With Luo Ji's intelligence, he could naturally guess why Zhang Heng took such a long detour to tell him such a story.
Zhang Heng compared the "Pangu civilization" to a farmer, and compared the universe to farms. Human civilization, Trisolaran civilization, and even other civilizations in the universe are just herds of livestock on the farm. .
After all, regarding the concept of the metaverse, Yan had mentioned to him once before that there were other universes besides the current universe.
Therefore, it was not difficult for him to understand the content of the story Zhang Heng told and what he wanted to express.
"Are you the animal that the farmer took to other farms?"
When Zhang Heng told how the farmer brought an animal from one farm to another farm, he finally couldn't help but speak.
The reason why he asked this was because he felt that Zhang Heng would definitely not tell a story that had nothing to do with him or Zhang Heng himself.
And since this story has nothing to do with him, it can only be related to Zhang Heng himself.
Therefore, in the story Zhang Heng told, the animal that was taken to other farms by the farmer was most likely Zhang Heng himself.
However, Zhang Heng just smiled, without admitting or denying, and continued to tell the story: "That animal was very lucky. Even though it suffered a lot, it also gained something that it had never imagined before. However, it is enough to escape the current fate."
"So, even though it was not grateful to the farmer, it never resented the farmer in its heart."
"If the farmer hadn't allowed him to see the scene outside the farm, then his world would have been as big as the farm where he originally lived."
"Or it's not that big. If it were a turkey, its world might be only the size of a chicken coop."
"After all, most animals living on farms, with the exception of a few that can be grazed, usually spend their entire lives in their own enclosures, or cages."
Speaking of this, Zhang Heng paused for a moment.
Taking advantage of Zhang Heng's pause, Luo Ji quickly digested the information.
Soon, his reading comprehension was also improved.
The so-called animals that can be herded here refer to those powerful civilizations in the universe.
The previous confrontation between Trisolaran civilization and human civilization can be told like this if it is placed in this version of the story.
Human civilization is a group of turkeys, while Trisolaran civilization is a group of black pigs slightly larger than turkeys.
Due to the farmer's negligence, the environment in the pig pen where the black pigs live has become extremely bad.
The black pigs are unable to solve the problem of living environment. From time to time, swine fever will occur and many pigs will die.
Then, suddenly one day, they discovered a turkey living next to them.
So, they planned to rob the turkey pen and get rid of the bad environment in which they originally lived.
The turkeys in the chicken pen were shocked by the size and power of the black pig. They even thought that the black pig was the owner of the farm, but they did not know that the black pig was also a captive member of the farm...
While Luo Ji was still thinking, Zhang Heng's voice sounded again at this moment: "If it has always been like this, there is nothing wrong with it."
"Farmers have their own ideas, and the animals on the farm have their own ways of living."
"As for the turkey that is taken to another farm, as long as it follows the farmer's ideas and satisfies the farmer's bad taste, it will also live a very happy life."
"but……"
"One day, the farmer suddenly disappeared, and the farms left behind became ownerless..."
Speaking of this, Zhang Heng's tone became a little heavier.
"That Pangu civilization disappeared?"
Luo Ji thought.
This time he did not interrupt again and quietly waited for Zhang Heng to continue.
However, even if Zhang Heng didn't say anything, he could guess what was going to happen next.
After all, it’s obvious what ownerless farms will mean.
It is nothing more than attracting the covetousness of other farmers, or attracting the prying eyes of jackals, tigers and leopards when the farm is left unguarded.
"Nobody knows what's going to happen to other farms after their owners disappear."
"However, the turkey that was brought to the current farm by the farmer has completely experienced the disaster that will happen to the farmer after the farm is left without an owner..."
Sure enough, what Zhang Heng said next was pretty much what Luo Ji had imagined.
Basically, they are all kinds of disasters that the turkey has encountered on the current farm.
However, Zhang Heng also talked about "turkey" and "black pig" next.
First of all, the turkey group that this turkey is integrated into on the current farm is also threatened by the powerful black pig group in the pig pen next door.
Then, thanks to a turkey, he discovered that there were actually lions and tigers on the farm.
Moreover, a deterrent method has been established. If the black pig dares to continue to threaten the chicken coop, the turkey will set his chicken coop on fire and tell the lions, tigers, or other powerful animals on the farm.
Since the black pigs are also afraid of the lions and tigers on the farm, they will come to kill them after learning about the existence of the black pigs, so they can only be intimidated by the turkeys.
In this way, the black pig and the turkey lived in peace for a while.
Until one day, the turkey that established the deterrent method became old, and the other turkeys, out of concern for him, asked him to hand over the authority to light the chicken pen to a younger turkey.
And the old and great turkey did so!
But what happened afterwards was not as beautiful as most turkeys imagined. The young turkey who took over the lighted chicken pen made things worse.
