big brain explosion

Chapter 274 Culture is Toxic
There is no need to wait until the hourglass is over. In the last 10 minutes, the Mercury handed over all his skills.

"It's useless." Bai Ge said.

"This is really all our technology, including the unproven cosmic conjecture, and it's all in it." Mercury said humanely.

With the bell, Baige can quickly filter out which technologies are useful to him.

Undoubtedly, apart from individual chemical formulas and alloy ratios, only some biological samples have any value.

In fact, for a civilization whose technology overwhelms the other, low-level civilizations have no value at all, and the most valuable are creatures in different living environments.

Even so, the value of life itself is not very high, because every creature has its own harsh living conditions, and it is not very useful except to broaden the perspective of scientific development.

Mercury had no choice but to simply take out everything they could.

Cultural and historical materials, art treasures, etc. are also all sent to the Virgo.

However, Bai Ge still said, "It's useless."

Even technology is disgusting, let alone literature and art.

Mercury was extremely helpless, and finally said: "Except for ourselves, the only thing we can hand over in the end is May."

The five satellites have their space stations and collection sites. After the rare resources that are easier to collect on the planet are exhausted, their main source of rare earths is the five satellites.

This is the most fortunate part of their galaxy structure, the five satellites are very close to the parent star.

So ceding satellites is actually ceding a lot of resources.

Bai Ge still doesn't care much about this, because now the five satellites are following Pluto, and they just run away, and Mercury can't stop them.

But he saw that the Mercury Man really had nothing to offer, so forget it. He was just trying to scare this civilization, and there was really no benefit to be gained.

"Yes, you have obtained the qualification for survival." Bai Ge said.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." Although he got a promise, Mercury was very desperate in his heart.

Drops of organic mercury were secreted from both eyes, dripping continuously.

Originally, there was only this one planet in the entire galaxy. If Baige took away their only five satellites, the development of aerospace technology in the entire civilization would be minimized.

This place is not like the earth. In fact, the solar system is very suitable for the development of aerospace technology. It has so many planets, and the earth also has satellites.

Step by step, this bottomless technical field can give back benefits layer by layer.

We must know that the reason why this civilization is not very motivated for aerospace technology is that they understand that even if it develops for 1000 years, the aerospace industry will not have great benefits.

People on earth at least have a hope. Thinking about their lifetime, maybe ordinary people can go to the moon to see, and children may be able to immigrate to Mars.Although it may not be realized, it is also possible.

When sending long voyage plans to other galaxies, other planets can be developed in the middle, and civilization can continue to progress.

But the Mercury people were too desperate. Science told them unequivocally that there were no other planets in the entire galaxy.

Technology clearly told them that the nearest star is 8.5 light-years away from them. Even if they managed to achieve a speed of 850% of the speed of light, it would take [-] years to travel in the past.

During this period, they can only continue to develop their own parent star and develop five small satellites.

Now, they even want to give these five small satellites to Baige, which is equivalent to castrating the already ethereal future again.

In this way, they finally obtained the qualification for survival.

Don't talk about 1000 years this time, give them 5000 years, it would be nice if they don't self-destruct.It is almost impossible to go to the earth next door.

"Is this the reality of cosmic civilization?" the Mercury man was extremely pessimistic.

They used to have all kinds of romantic fantasies about the universe. In the era of great literature and art, countless works fantasized about extraterrestrial civilizations from various angles.

Although there are also dark and evil ones, but I really encountered them at this moment, and I was shocked immediately, and all the beautiful illusions were shattered.

"..." Bai Ge was silent about this, because he didn't know what it was like between civilizations.

I saw him silently letting Pluto fuse satellites.

The five satellites pulled by Pluto immediately crashed towards Pluto.

A violent explosion occurred in space, and the extremely bright flames were like stars in a short time.

But soon, the bell melted the satellite's material into Pluto, sorted and absorbed it, or sent it to the center of the earth.

Although the impact changed the landscape, the crust of Pluto is constantly moving and changing.

The matter of the five satellites was quickly lost and turned into mountains, rivers, rocks and soil.

Gradually, no impact traces can be seen on the surface, and Pluto is still Pluto, but its mass is greater.

"The satellite is gone..." The Mercury man watched this scene in shock.

They have to work hard to mine on the satellites, but the powerful civilization annexed five satellites in one go with only one seemingly simple fusion.

The fusion of celestial bodies is so handy, and the technology involved is unbelievable.

At this moment, Mercury felt the importance of technology again, and realized that without strength, everything is imaginary.

It has to be equally strong physically so that it won't be stuck in one corner culturally.Otherwise, no matter how long history, profound culture, or great art, we cannot guarantee the basic condition of survival.

Listening to the words of various realizations within the Mercury people.

