From the end of the world

Chapter 574: The Fork in the Road to Saving the World

The purpose of the Gospel Institute is to restart the history of the new human race by exterminating almost all the old humans, as well as all the technology, culture, and existence traces related to the old human history, and retaining only a very small number of people who can reproduce the race.

The purpose of Taoyuan Township is to bring as many humans as possible to the world of dreams, and use its endless memory information materials to create a new dream space-time "Paradise", while sublimating its network into some ultimate existence, and the owner of Taoyuan Township will become the mind of the ultimate existence.

If the former symbolizes the destruction of human history, then the latter symbolizes the crystallization of human history. The achievement of the former means the failure of the latter, while the achievement of the latter will be a huge obstacle to the former.

Once the ultimate being that Taoyuan Township Lord dreamed of was born, even if all the gods of Luoshan and Gospel Temple were combined, it would be difficult to defeat it. It was very likely a mobile universe that existed in the form of unknown life, and it was not in the same dimension as the Great Impermanence. Even the Great Impermanence that opened the third door could not be compared with it.

Why would the Gospel House cooperate with the Taoyuan Township Lord?
Xiaowan handed me the document, and after looking at it carefully, I slowly understood the reason.

This document is Huang Quan's analysis and speculation about "Xanadu". His first sentence reads:
"The 'paradise' of Taoyuan Township Master Meng Zhang is the second solution to save the world that I found after countless setbacks."

It turns out that the owner of Taoyuan is called "Meng Zhang"... This is probably not his real name, but a nickname. After the Azure Dragon of the Four Symbols is personified, it is "Meng Zhang God". The official name of the Seed of the Heart is also "Meng Zhang Original Seed".

Considering that I have not found this name of the owner of Taoyuan Township in the Luoshan database before, it is possible that the name "Meng Zhang" is only spread in a small range, or it may be a nickname given to him privately by Huang Quan.

Huang Quan continued to write:
"The key point of 'Xanadu' is to absorb the souls and consciousness of countless humans. While becoming its residents, it also becomes its material.

"The dreams of a single human being are nothing more than a random combination of his or her own experience and knowledge. They cannot provide any real new information, just like a pool of stagnant water. However, the experience and knowledge of countless people gathered together can provide a constant stream of fresh information for each of them. Although the total amount of information remains unchanged and is still a random combination of inherent information, the volume is large enough to transform from a pool of stagnant water into a vast ocean, forming a huge self-circulating ecosystem within.

"This is similar to the conclusion of our Gospel Academy. If there were only a few humans left in the world, their descendants would soon face a survival crisis due to genetic diseases caused by inbreeding and the inability to maintain genetic diversity. But if there were thousands of people, things would be very different... This is a typical case of quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

"When 'Xanadu' reaches the level that Meng Zhang expects, it will no longer be a self-enclosed dream prison, but will become a brand new real universe, which may touch the great cause of the Great True Spirit. At the same time, this makes me realize another possibility -

“What would happen if all humans were transferred to this new universe?
"Of course, we must first make one thing clear. Even if we escape to a new universe, the end of the world will still follow us. Because the source of the end of the world is the wrong history of mankind. As long as humans continue to inherit this flawed worldview, the process of destruction is destined to continue to increase.

"But in other words, as long as humans are driven to other universes, the end of the world will not come to the original world.

"We can first detain and preserve the number of humans necessary for the reproduction of the species, and erase all memories and traces that can prove the existence of the old human history. At the same time, we can transfer and seal the eight billion humans into the dream universe. In the end, the eight billion humans will be destroyed together with the universe constructed by their own consciousness activities, and it will not affect us at all.

"What is the difference between this approach and the human genocide plan? Although many advantages can be listed, such as the temptation of beautiful dreams can make most people who are unwilling to endure the bitter reality fall into the trap, but the biggest advantage is that this approach can allow all mankind to usher in their demise in happiness.

"I have carefully studied Meng Zhang's plan. Although I still cannot truly empathize with him, one thing is certain. His 'paradise' can really create a dream of eternal happiness for a large number of people. Even in the last second before the end of the world, it can bring happiness to the residents that is unimaginable in reality.

