Chapter 1054 Complete Life Form

  Chapter 1054 Complete Life Form

  The empty room was silent, with only the slight white noise of the running electronic components.

  The chair with its back to the door was motionless, like a silent spectator.

  Chu Guang didn’t know if the professor’s old friend “Observer” was also watching.

  But even if it was, it probably wouldn’t be able to jump out and say anything.

  After all, it said that the next encounter would be in tens of thousands of years.

  If he could wait until then.

  The professor standing on the screen seemed to be trapped in distant memories. He stood quietly and thought for a long time, and then spoke in a leisurely tone.

  ”That was a long, long time ago, more than three hundred years ago.”

  ”I can’t remember whether it was the first or second time I saw it, but it was indeed the first time it had a heart-to-heart talk with me.”

  ”At that time, I had already mastered the secrets of the four fundamental forces, and gradually began to use gravity as a medium to touch the boundaries of dimensions… Just as the observer expected, after we mastered the power comparable to that of a star, we got the key to the starry sky.”

  Chu Guang showed a surprised expression on his face.

  ”Hyperspace engine? Did you invent it?”

  The professor shook his head.

  ”No, I’m not very interested in specific applications. Those things are mainly done by my students. However, my research on neutrinos, quark-gluon plasma and gravitons can be regarded as laying the theoretical foundation for hyperspace engines. Including deflector shields and the anti-gravity you are familiar with, in fact, they are all extended applications of hyperspace theory…”

  It’s okay if you are not interested…

  Chu Guang touched his nose unconsciously when he felt a strong smell coming

  towards him. Although he knew very well that the other party did not mean to show off deliberately, he still found that he was fooled.

  Maybe this is the specialization of the profession.

  Compared with showing off, he is still better at being a bit scheming.

  When he said this, the professor suddenly stopped talking as if he had thought of something.

  ”I won’t tell you about those complicated things. If you are interested, you can learn about it yourself. There is a popular science book called “Past, Present, and Future” on the bookshelf of the library on the B4 floor. It reveals the principles of hyperspace and FTL engines in popular language, which will be more friendly to amateurs.”

  Chu Guang nodded.

  ”I read it a long time ago… did you write it?”

  He didn’t remember who the author of the book was, but he remembered that the “gravitational bond” mentioned in the book opened his eyes. It turned out that this was how the superluminal travel in the Human Union era was done.

  The professor smiled and said.

  ”That’s not the case. It was written by my student.”

  Good guy.

  He was fooled again!

  Chu Guang coughed lightly.

  ”…Did we go off topic?”

  ”Sorry, I interrupted you for a while.”

  The professor smiled embarrassedly, resumed his previous tone, and continued.

  ”In short… in the Nth year after the establishment of the Human Union, we got the key to the sea of ​​stars and completed the first ascension of the entire human civilization. From that day on, our borders were no longer just the Earth, but began to expand to other planets outside the Earth-Moon system.”

  ”And just when the Human Union needed me the most, the Observer found me and predicted future crises and various things about “natural disasters”. In the end, it wanted me to go to Mars to dig a grave, a grave smaller than the remains of Alpha Centauri… However, due to some things, I didn’t go.”

  Chu Guang: “What is it?”

  The professor was silent for a while, and seemed not to want to talk about this issue, but seemed to think that it was a thing of the past, so he finally spoke.

  ”A little personal matter… My wife had a serious illness, at least at that time, there was no cure, even though we had mastered the power comparable to that of a star. Moreover, those who stood in a similar position to you didn’t want me to take risks, and persuaded me for a long time… In short, I finally chose to stay in the era I should stay in.”

  ”That’s really no way, it’s human nature.” Chu Guang nodded, with some appreciation in his eyes.

  He is not a person without feelings.

  On the contrary, he not only values ​​feelings, but is also willing to make friends with people who value feelings.

  Although such people with weaknesses may not be good people, they usually have a bottom line, pay attention to their eating manners, have some scruples, and will not do things like giving birth to a son without an asshole.

  By the way, this is also one of the reasons why he is still single.

  Even if he has not done things like giving birth to a son without an asshole.

  ”Really? You also think it is human nature, right… Besides, things are not that simple.”

  The voice that floated through the screen was full of complex emotions, and it was difficult to describe whether it was to leave something behind or to take on responsibilities that did not belong to him.

