When people live, they always want to pursue a clear mind and no confusion.
Poor people think they can be free of confusion if they have money.
Rich people think they can be free of confusion if they have a happy family and good health.
Humble people think they can be free of confusion if they are in power.
People who are neither high nor low think they can be free of confusion if they get promoted and make money.
However, in fact, this is impossible.
The biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans can always find new goals for themselves after reaching a certain stage, and then they will be confused and will never be satisfied.
When humans are on land, they yearn for the sea and the sky, even though there are sharks and storms in the sea, cold currents and lightning in the sky, and other deadly dangers.
When humans are in the low-orbit space station, they yearn for the universe, but the universe is even more dangerous.
Humans are well aware that new dangers lurk in new environments, and that leaving their comfort zones means approaching death. However, regardless of the threat of enemies, humans have never stopped exploring the unknown.
The two opposing natures of cowardice and fearlessness are deeply rooted in the souls of Earthlings in a very complex way.
Humans are never satisfied.
The same is true for Chen Feng.
After crossing over this time, he has lived for an extra hundred years.
Humans have also existed for an extra hundred years.
But Chen Feng didn't feel satisfied at all, and he even forgot to celebrate.
He has been doing one thing every day for a hundred years, learning. It
takes ten years to grow trees, and a hundred years to cultivate people.
Chen Feng has seen many geniuses, including Ryan, Ou Qinglan, Shergei, Lai Wenming, Frankie in history books, and Freders who is by his side now.
Each of them was enough to make him feel ashamed for a long time.
Every time he established the personality of the sage Chen Feng in his mind by reading historical materials, he would be quickly taught a lesson after he began to call himself a master.
So Chen Feng was forced to learn humility and have a clear understanding of his IQ and talent.
A fast mind does not mean that you can quickly understand it.
Remembering it does not mean that you really understand it and can also give lectures to others.
So Chen Feng chose to spend a hundred years to cultivate himself.
Since I don’t have talent, I will start early.
I can't learn it at a glance like those monsters, so I'll just pile up the time.
I've spent a hundred years to make myself a knowledgeable person, not a sage with a false reputation.
Chen Feng is essentially a person who hates learning. His concentration on learning has been criticized by his former teachers Ou Qinglan and Fanxing, but this does not hinder his strong will.
Back then, he was able to lock himself in his room and study music theory for nearly a year without any talent. He memorized the complete arrangements of the two songs "Boring" and "Boring" by rote. The desk and floor were so smooth from his scratching his ears and cheeks while memorizing so much that his trembling feet stepped on them. Now he can also study and fight for the rise of mankind.
Even if he really didn't like it, and subconsciously considered it a great pain, he could always hold on.
In addition, Chen Feng at this time did not actually leave the territory of the Morning Wind Empire.
He originally planned to fly far away.
But when he first passed through the star gate and continued to transfer, and finally arrived at the border of the Morning Wind Empire, he changed his mind.
At present, humans have a deeper understanding of the planetary system within the territory of the empire, but the wider exploration range of 5,000 light years away has spread to 3,000 light years away.
It's just that there are no star gates outside, and long-distance voyages can only rely on ships to "run".
The first batch of ten times the speed of light fast research vessels set off as early as three hundred years ago, and the scientific researchers on it have become the second generation members who grew up from frozen embryos.
The first batch of superfast scientific research spacecraft with a speed of 20 times the speed of light set out nearly 50 years ago, and now they have reached a location of 1,000 light years.
Countless professional exploration and scientific research spacecraft have successively transmitted a lot of information, so even if Chen Feng goes out, he will just repeat the path taken by his predecessors.
If there is a chance, Chen Feng would certainly want to cross the distance of tens of thousands of light years and find the mother planet of the Mi tribe.
But it is obvious that with the current extreme speed performance of Morning Breeze II at 21 times the speed of light, even if he is extremely lucky and can stay out of the sight of the compound eyes, he will not be able to live for another few thousand years.
