<h4>Chapter 2617: Enlightenment!</h4>
Li Yao had never seen anybody talking about such an absurd and evil thing as “brainwashing” in such a matter-of-fact way.
Perhaps it was a necessary skill for every emperor or leader.
Even so, ripples of confusion still spread out of Li Yao’s eyes, as he mumbled, “Sounds... fair enough, but it is brainwashing after all...”
“No, ‘brainwashing’ is just the fear of the intelligently incapable people who are restrained by their experiences and their imaginations. Like I said just now, when an ancient person sees modern surgery, he will only criticize it as ‘demonic arts’! Li Yao, I believe that you are not a simple-minded ordinary person. You should be able to view the new technologies in the most rational and forward-looking ways and see their advantages and disadvantages as well as the revolutionary significance that they have brought to the civilization of mankind!”
Wuying Qi’s hollowed face showed delight as Li Yao was more or less shaken. He continued, “In short, in the Demon Beast Empire, the Star Ocean Imperium, the Star Ocean Republic, the Imperium of True Human Beings, or the end of your country of Cultivators in the future, the source of all the problems is that the universe is too vast and people are not united.
“In order to address the two problems, one solution is to shorten the distance among Sectors through more advancedmunication as well as transportation methods that the development of technology provides, allowing the power of the central government to be projected to other ces quickly. However, the development of technology is never easy. No matter how our civilization develops, it is always extremely costly and risky for us as three-dimensional lives to travel ormunicate via the four-dimension.
“Now that the distance amongs cannot be shortened for the time being, we can only work on the human factors and unite the people through brainwashing. In fact, it is also the foundation and prerequisite for technological advancement. How can you achieve anything if you are not united?
“However, I do not like the word ‘brainwashing’. The more urate way of saying it is ‘enlightenment’.”
“Enlightenment?” echoed Li Yao subconsciously.
“Yes, the technology to generatemon feelings, memories, and will by stimting the brains can improve the efficiency of information exchange and knowledge inheritance by hundreds of times. It can make the most selfish traitors regret what they did and the most idiotic mortals be wise. It is an indispensable technology for mankind to evolve from aary civilization to an interster civilization and from an interster civilization to a real ‘grand-universe civilization’.”
Wuying Qi said, “You may think that I got the technology from the Covenant Alliance or even had any ndestine deals with it, but you can’t be more wrong. The origin of the technology has nothing to do with ‘evil brainwashing’ but can be traced back to the early years of the primeval age when the Pangu civilizations’ alliance had just been founded. The purpose of such a technology was not to enve anyone; it was for the different civilizations that made up the alliance to sympathize with each other and live in harmony.”
“The early years of the primeval age?”
Li Yao did not expect that Wuying Qi had grasped such an ancient piece of technology. He was deeply shocked.
He held his breath and pricked his ears, as if he did not realize that more and more ck hair had turned into thread-like nerves and crawled into his body while Wuying Qi talked.
Li Yao’s consciousness and Wuying Qi’s were connected by the thousands of threads.
Every word that Wuying Qi said next seemed to include infinite information. It was not just the sounds but also the vivid pictures that bombarded Li Yao’s soul like crystal bombs. However, it did not raise Li Yao’s dislike or wariness at all, because it soundedpletely unrted to the war right now.
“With your wisdom and ability of deduction, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to realize that the most critical way in sustaining the continuity of a massive empire that covers thousands of Sectors is to unite the people’s understanding so that they can share simr memories, feelings, and glory.”
Wuying Qi corrupted Li Yao’s soul quietly as he continued, “If a country’s territory only involves a or a continent, it will be easy to gathermon understanding. However, if the territory includes twos that are tens of thousands of lightyears away from each other, one frozen and the other covered in deserts, and the twos are out of touch with each other now and then, the residents of the two families won’t have any mon memories’ at all. Conflict and division will be inevitable!
“Twos are already troublesome enough, but what about twenty thousands, or two million of them?
“Before the Pangu civilizations’ alliance was founded, the situation in the universe was even worse than today. However chaotic and disunited the Imperium is, all the citizens are at least human beings who share basically the same biophysical structures and cultures.
“The Pangu civilizations’ alliance, on the other hand, included thirteen vastly-different carbon-based lives, who had just fought life-and-death battles not long ago!
