Life in the collapsed world from scratch

This discovery has raised the value of the stigmata to another level, which means that anti-entropy has since mastered a very convenient and stable means of entering and exiting the quantum sea.

It is a pity that anti-entropy does not yet have the technology to shuttle and locate in the quantum sea, which means that once it falls into the quantum sea, there is a high probability of getting lost in it, and it will never return.

However, not fully mastering it does not prevent Cheng Xi from using it in battle.

As long as enough Houkai energy is stored in advance, a "barrier" that can resist any attack can be deployed in battle, or the enemy can be exiled directly into the Quantum Sea, which is a very convenient ability no matter how you think about it.

"Don't study it, it's already burnt out." Cheng Xi looked at Bianca who was curiously pressing the button on the device and said, "After all, it's only the first generation product, and the components inside can hardly withstand that level of collapse. .”

"Honkai energy?" Bianca raised her head, realizing that she had heard a brand new term that she had never heard before.

"Let's talk about these things later." Cheng Xi glanced into the distance, and the sound of approaching police sirens could already be vaguely heard at the end of the street.

"Come on, let's get out of here first."

……

Bianca took off her shoes, and carefully put her feet into the river, feeling the coolness of the water flowing over her insteps, and tried to kick a few times, splashing water on the surface of the water.

Cheng Xi who was washing her face downstream: "..."

This girl didn't do it on purpose, did she?

He looked at the river water in front of him hesitantly, and gave up the idea of ​​continuing to wash it, since it was almost clean anyway.

"Why did you come here?" Bianca raised her head and asked her own question.

This is not the forest where they met for the first time, and logically speaking, it has no special significance. The girl can't figure out why Cheng Xi chose this place. If you want to talk about things, wouldn't a place like a coffee shop be better?

"Of course it's because you can see the starry sky here." Cheng Xi replied as a matter of course.

"..." Bianca looked up at the clear sky and the big ball of light hanging in the sky, not knowing what to say for a while.

"You can't see the stars now, it's just because they are hidden behind the sun's rays. In fact, they exist there, unchanged from time immemorial." Cheng Xi went to the girl and sat down: "Besides, isn't the sun also A star? There’s nothing wrong with saying it’s a starry sky, right?”

"Is this a sophistry?" Bianca said, now she wondered whether Cheng Xi brought her to such a place because he had no money.

"Whatever you think." Cheng Xi pouted and said, "Is this the only thing you want to ask?"

"..." Bianca opened her mouth.

She wanted to ask too much: What is the purpose of Cheng Xi coming here?Who was that woman just now?What's the matter with their power beyond ordinary people?What is Honkai Energy?

When the words came to her lips, Bianca swallowed them back. She didn't know where to start asking.

"Forget it, let me tell you a story." Seeing that the girl was hesitant to speak, Cheng Xi decided to tell it in another way:

"A Story About the Destruction of a Civilization.".

Chapter 36 The Enemy of Civilization

It was a world full of dead silence, and there was no sound outside of nature for more than a billion years.

And in a fortuitous coincidence, life was born.

At first, they were just insignificant protocells, soaked in the warm primordial soup of the earth, and any wind and rain could destroy their fragile lives.

But after billions of years of evolution, life began to gradually adapt to the harsh environment, and evolved its own ecosystem, which in turn affected the environment of the world.

Finally, a species called humans was born.Relying on their wisdom, they rose rapidly in a very short period of time and developed a highly developed civilization compared to other life forms.

Their vision reaches into space, seeking the origin of stars and worlds.Their thinking goes deep into the microcosm and discovers the essential laws of matter and the universe.They explored the mysteries of life and touched the taboos that belonged only to God.

Life lives on negative entropy.

The increase in entropy is doomed to the demise of everything, so life must absorb negative entropy from the outside world to maintain its own existence at the cost of accelerating the increase in entropy in the entire world, and civilization is the master among them.

Whether it is building tall buildings or manufacturing daily necessities, it is essentially a process of local entropy reduction, which maintains and develops itself by absorbing external energy.From this perspective, civilization is like life in another form.

A developed civilization means extremely high social efficiency. While developing and growing, they are also absorbing negative entropy at an extremely fast rate.

In the end, a disaster called "Honkai" came.

"..."

After waiting for a long time, Bianca raised her head and asked suspiciously, "And then?"

Cheng Xi spread her hands: "Then they were destroyed."

Bianca: "..."

She finally saw how bad a person's storytelling skills can be. A good story has a lot of introductions in the introduction, but the most important content is mentioned in one sentence. If it were another person, he would probably be scolded to death.

However, she also learned something from the "story" just now. If what Cheng Xi said is true, it means that as long as the current human civilization continues to develop, it is likely to be destroyed by "Hangkai" again. .

No, maybe "Honkai" has already arrived.

The civilization in the story has perished, and it will be their turn next.

"Is there no way to avoid it?" Bianca asked.

Cheng Xi shook his head: "That is a natural disaster that creates absolute killing. You can't bargain with it, and you can't reason with it. It is nature itself without emotion, and it will never feel satisfaction or pity."

"It cannot be stopped unless our civilization is completely cut off."

This is the iron law of this world, and no civilization can escape it.Cheng Xi understood this very clearly.

"Is there a way to defeat Honkai?" Bianca continued to ask after thinking about it.

Cheng Xi smiled, changed an unrelated topic and asked, "Do you think we will be the only intelligent life in the universe?"