  ”…According to the facts I learned later, that guy concealed a very important inside story. There were indeed some “good things” buried in that tomb, but at that time we did not have the ability to fully excavate the ruins. Once we entered, we could not get out, no matter who went! No wonder it specifically asked me to go, it was basically a trap, this guy wanted to kill me!”

  Chu Guang was stunned for a few seconds, his face full of surprise.

  ”Observer… wants to kill you? Why?”

  The man on the screen was silent for a while, and said after a long time.

  ”I don’t know. Maybe it doesn’t necessarily want to kill me. It may just want me to disappear for a while. According to it, my progress has been better than it expected. A cross-regional organization for global cooperation… that is, the Human Union was born ahead of schedule, and two centuries earlier than it expected.”

  ”Not only that, but the timing of the completion of the first fusion reactor and the construction of the space elevator are all based on the common prosperity of all mankind.”

  ”Although I think this is no big deal, it is a small matter in the face of time, and it is not my credit alone. However, it thinks that we in this universe are moving too fast, and there are undercurrents beneath the vision of prosperity.”

  ”According to its point of view, the explosive progress of science and technology has allowed us to skip over the problems we should have encountered and the practical tools that should have been obtained from solving the problems. Once our speed slows down in the future, the problems that we have skipped will erupt in a concentrated manner. At that time, just a small risk will make all our efforts go to waste, and this risk is almost inevitable in the future.”

  Chu Guang pressed his brows and thought for a while, trying to sort out the contradictions between the two sides.

  In simple terms, the observer hopes to give appropriate interference, but the result of the interference is beyond its own expectations.

  So it intends to remove the interference.

  No——

  This is not quite accurate.

  A more accurate statement should be that it gave the professor two choices.

  Either go to Mars, accept its “macro-control”, and develop in the direction of the Boundary Breaker.

  Or give up the system and stay on his original timeline, but the price is that it will remove excessive interference, or withdraw the “help from the void”.

  According to the professor, he actually didn’t need the system given to him by the observer later.

  If there is no higher-level pursuit, there is really no need to obey the observer’s control in order to keep the system.

  ”…What happened later?” Chu Guang continued to ask.

  The professor on the screen said slowly.

  ”It didn’t matter later. It said that it would go to the future to find other people, and then it disappeared with the system it gave me, as if it had never been there. But it doesn’t matter. I have said before that I didn’t need its help at that time… But it seemed very lost, and came back to me many years later. It didn’t say why it came back, but I can probably guess that it might be because it found that there was no future.”

  Chu Guang: “This ‘no’ means… there is no Boundary Breaker?”

  The professor shook his head.

  ”It means everything… According to it, if I continue to stay in the timeline I am in, our civilization will be overdrawn and lose all the future. Or to put it another way, countless universes with me will be reduced to ashes, and there will be no next ‘Boundary Breaker’ until the final heat death of the universe.”

  Chu Guang’s Adam’s apple moved, and after a long silence, he sighed softly and said.

  ”This sounds too exaggerated.”

  The professor smiled faintly.

  ”It is quite exaggerated, but it actually has its reasons. According to its soap bubble theory, the past and future are two time states that exist simultaneously in the void, and the multiverse and parallel worlds also exist simultaneously. Any decision I make on the timeline I exist in will change the future results, and these changes are also possible at the beginning of the explosion of the universe.”

  When he said this, the professor’s voice suddenly took on a hint of loneliness.

  Chu Guang was not sure whether there was any regret in it, but there was definitely helplessness and regret.

  ”It showed me another future, another possibility of a parallel world, the future after I went to Mars… There I saw my descendants, and the descendants of many people I knew, they all lived very well, although they couldn’t compare with the prosperous era, but they were not much worse.”

  ”At the end of that future, I finally left my home planet, but the future of our civilization was bright. Although we experienced some twists and turns during this period, we did not fall into despair like the wasteland era… And in the end, we stepped into the sea of ​​stars with a brand new attitude.”

  Looking at the blurred face, Chu Guang thought for a long time and asked.

  ”Do you regret it?”

  ”No, just a little regretful,” the professor shook his head and said slowly, “At that time, I actually doubted its fickleness. It said it would not come to me again, but it suddenly came back to me with the so-called another future.”

  ”Of course I rejected it, and it left disappointed… But think about it carefully, that may actually be the last chance to get history back on the right track.”

  ”Perhaps, I die at the right time, which is the best ending-”

  ”I can’t agree with this statement.”

  Chu Guang shook his head and said without thinking.

