Chapter 288: The First Charter.
Iridium Academy, back mountain.
The continuous and towering mountains are part of the mountain range of North District 1. When Heshia first came to North District 1, she was shocked by the tall mountains. Even after staying in Iridium Academy for a long time, this feeling has never faded.
The mountains are very high, very big, making many pale descriptions and metaphors lose their color. The hillside that stretches for more than ten kilometers is like a giant staircase leading directly to the sky, which makes people dizzy. If you look up, you will have the illusion that the earth is tilting and you are standing unsteadily.
The higher you go, the stronger the wind is. There are rugged rocks here, no trees, and only a small amount of green grass living tenaciously in the cracks.
Stepping on the peeling ridge rock, the girl opened her hands and simply maintained her balance. Her well-proportioned and slender legs stepped over the white and green rocks like walking on a single-plank bridge. The wind from the mountain blew her blue dress close to her body, outlining her figure on one side. Her hair fluttered in the wind, and her eyelashes were soaked in the sun, showing a little brown and transparent feeling.
Keeping balance in the wind, the girl walked across the long ridge, step by step climbed the mountaintop that was plated with gold by the morning sun, and then jumped lightly, landing her feet on the highest stone on the mountain.
This stone is not as flat as the stones on the ridge. Upon closer inspection, there are many tiny pits, filled with some moss and sand. It feels a little cold and a little black.
Although climbing to the top in life will not give various rewards and achievements like in the game, the scenery of the undulating sea of clouds and the many small mountains and rivers is imprinted in the mind, giving people a certain satisfaction, as if collecting stamps, or as if the horizon of life has been broadened.
Unlike what some people imagine, the rocks on the mountain will be very clean even if no one cleans them, so there is no need to worry about dirtying clothes.
After simply gathering her skirt, Heshia sat on the slightly cool stone, overlooking the huge canyon below, as well as the winding valleys and streams in the distance, and occasionally shaking her legs in the wind to experience the brisk feeling of the breeze blowing over her calves.
After carefully feeling and enjoying this novel experience for a long time, she closed her eyes, then gently supported her hands on the stones beside her, and her consciousness continued to spread along the stones under her.
Soon the structure of the entire mountain came into her mind. The continuous peaks were actually only covered with a little soil on the surface, and the interior was almost a whole rock without gaps, like waves, undulating on the ground.
This perception of the huge mountains like waves on the ground brought her a new cognition, making her consciousness swim like a fish in these continuous mountains.
It was like entering a whole new world.
In this way, Heshia did not get out of this immersion until the sun gradually came into the sky.
When she opened her eyes again and looked down at the rolling mountains, she seemed to have the illusion that she could make these "waves" move.
Although it was very tempting, it was indeed an illusion. The girl spread her hands, looked at her palms, and then gently pressed on the stone under her body. Like a ripple spreading, the stone under her body gradually became transparent, and finally as clear as crystal. This sign continued to spread along the rocks, and the entire mountain began to transform into a clear crystal.
In fact, most substances can be transparent, that is, they can allow light to pass through and become crystal clear, but there are not many truly transparent substances in nature. This is because the internal molecules are messy and different molecules form different structures. There are also many gaps in them, causing different scattering and refraction, so the substance is not transparent.
If the human heart is like the rocks in the mountains, in the primitive and uncivilized situation, they fight each other for their own interests, and most of their energy is spent on internal consumption. The internal structure is messy and turbid, so it is dull and dark.
But if they gradually gather together because of a certain concept, first forming a family, then a tribe, and then a country, they can burst out with increasingly powerful power, and the whole gradually becomes transparent, and even the innermost molecules can glimpse the light and world outside.
Life is naturally inclined to seek benefits and avoid harm, which is the source of existence and continuation. How to convince most lives to believe in the same collective and work towards the same direction? First, they have common interests, but this is not enough. If it is just a combination of interests, it is easy to break, because interests are too fickle and unstable, and not applicable to all situations.
Individuals have limits. Even people with strong social skills can only maintain close and familiar relationships with about 150 people, which is close to the limit, and a tribe or a country is definitely not more than this number of people.
