Chapter 372 Cruelty and Kindness, Dimensional Artist
Looking at the miserable scene in the picture where humans on ancient earth either worked hard or exercised hard all day long, with almost no time for entertainment, and even family and love were completely lost, Mu Cang shook his head slightly:
"Humans are not machines. They don't go to bed after work and work when they wake up. People need entertainment and emotional release.
Just like many workers on Blue Star, after they come home after working overtime until late at night, they obviously should go to bed early to relieve fatigue, but they still stay up late playing games and watching short videos in an almost vindictive manner.
These are signs that the body and soul are trying to save themselves, and if they don't, they will collapse.
Hmm, so this Holy Emperor is too eager for quick success and a little too much."
As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Cang thought about the harsh situation faced by ancient humans and the hungry god clan that would eventually appear, and he began to understand somewhat what the Holy Emperor had done.
"Even if it is impossible to know the specific identity and power level of the enemy, the Holy Emperor is born with extremely powerful predictability and spirituality..."
Mu Cang pondered, "He must always feel that the entire starry sky above his head... is full of heart-piercing and deep malice.
If you think about it this way... his rather cruel behavior makes sense."
At this time, Mu Cang suddenly thought of a game he had played in his previous life - "Ice and Steam Age".
The plot background of that game is set in the apocalyptic stage after global temperatures plummet.
In that doomsday, humanity is already on the verge of extinction.
Players need to play the role of a mayor and manage the last city in the world.
In the game, players need to manage many survivors and various infrastructures in the city.
Different decisions and strategies must also be adopted to ensure that cities can survive longer in a situation where the environment and resources are constantly deteriorating.
But what's interesting is that the survivors living in such an extremely harsh environment don't seem to have enough awareness.
They will be dissatisfied if they work too much overtime, they will be dissatisfied if they eat too much porridge, they will be dissatisfied if the hospital beds are too crowded, and they will even be dissatisfied to the point of bursting their lungs if the heater is not turned on warm enough.
At the same time, once the level of dissatisfaction reaches an overwhelming level, the player as the mayor will be united by all the survivors and brutally exiled outside the city, where he will freeze and starve to death.
Often at this time, a survivor will jump out and say excitedly: "I know everyone is about to die, but I am so happy to see you (the player) step down before I die!"
All in all, if the players cannot serve this group of survivors comfortably, then they would rather break the pot and die together.
This is somewhat similar to the situation faced by ancient humans.
The difference is that the Holy Emperor is powerful enough that no one can exile or overthrow him.
At the same time, the ancient Westram civilization existed for a relatively long time, and there was still a lot of room for change.
But this room for maneuver may also be an illusion, because once any hungry god suddenly descends on the galaxy where the ancient earth is, the ancient human civilization will quickly perish.
And the time of this arrival... is unknown.
Therefore, the Holy Emperor, who had a premonition of this terrible misfortune, issued many harsh decrees and made the decision to build ancient mankind into a dystopian totalitarian state with the coldest heart.
"So, this involves a problem. Human nature and freedom are indeed valuable, but on the balance of value..."
Mu Cang thought to himself leisurely, "Is it more important than the continuation of species and civilization?"
The answer is self-evident.
If species and civilizations are completely extinct, what is the meaning of these so-called freedoms and humanity?
Even the meaning itself is not defined by intelligent creatures?
If everyone is gone, is there still room for freedom and humanity?
Of course, there must have been many individuals among ancient humans who respected and valued humanity and freedom.
This type of individual is very similar to the many Europa white zodiacs that once existed on Blue Star.
They all have roughly the same Virgin complex.
The root of this kind of complex is...the fantasy that one is the kindest helper, the fantasy that one can forever watch all those present, and then discipline them so that one can achieve eternal goodness.
This is... the ultimate arrogance.
Mu Cang was noncommittal about this sentiment.
At the same time, looking at the ancient Earth that launched the Great Expedition to the Star Sea in the historical scene, Mu Cang also made a guess in his mind as to why the Holy Emperor forcibly deprived ancient humans of their reproductive rights.