  ”History cannot always move forward at the pace we imagine. You cannot represent the truth, nor can I. A pair of eyes floating in the void cannot represent it either.”

  ”Besides, if it really could represent the truth, it would not be me standing here now, but someone else in its prophecy.”

  Chu Guang could actually understand the professor’s deep-seated self-blame.

  Although, as he said, no one would blame the Wasteland Era on the “Father of the Prosperous Era”, just as no one would blame Li Shimin for the An-Shi Rebellion, and no one would blame Watt, who invented the steam engine, for World War II.

  Each generation has its own affairs, and even the same person plays different roles at different stages of life.

  At most, future generations would blame themselves for failing to live up to the professor’s expectations and failing to continue the Prosperous Era he created.

  However, it was obvious that the Observer not only revealed another future to him, but also spoiled the Wasteland Era and the dozens of millennia that followed, letting him know the cause and effect that he could not have known before –

  including that the Wasteland Era was a foregone conclusion.

  Even if you build more shelters, you can’t save everyone, and you can’t change the end of human civilization turning into dust.

  And all this is because of you…

  Although no one will blame him for this, he still can’t get over it in his heart.

  In fact, he spent the rest of his life preparing for the disaster predicted by the Observer.

  Including the construction of shelters.

  Including the black box of the Ark Project.

  Even including the establishment of the “Academy” and so on.

  These plans that were laid out as early as the middle of the prosperous era all have the shadow of the professor behind them…

  If you don’t have a strong sense of responsibility, you will never be able to shoulder these irrelevant responsibilities.

  It is worth mentioning that because “the wolf really came”, and it came when everyone believed that the infinitely prosperous utopia would continue, many old popsicles in the wasteland worshiped the professor as a god.

  This includes the chief of the Great Rift Valley, the old riddle man who is like an old charlatan. It

  also includes Dr. Conclusion standing behind the academy, the guy who is said to have transformed into a digital life.

  They don’t know about the void and the observer.

  From their perspective, and even that of all the wastelanders, they would never think that this is a matter of closing the stable door after the sheep have been lost, but rather a farsighted one without a doubt.

  Chu Guang knew all this purely by accident.

  However, his opinion is still the same as before, and nothing will change because of knowing this.

  If humans refuse to move forward because of the downward spiral of fear, they would probably still be in the trees at this time.

  Moreover, they have proved with their actions that their fate is in their own hands, not controlled by the illusory void.

  ”You just said that you don’t know what choice I will make. Now I can tell you that I may not make the same choice as you, but I will make the choice I think is right.”

  The professor standing on the screen was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed out loud in a free and easy manner.

  ”I want to say that you are worthy of it, but I think this statement is a bit strange. Although we are different, we actually made the same choice… What I chose at that time was the choice that I believed to be right from the bottom of my heart.”

  He was indeed full of curiosity about the void and was eager to understand the origin of the universe, but if the price was to give up his human identity and become a pawn of the observer – the so-called “Boundary Breaker”, that was another matter.

  Prevent the heat death of the universe.

  This does sound grand, but what does it have to do with him as a human being?

  In front of that endless cause, the entire galaxy is just a piece of mayfly.

  Perhaps he made different choices in other universes and changed or prevented something in the distant future.

  But at least in this universe, he chose to live as a human.

  With the one he loves.

  Looking at the professor standing on the screen, Chu Guang nodded gently, always feeling that there was something behind his words, as if he had known him a long time ago.

  But there was nothing strange about this.

  Since he had already crossed the membrane of the universe and projected his thoughts to another younger universe, he must have gone through repeated observations and selections before finally choosing himself.

  ”Have you got the things in that relic?”

  It is reasonable to speculate that it should be something used to form a morphogenetic field.

  As he expected, the professor on the screen nodded and said with an approving smile,

  ”Yes, I tried to do some remedial work afterwards, including recovering the remains on Mars… I think you have probably guessed the nature of the morphogenetic field.”

  Chu Guang also nodded.

  ”The resonance of thoughts can penetrate the membrane of the universe and transmit information that both parties agree on. My conclusion is that you should have found your past self, and it is very likely that it is the self who just got the system.”

  ”Smart,” the vague figure snapped his fingers, and the admiration in the looming sight became more and more obvious, “Your understanding is not inferior to mine… The only regret is that you are not good at scientific research.”

  ”I am not interested either. I am only responsible for setting the rules of the game,” Chu Guang said with an indifferent expression, “So what did you get from the ruins?”

