Soul of Burning Steel

Because of the game [Continent of Disputes], most of the chaotic memories sealed by Joshua have been slowly obliterated and softened by the mental exhaustion of more than a billion people day and night.

Similarly, because of the fact that the game can obtain a reliable transcendent inheritance, it can be said that this game has become popular in the entire Mycroft civilization, and has even become a part of everyone's life.

In this regard, Joshua and the entire Mycroft civilization can be said to be mutually beneficial. Without Joshua's resistance and destruction, it is impossible for the chaotic memory to be softened by the spiritual will of most ordinary people, and then be On the other hand, if there are no multi-threaded, multi-faceted attempts and analyzes by more than one billion people, Joshua alone will not be able to solve tens of millions of problems so quickly, no matter how powerful he is. Chaotic memories of different classifications.

Only when the two parties cooperate with each other can the effect be far greater than one plus one greater than two.

Up to now, a few years have passed since the Cthulhu of Death incident, and most of the chaotic memories have been completely smashed and digested, and the knowledge contained in them has gradually spread to the entire civilization along with the progress of the game. To enhance the strength of the entire Mycroft civilization, and Joshua also benefited a lot from it. After all, he is a fighter who specializes in life energy and steel power. Even if he is in a condescending state, he wants to learn quickly. The essence of other extraordinary powers also requires the cooperation and experimentation of other existences in civilization.

In fact, as early as a few years ago, Joshua invested and founded many supernatural organizations, such as the "Human Progress Technology Group" specializing in body transformation, and the "New Ji Dawn" trying to create a new method of fighting qi. Will', as well as the 'Luminous Society' that has been secretly researching chaos-related matters within the College of Winterhold, these things are things that he himself does not have the time and energy to do, but it is necessary to do things, the soldiers will Leave things to others, and you only need to control a general direction.

The results are also very exciting. The human progress technology group already has very mature experience and technology in human body transformation. The member of the elite team, the alchemist Constantine, is one of the more successful examples. There is another name called "Winter Castle Champion Academy Fighter Alliance". To put it bluntly, it is the group of fighting spirit practitioners who graduated from the Winter Castle Warrior Division, not to mention the Luminous Association. The leader is No. 3, and there is even a direct investment from the imperial family, which is dedicated to researching matters related to the Chaos Familia and evil gods.

The progress of civilization, that is, his progress. A transcendent can be independent of civilization, but it is not necessary. The two sides complement each other and can give full play to their potential. Progress is more comfortable and simple than fighting alone.

This path of mutual support is the order that Joshua and other legendary powerhouses have settled down after thinking for a long time.

In the silver world, Joshua's will is like an invisible wind, just like the invisible God's perspective in the game, passing one by one floating continents, looking down on the lives of many civilized heroes... Among them, the daily tasks are completed The best few heroes of civilization, 'Lava Giant', 'Thunder Jellyfish' and 'Rock Devourer', have already reproduced part of their race with the support of Joshua and multiplied in their own territory Survive, and with their hard work, the area and quality of the floating continent have become larger and larger.

However, there are exceptions, like the heroic spirit of the rock-eating giant worm, who expressed that he did not want to continue to be cared for by Joshua in the greenhouse, but wanted to expand the territory for the soldiers, and repay the kindness of life while earning his own living. This semi-elemental life race that mainly feeds on metal-bearing rocks will soon relocate from the silver world, take a beam of restoration light, and go to a new world in the multi-dimensional galaxy that is suitable for its race to survive... and they are empty The position can just be reserved for a new revived heroic spirit of civilization.

"It has entered a virtuous cycle... A revived civilization is familiar with this strange world through the heroic spirits, and then the heroic spirits revive their own race, teach them common sense and knowledge, multiply again, and under the guidance of the heroic spirits and me, they quickly form into a civilization. A brand-new intelligent civilization... At that time, I am afraid that I can become a sower, and when I encounter a life world suitable for survival, I will sow an entire intelligent race."

Looking at this scene, Joshua couldn't help but nodded slightly, which was also within his expectation. Rather, the reason why he revived these failed races was to 'spread order' better and faster, and then through These civilizations are instilled with the 'knowledge and culture' belonging to the Mycroft civilization, allowing them to grow rapidly while also becoming natural supporters of the Mycroff civilization, or even members of the Mycroff civilization.

However, the resurrection is not without cost. Joshua's conception of extraordinary power, the experimental body of human body modification, and the test practice of fighting qi cultivation methods are too dangerous, and it is difficult to find relatively weak human beings. At this time, alien races with various attributes and talents are the best test subjects.

