After realizing the extremely cruel iron rule of the universe "If you want to truly exceed the speed of light, you must transcend the law of cause and effect".

For a time, all the new humans who survived the big explosion in the solar system...were all silent.

Because, as they are products of the law of cause and effect... how can they transcend the law of cause and effect?

this……

It is simply an impossible task.

Within the so-called light cone is destiny.

Even after these new humans have experienced the drastic changes of Superman, they have become infinitely more powerful in intelligence than the old humans.

But in the final analysis, they are still just small creatures living under the shadow of fate.

Fish, do you have the ability to challenge the boundless sea where you were born and nurtured yourself?

This is obviously impossible.

Naturally, new humans cannot transcend the law of cause and effect.

They can't even imagine what means they should use to transcend the law of cause and effect.

Afterwards, these remaining new humans were collectively depressed for a period of time.

But they were still driven by the spirit of curiosity, and through a comprehensive review of the solar system explosion event, they deduced the "means" for "stopping" super-light events in their own universe.

To sum up, the manifestation of the 'stopping means' of the universe is very likely to be the [cause] of all the [results] of super-light events, such as the warp engines manufactured by the earth and star civilizations to carry out physical

of destruction.

This method of destruction may be based on self-disorder at the quantum level, or it may be a random large-scale cosmic natural disaster, or it may even be a massive black hole emerging out of thin air for no reason and swallowing everything.

In short, no matter what, the vast universe will never 'allow' any living being or anything to exceed the speed of light.

And the countless intelligent civilizations living in this universe of time and space can only be trapped in that narrow cage called the light cone for eternity until the end of time.

"So...what are you going to do next?"

Mu Cang, sitting cross-legged in the depths of the Oort cloud, is exploring the boundless thoughts beyond this time and space, constantly observing countless multi-dimensional dimensions, while accelerating the passage of time in the entire universe, and leisurely observing the development of new humanity.

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"I'm curious……"

He sat cross-legged in the boundless void, quietly looking at these new human beings who had reached the end of their road after being completely defeated by the rules of the universe, and whispered, "Now that you have fallen into a desperate situation, can you find another way out?"

What about a new road?”

While Mu Cang was whispering, a century passed in a hurry in this vast universe that was deliberately 'accelerated' by him.

Mu Cang saw that in the first half of this century, seven million new human consciousnesses had conceived and discussed various future development strategies.

Among these strategies, some tend to be conservative while others tend to be radical.

The conservative group wants to pilot the Swimmer spacecraft to leave the solar system, spread the entire group to many star systems in a larger starry sky, and then establish a relatively loose interstellar civilization, or a grand alliance of super-intelligent entities.

Radical groups want to become the so-called interstellar nation and embark on an endless journey in the universe, like a thorn bird that never lands, eating wherever they fly.

Among them, those who are willing to become the former account for more than half of the total number of new humans.

Those who are willing to be the latter only account for about 14% of the new human race, about one million.

The concept of the conservative new humanity is to surrender to the rules of the universe and develop a good ethnic group and a good civilization within the rules.

The most important thing is to live your life safely.

The idea of ​​the radical new humanity is... Since God has left ‘me’ with no way out, then ‘I’ will go against heaven.

They want to challenge the rules, challenge fate, and overturn the universe.

The method, or idea, for these one million radical individuals to become "Thorn Birds" is to transform themselves into...

Nanoscale von Neumann self-replicating automaton.

It may be called a nanoscale von Neumann starry sky probe.

As for this so-called von Neumann probe, it is a star exploration machine that has the three characteristics of thinking by itself, copying by itself, and repairing by itself.

According to the radicals' ideas, this wonderful ultra-micro machine should contain the five most basic components:

1. Precision detection system for exploration and navigation.

2. Self-maintenance system for self-repair and modification.

3. Micro factory facilities used to collect, store and utilize various material resources.

4. A central information library used to collect, store and run software programs and digital information.

5. The power engine is a device for collecting, storing and supplying energy.

Under the combined effect of these five major components, this kind of machine will be able to seize and use all resources in the surrounding environment to manufacture and generate components that suit itself, so as to carry out continuous self-replication and continuous iterative upgrades.

