Chapter 357: Human existence is against the will of heaven
Chapter 357: Human existence is against the will of heaven
Planets like the Blue Star, our home planet, are actually rare.
This is true even in the entire galaxy.
It sounds incredible that the Milky Way is so big, but in fact, it is.
Because only such a special environment can give birth to human beings, who possess the wisdom to reverse the increase of entropy.
In other words, life itself is the opposite of the universe.
To use the earliest words.
Human existence is against the will of heaven.
So, the human empire spread throughout the galaxy.
Hive cities, this type of building then spread throughout the galaxy.
What is a hive.
To put it simply, it is the interstellar era, to establish a space for human survival, production and life on a planet with rich resources.
It is like a nest, yet so huge that it seems like a city.
Hence, it is called the Nest City.
And right now, Li Zhongren is in the Chaodu.
And it is on the third floor from the top in the hive.
This is also where most of the hive's ordinary people live.
The first level, or the top level, is where the ruling class lives.
It has the best environment and the richest resources.
The second layer, that is, the management level, is the level that serves the ruling class. It has an environment second only to the ruling class and is also the end point of everyone's efforts. After all, the world he described is an imperial system, and one of the characteristics of the imperial system is hereditary succession.
No matter how hard you try, you can never become emperor without rebelling.
The third floor is where ordinary people live.
Ordinary people live here, and then, under the dispatch of management, they take various machines to go outside the hive to perform various tasks.
The fourth floor is the lowest level of the hive city. It is used to process all kinds of garbage generated by this huge city. Of course, it is also a place where evil breeds. All kinds of perverts, murderers, and the like will choose to hide here.
"Walk"
Yawning, Li Zhongren stood up and left the small room where he lived.
This thing is jokingly called a tin box.
Every ordinary person born in the hive will be assigned such a thing, but it does not belong to you. If you die, the hive will take back the tin box. If you get married, then one of your tin boxes will also be taken back. Therefore, this has led to the fact that marriage has become a thing of the past, and people in the interstellar age rarely choose such a ceremony.
Walking out of his tin box, Li Zhongren looked around.
Although he had already conceived the structure of the hive city many times in his mind.
However, when he actually saw the hive city, he was still shocked.
Because it's huge.
It was as if a huge bowl was turned upside down, and the entire nest city's ordinary people's class was densely packed with various buildings.
Surrounding the pillar in the middle is the only passage to the upper level of the hive city.
It also supports the outer bowl of the hive.
It will grow in size as the hive expands.
After all, as the population grows, more space is bound to be needed.
The space either comes from building tall buildings on the third level of the hive.
Or, expand horizontally.
Because the so-called third layer is actually the surface of this planet.
Of course, generally speaking, these two interact with each other. When the third layer's upward expansion is almost complete, the ruling class will manipulate the expansion of the 'bowl' of the hive city to accommodate more space inside the hive city, and then build more iron boxes on this new land to accommodate ordinary people to work for the ruling class.
For the convenience of management, the third floor of the nest city, where ordinary people live, has a structure similar to that of the ancient Tang Dynasty's Fang.
Divide into grids one by one.
There is a boudoir master in each grid.
The status of the abbot is almost equivalent to that of a town mayor or a county magistrate.
And today, be part of the free test.
All Li Zhongren had to do was go to the town center of his town and take the test.
On the street, people come and go.
After all, although everyone knows that being a psychic is a very risky profession, everyone wants to become a psychic. It means a class transition and means getting out of the current poor life. Normally, this is a height that can never be reached through hard work.
However, many people also know that becoming a psychic actually has signs. If you have not encountered anything strange in your daily life, you are probably not a psychic. But during the few days of free testing, because of the gathering of people, ordinary people can also do some small business, such as street stalls, which can be regarded as making a small profit. For children who love to watch the fun, this day also gives them the opportunity to eat some good things that they cannot eat on weekdays.
The square of Fangzhen.
This place is already full of people at this moment.
The abbot hasn't arrived yet, but the equipment vehicle for testing has already arrived and the staff are assembling it.
These technicians live in the central area on the third floor.
Yes, very interesting.
In the world he designed, classes exist everywhere. Even the third floor, which is considered a civilian area, is divided into different areas.
Among them, the richest civilians, those who have the greatest chance of going to the second level, all live in the central area, naturally including those technicians who are capable of handling high technology.
Another half an hour passed, and after eating several servings of grilled sausages and fried stinky tofu, Li Zhongren finally saw the owner.
He arrived late in his bulletproof car.
He had seen the abbot before, a fat man with white hair and beard, and he was not young. However, in this interstellar age, it was not difficult for rich people to extend their lifespan, so if nothing unexpected happened, this fat man could serve as the abbot for many more years.
The abbot walked up to the microphone and started talking some useless nonsense, probably praising the emperor or something like that.
Then, the test officially began.
The process is that all eligible people go to the instrument car in order and hold an instrument inside.
If you are psychically sensitive, the instrument will give you a prompt.
In fact, in essence, everyone is psychically sensitive, but the difference is that most people will never resonate with the subspace in their lifetime. To put it bluntly, the channel between the two is too narrow.
As for psychics, their natural channel is wide, but before awakening, this channel is closed.
Generally speaking, adults are more likely to awaken because their souls are more perfect.
Of course, it's not absolute.
Also, adults have more stable values, which is why the Empire chooses to let 18-year-olds take the test.
"Li Zhongren"
Soon, according to the previous registration list, it was Li Zhongren's turn.
