Blind Date in Time and Space

The world of Maien stores crystal stones that can be used for hundreds of millions of years.

Chen Ji thought about it carefully and found that it was actually not much.

The world of Maien only has spar, they have no sun, and they seem to have no other energy sources.

In the earth's universe, solar energy has provided mankind with energy needs for billions of years. Other galaxies will also exist for tens of billions of years, and stars will continue to be born. Until all stars are extinguished and become white dwarfs, they can still provide life. A certain amount of energy.

It may be hundreds of billions of years before humans will be unable to obtain any energy from stars.

In the earth's universe, there are countless stars, and the total amount of energy they can provide to human beings is far more than the crystals consumed by the Mayian world for millions of billions of years!

"We went on a long binge."

The conscious body sighed and generally said: "Society's materials are unprecedentedly abundant. We waste a lot of energy on entertainment. For millions of years, the development of science and technology has been very slow."

Hearing this, Chen Ji glanced at the villagers.

How happy the Mayien people were in the past, how miserable their descendants were. The villagers could not afford to light a lamp before, and the dead bodies were recycled into golden altars, turned into energy and supplied to the living.

"The only thing that's gotten a huge boost is our overall population."

"The Maien people have footprints all over the world, with tens of thousands of countries and regions, and different folk customs. At that time, travelers were the most envied profession."

"With the increase in population, the country's competition for territory and crystal stones gradually became more intense, but we were not aware of it at that time, and the disintegrated Maien society was also unaware of the coming war."

"Until the man from Yarom appeared, he was born in a country on the edge of the bottom of the world. The hometown of the Maien people was at the bottom of the world, so the competition for crystal stones was more intense where he was. Dozens of countries often fought in melee. Together.

Yarom was ambitious. He reused scientists, transformed the bodies of soldiers, created new war weapons, put soldiers in spar armor, and promised that military achievements could be exchanged for titles... After a series of reforms, his army became incomparable. powerful.

One hundred years later, he unified the underground and made the entire Mayian world pay attention to the underground again.

Ten years later, Yarom launched an attack on the ground, eating away at other countries bit by bit.

People accused him of violating social morals, performing human body modification on soldiers, and called him a dictatorial tyrant, but they still could not stop Yarom's expansion. "

“The army led by Yarom is getting stronger and stronger, and many countries are forced to unite... The war spreads from the underground to the center, and finally the entire Mayan world is involved.

Jarom is killed, but his successor...

The flames of war burned everywhere. In the harsh war, Yarrom's grandson restored the monarchy and took over all power...

The war lasted for many years. Ironically, our technology developed rapidly during the war.

Crystal weapons have been continuously developed. Intelligent robots, war armors, subspace weapons, and even our bodies have been modified to directly use crystals. Women have also been dragged onto the battlefield, and childbirth is completed mechanically.

The war stopped and started again, over and over again. More than a thousand years later, Jarom VII reluctantly unified the world.

But he knew that the resistance was still going on, so he forced a large number of scientists to work for him and created a super machine called the 'Imperial Power'. It had unparalleled computing power and could control the mechanized troops of the entire empire, cooperating on the battlefield. He has a tacit understanding and can monitor everyone who opposes him on the network... He even attempts to implant a chip in everyone's brain in order to control everyone. "

Hearing this, Chen Ji couldn't help but sigh: "The development of science and technology... is not a good thing to a certain extent."

With a chip implanted in the brain, everyone is his puppet.

"Yeah, we didn't realize that until later."

The conscious body continued to narrate: "After the chip implantation plan was launched by Yarom VII, even the people around him felt panic... The war of resistance lasted for decades. Fortunately, the 'Empire Might' was created in the first place. The secret door left by the scientist was finally triggered, and the super machine stopped moving. Yarom was caught by soldiers the next day, dragged to the street and killed.

But the peace did not last long.

The majesty of the empire exists in every intelligent machine, and it still carries out the orders of Yrom VII.

The war between Mayien people and intelligent machines breaks out...

Thousands of years later, the war ended, and the Maien people cleaned up all the machines and locked up the empire's power.

Its repositories contain a wealth of historical material from before the war, including many literary works created by the people who resisted Yarom.

Soon after, scientists modified it to make it friendly and no longer aggressive. After repeated testing, it was launched to the public and named 'Peace'. "

"At the end of the war, the Mayan people's technology has developed again. We can easily go anywhere, transform the space-time membrane, and create items that were previously unimaginable. Our bodies have even become extremely powerful, and we only need energy. As we continue to survive, the boundaries of gender are broken. Many people are born without gender. They can be men, women, or whatever gender you want to be.

