Chapter 7 Life and Energy

Regarding life and energy, the maintenance of life depends on the absorption and consumption of energy. With energy, life can continue. Without energy, life will stop. This applies to everything, not only life.

Time itself does not seem to exist. It is just the process of the emergence and disappearance of energy. In the vast universe, the exploration and application of energy of the planet by life on the planet is civilization. The higher the application level, the higher the level of civilization.

Human beings' use of resources and energy on the earth is only a zero-level second-order civilization. There are many main reasons for the backwardness of civilization. The most critical one is the lack of energy of the mother planet and the insufficient development and application of life civilization.

[Nebula Power] is the key force for all life to advance to civilization. The advancement of all life civilization in the universe cannot be separated from this energy.

There are only two ways for the emergence of nebula power. One is the natural formation of energy on the planet. When the energy of a planet is very strong, these energies will automatically accumulate. When they reach a certain volume, they will form nebula power. Such nebula power will attach to other objects, waiting to be activated and developed by certain life forms. However, high-energy planets are very rare, so the natural formation of nebula power is very small.

The other is that life forms collect energy by themselves, using some very advanced containers to collect energy. After reaching a certain volume, the collected energy can also form nebula power in the container. There are also some special life forms that can use their own bodies as containers, collect energy in the body and form nebula power after reaching a certain volume, but life forms that can reach this physique are very rare.

As far as the earth is concerned, it is far from possible to collect energy to form nebula power, because the earth is a planet with extremely scarce energy. Even if all the energy of the entire earth is collected together, there will not be much nebula power. Moreover, humans cannot make such a collection container, and human physique is not enough to collect so much energy.

Simply put, if the volume of energy reaches 10,000, then the 10,000 energy will automatically convert units and become a nebula force. Life can store and absorb 1,000 energies, but cannot store and absorb 10,000 energies. However, a converted nebula force can be directly stored and absorbed.

The life and technology on Earth are not enough to collect a nebula force, which is why the most intelligent life civilization on Earth is only level 0 and level 2.

The first-level civilization is divided into nine levels. Higher civilizations will not go to places with lower-level civilizations because that does not help to advance. However, the higher the civilization advances to a certain height, the greater the risk of continuing to advance, because every advancement may fail.

There will be many consequences after failure, the most serious of which is [nebula shattering].

Li Ming learned from his own information that the soft thing that fell from the sky on the night he watched the meteor shower was a life of a higher civilization that failed in advancement, causing the nebula to shatter, and the broken nebula fragments fell to the earth.

The broken nebula fragments will float in the universe with the consciousness of the original life form and part of the nebula power, until the nebula power is exhausted and the life consciousness disappears completely.

If the broken nebula fragments can reach a new life form with the original life consciousness, the consciousness can be reborn after the life form obtains energy. Of course, there are two other possibilities. One is that when encountering a high-level civilization, the nebula fragments are directly swallowed up, and the nebula power in them is absorbed, causing the nebula fragments and the consciousness in them to die directly. The other is that this consciousness coexists with the parasitic life form or is absorbed by the parasitic life form.

The nebula fragment that Li Ming devoured was a nebula fragment of an advanced alien civilization with its consciousness. Li Ming learned from the text recorded in those memory fragments that this alien civilization life was called [Harris]. After entering Li Ming's body, it only had a nebula force left, and this nebula force was also directly absorbed by Li Ming, causing Li Ming to advance from a level 0 second-order civilization life to a level 0 third-order civilization life. However, Li Ming, a low-level civilization, only absorbed the nebula force, and the other party's consciousness was not devoured, so it temporarily became a coexistence.

Li Ming, a third-order civilization, will reach the limit of speed, five senses, and strength, which is a height that humans cannot reach!

After the civilization level is advanced, it needs to be activated. When the energy obtained from the outside world reaches the limit of the body, the advanced level can be activated.

