The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 493 Trajectory (adding updates to everyone's monthly pass)
The underground part of the yellow plant has enough self-weight, so there is no tap root, only some very small root networks that look like hyphae and fibrous roots.

This makes it look like a rock with some small roots growing out.

The detectors also found a large number of microorganisms around these root systems.

These microorganisms are multicellular organisms, and they are very small in size, consisting of no more than eight or nine cells.

According to the observation of the detector, the yellow plants inject the energy produced by photosynthesis into the root system, and then use this energy as bait to attract microorganisms.

Those microorganisms need to eat the roots of yellow plants, while yellow plants need the moisture of microorganisms, and the two have carried out an "equivalent exchange" in the root network, and the two get what they need.

According to the analysis of Yinhe No. [-], the microorganisms should have brought enough water to exchange with the yellow plants from the deep underground.

Although there is groundwater on this planet, it should be tens of meters or even several kilometers underground.

Since the detector does not have professional drilling tools, it can only be inferred that these microorganisms can travel to and from tens of meters underground, forming a symbiotic relationship with yellow plants.

Ricks, the leader of the expert team, not only sighed: "I didn't expect such a desolate planet to have living creatures. Their vitality is too tenacious."

Thinking of the multi-cellular microorganisms, in order to survive in a difficult environment, they can go back and forth tens of meters, or even several kilometers, and he feels his scalp numb.

Jiang Yu finally had a smile on his face: "That's right! That's what the spinning top is here for!"

Many experts were even more puzzled: "Why are spinning tops looking for such low-level creatures?"

Jiang Yu asked seriously: "Is it low-level? According to the theory of spinning tops, these microorganisms are very advanced!"

Ricks and a group of experts looked puzzled, completely ignoring the meaning of the Wallfacer.

Jiang Yu continued to explain: "Think about the evolution history of the universe, think about the evolution history of life on earth, and think about us humans.

"Atoms have existed for tens of billions of years, they 'survive' without any external force, and they make up everything.

"Single-celled organisms on the earth have existed for 38 billion years, they can survive only by photosynthesis, and they have never become extinct for 38 billion years.

"And from multicellular organisms, to fish, to reptiles, and finally to us humans.

"During this period, all kinds of organisms have gone extinct for several rounds, while single-celled organisms, atoms, still exist and will continue to exist for a long time.

"They are called advanced because they have very low requirements for living conditions.

"And we have spent a lot of effort to come to an unfamiliar field tens of light years away from our hometown. We have built huge interstellar warships, and we have built a complex society. All our actions are just to make up for the lack of our ability to survive. Not enough.

"It seems that primitive people can live a good life with their own brains, our brains are only slightly stronger than primitive people, and the purpose of all our actions is to live a good life for ourselves.

"It's just that the problems we are thinking about now and the difficulties we encounter are many times more complicated than those of primitive people!"

Ricks didn't quite agree with Jiang Yu's remarks: "Commander, we can easily kill a single-celled organism, we can manipulate atoms and make them work for us."

Jiang Yu folded his arms and smiled: "Yeah, I thought so before.

"Since I encountered the civilization of the spinning top, I suddenly had a question: Why is the universe so deserted?
"Is it just because of the dark forest?

"Our birthplace, the solar system, was formed 50 billion years ago, and 30 billion years before the formation of the solar system, there were stars and planets in the universe."

"There should be a group of intelligent creatures that evolved 30 billion years earlier than us, where are they now?

"Even if the dark forest silences them, the first law of the dark forest is: survival is the first need of civilization.

"Let me ask, for a civilization that is 30 billion years old, its population can be accommodated in a planetary system?

"In other words, the resources of a planetary system are enough for a civilization to squander 30 billion years?"

These questions have caused the experts who are doing it to fall into contemplation.

Jiang Yu continued: "The second law of the dark forest is: civilization continues to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains the same.

"There will be so many civilizations formed in 30 billion years, if they continue to expand, will there still be so many empty planetary systems?

"Three billion years, everyone! How many civilizations will be formed?

"Civilization can be born in such a difficult environment as the Trisolaran galaxy?
"There are 1000 to [-] billion stars in the Milky Way alone, and the number of terrestrial planets must be multiplied by at least three.

"Even if only one thousandth of the planetary system has civilization, that is hundreds of millions of civilizations! Could it be that they were all killed by the dark forest?"

He paused and asked again: "Why is the universe so deserted?"

Ricks froze for a second or two: "This..."

Jiang Yu clapped his hands habitually: "This is the 'trajectory' mentioned by the spinning top!
"Before, we always believed that the destruction of a civilization was due to war, improper operation, or the loss of vitality of a civilization.

"The spinning top wants to tell me that the decline of civilization is determined by the nature of creatures.

"This nature determines the trajectory of civilization, and the process from the emergence of civilization to prosperity and then to decline is happening all the time in the universe!
"All kinds of intelligent creatures keep repeating this trajectory, just like single-celled organisms keep photosynthesizing and dividing!
"I don't know what the situation of the gyro civilization is now, but the gyro satellites and guard gyro we discovered have not been maintained by their makers for many years.

"Although it is possible that these spinning tops were abandoned, it is more likely that the spinning top civilization began to decline a long time ago, so they searched all over the world for ways to restrain the decline of civilization.

"And the development trajectory of civilization is that the higher the wisdom mastered, the easier it is to perish."

Ricks and Galaxy Three were silent.

Jiang Yu lit a cigarette for himself, this is the result of his thinking last night: "Yes! The development trajectory of civilization, the smarter it is, the closer it is to perish!
"That's why the spinning top civilization began to study primitive creatures, because only they are the creatures that can survive for a long time!

"Only from them can it be possible to find a way to break through the trajectory!"

After a long silence in the conference room, an expert said: "Commander, this goes against the common sense of contemporary people!"

Jiang Yu rubbed his temples: "Isn't common sense meant to be violated! How much common sense have we overturned? From the geocentric theory, to the heliocentric theory, to the relativity of the universe.

"Only by constantly subverting can we get closer to the truth, and getting closer to the truth turns out to be tantamount to dying!"

Having said that, Jiang Yu smiled self-deprecatingly, and didn't know whether he was laughing at his own weird ideas or the trajectory of intelligent life.

　Thank you again for your monthly tickets. Although there are less than [-] tickets this month, you voted a lot at the end of last month. Including the votes at the beginning of the month, it is enough to add a chapter.

　　
　
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