Urban Sims

In reality, mid-January arrives soon after the New Year arrives.

Luo Aixing in the copy "Legend of the Galaxy" is already over 960 years old.

This is about to reach a four-digit lifespan. If those intelligent creatures whose lifespan is only one-tenth of that are informed, two words will definitely pop up in their minds:

monster.

If you are a little more rude, you may be "old and immortal".

Thanks to the advanced medical technology, the Blue Star Federation, which has entered the interstellar era, not only has the average life span of people exceeding 1,000 years, but also can make people look immortal and stay young forever.

You can even achieve immortality...as long as you have money.

But even in the Blue Star Federation, which has many good conditions and has entered the interstellar era for 2,500 years, the average life expectancy has only increased by more than 200 years in these two thousand years.

In recent years, due to the increase in the proportion of the poor population, the average life expectancy has even declined slightly.

Regardless of whether you live a long life or a short life, whether you have money or not, people will eventually die.

Even the star that never burns out will burn out one day.

Nothing in the universe, no form of life, can escape the cycle of life and death.

1,000 years is almost the upper limit of human lifespan. The number of people who live beyond this upper limit is no more than one in 10,000... no matter how advanced the medical technology is.

Why?

The increasing memory burden and "zombie syndrome" caused by nerve blockage are the main reasons for this situation.

There are also various mental illnesses and criminal incidents caused by emotional backlog and mental imbalance, which are also another common inducement for individuals to die.

Like computers, the information capacity of the human brain also has an upper limit. Even if your brain development reaches 100%, in 1,000 years, you will learn too much knowledge, experience stories, and increase your experience. So much, so much that the brain can’t hold it anymore.

Eventually, symptoms such as memory loss, mild Alzheimer's disease, and brain atrophy appear.

For example, Luo Aixing now suffers from moderate "zombie syndrome". In daily life, she always forgets everything that happened a few days ago.

Mental illness is even more frightening and even devastating.

Because no one's life is absolutely smooth sailing and everything goes as planned. Over the long years, everyone will experience pain and regret, and leave unforgettable memories.

For example, an unforgettable first love, a lover who has a deep relationship but has to break up, an opponent who can never be defeated, a dream that is difficult to realize... These things will become the "demon" in many people's hearts, a demon that is difficult to eliminate.

Coupled with a long life, those with "demon" in their hearts will often use this time to do destructive and jaw-dropping things.

Take Polyghix as an example. In the past 100 years, there have been a total of 47 terrorist attacks, resulting in more than 100 deaths.

It's all the work of patients with "inner demons".

Among these patients, some of them killed their beloved girlfriend and their entire family decades later because they cheated on her.

There are also those with a strong competitive spirit who, in despair, choose to die together because they cannot defeat their fateful opponent.

There are also those who are misanthropic, those who are angry about all kinds of injustices, and those who simply want to prove their inferiority... Most of these people have become terrorists or clowns who attract people's attention, creating countless big news.

The creativity of time is great, but its destructive power is also huge.

Since living a long life is not good, what should we do to reduce the destructive power of time?

There are two main ways.

One, a memory bank.

Two, frozen dormancy.

The so-called memory bank uses a medical method to extract the memories from the human brain, store them in the computer chip, and then clear all the memories in the brain. It is the same as formatting a computer hard drive. This kind of surgery is done After the treatment, not only the severe "zombie syndrome" can be cured, but also the serious mental illness will disappear without a trace.

Even the original personality and nature have disappeared, completely like a blank sheet of paper.

This kind of treatment is called "rebirth treatment".

In fact, there is almost no difference between this and dying.

If Luo Aixing does "rebirth treatment", the system will automatically exit the game and end the experience.

The second method of freezing dormancy is that scientists have discovered that in a state of low-temperature freezing, the human brain will experience a slow loss of information (that is, amnesia). The longer the freezing time, the more information will be lost. This is In the past, it was considered a negative phenomenon and was not conducive to the interstellar development of explorers.

But it is good news for patients with zombie diseases. They just need to abandon some of the memories in their brains that are unbearable. And cryo-sleep is not like rebirth treatment, which requires the entire brain to be formatted and a considerable part of the memory. , will still be preserved, and the personality and nature will also be preserved.

Therefore, many more people choose cryo-sleep therapy than rebirth therapy.

Naturally, if Luo Aixing chooses "freeze sleep", the system will automatically exit the game and end the experience.

