Interstellar leader

Three days passed quickly, all the preparations were done, Bai Yu cut off his hair, and he put on a seemingly ordinary hat and lay quietly on the bed.Tiny probes under the cap poked just under his scalp, live signals pulsating on the screens in front of everyone.

Li Qing sat in the main control room, which was a transparent but airtight space.Richter was also sitting there, and he looked at Li Qing with a half-smile, who seemed very disturbed.He lowered his eyelids, and his thin eyelashes blocked the look in his eyes, but the panic and anxiety in his heart couldn't hide from Richter's exploration of his brain.

Bai Yu's information human plan began to count down.

"Ten, nine, eight..."

Richter noticed that he was still thinking about how to change the situation. He sighed and said, "Why are you so stubborn? Do you have to fight against me?"

Then it thought about it, and threw him into the worst memory of mankind.

"six……"

Li Qingduan sat on his seat, but his eyes were slack.His fingers clenched the hem of his clothes tightly, his joints were so hard that they turned white, trembling like autumn leaves in the wind.He seems to be haunted by nightmares, and he has not yet woken up. Blood and flames, crime and war, hatred and conspiracy surround him. In reality, the soles of his shoes are clean, but he feels that they are covered with a thick layer of flesh and blood.

What is a dream and what is reality?He distinguished them clearly at first, but later became confused in the dream.The world of the mind has no time, and he seemed to have spent thousands of years in these tragic scenes, much longer than he had in the real world, long enough to forget everything, long enough to lose himself.

But a voice in his heart was calling, telling him he had to think, no matter how difficult it was.His reason told him that he was in a virtual world made up of information fed to him by the universe.

Go back, go back quickly.

where is he?What is he doing?By the way, Bai Yu... his experiment, an experiment about micro-connections and thinking.

"four three……"

"What role do you think the white feather can play?" Richter mocked in his mind. "It's just a clown-like farce. You humans have always been self-centered. You have never observed the world carefully and tried to create another different life. You have never thought about what the true essence of life is."

Li Qing opened his eyes, his vision was blurred by tears.He couldn't support himself anymore, and slid against the wall to the ground. He bet his expression was very painful, but everyone was paying attention to Bai Yu, and no one noticed his abnormality.

Human beings always define life with their own understanding, but never think about what life is.This is the second time the universe has said this sentence.Li Qing began to think about the essence of life.Not organic matter, not reproduction, and not artificial intelligence created later.To say that all beings have one thing in common is that they all have thinking.Thoughts... silvery white micro-connections.

Li Qing did not complete the micro-connection theory, he only published Chapter 1, and the content of that chapter is the basis of Bai Yu's current transformation program.The rest can only be understood by those who know that dimension of thinking.He suddenly realized that Bai Yu should not be transformed into an artificial intelligence, he should become a real ghost.

"Two, one—"

At that moment, the equipment connected to Bai Yu exploded silently in the strong sterile room.Li Qing's body fell limply to the ground along the wall, losing consciousness.The scientists watched in daze and horror as Bai Yu's weak body was turned into flying ash in the explosion, and some began to cry.They didn't know that Bai Yu didn't die.

Bai Yu came to a blue space after an explosion of white light.He looked up and down in confusion, the experiment should have been successful, he thought, he must find a way to communicate with the outside world as soon as possible.He doesn't know where the others are right now.

Is this the world of data?It was not the same as he had imagined before.

He turned his head, thinking about going out.He suddenly saw a door, it didn't look like a door, but like a deep swirling vortex, but miraculously, his subconscious thought it was a door.He hesitated only for a moment, then walked over and opened it.

Bai Yu found that there were two more people in this space, both of whom he knew. "Isaac? Delphi?"

"Sound so strange?" Joerg raised his eyebrows in dissatisfaction. "I'm your cousin."

"Why are you here? What kind of place is this?" Bai Yu asked eagerly, ignoring a certain cousin's complaint.

"I'll explain to you later, we have more important things to do now." Li Qing said.His voice was cold and weak.Joerg looked at him worriedly, his blue eyes overflowing with distress.

"The energy generated by your transformation has opened up a channel between the two thinking worlds. Now we are temporarily staying in the isolated channel. They will find us in a short while. We have to decide what to do next." Li Qing frowned, Seems to be enduring some pain.Joerg stepped forward to embrace him tenderly, but Li Qing pushed him away almost reflexively and extremely vigilantly.

"Think fast." The young man stared at him with his sharp black eyes. "What is the essence of life?"

"The essence of life is thinking." Joerg said.

"What is the nature of thinking?"

"A mathematical arrangement of microconnections."

"Mathematics has positive and negative, and of course there are micro-connections, and I just realized this." Li Qing's expression was a little dazed.His figure suddenly disappeared from the spot for a moment, and then returned here. "We were lucky," he said. "I took a look at your world, it's black."

"What? It's obviously white." Joerg shouted in surprise, and then, he seemed to realize something, and looked at the universe where Li Qing was, which was also his original universe.What presented before his eyes was a thinking world composed of black silk threads.

"I get it, our worlds are reversed. They're almost identical, but the nature is reversed."

Li Qing looked at the universe on both sides of the passage in a daze, they were in a magical dimension, this thinking world that had never been explored before.One is black and the other is white, with clear distinctions and a beauty of opposites but harmony, just as human beings have realized since ancient times: where there is light, there must be darkness, where there is good, there must be evil, and where there is good, there must be negative.This is a natural beauty.

