MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 348 Fictional Morality

The Black Hole Battle Body, a colossal entity with the mass of 600 suns.

Inside, multiple layers of black hole structures are nested together, and through the complex interaction between event horizons, spacetime, with its time and space coordinates reversed, is twisted like a pretzel.

The incredibly complex and twisted structures together form a labyrinth completely sealed inside the black hole, a closed system where time can roam freely and space remains monotonous and unchanging.

The vast labyrinthine structure gave rise to a magnificent colossus of complex intelligence.

Inside this complex time-space labyrinth, Tiga and Shinjo fell into a long silence.

Ultraman Tiga continues to move forward. With each step forward, the surroundings—places that should be spatial coordinates in the outside world—become the past and the future.

With each step Tiga takes, from before and after his death, in all directions, every possible coordinate in time and space begins to synchronously generate one identical Ultraman Tiga after another, like a multidimensional fractal diagram bursting outward from a point.

Time... no, it should be said that space flowed away little by little. In a state between life and death, like Schrödinger's cat, Ultraman Tiga occupied all the time coordinates and completely blocked all the spatial coordinates within this complex and nested spacetime labyrinth.

Finally, he stopped.

In the time-space labyrinth, at each time coordinate point, Tiga simultaneously raises his head, looks at his other selves at other time coordinate points, and emits a soft light, connecting them to each other.

A complete analysis of the black hole giant has been achieved!

……

Unbeknownst to him, Xincheng's consciousness went haywire, and the chaotic, overlapping, and contradictory memories in his soul collapsed towards the same point.

In that moment of disorientation, the crimson-silver giant body of the new city stood perfectly intact in the starry sky, as if it had never suffered any serious injury.

He looked at his hands in confusion: "What's this?"

He looked ahead again, and the giant black hole that had ceased its activity after defeating Ultraman Tiga, standing silently in the starry sky like an ordinary black hole, had vanished.
Unbeknownst to anyone, it devoured everything. The pitch-black silhouette formed by the event horizon was now tinged with light. Crimson, silver, and purple colors spread across its silhouette-like body. On its chest, a soft yet bright light bloomed and condensed into a dazzling gem.

Even more vast than the moon, Ultraman Tiga stands like a god in this starry sky, his eyes, radiating a soft, milky-white light, quietly gazing at the distant stars.

……

"Xincheng, I heard you just got wrecked. How are you doing?"

A familiar mental fluctuation suddenly broke Xincheng's silence. He looked into the distance and saw a giant with a body made of silver and blue fabric rushing out of the spatial passage.

It seems that, due to a psychological inclination, after humans were continuously transformed into embryos of light, they solidified into the form of Ultraman.

Generally speaking, those who are more adept at using force and taking action tend to have a reddish aura, while scientists and researchers who are thoughtful and have a calm mind are generally blue.

At that moment, the blue Ultraman rushed to Shinjo, holding a strange crystal that was as clear and transparent as a crystal sword blade, and stabbed it directly into Shinjo's body.

Instantly, a soft and rhythmic light washed over his body, and he was repeatedly tested and compared using pre-collected data.

This is a necessary inspection process during this period when dealing with malicious cultural life forms.

Those bizarre information-state life forms are still too dangerous for most embryos of light. If they are not careful, once they unleash their interference power explosively, they may completely modify or even erase the information-state structure of the giant of light.

Furthermore, no one can guarantee that there is only one kind of malicious information-based life form in this vast universe.

No one knows when a life navigating this universe will unknowingly suffer complete spiritual obliteration and alteration.

Therefore, it is essential to preserve the corresponding historical backup data of the original mental structure and to conduct relevant comparisons at any time.

"Horii..." Shinjo's mental and physical condition had long since recovered, but he was somewhat depressed.

Somewhat dazed, he whispered to his companion, "Do you think the morality we humans recognize has any meaning? On a cosmic scale, what exactly is human morality?"

"Huh?" Horii was a little confused, but his scientist instincts made him subconsciously answer, "Morality is nothing, of course."

"Human morality has always been a byproduct of group choices."

"Cooperative hunting → Anti-deception → Fostering a sense of fairness; mutual assistance among relatives → Genetic continuation → Strengthening compassion..."

Horii casually explained the scientific community's understanding of morality: "Morality is nothing more than a set of collective survival algorithms based on emotions that the human species has evolved in the process of evolution to cope with the extreme challenges of group survival."

"Morality has never been something sacred."

"Without any education or social interaction, a primitive human being, even if physically no different from a modern human being, would not possess the universal morality that modern humans understand."

"At most, it's just that under the influence of hormones and genetic memory, they will naturally develop some care and possessiveness towards human infants and women."

Horii paused for a moment. "In general, the morality that humans understand is essentially a patchwork of a set of primitive biological programs that are driven by specific brain regions and chemicals, which generate specific emotions such as guilt, pride, and compassion, and thus drive behavior."