Just like the 'emotional spectrum' system that Joshua came up with just now, before the Mycroft civilization is officially used, he will definitely make a deal with these resurrected races, let the other party conduct an experiment first, he can guarantee fairness and justice, and the experimenters will It is voluntary, but as for the consequences of the experiment, whether it is death, madness, or no effect, it is not easy to say.

No one has a problem with that because that's how the world works.

In fact, this approach is very similar to the 'civilization corrector', one of the natural disaster civilizations mentioned by the Great Khan of the Shepherd, except that what the civilization corrector does is to destroy the existing civilization and then shape it from scratch. ', and what Joshua did was 'resurrecting an extinct race and then shaping it from scratch', if I have to make a metaphor, the former is a bloody, undoubted terrorist, while the latter just happened to pass by and has the ability to resurrect Kind of Arbor.

"Yes, it's all good. There is no heroic spirit who is lazy, and everyone is working hard."

After inspecting all the floating continents, Joshua's will radiated a wave of satisfaction, just like an old farmer who saw leeks growing happily. After the wave, the warrior's will condensed and turned into a humanoid entity, landing on the world's Inside, among the endless crystal obelisks.

It can be seen that in the center of the world, a huge silver giant star is releasing endless light and heat, filling the world. , Obelisks stood densely like a forest, and Joshua's family, countless silver goblins, flew among the crystal forests, repairing possible cracks and damages on the seals of each obelisk.

At this time, most of the chaotic memories suppressed at the bottom of the obelisk have dissipated and turned into a part of Joshua's power, but there are still about 10 to 20% of the chaotic memories that are still very stubborn. The soldiers who landed this time are those One or two percent of the seal where the chaotic memory is located.

It can be clearly seen that the crystal obelisk in this place is much darker than other places, and the breath of chaos overflows here. Even if many silver goblins came to flap their wings in groups, they could not dispel the hazy mist.

However, when Joshua descended, all these dangerous mist dissipated invisibly in the breath, causing the surrounding groups of silver fairies to purely cheer.

"Praise the Lord!"

"The power of the ruler shines on the earth!"

This group of silver fairies did not go to the fairy town to study, but moved directly from the world of Karlis, so both their performance and reaction were very simple and pure, and they were not at all like the elemental fairies... Lively. Joshua is quite satisfied with this point. It's not that he doesn't like elemental fairies, but if all the silver fairies become like elemental fairies, wouldn't his world become a second fairy town? Even if it's a compliment, it's always 'You are so handsome! ’ ‘The master is awesome! ’ Such depressing words.

In fact, those elemental fairies praised their queen in such a tone.

"Wait and run a little farther, don't get close here, it's dangerous."

In the past, every time Joshua came, he would communicate with his family members to understand their recent situation and status, but this time he had something to do, so he simply asked the other party not to get too close, and then went directly to this place. Go to the core of the crystal obelisk.

After a few years, when other legendary powerhouses are working hard to recharge, and new legendary and extreme peak powerhouses are appearing one by one, Joshua also intends to completely solve the hidden dangers of chaos hidden in his own body.

At the same time, on the way to the core of the sealed chaotic memory, Joshua was also thinking, recalling the powerful civilizations and races he had recently encountered in the multi-dimensional galaxy.

Spirit Race, Knowledge Receiver, Star Shepherd, Amos Royal Court, Thakur Order, Lund Civilization, Wald Civilization, Phoenix Void Behemoth... and so on, all exist in the minds of warriors .

Ignoring the out-of-spec 'Nebula Life' Amos the Great and the 'Ling Zun of the Last World' Thakur Patriarch, these two incarnations can fight against the gods. The main body is probably much stronger than the true god. The ultimate extraordinary powerhouse The life that impressed Joshua the most was the "Phoenix Void Behemoth" he encountered not long ago and the strange life "Psychic Bug" scattered throughout the multi-dimensional galaxy.

Although it seems ridiculous to compare the two together, in fact, in Joshua's view, although the phoenix void behemoth is extremely powerful, in terms of life form, it may be inferior to psionic power. Bugs... even more than one level.

What I'm talking about here is not pure power, but survival mode.

It may be difficult to understand, but here is an example to illustrate the huge difference represented by different survival modes.

A kind of creature, temporarily called 'Hairless Naked Ape', they live in a primitive wild world, in plains and forests, there are many competitors and natural enemies, such as tigers and forests in the woods Wolves, lions and jackals of the plains. In addition, there are other apes in the same ecological niche as it, such as various hairy naked apes, baboon monkeys and orangutans.

