79: Chapter 79: The Appearance of Humans Was Intentionally Arranged

These thought-provoking words fell.

The live stream room fell into a brief silence, followed by an overwhelming explosion of bullet comments.

"Treating 1.4 billion people as neurons to transmit information, this concept is just too advanced!"

"Wait, what if we humans are currently doing just that... And everyone has bioelectricity in their brains. You communicate with me, I communicate with him, he communicates with you; combined, that's 8 billion people, vaguely interacting all the time? Damn, the more you think about it, the scarier it gets!"

"Didn't the senior from Huaqing University just say? He went to apply for the quantum computer room; and theoretically, it is possible, as long as we see if the upcoming simulation experiment is successful!"

"So, damn it, this isn't science fiction?"

"Absolutely not!"

"..."

In the Principal's office.

Principal Fu put on his suit jacket.

Because those words had made his chubby body temperature drop slightly.

"If everyone is an information node, exchanging data in real-time through 5G, or even 6G, and the country's high-G networks..."

"What kind of algorithm would that actually require?"

Professor Wang Shouren leaned back in his chair, "This reminds me of a line from the Tao Te Ching: 'Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs.'"

"If a [xia nation consciousness] were truly to be born."

"Would it be Heaven, Earth, or Man?"

Beside him, young Xiao Wang looked at Professor Wang Shouren, his face somewhat pale:

"Uncle Wang, don't scare me; if, I mean if—"

"If this consciousness really forms, won't everything we do now be within its perception?"

As the words fell, the office suddenly went quiet, and over a dozen teachers looked at each other, no one speaking.

...

Kyoto University of History staff housing.

Professor Chen Runzhi muttered to himself:

"National destiny, this seems to be visible national destiny!"

"If it truly forms, it won't just be simple national destiny, but a [1.4 Billion Super Consciousness] based on 1.4 billion people."

"I'm really curious about what it will become!"

Old Qian and Professor Wang Shouren exchanged a glance.

A super consciousness mixed with the positive and negative sides of 1.4 billion people...

It could be said to be the child of 1.4 billion people, or the composite of 1.4 billion people.

The more one thinks about it, the more incredible it becomes. It must be a god among men, with an IQ surely exceeding 20,000, right?

...

In Kyoto, at Qingfeng Temple.

Zheng Ming slammed the table, feeling like he could do it again:

"Everything was going well, then suddenly he compared people to neurons."

"This is simply obliterating humanity, obliterating the sanctity of the individual!"

Celestial Master Zhang, sitting opposite him, had a calm expression.

This twenty-nine-year-old Celestial Master looked at Jiang Zhe, his eyes flashing with a strange light:

"Zheng Ming, you have it backward."

"What?"

"It's not Xiaoyu's brother who is objectifying humanity."

Celestial Master Zhang said softly,

"But that he is pointing out the reality that we have already been objectified—"

"From the moment 1.4 billion people realized that everyone is inseparable from their mobile phones, we have already voluntarily become components of a larger system."

"This!"

Zheng Ming was instantly speechless.

So this was a thought experiment based on the behavior of never being away from one's phone?

Xu Mu, however, was as earnest as a student, seriously recording the video and noting down the key points.

"The Avatamsaka Sutra says: One is all, all is one. Foreign theology also has [God is all, all is God]:"

"If everyone's consciousness could be interconnected through an information network, then a qualitative change at the magnitude of 1.4 billion..."

"Would indeed give birth to an [One] that we cannot understand."

Zheng Ming just wanted to retort...

But he saw Celestial Master Zhang pointing at the bullet comments.

[Huaqing University's genius Li Mo has successfully applied for the college's quantum computer, and we can simulate this experiment in a moment!]

Xu Mu said excitedly:

"They are actually going to try it; once the academic world starts taking Xiaoyu's brother's idea seriously..."

"It will no longer be..."

Before he could finish, Celestial Master Zhang took over: "Just an idea!"

...

In the living room.

Xiao Yu stared at Jiang Zhe, feeling like she had grasped something again, but it slipped away smoothly.

Jiang Zhe leaned on the sofa, his eyes looking toward the deep night outside the window.

"So, returning to the core of today: Why are there more and more people, and why is human information becoming increasingly complex!"

"There is only one answer!"

Xiao Yu instantly pricked up her ears to listen, and the viewers were also focused on the screen.

"That is naturally because—the Earth wants human and animal information to be increasingly mixed!"

"Wants?"

Xiao Yu asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Yes." Jiang Zhe nodded gently: "In order to keep the authority of human civilization in its own hands—to control the development of human civilization, letting civilization both progress and regress, always living in dire straits."

"Now think about it—what have humans done to the Earth?"

"Except for major civilizations that have the concept of protecting the Earth."

"Most small countries, again and again, dig into its bones, its blood, everything."

"It is fine to take, but have those people given anything back to the Earth?"

"The Earth allows humans to dig, but what have those humans given back to the Earth? Nothing, right?"

As the words fell, Xiao Yu's expression gradually became heavy.

That's right!

Humans have always been taking from the Earth, but rarely giving back.

Except for currently technologically advanced countries, which have started new energy—this is a way to protect the Earth.

But it seems it's still not enough.

Species that bring no help to the Earth, is there no need for them to exist?

Looking at Xiao Yu's thoughtful expression, Jiang Zhe spoke again:

"So!"

"The Earth does not need simple, so-called conscious wisdom like humans."

"It only needs the most basic self-healing instinct—just like when the body detects a virus invasion, it automatically develops a fever to kill the virus: the Earth also has its own immune mechanism."

"When the Earth's environment is damaged, or even just a little bit damaged."

"It doesn't need to trigger floods or natural disasters to destroy human civilization."

"It only needs to move its finger."

"Injecting [riotous] animal information from within a zero-point field, for example: the riots of Arctic lemmings or black rhinoceroses, or highly aggressive conscious information, into the high-level officials of a small country."

"The Earth can make a small country wage a war against another country."

"Once a war starts, although resources will be briefly destroyed, the population will also be significantly reduced."

"Small countries keep fighting, and eventually, major powers will also join in one after another!"

"Thereby disguising the reduction of the human population!"

"When the Earth's population begins to decrease sharply, the Earth's resources also begin to recover."

"Just like the beginning of a dynasty—after war, there are fewer people, and resources are recovering; at the beginning of a dynasty, resources are abundant; by the mid-to-late period of a dynasty, resources gradually become insufficient, unable to support so many people → until the late period of the dynasty, civil unrest begins → after civil unrest—the total population starts to decrease again, resources begin to recover, and gradually become abundant."

"These are reflected not just in national destiny, but even more in... the entire Earth!"

Speaking to this point, Xiao Yu and all the viewers' expressions became heavy again.

And Jiang Zhe's expression became increasingly serious:

"Xiao Yu, the root cause is—you think humans are free?"

He raised his index finger and shook it gently.

"Wrong!"

"Humans have never been free."

"In fact, our every move has always been under the control of the Earth!"

"Germs run wild in your body; you don't pay attention to them, and they think you are easy to bully; but what the germs don't know is—you only need one amoxicillin to mobilize white blood cells to easily kill them: this is [temperature]!"

"And humans were deliberately arranged by the Earth to appear in the current time period!!"

"Regarding this issue, it involves multiple mass extinctions, and I will explain it thoroughly tomorrow night."