Chapter 133 Earth Prison Theory of Life Origin
Gu Jinsheng's usually expressionless face could no longer maintain his composure. He looked at Ji An abruptly with his pupils widened.
"Can you understand?"
Ji An nodded. This was why he suddenly drove everyone away. He didn't know why he could understand the alien language, but he knew that no one else could understand it except him, so there must be something wrong with this.
The human heart is unpredictable and cannot stand the test. At this moment, the nationality situation is unlikely to be disturbed again. The best way is not to let anyone know.
"Am I weird?" Ji An looked at Gu Jinsheng. His eyes were all on Gu Jinsheng. He stared at Gu Jinsheng's face closely, not missing any changes in his facial expressions.
However, after the initial shock, Gu Jinsheng returned to his usual expressionless face, even when faced with a catastrophe.
He walked closer to Ji An and suddenly pulled him into his arms.
"Xiao An, I'm not Chen Chen, you don't have to test me." A trace of heartache flashed in the depths of Gu Jinsheng's eyes, "Don't say that you can only understand aliens' speech. Even if one day, you become an alien, I will still love you."
Ji An seemed to hear something breaking the ice in his heart, and something else quietly poked its head out and jumped out. The sun spread golden and warm, and there was vitality everywhere.
Gu Jinsheng held Ji An in his arms, and his arms squeezed so hard that his ribs ached.
"Xiao An, I will always be by your side. No matter what you become, I will still love you."
Ji An's eyebrows were curved, and the dim light made his face even more beautiful.
"Zizila, zizila..." The alien suddenly made a sound, breaking the beauty of the room.
Gu Jinsheng reluctantly let go of Ji An, somewhat resenting the alien for his lack of tact.
"What is he talking about?" Gu Jinsheng asked.
"He's crying out in pain." Ji An said.
"Hurt? Is he injured?" But they had just checked the alien's body and didn't see any wounds at all.
Ji An didn't know what was going on. He shook his head, looked at the alien, and asked, "We just checked you, but we didn't see any wounds on your body."
The alien replied hoarsely, "With your current technology, there is no way to repair the problem with my body. Of course, it might be more accurate to say that you would call it treatment."
Ji An translated the alien's words to Gu Jinsheng, and both of them were confused.
Ji An asked: "In your place, curing a disease is not called curing the disease, but repairing the body?"
The alien shook his head, "We are different from you. We do not exist in the form of a body, but a spirit."
"Spiritual body?" Ji An repeated.
"Well, in your words, you can also call it a soul."
"So the soul really exists, and it doesn't mean there is nothing left when a person dies?" This is an unsolved mystery involving religion and faith that has troubled mankind for thousands of years, and Ji An is also very curious.
“The human spirit is immortal.”
"Is there reincarnation?" Ji An translated every word to Gu Jinsheng. Gu Jinsheng couldn't help but ask after hearing this.
The alien ignored Gu Jinsheng and kept staring at Ji An with his big gray eyes.
Ji An repeated the question, and the alien answered, "You humans call that reincarnation, but to us it is another kind of extinction."
"Why do you say that?"
"After you humans die, your spirit will be formatted by some force, clearing all your memories, and then you will be put into a new body again."
"Then you aliens can't do that?"
"No." The alien said: "In fact, we exist in the form of spiritual bodies on our planet. This way of existence has many advantages. The most basic advantage is that we are not bound by the body, will not be tortured by various diseases, and will not have the trouble of life span."
"You won't die?" Gu Jinsheng questioned.
This time the aliens still ignored Gu Jinsheng's question, and Ji An knew that the aliens were deliberately ignoring Gu Jinsheng.
Ji An repeated Gu Jinsheng's question, but the alien remained silent and chose to avoid the question.
Gu Jinsheng sneered, "So you'll still die, right?"
Ji An turned to ask the alien, but the alien remained silent.
The alien was unwilling to answer, and Ji An knew that if he continued to dwell on this question, even if he got an answer, it would most likely be difficult to tell whether it was true or false.
Ji An stopped dwelling on this question and turned to ask another question that concerned him. "You just said that after we die, our memories will be formatted by some mysterious force, and we will continue to reincarnate. So what is this mysterious force you are talking about?"
The alien did not refuse to answer this question, but he didn't know either.
"We are still investigating what the specific force is. But it should be some kind of operating law, or the magnetic field of the earth itself. It should be the natural law of the earth that breeds life."
This sentence made Ji An confused. He understood it but didn't understand it. Ji An wanted the alien to explain it further, but the alien just kept repeating this sentence.
Ji An didn't know whether there was a communication problem between the two or whether in the eyes of the aliens, this sentence was already quite straightforward, so straightforward that there was no way to explain it further. It was like one plus one equals two. How to explain this? There was no way to explain it. It was just equal to two.
Ji An attributed this difficult-to-understand conversation to a knowledge system that was beyond his ability to comprehend at his current level of civilization. He thought that he would be able to understand it when his civilization improved.
"Are you thirsty? Do you want some water?" Seeing that the alien still seemed uncomfortable, Ji An wanted to help him relieve the discomfort.