"The education and growth a modern human undergoes in society, along with the associated memory data, naturally influence the construction of the brain's neural pathways, making simple modifications to the original biological program predetermined by human genes." "These changes are more dramatic during adolescence. By the end of human development, when the growth and connection of brain neurons slows significantly, a person's morality is essentially fixed. For the rest of their life, unless they encounter a particularly serious accident that causes excessive stimulation to the already stable structure of their brain's neurons, their moral compass will generally remain unchanged once it is fully formed."

Xincheng was in low spirits, and he sighed deeply.

As a former member of the GUTS team and now a member of the Space Garrison, he was a top student and naturally knew this knowledge. However, for some reason, he suddenly felt like he wanted to confide in someone.

Human morality is fundamentally just an algorithm that allows things to continue in a better way.

Individual human beings are insignificant in strength. To cooperate in hunting and defending against enemies, they must solve the "free-rider" problem, which is that some people want a share of the spoils without contributing any effort.

Therefore, the moral sentiments of "fairness" and "aversion to cheating" naturally arise, motivating people to punish those who undermine cooperation, thereby maintaining the stability of the group.

Similarly, on a biological level, helping others is risky. What if I help you but you don't reciprocate?
"Guilt" and "gratitude" ensure that reciprocity is achieved; you help me, I feel "gratitude," which motivates me to repay you.

If I don't reciprocate, I will feel "guilty," and this negative emotion drives me to make amends.

Furthermore, human infants are extremely vulnerable and require long-term care.

The powerful moral sentiments of "maternal love and paternal love" ensure that parents will invest huge resources in their offspring, guaranteeing the continuation of their genes.

Therefore, morality in biological evolution can be described as an incredibly efficient thing.

It's important to understand that evolution is always just about getting by. Living things don't constantly become stronger like in science fiction or fantasy novels, making their shells harder, faster, and stronger...

As long as you can barely get by, there's no need for further changes, and morality is an incredibly efficient thing.

It's just a few minor modifications to genetic memory and some emergency procedures on hormones and neural networks that allow a group of selfish individuals to form a highly efficient cooperative group, thus winning in the brutal process of natural selection.

Through altruistic self-interest, by helping the group, one ultimately helps oneself.

Therefore, it is only natural that such selfish behavior, which is based on the altruistic nature of humans evolving in order to survive better, cannot be a universal phenomenon on a cosmic scale.

This phenomenon can be observed not only in space, but also on Earth itself.

For Golza and Melba, these were terrifying behemoths whose mere actions could drastically alter the entire Earth's ecosystem, whose casual, simple battles could have the aftershocks of annihilating humanity.

Their cognitive abilities are far more developed than those of humans, even surpassing the combined computing power of all supercomputers in the world before World War I. But do they need morality?

What a joke!

Subsequent human research revealed that Golza and Melba, as well as many other strange monsters in the warp, do not possess genders as understood by humans, nor do they have any lifespan.

They are generally immortal, whether it's 30 million years or 300 billion years, as long as there is an energy supply and the environment is suitable, they can live forever.

They can reproduce asexually without needing any mate; they can divide themselves and reproduce asexually.

They don't need social individuals; their minds and mental structures simply don't contain the so-called loneliness and solitude that only evolve in group life.

What is morality to this kind of monster? Can it be eaten?
"Morality..." Xincheng looked at the starry sky in confusion.

In the perception of the Giant of Light, the starry sky was far from the way it had been observed by human eyes.

The Giant of Light could clearly observe almost all forms of information propagating in the universe, including all electromagnetic wave frequencies, all gravitational wave frequencies, and the aftershocks of the Big Bang itself.

However, it was a desolate starry sky.

It is a place filled with death and coldness, a place where countless lives have perished and countless civilizations have been buried.

Shinjo knew that in the starry sky he observed, in this observable universe, and in the more distant regions beyond the observable universe.

All areas have long been occupied by the ever-replicating mechanical islands.

This universe is like a garden, and the mechanical islands are like gardeners... no, they are more like the automatic pest control programs left behind by the gardeners behind the scenes.

What are wisdom and civilization in the eyes of the beings who created the mechanical island?
They allowed the mechanical island to continue to spread, then silently observed, using that damned "moral test" as the standard, and through massacres, they screened all civilizations that had mastered certain technologies.

Therefore, this starry sky, which should have been bustling and lively, was filtered into something so cold and lifeless.

Xincheng didn't know that, for that civilization, and for the individuals within that civilization, killing so many lives and burying so many civilizations...

Do they feel even the slightest bit of guilt?
Does morality... really have any meaning...?

"Of course it exists!" A gentle yet firm voice exploded in his mind as he was feeling lost in the new city.

(End of this chapter)