Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 177 Endless Tower and Archives of All Humanity
Seeing Xie Shen looking at him, Niu Lao said, "Don't be nervous, you can answer whatever you want."

"As long as you have the right qualifications and talent, no matter what your answer is, this door will let you pass in the end."

Xie Shen didn't understand.

He asked, "What's the point of the gate asking me questions if I can get through it anyway?"

Niu Laodao: "As far as I know, the answer you give will ultimately determine what you can get in the library."

"However, there is no standard answer to this question."

"So you don't need to worry about whether the answer is right or not, just say what's in your heart."

"I understand." Xie Shen nodded in response.

After thinking for a moment, he said to the gate: "I think the end of the universe is a void, or an invisible wall."

"That wall can neither be broken nor acted upon by any force."

"And nothing can penetrate that wall."

In the basement.

Not long after Xie Shen gave the answer, he heard a loud bang coming from above the gate.

As the sound rang out, the door slowly opened from the outside to the inside.

Xie Shen stood where he was, looking inside the door, but he could only see a dazzling white light from behind the door.

The same is true when using spiritual consciousness to explore it.

All I could see from beginning to end was endless white light.

Seeing Xie Shen hesitating, Niu Lao urged, "Come on, stop standing there like an idiot, and go in quickly."

"If you keep on wasting time, the gate will close on its own."

"It will be difficult for you to get in again after that."

"Because each person is allowed to enter the library once."

"And then there is"

Finally, Mr. Niu warned: "Remember, you can only stay in the library for a maximum of 7 days."

"After this time, you will never be able to come out of the library again."

"Remember this!"

"Don't take it lightly!"

In front of the gate.

Xie Shenchong responded to Niu Lao: "You can only stay for 7 days at most, right? I remember that."

"correct."

Before entering the door, he suddenly asked, "Can this door be moved?"

——The reason why Xie Shen asked this question was because he wanted to move this gate to the Ark spacecraft for all the people on Earth to use.

Old Niu smiled mysteriously and said, "Of course this door can be moved, but you have only just joined the Academy of Sciences, so I cannot tell you how to move this door for the time being."

Fine.

This explanation is reasonable.

Xie Shen no longer dwelled on this matter.

After pretending to take some dry food and water, he carefully entered the gate.

At this moment, endless white light filled the entire world.

After the white light faded away, Xie Shen found that he had been teleported to the bottom floor of a tower-shaped building without realizing it.

To ensure your own safety.

After entering, Xie Shen decisively released his spiritual consciousness, wanting to get a glimpse of the overall picture of this tower-shaped building.

But what puzzled him was:
It seems that there is no upper limit to the number of floors of this tower building.

Xie Shen stretched his spiritual sense to the limit and explored up to the 120th floor of the tower-shaped building, but still failed to reach its top.

When you explore the outside of the tower, you can see endless nothingness.

——Xie Shen had also seen this kind of nothingness in the fairyland world of Tianyuan Star before.

The scope for activities in the small world is limited.

Most of the edges are filled with this kind of nothingness.

There's not much to say about this.

Xie Shen then used his spiritual sense to briefly explore the interior of the tower.

He found:
Although this tower is terrifyingly tall, the space inside seems extremely crowded.

Almost every floor of this tower is filled with bookshelves made of unknown wood and piled with books.

According to rough estimates, there are at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of copies.

Besides.

You can also see that there is a hanging electric lamp installed in the center of each floor of the tower.

These lights are so bright that they can illuminate the entire tower like daylight.

But its source of energy could not be found.

Even if Xie Shen probed his spiritual sense into the wall, he could not see any electrical wires or other channels for transmitting energy.

That electric light seemed to be able to create light out of thin air.

interesting.
Xie Shen disassembled the light bulb with his hands and wanted to take it back to the Ark spacecraft and give it to Li Xiu for research.

But I don't know why.

Once the disassembled light bulb leaves your hand, it will disappear by itself and return to its original place in the next second.