In order to glue together the scattered individuals, wise men from ancient times to the present have thought of many ways, from the most simple blood relationship to the more easily popularized religion, national concepts, and more special culture and ideals, etc. These things, like magnets, straighten out the scattered individuals one by one and move them in the same direction.
Learning knowledge is good, but after enlightenment and knowing more knowledge, people are not so easy to fool, and it is even more difficult for them to immerse themselves in so-called religions and beliefs. They will analyze the gains and losses more calmly and consider their own benefits.
From an individual perspective, such behavior is conducive to survival, but from a higher dimension, such a group will inevitably become weaker, because they begin to suspect each other, and it is difficult for them to fully cooperate with each other. Sometimes, even if the right option appears, a small number of people will hinder it for their own selfish interests.
In the short term, individuals do benefit, but in the long term, the weakening of the entire group also makes individuals no longer safe.
This kind of incident has happened more than once in history, that is, a country that was originally civilized and developed was conquered and replaced by the surrounding barbarians.
How to bridge the gap between groups and achieve a flawless and united transparent crystal is almost a problem that civilization must face after it develops to a certain level, and the more populous and large the civilization is, the more it must face this problem.
In the past, the dark suns used shortcuts such as genetic modification, brainwashing and isolation to achieve this goal. In just a thousand years, they swept across the galaxy, expanded the star field, and suppressed the original human beings.
But such shortcuts will not be without cost, and they are even incomplete in themselves. The consequences were slowly exposed in the later period, which is also the reason for the final defeat of the dark suns.
[If you regard people as tools, then the other party will respond with tool-like answers.]
This is what Isanisha said in the last conversation with Oshikasha.
If the bottom of the new race is absolutely obedient, simple and without other thoughts, then they are just like tools. In essence, these new races are the same as those electronic AIs that assist humans.
The only thing that is stronger than electronic AI is that they can provide their own consciousness and extraordinary core resonance to power the dark sun.
Wisdom has its limits, or the excellence of individuals has marginal effects, which means that a 90-point smart person may not be able to beat three 70-point ordinary people.
After the rise of the new race, they had a huge advantage in a short period of time and defeated the countries of the native humans, but their technological and social evolution was extremely slow, only one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the normal human society.
It is not difficult to understand that a unified and regular life, spiritual world, and an environment without changes and ups and downs are difficult to generate inspiration and materials.
Reading the same book 100 times is not as good as the knowledge, inspiration, and vision expansion gained from reading 100 different books.
Everything about the new race is too repetitive and monotonous. In such a boring society, most of the bottom population is just tools. There will be no needs, and there is no need for any changes. Everything can be done step by step.
Few people know that even the progress of science and technology requires a lot of inspiration and materials to advance.
Just like people can't think of things beyond cognition, when the vision and material range of the entire civilization are narrow and monotonous, researchers can't imagine things they have never seen before, because they don't exist from a conceptual point of view.
From birth to death, a person has only seen one color. No matter how smart she is, she can't imagine a world with other colors.
This is the fatal flaw that the new race can never overcome. If they overcome it, they will be the same as other humans and no longer be the life that the dark sun needs.
When the vision of the new race is opened and the genetic defects are repaired, she will no longer blindly follow and obey, nor can she maintain that kind of simple worship, and naturally she can no longer serve the dark suns.
At the end of the Fifth Era, the newly established Federation gathered many organizations and forces scattered across the galaxy, and also obtained a large number of different technologies. Countless talents and ideas collided at this moment, and science and technology progressed in a leapfrog manner, exuding a vitality that made the dark suns fear.
More powerful starships, more powerful weapons, more ways to deal with new races, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of them continue to emerge, the blockade of the dark suns is broken, fleets across the starry sea are shot down and destroyed, until the foundation of the throne is disintegrated, and the eternally powerful sun has to go out.
The first charter: [Treat people as people, and they will respond with the same wisdom and strength as you.]
"We will build an equal and fair country to create our paradise in this cold and empty starry sky. Today, I declare the establishment of the Federation in the name of Rose. No matter what we will encounter in the future, we will advance and retreat together, regardless of each other."
Thousands of years ago, the scene of Isanissa's oath at the founding ceremony is still deafening and moving.
(End of this chapter)
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