Chapter 1,263 Hidden Worries Hundreds of Thousands of Kilometers Away

My neighbor is gone.

Before leaving, he left the key with me.

Now I am the last Gaia, guarding the tomb of our civilization.

When I die, our civilization ends.

There is still a "Flower of Memory" in my hand, and its energy is running low, but I think maybe I can leave something for myself...

Perhaps latecomers will be confused as to why we went from prosperity to destruction.

I myself have thought about this problem countless times, and it wasn’t until I held this last flower of memory in my hands that I understood the problem.

It is not disaster that destroys our civilization, but despair.

When the end of the world comes, hundreds of millions of our compatriots will die in front of us.

Some die from the disaster itself, but more often die from our vulnerability in the face of disaster.

We have considered thousands of plans, including immigrating to the chaotic earth, and flying to farther galaxies to continue our civilization. I believe that we can survive in the unknown land, but in the end we chose to leave ourselves a decent tombstone.

Surprisingly, I felt a little relieved about this ending.

Maybe I still have some regrets, no longer able to smell that wonderful fragrance, no longer able to feel the intoxicating spiritual rhythm... But this is only a regret for the three thousand Martian days I have left, not for our civilization itself .

Our civilization has no regrets.

Maybe this ending is not bad?

At the last moment, we chose the most democratic vote to decide our own destiny.

This is probably the fairest vote we have ever taken.

But the results were as expected.

Everyone chose to stay.

We placed the keys on the spacecraft and watched it fly away.

Ironically, we have never placed our hope in the cold starry sky.

At this moment, we are imagining that one day there will be creatures passing by and writing our stories in another language...

…

"Like a poem."

Seeing this, Jiang Chen made a comment.

"The popular narrative method of Gaia civilization is not in the form of words, but direct spiritual communication. I believe you have experienced that feeling. It is not easy to describe it in words. I just copied it based on my impressions. ," Amos shrugged, "But the most important part is not the beginning. Later he also mentioned about the ruins."

About the ruins?

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, looked at Amos and asked.

"What's up?"

"Their ruins are divided into three parts. One part is the living area, which is the part you see. The key can open the second part, which is the database. The data inside is stored in something called the 'Flower of Memory' In the stuff.”

Having said this, Amos's face showed a rare hint of longing.

"If I'm not wrong, that kind of thing should be the kind of thing we encountered! It can directly connect with a person's spirit, and then input the knowledge stored in it directly into a person's brain! God... I dare It is asserted that once this thing is unearthed, scientists all over the world will go crazy!"

Transmit knowledge directly using the spirit?

Jiang Chen's eyes flashed with shock.

Can you still play like this?

It's not that he hasn't seen similar things before. For example, the virtual reality learning system that is already in disuse in the apocalypse can also achieve rapid literacy. However, the mechanism of this system is only to extend the time in the virtual reality system, allowing users to experience a deep sleep state of 2 hours or more in 1 hour of real time.

In this state, people's ability to accept knowledge will be accelerated, and the load on the brain will be minimized...

However, even with this method of learning, there is a major premise, that is, people must spend energy to learn.

But according to Dr. Amos's description, this flower of memory has simply completely abandoned the learning process of knowledge, but is a more thorough indoctrination, probably similar to the initiation or transfer of skills in martial arts and immortals... Martial arts too low? It doesn’t matter, I’ll pass on tens of thousands of years of skill to you!

"You mean, that flower of memory can turn an idiot into a scientist?"

"This is too exaggerated. Even if ordinary people have mastered those memories, it is useless if they cannot digest them. But if a scholar with a certain foundation, or at least a person with scientific thinking, is allowed to touch the flower of memory, he will not be able to digest it at all. There is no doubt that he will become the most knowledgeable person in the world! Because he will inherit the knowledge of a high civilization! Even if it is only part of it!" Looking at Jiang Chen, Amos' eyes filled with fanaticism, "So I said, this thing Once the baby is unearthed, scientists all over the world will go crazy!"

No physical object can withstand the baptism of more than three billion years. Maybe hadron material can, but after all, there is only one. Therefore, the Gaia civilization chose to store all the memories of its own civilization in the Flower of Memory, not using any physical objects as carriers, but using the spirit of the living thing itself as the carrier.

But as a result, Jiang Chen had new confusion in his heart.

So what is the flower of memory?

Why can it exist for more than three billion years?

Perhaps this question can only be answered when the ruins are revealed again.

After coming back from his thoughts, Jiang Chen met the eyes of the enthusiastic Amos. He immediately understood something and said with a smile.

"Don't worry, after the ruins are unearthed, you will definitely have a share of those things."

Jiang Chen patted his shoulder and responded to the expectation and enthusiasm, and said with a smile.

Amos cast a grateful look at Jiang Chen.

"Thank you, I really don't know how to thank you."

"No need to thank me, your contribution to the Future People Group deserves this reward." Jiang Chen said with a smile.

Judging from the Gaia civilization's description of the flower of memory, there must be more than one. After all, it is the heritage of a civilization, and it cannot be inherited by one person, not to mention that one person's brain cannot hold so many things.

After all, it is technology from a civilization that can dig through the earth's core, so there is no doubt about its advanced nature. Although not all technologies are necessarily useful to humans, sharing even the tip of the iceberg is enough to put an unknown scientist at the top of the field.

This thing cannot be made easier for outsiders. Jiang Chen has no intention of making this matter public.

As an outstanding researcher of the Future People Group, he is naturally indispensable for this flower of memory.

"By the way, you said that the ruins are divided into three parts. What is the third part?" Jiang Chen continued to ask.

"The third part is the specimen library." Amos replied in a positive tone.

"Specimen library?" Jiang Chen frowned.

"That's right, and it's a specimen library that was damaged in an unknown year," Amos nodded. "If my guess is correct, the devil bug we encountered on Mars came from the specimen library." ran out. In addition, according to the record of that memory, in response to the doomsday crisis, researchers of the Gaia civilization synthesized an oxygen-generating fungus that can grow in extreme environments, but for unknown reasons Because of this, the project was never completed."

"In other words, the oxygen-generating fungal specimens we found on Mars are..."

"Maybe it's an unfinished product. Of course, this is just my guess," Amos shrugged. "It has been in disrepair for a long time. The spores of oxygen-producing bacteria spread from the specimen library to the outside world and adapted to Mars during hundreds of millions of years of evolution. The atmospheric environment. Later, species such as devil bugs also ended their dormancy and left the damaged specimen library to form the current underground ecosystem of Mars."

"...In other words." A bad thought suddenly appeared in Jiang Chen's mind.

"I'm afraid it's not just devil bugs or oxygen-generating fungi, there are many things we have never seen before," Dr. Amos said after taking a deep breath. "Actually, I used to find it strange that the ecology of a food chain How lucky is the system to be able to maintain it for hundreds of millions or even billions of years?"