The survival of the hairless naked apes is very difficult, and even a group cannot guarantee the continuation of the race. Generally speaking, if they want to gain an advantage in the long history of life evolution and allow their race to continue smoothly, they have two choices, one One is to evolve a tougher skin, stronger muscles, a larger body and stronger bones, and the other is to have more births and reproduce more. Even if many are eaten by many natural enemies, there are still many that can survive. continue.

To achieve this change, the Hairless Naked Ape can only hope for luck. What the former needs is an extremely strong, extremely tall, mutant individual that looks like King Kong, referred to as the Hairless King Kong, and this mutant individual has reproduced more offspring by virtue of its own strength. , and more hairless King Kong appeared in its descendants, and further modified the gene of the hairless naked ape, so that the hairless naked ape gradually completely turned into a hairless King Kong, and then gained an advantage in survival and made its own ecological niche jump , Drive tigers, lions, jackals, gray wolves and other beasts out of the forest.

The latter, like the former, needs a mutant, so that the changed bloodline can be passed on advantageously until it is completely changed—but regardless of when the mutation will appear, the process of bloodline change alone requires at least Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years.

This is the way of survival and evolution of the "beast", and it is also the way of survival and evolution chosen by the "beast of the void", the most powerful "beast" in the multiverse, and the phoenix void behemoth is no exception.

But intelligent life, the path chosen by 'civilization' is far from it.

When many hairless naked apes were in panic all day long, hoping that a King Kong would be born in the race, and when the evolution process that lasted for God knows how many tens of thousands of years began, suddenly one day, a genius appeared among the hairless naked apes.

—It has learned to use fire.

Of course, the order of things learned by Naked Hairless Apes in different worlds may be different. Some may learn psionic power, some may learn grudges, and some may learn other things, but the general meaning is the same - Naked Hairless Ape Abandoning the long "genetic blood transformation" and starting to "imitate behavior" to learn to use fire, learn to use tools, learn to use bows and arrows, knives and guns, and magic fighting spirit to survive in this world.

When a genius in a tribe can ignite the fire steadily, create swords, bows and arrows, so that the naked hairless apes can hunt their prey at a lower price than before and eat more nutritious food, all the naked hairless apes will go 'Imitation', and the time required for 'imitation', the difficulty itself is far simpler than 'blood inheritance'.

'Using tools' is essentially a mutation, which is no different from the mutation of a strong body shape, but it takes hundreds of thousands of years as a basic unit for a strong body shape to spread to all hairless naked apes in the world. It is even impossible to spread 100% at all, but the tools used are different. The evolutionary advantage it can obtain for the hairless naked ape is far greater than the body size. The speed of learning is also fast, and the speed of transmission is also fast. 'A more efficient 'knowledge evolution' survival mode, and at this point, the hairless naked ape can call itself a 'human being'.

Because since then, they have drawn boundaries with their previous selves and officially become a 'civilization'.

The essence of civilization does not lie in the body, and the fitness of individual human beings is no longer the most important part of survival advantage.

A short and unhealthy human being can't even beat a naked hairless ape with his bare hands. However, if he has a bow and arrow in his hand, the naked hairless ape may just turn around and run away. If he has a gun in his hand, an ordinary tiger will I don’t want to risk an attack, and if this person is wearing an exoskeleton armor and holding a wheel Gatling, good guy, even if this person is a malnourished asthmatic patient, it will not prevent him from chasing a group of ferocious beasts and crying for them. mother.

If it is said that, in addition to this, he also knows magic, fights qi, and is a priest of some kind of god, that would be even more remarkable. The education he has received in just a dozen years, and the extraordinary practice he has carried out, can kill thousands of wild animals. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary process are hanging up, and Warcraft is useless, because with the same resources and time, if a Warcraft is born among wild beasts, humans can educate at least a few dozen superhumans of the same level.

When the first hairless naked ape learned to use fire, learn to make spears, swords, bows and arrows, it became him, and it was no longer the same dimension as all beasts, and their life forms surpassed all beasts above, because they have mastered a more advanced evolutionary model, namely 'knowledge and technology'.

Just as the gene is the basic unit of life, which propagates through replication and inheritance, and evolves through mutation and mutation, and meme is the basic unit of civilization and culture, which relies on replication and imitation for propagation, and also relies on mutation and mutation (spark of inspiration) to evolve.

And this kind of knowledge evolution not only spreads, but also learns faster and progresses faster—the Stone Age lasted for about two million years, and even 10,000 years ago, human beings were still primitive intelligent life that could only use simple tools. But soon, in the following one or two thousand years, human beings learned to forge metal weapons. Beasts in nature could not make their minions so sharp after hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Guns, tanks, airplanes, missiles... all of these processes are at the same speed as flying, and beasts are no longer worthy of being compared with humans.

