin, and it is safe enough to eliminate them at the same time!"

Li Yao opened his mouth, thought for a long time, and had to admit that Long Yangjun's statement was reasonable.

Human beings, the spirits of all things, are not the biggest feature that distinguishes them from other muddle-headed beasts, is curiosity and imagination?

As long as human beings still have curiosity, as long as human beings still have imagination, then when people look up at the starry sky, they will always want to know what is behind the starry sky. rush out!

Come to think of it, the original Pangu civilization was the same, right? When you look up at the starry sky, there are stormy waves and volcanic eruptions in your heart, right?

"The third and most important reason for 'having to deprive emotion'"

Long Yangjun continued to say deeply, "Keep away from fear and maintain order so that the Pangu civilization can maintain a minimum orderly operation and preserve the seeds of civilization."

Li Yao was slightly stunned: "What do you mean, as long as you withdraw the expedition fleet and retreat into the black wall, won't you be free from fear? What order do you need to maintain?"

"You think too simply. The Pangu civilization may have never seen floods at all. They just collected a few words about floods from the wreckage of other civilizations. Their fear comes from deep in their hearts. How can they stay away?"

Long Yangjun’s expression was both sad and indifferent, or in other words, in order not to reveal the sorrow deep in his heart, he tried to pretend to be indifferent to himself, “I don’t know if you have heard the saying that when the end comes, the world is not Not by the apocalypse, but by the chaos before the apocalypse.

"Human nature, never overestimate human nature. Standing on the scale of the universe, both human beings and Pangu civilization are just a speck of dust. In the face of great terror, catastrophe, and end, the vast majority of human beings and Pangu civilization No civilized individual can bear it.

"Li Yao, if everything I just said is true, how do you feel? Do you feel shocked, terrified, or even hopeless, completely hopeless?"

"Well……"

Li Yao scratched his head and said, "It's a bit shocking, a bit scary, that's right, all hopelessness and complete despair are not enough, hahahaha, how can I say that I have experienced many battles, I haven't seen any big scenes before, mere Hong Chao, what is there to be afraid of? If Hong Chao is so powerful, jump in front of me and hit me now, come on, come on, Hong Chao, jump out and hit me, hit me, hit me, idiot You see, nothing happened. This shows two points. Either Hong Chao is not omniscient, and it also has weaknesses. At least it cannot detect our conversations, and it cannot teleport over.

"Or, even Hong Chao is afraid of me, 'Li Yao the Vulture', to the extent that he is so scolded by me that he doesn't dare to show up and seek his own death!"

Li Yao put his hands on his hips, cursed at the starry sky for a long time, and then he spoke seriously to Long Yangjun.

Long Yangjun: "..."

Li Yao: "Hey, hey, what do you mean by that? What do you mean by turning around and leaving? Everyone obviously had a good time chatting and was very involved. Now we're getting to the point. Where are you going without saying a word?"

Long Yangjun: "I want to talk to Xiaoming and Wenwen. I think discussing with these two little dolls is more reliable than chatting with you."

"Don't, don't, at least finish what you just said!"

Li Yao kept Long Yangjun behind because of all his talk, and even swore, "I won't talk anymore, okay, I'll listen to you, I will listen to you!"

Long Yangjun half-closed his eyes, took several deep breaths, and then reluctantly said: "Forget it, it's unnecessary to ask you, I'll just follow my own way of thinking."

"Aside from a freak like you, and a peerless powerhouse like Boss Bai with an extremely firm Dao heart, for the vast majority of ordinary people, even those who have mastered powerful power but are not firm enough Dao heart, the existence of Hong Chao Not stingy with a doomsday catastrophe.

"Outside the world we live in, there is a force that we cannot resist or even imagine. This force did not destroy us, just because of our good luck, but such good luck cannot last forever! One day, Hong Chao will find us, find us, and swallow us lazily!

"Thousands of civilizations have been destroyed by floods, and no matter how we develop our own civilization, we can't stop the coming of destruction. This is called 'Doomed'!

"Do you understand, Li Yao, this kind of cognition will lead to extreme fear in everyone's heart, will completely destroy the hope of a civilization's continued development, will cause the flames of despair to sweep through every planet in the three thousand worlds, and will cause the flames of despair to spread across every planet in the three thousand worlds. Before the flood came, it crushed the entire Pangu civilization!

"Since destruction is inevitable, what's the point of working hard now to build civilization?

"Since breaking out of the Three Thousand Worlds has become an absolute taboo, where should the future of the Pangu civilization lead?

"There is a terrifying beast outside that is ready to eat us at any time, how should the individuals of the Pangu civilization face their daily lives in panic?

"No one can answer these questions, but everyone will slowly wake up to the unacceptable answers. In the end, all individuals will lose the meaning of life and indulge in various primitive sensory stimulation and sensuality. , Ended the rest of his life in a self-defeating way; when it comes back, all kinds of psychopathic lunatics and madmen will simply break the jar and end their own civilization in the most extreme way. You can imagine it as some kind of... Civilized suicide!

"And what about the government? Hehe, the government at this time should have lost all authority, glory, and ability to rule, right? Since even the government can't cope with the flood, what's the use of such a government?

"The Pangu civilization will degenerate at an alarming rate, quickly entering a state of anarchy, and everyone will rush back and forth between the two extremes of utter despair and utter madness, as if they are all suffering from the most severe bipolar disorder, perhaps short-lived. In just a hundred years, the Pangu Alliance created by thirteen carbon-based intelligent races, that incomparably splendid and brilliant civilization, will be destroyed in one fell swoop!

"Let me ask, as the leader of the Pangu civilization, after foreseeing such a bleak future, you can save all the people from fear by depriving their emotions and desires, continue their 'normal' life and work, and maintain civilization. Is there any other way than minimal operation?"

Li Yao thought hard for a long time, and struggled: "It seems to be true. In fact, people live. Material things are not the most important thing. The key is whether you can see hope. As long as there is hope, it doesn't matter how difficult life is now, but The road to the future is completely blocked by the flood. Without any hope of development, the entire civilization will be lost. There is a high probability that what you said will happen, the government will fall, the order will be chaotic, and the civilization will collapse.

"Having said that, killing emotions and desires, and locking up the development of all technologies will not be a problem in the long run. In the end, isn't it still a dead end?"

"It's possible it was a stopgap measure."

Lord Long Yang said, "Perhaps, the leader of the Pangu civilization who made this decision at the beginning thought that Hong Chao would not patrol this area forever? After tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, Hong Chao would always leave. , go to other places for food, then find a way to unlock the space for emotion, desire and technological progress, let the seeds of civilization that have been running for at least a million years bloom and bear fruit again, and even climb over the black wall and rush to the big universe. 'Nearby escape'?"