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"I see."

Chu Ge nodded, "So, if none of the one hundred intelligent individuals of a new civilization can reject the powerful power from the ancient times, so what?"

"In that case, the new generation of civilization is as hopeless as the ancient civilization, and doesn't know that we are wasting precious energy."

The nanomachines conveyed the message, "We will go back to sleep and wait."

Chu Ge said: "What are you waiting for?"

"Waiting for your destruction."

The nanomachine said, "Civilizations that cannot correctly understand power will inevitably be swallowed by their own power. It won't take long for you to follow the same path of ancient civilizations, devouring and destroying each other in cruel wars, and creating a new generation of civilizations. The emergence of civilization, make room for it."

Chu Ge scratched his head, not expecting the answer to be like this.

That is to say, fortunately, from the information transmitted by the devouring beast, he foresaw how a powerful civilization that traversed the universe would be destroyed by his own desires, arrogance and tyranny, and he became strongly wary of too powerful a force.

Otherwise, in all likelihood, he would not be able to resist the temptation of the ancient civilization—just like the four evil men and Li Jianguo.

If he, Li Jianguo, and the four murderers couldn't resist, Chu Ge felt that the result of more people walking into the Bronze Gate would be the same.

Once the nanomachines go into a dormant state again, when the frenzy of aura recovery intensifies, and the Three Realms find each other again, maybe they will really fall into the abyss of eternal doom!

Thinking of this, Chu Ge pondered for a moment, and said suspiciously: "So, if human beings can't stand the test, you will really wait patiently for human beings to destroy themselves, instead of... adopting some method to accelerate the extinction of human beings?

"Also, the second question. The nanomachines and supercomputers created by the ancient civilization are said to have extremely strong artificial intelligence, active logical thinking ability, and even some self-awareness. , Haven’t you thought about, uh, replacing the position of carbon-based intelligent life, becoming the sole successor of the ancient civilization, and creating your own civilization?”

"The nanomachines were silent for a long time.

Like a combination of aquatic plants and octopus, it dances lightly in the sea, releasing waves of thoughtful thought.

"Why?"

This is the result of their thinking,

"Why, we want to create our own civilization?"

"this--"

Chu Ge was about to blurt out, isn't it a matter of course for an intelligent life with self-awareness to create civilization?

But if you think about it carefully, the so-called "civilization" is just a concept of carbon-based intelligent life, or even a concept in the human context.

He is not a nanomachine, and he has no way of understanding this kind of life-like form that combines fungi, viruses, metal and machinery.

My honey, that person's arsenic, perhaps what is crucial to human beings, is really insignificant to nanomachines?

"During the hundreds of millions of years when the ancient civilization disappeared, we did think about inheriting the civilization of the ancient people."

Perhaps, because Chu Ge has activated the highest authority and became their new master, the nanomachine continued to explain to Chu Ge in detail, "Although at that time, the aura of the earth, the world of cultivating immortals and the world of phantom demons had been exhausted to the extreme, and they entered the so-called "Age of the End of Dharma", but no matter how exhausted the spiritual energy is, it is not equal to zero. Occasionally, some caves and paradises with relatively abundant spiritual energy can be found.

"Because of our unlimited proliferation and free flow characteristics, we can easily gather in these caves and maintain a certain degree of activity.

"In the beginning, we were in a daze, like newborn babies, and didn't understand the concept of the rise and fall of civilizations, nor did we know what constituted 'inheritance' and 'creation'.

"We just got used to being natural, imitating the appearance of our former masters, and using nanomachines to build cities of ancient civilizations one after another.

"Anyway, our mercury-like characteristics are like ever-changing plasticine, which can easily simulate any subtle and complex shapes. Not only can we 'build' a magnificent and resplendent city in a few minutes, we can even shape The residents of countless cities, including their pets, are full of traffic.

"Before the master died, he digitized everything about the ancient civilization and stored it in our thinking core. Therefore, we can retrieve all aspects of those glorious cities in the past, and make everything beautiful and lifelike. The reflection in the mirror is more realistic."

Chu Ge's heart moved, and he asked anxiously: "Are the 'Prime Ancient Ghost Towns' we encountered in the cave world, are they shaped by you?"

"Yes."

Nanomachines said, "We use this method to commemorate our creator, and try to find out the truth about the so-called 'civilization'. We want to know why the master—the master of the previous generation, changed from a small alien bacterium to Why do hairless monkeys develop the ability to use and make tools from hairless monkeys, and finally create language and characters, and build splendid cities one after another, and collectively call these urban clusters " civilization'.

"If civilization can make a race strong, no matter how powerful a race is, it is impossible to break through this vast and dark universe.

"If it is said that civilization can make a race last for a long time, but now the ancient civilization has been wiped out, and there is not even a slag left, but many ancient bacteria, viruses and lower organisms are still living comfortably, and it seems that they can still transfer their genes. Inheritance for at least another 100 million years.

"So, what exactly is 'civilization' and what can it do? We are still thinking, observing, and collecting more data in order to analyze and get close to the correct results."

Chu Ge was silent.

He can understand the idea of ​​nanomachines, but it is difficult to agree.

"Perhaps, 'civilization' is only something that works on carbon-based intelligent life?"

The nanomachine said in a low voice, "However, at the scale of nanometers, the so-called distinction between 'carbon-based' and 'silicon-based' does not exist at all. Carbon-based intelligent life is not the unique chosen one, not the ancients. Today's Nor are the people on Earth, this is just your arrogant conjecture.

"Standing on the scale of nanometers or more subtle, whether monkeys or robots or cockroaches or metasequoia or rocks, they are all the same in essence. We are all the products of an unprecedented big explosion a long time ago, and we are all made of the debris of stars. Combining, you, me, insects or the sun, the microbes living in your intestines, and a star shining millions of light years away, we are all the same.

"If 'civilization' has some irreplaceable significance for carbon-based intelligent life, then it must also play a guiding role in our existence and tell us where we should go.

"Therefore, you can rest assured that we do not intend to interfere with the civilization inheritance among your carbon-based intelligent life forms, but will do our best to play our role well, help your civilization develop and leap forward, and by the way, conduct observation and analysis.

"Even if we really want to develop our own civilization, we will wait until you are destroyed, no, it is after your successor's successor's successor's successor... After all are destroyed, I believe that at that time, after learning your experience and lessons, our civilization We will not repeat the same mistakes, but go further.”

Chu Ge blinked: "The heirs of the heirs... are all destroyed?"

"Any questions?"

Nanomachines said of course, "The scale of time is different between our nanomachines and your carbon-based intelligent life. We have been dormant for hundreds of millions of years, but it feels no different from taking a nap in the afternoon. We can also sleep again. Sleeping for hundreds of millions of years is nothing more than taking another nap.

"And in hundreds of millions of years, the civilization that is enough for carbon-based intelligent life has changed generations a dozen or twenty times, right?

"It's as if this generation of civilizations that appeared on the earth, the world of cultivating immortals, and the world of phantom demons has the longest history, and it is only 100,000 years old, and the civilization of the earth is only 10,000 to 20,000 years old. You have already developed to the point where you can self-destruct and degree of mutual destruction.

"According to our calculations, within the next 10,000 to 50,000 years, even with abundant aura, advanced technology and rational wisdom, the probability of your destruction or self-destruction will exceed 99%. In a million years, destruction is an extremely high probability event.

"So, please don't worry about us - your humblest and most loyal servants will rebel - we can wait and wait for your natural destruction."