Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

This is one of the highest principles of the civilized world in the universe. Advanced civilizations are not allowed to transfer knowledge to lower civilizations. This behavior is called channel transfer of knowledge.

Lower civilizations can only gain knowledge through their own exploration.

As mentioned before, the concept of knowledge is very complex. It may be a principle, a technology, or just some information.

In fact, this principle is also reflected in "The Three-Body Problem", but it is not expressed in detail.

In the later part of the plot of "The Three-Body Problem", the methods given by the Trisolarans on how to deal with the Two-Dimensional Foil are somewhat vague and even somewhat contrary to their own ideas.

Subjectively speaking, they may be afraid that human civilization will retaliate against the Trisolarans who fled in the universe after it develops again.

But objectively speaking, it is actually following the principle of knowledge sealing.

Compared with humans, the level of the Three-Body civilization is obviously higher than that of humans, so if certain knowledge is passed on to humans, it is actually violating the knowledge sealing principles.

For example, after Evans, the former leader of ETO, learned about the Dark Forest Law, the entire ETO was destroyed by the Trisolarans with the help of the Guzheng Project.

Evans, the first leader of ETO who knew the law of the Dark Forest, was also cut into three parts and became a true "Three-Body Man".

This was purely a mistake made by the Trisolarans. They mistakenly thought that Evans knew the Dark Forest Law, so they inadvertently revealed the Dark Forest Law, but soon they corrected this mistake.

Lin Xuan’s current situation is similar to Evans’.

The Trisolarans thought that Lin Xuan was a member of an advanced civilization and knew everything, so spreading knowledge to Lin Xuan did not violate the knowledge sealing principle.

But in fact, Lin Xuan knew nothing at all. He was now pretending to know everything in order to cheat the Trisolarans of the information.

If the Trisolarans knew that they had been fooled again and that Lin Xuan had led them to violate the knowledge sealing rules, they would probably want to kill Lin Xuan at all costs.

Lin Xuan, the biggest liar in the universe, has now successfully led the Trisolarans onto a path that completely violates the laws of the universe.

But in fact, Lin Xuan is also innocent. After all, from the very beginning, you were the ones who thought I was some kind of [Observer], and it had nothing to do with him!

You can't blame me for fooling you, it's just that your imagination is too strong. As for the consequences of violating the knowledge sealing rules... that's your business as the Trisolarans.

Chapter 118 The First Dark Forest Attack

Year 46 of the Crisis Chronicle, 2053 AD.

There are 159 years left before the water drop reaches the Earth.

The five ministers of Earth International have been replaced twice.

Unlike the PDC era, the five ministers are now not just representatives of a country, but also have the executive power to dominate a department.

But their rights are also very limited, and are only confined to one department. Any interference with other departments will be regarded as a provocation to the international democratic system of the earth and is a political mistake that must not be allowed.

In addition, Lin Xuan has been deliberately differentiating the relationship between their departments, so these ministers can basically be rotated in a cycle of five years.

At least... most ministers are like that.

The only exception is the Minister of Culture and Education. In 15 years, there have been nearly 18 ministers of culture and education.

After the large-scale use of the Mewtwo Database was stopped, the public's voices of opposition became louder and louder.

“Why do we have to use this traditional learning method when there is a faster way to learn?”

"A conspiracy, this is a conspiracy. The capitalists are behind this. Lin Xuan's Mewtwo World has touched someone's cake, so it was banned. This must be the case!"

"No one really believes that Lin Xuan took the initiative to restrict the Mewtwo world, right? If there were no one above forcing him, how could he restrict the use of Mewtwo?"

"I'm speechless. My family members, I miss Zisha so much. Can the basic education of idiots die? We are obviously so far behind the Trisolarans, but they are still restricting their own people from learning. Are these senior executives all members of ETO?"

Amid such abuse, the first Minister of Culture and Education, Xia Jingjujiu, was forced to step down after serving as minister for no more than a year. Then came the second... and the third.

It was not until the 17th minister stepped down and the 18th minister took office that the curse of "the Minister of Culture and Education can never serve for more than two years" was finally broken.

The first thing she did after taking office was to reform the education system.

