Chapter 1846

"I understand."

Xie an nodded. The little girl who used to have a red apple face, a little bit plump and shy but persistent, has now become a middle-aged lady who is calm, round and full of mature and elegant temperament. The only thing that remains unchanged is the deep faith and worship of Li Yao in her eyes. "This is a problem that many long-term hibernators have to face, It seems that Shifu, like his wife, is becoming a "leap family."

"The leap clan?"

Li Yaowei was stunned and looked at Ding lingdang, "what's that?"

"This is a new concept put forward by senior hibernator GUI wengshou. After passing the" tombstone project "of preserving civilization to Professor Mo Xuan, he has been engaged in this research. Long term hibernation was originally just a means for us to achieve a certain purpose, but it was in Gui wengshou that he regarded" super long term human hibernation "as the purpose itself."

Ding lingdang explained, "like you, I spent most of the past 100 years hibernating, and the total awake time would not exceed 20 years. Every time I come back to the Federation, I feel that things are right and people are wrong.

"For the first time, I missed the wedding of Wu Ma Yan and Xie An'an; The second time, I missed the birth and growth of their children... There are many, many people, many things, all like glittering sands, which quickly passed through my fingers. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch them.

"That kind of feeling, like you said, disappeared out of thin air for decades. We hibernators and normal people live in two different time dimensions, which produces a strange sense of alienation. It's like we didn't make much contribution to the construction of the new Federation, but a beautiful and bright home will come by ourselves. We just need to enjoy its achievements."

"How?"

Xie Anxian said in a hurry, "Shifu and Shiniang have discovered three great worlds together, and the exiled government of the former Xinghai Republic has also made great contributions to the defeat of the imperial expeditionary army. What is no contribution?"

"I know."

Ding lingdang laughed and said, "it's not my modesty, it's just a strange feeling. It's hard for you reptiles who haven't hibernated for a long time to understand.

"In fact, the reason why I want to run for the speaker of the Federal Parliament this time is, on the one hand, to reconcile the relationship between the new four and the old three, and try to maintain the balance between our side and Jin Xinyue's side, but the more important reason is my selfishness - I really want to integrate myself with the new federation more closely in this way, so that I can reintegrate into the current Federation, From the "leap tribe" that I don't know how to say, back to the ordinary "reptile tribe."

Li Yao recognized that Ding lingdang's words contained a trace of very rare melancholy. He became more and more strange: "what are the leaping clan and the creeping clan?"

Ding lingdang drank a full glass of red wine and said: "after a long hibernation, I wandered alone in the sea of stars for a whole hundred years. After returning to the Federation, I felt that I was out of tune with the world around me, so I went to talk with GUI mingshou, who was also a long-term hibernator. He was just doing this research and told me a lot, And sent me several notes.

"The elder GUI said that the universe is a continuum of time and space. In the three-dimensional universe we live in, time and space are continuous, linear and stable. Time goes by second by second, and the meaning of every second is the same. The civilization living in such a continuum of time and space, For example, today's human civilization is a tortoise crawling slowly along the road of time, so it's called "reptile.".

"But in fact, no matter the Pangu and Nuwa people hundreds of thousands of years ago, or today's human civilization, they have found a way to transcend the continuity of space, that is, the sea of stars jumping.

"With the help of wormhole and four-dimensional space, we can transcend the continuity of three-dimensional space, from this point to another point millions of light-years away.

"Since the continuity of space can be transcended, can the continuity of time also be transcended?

"In a sense, of course, it's human hibernation technology.

"Before the invention and maturity of hibernation technology, all intelligent life in our universe were" reptiles ". No matter beggars or emperors, ordinary people or practitioners, every second is a second, and every minute is a minute. At most, by stimulating the brain, we can simulate the illusion of slowing down the passage of time in the virtual world, but that is false, The speed of time in the real world is the same.

"But not for us hibernators.

"Even in the starshine Federation, where this technology has just been invented and is still very simple and inefficient, hibernators like you and me can sleep for hundreds of years at a time. Before we go to sleep and after we open our eyes again, we are faced with two completely different worlds.

