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Chapter 1125 A Million Years

Over the past few years, through the staff at the research institute, Lu Li has gradually come to understand the situation of this world.

When he learned that the Blue Alliance had been established for over 1.23 million years, he felt a little heavy-hearted, because it meant that if the time flow in his home world was one-to-one with that in the World Sea, then such a long time had also passed in that space.

Given such a long period of time, the probability of him seeing his old friends from the past again is infinitely close to zero.

It wasn't that Lu Li didn't trust Sosuke, but he had witnessed the great battle within the Sea of ​​the World and discovered that there were no truly invincible beings in this world. Even those who reached the peak of the ninth rank could easily perish in the great battle.

In all that time, could Aizen really survive to reach the pinnacle and wait for him to return in such a chaotic place as the spatial dimension?
However, if he still has a little more confidence in Aizen and believes that the other party will definitely become a strong person, then he has little confidence in supporters like Chuchu and Emu.

The support personnel rarely need to leave the space, and mining and resource gathering are generally quite safe. However, accidents are not entirely unavoidable. If an accident occurs and the bodyguards sent by the space are killed, the support personnel will almost certainly die as well.

Therefore, there are quite a few supporters who can live for tens of thousands of years in the space, but those who can live for millions of years are extremely rare.

Finally, the world before him had changed over a million years, and everything he was once familiar with would no longer exist. Even if he wanted to go back to his master's dilapidated dojo, it would be impossible.

These scientists' theories on the virtual world made Lu Li think deeply. The company's scientists said that they had made great breakthroughs in various technologies over the years, but there was one thing they still couldn't explain: why the fastest speed in the universe cannot exceed that of light.

Lu Li's understanding of physics is similar to that of the scientists in the company. Even with the company's advanced technology, the fastest spaceships they ever developed could only reach speeds close to the speed of light, which they could not surpass.

Later, when they went to explore the deeper universe, they made a huge breakthrough at the spatial level and developed wormhole jump technology, which enabled them to explore a wider range of the universe and thus discover the truth about the virtual world.

However, no matter how much research and development funds the company invested afterward, and the AI ​​was updated generation after generation, the mystery of speed could not be solved. Finally, a scientist suggested that a scientist from the old era was right. The reason why their speed could not exceed the speed of light was due to the fundamental limitations of the world. Once they exceeded the speed of light, they could reverse time and go back to the past.

Since this world is virtual, according to the understanding of these old programmers, just as they would set limits for the AI, they must set threshold ranges within a system. The fastest speed is the speed of light, and this is the rule within their closed system.

It's as if the universe outside them stops 'rendering' because they don't observe it, and only transmits some rough rendering information to them. This is a manifestation of the system's energy saving. If they could reverse time and create multiple timelines and multiple worlds, the system's computing load would increase exponentially, which is definitely not allowed by the system.

Therefore, scientists temporarily abandoned their research on time machines and devoted themselves to the search for truth and a way to break down the boundaries between the virtual and the real.

For Lu Li, learning this news made him realize that this world was not like the Dragon Ball world he had experienced before, where he could use his unparalleled strength to go back in time. In other words, within this closed system, he might never be able to reunite with the person he longed for.

"These people are wrong."

Just as Lu Li was feeling a bit down, Lu Xueqing's voice rang in his ear. Through the resonance at their point of connection, they could have a proper private conversation.

The company's equipment could certainly detect this as well. However, the scientists were quite excited after discovering that the two eggs could emit something similar to electromagnetic waves, and even believed that they were both 'sacred souls' and were living beings.

Some have suggested that they might be real beings who descended into the virtual world through some means, possessing a status akin to creators. If their power could be understood, perhaps this world could break free from its virtual prison.

"You know what I'm thinking?"

Lu Li asked, puzzled.

"Don't forget we're inseparable, how could I not see your emotions?"

Lu Xueqing said, "This world may indeed have problems, but have you ever thought about what the people above would do with it if it were truly virtual?"

"play games?"

Lu Li countered, his mind not being very sharp. In the years without Aizen by his side, he had been in a dark and gloomy place, which made him even less sharp.

"Playing games? Have you ever played games? What kind of game is developed to annoy players and make them unhappy?"

Lu Xueqing retorted.

"The Heavenly Road of the Fat Dragon".

Without hesitation, Lu Li replied, "Don't all the group members always say that this game is too torturous?"

Lu Xueqing: ...

After a moment of silence, she continued, "Look at the people in the company. Not to mention the scientists are all crazy, the other executives are basically just here for fun. And what about the general public?"

"I've heard that people's quality of life is super high nowadays. They can live very comfortably even if they do nothing and just wait to die."

Lu Li continued.

"Can't we even talk?!"

Lu Xueqing became a little anxious, "Have you forgotten what you told me about your past?"

Lu Li snapped out of his daze and understood what Lu Xueqing meant. Yes, the quality of life for people in the Blue Alliance is generally very high now, but that doesn't mean the company is being kind.

He had previously listened to some academic exchanges among scientists, who seemed to be using the entire human race as a research model. That's why it's necessary to ensure the happy lives of the vast majority of humans so that humans can continue to reproduce.

As for clones, the company discovered many years ago that clones are just walking corpses and cannot develop higher consciousness, or what some people call a soul. Their greatest value is to provide healthy organs for the original work.

Due to advancements in medical technology, companies stopped using human cloning technology many years ago. Instead, they now perform targeted cloning of specific organs, which can be done quickly and remove unhealthy genetic components. Today, Blue Union members live stress-free lives, only needing to report to Blue Union offices once a month for memory information collection. This is to provide the organization with information reference models, an obligation enshrined in the Blue Union constitution that everyone must abide by.

