Chapter 7 Life and Energy

Regarding life and energy, the maintenance of life lies in the absorption and consumption of energy. With energy, life can continue. Without energy, life will stop. Not only life, but everything.

Time itself does not seem to exist, it is just the process of the appearance and disappearance of energy. In the vast universe, the discovery and use of the energy of its parent star by life on the planet is civilization. The higher the degree of use, the higher the level of civilization. high.

Humanity's use of resources and energy on the earth is only a zero-level and second-level civilization. There are many main reasons for the backwardness of civilization. The most critical ones are the lack of energy from the mother planet and the insufficient development and utilization of life civilization.

[The power of the nebula] is the key force for the advancement of all life civilizations. The advancement of all life civilizations in the universe is inseparable from this energy.

There are only two types of nebula power. One is the natural formation of energy on the planet. When the energy of a certain planet is very powerful, this energy will automatically accumulate. When it reaches a certain volume, the nebula power will be formed. Such nebula power will be attached to other objects, waiting to be activated and developed by certain life forms. However, high-energy planets are very rare, so the power to naturally form nebulae is minimal.

The other is that the living body collects energy by itself, using some very advanced container to collect energy. After reaching a certain size, the collected energy can form the power of nebula in the container, and there are also some special life forms. You can use your own body as a container, collect it in your body and form the power of the nebula after reaching a certain size, but beings that can reach this kind of physique are very rare.

As far as the earth is concerned, it is far from possible to achieve the power of collecting energy to form nebulae, because the earth is a planet extremely short of energy. Even if all the energy of the entire earth is collected together, there will not be many nebulae. Moreover, humans are not yet able to create such a collection container, and humans are not physically strong enough to collect so much energy.

To put it simply, if the amount of energy reaches ten thousand, then the energy of these ten thousand will automatically convert into units and turn into the power of a nebula. Life can store and absorb one thousand energy, but it cannot store and absorb ten thousand energy. However, after The converted power of a nebula can be directly stored and absorbed.

The life and technology on the earth are not enough to achieve the ability to collect the power of a nebula, which is why the most intelligent life civilization on the earth is only level zero and level two.

First-level civilizations are divided into nine levels. Higher-level civilizations will not go to places with lower-level civilizations, because that will not help advance. However, after a higher-level civilization reaches a certain height, the risk of continuing to advance will be greater, because each time it advances, All may fail.

There will be many consequences after failure, the most serious one is [Nebula Shattered].

Based on his own collection of information, Li Ming learned that the soft thing that fell from the sky the night he watched the meteor shower was the failure of a certain advanced civilization to advance, causing the nebula to break, and the broken nebula fragments fell to the earth.

The broken nebula fragments will carry the consciousness of the original life form and part of the nebula power with them, floating in the universe. When the nebula power is exhausted, the life consciousness will completely disappear.

If the broken nebula fragments can reach a new life form with the original life consciousness, the consciousness can be reborn after the life form obtains energy. Of course, there are two possibilities besides this. One is to collide By advanced civilizations, the nebula fragments are directly swallowed, and the power of the nebula is absorbed, causing the nebula fragments and the consciousness in them to directly die. The other is that this consciousness coexists with a parasitic life form or is absorbed by a parasitic life form.

The nebula fragment that Li Ming swallowed was the nebula fragment of an advanced alien civilization with its consciousness. Li Ming learned through the words recorded in those memory fragments that this alien civilization life was called [Harris]. Entering Li Ming After the body, there was only one nebula power left, and this nebula power was also directly absorbed by Li Ming, causing Li Ming to advance from a zero-level second-level civilized life to a zero-level third-level civilized life, but Li Ming had such a low level. The first-level civilization only absorbed the power of the nebula, and the other party's consciousness was not swallowed up, so it temporarily became a coexistence.

Li Ming of the third-order civilization, his speed, facial perception, and strength will reach the limit, a height that is unreachable by humans!

After the civilization level is advanced, it still needs to be activated. When the energy obtained from the outside world reaches the limit of the body, the advanced level can be activated.