Taking a deep breath, Li Zhongren walked into the instrument car, sat on the chair as required, and then grasped something that looked like a gripper.
The next moment, a special feeling flowed from the handle to his body, his brain, and his soul.
At that moment, he felt as if he had been sublimated, leaping directly from the ground to a higher perspective.
Everything around has also changed.
I felt like I was in the ocean.
Looking ahead, there is an endless distance. It is densely packed.
They are all torches.
This is, the subspace.
After pondering for a moment, Li Zhongren knew where he was.
At the same time, looking into the distance, at the end of this sea of stars, there is a sun.
Yes, that is the Emperor of Humanity.
His light illuminates the Milky Way, guiding mankind, and allowing humans within this huge disk of one hundred thousand light years to connect with each other through travel beyond the speed of light, rather than being forever outside the light cone and unable to communicate.
However, this time did not last long, and his perspective was pulled back.
He returned to reality.
At the same time, the instrument in front of him also emitted a dazzling golden light.
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The top floor of the hive.
The governor of this administrative planet, the chief who manages everything on the entire planet.
Raphael.
He was looking at the information urgently sent from the third-level hive.
The content of the intelligence is simple.
During the annual census of psykers, a golden psyker reserve was discovered.
This world uses five levels to measure the potential of psychics: white, blue, purple, red, and gold.
Naturally, the higher the level, the greater your potential is and the more worthy of cultivation you are.
"gold."
Raphael took a puff of his cigar and couldn't help feeling emotional, even excited.
The planet he was on was called Raphael, which was bought by his thirteenth-generation grandfather and had been passed down for more than two thousand years. It was the first time he encountered a golden psychic descendant.
Well known.
The biggest drawback of psychics is that they can easily become a springboard for the evil gods of the subspace to invade reality.
However, the emperor of mankind can defeat the evil god in the subspace.
In addition to the emperor's great talent and strategy, fundamentally, the emperor's soul is different from ordinary people, as golden as the sun.
Although this 18-year-old youth could not be compared with the emperor, gold was gold. Golden psychics were naturally resistant to evil gods. They did not have the shortcomings of ordinary psychics and could even use their abilities at will.
"sure?"
Raphael took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"Yes, Governor. We have tested it repeatedly and even sent a car from the market next door to confirm that there is no problem. Now, we have taken the people to the top floor of the hive city and protected them."
"well done."
The Governor nodded.
“Do many people know about this?”
"Reporting to the Governor, the entire process was carried out in secret, and the person being tested is an orphan, without a father or a mother. He usually keeps a low profile, and no one will care about his disappearance."
"Very good."
Raphael nodded, a smile appeared on his face, but there was a hint of bloodthirstiness in that smile.
"Let's go, let's go see him first."
"Yes, Governor."
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The top floor of the hive city, the Governor's laboratory.
This is the place with the highest technological content on the planet Raphael.
Most of the products used in Raphael's foreign trade are developed here.
However, this is just a cover-up.
The core function of this laboratory is to study psychics.
In fact, this is no secret in the entire empire.
After all, the emperor's seat is there, and who doesn't want to be a psychic like the emperor?
Defeat the evil god in the subspace.
Even if they cannot do that, the abilities of psychics are still an indispensable weapon in today's warlord society.
Not to mention, as the saying goes, if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams will be crooked.
Initially, the twelve golden men who helped the emperor conquer the galaxy were all genetically modified psychics, and each of them possessed magnificent power that ordinary people could not imagine.
Unfortunately, with the rebellion of the leader of the Twelve Golden Men, all of the Twelve Golden Men died, and the transformation technology was either destroyed or scattered.
Until now, the governors in the galaxy can only search for clues of various technologies from the past like archaeologists, and want to restore them and use them on themselves.
Yes, because of that rebellion, current human technology has lost too many technologies, such as the continuation of life, and immortality is no longer possible.
How could a governor who owns a planet not desire eternal life?
Then, studying longevity of psychics is one of the directions.
As for Raphael, his research is even more evil.
Soul transfer.
The flesh will decay. Even as powerful as the Emperor, his body has decayed into bones on the Astronomican.
But the Emperor's soul lives forever in the Warp.
So, Raphael's ancestors had this idea.
Why can't I separate the soul from the body and transfer it into a healthy body?
In particular, the Raphael family were once psychics and have the blood of psychics. Their abilities are to a certain extent related to the control of souls.
Therefore, with the accumulation of generation after generation, this technology has gradually been perfected.
To put it simply, it is to use the replicable technology and the black box psychic power of the Raphael family to transfer one's soul to another young psychic.
Thus achieving immortality in a roundabout way.
However, during the experiment, the Raphael family discovered an embarrassing thing.
The result of this transfer is that a psychic will 100% become the coordinate of the evil god, which may be due to the fluctuations generated when the souls merge.
Therefore, this technology will eventually be shelved in embarrassment, unless one day they meet a psychic with golden potential.
It’s a pity that generation after generation of governors from the Raphael family could only die in despair.
Only he actually encountered a psychic with golden potential.
According to his ancestors' research, only psychics with golden potential can offset the fluctuations generated during fusion.
"it's him?"
Raphael saw Li Zhongren through the monitor.
The other person was lying on the sofa and had fallen asleep.
"Yes, Governor, we put a sleeping pill in his coffee."
"That's right. Send him to Lab 9. Then, I don't need to tell you about all the people involved in this matter today, except you."
"clear."
The man nodded heavily.
(End of this chapter)