Resurrection Empire

Through the information explained by the old popsicles, Ren Zhong knew that human beings had been developing in the prosperous star region for tens of millions of years.

But it is obvious that both the Mechanical Empire and the other three major forces have hit the most desperate technological wall in the Great Filter of Civilization.

The four human beings who took different routes were all locked in a cage by this invisible wall.

If not, the war between the four star nations should have had a winner long ago.

This wall exists objectively, but the reason for its existence is unknown.

It may be that the upper limit of the wisdom of human carbon-based life is destined to stop here.

It is also possible that the material resources of this starry sky limit the height of science from a material perspective.

It may also be that the physical rules represented by the icosahedron pattern in the positron cloud have locked the limits of what human scientists can observe at the microscopic level, or the same reason has caused humans to lose their true chaotic thinking, and thus lose the ability to break through the technological blockade. inspiration.

Yes, after Ren Zhong found out from Ma Xiacheng and the old popsicles in front of him that the average life span of humans in the empire was only sixty-two years old, he had already determined that the territory of the empire must also be covered by the regular icosahedron rules. among.

Now he just verified his suspicion again.

Analyzing it from another angle, Ren Zhong assumes that he is a higher-level cosmic life that secretly enslaves all humans, and then looks down on humans from a high position.

Ren Zhong suddenly discovered some secrets in a shocking way.

Some objective facts that he would be in this mountain as a human being, and it is difficult to jump out of the well to see, are the purely instrumental attributes of human beings.

Ren Zhong has never had contact with aliens.

But understanding it from a biological perspective, Ren Zhong speculates that in the eyes of higher-order cosmic beings, humans are likely to have strong adaptability and reproductive capabilities, as well as strong enough subjective initiative. Moreover, when human productivity reaches certain standards, it can continue to rapidly expand the population, and has the instinct to continuously expand externally and collect more resources.

Imagine that this perspective is similar to how people view ants.

If humans master the technology of manipulating ants, they will immediately turn ants into miners, using ants to complete a large number of boring tasks such as sorting and resource collection, just like the ancient professional beekeepers.

In the same way, if there is some kind of alien life that discovers humans.

This alien life can even manipulate the underlying physical rules at some levels, and can also secretly control human society, driving humans to engage in some boring jobs that this alien life disdains, but is equally important. Then this alien life must be very happy.

This job is to calculate the hash value of the universe.

The so-called universal hash value is not a conventionally understood blockchain term. It is a broad and general title based on humankind's vision of obtaining a unified calculation formula for the universe. It is not a simple string of codes with encryption characteristics, but a set of countless constants in an extremely large calculation formula.

In the scientific system of "ancient" humans, humans have been superstitious about constant parameters for a long time.

For example, the calculation of tail velocity in free fall is equal to time multiplied by gravity acceleration, and the formula is v=tg. This g is the acceleration of gravity, and the tail speed is the number of seconds of time multiplied by 9.80665...m/second squared.

By infinitely complicating similar calculation formulas and adding variables one after another, scientists gradually weave an extremely large formula, and attempt to use this mathematical formula to summarize all energy changes, energy transfer, star evolution, and planets in the universe. Phenomena such as evolution, birth, aging, illness and death of life, transfer and movement of matter, etc.

Scientists hope that any phenomenon, whether microscopic or macroscopic, can be incorporated into this formula for accurate calculations.

In the process of continuous advancement, with the help of amazingly talented scientists, humans have indeed figured out the variables one after another, added them, corrected them, and then started calculations.

Humanity once mistakenly thought that it had succeeded, but after the four major forces used their own supercomputing methods to conduct simulations and calculations, they still found that there were errors in the constants in the formula.

In theoretical experiments, even if it is just the simplest thermal energy diffusion movement, as long as the running time continues to extend and the circulation of heat exceeds a certain number of times, energy imbalance will occur, which will cause the system to collapse.

As a result, scientists can only derive more precise constants.

During this process, some biologists began to discover the mysteries of the human body itself, and were even more "surprised" to discover that the human brain is already doing similar calculations all the time.