In fact, with the Blue Star Federation's medical development level, in addition to rebirth therapy and cryo-sleep, there are countless eccentric methods to treat "zombie syndrome" and "inner demon syndrome", which can alleviate or cure these two symptoms, such as " "Drugs and hallucinogenic therapy", computers and memory chips embedded in the human brain, or "biochemical therapy" that enlarges an individual's body ten times, etc... These therapies have some side effects, but the memory can be completely preserved, which is called a perfect therapy.

However, these treatments are all classified as illegal by the Blue Star Federation and are resolutely cracked down on, with very severe penalties.

"Little Aixing, do you want to store your memories in a memory bank, or go to a hibernation company for cryo-sleep treatment?"

On this day, when Luo Aixing's zombie disease was getting worse, Zhou Ming asked in his mind.

After a delay of four or five seconds, Zhou Ming heard his answer: "I want to receive rebirth treatment and store my memories in the memory bank."

Rebirth treatment?

Zhou Ming was stunned, a little surprised by his choice, and asked in confusion: "Why not choose a hibernation company? Wouldn't cryo-hibernation be better? You can still retain your nature and personality."

Luo Aixing shook her head in pain and said: "No, this memory is too heavy and painful. I don't want to carry it anymore. Only by rebirth can I say goodbye to this pain completely."

"Well, what about your wife and your family? Do they support you doing this?"

"They didn't object, and my wife also supported me. She also hoped to be reborn with me and live together for another thousand years in the next life."

"You have an enviable wife, but one thing I want to tell you is that if you are reborn, the grandpa in your mind will disappear, and there will be no grandpa in your next life. .”

"Grandpa, are you leaving?"

Luo Aixing was stunned for a moment, then smiled freely: "There is nothing in life that cannot be left behind, right? Grandpa, you have helped me so much over the years. Thank you very much."

"Haha, little Aixing, you have become like a grandpa now."

"No, my grandchildren are now more than 20 generations old. Ten mineral asteroids are not enough for them to share."

"Haha, in that case, I should call you Lao Aixing..."

…

after one day.

"Ding~"

"The soul information of the game character has been cleared and is exiting the game..."

Open the game panel and check the game rating——

Mission Map: "Galactic Legend"

Game status: ended

Game character: Luo Aixing

Property: 2987101 (Luo Aixing owns a medium-sized mining company and has a small fortune)

Status: 39 (Luo Aixing’s property and family give him the right to vote in the election of the Planet Yuanzhi [*500])

Reputation: 5241015 (Luo Aixing was once popular throughout the Federation, but now he only leaves an ancient legend and a handful of musical masterpieces in the music world)

Partner: 1 (Luo Aixing has a perfect wife, and they live happily throughout their lives [+5000])

Descendants: 1890821 (Luo Aixing’s genetic genes were collected by the paparazzi. His descendants are far more than what is shown on paper [*1])

Lifespan: 991 (the lifespan of this soul exceeds 89% of people)

Achievements obtained: 10144428

Game evaluation: C (Time can kill everything and make people forget everything, but the wealth left behind is still considerable)

Maximum achievement: 10144428 (reach 100 billion achievement points to open the next level)

Zhou Ming was quite surprised to see the letter C after the game review.

"I didn't expect there would be a C-level rating. I thought it would be a D or E..."

"The difficulty of this dungeon seems to have also dropped. You can pass it when you reach 100 billion points. It's much less than I expected. It's not very difficult. I estimate that I can pass it directly in the next game."

In addition, there are a lot of information storage items brought out from this copy, which in reality can be said to be a huge wealth of technology, literature, music, games, film and television, etc., which makes Zhou Ming feel that this Except for the regret that I didn’t clear the game, in other aspects, it was full of rewards.

Needless to say, there is a lot of technological information. Even though Luo Aixing collects mostly free technologies for civilian use, they are still hundreds of years ahead of the technologies in the copy of "Empire of Money" and are of huge value.

What I collect more is a massive amount of cultural and entertainment works.

For example, there are hundreds of millions of online novels, tens of millions of pieces of music, millions of movies, tens of thousands of games, and countless TV series, documentaries, animations and variety shows (all of which are high-quality)… stored in various high-end databases. Technology equipment, such as handheld readers, nano concert halls, handheld theaters, handheld game consoles, etc., are filled with thousands of embodied treasure boxes.

Such a massive amount of spiritual food is enough for Zhou Ming to build a huge entertainment empire.

However, Zhou Ming doesn't want to be too high-profile yet, and he doesn't have that much time to be busy with these things, so in addition to copying a few more novels, he plans to enjoy most of the spiritual food by himself when he has more free time.

Oh, and there’s the artificial intelligence Minamoto, which she’ll definitely love too.

Thank you readers for your support and tips!