"But if it goes according to my expectations and plans, the word 'eternal' in 'eternal happiness' of 'paradise' must be removed. Just as the life countdown of the life turbidity is calculated according to one's own subjective consciousness, and will adapt to changes in the different space where time flows faster, the end of the world, which is closely related to human consciousness activities, will also experience the same phenomenon.

"Therefore, even if the time in the 'paradise' is accelerated to a billion times that of the outside world, it will be useless. The doomsday process will also be accelerated. All human beings imprisoned in the 'paradise' are destined to meet destruction in less than ten years.

“Although I don’t know whether Meng Zhang himself has noticed this problem, at least this path is much milder than the human genocide plan.

"I call it the 'euthanasia program'.

"If we bring up this plan right away, there will definitely be a lot of people who think they are kind who will oppose it. Based on my understanding of Fa Zheng, he will definitely do so. But if we first propose the human genocide plan and then bring up this plan, even Fa Zheng might consider whether to join us."

While we were reading the document, No. 7 also came over. She was still holding the hair of the master, as if she was trying to do two things at once, reading the memory and reading the contents of the document at the same time. When she saw this part, she seemed to have encountered something extremely difficult, and said with an unpleasant expression: "Euthanasia... The essence of this practice is the same as the human genocide plan, both of which are to push all humans except themselves into a dead end, but..."

As the end of the world approaches, those in power who intend to make decisions for the future of mankind will inevitably be under tremendous psychological pressure.

Should we continue to place our hopes on "finding a perfect path that we don't know if it exists", or should we hurry up and execute the "cruel plan that has already been researched"... If we procrastinate, we may end up not being able to catch up with either side.

When the accomplished cultivators said "there is no other way", even though what No. 7 said hit the mark and they simply concealed the mentality of not caring about the lives of countless humans, there was still a hint of truth in that sentence.

There was more to the document, so I read on.

“Also, although it still needs to be built on the basis of ‘Xanadu’, there may be a third way.

"If it is really possible to allow all human consciousness to enter the new universe, then we only need to change all human consciousness itself to completely get rid of the wrong old human history - Meng Zhang must have such authority.

"All the knowledge, technology, culture, history, personal memories, emotions, values, social relations, language, ideology, national and ethnic positions accumulated by past human civilizations are discarded, and eight billion humans are transformed into blank Homo sapiens to live in a 'paradise' and redevelop a new civilization history from the Paleolithic Age... This is also a solution.

"Since this can be done, why can't we separate the two wrongly merged histories in the 'Utopia'? Of course, I have considered this solution, but it is impossible.

“Although the world today can be divided into the world of common sense and the world of weirdness, and the histories of the two seem to be independent of each other, it does not mean that we can avoid historical contradictions by simply separating the two histories.

"The myths and traditional customs of the common sense world have many shadows of the weird world; while the thoughts and culture of the demon hunters have a lot of common sense background. These two circles are like Tai Chi, seemingly black and white, but in fact, you have me and I have you. At this point, we have no way to restore what the original history was like, and we can only scrap it all.

"Unfortunately, this route requires Meng Zhang's approval, and those 'erroneous old human history information' that we don't need are precisely the important resources that Meng Zhang believes are indispensable.

"Perhaps, I should try to convince him. Or..."

This is where the documentation ends.

"This third path is not much different from the first two paths..." No. 7 sighed, "If we bleach everyone's consciousness in the material world, it would be fine... No, it can't just be like this, but even if it is like this, everyone at least retains their original body, so we can make a distinction from this level.

"But in a world composed purely of consciousness, if the consciousness of all humans is bleached so thoroughly, there is truly no difference between them. What is left is not so much 'eight billion humans' as 'eight billion human consciousness resources'. What appears in the dream afterwards is no longer the original people, but new humans created by piecing together those resources..."

The pot calling the kettle black - people often use this proverb to describe similar things.

Although No. 7 said this, his eyes were quite serious. Even if it was the pot calling the kettle black, there was still a gap of fifty steps between them. The other two paths pointed out by Huang Quan might cause the positions of the forces hostile to the Gospel Institute to waver.

At the same time, I noticed something else.

In these documents that talk about "saving the world", there is not a single word about the Seal of God.

(End of this chapter)