It’s just that there was no data transmission capability before, and no one could decipher the meaning of the ultra-micro brain wave signals that the human brain releases every moment. They thought these ultra-micro brain waves were “white noise of thinking” and ignored them. .

Biologists and theoretical physicists joined forces and finally combined the ultra-micro brain waves released by the human brain with the grand unified formula constant.

This is great. With the support of the ultra-micro brainwave signals of countless people, the decimal points of each constant in the number set began to extend backwards.

After obtaining higher accuracy, the scientists found that the duration of the verification was indeed lengthened, and the number of energy cycles that the calculation formula could support increased, indicating progress.

The process of human derivation of this set of numbers looks very similar to Bitcoin mining.

Under such a system, different human brains perform distributed operations from their own perspectives.

Every person and every active human brain is an independent mining machine, working in the same mining area day after day, year after year, each performing parallel operations.

Then, the huge information network aggregates the calculation results into the imperial supercomputer for verification, which is also somewhat similar to the final packaging stage of blockchain mining.

Scientists from the Mechanical Empire believe that when one day they find a set of numbers that can support the cyclic experiment to continue indefinitely, the standard value of these sets will be calculated, and when the mining pool is emptied, humans will leave. When we reach the end of theoretical research, we will naturally obtain the grand unified formula and master the real mysteries of the universe.

In the process of exploring this truth, humans gradually split into four routes due to different choices of direction, but the final direction is the same.

As for how to divide the calculation progress from 90% to 99% and then to 99.999%, it relies on simulation calculations.

The computing power carrier for simulation calculations was not made by humans themselves, but a "cosmic wonder" discovered by humans in the universe by chance.

In the words of some nobles in the Mechanical Empire, this is mankind's "luck."

In the middle of the junction of the star areas ruled by the Mechanical Empire, the Ascendants, the Pilgrims and the Psychic Demons, there is a strange star area.

There is a wonderful quasar in this star region.

If humans emit energy to such stars at a specific frequency, it is equivalent to writing information to a computer.

Such stars will perform rapid calculations, feedback information to humans, and give calculation results.

It is like a huge super quantum computer.

Scientists from the Mechanical Empire have estimated that the computing power of this naturally occurring quasar is infinitely greater than the sum of all supercomputers and "networks" held by humans.

Using such stars for simulation calculations can greatly speed up the process of human exploration of the grand unified formula.

The Mechanical Empire calls this type of star the Imperial Supercomputer.

The Ascendants refer to such stars as the origins of life.

Pilgrims called such stars the scientific endpoints.

Psychic demons refer to such stars as cosmic consciousness aggregates.

In short, the discovery of such stars has made up for the last shortcoming in mankind's ability to explore the essential mysteries of the universe.

The four branches of humanity divided the rights to use such stars, and a protracted war broke out over the rights to use them.

In addition to the territory they each control, what the war is competing for is more about the duration of use of the quasar.

This is the truth hidden on a larger level.

Of course, Ren Zhong still doesn't think this is the truth.

No matter which branch of classification they are, when they believe from the beginning that they really originated from the Source Star and live in a cosmic space with regular icosahedral rules from the beginning, then they will always be fish in the water and cannot jump. go out.

Without external interference, mankind's fate of eternal slavery has been doomed.

But Ren Zhong believed that he himself was the "external force".

Even if most of these "descendants" committed heinous crimes, they are still his "descendants" after all.

As the "ancestor" of mankind, Ren Zhong feels that he must be the savior from the rift in time and space.

Because humanity has nothing else to hope for.

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Focusing their vision back on the current source star, the nine frozen elders stretched the real thousand-year history into a false ten thousand years in the cognition of high-level citizens, and burned fake memories through their minds, writing a history of lies. The purpose of hiding the fact that everyone is actually derived from frozen embryos thousands of years ago is really just to make the whole thing more acceptable to the senses.

In this way, no matter whether they are citizens or deserters, although they clearly live the life of tool men, at least it is not made clear that there is still a psychological step to go down.

Maybe, before Ren Zhong arrived, the old popsicles had experienced the pleasure of creating gods when they occasionally woke up and looked down at the world.

