577 Mystery
The fifth planet of Gregu, the first moon.
Main control room.
Hornheim looked through the glass window at the assembled device in the huge space below, and the expression on his face was quite complicated.
Bradley, the Bora, was standing beside him, staring at the huge device as well.
"Honeheim, you don't seem to be very happy? Do you have any doubts about carrying out this plan?"
"I was wondering, can we really succeed? According to the organization's research, after the success of ascension, super civilization has become a form of life that we cannot understand. And have those smog people really succeeded in ascension?"
"They are pure spiritual beings, different from all life we have seen before. Isn't this a 'life form that we cannot understand'?"
"But they have to use that cloak to maintain their existence. Once the cloak is damaged, they will be wiped out!"
"No, the researchers in the organization think they were back somewhere and then put on new cloaks. Otherwise, it would not be possible to explain how they replenish their lost manpower in the process of conquering one galaxy after another."
Hornheim still couldn't let go. He was silent for a while before saying: "I still can't agree. After the ascension of super civilization is completed, it should theoretically become a perfect omnipotent life, and I can't see such clues in the smog people."
"They just don't meet your expectations, or so, Mr. Hornheim, describe to me what the super civilization should look like after the ascension is completed?"
Hornheim was silent.
Bradley, a Pola, smiled and said, "Look, you can't tell it. Maybe the perfect form after ascension is a harmless little girl who looks for people to eat. Although it is ridiculous, this possibility also exists, right? Because no one knows what a perfect life form should be. You can't prove that the current form of the smog person must not be the so-called perfect form."
Hornheim tried to argue: "I just think that the shape after the ascension is completed should be more different from us, and there should be a courage and strength to look down on us. And how does the smog man do it? It cooperates with us! Just imagine, will you cooperate with those lives that are one level lower than you?"
"If keeping a pet is considered a cooperation, I do..."
"That obviously doesn't count!" Hornheim interrupted Bradley, "No. If the super civilization who truly completes ascension comes to us, it should indeed feel like a high-level species raising pets."
No, they seem to prefer to be kept.
"How can these smog people work with us and each of us to get what we need. A super civilization and a species that has evolved to the next stage need the help?"
Indeed, they only need you to provide food. Oh no, it is a pity that the food of the swallow race is likely to be unsuitable to the super-civilized appetite.
Hornheim stopped, gasped for a moment, and continued: "I am now full of anxiety about this experiment because I can't guarantee that my fellow citizens will not become like those smog people."
"Think about it, you can use powerful psychic energy by becoming a smog person. And you will have no need for material enjoyment. From then on, material desires will no longer hinder you from achieving the ultimate way of goodness. Isn't this good?" The Bora changed his perspective to convince Hornheim.
Hornheim shook his head.
"The Way of the Supreme Goodness, Hum, I haven't been to church for many years. When I was young, I really wanted to follow the Way of the Supreme Goodness. If we were the only ones in the Milky Way, we would have long reached the ultimate harmony described by the Way of the Supreme Goodness. But there are other races in the Milky Way. As long as we communicate with other races, our belief in the Way of the Supreme Goodness will continue to disappear, so we can only limit communication to the level of the upper-level organization. And I am a member of the upper-level."
“But you support this project.”
Hornheim was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Because supporting this project can allow me to get a lot of benefits from the organization. Isn't this obvious?"
"You have taken so many benefits and now you have to make the organization feel that the investment is worth the money. If you refuse to continue to advance the experiment, the organization will destroy you and your family."
Bradley said unabashedly.
"Of course I know, so I'll continue to experiment."
The Bora sighed: "I thought you were a comrade who shared my dreams, but I didn't expect you to be another dirty speculator. Like another facilitator many years ago, you all exuded the stinking of realism."
"Whatever you say."
"Why can no one understand the greatness of evolution? We have been staying at the stage of tangible life for too long, look at this Galaxy Council. We used a harmonious and progressive painting cake to trick all our races together, but tens of thousands of years have passed, and we are still standing still, the progress of science and technology is getting slower and slower, a model of spacecraft can be produced for thousands of years, and the interval between great scientific discoveries is getting longer and longer, so that from my birth to now, there is no great discovery that really relies on ourselves to make progress. Everyone has to reverse engineering the antiques of previous civilizations excavated to achieve progress.
