Plague Doctor

Weird noises, bloody sights.

It suddenly surged into Wang Ruoxiang's mind, and also surged in the consciousness of the other 49,999 selected people around the world, setting off a fierce wave.

All members of the Tongxinzhe team are suffering from this impact, and at the command center, Tong Ye and others are also experiencing the same situation.

They saw how the locust disease wiped out civilizations. There were humanoid life civilizations and various incredible alien civilizations. These civilizations tried their best, but they were still unable to resist the devouring of alien locusts, turning them into ruins and nothingness...

I also saw how the Yisi race transcended time, took away and buried the locust disease gene, and then hid back to a distant future.

The 50,000 chosen ones were carefully selected by Is, so although this shock is enough to make a mentally fragile person fall into delirium or even go crazy forever, these people can now bear it, but some people are sad and angry because of it. Some people were silent and thinking.

There are also some scientists who are very excited. Those flashes of knowledge are exactly what they have pursued throughout their lives.

The invitation to join from the Yis race has already lit up in their minds.

This is not an easy invitation to accept.

Family, lovers, friends...are not on the invitation list.

Let go of everything in this time and space and go to the future, to Is.

"Dr. Wang, we admire you very much." Teacher Fan said calmly, "You have a very high intelligence among humans. Your learning ability, observation ability and logical thinking ability are all very good. This time you were the first to treat the locusts." The pathology of the disease has been calculated, Yis welcomes you."

Wang Ruoxiang was already in the corridor outside the isolation ward, but she could still clearly hear Teacher Fan's words.

Let this place be destroyed and hide in the future?

"Is this how you chose in this situation?" Wang Ruoxiang murmured.

"Yes, we follow reason."

"Are you saying that leaving your home behind is a sensible thing to do?"

"You humans have thought a lot about home, nation, relationship, and country. Benedict Anderson's 'imagined community' is a good concept. Imagined communities, communities of interests, when needed, It is wisdom to establish these communities, participate in and maintain these communities; when they are no longer needed - when these communities cannot bring benefits, then abandoning them is indeed a kind of wisdom."

"Are you saying that... leaving your parents and children behind, the people closest to you, is sane?"

"It depends on the situation. We know that this is very difficult for human emotions to accept, but now it is not a multiple-choice question. It is not because your escape caused their disappearance, but because you have a chance to survive and continue to reproduce. Then seize this opportunity and survive, that’s the reason.”

"Isn't it selfish to do this?"

"The nature of genes is selfish, and you have done research on this."

"Then when necessary, can you also abandon the 'Yisi race'?"

"Of course, we act according to the situation. The body can be changed, and the form of the consciousness can also be changed. Because the name is not important, the form is not important, the feelings are not important, the imaginary community of 'home' is not important...how it is not important, the result That’s what matters.”

"Then what result do you want? What are you pursuing?"

"I have said before that Yis is climbing to the pinnacle of wisdom, and we use reason and science to climb."

"So... you don't believe in any feelings?"

"In a broad sense, reason is also a kind of emotion. Our love for reason and science, and our persistence in wisdom are all a kind of emotion. In a narrow sense, emotion is mostly imagination influenced by physiological secretions and personal life. It is Impulsive, short-lived, fragile, blind, ignorant, and obsessive, emotions can affect reason, but reason can conquer emotions."

"Reason can conquer emotion. Is this your purpose?"

"If that makes it easier for you to understand, you can understand it this way. We are observers, recorders, thinkers, and we pursue the essence."

"I wonder if you have heard of this biological perspective on human civilization..."

Wang Ruoxiang was still mumbling, but it was actually a conversation going on in her mind:

"Organisms must maintain diversity, and the same organism must maintain genetic diversity. For a group of people, even disease genes are not good or bad. Some disease genes can play strange roles in certain environments. Help the tribe to reproduce. So diversity is very important, whether it is body or mind..."

She raised her eyebrows and looked at Teacher Fan sitting on the hospital bed through the transparent glass window.

"I think you guys lack diversity.

You should obviously have the richest diversity, because you are composed of different civilizations, but you use the same body every time, and your consciousness is all superstitious to reason, which will only lead to you having only one way of thinking. It is impossible for you like this to climb to the pinnacle of wisdom.

In my opinion, some things cannot be understood rationally. "

"Dr. Wang, you are talking about feelings." Teacher Fan added, "We also want to discuss it slowly with you, but there are only 10 minutes left. Please make a decision as soon as possible. Please make a rational decision. Don't be fooled. Emotions bind your brain.”

At this moment, the chosen ones all feel connected to Yis.

The conversation between Wang Ruoxiang and Yis vaguely flashed through their minds.

Home...imagined commonality

Body... relatives... survive on your own... emotions, binding the brain...

The sea is in turbulent waves, and the ship of human civilization is about to be destroyed.

On the front line of the wasteland area, Lou Xiaoning stared at his left eye and said angrily: "What about reason and emotion? Tell those people like Xue Ba! Tell them not to be so stupid, maybe they can still live until now. I don't care about others. I know, I, Lou Xiaoning, will answer you right now, I won’t leave, I won’t be a coward.”

"This is my home." Deng Ximei said that she finally had a home. "I won't leave, I won't let it go."

"No one has died since ancient times, and his loyalty will be remembered in history." Cai Zixuan sighed, he was also chosen, "I won't leave." He was also reluctant to let go, how could he, with the laughter of his family, the meals cooked by his mother, and his girlfriend Jiang Banxia, ​​and everyone...

Listening to this, Teacher Fan seemed to frown slightly, "You are just asking for your own destruction."

"I don't want to become a creature like Is." Wang Ruoxiang has also made a decision. "I think it is another kind of death, just living in formaldehyde."

There are also Uncle Dan, Feng Wei, Mo Qing, Peacock and others, as well as Tong Ye, Yao Shinian and others.

Some people will leave, but not them. They can only fight to the death.

"We humans are different from Yis."

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