Whether Xie Shen used his magic power to imprison it or put it in a storage bag, the result was the same.

After studying it for a while, Xie Shen understood something:

It seems that most of the things in this so-called shared library cannot be taken away.

Such as walls and ceilings.

For example, a bookshelf.

For example, a light bulb hanging from the ceiling.

Since that was the case, Xie Shen put away his greed and began to browse the books on the bookshelf.

He randomly picked a book from the bookshelf on the first floor and opened it.

The book contains the following:

[Name of the person being recorded: Gata.]

【生于公元前73002年11月2日13时11分02秒。】

[Birthplace: Zhiyu Star, 36.7311 degrees north latitude, 76.3233 degrees east longitude. ]

【…】

This is?

After flipping through a few pages, Xie Shen discovered:

This book records an ancient human who lived about 8 years ago.

The content includes his life and death, residence, interpersonal relationships, and almost all major events he encountered.

Shouldn't it be.
After roughly browsing the contents of the book, Xie Shen hurriedly put it back to its original place and took out another book from the bookshelf.

Similarly.

What is recorded in this book is still an ancient human who lived about 8 years ago.

There are at least 1000 million books like this densely packed in the first floor of this tower.

Obviously.

Being able to record the birth and death of tens of thousands of ancient humans in books is definitely not something that humans can do.

After all, in that period, let alone writing.

Perhaps even language had not yet been invented.

How could someone possibly record the birth and death records of so many ancient people in books?
As he explored deeper, Xie Shen became more and more interested in the origin of the tower.

He then continued to flip through several books placed on the second and third floors of the tower.

These books also record personal files of ancient humans.

Only the date of birth changed from more than 7 years BC to more than 6 years BC.

It goes without saying that if you continue to go to higher levels of the tower, you will most likely be able to see more human files with later birth dates.

In addition to these many books recording human archives, Xie Shen also discovered a transparent glass cabinet more than half a person's height in the tower.

And a palm-sized transparent glass jar.

——If nothing unexpected happens, this is most likely the 'incredible thing' that Mr. Niu just mentioned.

Considering incredible things, most of them have huge side effects.

Out of consideration for his own safety, Xie Shen did not rush to touch the two items.

He tapped the storage bag on his waist, took out the Shendao Ding from it, and tried to contact Li Xiu who was far away on the Ark spacecraft.

Xie Shen briefly summarized his experience in the shared library and told the other party the truth.

Finally, Xie Shen said, "It's a pity that the shared library contains only human files on Zhiyu Star, but not our Earthlings or those from other planets."

"Not always."

Li Xiu thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps, after the shared library is moved to another planet, the files in the library will also change accordingly."

"For example, move it to our Earth."

"Then the human files recorded in the library will become those of us on Earth."

this.
After hearing this, Xie Shen thought for a while and said, "Maybe, this is really possible!"

"It's just that I'm not very familiar with the people in the Academy of Sciences yet."

"So for now, we can't find a way to move the library door."

"If you want to study this library, you'll have to wait until later."

"That doesn't have much of an impact." Li Xiu made a compromise and said, "Did you get any items or props from the library? If not, then you can dismantle the bookshelf and use the Divine Dao Cauldron to transport it here. I want to study what's inside."

"As for items, I actually got two."

As he spoke, Xie Shen transmitted the glass jar he had just found in the tower, as well as the transparent glass cabinet that was more than half a person's height, to Li Xiu through the Shendao Ding.

The latter responded: "In view of what you just said, these two items may have huge side effects, so for safety reasons, I have to slow down my research progress. It may take a few days before I can give you an answer."

"Then do it as soon as possible!" Xie Shen emphasized: "According to what Mr. Niu said, each person is only allowed to enter the library once."

"And each time you can only stay for a maximum of 7 days."

"When the time is up, you will no longer be able to enter it."

After contacting Li Xiu, Xie Shen continued to explore the tower.

He walked up the stairs one floor at a time, and it took him more than three days to explore a total of 16023 floors.

But I still haven't been able to explore the entire tower.

