The Only Player in Infinite Terror

Ling Qi couldn't help but cheer for Chu Xuan, "You're right. In fact, in a future relative to your real world, the Alien series has several sequels that have added to the plot and setting the origin of the Alien."

After saying that, he exchanged the Alien movies he knew, such as Prometheus and Alien: The Deadly Ship, and put them into the holographic projector he had previously exchanged.

After watching the later Alien movies at high speed, Chu Xuan concluded, "If the Engineer civilization really exists, their technology could never be as backward as depicted in these movies."

"The Engineers civilization in the movie is portrayed as ridiculous. Rather than being creators, it's more like a high-tech ancient Greek city-state."

"A civilization that mastered interstellar travel four billion years ago, and was also skilled in biotechnology, should not have fallen to the level depicted in the movie."

"The ridiculous thing is that, according to the plot of Prometheus, the homeworld of the Engineers was actually wiped out by a cyborg in his own spaceship using biological weapons he developed."

"What's even more ridiculous is that the so-called home planet of the Engineers' Civilization is only at the level of a feudal city-state."

"Excluding all impossible speculations, there is only one truth—that was not the home planet of the Engineers civilization at all, and the race on that planet was not a true Engineer."

"That was just a testing ground, a testing ground like the Earth that created humanity."

"In fact, a high-level interstellar civilization would never be confined to its own home planet."

Zhan Lan asked with some curiosity, "But didn't the movie say that the Engineers lost the ability to reproduce for unknown reasons, and that although they have a long lifespan, they are not immortal?"

"So, is it possible that because they lacked a new generation, their civilization stagnated or even declined, and the leakage of the black water further exacerbated this, leading to the complete break in their civilization's lineage?"

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and said calmly, "First of all, even if they lost the ability to reproduce naturally, how difficult would it be for a god-level civilization like the Engineers, capable of terraforming planets, to master cloning or life programming technologies?"

"Even if cloning or life programming technology cannot help them solve their problems, technologies such as consciousness uploading should be able to help them continue their civilization."

"Secondly, if the Blackwater is really that powerful, and the Engineers civilization was almost wiped out by the Black Flash long before the movie's plot unfolded, then this thing can only be a meme."

"You should know that an interstellar civilization that has developed for four billion years should, conservatively speaking, have a territory that includes the entire Milky Way."

"More likely, their civilization's territory may have covered the entire Laniakea Supercluster."

"So, if their civilization was destroyed because of the black water, then I can't think of any other more reasonable explanation than that the black water is a meme that ignores the propagation of space and time."

"Of course, it's also possible that the Engineers' civilization was destroyed not because of the Blackwater, but because their civilization was completely wiped out by a racial civil war."

"If that's the case, then according to the movie's plot, it would explain why they would be disappointed by human violence and betrayal, and thus decide to use black water to cleanse and exterminate humanity."

"However, overall, I still think it's more likely that Blackwater is a meme."

"So what is a meme?" Zheng Zha asked, raising his hand.

Chu Xuan was not angry about being interrupted. He explained his definition of memes to everyone: "Memes are a kind of existence that directly ignores all laws, principles, axioms and logic."

"Their very existence is a subversion of all known common sense; they can disregard the amount of energy themselves and directly reverse time and space."

"Simply put, so-called memes are anti-logical and anti-scientific, rule-based, and highly contagious. At the same time, they may also be entities that embody a certain concept."

"If I had to give an example, I would say that Kayako's curse in Ju-on and the curse on the videotape in Ring could be considered memes under certain circumstances."

"I think I understand now. Many of the monsters and demons in horror movies that can't be explained by science can be considered memes, right?" Zheng Zha said with a sudden realization.

Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses and denied it expressionlessly: "Of course not. First of all, what do you think science is?"

Zheng Zha was stumped by the question. After thinking for a long time, he replied in a very hesitant voice, "Science should be a system of knowledge composed of theorems, formulas, and laws from various disciplines, right?"

Chu Xuan shook his head and said, "Of course not, your understanding of science is too superficial."

"Science is the method of understanding objective laws, the tool for transforming the world, and the path to truth."

"The core spirit of science is skepticism, empirical evidence, and logic, rather than blindly believing in authority or adhering to dogma."

"If a person blindly believes in those formulas, theorems, and techniques, they dare not even entertain the thought of questioning them."

"So he is actually believing in a religion called 'science,' which is essentially no different from believing in any other religion."

"Getting back to the main point, let's take the examples I gave, Ju-on and Ring, as examples."

"If so-called ghosts and monsters are soul energy entities, and they kill people by using yin energy or some other energy to influence the material world, then they cannot be considered memes at all."

"Although they seem very unscientific and illogical, their existence has its own objective laws, and the principles behind them can be summarized and summarized through experimental research, and they can be reproduced."

"Therefore, the existence of these kinds of ghosts is actually quite scientific; this is the principle of 'existence is reasonable.'"

"The scientific principles it contains, once summarized, can be named a discipline such as mysticism or the study of the soul."

"Similarly, if a world exists where spiritual energy exists, then studying spiritual energy to cultivate immortality would be a science."

"In a world where magic exists, studying magic and creating magic is science."

"If illusory faith can change the material world, then using the power of faith to cultivate truth through falsehood is a kind of science."

Therefore, true science is a methodology and a way of thinking that remains true to its principles no matter how things change, and it will never become invalid because the rules of the world are different.