But apart from that, even if the humans in Blue Alliance lie at home waiting to die every day, they will have fair-skinned and beautiful (handsome and dashing) AI robot butlers to serve them, so they don't need to worry about anything else.

Oh, and occasionally they also watch news about impoverished mountain areas to reminisce about the happiness they have.

The company did not make everyone happy and content. Initially, it was just for a comparative experiment. Later, it was because social research found that people do not feel happy in the absence of class comparison. Therefore, there must always be people who are poor, and only those who are already well-off will feel happy.

Even though the expenses of that group are only a small amount for the company, the company still selects some 'impoverished' pilot areas every century in order to maintain social stability to a greater extent and to compare the differences in the spiritual information of people who grow up in different environments.

The company's scientists believe that even if everything in this world is virtual, there is only one thing that is absolutely real: 'information'.

While information possessed by humans might be erased by higher-level servers, the fact that the information was created is not erased. This may sound convoluted, but the company's scientists believe that human memory information is 'real'.

Ironically, if this theory holds true, it would indirectly confirm the previous game world theory, because if the soul information is real, does it mean that they are indeed players who came here from the world above to play the game?
Lu Li's thoughts circled back to the beginning. Regardless of the company's motives, it had indeed made life better for most people. But the old era he lived in was different.

Lu Li remembers that at that time, more than 90% of the people on Earth were starving and cold, and in some places, even breathing cost money.

Your home has a gas meter that counts how many breaths of air you take. If you don't pay, the air will stop, and you'll eventually suffocate.

As for going outside to breathe? The air outside those areas is completely polluted, full of chemical substances. Every breath you take is like a chemical periodic table, and you'll experience near-death symptoms in less than half a minute.

Lu Li had once heard his master say that when his master was young, he traveled abroad and saw a place where a family couldn't afford the monthly breathing fee. In order to save their child's life, the parents committed suicide, and in the end, only their youngest son survived.

But because the youngest son was unable to work, he eventually ran out of the family's breathing expenses and died.

As for food, the common people in those places generally eat insect cakes made from insects used to process chemical wastewater. While these cakes are high in protein, they inevitably contain heavy metals and other elements that are harmful to human health. If people eat these cakes for a long time, they will not live past the age of thirty.

Ironically, as a child, Lu Li always felt very happy whenever he heard his master say these things.

Looking back now, he was just an ordinary person. Just like how companies now use comparative experiments to make the public feel happy, it turns out that people can never get rid of this inherent flaw of comparing themselves to others to create a sense of superiority.

However, it is true that the place where Lu Li lived as a child was already considered good compared to the places controlled by other overseas companies.

Despite his desire for revenge against that company, in all fairness, that company in his region was already the most humane company in the world.

In that era, if ordinary people living in the city were players from above, wouldn't all those players be psychopaths?
Who would deliberately seek out a beating? Even if you get beaten up on the Heavenly Road to fight the Fat Dragon, you'll still gain some combat experience, and it'll be quite satisfying to clear the level. Plus, there are rewards for completing a certain number of levels.

If this world is truly a broken game, those who choose to be born in places where breathing costs money and eating insect cakes can't possibly be here to farm years of endurance achievements, can they?
So Lu Xueqing's words woke Lu Li up. He only saw the improvement in the world now, but forgot the suffering on Earth in the past. Yes, how could this be a game?

Tragically, when this theory was circulated, nine out of ten people on Earth chose to commit suicide. No, perhaps that's not so tragic after all.

Since the soul is the carrier of information, Lu Li prefers to believe that those people truly escaped this cage after they died.

"Xueqing, do you think these scientists are reliable?"

Lu Li's thoughts returned, and he spoke.

"You mean their fuse plan?"

Lu Xueqing said.

"Yes, there is no spiritual energy in this world, and I have never heard of any life-giving medicine. At least I have never heard of it since I was a child. I have only read about it in novels. If we want to melt the threads in our bodies, we may really have to rely on technology and ruthlessness."

Lu Li said with emotion.

Scientists studied them for many years and finally discovered that their two eggs, from the perspective of the sacred soul, were 'dead'.

Scientists inserted a probe into the primordial mass of Lu Li, but it dissolved immediately. Later, they kept changing the materials and finally used a new type of metal brought out from the sinkhole to make a probe, which was able to conduct reconnaissance.

The investigation revealed that Lu Li's body contained many unknown filamentous energies. The company's scientists believe that it is this energy that has limited the vitality of the two sacred souls, which is inconsistent with the ancient data analyzed by Talma.

Talma's calculations suggest that the Holy Soul is a living being, and if it combines with a human, that human can become the founder of an era, or, in the words of the cultivation civilization, the progenitor of the immortal path.

In the words of magical civilization, that person is the abyss of the demonic path. In short, they are capable of creating new systems, breaking the existing deadlock, and that person can also distinguish the true from the false, becoming a genuine entity within the false world.

However, the two holy souls they found this time looked like eggs. Although they were active, they couldn't be directly fused with humans no matter how you looked at it.

On the contrary, the probe would dissolve when it was inserted. Imagine if a living person came into contact with it, wouldn't they definitely die?

After some research, the company's scientists concluded that the two sacred souls might have suffered unknown damage. The foreign energy within those souls was harming them, rendering them inactive; in essence, the sacred souls were 'dead eggs'.

If those threads could be melted away, perhaps the Holy Soul could regain its vitality, and then they could comprehend the profound secrets contained within it.

It feels like archaeology; to know more, you have to piece together the fragments of ancient porcelain first.

(End of this chapter)