After another long period of time, the development of science and technology reached its end, and our science came to a standstill. Many scholars began to study things that did not exist and published some strange research.

For example, virtual network, mathematics, memory, four-dimensional space, five-dimensional world...

Many technologies cannot be verified at all. Scholars can only let computers simulate it. After obtaining the results, they can't wait to publish them to gain society's attention. "

The conscious body smiled: "People at that time responded with ridicule to these scientists, which was a waste of crystals. Of course, the scientists themselves also knew that their research results were useless. They just studied them, published them, and stuffed them with data. In the database of the super machine 'Peace'.

At that time, the society was filled with an atmosphere of absurdity and decadence. People pursued all new things and lived in a state of intoxication in the virtual network.

This absurdity continued until a sociologist named Kalochi appeared.

He was originally just a very ordinary person. At that time, everyone in our society was an artist or scientist, and there was no need for people to work.

Kalochi is ordinary, but he wants to be famous. "

The narrative of the conscious body seemed to have entered a calm period. Xia Shumin, who had been nervous about the war before, picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.

"What did he do?"

Mu Xiaoxiao asked.

"He didn't do anything but tell a lie."

"lie?"

"right."

The conscious body said: "Kaluoqi wanted to be famous, but he had no talent, so he kept thinking and thinking. Finally one day, he got inspiration from the crystal, so he forged a survey data and posted it on the Internet. , saying that less than half of the crystals in our world are left, and calling on everyone to save energy."

"Hahaha."

Chen Ji couldn't help laughing, and Zhou Wan and the others couldn't help laughing either.

The conscious body also smiled, then glanced at the villagers, and soon turned into a sigh.

Chen Ji also stopped smiling.

This thing is funny, but not funny.

The conscious body continued:

"In Kaloqi's view, the world is so big that it is impossible to investigate the crystal reserves. He just wants to gain attention and get some research funds from the country.

People also laughed at him at first, thinking that there was no need to worry at all, and the crystals would not be exhausted so quickly, even after those wars.

Carlochi won the grant.

Ten years later, he and some scientists produced a report showing that our world's crystals had been consumed at least one-tenth.

Not half, but already a scary number.

At that time, the civilization of the Maien people had only lasted a million years. "

A million years.

It's not too small, but the crystal stones consumed are still staggering.

"The war consumed too much?" Chen Ji asked.

"War is part of the factor, and part of the reason is that the scientists who made the original calculations did not consider that our world's population would become so large and war would become so terrible."

The conscious body continued: "People were panicking about this, and after a lot of discussion, we made several decisions.

The first is to find ways to increase the crystals, the second is to find ways to prevent the crystals from losing energy, and the third is to reduce the use of energy.

But none of these decisions worked. Instead, some people went to extremes and started killing people consciously.

Our society is in turmoil. After realizing that resources are tight, people's competition for crystal stones becomes more intense, and war breaks out again.

This time, the intensity of the war was extremely terrifying. The space-time membrane was pierced in batches. The sky and the earth shattered and collapsed. The war was carried out by destroying other people's lives and living space.

By the time the war was over, our population had dropped by more than half. "

This time the consciousness did not describe the war process and duration in detail, but summarized it with cruel population reduction.

Chen Jineng could roughly guess how many people died. The world of Mayien, which is 100 light years away, has a total population of at least one hundred billion. You can imagine how cruel this war was.

"We can only draw one conclusion from this war:

War is not a catalyst for technology. "

Ma En's conscious body said calmly: "When a world's technology reaches its limit, war will not bring any changes to the technology.

After we repaired the space-time membrane and checked our crystals again, we found that the total amount of crystals in the entire world had dropped to one-third of its original size.

People began to reflect on the war and decided to destroy all war weapons and instead fully support the research of science and technology, trying to find a way to increase the crystal reserve. "

"We re-examined our technology, civilization, society, etc., recovered the data that had been lost for many years from the super machine 'Peace', and upgraded it again, naming it 'Void Exploration'. We hope that it will enable the Martian Ian’s technology has achieved a breakthrough.”

"Is that super machine still there?"

Chen Ji was a little surprised and glanced at Ma Yien, who was quiet and silent.

"Yes. It's still there."