As far as human physique is concerned, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the meager energy in food to activate the energy required for a third-order civilization. Li Ming, with the bonus of the power of the nebula in his body, still couldn't do it even after eating so many sweets. To meet the energy needs, Li Ming successfully activated the life of the third-order civilization through the energy of the current in the mall.

But there is another life consciousness in Li Ming's body, and that is Harris.

Through the collected information, Li Ming learned that in addition to Harris, there were also more than a dozen Broken Nebulae of other advanced civilizations that landed on Earth at the same time. Although these arrived on Earth with Harris, it was just a coincidence. However, since they are nebula fragments of advanced civilization, they will inevitably contain a certain amount of nebula power. Only by finding them and seizing their nebula power can Li Ming and Harris continue to advance.

This naturally made Li Ming understand some truth. Those meteors that streaked across the earth may not all be meteors. They may also be fragments of this kind of nebula.

Of course, after the nebula is broken, most of the nebula fragments will fall to inanimate planets and slowly die there. Even if they fall to a planet with a lot of life like the earth, they may not be able to successfully parasitize, because the choice of host is also particularly important. , if it is not humans, but other animals, it will be very dangerous, basically no different from slowly dying out.

For Harris and Li Ming, they are both lucky. As a human being, Li Ming is the perfect host for this planet. Harris gave Li Ming the power of the nebula, allowing Li Ming to advance to a higher civilization than humans.

There is also some information about the earth, because the earth is not friendly to the life of advanced civilization. Harris has completely grasped the powerful relationship between the earth and the life of advanced civilization through Li Ming's mobile phone.

The highest civilized life on earth, human beings, Harris can be very lucky about this, because after the nebula fragments fall to the earth, new life must be quickly found to parasitize consciousness. It is natural to be able to parasitize consciousness on the most advanced life on this planet. Very lucky.

Furthermore, the energy of the earth is extremely scarce and is not suitable for the survival of life of higher-order civilizations, because life of higher-order civilizations requires sufficient energy supply, which is difficult to meet on earth.

Finally, there is the 'poison gas' on the earth, oxygen. Except for very few metals, all substances and life cannot escape oxidation, aging and death. In advanced civilizations, life is dominated by higher energy, but on the earth, although all living things depend on oxygen, they also receive With the oxidation of oxygen.

Compared with the messy information in his mind, the above is just the tip of the iceberg that Li Ming has pieced together, but it is enough to know this. It is not that Li Ming has no thirst for knowledge, but that a lot of information is still too complicated. Li Ming spent a whole day working on this content alone, and it took a lot of effort to interpret it, and he didn't even know whether his interpretation was correct.

Moreover, Li Ming will continue to watch the contents he has recorded repeatedly. Li Ming will naturally verify whether these contents are true.

"Third-order civilization?" Li Ming raised his head and muttered silently to himself.

Putting down the thick stack of paper in his hand, Li Ming came to the window and looked at the night sky outside. Li Ming suddenly smiled slightly.

Returning to his bedroom, he changed into formal clothes and picked up his mobile phone. Li Ming planned to go out for a walk to test the strength of his third-order civilization. However, as soon as he picked up his mobile phone, the screen lit up and a ringtone rang. The call came.

Caller's note: Meng Lianyi.

This is a female colleague of Li Ming's previous company, and she is also Li Ming's only friend. The reason why they became friends was mainly because of their common hobby, astronomy.

Both of them are astronomy enthusiasts. Apart from work, the two of them talk more about the vast universe and starry sky. However, there is not much contact between them. They only talk when there are celestial phenomena such as meteor showers or meteors. Notify and share each other.

Li Ming answered the phone, and a voice came from the other side , " Li Ming, where are you?"

The voice is slow and soft, which is not normal at all. When you hear it, it feels like you have been drinking.

"Come and have a drink with me. Next to the company, at my old place ... You have to come over." Through the phone, I could feel that the other party had drunk a lot, but before Li Ming could answer, the other party had hung up. .

Li Ming looked at the hung up mobile phone and hesitated for a moment, go? Still not going? She has a boyfriend, why are you looking for me? Although I know her, I'm not that familiar with her.