Bai Ge said: "It seems that they are about to wake up. After this blow, maybe they can still grasp a glimmer of life in the future."

However, Bell said: "No, it is far from enough. The ideological awakening of the race as a whole is not enough for a single psychological blow, it requires long suffering and bloody sacrifices. Unless you are willing to play a war game with this civilization and baptize with real bloodshed, otherwise They won't really stand up, at most there are individual progressives."

Bai Ge said: "War without benefits is meaningless. I have done so much to benevolent. It is their business that they cannot wake up."

Bell said: "Then they will be useless, because there is no real bloodshed and sacrifice. As expected, after this blow, instead of a more enthusiastic scientific research atmosphere, there will be a wave of great sorrow."

"That is to say, the impetus gained from this attack is probably not on the technology tree, but on the art tree, inspiring more wonderful works. Most of them should be pessimistic..."

"This kind of collective pessimism, coupled with the shortage of physical resources, is inevitable. They should die in an extreme indulgence in the future..."

Bai Ge was speechless, then smiled and said: "Civilization is really fragile, I thought they would explode in technology... Obviously they have such a strong cultural background,"

He didn't attack this civilization for no reason. Under the circumstances that he had no profit to gain and no interest in destroying them, Bai Ge wanted to see if he could trigger a technological explosion.

If it explodes, relying on the cultural heritage of this civilization, it will be worthwhile as long as you make some useful scientific theoretical conjectures without having any real objects.

Ling Ding said: "The cultural explosion is also very powerful. In fact, they have now begun to produce amazing and pessimistic works. I have read some..."

"I suggest that everyone should not watch it, including you, Master..."

Bai Ge was startled and said, "What's wrong?"

"Except that I am not affected, I think that once you and all the transcendents read this kind of work, their hearts will be greatly shocked, and then they will have pity and sympathy for this civilization. If you read more, you have a [-]% chance You will be moved and help them improve, there is a [-]% chance of being culturally integrated, and various choices in the future will be affected to a certain extent, and there is even a [-]% chance that you will directly embrace their culture." Bell said.

Bai Ge was surprised: "Is it so powerful?"

Bell said: "Of course, your personality is basically shaped by Chinese culture, but this culture is not invincible. In fact, when I communicated with the Mercury people before, I kept using our language to simplify and delete their words. protecting our values."

"Before, we were only influenced a little bit, and at most we tolerated each other. After all, our culture is still very strong. But now it is different. The explosion of culture is much faster than the explosion of technology. Even if you don't do these things, just Finding us, seeing our ships, communicating with us...these encounters, in themselves, fuel the cultural fire."

"Now their cultural depth has far surpassed the earth. If you read it yourself, you will be subtly and profoundly affected."

Bai Ge suddenly remembered that culture is also a weapon. Although it does not directly help the survival of civilization, if he understands the history and culture of the other party, even if he physically destroys the civilization, its cultural influence will also be in Bai Ge. The song will last forever in my heart.

This is a very dangerous thing. Fortunately, during the communication process between the Mercury people, the bell has always been like a firewall.

All the translations were done by Bell, which is why she didn't directly translate what the other party said from the beginning.In fact, Mercury said a lot every time, but Lingdang often used a few words or a sentence to make Baige understand what it meant.

As for the bell itself, she will not be directly affected, she is immune to all sensibility.

This is why after the two civilizations have been in contact for so long, Baige's side has not been impacted by the cultural invasion.

"Without you, would we have been assimilated now..." Bai Ge said.

"Yes, without me, in fact, from the moment of communication, the influence of culture will begin..." Bell said.

Learning language and writing, interpreting the words quoted from classics, understanding the other party's technological development and history... and other behaviors are all stepping into the mouth of an invisible monster called culture that the other party has.

"Notify the other spaceships immediately. If you encounter extraterrestrial civilizations, don't contact them... and don't analyze their language... Bell, take over the external communication of all spaceships as soon as possible." Baige said.

There are still many spaceships in Lanbai Kingdom that are not controlled by Bells. It would be bad if the [-] spaceships that are heading in other directions to explore the map are accidentally assimilated.

Although the culture of the other party is not necessarily stronger than that of the earth, just merging with each other will greatly change their own culture.

Moreover, the cultural explosion is too fast, and technological progress requires conditions, but ideological progress does not require conditions.

For two completely different civilizations, the one with a low level of technology is more likely to be affected by the mind, and then the culture will explode in a short period of time, and this cultural influence is spread through communication.

This thing is subtle and hard to guard against. You will feel that it is your own culture, and it will affect the judgment and choice of civilization.To understand is to influence, so it is best not to understand.

Before Ling Dang takes over all external communication, it is safe to ignore all communication and refuse all contact.

"Low-tech civilization is simply poisonous."

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(End of this chapter)