Then he can only run less than one-tenth of the distance at most, and he cannot stop along the way, so he can only take a quick look.
As for whether he can find the "local specialties" that can be used to deal with the compound eyes, it can only be left to luck.
So Chen Feng decided not to leave, but to stay in the territory of the Morning Wind Empire and use the quantum jump of the stargate to quickly reach his destination.
Anyway, the medium-layer flight ability brought by Fredes greatly increased his safety factor, and it was almost impossible to be discovered.
Unless he was unlucky enough to collide with other ships when leaving subspace, but this was an event with an extremely small probability.
Chen Feng was not wandering around aimlessly like a fly.
Fredes discovered that when Chen Feng was trying to learn alien technology, if the things he faced were too different from the common sense of the solar system, the degree of his comprehension was always a level lower, as if there was a layer of gauze between them. No matter how carefully he explained it, it was always a little off.
When asked if Chen Feng understood, he thought he did.
But when asked to invent something around the technology, his mind was a mess.
When asked to organize his thoughts and write a monograph to explain scientific principles to others, he would be in a daze as soon as he picked up the pen.
Fredes analyzed that the reason was that Chen Feng was a native of the solar system after all. He had stayed in the solar system for too long, which limited his logical thinking ability. In addition, his IQ was "relatively low", so he was trapped in the intergalactic cognitive bias.
Fredes suggested that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. Instead of working in isolation, it is better to visit the corresponding stars and understand things that were originally incomprehensible in the quantum storm.
Therefore, in the past 100 years, Chen Feng has really visited countless galaxies with secondary civilizations and a large number of galaxies with cosmic wonders that he intuitively judged to be useful to mankind.
It is not only him who has been amplified and strengthened, but also Fredes.
Although Fredes's knowledge and understanding are always one level deeper than Chen Feng's, who knows if there is another level below this level?
Just like humans used to think that the smallest unit of matter was molecules, and then atoms were discovered, and then protons, neutrons and electrons were discovered. Now humans have even discovered that pure string energy can still be divided and recombined to form different characteristics.
Now that Fredes has acquired the special abilities of the Glas people, his communication with the quantum network is much deeper than that of ordinary people. The breadth of information obtained by the detectors on the Morning Breeze II may not be as good as other large human scientific stations, but Chen Feng feels that the depth may be comparable.
Therefore, when he visits these planets, he also wants to try to see if Fredes can use his special abilities to find other treasures left behind by humans.
There are more than 10 billion stars in the Orion Arm, which is more than 10,000 light years long. These stars form a long "light belt".
The solar system is located on the inner side of the Orion Arm close to the center of the Milky Way, and the density of stars nearby is relatively high.
The route of human activities mainly spreads along the Orion Arm to both sides. There are more than 6 billion stars in the territory of the Empire.
In addition to humans, at least hundreds of thousands of secondary civilizations have been discovered, but the only ones that have the ability to navigate across planetary systems and can be considered as first-class civilizations are humans and the Thiefgrass, as well as a small number of "lucky" civilizations that are not sure whether they are lucky or unlucky to be pulled on the same warship by humans.
This is the news that Chen Feng has clearly learned in the previous timeline.
In the entire galaxy, civilizations that have or are about to have the ability to navigate across planets will be cleared by the Compound Eyes.
It's just that he only knew that there were civilizations before, but he didn't expect that there would be so many other intelligent life forms in the small Orion Arm.
The development levels of these secondary civilizations vary greatly. Using the Kardashev scale, the lowest is only 0.0001, which is comparable to the primitive human society, and the highest is almost 0.5, such as the Glas. The
development speed of these civilizations is extremely slow. The weak 0.0001 civilization has possessed wisdom for at least tens of millions of years, but in tens of millions of years of reproduction and development, it has only improved from 0.00001 to 0.0001.
According to human calculations, even if this weak civilization develops for another 100 million years, it will only survive at 0.01.
