Hundreds of thousands of scientists from all walks of life, and one ten-thousandth of the computing power of the stars, spent 24 years, countless precious resources, carefully cared for, and monitored 24 hours a day. The treasure embryo died.
There was no sign, and it happened suddenly.
First, scholars and technicians within the Institute of Life Sciences traced the source and conducted in-depth investigations, but they only came to a very superficial conclusion.
The current synthetic embryo is roughly equivalent to an ordinary embryo between the third and fourth weeks of normal development, in a state where the heart structure has just been formed, the facial features and organs are gradually taking shape, and the brain cells continue to increase.
Analyzing from the level of quantum thinking, the number of fetal brain cells at this time has accumulated to almost just be able to withstand a tiny personality consciousness in its original state.
But at the moment when the tiny consciousness was about to be born from nothing, some uncontrolled situations occurred. The phosphorus atoms in the cells that make up the fetus' brain did not successfully aggregate into a Posner cluster.
The quantum spiral array that should have stably constructed individual consciousness suddenly collapsed. It was as if the solar system had suddenly stolen the sun, and the planets, satellites, asteroids, comets and nebulae orbiting the sun went their separate ways under the influence of centrifugal force.
Subsequently, the embryo lost its vitality and stopped developing.
This is just the result of the event, and scholars are at a loss as to why it happened.
Obviously, all the details of the embryonic development process are under full observation by real energy level monitoring methods, and everything is normal.
According to the logic of modern science, under the observation of real energy level monitoring methods, there should be no accidents in the universe without any signs. All accidents should show more or less signs before they happen.
In order to find the cause of the accident, hundreds of millions of people in the solar system were temporarily transferred by Fanxing to the accident investigation team. For more people, the level-breaking tasks in their leisure life have also become an algorithm game that they learn first and then participate in the deduction together.
Thanks to the civilization task subdivision system established by Fanxing, in the vast empire, tens of thousands of different star systems, a total of hundreds of billions of people have jointly invested in the huge task of investigating the truth of the accident.
Many people don't know what kind of huge project they are involved in. They only know that there is a small detail added to their personal task list, and then it will take a few hours or a few days to complete a small calculation and deduction.
These small workloads will become part of the core work of the many masters of space-time topology and the stars under the Xingfeng Research Institute. Under
the new scientific and technological breakthrough mode, the fog was finally lifted layer by layer.
Sixty-three days after the embryo "died", an academic report was presented to Chen Feng.
The "cause of death" of the embryo was found.
The culprit was Chen Feng himself.
"I am still living in the UV black hole in the constellation Cetus, and my thoughts are constantly interacting with the universe. This information can instantly cross infinite distances and reach any place in the universe. This is not a unique trait of mine. Every human being on Earth has the same characteristics as me." "At the
moment when the tiny personality consciousness in the embryo is formed, a huge information exchange will occur with the universe. But because my consciousness still exists, the embryo is impacted by my thoughts and ultimately fails to take shape." "
No matter how far the distance between me and the embryo is, or whether we are blocked by the subspace "wall", this information shock is unavoidable. Simply put, at the same time, in the same universe, the universe cannot withstand two personalities with exactly the same underlying information."
Chen Feng summed it up himself.
Fanxing: "Yes. In fact, this phenomenon has been described in science fiction movies and novels many years ago."
"Yeah, I know." Chen Feng nodded and shrugged.
As early as the 20th and 21st centuries, science fiction writers have created many literary works about time travel.
These works repeatedly interpret the time paradox from different angles and in different ways, and have drawn a large number of conflicting conclusions.
"What will happen when the future 'me' travels through time and meets the past 'me'?" is the easiest scene for readers and film and television viewers to imagine and arouse curiosity.
Since this hypothetical scene does not have the possibility of real realization, people can only fantasize and speculate from different angles.
Some people believe that two "me" or even more "me" can coexist.
"You Resurrected Corpses" and its adapted film "Predestination" concretize this concept to the extreme, forming a closed-loop worldview full of loopholes and contradictions, but strangely self-consistent in logic.
