The Secret History of Mars.

Chapter 24 The Truth of the Myth

"When you can freely upload and download all the memories and thoughts in your brain to different bodies, you have achieved a certain sense of immortality. But is this eternal life or eternal rest?" Ye Qinghe said with a wry smile.

"So here are the memories and thoughts of all Martians?" Yuan Yizhou re-examined the rows of smart memories, which looked like a central computer room on Earth. "Then why don't you have a central AI, or something like a super brain?"

"The Elderly House made a choice a long time ago. We don't want our civilization to become a soul that has lost its carrier. The diversification of species is the lowest risk. It is the best chance to survive in this cruel galaxy." Ye Qinghe said slowly , "In other words, we want to quit the role of God and give our own civilization an unknown but evolving future."

"The purple wisdom level is not your god, what is it?" Cui Xingmeng asked.

"Purple is indeed the highest level of wisdom on Mars. Only the neuron connection in the brain, more than 90% of the carrier, can withstand its load. Many elders in our elders' homes are at this level of wisdom," Ye Qinghe explained. "However, to maintain activities at this level for a long time, the carrier produced by its asexual reproduction will spend a lot of time absorbing energy in the nutrition cabin, so many elders finally chose to return to chaos and no longer download their souls to Any carrier, but to store wisdom here for the reference of the current elders."

"That is to say, the elders of your elders' house are either imprisoned in the nutrition cabin every day, or upload and download their souls every day, or return to chaos and die?" Cui Xingmeng said sympathetically, "Is there no other way? ?”

Ye Qinghe took a deep look at Yuan Yizhou, did not answer, and thought to himself, "Yuan Yizhou's naturally evolved body, which can carry the purple wisdom level, is the dream of the elders in the elders' house for thousands of years. What will happen to the three elders of the Pioneering School?" Report to the elders' house, and how will the elders' house deal with it?"

Yuan Yizhou ignored Ye Qinghe's gaze, a shadow cast over his deep eyes.

"Qinghe, you said there are all kinds of carriers upstairs?" Cui Xing said as if to adjust the atmosphere in the dream that the two had their own thoughts. "Can we go up and have a look?"

"Come with me." Ye Qinghe continued to go up along the spiral staircase where he came. "The third floor of the Xuanhu Pagoda is the compilation library, which mainly extracts, grades, and compiles the information of the second-layer intelligent library into a format that can be downloaded and recognized by the fourth-layer human-computer interconnection. Our smart customization and confidentiality level setting are also in the It's done here."

As soon as Ye Qinghe finished speaking, the scene of the third floor appeared in front of his eyes. If the air-root-like pipes outside the tower were already very spectacular, then the entire third floor was even more amazing. It came out and flowed into the oval-shaped cabin suspended high and low in the air, and then split into thinner pipes and inserted into the ceiling.

"Your gene bank compiles not only human genes?" Seeing these oval cabins, Yuan Yizhou suddenly remembered that he found Ye Qinghe's pupils after drinking the first cup of Zhuyu Grass Juice in Miemeng Gallery. is elliptical.

"Human genes became popular on Mars in the Shiyi period." Ye Qinghe was not surprised by Yuan Yizhou's question, "In the previous few epochs, the genes of mainstream species were all here, but now the chances of being selected are very low. Less. Otherwise, why do you think Elder Cang Xi has a human head and a snake body in your fairy tales?"

"You said that our myths are not completely fabricated, so what is the truth?" Yuan Yizhou took the opportunity to ask.

"You have so many fairy tales, which one are you specifically asking about?" Ye Qinghe said teasingly.

"Why don't we just talk about Empress Nuwa, five-color stones mending the sky?" Cui Xingmeng most wanted to know what great things Elder Cang Xi, who was of the same origin as himself, did on earth back then.

"That starts with our other Elder Pangu, who has returned to chaos," Ye Qinghe recalled, "He first built the natural environment of the earth laboratory and transformed it into a carbon-based life suitable for survival. climate."

"Pangu is your elder. He is also called Pangu here?" Cui Xingmeng was a little unsure. Why did Empress Nuwa, Human Emperor Fuxi and Shennong Yandi all have Mars names that are different from the names of the earth? Is this Pangu our Pangu?
"Elder Pangu has only had one name. When he returned to Chaos, you humans hadn't appeared on the earth. Naturally, you will only hear the stories passed down by the elders later, and you will not name him yourself." Ye Qinghe said laughingly.

"And then?" Cui Xingmeng was a little embarrassed, and quickly changed the subject.

"After the laboratory was set up, we naturally began to sow seeds." Ye Qinghe continued, "We preserved all species when the climate on Mars began to deteriorate 300 million years ago. Elder Cang Xi became the first designer of the Earth Laboratory, and together with the pioneers of the Presbyterian Academy, she selected the stronger species on Mars and first cultivated them on Earth, such as the dinosaurs you are more familiar with."

"Dinosaurs are also species cultivated by Martians on Earth?!" Cui Xingmeng said in surprise.

"Yes, because the elders of the Pioneering School at that time believed that to be able to inherit the highest wisdom of Mars, one must have a strong enough body. Among many species, dinosaurs have an incomparable advantage." Ye Qinghe explained, " Facts have proved that the choice of the elders is indeed reasonable, the dinosaur quickly became the overlord of the earth in a very short period of time, when Elder Cang Xi began to gradually download the civilization of Mars to the carrier of the dinosaur, an accident happened."

"The asteroid hit the earth, and the dinosaurs became extinct." Yuan Yizhou roughly sorted out the context of that era, and continued.

"Yes, this day's flying accident was completely out of the expectation of Elder Cangxi and the Elder's House. Before Elder Cangxi had time to ask for help from the mother planet, the earth laboratory fell into ruins." Ye Qinghe said regretfully, " Tens of millions of years of meticulous cultivation turned to nothing overnight, and Elder Cang Xi spent a long, long time in seclusion in Yi Ge Lu."

"Elder Cang Xi proposed a brand-new earth experiment plan to the Elder's House after leaving the customs," Ye Qinghe said admiringly, "She summed up the reasons for the extinction of dinosaur species, one of which is that our strategy pays too much attention to the energy of the body Level and strength or not, I want to cultivate a perfect carrier first, and then put the development of wisdom and brain on the agenda, which leads to dinosaurs without any self-protection and resilience when encountering sudden disasters from outside, and can only wait to die .”

"That's why Elder Cangxi suggested that in the new round of earth experiments, the selected species may not have the strongest body, but they must evolve with their own intelligence and brain at the same time, and both are indispensable." Ye Qinghe continued to recall, "This strategy has opened up a new era of earth experiments, allowing mammals with a small body but a large brain to enter the stage of the earth laboratory."

(End of this chapter)