The school district housing system and the high school entrance examination system were abolished, the school system was shortened, the streamlining of educational content was advocated, and the college entrance examination content was changed to a proportional system.

This is another upgrade of the new college entrance examination system. All candidates will be exposed to 10 subjects including Chinese, mathematics, English, politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology and computer starting from primary school.

After junior high school, the courses will be integrated. Chinese, English, politics, history and geography will be combined into liberal arts, and mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology will be integrated into science. The reason why geography is classified as science here is because geography now is no longer limited to things on the earth, but also includes a lot of astronomical knowledge.

Afterwards, at the end of the third year of junior high school, all students need to choose their courses to prepare for the college entrance examination.

There are 1-5 optional subjects. The fewer the subjects you choose, the greater the proportion of the score for a single subject in the college entrance examination.

For example, if you only choose physics, your final score in the college entrance examination will be determined as the total score of the physics course.

If you choose 5 subjects, each subject will account for 20%.

After completing the selection, students will begin their own completely different three years of high school based on different course selections, and the high school learning method will be closer to the university course education.

These selected courses are called [Required], and the remaining courses are called [Elective].

Elective courses will be able to directly use the Super Dream World to download other people’s ready-made memories, saving a lot of study time.

However, you must complete the required courses individually, because elective courses are not included in the final college entrance examination score.

It can be seen that this is a fundamental change in educational philosophy.

In the past, education was about pursuing the all-round development of students. People always thought that there was no harm in learning more, so all kinds of messy content were added to the courses.

Coupled with the internal competition among college entrance examination candidates, the educational content has become a mess.

Today's education emphasizes precision.

Save where you can, be precise where you can, and make sure everyone can maximize the value of their learning ability in the shortest time possible.

After all, everyone is good at different subjects. If you force people to learn all of them, wouldn't that be pure torture?

What's this hammer and barrel theory? The amount of water a barrel can hold depends on the shortest piece of wood. That's nonsense. The human brain is not meant to hold water.

After the new education reform, the direction of education also tends to be more inclined towards Dewey's "Pragmatic Pedagogy" concept.

Humanity doesn't have many years left, and there is no time to waste on redundant knowledge.

The benefits of doing so were quickly reflected at the social level.

In just 15 years, a large number of scientists and artists were born.

After putting aside the burden of "all-round development", people have made rapid progress in the areas they are best at.

As a result of a series of chain reactions, some technical difficulties that people once faced in aerospace development have been overcome one by one.

Anti-gravity simulated environment technology, ecological cycle technology, long-distance wireless energy supply technology...

If it weren't for the sophon that locked the upper limit of science, human development would be much faster at this time.

At the same time, Dr. Ding Yi finally successfully manufactured a reactor using cold nuclear fusion technology.

The 18th Minister of Culture and Education who brought about all these changes was none other than Luo Congmin, who had a doctorate degree.

After graduating with a doctorate, Luo Congmin rejected the offer to stay on to teach at the school. After all, she was the only one in her major, and the only thing she could do by staying would probably be to give Lin Xuan her undergraduate diploma, which had been delayed for almost 40 years. Nothing else would have any substantive significance.

So she went into politics, from the Education Bureau, to the Education Department, to the Ministry of Education, and finally she was elected as the 18th Minister of Culture and Education of Earth International.

In fact, there were people who opposed her coming to power at the beginning. After all, Luo Congmin was a rebellious girl by nature. She was the nominal sister of Lin Xuan, the inventor of the Mewtwo world, but she was also the initiator of the boycott movement of the Mewtwo world.

Many people are worried that after she comes to power, she will completely block the application of Mewtwo World, which is equivalent to helping Lin Xuan cut off the benefits to Earth International.

However, Luo Congmin made it clear that he just did not approve of the abuse of this technology, and would not completely resist it. After all, one needs to look at things dialectically. The Super Dream World has played a vital role in the scientific research of major universities, and its usefulness cannot be completely denied.

But she is disdainful of those who think that the Mewtwo world can make them omniscient and omnipotent.

"You think you know it all?"

"Okay, then I'll ask you a few questions, and you go to the Mewtwo world and find the corresponding answers for me."

"Nezha has three heads and six arms. If he gets a cerebral thrombosis, will each of them be thrombosed separately, or all three together?"