Of course, now these "Creation Gods" have been completely defeated by Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong's eyes drifted to the blood-stained cloth covering the ground.

The owner of this cloth is the "dead" founder of Tianlong Hi-Tech. Countless pieces of flesh and blood were scattered near the cloth.

At this time, there was a very small life support device hidden under the cloth.

This life support device opens a thin polymer material membrane, protects a piece of human brain inside, and accurately controls the life support system, injecting into the membrane the same tissue fluid as the tissue fluid in the human brain cavity. liquid.

Yes, the founder of Tianlong Hi-Tech is not completely dead. At least his brain is still alive, and there is still hope of resurrection.

Moreover, the founder still heard Ren Zhong's words with the help of the microbial electrical signals of the life support device, and was also able to communicate with the brainwave synchronization system inside and outside the life support device.

One of the seven data packets that Ren Zhong received telling the truth about the history of the Machinery Empire and Origin Star came from the founder of Tianlong Hi-Tech who was still dead.

After reading this, Ren Zhong turned his attention to the data package given by Ying Feng and Ma Zhongfei, the ancestor of the Ma family.

Although the secrets provided by the other seven people are also the best secrets, they are still inferior to these two.

Let’s talk about Ma Zhongfei first. Perhaps it’s because this person was originally engaged in computer and information network work. He has dealt with the “net” the most and has the most frequent contacts.

In Ma Zhongfei's heart, there is another thing whose value is basically the same as the "truth".

At the same time, this thing is a bit tasteless.

It is the identification code of "net"!

According to Ma Zhongfei's description, if the correct identification code can be entered into the "net", the so-called master recognition process can be completed.

After all, the "net" is not an ordinary artificial intelligence computer.

Its computing power is so powerful that it can even simulate human emotional changes to a certain extent.

Therefore, in a sense, "net" has its own initiative.

When "Net" compiled a 176-bit password for the nine old popsicles, it once expressed its views on the limitations of human thinking, which is evidence that it has independent consciousness.

If you don't "recognize" it and gain absolute control over it, you may even suffer backlash and betrayal from it.

Before leaving the source star in front of the empire, the nine of them jointly entered the identification code of the "Net" under the guidance of the empire's senior officials and obtained the highest control of the "Net".

Yes, you need to work together to enter the identification code, because each of these nine people controls an independent section.

This is the double insurance set up by the empire's top leaders to prevent the nine people from killing each other and affecting the progress of the mission.

Originally, Ma Zhongfei didn't want to mention this, but considering that the founder of Tianlong Hi-Tech was dead, even if Ren Zhong knew the secret, he would never be able to get the complete identification code, he simply mentioned it in order to improve his chances of survival. .

Ying Feng's side is even more interesting.

Ying Feng, who was in the worst situation and could barely concentrate, came up with something more important than the "Net" control identification code, called the Apostle Code.

At the beginning, when the empire dispatched them, they also considered that if the mainland was completely defeated, they might one day need to use the source star galaxy as a springboard to plunge into the endless deep space, far away from the entire elliptical galaxy. The possibility of escape by heading straight to the next star system.

Therefore, the empire left a set of apostle codes to every staff member in the seeker spacecraft that went out.

As long as a human appears in front of the Nine or "Net" with the apostle code and completes the code verification, then this person must be an apostle from the Machinery Empire.

The apostle's position is parallel to the nine staff members and enjoys wartime command and supervisory powers.

This means that if Ren Zhong obtains the complete apostle code and confronts the nine old popsicles with the code, then Ren Zhong will be the "true" apostle of the empire.

This thing is even more deadly than the "net" identification code.

What prompted Ying Feng to come up with the apostle code was also the "death of the founder of Tianlong Hi-Tech."

Because the apostolic code is also divided into nine parts, one for each person. In order to survive, Ying Feng also fought hard.

Satisfied, Ren nodded and praised: "Okay, very well done, I'm very satisfied. Then, next, I will interrogate you separately."

Ma Zhongfei next to him asked with a little confidence: "So, who do you want to kill first?"

Ren Zhong grinned, "Guess."