"I think we'll have to try this - does plus one plus minus one equal zero?"

"What are you talking about?" Bai Yu looked at them in confusion. "This is... the world of souls?"

Jörg was silent for a moment, the doubt in his eyes slowly faded, and finally turned into the surprise of epiphany. "Qing, you don't want to—"

"Is there another way? We've got to try."

"But wouldn't humans and other intelligent life be harmed?"

"No. The nodes of human beings are too small, and they are moving at any time. The probability that the positive and negative selves of the two worlds are in the same position is very small. But the nodes of the universe are generated according to the positions of galaxies, and the two worlds are completely The same." Li Qing said excitedly: "When we force the two worlds to overlap, the consciousness of the universe will disappear, while the consciousness of human beings will be preserved. After the end, the two worlds will be separated due to mutual exclusion, and everything will return to normal .”

"Except for the lack of two damn cosmic consciousness." Joerg smiled.

"That's right, let's start."

It's a wonderful feeling to manipulate a world with one's own thoughts. When one's wishes come true, the absurdity of reality lies beneath the surge of power.The black and white worlds are gradually overlapping, the universe is too big, he should not be able to see any details, but in this world, vision does not exist, and he can clearly perceive it.

When the first node came into contact with its opposite twins, they annihilated silently.No flashes, no sparks, just disappearing quietly.

Plus one plus minus one really equals zero.

The universe noticed.Li Qing suddenly felt a burning pain like water pouring into his lungs, and it was still expanding until his whole body was tingling.He curled up subconsciously, but this is the world of the soul, no matter what he did, it would be useless.

There was nothing unusual about his appearance, and he was not actually hurt.But the pain is so real, he seems to have returned to the day of the genetic transition, on the desolate Mars, the pain was so painful that he lost consciousness.

"Stop." The voice of the universe sounded. "I really can't kill him, but I can torture him endlessly. Even if you succeed, he will go crazy."

Joerg hesitated.

"Go on!" Li Qing hissed: "Do you want to sacrifice all human beings to save me? Don't be stupid! Don't forget that we have more than each other! Your parents, sister, our friends and my relatives are all human beings. In this category—"

His words were interrupted by painful gasps.The pain given to him by the universe intensified. He felt that his thinking seemed to become chaotic. In the great pain, everything became less important. It seemed that saving himself was the first goal.This is the purpose of the universe.

There is no point in frowning, lip biting, curling up and screaming.He told himself to control the instinctive reaction when he had a body, to be calm.He stood up straight in the floating space, and the expression on his face was no longer painful, although the pain in his soul hadn't eased in the slightest, at least it couldn't be seen on the surface.

He said calmly, "Go on."

The two worlds slowly overlapped, black and white intertwined and turned into nothingness. After more than half of the cosmic consciousness disappeared, the pain finally eased a little.At this moment, the universe seemed to realize the end of extinction, and it used all its power to torture this young man he had been very optimistic about, with anger and madness.

Li Qing's consciousness was almost overwhelmed by the pain. When he was looking for the earth, he thought that the pain caused by the genetic transition was the limit of pain that humans could experience, but it was not.The body has limits, but the mind does not. The torture imposed on the soul challenges his definition of limits time and time again.

The overlapping of black and white worlds stops.

Li Qing's spirit was on the verge of collapse, and he seemed to have forgotten where he was.He just wanted to end this ordeal, he wanted to go home.

In a trance, he returned to the time when he had just graduated. Holding a black umbrella in the drizzle of Beijing, he walked into an alley in the old city to visit his mentor who was sick in bed. The 1.8-meter young man squatted in front of the bed, and the old man stroked his hair lovingly like a child.

"Li Qing, you are very smart, you are the smartest student I have ever taught, but you are very childish."

"I've come to the end of this road in life. I want to tell you three things." The old man joked. "Remember, there is an exam."

"First, remember where you came from."

"Second, remember where you're going."

"Third, what you do must be worthy of your own conscience."

……

Pain numb.Li Qing still retains a trace of clarity in the chaos, he still remembers what his goal is.Destroy the consciousness of the universe.

The overlapping of worlds begins again.The universe felt itself unraveling in disbelief, and before dying outright, it calmly asked, "Why? I've extradited hundreds of humans, and 52 of them were able to dissolve the ribbons - what you call micro-connectivity vectors They rejected me without exception. Some of them were exiled, some hid like mice, and some committed suicide."

"I think the conditions given are generous enough, and the power of gods is enough to tempt. Moreover, they have all experienced wars and murders, and their hearts are full of hatred. According to my observations of you humans, their psychology should have been distorted. You have also been distorted. But you still rejected me." The universe no longer had the madness just now, and at the end of this magnificent life, it just asked questions curiously, like a person asking what is shining under the stars. child.

"why?"

"Because we always remember that we are human beings, born from the gestation of our mothers, and going to the other side of death." Li Qing replied. "Also, you must be worthy of your own conscience."

The two worlds merged and the universe dissipated.At that moment, Li Qing and Joerg lost control of the world, and the black and white worlds suddenly separated due to repulsion, and their figures disappeared in this space.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Qing opened his eyes and found that he had returned to Bai Yu's laboratory.Opposite him was a man with blond hair and blue eyes with a familiar face. He was in a trance for a moment, and reflexively took a step back until the man showed his familiar gentle smile, and his eyes shone with joy.

"Jorge?"

"Li Qing?"]

"It's me." They laughed in unison. "haven't seen you for a long time."

Then they kissed each other.

The final war is over.