"What about those civilizations with more advanced hibernation technology, such as Pangu?

"Li Yao, do you remember the Pangu people you met in the ruins of Kunlun, but they have been sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years!

"Of course, you killed him as soon as he woke up, and he didn't have time to face a completely strange world.

"But let go of your imagination and take the perspective of the Pangu people. Assuming that you have not been killed, how do you face the different world hundreds of thousands of years from now? How do you face the" descendants "who are dancing and shouting at your feet? How do you face the loneliness of no one in the sky?"

Li Yao was stunned and fell into deep thinking.

Ding lingdang said: "senior GUI mingshou believes that with the development of hibernation technology, the damage and loss to hibernators will be less and less, and more and more hibernators will appear. Sooner or later, any civilization mastering this technology will be divided into two parts, the" crawling clan "composed of non hibernators and the" Leaping clan "composed of hibernators.

"The reptilian world is continuous, stable and linear. They use every minute to burn their lives, build their homes and civilizations, and enjoy stable relatives, friends, happiness and all kinds of emotions.

"But for the hibernators who often cross decades or hundreds of years of light and shadow, time is discontinuous, non-linear and fragmented. It's like a mighty river. The flow speed of the river is extremely slow, but some stones are exposed on the river. The hibernator was originally a fish in the river, but once he jumped out of the water and grew wings, With the help of wings and bouncing force, you can quickly move forward and see a brand new world in the river far ahead. Then they are left behind. Everything in the seemingly frozen "River" is gradually stripping its original meaning.

"As you said, just as soon as you open and close your eyes, great changes have taken place in Xingyao Federation. Your relatives and friends have different experiences and growth. Some people have died, and more people have been born, enjoying their slow, even and stable joys and sorrows.

"It's only a hundred years. What if you hibernate again, 300 or 500 years?

"Do the ideals, goals, moral system, world outlook, outlook on life and values of the past have any meaning for you to wake up again after 500 years?"

Li Yao was speechless. In his mind, he came up with a picture that could not be described with ink and ink. It was extremely gorgeous and extremely bleak. At the same time, he felt a sense of shudder, and he even had some expectations?

Ding lingdang said seriously: "senior GUI mingshou believes that when some people have mastered the ability to leap forward in the long river of time, their understanding of value, morality and even" life "itself will be different from others. It's like a tortoise crawling slowly on the ground and a bird flying fast in the sky. It's impossible to understand each other, It's not a question of who's more advanced or who's less advanced. It's just two different life choices. One is "continuous life, crawling clan" and the other is "discontinuous life, leaping clan". I'm afraid the difference between them is much greater than that between the practitioners of truth and the practitioners of immortality. "

Li Yao's mind is changing, and he has to admit that Gui wengshou, an old man who has been happy for a thousand years, has something to say.

It's really funny when you think about it. This old guy's body is clearly a green haired old turtle, but he just calls others "reptiles" and claims to be "leaps". Is this a sense of shamelessness?

"By the way, why didn't you see GUI Lao?"

Li Yaodao said, "didn't he say that he wanted to be the witness of all the major events of the Federation? He didn't go out to record the big news like the" empire counterattack "

"The realm of returning to old age has been raised again."

Ding lingdang said, "he has completely stepped into the field of" leap tribe ". Perhaps in the world of mortals, there is nothing worthy of his pursuit and attention. I haven't seen him for a long time. Maybe he is dormant in some unknown corner and slowly" leap "to the next millennium.

"The last time we met, he still said that the individual" leap tribe "is already so mysterious. What would it be like if a whole civilization chose to hibernate itself, unfreeze once every 1000 or 10000 years, leap forward in the long river of time, and evolve into a" time Strider civilization "? He wanted to find such a non-linear civilization - in his own way.

"As for us, we have just experienced hibernation for up to a hundred years, and we are not really the" leap tribe ". At most, it is an incomplete form between the crawling tribe and the leap tribe. The old ideas are slowly disintegrating, and the new ideas have not yet formed. Naturally, we will encounter all kinds of maladjustments. Although the elder generation named this kind of trouble" overtime syndrome. ", "Beyond the time line."