I got up from the coffin and was taken back to the nest by the dragon

"The artificial intelligence and navigator Taiyi of the ether spaceship is reporting to you."

"Ether is the ancient Greek word for the ancient earth generation. In a narrow sense it means space, in a broad sense...in the ancient earth it is often regarded as 'hope'." Taiyi said softly.

"Ether, Taiyi..." Ji Xiaqing stared blankly at the huge interstellar spaceship that was badly damaged and definitely did not conform to her familiar world view, and muttered to herself, looking at Taiyi, "So you are not Made by the Fifth Commander?"

Taiyi smiled humanely, "The Fifth Majesty is a very good programmer, but he is only a programmer, and he can't write me from scratch. I was just a coincidence. The Fifth Majesty has awakened. However, the Fifth Majesty has written a lot of new programs for me, and it’s okay to say that I was made by him.”

"You can ask me questions now," Taiyi looked at the dazed woman and said softly, "You must have a lot of questions."

Ji Xiaqing opened his mouth and closed it again.

In just a few minutes, she actually had a sense of absurdity that she had already experienced vicissitudes.

There were so many questions that she didn't know where to start.

Ji Xiaqing took a few deep breaths to calm himself down gradually, looked at Taiyi, "You tell me."

"What do you think is important and what should be told to me, you sort it out."

She has too many questions and not much time.It is a trick to let the informed Taiyi say.

Taiyi pondered for a while, "First of all, I have to explain to you that you now know more than Your Excellency Su Bai, and your authority is higher than hers."

"I brought Your Excellency Su Bai here, and I only showed her this satellite map—" Taiyi raised his finger and pointed to the huge spaceship floating in the infinite galaxy universe on the big screen, "I explained to Your Excellency Su Bai The situation, demonstrated the urgency and non-renewability of existing resources, informed the current necessity of family planning for the dragon tribe of Babel, and then gave her the decision-making power."

"Your Excellency Su Bai hesitated for a long time, and finally made the same decision as the Fifth Majesty." Taiyi looked into Ji Xiaqing's eyes, and said unhurriedly, "To be honest, the Fifth Majesty is already counted. My heart softened, the suggestion I gave him at the time was really to destroy the embryos of the dragon race that were not congenitally deficient, but he was hesitant, and later built such an underground city, giving those poor dragons a place to return to."

She just mentioned it lightly, but Ji Xiaqing already understood.

The reason for expulsion of congenitally deficient dragons is that it takes too many resources to cultivate a normal dragon in a physiological and social sense—but for underground dragons without dragon rights, the resources needed are much less.

After all, it's fine for them to live, and it doesn't matter if they die. What about dragon power?

"What about human beings?" Ji Xiaqing asked, "Human beings don't need many resources."

"The fertility of human beings is much higher than that of dragons, Your Majesty," Taiyi smiled helplessly, "and human beings have a strange ability. When resources are insufficient, they will give birth more and more. When resources are sufficient, they will stop giving birth."

Ji Xiaqing's lips twitched, but he didn't refute.

"So why? Why do I have higher authority and know more than Xiaobai?" She still remembered another question and asked casually.

It's just that Taiyi's answer was not "You are the ancient emperor" as she imagined, but another absurd answer.

"To explain your authority issue, I have to tell you something about the past." Taiyi looked far away, as if he was recalling something, "Your Majesty, this time the Tower of Babel from ancient times to the present has been experienced by the Taiyi." The fourth civilizational change has occurred."

She spoke unhurriedly, as if she didn't care about the war that broke out outside, "Because of the catastrophe of the sun, human beings escaped from the ancient earth with all their strength, and scientists from the alliance of all continents developed and manufactured the greatest war in human history." The crystallization of wisdom, Ether—complete ecological cycle, complete artificial stars, more than five layers of spaceship shields and seven regions. It has brought the gene pool of those extinct and non-extinct creatures on the earth, and brought all human beings Brilliant achievements of civilization, this is a great escape, the Noah's Ark of the new era."

"But no matter how the scientists think about it, they can't imagine how the new generation, the new second generation, and even the new tenth generation born on the spaceship will understand the drifting life on the spaceship. They don't know what is called a 'mother star', what are the seven continents The four oceans, they will never understand the rural complex of falling leaves returning to their roots, and they will never understand why those who died chose to scatter their ashes in the direction of the stern."

"In just a few hundred years, the newborn spaceship people no longer go to the Earth Library. After all, they have the culture they are passionate about, and the stars and idols they cheer for. They have their culture." B was silent for a while, "Actually, from my point of view, it's hard for me to admit that the spaceship people and the earth people are the same civilization. Apart from the inheritance of blood, they have no similarities at all."

Taiyi said these things indifferently, as if he was telling a story that had nothing to do with him, "The first civilization, which I generally call the ancient earth civilization, was born on the spaceship a thousand years after the ether set off from the earth. Human beings clamored for 'freedom and the truth', overthrew the Earth Alliance whose dominance of the ancient Earth civilization was in jeopardy, and opened the first protective cover of the Ether."

"Their purpose is pure—they want to see the world outside the hood. Human beings are always naive when they shouldn't be naive."