"If we continue like this, we will die slowly. For this reason, we must take steps forward and take a step further on the ladder of evolution! Why do you people just don't understand this? What's even more infuriating is that the top leaders of the organization who should have been like-minded have also been mixed up with opportunistic borers! Under the name of the lofty ideals of the organization, we obtain real benefits and thus realize their personal inflated ambitions! But this time, the idealists will win, and those of us who inherit the spirit of the founder of the organization will realize his great wish!"
The Bora opened his arms, and at this moment the impression of calmness and cunning it usually gave people was gone, and he looked like a simple and crazy child.
"I thought you could understand what kind of future this device carries, Hornheim! You are so disappointing to me now."
"I'm very sorry." Hornheim said sincerely.
"Hmph, forget it. You have your job to do. I don't want to let a young boy who doesn't know where to make everything go like the last time."
"Are you referring to the experiment originally planned to be conducted in the Great Arctic Galaxy? I heard that even if no one comes to disrupt the situation, the experiment itself will not be successful because there are fatal flaws in theory..."
"There is no problem with the theory, but the human beings have problems. We originally thought that semi-mechanization and highly informatized human beings were very suitable for experimental goals, but we were wrong. Human semi-mechanization did not unify their values, and highly informatization did not make their will converge. Therefore, the experiment was discovered by the human authorities in the first stage and characterized as a wide-area indiscriminate mental attack.
"It's really foolish that they actually regarded the great experiment as a terrorist attack. After summarizing the experience of the failure of the Arctic Star, we chose you. At present, this choice is correct. The first phase of the experiment did not have any impact, so the formal experiment will definitely go very smoothly. Your Swallowers will likely become the first race to complete the ascension of the Galaxy Council. This is the benefit brought to you by the faith of the Supreme Way that lasts for thousands of years. In this sense, you should really thank the Jiasu people."
Hornheim stared at the Boras for a moment before saying, "Did you reveal too much information?"
"I often do this," the Bora man gave Hornheim a blank look, "but there will be no leaks here, right? The operators here cannot leave or talk to the outside world before the experiment is completed. This is what you told me."
"That's right." Hornheim nodded.
"So you don't have to worry about leaking the secret before the experiment is successful. After the experiment is successful, hum." The Bora made a gesture to kill them, "And you, I think it's okay to let you know this, because you are now with the organization and the two people tied to the same car with me, and you won't do anything that will make the car overturn."
Of course, Hornheim nodded in response.
The Bora continued: "In addition, I know that you have been collecting information about the experiment of the Arctic Star back then. I know very well how well you learned about that experiment. What I just said is not new to you, right? Let me tell you something new. The agent who stopped me back then was not the miracle-making machine Lin Youde claimed by humans. Another human was also a swallower in his team."
The Bora stared at Hornheim and didn't speak for a long time.
"A Swallower?" Hornheim frowned in confusion, "but I have never heard of any Swallower who has participated in an action against the organization."
"Of course, because I didn't report this to the organization. Only I had seen the Swallower. I was so shocked at that time. Until now, I was still wondering what was going on. However, the answer to the riddle will be revealed soon, I guess."
"What's going on? What's wrong with that Swallower?"
"You don't need to know this. I guess the truth will surface when our experiment officially begins."
Hornheim frowned: "As a saurus, I don't like this kind of mysticism. If you insist on not telling me, I don't plan to force it. But if you can give me more information about that saurus, maybe I can find who he is..."
"No need, I know who he is." The Bora interrupted Hornheim's words, "I am so confused and surprised because I know who he is. At the same time, I also gave birth to a guess. In what you just said, there is one thing I actually agree with, that is, the smog man is not high enough, yes, it is not high enough. Hornheim, have you ever thought that a more advanced and perfect life form may be a four-dimensional creature?"
Chapter completed!