  ”Three tubes of potion, representing stronger physical strength, almost unlimited lifespan, and spiritual power. If used properly, it can even change the genetic appearance of the entire human race. However, if used improperly, it may become a curse, such as allowing people who should not live to live too long, such as allowing immature babies to hear too much noise from the void.”

  Just as Chu Guang was listening in a trance, the professor on the screen suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile.

  ”In fact, those things are not important to you. I used that thing as early as the early days of the prosperous era.”

  Chu Guang was stunned.

  ”…Used it all?”

  The professor said with a smile.

  ”I guess so. Although in theory you can only choose one of the three potions to use, mixing different potions may cause genetic contamination, but I thought of a tricky way. I let the monkeys who served as the experimental subjects drink the potion, and then took advantage of the strengths of the three different experimental subjects…including but not limited to letting them reproduce with other female monkeys, and using the method of controlling variables to let their offspring hybridize.”

  This guy didn’t choose to drink it himself?

  Chu Guang’s face was a little surprised.

  He thought he was already “ignorant of the sky and the earth”, but he didn’t expect that there was an even more unaware guy here, who really didn’t take the void seriously at all.

  The professor continued without any surprise at the surprise on Chu Guang’s face.

  ”The results of the experiment are quite amazing, and they also prove my guess. The drug is probably a projection of high-dimensional matter on a three-dimensional surface, or it uses some higher-dimensional technology that we don’t understand, so the arrangement and combination results presented by DNA molecules are extremely complex, like conflicting codes. If these genomes appear in a person at the same time, the person’s body will undoubtedly “report an error”, and this is the so-called genetic pollution.”

  ”So I made a second choice and cut non-conflicting DNA fragments in repeated experiments, and rearranged them with existing technology, and gradually transplanted them into the experimental clones. Although the genotype formed by rearrangement will have a weaker performance effect, it is more stable, and there is no genetic pollution.”

  ”More than that, my research team also made an amazing discovery that as the body and the genome adapt to each other, those “commented out codes” will gradually be correctly expressed in a more stable form!”

  Chu Guang swallowed his saliva.

  ”Even if you die and come back again?”

  ”Yes, at least for clones that only have partial fragments, it is like this. As long as the life evolution process that they have experienced before is recorded through the incubator or scanning device.”

  The professor nodded slightly and continued.

  ”The re-expression of the genome can be completed in the incubator. After all, the life stage of the clone can be defined artificially… By now, you should have realized what the gene sequences of your ‘players’ are.”

  ”I roughly understand. In other words… you have obtained a huge gene library through the analysis of three tubes of medicine, and the gene codes of the players are the result of different ‘fragments’ in different gene libraries under the regular gene arrangement and combination. They are responsible for exploring the stable expression methods of each ‘fragment’.”

  Chu Guang tried to simplify the complex problem and understand it.

  Looking at the professor who nodded in approval, he paused for a moment and continued.

  ”But there is one thing I don’t understand. What is my gene sequence?”

  As if waiting for him to ask this question, the figure on the screen showed a vague smile.

  ”This involves one of the most core secrets of Shelter No. 404… Have you heard of the ‘perfect life form project’?”

  ”Of course I have heard of it…”

  Chu Guang always felt that the pair of eyes staring at him were somewhat meaningful, and a strange feeling gradually arose in his heart.

  Could it be that –

  just when he had almost guessed the answer, the professor standing on the screen revealed the final answer to him.

  ”Your DNA contains all the ‘fragments’ of the gene library, although most of them exist in the form of being commented out.”

  ”This process is actually full of risks. It’s like you have a nuclear bomb tied to your body. If you are not careful, you will be blown to ashes… But who wants you to be the manager? Don’t blame me for being cold-blooded, someone has to take the risk.”

  ”Relatively speaking, the players will take a smaller risk. They only get a small piece of shrapnel, and they are only responsible for dismantling the shrapnel on their hands. In addition to carrying a nuclear bomb, you are also responsible for the collection and integration of information, and dismantling the “nuclear bomb” on your body according to the clues provided by the players… And this is one of the reasons why your ‘sequence level’ is positively correlated with the sequence level and number of players.”

  ”In the entire division of labor and cooperation process, we did refer to the operation mode of the mutant slime mold mother nest, and made a certain degree of improvement on this basis.”

  ”That’s why I told you, you don’t need to care about what I got from the ruins, because I have already used those precious heritages on you.”

  ”And you are the ‘perfect life form’!”

  (End of this chapter)