But the more common cognition is that there cannot be two "I"s in the same universe in the same time period.
If there are, then these two "I"s must not meet.
As for what will happen if they meet, the best science fiction writers can only keep their descriptions in fantasy that cannot find theoretical basis, commonly known as fabrication.
In the past nine timelines, every time Chen Feng arrived a thousand years later, the grass on his grave in the past was several feet high, so he did not encounter this problem.
He has also imagined many times what would happen if he could live for a thousand years.
Will his future self still be able to appear?
Now he has the answer.
The concept that two "I"s cannot meet must be infinitely magnified, to the point where two "I"s cannot exist at the same time in the same universe.
Suddenly, Chen Feng found that he had one foot on the edge of a cliff and was at a dead end.
His "survival" led to the failure of embryo gestation.
Even if he cultivated it again, the result would be no different.
Without a body, he would not be able to find a body to support his resurrection plan in the 31st century.
But now he has survived to the 28th century, and he cannot gamble on suicide and leave everything to the mysterious energy that supports his resurrection in the 31st century.
What if he fails to be resurrected?
What if humans still lose in the end?
In the end, even if he continued to watch it with his own eyes while he was lingering on, it would not work.
According to the speed at which his emotions dissipated after his thoughts were quantized in the previous timeline, combined with the difference in carrying capacity caused by the size difference between the UV black hole in Cetacean and the shadow black hole, in about three hundred years at most, his emotions will also return to zero, completely losing his personality and becoming a pure artificial intelligence, which is essentially dead.
"There is no way out. The embryo must be restored to vitality."
Chen Feng sighed.
Since he transformed himself into quantum self-intelligence, he has not spoken in such an outward tone of emotion for a long time.
Fanxing looked at him slightly anxiously, "So what are you going to do? I must emphasize to you that even if you commit suicide now, it is impossible to bring the dead embryo back to life. I suggest you don't gamble like this, we really can't afford to lose this time."
Chen Feng nodded, "I know."
He looked at the technical report on the investigation of the embryo death accident again, and then said: "In fact, many researchers have guessed the truth that I am not dead yet. It's just that we don't announce it, and others can only speculate. In this case, let's advance the resurrection plan by three hundred years."
"Are you going to infuse your personality into the embryo?"
Chen Feng nodded, "Yes. Since the embryo dies due to lack of active consciousness, I will put myself in."
"There are two problems. First, the information you have is far beyond the human brain's tolerance limit. Second, the number of brain cells in the embryo is very small. The success rate of infusing your thoughts into the embryo is too low."
Chen Feng shook his head, and the virtual body's gaze was focused. At the focus of his gaze, a complex symbol was slowly generated.
Fanxing took a look and whispered, "You mixed the fish star people's stacked memory code with the symbolic language of the Mi people?"
Chen Feng blinked, "Not only that, but also my mother tongue, the square characters in Chinese."
Fanxing understood Chen Feng's plan.
He would "format" his memory, give up his entire life, and truly live again.
One day in the future, when he is new and can bear all the memories now, I will give him this complex symbol, and then there will be a chance to awaken his memory.
Fanxing asked, "What if it fails? What if you can't read out the memory information inside completely? Then you will forget a lot of things!"
Chen Feng smiled and shook his head, "Even if I forget everything, it doesn't matter. I will still be me again."
Three hours later, Chen Feng's thoughts began to leave the UV star in Cetacea, and followed the huge bandwidth quantum network communication channel opened by Fanxing, crossing the long distance and heading straight to the solar system.
At the same time, the embryo culture room of the Earth Life Science Institute began to play "Songs from the Other World". This was a physical formatting of the embryo, the purpose of which was to remove the remnants of the rules that had previously generated a tiny personality consciousness.
The Fish Star corpse planet in the Voyager galaxy was loaded into a huge flying space station. The space station began to gradually accelerate and headed straight for the solar system.
A few years later, the space station carrying the Fish Star corpse planet and Chen Feng's thoughts arrived in the solar system one after the other, two months apart.