When Bai Long woke up again, he found that the progress bar in the tattoo was full. With a strange pull, he knew that he could leave this world at any time as long as he wanted to.

But Bai He was really unwilling to leave like this, he hadn't gotten any benefits yet!

The Trisolarian world is undoubtedly very dangerous. Since entering this world, Bai He's life has never been under his control.

Although he had a lot of fun with the Trisolarians, Bai He was very clear about this.

But he was not too worried. The powerful have their own way of living, and the weak have their own way of living.

As a highly intelligent race, the Trisolarians have the pride of a highly intelligent race, and rarely do meaningless things because of emotions. Even Yun Tianming, a blatant Earth spy, can be treated well. Bai He believes that as long as the Trisolarians don't have the idea of ​​"killing him will gain huge benefits", his life safety will be guaranteed to a certain extent.

This is even more so after he exposed his wisdom.

Being able to survive in this high-risk world is a feat in itself, but leaving like this is like completing a task in a game without getting a reward, which makes Baihe very uncomfortable.

Baihe turned on the holographic screen out of boredom and was immediately shocked. The upper half of the screen was a view of space - it seemed that they were already some distance away from the Trisolarian Galaxy at this moment, and only three bright spots could be seen. The other half of the screen surprised Baihe very much. This group of Trisolarians in the central array actually played a computer game. The more Baihe watched this game, the more familiar it looked. Soon he felt like he was about to spit out a mouthful of blood.

This is...

"You look surprised. I was also surprised when I first discovered it." The robot that was collecting dragon blood next to Baihe said, "I didn't expect that these dregs of Earth culture collected by our cultural collection department could actually attract my compatriots."

"This tone...are you...an ecologist?"

Baihe asked speculatively.

"Yes, I am." The robot nodded and made a creaking sound.

"It seems that you are all very idle." Bai He looked at the fierce battle scene on the holographic screen and felt deeply speechless.

"The Trisolarians have never been so idle. Now everything has changed. Maybe you should visit our VR space."

"I couldn't ask for more." Bai He was also very curious about what kind of tricks these Trisolarians played.

The holographic screen changed rapidly, and soon a honeycomb structure divided into hundreds of spaces appeared in front of Bai He. The complex and huge amount of data like the ocean scrolled rapidly, and the screen gradually refreshed. A small city that seemed to float in the air appeared in the center of the screen.

"It's amazing. Can this really replace physical life?"

"No problem at all. Or rather, no big problem. Work, research, and do whatever you want when you're free."

"Don't we all need to work? For example, do scientific research together?"

"Without that much energy, according to the energy supply capacity of the spacecraft, we can only accommodate up to ten intelligent individuals to improve their thinking ability to the level of sophons. Others must limit their thinking ability to below the biological level." The ecologist said, "Even so, the research workload of our ten Trisolarans in the past thirty days has exceeded the total of the past hundred years. As long as we find a suitable planetary base, we can immediately build a civilization that is several generations more advanced than Trisolaran."

"So exaggerated?"

"Imagine, when the operating frequency of your brain increases from 1 kilohertz to 1 billion hertz, and the memory expands from 100 terabytes to 100 million terabytes, and you don't have to consider the negative effects of the memory mechanism of 'forgetting'..."

The ecologist sighed, "This is the first time I've experienced this feeling. I almost thought I was a god. Now I understand the madman who started the civil war."

"It's a leap in species form, like changing from an Earth monkey to an Earth human." He seemed a little confused as he said, "In the past month, the concepts of more than a thousand Trisolarans have almost all been destroyed and rebuilt. The topic we argue most about is whether the civilization confrontation based on the Dark Forest theory is absolutely valid?"

"Isn't it?"

"Now we have a new idea."

"Oh?"

"For example: One of the roots of conquests between civilizations is often a mentality of 'fighting against aliens', the core of which is probably that 'they' can never become 'us', and the losers can only be exterminated or become slaves. For example, when facing black people in the colonial era, did the white people on Earth have the idea of ​​treating black people as their own race?"

"Maybe some individuals did, but overall... probably not." Baihe thought of the bloody colonial history: "However, in the civilized era, although discrimination still exists, it has generally improved."

"Yes, in the civilized era, when people recognize each other's identity as 'human beings', they will show mercy in war. After all, from a biological point of view, blacks and whites belong to the category of human beings, and theoretically they can be unified; but what if the earthlings are facing aliens with completely different physiological characteristics like insects? If the two sides go to war because of resource difficulties, is it possible to end the war because of the result of unification?"

