"I understand."
Xie Anan nodded.
The shy but persistent little girl with red apple cheeks, a little chubby, has now become a peaceful, calm, round and middle-aged lady full of mature and elegant temperament.
The only thing that remains unchanged is , that is, the trust and admiration for Li Yao deep in his eyes, "This is a problem that many long-term hibernators have to face.
It seems that the master, like the master's wife, is slowly becoming a 'leaping tribe'."
"Leap Clan?"
Li Yao was slightly startled and looked at Ding Lingdang, "What is that?"
"This is a brand new concept proposed by senior hibernator Gui Suishou.
After transferring the 'Tombstone Project' to preserve civilization to Professor Mo Xuan, he has been engaged in research in this area.
Long-term hibernation was originally It’s just a means for us to achieve a certain goal, but in Gui Suanshou’s case, ‘ultra-long human hibernation’ is regarded as the end in itself.”
Ding Lingdang explained, "Like you, I have been hibernating for most of the past hundred years, and the total time I have been awake should not exceed twenty years.
Every time I return to the Federation, I feel like things are different. .
"The first time, I missed the wedding of the brat Wu Mayan and Xie An'an; the second time, I missed the birth and growth of their child...
There are many, many people, many, many things, all like twinkling The shiny golden sand quickly slipped through my fingers.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch them.
"That feeling is exactly like what you said.
Entire decades disappeared out of thin air.
We hibernators and normal people live in two different time dimensions, resulting in a strange... sense of alienation, as if we are We haven’t made much contribution to the construction of the new federation, but a beautiful and bright home has arrived on its own, and we just need to sit back and enjoy its achievements.”
"How come?"
Xie Anan said hurriedly, "Master and Mistress discovered three great worlds together with the former Xinghai Republic's government-in-exile, and also made great contributions to defeating the Imperial Expeditionary Force.
What do you mean by not making any contribution!"
"I know."
Ding Lingdang smiled and said, "It's not that I'm being modest, it's just a very strange feeling.
It's hard for you 'reptiles' who haven't hibernated for a long time to understand.
"Actually, the reason why I want to run for federal speaker this time is, on the one hand, to reconcile the relationship between the New Fourth Realm and the Old Third Realm, and try to maintain the balance between our side and Jin Xinyue's side, but the more important reason is that Personally, I want to use this method to integrate myself more closely with the new federation, to be able to reintegrate into the current federation, and return to the ordinary 'reptilian tribe' from the 'leaping tribe' I don't know how to say. ” Li Yao heard a trace of very rare melancholy in Ding Lingdang's words, and became more and more strange: "The Leap Tribe and the Reptile Tribe, what on earth are they!"
Ding Lingdang drank a full glass of red wine and said: "After a long hibernation, I wandered alone in the star sea for a hundred years.
After returning to the Federation, I felt that I was out of tune with the world around me, so I went to find the same person.
I chatted with an old man named Gui Suanshou who is a long-term hibernator.
He happens to be conducting research in this area.
He told me a lot and gave me several notebooks.
"Senior Gui Suishou said that the four directions above and below are called the universe, and the past and present are called the universe.
The universe is a continuum of time and space.
In the three-dimensional universe we live in, time and space are originally continuous, linear, Stable, time passes second by second, and the meaning of each second is the same.
And a civilization living in such continuous time and space, such as the current human civilization, is a turtle crawling slowly on the avenue of time. , so called 'reptilians'.
“But in fact, whether it is the Pangu tribe or the Nuwa tribe hundreds of thousands of years ago, or today’s human civilization, they have all discovered a way to transcend space continuity, and that is star sea jumping.
“Using wormholes and four-dimensional space, we can transcend the continuity of three-dimensional space, and from this point, we can instantly reach 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 is human hibernation technology.
"Before hibernation technology was invented and matured, all intelligent life forms living in our universe were 'reptiles'.
Whether beggars or emperors, ordinary people or cultivators, every second was a second and a minute was a minute.
At most, it can simulate the illusion of slowing down the passage of time in the virtual world by stimulating the brain nerves, but that is false.
The speed of time in the real world is still the same.
“But, for us hibernators, that’s not the case.
"Even in the Starry Federation, where this technology has just been invented and is still very crude and inefficient, hibernators like you and me can sleep for hundreds of years at a stretch.
Before we fall asleep and after we open our eyes again, what we face is completely Two different worlds.