“The differences among carbon-based lives can be unimaginably huge. Let me give you the simplest example, which is the Houyi n and the Kuafu n that once fought over ten suns.
“The origin of the Houyi n was a bug with a ck shell. They were like the evolved version of bee swarms. Their individuals did not have the slightest consciousness or wisdom. However, during the prolonged evolution, certain ‘circuits’ were grown on their sr energy shells. When thousands of bugs gathered and established a swarm, the interconnected circuits would boost sparks of wisdom as they vibrated their shells, thereby generating a ‘collective consciousness’.
“From that point of view, the Houyi n barely had any concept of ‘individual’ and munity’. Every member of the Houyi n was actually a swarm of dense bugs or a beehive that was alive and could move freely. When a member of the Houyi n was heavily wounded, and 90% of the bugs were lost, thest 10% could still fly into other swarms and be part of another member of the Houyi n, even passing part of the information in the past into the newmunity.
“Therefore, many members of the Houyi n believed that they never died. That was also the reason why the Houyi n was so ruthless.
“The Kuafu n, on the other hand, were more like ‘nts’ than ‘animals’.
“The Kuafu n was a species of giants. Their adults could grow to almost a hundred meters, like magnificent mountains and skyscrapers. They were thergest of the thirteen ns in the Pangu alliance.
“But who could’ve thought that the newborns of the Kuafu n were just tiny seeds? The Kuafu n did not have the concept of gender but reproduced collectively. Whenever the spring on their mother came, under the influence of the sun, the adults would gather life seeds the size of fingernails inside their bodies. Then, they would pierce the life seeds deep into the ground with special roots so that the vulnerable seeds could avoid the radiation of the scorching sun and ept the nutrition of the warm soil.
“After that, every member of the Kuafu n that passed by could sense the seed. They would also pierce their tentacles into the ground and irrigate the seeds with their nutrition and gic information. For the Kuafu n, it was the most sacred bliss. You can also understand it as a way of reproduction.
“Generally speaking, a seed would gather enough nutrition and gic information after being blessed by twenty to thirty members of the Kuafu n, and it would be ready to germinate.
“If more than a hundred members of the Kuafu n gave it nutrition and gic information, it would definitely grow into a leader of itsmunity and an ultimate expert of the Kuafu n. It might even grow beyond a hundred meters as a truly overwhelming giant. In fact, many researchers have proposed that the so-called ‘Kuafu’s sphere’ was actually made of the bodies of the members of the Kuafu n.
“However, no matter what its future held, the Kuafu n that just broke out of the soil was just a tiny seedling, which could not even move itself. It could only attract a primeval beast named ‘Yellow Snake’ with its special scent and maic field so that it could serve and protect it from its enemies. Of course, the vitality field of the Kuafu n was very helpful for the evolution of the Yellow Snake too. It was an amazing symbiosis.
“The young members of the Kuafu n had to grow for decades and even hundreds of years under the service of the Yellow Snakes before they could uproot themselves and be adult giants who could move freely, joining their civilization. Of course, after the civilization was highly developed, and the aeroponics and rapid growth technologies were invented, the Kuafu n also invented other bizarre, new ways of reproduction. However, the memories of their ancestors that were deeply rooted in the soil still lingered inside their genes, never to be forgotten.
“Tell me about it. How could the Houyi n and the Kuafu n, two entirely different carbon-based civilizations who had just been through a life-and-death battle, shake their hands, negotiate in peace, and reach amon understanding that both of them were highly-developed intelligent lives instead of ‘evil aliens’?”
Li Yao was silent.
It was true. Neither the Houyi n, who had collective wisdom, nor the Kuafu n, who were nts in their youth and animals after adulthood and who buried their debris into the “Kuafu sphere”, was likely toprehend each other’s life forms or acknowledge that each other was a civilization.
“At that time, if the war between the two civilizations was not stopped, the Houyi n and the Kuafu n would probably be extinguished.”
Wuying Qi said, “The Pangu n, as a ‘middleman’, used your so-called ‘evil brainwashing’ technologies to enlighten the two civilizations and make them feel what each other felt. They shared each other’s ancestral memories and living environments, perceived each other’s feelings and desires, and understood the varieties of civilizations. Eventually, they reached an agreement and embraced peace, saving both of the civilizations. Of course, they understood the existence of the Pangu n by the way, which spared them of the fear for the Pangu n’s overly advanced technologies.”