If we assume that there are 1000 million books on each floor of the tower.

So when Xie Shen explored to the 16023rd floor, he found a total of 1600 billion human files in the tower.

The human archives on the 16023rd level mostly have dates of birth around 6288 AD.

In other words.

From the day mankind was born until now in 6288 AD, a total of 1600 billion humans have been born on the planet Wisdom.

The birth and death stories of these people are all recorded truthfully in this library.

Unbelievable.

During the exploration, in addition to countless human archives.

Xie Shen also found a total of three books in the library, which contained cultivation techniques related to the scientist system.

He chose to practice the book titled "On Infinite Energy and Moving Bodies".

As for the other two
Xie Shen originally planned to pass the other two books to Li Xiu through the Shendao Ding for research.

But just like the lights in the library, and the human archives.

These are items that cannot be taken away. Once you let go of them, they will immediately disappear and automatically return to their original places.

So Xie Shen could only record these three cultivation techniques bit by bit using jade slips.

Only then was it successfully handed over to Li Xiu.

...

Because the 16023rd level of the library contains the archives of humans who were born around 6288 AD.

And this year happens to be the year 6288 AD.

So unless the tower can predict the future and know in advance the names of the humans who will be born in 6289.

Otherwise, there will be no human archives to record in the future.

Therefore, the 16023rd floor of the library should be the highest explorable floor.

Can be biased.
There are still stairs leading to higher places on this floor.

Driven by curiosity, Xie Shen tried to continue exploring upwards.

But it’s not just about why.

When he stepped onto the stairs leading to the 16024th floor, he suddenly discovered that there was an invisible force preventing him from going any further.

Xie Shen was unwilling to accept this.

He released the spiritual consciousness in his body and carefully separated a strand of it, trying to let it penetrate into a higher floor.

The moment that ray of spiritual consciousness entered a higher floor, Xie Shen suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of fear in his heart.

It's hard to describe this feeling of fear in words.

just like.
It is like seeing a wild beast in the wilderness or a ghost in the darkness.

It is an instinctive fear that arises when a person sees something he shouldn't see.

Even though Xie Shen had reached the Spirit Transformation Stage, he still fell down the stairs under the pressure of fear.

After Xie Shen came to his senses, he found that his body was shaking uncontrollably.

Not only that.

A certain amount of blood oozed out of his nose, eye sockets, and ears.

After a long time, all the discomforts gradually subsided.

This experience made Xie Shen feel a little scared.

He didn't dare to continue exploring the higher levels of the library, but just returned to the first level and studied the "On Infinite Energy and Moving Bodies" technique he had discovered before.

...

This went on for 3 days.

In a blink of an eye, Xie Shen had been in this shared library for a full six days.

Relying on his original body's cultivation level of the Spirit Transformation Stage and the blessing of his spiritual consciousness, Xie Shen successfully upgraded the cultivation level of this body from a junior scientist to a senior scientist by studying the "On Endless Energy and Moving Bodies" technique.

at the same time.

Li Xiu's research has also made progress.

He contacted Xie Shen through the Divine Dao Cauldron and said, "I already have some clues about the two items you sent over, as well as the three exercises."

"What do you mean?" Xie Shen asked hurriedly.

Li Xiu said: "Let's start with the glass cabinet that is more than one meter tall."

"Anyone who enters a glass case and tells a lie in it."

"Then the glass cabinet will release flames until the person is burned to ashes."

"During this period, the glass cabinet itself will not melt due to the high temperature."

"The high temperature generated by the flame will not overflow to the outside world, but will be blocked by an inexplicably generated energy."

"So this glass cabinet cannot be used to generate thermal energy."

Thermal power generation?

Thanks to Li Xiu for thinking of this.

Shared library floor.

Xie Shen, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the Divine Dao Cauldron, concluded: "So this glass cabinet can verify whether a person is lying."

“But it also has huge side effects.”

"That is, after the verification is completed, the liar will be burned to death."

"Is that what you mean?"

(End of this chapter)