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“And what about those civilizations with more advanced hibernation technology, such as the Pangu tribe?
"Li Yao, do you still remember that the Pangu clan member you met at the Kunlun ruins has been sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years!
"Of course, you killed him just after he woke up, before he had time to face a completely unfamiliar world.
"But let go of your imagination and assume the perspective of this Pangu tribe.
Assuming that 'you' have not been killed, how will you face a completely different world hundreds of thousands of years from now?
Face those who are under your feet."
The 'descendants' who are lively and shouting are lonely when they look at the stars in the sky and there is no one of their kind?
" Li Yao was stunned and fell into deep thought.
Ding Lingdang said: "Senior Gui Sushou believes that as hibernation technology becomes more and more developed, the damage and loss to hibernators will become smaller and smaller, and more and more hibernators will appear.
Anyone who masters this technology will Sooner or later, technological civilization will divide into two parts, the 'reptile tribe' composed of non-hibernators, and the 'leaping tribe' composed of hibernators.
“The world of the reptiles is continuous, stable, and linear.
They use every minute and every second to burn life, build homes and civilizations, and enjoy stable relatives, friends, happiness, and various emotions.
"But for hibernators who often span decades or hundreds of years of light and shadow, time is discontinuous, non-linear, and fragmented.
It is like a mighty river.
The flow of the river is extremely slow, but there are Some rocks are exposed, and the hibernators were originally in the river However, once they jumped out of the water and grew wings, they could use the power of their wings and jumping to move forward quickly.
They saw far ahead in the river, a whole new world, which they had left behind, seemingly frozen.
Everything in the 'river' is gradually stripped of its original meaning.
"You also said that just by opening and closing your eyes, the Starry Star Federation has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Your relatives and friends have had different encounters and growth.
Some people have died, and more people have been born.
Enjoy With their slow, even and steady emotions.
"This is only a hundred years.
What if you hibernate again, another three hundred or five hundred years?
"Do the ideals, goals, moral systems, world views, outlook on life and values of the past still have any meaning to you when you wake up again five hundred years later?"
Li Yao was speechless.
A picture that could not be described in words, extremely gorgeous and extremely bleak appeared in his mind.
At the same time, he felt a shudder, and at the same time, there was a faint... expectation?
Ding Lingdang said seriously: "Senior Gui Suishou believes that when some people master the ability to leap forward in the long river of time, their understanding of values, morality and even 'life' itself will be completely different from others.
Then Like a turtle crawling slowly on the ground and a bird flying in the sky, it is impossible to understand each other. , Chao bacteria don’t know Hui Shuo, and summer insects can’t talk about ice.
This is not a question of who is higher and who is lower.
It is just two different life choices.
One is 'continuous life, reptile', and the other is 'non-life'.
The difference between the continuous beings and the Leap Clan is probably much greater than the difference between cultivators and immortal cultivators.”
Li Yao's mind was spinning, and he had to admit that what Gui Suanshou, an old man who had lived for a thousand years, had some truth to say.
It's really funny when you think about it.
This old guy is obviously an old turtle with green hair, but he calls others "reptiles" and calls himself a "leapfrog".
This is a bit of a stinker in a sense.
Face?
"By the way, why didn't you see Gui Lao?"
Li Yaodao, "Didn't he say that he wanted to be an eyewitness to all major events in the Federation?
Wouldn't he come out and record such big news as 'The Empire Strikes Back'?"
"The state of returning to old age has been improved again."
Ding Lingdang said, "He has completely entered the realm of the 'Leap Clan'.
Perhaps in the mortal world where time is slowly passing, there is nothing worthy of his pursuit and attention.
I haven't seen him for a long time.
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Maybe he is another Hibernating in some unknown nook and cranny, slowly 'leaping' to the next thousand years.
"The last time we met, he was still saying that the individual 'Leap Race' is already so mysterious.
If an entire civilization chooses to actively hibernate itself and thaw itself every one thousand or ten thousand years, in the course of time The river continues to leap forward and evolve into a 'time spanner civilization'.
What will it look like?
He really wants 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.
We are not really a 'leap race' yet.
At most, we are an incomplete form between the reptile race and the leap race.
The old concepts are slowly disintegrating, and the new ones are Before the concept is formed, you will naturally encounter various discomforts.
Senior Gui Suishou named this trouble as 'time-out syndrome', 'a disease caused by transcending the time line.'