Zhou Yi looked at Su Yao. He didn't talk around in circles and said directly: "I have the answer here. What are you going to use in exchange?"
Su Yao frowned slightly, although he had already known and studied Zhou Yi from various channels before coming. His wealth accumulation has always been a mystery, especially after he became recognized as the number one collector in the solar system, it became even more difficult for people to understand
His endless source of wealth is used for collecting.
Some people think that Zhou Yi may be the successor of the Zhou family that took the lead in expanding trade to every corner of the solar system during the heyday of the Golden Age, but some people think that he is just a government agent who manages some weird and collectible items.
Puppet. In short, all kinds of information about Zhou Yi's identity and other important information that can judge and determine a person are complicated.
He is like a ball of flax living in reality, with no trace at all.
"What price does Professor Zhou think is more appropriate?" Su Yao calmly put the question back.
Zhou Yi laughed and asked: "It depends on how much Mr. Su Yao thinks the answers kept with me are worth, rather than me marking the price at will, right?"
When Su Yao heard this sentence, she realized that the gap between herself and Zhou Yi in terms of thinking games was not the smallest bit.
This man is so smart that it's irritating.
So he simply gave a price that he thought was satisfactory.
"Ten million Yaxing." Su Yao said.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi nodded and agreed readily. At that moment, Su Yao even had an illusion: 'Am I bidding too high?'
But by this time it was too late to regret.
Zhou Yi waved his hand, and the bright sky above the garden turned dark instantly, and then a piece of data flew out from his fingertips, like a shining butterfly.
It dances gracefully and shows off a little.
The butterfly exploded in front of Su Yao and turned into a stream of light, and then some undisclosed details were completely displayed in front of Su Yao.
Su Yao's pupils also dilated, as if she had been frightened.
After the trip to Iceland, Su Yao was confused on the way back to the moon.
Only then did he realize that the stories his grandfather Su Yuchuan told were all extremely euphemistic metaphors... The so-called wild dogs that escaped into the old house and the six wild dog cubs were just to make Su Yao not to be like that.
Just conflict.
The plague and famine that occurred in the resettlement area decades ago and directly caused the death of 1.32 million people was actually a clearing of the boundaries between gods and humans.
Although humans who have come into contact with the wisdom of the second-level civilization now dare not say that they have completely defeated all viruses and bacteria in the solar system, the word famine has long been a concept in history textbooks. After the end of the golden age, some people chose
Separated from the era under the blessings of the old gods, they also paid the price for their choices.
The government was right not to step in at that time.
It is not wrong for civil society organizations to help out on a humanitarian basis.
The problem is, the man standing on the ground filled with corpses and looking up at the giant mechanical octopus that is transforming the earth's ecological environment is confused.
What is the highest ideal that human beings pursue?
Should he be domesticated and evolved like a dog, and then surrender to God in exchange for food and clothing, or should he believe in himself?
This is not a question that needs to be elevated to the realm of philosophy.
It’s just a matter of a bowl of rice.
…
"That adult...well..." The giant humanoid existence with its back to Su Yao began to reminisce. Her hands touched the marks on the ground and walls, as if trying to make her memories fuller through contact.
tension.
Part of Jiu'er's attention was on this strange woman, and part was on the golden armored statue.
From the texture and decoration of their armor, Jiuer is basically sure that they should all be loyal guardians of the Coibo civilization. The difference is that some of them live a comfortable life in the higher-dimensional superstring reality, and some have been destroyed.
How many years have been forgotten.
"I seem to remember... that adult... um... that adult." She turned around slowly, revealing a dull eye between her long hair. She stared at Su Yao and murmured to herself
language.
Jiuer frowned and subconsciously touched the dagger behind him.
The woman seemed to be aware of it. She sneered a few times and then said: "Lange is immortal, Lange is eternal...ah...I can feel it..."
Lange?!
Su Yao stepped forward and asked: "Are you talking about the artist Lange who lives in the world in the painting? Do you know where he is?"
But the woman smiled strangely and took several steps back. She hid behind the pillar in the corridor, only revealing her pale profile and one dull eye.
"It's strange...it's strange...your smell is wrong...but you actually remember...what's the reason? I'm very curious...what's the reason?"
Jiu'er didn't know who Su Yao was talking about, the painter Lange who lived in the painting, but she seemed to vaguely understand what the thing with a voice that sounded like a woman but more like a monster was saying.
"Is it genetic memory compilation?" Jiu'er asked Su Yao quietly.
Su Yao nodded and continued to ask the weird woman: "I learned about these things in a book, so can you tell me where the adult is now?"
"Sir? What master?" she asked blankly.