As for other civilizations that have developed to around 0.5, they have also entered a similar vicious circle and fallen into a situation of technological stagnation, as if they had hit an invisible wall head-on.
The longest stagnation period is hundreds of thousands of years, and the shortest is hundreds of years.
Based on human understanding of civilization, and after logical calculations, we can come to the conclusion.
Even without the need for the compound eyes to take any action, these civilizations that cannot break free from the shackles and rush out of the galaxy will eventually reach the same end - because of the exhaustion of their own available resources and energy, they will decline irreversibly and perish in despair.
The tens of millions of civilization sites that exist in the Orion Arm are proof that they once existed but disappeared in the long river of time.
On some planets with more favorable environments, there are even dozens of generations of ruins representing different civilizations that once existed.
This means that the rules of this star and the planet that can breed life under these rules have gone through tens of millions of years, or even billions of years of efforts, but have not been able to cultivate a "spokesperson" who can represent this star system in the universe.
According to the results of mathematical analysis, scientists believe that at least tens of millions of civilizations have been born in the Orion Arm in these billions of years, but these civilizations have returned to dust, appeared quietly, and disappeared quietly.
After a generation of civilizations was completely destroyed, their transformation of the planet and the traces of life left behind became the nutrient soil for the next generation of completely different species to quietly breed.
Human scientists have conducted an in-depth analysis of these civilizations and summarized the biggest possibility.
The physiological structure of these civilizations can only support their exploration of the universe to this extent. Their wisdom cannot understand anything deeper.
For example, room-temperature superconducting technology, microwave power transmission technology, ultra-durable and ultra-high conversion rate solar panel technology, controlled nuclear fusion, low-loss medium engine technology, etc., which are easily mastered by humans.
These civilizations that have tried hard have all been firmly blocked outside by invisible high walls that may be defects in their own consciousness structure or the external environment.
This wall of sighs is the "upper limit" of intelligent life with different physiological structures, representing a certain cruel rule of the universe.
Assuming that humans fail to find a breakthrough in new energy sources, and until the fossil fuel resources on the earth are exhausted, and fail to obtain stable, controllable and unlimited energy that is sufficient to supply the needs of all civilizations, then the situation of mankind is also dangerous.
Even if there are still recyclable energy sources such as wind power, hydropower, and tidal energy, it is useless. Once energy output cannot keep up with social needs, resources will inevitably become more scarce, which will inevitably lead to brutal wars for resources, and then most of us will perish together.
I am afraid that humans will not be able to escape the same fate as these extinct civilizations.
Humans once thought that they were very alone in the universe.
Now it seems that it is completely an illusion brought about by ignorance. It’s just that we couldn’t see it before and couldn’t contact each other.
Just like the extreme idealist philosophy says, "What you can’t see doesn’t exist."
Human beings' sense of loneliness is based on an extremely idealistic concept.
At a certain stage, this is the truth.
But at another stage, it will collapse without any attack.
Only when you stand at a certain height can you see the mystery of the vast universe.
The competition in the universe has always existed and is extremely cruel and fierce.
Every race that can jump out of the shackles of interstellar distance and walk out of the mother planet is a lucky person in the universe.
Of course, these lucky people will all be greeted with a tragic fate.
All races will inevitably fall under the butcher knife of the compound eyes.
For millions of years, no one has been spared.
The compound eyes usually don't pay any attention to low-end secondary civilizations, just like humans never care about a certain ant nest outside their homes.
No one cares whether this ant nest grows stronger or disappears quietly after a catastrophe.
But when the ants mutate, become larger, more toxic, and even have the potential to harm humans, humans will decisively pick up flamethrowers and eat the ants.
In addition to secondary civilizations, there are more than 20 million planetary systems with special cosmic rules within the territory of the Morning Wind Empire that have more or less some reference value in some aspects.
Humans have cracked a lot and studied a lot, but dare to say that they have understood them in sufficient depth, less than 10%.
Much of this knowledge is required courses that Chen Feng studied hard for a hundred years.