Its self-replication will increase exponentially in the form of one becoming two, two becoming four, four becoming eight, and eight becoming sixteen, infinitely expanding the size of the population like a virus multiplying.

According to the simulation experimental data of the radical New Humanity, theoretically, a von Neumann probe that is small enough and has the functions of self-maintenance and self-replication may only require one thousand joules or even hundreds of joules of energy.

Accelerate yourself to 50% of the speed of light in a vacuum or even higher.

Therefore, in just a few million years or even less, a single probe may occupy the entire vast Milky Way in a printed, self-replicating and 'reproducing' manner.

And the density of this occupation will reach the point where it is almost “everywhere you can see”.

By then, the new humans who have been transformed into von Neumann probes wandering in the vast interstellar space will be able to complete their own perfect evolution by absorbing and 'harvesting' the science, technology and life forms of all alien civilizations.

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"Oh ~ very interesting idea."

Mu Cang was sitting cross-legged in a slightly crude space venue. While watching the two groups of new humans quarreling fiercely with each other, he chuckled and said, "By transforming yourself into a starry sky mechanical 'bacteria' that can reproduce indefinitely, this kind of...

Quantitative change takes the form of qualitative change to achieve the goal of conquering the entire universe. Gee, that’s interesting.”

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Generally speaking, the essence of quarrels is the venting of emotions and the desire to cover others with one's thoughts.

Therefore, all quarrels often fail to bring about unity of opinion in the end.

At most, it can only achieve relative uniformity.

Therefore, in the following half century, the conservative and radical New Humanity made an agreement.

The content of this agreement is that the conservative New Humanity guarantees that it will not launch a war to interfere with the self-transformation of the radicals.

But the radicals must 'solder' goodwill towards the civilized ethnic groups originating from the Earth and Planet... that is, the conservative new humans, in the source code deep within their self-awareness.

The radicals agreed to this request.

Subsequently, under the strict supervision of conservatives, they put an 'ideological stamp' to the effect of "never attack conservative new humanity" in the source code of their consciousness.

The conservatives reciprocated and donated most of their valuable equipment and instruments to the radicals.

After that, the two groups of new humans completely parted ways.

Conservatives, flying towards the Alpha Centauri star cluster four light years away from the solar system.

The radicals stayed in the solar system and planned to use the remaining resources here to transform themselves.

Although because of that big explosion, today's solar system is almost "scrapped".

But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the various resources within its territory are still innumerable to the radical new humanity.

Therefore, there is no need for the radicals to leave here at the moment.

In the following time, they collected billions of interstellar dust in the inner solar system, as well as various broken stars and icy dead stars in nearly half of the Kuiper Belt, and smelted them into countless trillions of tiny and precise mechanical components.

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Finally, as half a century passed by in a hurry.

All the millions of radical new humans, after consuming countless solar system resources, transformed themselves into von Neumann self-replicating machines.

No, it is no longer appropriate to call them new humans.

We should call them... Starry Sky Travelers.

Because every radical super-intelligent consciousness, today's 'body' has become a mountain-like mass composed of hundreds of billions of von Neumann probes that are only the size of human cells.

A hazy sea of ​​fog.

Theoretically speaking, these million clusters travel through the gray fog sea in the vast void of the solar system at 99% of the speed of vacuum light. Basically, each cluster can easily tear apart and penetrate the earth's stars, and in a short period of time, it can

'Swallow it up' and create and transform it into your own 'limbs'.

What is quite strange is that after all the radical new humans were transformed into von Neumann machines, all of them had an inexplicable awakening.

This realization is...

The birth of humans on their planet seems to be to create a von Neumann machine, start it, and let it fly into the vast universe.

This... seems to be the meaning of human existence.

In short, after everyone was mechanized by von Neumann, this group of radicals who occupied the dark void covering an unknown number of billions of kilometers... no, they were starry sky wanderers, and they left the broken solar system facing the dim starlight.

Flying into the boundless void in the opposite direction to that conservative.
To be continued...