"Perhaps...it is to avoid some kind of filtering mechanism - the evolutionary concave point - set up by the universe for intelligent civilization."
The so-called evolutionary pit can also be called the mutation load limit.
Generally speaking, once a certain intelligent group becomes the top of the planet's food chain, natural selection will gradually go offline.
But this will bring about an extremely terrible consequence.
That is, the pollution of the ethnic gene pool.
Why is this so?
Very simple.
In a group of people, under normal circumstances, such as those who are born with disabilities, those who are congenitally weak, those who carry recessive diseases, those who carry various harmful mutations, and all kinds of individuals who are not qualified to pass on to future generations or even cannot survive normally, their genes are simply
If there is no chance to enter the ethnic gene pool, it will be eliminated by natural selection as a matter of course.
However, with the development of civilization, the survivability of intelligent groups is getting stronger and stronger, and their living environment is getting better and better.
So all the individuals who shouldn't leave offspring...most of them will leave offspring.
In this way, the population gene pool naturally becomes a shelter for a large number of harmful mutations.
But the capacity and shelf life of the shelter...are limited.
The technological capabilities of civilization have not developed enough to enter the interstellar era, especially in the ancient times when tunnels in the spirit world have not yet appeared. Once this deadline is exceeded, no one knows what will happen...
In short, it won't be a good thing.
There is a high probability that civilization will become extinct directly under the influence of both bad internal and external factors.
"But it's optimization, in a sense..."
Mu Cang pondered quietly, "The essence of the thousand-year optimization plan implemented by Holy Emperor Westem on ancient humans... should be called potential exploration."
As for where the potential of ancient humans came from, you have to ask the hungry god Westram.
Eons ago, the gang of hungry gods headed by him used various methods to torture the ancient earth civilization for hundreds of millions of years. While bringing endless pain to ancient humans, they also left a legacy in their genes and soul structures.
suffered a horrific amount of trauma.
Mu Cang believes that these shocking traumas or 'traces' are actually the source of ancient human potential.
If you want to make an analogy, you can use the evolutionary history of humans on Blue Star as an example.
According to Mu Cang's research a long time ago, he discovered that the Blue Star humans he was born into were the by-products of Aknussem's various impacts on the natural world of Blue Star when he created the Aurora Clan.
But in the long history of countless thousands of years that followed, the real core driving force for the evolution of humans on Blue Star actually came from the many viruses that existed in nature.
While still at Blue Star, Mu Cang discovered that since the apes parted ways, at least 30% of the changes in the structure and composition of proteins synthesized by humans on Blue Star were caused by viruses.
As a result, driven by his strong curiosity, he launched a series of extremely detailed studies on the human genome.
Mu Cang then discovered that there were thousands of gene fragments left behind after the invasion of ancient retroviruses in the genome of Blue Star humans.
The total number of these fragments accounts for an impressive 8% of the total 2.9 billion base pairs in the human DNA structure.
Don't underestimate this number.
Through Mu Cang's research, it was discovered that it is these eight percent of gene fragments that dominate and shape many physiological functions that are extremely important to humans, or many potential abilities.
For example, part of the memory function of the human brain, the size of the heart in the human chest, the development and activation of the embryo in the human female uterus, the production and operation of human stem cells, the production and function of the placenta in the uterus, the startup and shutdown of the human immune system, etc.
These, and even many physical superpowers, are surprisingly closely related to many endogenous retroviral codes.
Therefore, the large number of genetic traits that humans have inherited from various ancestral species at various historical stages are likely to be the result of long-term random mutations of endogenous retroviral genes.
Among these 'results', some will become normal physiological functions that future generations of humans will take for granted, while others will be hidden in the human genome and become the source of the existence and operation of many superpowers.
In subsequent extensive research, Mu Cang also discovered that many viral fragments in the human genome are likely caused by dozens of infections.
And this kind of virus infecting the distant ancestors of all mankind may have happened hundreds or thousands of times in the long evolutionary history of mankind.
So if we look at it from a more macro level, it can be said that the entire evolutionary history of human beings actually has signs that a large number of viruses were involved in shaping it.