“Why is a freezer a box, but a refrigerator a cabinet?”

"If a man kills himself with one punch, is he strong or weak?"

Luo Congmin continued to perform steadily and asked questions that put everyone into silence. They never dreamed that this girl's questions would be so tricky.

From then on, no one claimed to be omniscient and omnipotent.

It is the 156th year of the Crisis Chronicle, and 146 years have passed since Luo Ji cast the spell.

All of humanity is completely unaware that the star 49.5J187X3, 1 light-years away from Earth, is about to encounter an unprecedented dark forest attack.

Chapter 119 Willow Tree

Willows are the roots of the world, and their branches are the soul of civilization.

The willow tree has lived here since the day it was born. Its roots are deeply rooted in the ground, and its trunk reaches straight into the sky. Countless willow branches hang vertically from the crown and spread to the entire planet.

This is a prosperous planet. The green ocean surrounds the planet and makes it look full of vitality.

This is a desolate planet. All the creatures here were destroyed 200 time points ago, and only the lonely willow tree remains.

"woke up."

The willow tree shook its branches, and just a slight sway of its huge body caused earthquakes in parts of the planet.

The willow tree quickly stopped shaking its body, and only let out a long breath after the surroundings fell into deathly silence again.

"Uh, fortunately, there are no more organic creatures on this planet except me, otherwise they would blame me again."

Speaking of this, the willow tree felt a little depressed again, but it could not understand the reason for this depression.

"Is this what those organic creatures left for me? It's amazing. I feel like my body is moving slower and I want to cry... But why is this happening? I need to find out."

The willow tree spoke as it shook its branches, and among tens of thousands of branches, it gathered one from the ground.

On the willow branch, countless leaves were wrapping an oval-shaped object like a rice dumpling, and no one knew what was inside.

"Found it. This is it."

Willow began to look through the memories of this organic being, trying to find the answer in her heart.

Finally, it got the result it wanted.

"Loneliness... This is a normal psychological phenomenon that describes an individual feeling excluded from the surroundings. Organisms like to stay together, and when they become a single individual, they will have this emotion."

“But I am not alone.”

"I am made up of so many individuals, individuals, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions, trillions, kilometres, kilometres... Never mind, I won't count anymore. I'm so tired."

Willow wanted to sleep again.

It doesn't know how long it has been sleeping in this long river of time, or how much time has passed in the outside world.

But what can you do without sleep?

At first the willow was just a tree, but during its boring wait, it slowly spread its roots until they covered the entire planet.

Since then, the willow tree didn't know what to do. It seemed to have lost the meaning of continuing to live.

"I'm so tired. Why do I still feel so tired after sleeping for so long? When did I start sleeping... Let me think, it seems like it was after I devoured all the memories of the last organic creature."

The willow tree shook its branches again, and dozens of dumplings wrapped in it were lifted up from the ground.

"That time I ate all the organic matter. I was so full and then I fell asleep. It was a pity. I should have left one or two organic matter. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so bored."

The willow tree felt a little sad. The only memory left in its mind was the memory of being eaten.

It began to look up the memories of these organic creatures before their death. Although it didn't know how many times it had repeated this process, it was the only thing it could do on this planet.

In the memories of these organic creatures, they called themselves the "World Tree". At that time, the willow tree was still very weak, and knew nothing and could say nothing.

Later, these organic creatures discovered that the willow tree could store their memories, and they uploaded their consciousness to the willow tree.

They seemed to want to use the willow tree to complete the fusion of memories, thereby giving birth to a new consciousness.

They succeeded...but they also failed.

The willow tree has gained consciousness, but even it itself does not know whether this consciousness was born autonomously or came from the fusion of the memories of those organic creatures.

It began to imitate and learn the speaking and thinking processes of those organic creatures based on its own memory, but the willow tree always felt that something was missing.

What's wrong?

Willow could not understand this question, nor could he find the answer in the consciousness he had devoured.

The willow tree thought and thought, and looked through all the consciousnesses, but did not find the answer it wanted in their memories.

Then, it began to devour more consciousnesses, looking for answers in their memories.

The willow tree did this before, and it didn't know why it did it.