As far as human physique is concerned, it is absolutely impossible to activate the energy required by the third-level civilization with the meager energy in food. Li Ming relied on the addition of the nebula power in his body to eat so many sweets but still could not meet the energy needs. However, Li Ming successfully activated the life of the third-level civilization through the energy of electric current in the mall.

But there is another life consciousness in Li Ming's body, that is Harris.

Through the information sorted out, Li Ming learned that in addition to Harris, there were more than a dozen other broken nebulae of advanced civilizations that fell on the earth at the same time. Although these arrived on the earth with Harris, it was just a coincidence. However, since they are nebula fragments of advanced civilizations, they must have a certain amount of nebula power. As long as they are found and their nebula power is seized, Li Ming and Harris will have the possibility to continue to advance.

This naturally made Li Ming understand some truths. Those meteors that passed through the earth were not necessarily all meteors, but also could be fragments of this kind of nebula.

Of course, after the nebula was broken, most of the nebula fragments would fall to lifeless planets and slowly die there. Even if they fell to a planet with many lives like the earth, they might not be able to parasitize successfully, because the choice of host is also particularly important. If it is not human, but other animals, it would be very dangerous, basically no different from slowly dying.

For Harris and Li Ming, both of them were lucky. As a human, Li Ming was the most perfect host on this planet. Harris gave Li Ming the power of the nebula, which enabled Li Ming to advance to a higher civilization than humans.

There is also some information about the earth, because the earth is not friendly to the life of higher civilizations. Harris has fully mastered the relationship between the earth and the life of higher civilizations through Li Ming's mobile phone.

Harris can be very thankful for the fact that the highest civilized life on Earth is human, because after the nebula fragments fall to Earth, they must quickly find new life to parasitize consciousness. It is naturally very lucky to be able to parasitize consciousness on the most advanced life on this planet.

In addition, the energy of the Earth is extremely scarce and not suitable for the survival of life in high-level civilizations, because life in high-level civilizations requires sufficient energy supply, which is difficult to meet on Earth.

Finally, there is the "poison gas" on Earth, oxygen. Except for very few metals, all substances and life cannot escape oxidation, aging and death. In high-level civilizations, life is mainly based on higher energy, but on Earth, although all organisms rely on oxygen, they are also oxidized by oxygen.

Compared with the messy information in his mind, the above is just the tip of the iceberg that Li Ming has pieced together, but knowing this is enough. It is not that Li Ming has no desire for knowledge, but that a lot of information is still too complicated. Just this content, Li Ming has been busy for a whole day, and it took a lot of effort to barely interpret it, and he doesn't even know whether his interpretation is correct.

Moreover, Li Ming had to continue to watch the contents he had recorded repeatedly. Whether these contents were true or not, Li Ming naturally had to verify them.

"Level 3 civilization?" Li Ming raised his head and muttered to himself silently.

Putting down the thick stack of papers in his hand, Li Ming came to the window and looked at the night sky outside. Li Ming suddenly smiled slightly.

Returning to his bedroom, changing into a formal suit, and taking his mobile phone, Li Ming planned to go out for a walk to verify his strength of level 3 civilization. However, as soon as he picked up the phone, the screen lit up and a ringtone rang. It was a call.

Caller note: Meng Lianyi.

This was a female colleague of Li Ming's previous company and Li Ming's only friend. The reason why they became friends was mainly because of their common hobby, astronomy.

Both of them were astronomy enthusiasts. In addition to work, the more topics between the two were about the vast universe and the starry sky. However, there was not much contact between the two. They only notified and shared each other when there were celestial phenomena such as meteor showers or meteors.

Li Ming answered the phone, and a voice came from the other end: "Li Ming, where are you?"

The voice was slow and soft, not normal at all, and it sounded like he was drunk.

"Come and have a drink with me, next to the company, the old place... You must come." I could already feel that the other party seemed to have drunk a lot of wine through the phone, but before Li Ming could answer, the other party had hung up.

Li Ming hesitated for a while looking at the hung up phone. Go? Or not? She has a boyfriend, why is she looking for me? Although I know her, I'm not that familiar with her.