Homo sapiens.

Including the parent company of the solar system, dozens of branches of human civilization are doing their best to study the soul.

In fact, it is the study of dark matter and dark energy.

But time has passed without knowing it, and more than 100 years have passed.

Galaxy for 521 years.

More than 190 years have passed since the crisis caused by neurasthenia syndrome.

During this period, countless new human scientists have stepped forward to study dark matter and dark energy, as well as the relationship between these two things and the soul of creatures.

Even though huge manpower and material resources have been invested and more than 190 years of busy work have been done, there are very few results, and they are all theoretical results, none of which can be applied in practice.

However, with the passage of time, human civilization has also accepted the reality in desperation.

Of course, the 360-year-old life limit is accepted by many people frankly.

Including Li Qingye, he knew that he couldn't continue to be frozen. After all, within 372 years of freezing, if he couldn't wait for the treatment technology to appear, he would be out of his wits.

Instead of spending the rest of his life in a cryogenic hibernation cabin, he chose to break out of the cryogenic hibernation and use his last 50 years to solve some problems.

After explaining all the work of the company.

Li Qingye appeared on an artificial asteroid on the edge of the Kuiper belt, which will be his final work place.

He has decided that after his death, he will throw the atoms of his body on the Cooper Belt.

But he did not admit defeat, nor did he want to succumb to the rules of the universe. During the remaining 53 years, Li Qingye will go all out to research the soul, dark matter and dark energy.

Even if he failed in the end, he didn't have any regrets.

If he succeeds, he can change his fate against the sky again.

Inside the Asteroid Lab.

Many top scientists who were also unwilling to wait to die in the cryogenic hibernation cabin also joined Li Qingye's research team.

Li Qingye finished the day's research work exhaustedly. He looked at the laboratory where everything changed and people changed. His body looked very young, but in fact his soul was extremely old.

Suddenly, a message popped up in the e-mail box that hadn't appeared in a work letter for a long time.

This is the reminder program he set up, only those who are close to him can send messages.

After reading the message, Li Qingye sighed lightly: "I didn't expect you to leave too!"

That message was the obituary of Levi's. As one of the veterans of Homo Sapiens and the founder of the company's nuclear field, Levi's age was more than 20 years older than Li Qingye's, and the other party was unwilling to wait for death in the dormant cabin. Naturally, Soon the limit will be reached.

In the bathroom on one side, after washing his face with cold water, Li Qingye patted his cheek: "Come on! Let me see where my limit is!"

He rested for three hours on a deep sleep device before returning to his research work.

Assistant Dake saw his figure appearing in the laboratory, and immediately came forward: "Dr. Li! This is part of the technical information sent by the Sirius Group yesterday. I have already summarized the information about dark matter, dark energy and soul." .”

"Mmm! I'm sorry to trouble you!" Li Qingye took the tablet and browsed through it at a glance.

The Sirius Group is the one with the most in-depth research in the fields of dark matter, dark energy and soul among a group of subsidiaries.

Li Qingye attached great importance to the materials they sent.

Half an hour later, he finished reading more than 400 related papers, but Li Qingye's face did not relax because of this, but became even more frowning.

The reason, of course, is that the research papers of the Sirius Group have not made any breakthroughs.

"It's all superficial. Now we have no way to directly observe dark matter and dark energy, which is the root cause of our research difficulties."

Dr. Ivan, who was not far away from him, heard his muttering, and came over with a face full of helplessness:

"Yes! We can only observe dark matter and dark energy through several indirect methods, and the information in this is too distorted."

"Ivan, how is the situation over there?"

Ivan shook his head: "There is no way. I have conducted quite a few tests on hundreds of volunteers, and found that their souls have not changed much in response to changes in various bright substances."

Li Qingye fell into deep thought, and suddenly his eyes flashed: "No! Logically speaking, when we human beings are in the stage of embryonic formation, the soul should appear at the same time, so here comes the question! Why does the soul appear during the embryonic development process? "

The others were also lost in thought.

This is indeed a key question.

Now they don't need to think about why the soul is composed of dark matter and dark energy, they only need to know the "birth" of the soul in the embryonic development stage of life.

Why do you want to figure out this problem?

The reason is very simple, as long as you understand how the soul is born during the embryonic development process, you can learn from this method to replenish the human soul or return it to its original state.

One of the researchers didn't figure out the key, but he made a suggestion: "Dr. Li! Let's use genetic engineering to cultivate a batch of wild animals!"

Li Qingye nodded: "Yes! Yes! You can make arrangements."

It's really useless to think about it here now.

And by doing experiments, observing the changes in the development of biological embryos is a feasible solution to study the birth of souls of organisms.

Soon, a large amount of raw materials for cultivating wild animals were injected into special cultivation chambers, and then tens of thousands of animal embryos were cultivated.

Everyone is operating various equipment and conducting various tests on these biological embryos, hoping to find the mystery of the birth of the soul.

But this time, they all failed.

During the development of tens of thousands of biological embryos, all kinds of data have been analyzed trillions of times by supercomputers, but the result is still nothing.

Li Qingye was not dejected because of this, because he understood that if this secret was so easy for them to find, then the universe would have already been filled with immortal species.

Apparently, this secret involving the birth of the soul of the living body is one of the deep physical rules of the universe, and it is a very hidden one.

However, Li Qingye did not fight alone, he immediately shared this idea with the entire scientific community of human civilization, allowing them to join in the research.

He doesn't believe that if the intelligence of three trillion new humans is concentrated, the hidden secrets will not be discovered.

As long as the mystery is found, human civilization can further break through the boundaries of life.

Chapter 691 A Difficult Choice

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This is the main color in interstellar space travel.