Bianca didn't like Cheng Xi's way of changing the subject, but she still frowned and thought about it seriously: "It should... isn't it?"

She doesn't know much about this kind of thing, but thinking about how big the universe is, it's impossible for the earth to be special. This kind of thinking is too arrogant.

"By the way!" The girl suddenly remembered something: "Didn't the newspaper you read a few days ago say that life was found on Mars?"

"Yes." Cheng Xi nodded: "Since life has been found on Mars so close to us, it means that life is actually not special, and it is likely to be ubiquitous in the universe."

"Then the next question, if there are alien intelligent life, where are they?"

Bianca frowned, feeling that Cheng Xi was deliberately teasing herself: "Where else can I be, of course..."

The girl's voice paused, and she raised her head to look at the sky, with a little confusion in her eyes.

Yeah, where are they all?

Bianca didn't know that what Cheng Xi asked just now was the very famous "Fermi Paradox" in history.The core point of the paradox is, if aliens really exist, why can't humans observe them?

"Take our Milky Way as an example. The diameter of the Milky Way is about 100 light-years. Assuming that one day human beings develop a spaceship that travels at one-tenth the speed of light, theoretically speaking, it only takes more than [-] million years to be able to fly." Across the galaxy."

Cheng Xi raised a finger and said: "And let's assume that it takes 100 million years for human beings to develop such a spaceship—is this long enough? But the total is only 200 million years, and the birth of the universe has been so long. After 130 billion years, even the earth is 45 billion years old, so the so-called 200 million years is not worth mentioning on the scale of the universe."

"Then it stands to reason that as long as there are civilizations that evolved one or two million years earlier than us, their footprints should have spread all over the entire galaxy."

Even taking a step back, as long as a civilization develops enough to use the energy of stars on a large scale, the abnormal changes in the spectrum of stars caused by their civilization activities should also be discovered by humans.

But until today, how many civilizations of this level have been observed by humans?

As far as Cheng Xi knew, there was none.

The science fiction "Three-Body Problem" uses the dark forest theory to explain the Fermi Paradox, but based on Cheng Xi's understanding of the collapsed world, the "big filter" theory may be more suitable for this world.

"There is an invisible filter in the universe, which exists in all stages of life development, such as the birth of prokaryotic cells, such as the formation of multicellular life, such as the emergence of intelligent life..."

"We don't know how many filters exist, and at which stages of life development they exist. Some may have been crossed by us, but in the foreseeable future, there is still an insurmountable wall in front of us."

"—Crash."

In Cheng Xi's original world, this filter should have been an invisible obstacle to development, but in the collapsed world, this obstacle has been concretized.

If it is not crossed, human beings will never have a tomorrow.

……

By the time the conversation was over and Bianca was on her way home, it was already evening.

"After learning the truth of the world, whether you choose to continue the original peaceful life, or choose to fight against the collapse and fight for the survival of human civilization, it is up to you. I am only responsible for telling you these things."

Before parting, Cheng Xi's last words came to her ears.Bianca raised her head and looked at the sky where stars had begun to appear, and suddenly remembered something:

If Honkai is really a filter in front of every civilization, then behind this silent starry sky, does it mean that no civilization has crossed this barrier so far?

Thinking of this, Bianca felt that the beautiful starry sky above her head suddenly became a little scary.

Bianca shook her head and decided not to think about it for the time being. This is not something she should think about now.

"That's right!" She remembered that Cheng Xi seemed to say something at the end:

"Next time you see that guy Otto, remember to punch him for me."

The girl named Otto had an impression, and she remembered that it was the name of her former attending physician. Did the two of them know each other?

Bianca lowered her head in thought, and then heard light footsteps not far away.She raised her head to look in the direction of the voice, and a familiar figure appeared in her vision.

"Ms. Ragnar..."

"Welcome back, Bianca." Ragnar bent down and touched the girl's head: "Go back first, everyone is waiting."

After a pause, she continued: "If you want, we can find a time to have a good chat."

"Something About 'Him'.".

Chapter 37 Accidents

Leaving the small town, Cheng Xi came to a new small town with a hitchhiker found on the side of the road.He planned to go all the way to the east, leave the radiating range of the headquarters of destiny first, and then find a way to get Tesla to pick him up.

Generally speaking, this mission is full of rewards. Although there are some twists and turns in the middle, it is already a blood profit to get a handful of God's Keys.It's a pity that the gem of tranquility is still in the hands of Otto, and the biggest goal of his trip has not been achieved.

Cheng Xi sat in the carriage and sighed. Beside him was a rectangular wooden box one person tall, which looked like a small coffin at first glance.

The uncle driver glanced at the rearview mirror, wondering why the man sighed for no reason.

Originally, he didn't want such a strange guy with a wooden box like a coffin to get into the car, and it felt bad luck just thinking about it.But helplessly, the other party gave too much.

At that time, his eyes were blinded by money, and he was obsessed with it, so he agreed with this person to get in the car.Thinking about it now, he regretted his decision at that time. After all, this guy doesn't look like a decent person.

After a period of deliberation, the driver uncle decided to test out aloud: "Well... what's wrong with you?"

"Alas..." After a moment of silence, Cheng Xi opened his eyes and said calmly, "The world is filthy again."

Uncle driver: "..."

He was already sure, and he brought up a psychosis himself.