"No, thank you." The alien said: "We are different from you. Even if we wear this shell of the body, we cannot eat any food on Earth. The food of Earth humans is the most destructive thing to our bodies. Just eating a little bit will destroy our bodies, and this shell will not be wearable anymore, and we will leave it."
"Can you return to your planet after leaving the shell? And then can you get a new shell?"
"Yes, once we are out of this shell, we can return to our planet. The shell can be replaced at will, it is not an important thing. Damage to the shell will not affect our spiritual body, but during the time when our spiritual body is in the shell, if the shell is damaged, we will feel the corresponding pain as long as we are in the shell, and it will be fine once we are out of the shell."
Ji An stroked his chin and thought quietly. The alien's words gave him a lot of inspiration.
"You just said that humans also have spiritual bodies. Can I think that the body of a person is the outer shell? The human spiritual body is placed in the outer shell, so people get sick and feel pain. This is because the outer shell is damaged and affects the spirit. The life span of a human is like the service life of the outer shell. The length of life is just the degree of damage to the outer shell."
"It seems that humans are bound by their bodies. If they have no body and only exist as spirits, then humans are actually invincible."
The alien was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "You are still so smart!"
Gu Jinsheng noticed the alien's word choice, "Also? You knew Ji An before?"
"Do you know me?" Ji An also felt a little strange. Why did this alien use the word "return"? It seemed as if they knew each other and were very familiar with each other before.
The alien did not directly answer Ji An's question, but instead told Ji An a story.
"There has always been a legend circulating on our planet, just like the myths about the origin of human beings that have always been circulating on your Earth."
The alien spoke slowly, "There is an ancient myth circulating on our planet. In the vast universe, there is a planet with scarce resources that is completely unsuitable for our survival.
Moreover, this planet is a disguised form of bondage for us. Because once we arrive on that planet, our spiritual bodies will be severely suppressed, and many of our abilities will be infinitely suppressed and unable to be fully utilized. Even our boundless thoughts will be limited. It is obvious that very simple problems can be easily figured out without thinking. But when we arrive on that planet, it seems that we have become stupider, and it has become a difficult problem that is difficult to break through.
And without external help, we have no way to leave the planet on our own."
Ji An realized almost immediately which planet the aliens were talking about.
"The planet in your myths and legends is Earth?"
The alien nodded.
"We don't have the death penalty because death means the complete destruction of the spirit, which is a very inhumane act. Later, our leaders decided to treat the earth as a planet to imprison criminals. Each criminal was given a shell with a different useful life according to the length of his sentence.
Once the prison term is up, the inmates can leave the shell, and our reception staff will take them back after they have completed their sentences."
Ji An listened and found that the logic of this mythological story made sense, but there were also some inconsistencies.
"If the Earth is really a prison on your planet, then according to what you say, we can return to your planet after serving our sentences. Then what happened later caused the two planets to lose contact, and the story of the prison on Earth became a myth."
The alien looked at Ji An meaningfully, his smile seemed to contain both pride and sigh.
"You are really smart. The reason why criminals who receive long sentences are sentenced to such long sentences is because they have done extremely excessive and horrible things. They are extremely vicious deep down in their spirits.
They were imprisoned with criminals with shorter sentences. The criminals with longer sentences were fine at first, but as criminals with shorter sentences were released one after another, their sentences were still far from over. They were also tortured by various physical diseases, etc. How could these vicious people be willing to endure such torture? They actually rebelled, killed the people who were responsible for guarding them, re-established order, and made themselves kings. "
"This matter was kept secret. For a long time, they pretended to be caregivers and contacted our main planet to release the prisoners normally. Later, the truth was revealed. At that time, the Earth had become a chaotic planet. The main planet found that none of the criminals exiled to Earth were innocent. They had all become violent and aggressive, mentally polluted, and not worth saving. So they gave up on the Earth and even directly deleted the Earth's coordinates from the main planet."
"This story sounds somewhat logical." Ji An did not deny the myth right away, nor did he firmly believe in it.
"I will not question the truth of this myth for now. I just want to ask, you have chosen not to contact Earth for so long. What is the reason that forced you to log on to Earth again and even take the initiative to step into this sinful place in your eyes? What is your purpose in coming to Earth even though your spirit is bound and your mind and certain special abilities are sealed?"
"Are you really sharp?" The alien said, "I knew you could think of these things right away?"
"Thank you for the compliment. Can you give me an answer?"
"Even if it's for personal reasons, I can tell you." The alien said directly: "As the price of development, no new life has been born in our place for a long, long time."
"You also need the birth of new life, so it seems that you will also die." Without facing death, new life will lose its meaning and become insignificant.
The alien fell silent again, perhaps regretting his gaffe.
After a while, the alien spoke again, "Our lives are very long, so long that we almost forget that we will die. But there are always various accidents, such as wars and the environment, which can cruelly take away lives. So we still need new life after all."
"No matter how different the civilizations of our two planets are, we have the same origin. Perhaps in you, we can find the answers we want, recover our lives, and welcome the birth of new life."
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