"The price of that civilization change was that the outermost residential area and experimental area of ​​the Aether were all invalidated, and the Earth Library was directly exposed to the vacuum of the universe, and countless historical materials, cultural achievements, and crystallizations of civilization were lost. Human beings have to Withdrew into a deeper spaceship area to survive."

"But as those who witnessed the accident gradually died, a new generation was born again."

"There's nothing new under the sun." Ji Xiaqing muttered to himself.

She had almost guessed what was going on again.

Taiyi glanced at her, smiled, and nodded, "That's right, Your Majesty, there is nothing new under the sun, and the greatest lesson humans have learned from history is that humans can never learn any lessons from history."

"Why didn't you stop them?" Ji Xiaqing stared at the artificial intelligence in front of him, feeling cold all over his body.

"Your Majesty, I can never stop humans, just like I couldn't stop you from pulling the lever just now. I am just a humble executor, a tool for humans, and the navigator of the Ether." Taiyi responded softly to her.

Ji Xiaqing didn't say a word, and didn't know if he accepted this explanation.

"How many times has this kind of civilization change happened?" She looked up at Taiyi again, her voice hoarse.

"Four times, Your Majesty."

Taiyi looked at Ji Xiaqing's gradually distorted face, and still said softly, "When you woke up, the Ether had completely forgotten its past, civilization returned to ancient times, and everything was reborn from the very beginning. their past, and they don’t know their future.”

Ji Xiaqing pursed her lips, listening to Taiyi talking on his own.

"Wake up." She suddenly interrupted Taiyi's words, and repeated a word, "Wake up."

"Yes, wake up." Taiyi nodded, affirming her question.

"The most outstanding group of humans—sorry, at least I think so. Some of the ancient humans on the ancient earth seemed to have expected such an ending, so they resisted all opinions, Against the huge controversy of ethics, a group of frozen human beings are set up, called 'fire passers'."

"The hope of humans on the ancient earth for the 'fire passers' is that they can wake up after finding a new living planet, and continue the civilization inheritance of the ancient earth civilization, so that the once splendid civilization will not disappear completely. And when the ether When there are other critical situations in the middle of the ship, the "Fire Bearer" will also wake up and re-educate the human beings who have lost their civilization inheritance, such as the fourth generation of the ether, which I call the Babel generation."

Ji Xiaqing pointed to himself.

"Yes, you are one of them."

Ji Xiaqing pursed his lips tightly, without saying a word, the space fell into an unbearable silence.

"It's outrageous," she said hoarsely after a long time, "It's been almost 10 years, and I still miss the life on Earth, but now you tell me, I'm not traveling through time, my hometown is under my feet ?”

Taiyi opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.

Maybe it's more appropriate for Ji Xiaqing to calm down now.

"The fifth one is also the fire passer of this Laoshizi, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

There was another longer silence.

"Why don't you let us know what the world is like?" Ji Xiaqing asked suddenly, without any expression on her face, she seemed to have calmed down, but her dark pure eyes were filled with raging anger, "Let's guess the truth, isn't it interesting?"

"No, Your Majesty, you misunderstood. Experts on the ancient earth believe that the fire spreader is also a human being." Taiyi seriously shook his head and objected, "Although the fire spreader is excellent, in the face of such a difficult situation, it is possible The collapse will slide into the abyss out of control. Therefore, the experts of the ancient earth choose to set the memory of the fire bearers in the more glorious eras of human civilization on the earth, so the fire bearers will have stronger self-confidence. In their step by step to find The difficulties and dangers encountered when trying to find the truth can not only help them understand the current social situation, but also naturally select some people, and finally find the truth and keep them to the end. They are all capable of taking on such a heavy responsibility and have a strong sense of responsibility ——This is the hero that the Aether needs."

Ji Xiaqing stopped talking.

She knew it was reasonable to do so, but she still couldn't tolerate it all.

"It seems that the fifth person is much smarter than me," she said coldly, "he has already found out the truth, and he has spent 1 years alone with this responsibility and guilt, but now I just Know."

"He may be a hero, and he has always wanted to be a hero, so let him be." Ji Xiaqing turned to leave, "I want to be alone."

"Your Majesty!" Taiyi raised his voice a little.

Ji Xia Qing stamped her feet.

"You don't need to belittle yourself, there is one more thing I haven't told you," Taiyi looked at Ji Xiaqing who turned around, with a sincere expression, "You have already found the answer ten thousand years ago."

"Didn't you forget why you fell asleep?" She posed questions that Ji Xiaqing couldn't resist answering, making her tremble all over, "Aren't you wondering who can tamper with your memory?"

"Your Majesty, you are the number one emperor in ancient times, the head of the four emperors, and the teacher of ten thousand people," Taiyi sighed softly, "except yourself, who can tamper with your memory?"

"You said to Guderian, 'Don't think I'm so sophisticated, a decision can last for thousands of years.'"

"You underestimate yourself."

"Your decision really lasted for thousands of years."

"Fifth Majesty, you are just a loyal executor of your decision."

"Do you still remember that the basement of the furnace is called the fortress of Stalingrad?" Taiyi looked at Ji Xiaqing in a daze, and dropped the last bomb, "That's your name."