These signs, or the 'traces' left by the virus invasion, are the potential of Blue Star humans.
However, the ancient humans who appear to be the same as the Blue Star humans have completely different core driving forces for their evolution.
The power that shaped them and gave them unparalleled potential... obviously came from the Hungry God clan and from the various transformations that Westram had undergone for hundreds of millions of years.
Mu Cang even speculated that the essential reason why the Holy Emperor was able to evolve to the extraordinary level so quickly, and even to the overlord level, was that he fully developed his majestic potential.
"However, the subsequent progress of the Holy Emperor should be separated from the so-called concepts of transformation, genes, bloodline, etc., because the true peerless powerhouse... has never had anything to do with the so-called genes and bloodline." (For details, see Chapter 88.
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Mu Cang smiled leisurely, "A truly strong person has his or her own unique truth, and a strong person will definitely believe in his or her own truth, no matter whether it is right or wrong, good or evil, black or white.
All principles are cognition, and cognition is composed of three elements: concepts, logic, and standards. Words such as language and words will always only be labels for concepts.
As long as you believe in your own principles, believe in your own knowledge, and successfully verify that knowledge, you will have strong confidence.
The so-called confidence further refers to faith. If you go deep into it and sublimate it, you will condense it into a belief.
This confidence will stimulate huge potential and give birth to a fearless mentality. Under the influence of the two, spirituality will gradually change and strength will gradually increase."
After finishing his thinking, Mu Cang quickly flipped through the historical pictures.
After satisfying a certain amount of curiosity, he had already reached the super galaxy cluster combat level, but he completely lost interest in the Holy Emperor's subsequent history of interstellar wars, and was too lazy to take a closer look.
It is nothing more than sweeping across the starry sky and exterminating many alien races everywhere.
Mu Cang has done this kind of thing a lot and seen it a lot, so it's nothing interesting to see.
He wanted to find a way, or rather a route, to the ancestral land of Westem.
In fact, after completely devouring all the memories of the six galactic tribes, as well as a large amount of information about the galactic tribes with spiritual tunnels, Mu Cang has already learned about the legend of the trial of gods that was spread among civilizations in the old galactic period.
Completely cracked it to pieces.
This legend is fundamentally a misunderstanding caused by the accumulation of time, and it is a gross misunderstanding.
Because those Keys of Order that are circulating everywhere are essentially fragments of some kind of 'portal' used by Aknusem when he returned to the ancestral land of Westram across countless billions of light years.
What the fragments continued to break into... was the Vortex of Order, the core of the Abraham Machine treasured by the Mystery of Flesh on the Blue Star.
The reason why Mu Cang wants to find the Westem Ancestral Land is to obtain the probability interference technology that may exist in it, which is the wish of the gods recognized by the civilizations in the galaxy.
As for why these civilizations knew this... Mu Cang actually did not find a clear answer.
He only guessed that during the many thousands of years that Aknussem stayed in the Milky Way, he had more or less superficial exchanges with the ancestors of many intelligent civilizations.
During this exchange, perhaps he leaked some information about his ancestral land.
After all, those first ancestors were also the children of Aknusem.
Of course, the above are all Mu Cang's guesses, and they cannot be accurate.
"It is obviously impossible to ascend to the sixth dimension by absorbing the spirituality of all living beings."
Mu Cang quietly 'watched' the dimension advancement scale in the intelligent universe which was still at 0% progress, "So what do we need to do to ascend to the sixth dimension? So that probability interference technology...maybe able to help me find the answer.
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With this idea in mind, he kept walking in the vast universe.
"Um?"
At this moment, Mu Cang suddenly froze his body and changed his perspective to the fantasy realm where he was avatar.
The depths of the fantasy realm at infinite distances.
In a chaotic and dark area.
Mu Cang (the clone) took a crystal-diamond object that looked like an invitation from Jason, who was kneeling respectfully in front of him.
I saw this crystal diamond invitation engraved with:
"Hello, welcome to the brilliant game of the great dimensional artist Mr. Coo——