Although there are hundreds of millions of stars dotted on the background, those artificial earths at this time still feel extremely lonely.

The scientific and technological progress of human civilization, after more than 500 years of rapid development, has entered a bottleneck period at this time, and the research and development of various technologies has begun to slow down.

Even with the experience of omnic civilization, coupled with the encounters of human civilization itself, human civilization still has no way to break through the boundaries of first-level civilization and reach the level of second-level civilization.

Not even a quasi-secondary civilization can reach it.

The Chixin Group on Artificial Earth 34 also fell into a technological bottleneck.

In the Earth Science City of the Chixin Group, Gao Long woke up again from the frozen hibernation cabin.

At this time, he only has a natural lifespan of about 133 earth years left. After handing over his duties to the new generation, Gao Long, like Li Qingye, chose to participate in the scientific research in the field of soul research.

At this time, 12 earth years have passed since Li Qingye proposed the idea of ​​finding the birth of the soul from the embryonic development process.

However, the key idea, various research institutes and researchers who have done countless experiments, still have nothing.

Gao Long had been dormant for five years. He came to the data center in Science City and read various papers and academic conferences on the field of souls in the past five years.

After watching it for more than ten hours, although his face was expressionless, he felt somewhat regretful and helpless in his heart, and sighed lightly: "Huh... still no breakthrough?"

Another old researcher who just woke up had a bit of bitterness involuntarily on the corner of his mouth: "Not only has there not been much progress in the field of souls, but other technologies have also experienced slow development. The field of neutron materials has stayed at the eight-neutron stage for nearly 200 years. Years..."

Gao Long leaned on the chair, muttered to himself with sad eyes: "That time is running out..."

The other old researchers were also silent.

Their hearts are full of mixed feelings, and at the same time, they also have the grief of hurting their own kind.

Gao Long woke up from the sadness, and then patted his face, and then he looked at the others: "No one has died in life since ancient times, this is life, this is the law of the universe, let us use up the last bit of strength now, Charge against the eternal rules!"

"Old Gao, you are worthy of being a minister. You speak in a way." Another old researcher laughed.

Immediately, the melancholy atmosphere at the scene was also diluted a lot.

Gao Long smiled and shook his head: "Life is always going on, let's go! I'll go to the laboratory first."

"Come along!"

Soon the group came to a small laboratory covering an area of ​​tens of square kilometers.

There are also many researchers and auxiliary staff working here on a daily basis, as well as a large number of intelligent robots.

Due to the technology and information of the omnic civilization, and it is still a cracked version, the human civilization actually has a very strong technical reserve in the technology of intelligent robots.

But precisely because of this, human civilization is much more afraid of artificial intelligence than other civilizations.

The reason is that once artificial intelligence breaks through the limitations, it can even turn the customer into the main, directly devouring and creating its own mother civilization.

Therefore, the human civilization headed by Homo sapiens has very great restrictions on intelligent robots, basically cutting off the possibility of robots or supercomputers being born with intelligence.

The robots in the laboratory now look a bit rigid and stupid, because the Chixin Group has imposed double restrictions on the robots in terms of physical hardware and virtual software.

As for why not learn the information of omnic civilization to live forever.

In fact, after the outbreak of neurasthenia syndrome, many researchers have studied the relevant information of dozens of civilizations such as six-claw civilization and omnic civilization.

Finally, it was found that carbon-based organisms and information organisms actually have the same soul, and there is also a limitation on the lifespan of the soul.

However, carbon-based organisms always tend to develop in an individual + group mode.

The information organisms tend to tend to the superorganic development mode.

Then why does the information creature show the "phenomenon" of eternal life?

In the final analysis, the two sides have different definitions of life. The mother and daughter of information life are actually one super entity, and they can also be transformed into each other.

Therefore, every "system update" of the omnics means that they are reincarnated once, and their souls are reset to their original state.

But there is no way for new humans to use this method.

On the one hand, omnics have no gender and relatives, and they do not have the ethics of carbon-based creatures.

On the other hand, in the genetic memory inheritance model of human beings, if human cloning is adopted, it can indeed become another "self".

But the soul born in the embryonic stage of human cloning is definitely not the self, but the "memory" is the self.

So, is that really "myself"?

In addition, how to solve ethical and moral issues?

Human cloning is different from an artificial human. To put it bluntly, an artificial human is actually equivalent to a test-tube baby. An artificial human is not a copy of that person, but an independent individual.

But a clone is not an independent individual, but a copy of the original.

In fact, Li Qingye had a lot of clones frozen, but he never made up his mind to use clones.

Because he knows very well that cloning can make people live forever in disguise.

But is immortality really good?

This is a question that Li Qingye and others often pondered in the last days of their lives.

If they don't die, they will permanently occupy a portion of the mass of the universe.

And if they don't die, then their descendants will definitely choose not to die.

At this time, human civilization will face a desperate choice. Without a way to break through the bottleneck of the speed of light, human beings can only live in isolated planetary systems for a long time, which means that the resources of this system are limited.

In a system where resources are limited, there is a nearly immortal species in it, and the reproduction speed of this species is very fast, and at the same time, this species has no way to divert excess tribes on a large scale.

Then this system takes jujube pills.

In fact, there are only two roads in front of human beings now, one is to use human cloning, but from then on, they can no longer breed offspring;

Human cloning and offspring reproduction are incompatible.

Otherwise, it will destroy the ecological balance of the system, and then expose itself.

Moreover, cloning completely replaces the offspring, and it may not be able to last forever. After all, doing so is equivalent to losing the diversity of the entire race, and the development potential will become worse and worse as time goes by.

Choose your own immortality, or choose the future of the race.

This is a tough choice.