Chapter 48 Fifty years of life is like a dream and an illusion
These experts and scholars who were sleeping in the "Great Awakening Movement" suddenly woke up at the same time, and the detection equipment that had been installed had also detected some kind of fluctuation at this moment.
Even though these subjects showed a split headache and couldn't even walk steadily, some people around them couldn't help asking:
"What did you see? Have you reached that place?"
In fact, they have already affirmed it in their hearts, but only by hearing the answer in person can they truly settle down.
Although the scholars were uncomfortable all over, they were also very excited and understood the anxiety of their companions because they did confirm the existence of that place.
One of the people who were not in such a bad situation immediately replied:
"Yes, we did enter that place. The huge amount of spiritual power that we had never imagined before was spread there, and Zero gas deposited into a nebula is everywhere."
"The premonition in the dark tells me that it is the 'virtual realm'!"
He finished these words in one breath, but he was not breathless and his eyes exuded strong confidence.
The rest of the people who were looking forward to something were stunned when they heard this, and then they burst into deafening cheers.
"Finally... finally waited for this day, and the spiritual potential will no longer be awakened by a few chosen people! In the future, all our tribe members will become the masters of their souls!"
"And those materialistic idiots! Next time, you must slap them hard with your psychic energy!"
A few days later, the Dankam clan and several idealistic civilizations jointly announced that they had discovered the existence of the "Virtual Realm", and that the road to the "Virtual Realm" is no longer closed, and all consciousness can reach that place.
Materialistic civilizations initially disdained this, but after several extremely rigorous scientists awakened their own spiritual potential through experiments, they realized that idealistic civilization seemed to have really been a big one.
But soon, this big event calmed down in materialistic civilization because they found that psychic energy was not actually that useful to them.
For example, the idea of trying to replace conventional energy with psychic energy ended with the dramaticity of the experimental results. They found that machines that directly extracted energy from the "virtual realm" that were built with a lot of manpower and material resources were not as large as those generated by the splitting of several atomic nuclei.
After the work video of a psionic user called "the most powerful" was exposed, many global companies generally believed that "it felt worse than an old-fashioned robot that had been eliminated for 20 years."
So the materialistic civilization continued to mock: "A group of charlatans who have proved the supremacy of physics in countless years."
And the idealistic civilization sarcastically said: "A group of poor people who know that there is a treasure here but cannot use it."
In short, the discovery of the "virtual realm" is just for materialistic civilization, "there is indeed such a special space in the universe."
But for idealistic civilization, this is a major event that is enough to change destiny.
Time passed quietly. Li Wenyuan also returned to his mother star from the "Emerald Mausoleum".
He found that there were several unstable gaps in the "Emperor Mausoleum", and those missing were all involved in the "Virtual Realm".
The "virtual realm" seems to have a special liking for organic life. The longer you stay there, the easier it is to be swept away by the "virtual realm", which also creates the silence there.
As for what the missing persons ended up, no one knew.
But before leaving, he brought back the psychic crystal that recorded the past images.
This thing also has powerful functions. It can stably open a narrow "virtual realm" space and then contact the "virtual realm". It does not require a lot of preparations and spend a lot of resources like idealistic civilization.
"...As for the 'virtual realm' itself..." Li Wenyuan thought, and temporarily placed it in the middle of "things to be done".
Although from the recorded stories, there may be something very dangerous in the "Virtual Realm", he cannot block the "Virtual Realm" like humans.
As of now, he still doesn't know what's inside, and even if there is any danger, he feels that the "Watcher" may be the first to go up to it.
So he temporarily settled down and tried how to let the synthetic man master the psychic energy through the "Virtual Realm", while also starting to build the third fleet.
Back on the mother planet, he used the psychic crystal alone to open a small piece of virtual realm space, and then let the synthesiser step into it.
He did not let any organisms approach here, and not even Lilian, who could breathe out Zero naturally.
He has heard enough about the disappearance of someone from the Ideal Civilization in the Void Realm. He does not want this "pet" who has been with him for more than ten years to disappear.
Once again, the synthetic man came here. In the same atmosphere, the same clouds rolled and unfolded, but the synthetic man still couldn't feel anything.
"...So is it still impossible to have psionic robots?" Li Wenyuan frowned and kept letting the synth go in and out here.
However, the "guidance on what you hear" that idealistic civilization has generally experienced did not happen. For this reason, he also tested the human auditory system several times to confirm whether it was because of a machine failure that he could not "hear" the sound of the virtual realm.
"...Is it because of 'consciousness'? Or... 'soul'?" He thought about the reason, and then looked at a technology tree, a technology that he had been paying attention to for a long time.
【Synthetic Human Personality Matrix】
【Technology Level: 7】
[Introduction: After experiencing a long progress in social concepts, the people finally understand that the non-physical "consciousness" also has uniqueness and independence. The mystery of consciousness will be parsed by data, and the feats in myth will be realized by us. From now on, we will create our own "soul"]
【Possible Technology: None】
The level of this technology is even higher than that of "giant construction projects", and the effect it achieves is likely to make synthetics "life".
The ethical and philosophical issues involved in this are extremely complex, and it may take a long time for a normal and civilized society to accept such changes.
But these have nothing to do with him for the time being, because he cannot study this level 7 technology.
"... Then let's talk about it later. Let's put the matter of the psychic robot aside. The Milky Way has been a little bit abnormal recently. I hope the idealistic civilization will not do anything big..."
Li Wenyuan thought so and continued to focus on the expansion of the fleet.
And those idealistic civilizations that are highly anticipated have successfully completed the initial use of the "virtual realm" with unremitting efforts.
It’s also the Dankam group, and the psychic experts among them have brought good news:
“——The Selected One who entered the ‘Virtual Realm’ successfully connected with an ancient and powerful being!”
An apprentice hurried to the elders' meeting room to report the news, which also made the elders smile.
One of them tried to pretend to be calm and said, "Yes, so our position in the idealistic civilization should be quite stable. No other civilization can reach a level similar to ours."
But more people don’t pretend, and the pride of making achievements in the "virtual realm" makes them all look up to the sky.
After a while of boasting, someone asked, "What do our experts say? Do you know what that existence is?"
The apprentice shook his head at this time and showed an inexplicable expression: "I didn't study it clearly, and that existence drove us back with just one sentence."
"You have such a bad temper? What are you talking about?"
"Fifty years."
Chapter completed!