The conscious body smiled slightly, "The super machine stores a large amount of data and is scattered around the world, so even if it goes through a war, its data is well preserved."

"We looked at all the previous technologies, and a theorem that we knew a long time ago but never paid attention to was rediscovered."

"This theorem is: the color of the crystal will always change."

Chen Ji nodded, indicating that he understood what this law represented. He turned to Zhou Wan and Mu Xiaoxiao and said, "It's very similar to the second law of thermodynamics."

They all learned about earth science and knew what the theorems of thermodynamics were.

As for Astana and Xia Shumin, they can only look at each other now.

The second law of thermodynamics states that heat can only be transferred spontaneously from a high-temperature object to a low-temperature object, but not the other way around.

In the world of Mayien, changes in the color of crystals also represent changes in energy.

"Does the earth also have such laws?"

After the conscious body asked clearly, he couldn't help but sigh: "We have actually known for a long time that the color of the crystal will only change in a fixed order, from colorful to monochrome, from monochrome to white, until all the energy is lost. , turned into useless black soil.

But we never cared about it, because we have too many crystals and don’t need to worry about energy.

It was not until after that war that scientists turned the focus of their research here again.

People are gradually realizing that when we use energy to create crystals, the ratio of consumption to output is always greater than 1! We spend two parts of energy to get one part of the energy stored in the crystal, and the rest of the energy is lost. "

"..."

Chen Ji was speechless for a moment.

The Maien people, whose technology has reached an extremely high level, have just realized that a perpetual motion machine cannot be created.

But they don't seem to be blamed.

They have this theoretical basis, but no one cares about it because they have countless crystal stones to squander!

It wasn't until they were concerned about energy consumption that they confirmed that a perpetual motion machine couldn't be built.

It's not that their technology isn't good, it's that their world limits perpetual motion machines. If you want to make crystals, you have to spend more energy.

But their crystals are constantly decreasing.

"Scientists are going crazy with the crystal color laws."

The conscious body continued: "No matter what we do, we can't reverse this law. We can reduce friction to an extremely low level, build machines more exquisitely, put the laboratory in subspace, or even introduce the space-time membrane, etc., all of which are irreversible. This law.

Fortunately, we can also recover energy from the air. Scientists are beginning to call on the Mayan people to start farming again. Yes, we have found that plants are the most convenient and beautiful way to collect energy. It is not the most efficient, but But it is the most unpretentious way! "

"Ha ha."

Chen Ji couldn't help laughing, and even Xia Shumin, who didn't quite understand, covered her mouth and started laughing.

Such powerful Mayien people returned to farming after tens of millions of years of development.

"We're finally breathing a sigh of relief."

The conscious body smiled and said: "We recalculated the spar reserves and found that the spar reserves were not that large in the past. With the increase in population and the development of science and technology, the consumption rate has increased many times.

Recalculating, our crystals will be used up in less than 100 million years.

Fortunately we can recapture energy from the air.

The energy problem seems to have been solved. In addition to paying attention to farming, people's life has become the same as before.

We have experienced war, peace, war, peace, history repeats itself.

It wasn't until our world was unified again and scientists checked the crystal reserves again that they discovered that less than one-tenth of our crystals were left.

People reflecting on the war are panicking again and calling on scientists to find a solution as soon as possible. Crystals are still our most important source of energy. Crystals are necessary to maintain the developed society of the Maien people.

Scientists decided to build metal plates that collect energy from the air and directly produce crystals, and placed them in various places around the world.

The situation was temporarily relieved.

It was peace again, and when people were reflecting on the war, they found that the efficiency of making crystals from metal plates was getting lower and lower, the price of crystals was getting higher and higher, and prices were also rising rapidly. Many people were forced to start working for survival.

People protested, people launched wars, fought for crystals, and grabbed land...

History keeps repeating itself, and reflection will only lead to the next reflection. "

The deep voice of the conscious body spread.

He talked about countless years of history in one breath. It was very long, but it didn't seem heavy because he kept repeating it.

Xia Shumin understood these words. People who read history books will only find what they want from the history books. The change of dynasties has never changed.

"Many years later, a man named Mayien unified the world and gained the highest power in our country as a consul."

Everyone was refreshed, and Ma Yien actually appeared? !

This name is not only the name of the girl next to Chen Ji, but also the self-proclaimed name of this civilization, which is enough to show its importance to the Mayien people.

Maien's consciousness has never mentioned this name before. There is a high probability that "Maien" comes from this person.