"It is possible. After all, the two sides can have rational contact..." Baihe thought of some capitalist cultures he had come into contact with, such as "The Game of xx" and "The xx Effect", which promote the positive energy that civilizations should understand each other. Could it be that after these three-body people were deceived and transformed by him, their values ​​began to move closer to capitalist foreigners?

"What about the situation of resource scarcity?"

Baihe thought for a while and shook his head: "Probably not. When it comes to resource issues, people of the same race will kill each other, let alone aliens?"

"But are they really aliens?" The three-body people changed the subject.

"Do you have any new ideas?" Baihe frowned slightly, feeling a little strange. Obviously, aliens in life forms can be regarded as the same race. This idea is too fraternal.

"If intelligent civilizations generally develop to the point where they are separated from the body, what are the differences among all civilizations? Strange civilizations in the universe are just the same kind of existence that have not yet understood each other. What is the difference between this civilization war under the Dark Forest system and the massacre of Indians by white people in the history of the Earth?"

"This..." Baihe was stunned.

"Of course, in the eyes of those civilizations that insist on natural reproduction, this idea must be stupid, but the association has decided to establish a church to convey such a reconciliation idea to the entire universe. It may have limited results, but it will definitely find like-minded civilizations."

"There is some truth." Baihe nodded, and frowned slightly: "However, this conclusion is obviously based on your association's own inference, which is not enough to completely overturn the Dark Forest Law. I have another question. If the Dark Forest Law does not hold, how did its phenomenon come about? Why can't civilizations see each other?"

"Let's make an assumption. If our technology is more advanced, we can probably compress the information body to the particle scale, accelerate it to a high sub-light speed with an accelerator, and fly it to the earth, where it will land on the earth mixed with cosmic dust and rain.

We can use molecular technology to build a base that can eject high-energy particles from the microscopic to the macroscopic level. This may take a long time, and may even be calculated in thousands of years, but time is meaningless to us. We can build the base in a place where it is difficult for people to go, hide it with technology, or even build it in outer space.

We can also use pheromones to control animals or humans to do things for us, and catalyze civilization to the degree we want, and neither humans nor animals know anything about it. The instruments built by humans are as simple as manipulating toys for us. Humans can't see me, and when I leave, humans can't detect it.

All of this is not difficult to do, so it may not be that no advanced intelligent civilization has contacted you, but that you really can't see it. And after listening to these possibilities, will you still absolutely believe that human civilization is the result of natural evolution? "

The words of the Trisolarans made Baihe dumbfounded.

…

"If my understanding is correct, the thing you are talking about seems to be…" Baihe was silent for a while, staring at the robot at his feet and said, "God."

"Maybe." The Trisolarans sighed again: "Now even our own historians are not sure that the Trisolarans are the result of natural evolution. We have simulated and calculated 12 times in this month, and the conclusion we got is the same - the probability of the Trisolaran system naturally producing life is close to zero!"

"This..."

"And the most important point is your existence."

"Me?"

"Yes, it's you. I have been studying your body composition for some time, and I almost drove the physicists and chemists on the ship crazy."

"…This should be in the biological field."

"No, it's because there are too many things in your body that don't conform to physical chemistry." The biologist said in a distressed tone: "I don't find it strange how a creature like you evolved. After all, the environment in the universe is diverse, and it's not surprising that strange animals evolve. But why are there so many strange substances in your body? Blood, spinal cord, including your tissue fluid and cell fluid, are all full of things that cannot be analyzed, cannot measure physical and chemical properties, and cannot be defined as dark matter. This makes physicists almost think that the entire universe has collapsed."

"This is the magical substance of another world. It's normal that he doesn't know." Baihe naturally knew that there was something unscientific about him and comforted him.

"For scientists, this kind of ignorance is not right, and these things in your body are incompatible with this world. How can they exist in this world without a material basis?" The biologist entered the field: "The only mechanism we observe is that it is produced in cells all over your body, but we can't observe what organelles produce it. Science has completely lost its meaning in front of these things."

"The previous question..." Bai Long was silent for a while and waited for the biologist to finish: "Do you believe that there is a hand above the universe that controls everything and even teases the rules, and we are all his playthings?"

"...Interesting idea. Before I met you, I would definitely think it was crazy talk.

But now I believe it a little, although it cannot be verified."

"No, there is a way to verify it." Bai Long looked at the Trisolarans, and his heart suddenly moved: "I will return to that world soon. If you want to continue studying these unscientific things, why don't you go with me to see it?"