Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1286 Leisure Trivia
"Dao Heiqi, you are not dead yet!"

At a porthole somewhere on the Lyra, Yue Yuan looked at the young man who appeared in front of him and said something that sounded like a curse in a gratified tone.

Outside the porthole is endless darkness and nothingness. Now the human civilization fleet is sailing at warp speed in the interstellar darkness and nothingness together with other civilizations. In fact, this is the main theme of the great voyage - sailing in the dark nothingness.

There was nothing outside the porthole, but ever since the old people around him died one after another, Yue Yuan often stared into the void in a daze.

"Not yet, General Yue." Dao Heiqi seemed to know Yue Yuan's mood. He walked silently to the porthole and replied with emotion: "But it will be soon. According to what the School of Life Sciences says now, I don't know when I will die, but what does it matter? My life has been wonderful enough."

When he was over a hundred years old, Dao Heiqi relied on his own efforts to become the leading scientist of many projects in the fields of physics, communications, and detection. Now he is the chief scientist of human civilization and has been committed to special scientific and technological research for tens of thousands of years.

I came to see Yue Yuan today, firstly to introduce the latest progress in special scientific and technological research in person, and secondly to see this leader.

It is said that this leader has become decadent and has not cared about worldly affairs for tens of thousands of years, but Daoheiqi knows that he is still paying close attention to the scientific progress of mankind and using his influence to safeguard the stability of mankind.

Although Yue Yuan seems to be in charge of nothing, he still holds the highest authority over the most powerful strong artificial intelligence in human civilization.

In today's world of strong artificial intelligence, this is still a dictatorial power. It's just that the interstellar government has not publicized this kind of thing for a long time, so many new managers don't know about it, but those who really get to the top know it.

"General Yue, the Pioneer creation is almost unusable. According to the latest test, the safe quantum macro-tunneling distance that it can achieve for the Tianqin has been reduced to 0.5 light years." Dao Heiqi walked to the side of Yue Yuan, followed Yue Yuan's gaze to the dark void, and then continued: "There are so many unfixable bugs that it makes our scalps numb. We all think it is an industrial miracle that it can still run. We estimate that it is impossible for it to shorten the jump distance again. In other words, it will be directly scrapped in the next period of time. At that time, the warp enhancement equipment will also fail."

"I understand. What about microscopic high-dimensional transition?" Yue Yuan's eyes remained unchanged and his tone was calm, as if the failure of the Pioneer's creation was not a big deal.

"According to the original prediction, if the older generation of scientists were still here, we would have successfully mastered microscopic high-dimensional transitions. We can't give an exact time now, but we can only say that it will definitely happen." As if disturbed by Yue Yuan's condition, Dao Heiqi's tone became calmer, "Don't worry, General Yue, those young people are still very talented, and there is no shortage of talent in the scientific community. At least after I leave, this project will not be affected in any way."

Yue Yuan finally turned his head to look at Dao Heiqi, and saw that he still looked about 27 or 28 years old, no different from a million years ago. But he knew in his heart that he was already an old man who had lived for more than a million years. "Well, maybe you also want to see the day when we succeed, how about you leave your consciousness and see the result?"

"You know, Commander Yue, that's meaningless." Dao Heiqi shook his head, raised his hand to call a service robot to order a cup of green drink made from fruit pulp from an unknown planet, took a sip, and continued:
"My friends, my colleagues, my sons, daughters, wife, father, mother, oh, and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, if we follow the theory of interpersonal relationships in the era of Callisto. They have all left me. The only thing I am concerned about now is the microscopic high-dimensional jump, but I know it will succeed, so there is no need to watch it. Even if I do that, I won't be the one who can see it."

"Okay, it's your will."

Yue Yuan was silent for a moment, as if thinking about something, and then he spoke again: "By the way, you actually have another place to go - become an awakener. The awakener Huan once told me that they can turn humans who agree subjectively into awakeners." Before he finished speaking, Dao Heiqi spread his hands: "Yes, but the awakeners don't actually fully understand us humans. They can make me an awakener, but after becoming an awakener, I still can't understand everything I see now in the microscopic high dimension. From this perspective, I am no longer a human."

"Well, that's true. The awakening technology of the awakeners is not awakening for us, but just a transformation that we don't know about. My becoming an awakener means that all my actions will be based on the awakener civilization first. I think that I am no longer myself, even if I still remember the me I used to be."

Daoheiqi said this very firmly.

In fact, the Awakener civilization has some unresolved problems in turning humans into Awakeners. In the words of the Awakeners, they are still unclear about the stability of thinking of human civilization, a race that does not need to be awakened, after it becomes Awakeners.

This problem has been plaguing the Awakener civilization, and they have not been able to solve it until now.

Seeing Dao Heiqi's resolute attitude, Yue Yuan stopped talking about lifespan and instead asked him about the progress of special technologies.

This was exactly the purpose of Dao Heiqi's visit to him, so the two talked for a long time beside a porthole on the Tianqin. In order to explain it better, Dao Heiqi even suggested that Yue Yuan use the third-person observation mode to look at the various phenomena he described.

After Daoheiqi left, Yue Yuan still used the third-person observation mode as he said.

After many years, Yue Yuan had long since let go of everything, and this was also a way to kill his spare time. Whenever he thought of his old friends, he would use learning to enter another world. The mysteries of the universe could make him temporarily forget his loneliness.

In the past, Yue Yuan had always sneered at the loneliness of longevity, but after many old friends passed away, he finally experienced that kind of loneliness. He did not feel lonely because his familiar friends were all there to accompany him.

In fact, humans have already figured it out, because as of now, the lives that have passed away due to the passage of time are not only humans, but also most of the other civilizations in the Great Voyage Organization, and even individuals from the Divine Principle civilization have died.

You have to know that the Shenju civilization transformed itself into energy life forms, but even so they still died under the erosion of time. That is the type of life form that humans believe in as immortal!

Their consciousness will also disappear in the universe after the anti-entropy factor becomes ineffective, but they do live longer than humans because after being transformed, their basic lifespan is longer than that of humans.

(End of this chapter)