Su Yao's face was gloomy: "You don't have to hide it. There is no filthy and blasphemous thing here. You can tell the name frankly."
She chuckled when she heard this, as if she had heard a very interesting joke.
After a long while, she stopped, and then her body suddenly clung to the high building wall of the courtyard like a gecko. After she climbed to a height of more than ten meters above the ground, she grabbed the wall with one hand and leaned back.
Staring at the dark sphere above the royal court, he said: "Ah...our glorious kingdom...our glorious past...is this blasphemy that occurred in several thousand years...what is the reason for this suspicion...
…I don’t even remember…I don’t remember…”
Su Yao lost her patience when she saw that she was still talking crazy words.
But he had to wait for her next step.
Jiu'er had already walked to the golden armor statue. She threw out a silver scanning robot the size of a ring. The little thing immediately spun and flew after being thrown up, and then began to rotate around the entire statue. Soon the golden armor
All kinds of data about the statue are collected by it.
"Data analysis has been around for at least 100 million years..." Jiu'er looked at Su Yao in shock.
Su Yao is not surprised.
Breaking through cognitive barriers and achieving the transcendence of the true meaning of civilization is not as simple as it sounds. This is a vast project that requires not only strong and stable willpower, but also a determined leader.
"If my guess is correct, the Coibo civilization has never been able to achieve a real cognitive breakthrough here. Their civilization has stagnated at a stage between the second-level and third-level civilizations, and the best
The proof is the star above us that is about to collapse into a black hole and has a mass equivalent to at least thirty suns." Su Yao began to share his findings with Jiu'er for the first time.
Jiu'er doesn't mind. In fact, as for what Su Yao is doing now, the less people around him know about it, the less confusion and trouble he will have. On the other hand, if they are studying ancient theology like Su Yao every day, what will happen to them?
Difficult and obscure, it can even be said that it is nonsense to search for clues to explore the forerunners, the footsteps of the past masters, to find the pioneers of the human era, the "Koibo" civilization, which itself is a big trouble to listen to, Jiu'er
I don't want to know too much.
But now that Su Yao took the initiative to speak out, he must have thought it necessary to share it with Jiu'er.
Jiu'er is not a stupid girl, she is also a super warrior who integrates wisdom and strength. When she was in the academy, Jiu'er's various indicators were among the best.
She knows more or less about the collapse of stars and the formation of black holes.
After searching the Proxima Centauri galaxy, Jiuer frowned and said: "Unless the speed of this dark star's revolution in the universe has reached sub-light speed, I can't find a dying galaxy adjacent to the solar system where the star is collapsing into a black hole."
"It can't be found, because the galaxy that gave birth to this dark star together with the solar system is not in the physical universe we know. It is on the other side." Su Yao's words are shocking.
The other side?! Is this possible?
Jiu'er felt that these words had touched the bottom of her knowledge blind spot.
But thinking about how they arrived at this royal city, she seemed relieved again!
Yes!
To form a physical universe that embodies reality, that is, if the universe where Su Yao, Jiu'er and the others were born is called a, then the royal city where they are at this time is in universe b corresponding to a.
But this is not the concept of parallel universe. In fact, parallel universe usually occurs in the space and time of a specific physical universe.
There is no direct connection between universe b and universe a mentioned here. They don't even know that the other exists. They are completely independent worlds.
But is this possible?
Current cutting-edge scientific exploration is already trying to set foot in the "bunker world", the last element of the three elements that make up the physical universe. In ancient theology, the bunker world is considered to be the only way for pioneers to open up a new era of civilization, and it may also be a way for future humans to
A world that must be controlled to reach the pinnacle of material civilization.
Of course, human society, which has just touched the threshold of second-level civilization, has not yet understood time and space. Whether it can overtake in the bunker world basically depends on "luck".
It is very difficult to think about and understand a fact that you have never been exposed to before and even find it incredible.
But it feels easier to convince yourself to accept it directly.
Without professional equipment, it is difficult to confirm that the huge black sphere above the royal city is a star that is collapsing into a black hole by just observing it with the naked eye, but Su Yao said that it is, that's it, Jiu'er doesn't
Going to be skeptical.
In fact, Su Yao was just guessing, based on the ancient theological cosmology formed by the various ancient theological books he had read.
Some people may say that the so-called ancient theology is just superstitious thinking. In fact, this is very absurd, or in other words, this statement itself is unscientific.
Superstition is a man-made deception that has been proven by science, but is packaged in a false appearance.
Ancient theology is a self-contained, mysterious subject that is difficult and obscure but covers far more than the boundaries of real scientific exploration. The reason why it is not favored by the world and is even resisted by many scientific researchers is not because it is false, but because it is false.