This is knowledge and technology, or the process of ‘meme information evolution’.

Rather than saying that the essence of human beings is a repeater, it is better to say that the essence of civilization is a repeater.

If extraordinary power is added, then the beast may barely last for a while. After all, the initial strength of this kind of power is too high, which is not the same as the fur of minions, and supernatural power can also give birth to ordinary beasts like void behemoths. None of civilizations can face and defeat the terrifying 'beast'.

"However, there is no need to make such a comparison, because civilizations also have their own powerful existences—for example, the legendary powerhouses in the Mycroft world, and various war weapons produced by Sanctuary civilization and the 'black mist matrix'. kind of thing."

"Unconscious existence."

"Conscious existence."

"Conscious cognition."

"Knowledge in itself."

"Change common cognition."

Joshua's division of survival modes can be roughly divided into the above five levels.

Compared with the primordial soup where no life exists, macromolecular organic matter and single-cell and multi-cellular organisms that have no self-awareness but can self-replicate and inherit characteristics are a higher level of survival mode than non-existence.

Compared with mature multicellular organisms, such as sponges, etc., which have evolved and matured, various beasts and insects with self-awareness have a higher level of survival. They can consciously change themselves and affect them more efficiently. The whole world.

But compared to the slow evolution that has abandoned the physical aspect, it uses 'memes', 'knowledge', this self-replicating, evolving 'thought' to form society, civilized human beings and all other intelligent life, Their life mode is another level higher than pure instinct creatures, slaves of genes, and this is the survival mode of the level of 'conscious cognition'.

As for the legendary powerhouses, gods, all kinds of powerhouses who rely on knowledge and extraordinary power to surpass their own life forms, it can be said that they have already stepped forward in the survival mode, but they have not yet fallen.

Their form of existence is already a super life form, immortal, and has almost no similarities with ordinary things, but there is no absolute difference in essence from ordinary intelligent life. It can only be said to be a very powerful intelligent life. If you have to say it, they are immortal, and they may be half a level higher than ordinary life.

Then, at a higher level, "self is cognition", life itself is meme... What about it?

Walking slowly among the crystal obelisks, Joshua let out a sigh of relief. He couldn't help recalling the time when he was puzzled when he was researching the 'psychic bug'.

Life like the 'psychic bug' is completely unclear how it reproduces, how it appears, and how it moves. Its material world entity is completely composed of psionic energy, but why does this section of psionic energy appear? Could it really be a life that exists completely in the form of memes?

Could it be that this seemingly unintelligent thing, like a cosmic cockroach, is actually a "meme life form" higher than their human beings?

"Actually, not necessarily. After all, no one knows whether psionic bugs have wisdom or not—maybe it's just the appearance we see, maybe the seemingly ordinary psionic bugs scattered throughout the multi-dimensional galaxy are just one. The huge overall life, his wisdom, may be vaster than all of us combined. The Phoenix Void Behemoth is nothing more than a "beast" that is powerful to the limit, it only exists in this world, and it is not worth mentioning at all. "

Of course, Joshua wasn't really thinking about which one was stronger and more advanced, the 'Phoenix Void Behemoth' or the 'Psychic Bug'. He was just comparing the two to figure out what was more important.

——Primitive life exists in the world. Beasts live in the world. Civilization recognizes the world. Legendary powerhouses try to understand the truth and the world, while the psychic worms may have become part of the world, that is, a universal phenomenon.

"Legendary is a super life that is half a step beyond ordinary intelligent life."

Thinking of this, the soldier murmured to himself: "Then, the evolution of the 'sages' who have clearly surpassed legends, and even more than one level, their evolution... may have reached the point where they can change their 'cognition'."

This is Joshua's idea of ​​"changing the universal cognition", that is, the "sage" living mode of "changing the world and changing the truth".

exactly.

Just when Joshua's thoughts were over, he arrived at his destination.

Joshua raised his head and looked at the super-giant crystal obelisk with a height of 4,521 meters in front of him, and the chaotic memory suppressed in it, exuding endless fluctuations of "Malicious Chaos".

The drifting black mist is like sticky asphalt in the air, which is extremely unpleasant.

"Before I step forward."

Looking at this stubborn chaotic memory that couldn't be softened and decomposed after billions of people spent days and nights, Joshua, who was exuding silver light all over his body, shook his head while raising his hand.

"It's time to clean up and deal with stubborn stains."

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