It is full of mysterious and uncertain colors.
In Su Yao's understanding, the person who first compiled and formed the ancient theological cosmology was said to have heard the whispers from chaos in his sleep. He specifically described the sounds into various concrete objects, but failed to
Science explains the possibility of their existence, so when his work was published more than a thousand years ago, he was considered a heretic and was hanged.
But this book has survived. It is "The World in Lange's Paintings", an only ancient book.
After Su Yao met collector Zhou Yi, he got a lot of this kind of books.
At first, "The World in Lange's Paintings" was kept in the library by collectors as an isolated copy of magic, and Su Yao didn't pay much attention to it. But when he and Zhou Yi talked about the levels of civilization described in ancient theology, the division and return of the old gods.
When looking at the intersection between the scientific view of the real universe and the ancient theological view of the universe, Zhou Yi immediately thought of this unique ancient book that was more like magic.
The author's name was erased from the title page of the book after he was deemed a heretic. The only copy of the book, written by Lange, describes the fragments he excerpted from the Whispers of Chaos.
He said that he saw a glorious royal city that traveled through the physical universe to the other side and captured and imprisoned the stars in the painting. The painter Lange was the author of this painting. He was undoubtedly great, but that enlightened, material
The extremely abundant world is too arrogant. The worship of Wang and the pursuit of Lange have made people ignore that this project itself goes against the original will to transcend.
The king was sinking day by day. He believed that his achievements and thoughts had far surpassed those of the sages who originally led these people to this fertile land, so he no longer regarded himself as a king, but compared himself and the "old gods" with those
The Lord of the Past, who may have lost his concrete form long ago, drew an equal sign.
So in the 30th millennium of civilization, in order to make himself and his subjects immortal, Wang wrote everyone's will into the painting, and Lange's painting became lively.
At first Lange felt honored that his paintings were enriched, but when he saw that these mortals were still ugly in the paintings, he erased their facial features, removed their genders, and then created truly perfect paintings.
Flawless existence. This kind of angel-like pure creation, which is labeled with commandments, has become the most common existence in Lange's paintings.
But Lange forgot that his every move only erased the shape of objects, and could not make those so-called "angels" who had lost their facial features and gender lose their originality and instinct.
So in the 31st millennium of civilization, when Lange's words were approaching perfection, the king had a huge disagreement with Lange because he did not want to be the same as his subjects. The king is a king after all, even if he sinks,
Arrogantly forgetting the beliefs he should uphold as a human leader, he is still a great and immortal existence.
Lange is no match for Wang. His only choice is to surrender or die.
But Lange gave himself another option, which was to escape!
Escape into your own paintings and walk in chaos, so that you can completely escape the pursuit of the king and become a new eternity.
These descriptions are all from "Lange's World in Painting". Su Yao has seen many works of the same type.
He did not really think that Lange was a painter, nor did he think that people would really be willing to become the faceless, naked and genderless monster in the painting. Obviously, this is a metaphor.
If gravitational waves can really span the entire universe, then this so-called whisper from chaos may be a wise man from the Coibo civilization recording their great civilization in another form in his unique way.
Thereby achieving another kind of immortality.
But the strange thing is that even if the level of civilization reaches the level of Coibo, immortality and eternity are still the main topics? Therefore, Su Yao feels that the book itself may also be a subjective fabrication that is subject to the indoctrination of realistic ideas. After all,
In that era of religious turmoil, the author who was regarded as a heretic did not know the story he felt in his sleep. At the same time, his ideology itself was already imprisoned.
"Well, you are very smart and perceptive. You really impressed me... But you are wrong. There is no Lange... there is no world in the painting... all the corruption appears suddenly... in cognition
After our barriers were struck again and again, the fall came unexpectedly... Yes... it came unexpectedly... Look around you... Look around you... Greatness and glory are nothing but this...
...Even after the first thousand years, the second thousand years, the third thousand years...the thirtieth thousand years are just like this...the limit of the pinnacle of matter...this word has been used so that there is no concept...
...you should know better than me...you poor traveler, you will find nothing, you will gain nothing...because it is not here...the power you hope for...it does not exist
...Grrrrrr!" The woman suddenly spoke a lot like crazy. She laughed crazily as she spoke, and her twisted body completely drooped down, revealing her cracked abdomen and the wriggling fangs in her chest.
!
No!
Not fangs!
Jiu'er looked carefully and saw that they were clearly arms. They were like every foot on the body of a centipede, constantly trying to scratch!
Su Yao's face changed and she immediately protected Jiu'er and retreated to a distance.
But after the woman landed like a snake, she smiled sinisterly: "It's not me...it's the one who's afraid of you!"