The conflict between turkeys and black pigs has once again become explosive.
Finally, a group of turkeys that had left the chicken pen informed the beasts on the farm through other means, letting the beasts on the farm know the locations of the chicken pens and pig pens.
In the end, whether it was a chicken pen or a pig pen, they were all eaten up by the beasts who received the location information...
Only a small number of turkeys and black pigs can escape from chicken pens and pig pens before the beasts come.
Among them, there was also a turkey that did not originally belong to this farm.
"The turkeys and black pigs you...are talking about are also human civilization and Trisolaran civilization, right?"
At this moment, Luo Ji's face turned pale and he spoke.
Unexpectedly, the metaphor that I had just imagined in my mind would actually appear in Zhang Heng's story.
"Could it be that what you said at the beginning was that the farm owner likes to let the animals on the farm perform role-playing and will repeat it endlessly?"
"What happened between human civilization and Trisolaran civilization has actually happened more than once?"
"If there are no accidents, will it end up like what happened to the turkey, where both the pig pen and the chicken pen were eaten by wild beasts?"
Luo Ji continued to ask.
He also noticed what Zhang Heng said just now, including the disaster that would happen to farmers.
In other words, even if the farmer doesn't disappear, something will definitely happen.
Just like what happened between the turkey and the black pig.
Because this is one of the farmers’ favorite stories, it will be repeated by the animals on the current farm.
"Yes."
Zhang Heng nodded. The story was almost finished, and he began to answer Luo Ji: "The only difference after the farmer disappears is that he will attract other farmers."
“What a farm should look like is what it ultimately becomes without the personal intervention of other farmers.”
"What about the end?" Luo Ji couldn't wait to know what happened next: "What happened to the few turkeys and black pigs that escaped the claws of the beasts, as well as the turkey that didn't originally belong to this farm? "
"Also, if the current universe is what you call it, it will always be repeated according to the will of Pangu civilization."
"Everything in the current universe has been repeated countless times, so how is this done?"
Luo Ji asked one question after another without any pause.
After listening to the story told by Zhang Heng, his whole person became bad.
Even the view of the universe began to collapse.
If there is a theory that there are other universes besides the current universe, he can barely accept it.
After all, there is also talk of parallel universes in human civilization, which is not too surprising.
However, if it is said that after the heat death of the universe, it will start again and again, and everything will happen again just as it happened before.
This was not something he could accept at the moment.
All things have a beginning and an end, and the universe will eventually die of heat. This is an eternal truth learned by countless human sages.
Born in human civilization and learned from human civilization, how can our cognition be overturned in one fell swoop?
So, he is in a mess now!
However, his reason told him that Zhang Heng would not come here to talk nonsense to him.
Moreover, since Zhang Heng is that special turkey, these must be Zhang Heng's personal experiences.
At this time, he also remembered what Angel Yan said to him when he met Angel after he had talked with Trisolaris in front of Ye Wenjie's tomb.
Angel Yan said that the reason why he came to him was because of one person.
Once upon a time, in a past that he couldn't understand now, that person was also on earth.
And in the past, he obviously had a close relationship with that person.
Now when he thought about this sentence again, Luo Ji immediately understood that the person sitting opposite him might be the person Angel Yan mentioned.
Putting it all together, he didn't even think about the possibility that Zhang Heng would come here specifically to entertain him.
While Luo Ji's mind was spinning rapidly, Zhang Heng also answered: "First question, those few turkeys and black pigs that can escape the claws of beasts should all live well, and they should not be as good as that special one. Bad turkey.”
"In fact, not long ago, when that special turkey returned to the farm that was destroyed and then rebuilt again, it also met the descendants of the lucky turkeys."
"It can be determined that they must still exist somewhere on the farm or other farms."
"The second question, the question you are wondering about, I am also very confused about."
"Why Pangu Civilization was able to keep the same things appearing in every universe under its name is really beyond my comprehension."
"However, among farmers, that is, among civilizations at the level of Pangu civilization, there is such a concept."
"In order to avoid the self-heat death of the universe, civilization at that level will restart the universe at a specific time..."
Later, Zhang Heng told Luo Ji the concept of resetting the universe to zero.
At the same time, it also makes it clear that only the metaverses under the name of Pangu Civilization will be repeated.
The Metaverse under the name of other civilizations will not have this special situation.
Things from the last universe zero cycle have been restarted and are really gone forever.
In fact, the so-called repetition of the Pangu Metaverse is essentially the same as that of other civilization metaverses. Things will disappear forever after being reset to zero.
Both are essentially the same.
After all, nothing is ever the same?
They just look the same!
And everything in the metaverse of other civilizations will disappear forever. Are they really gone?
Not really.
There is only so much matter in the entire universe. No matter how it is restarted, the matter will still be the same matter as before.
So, can it be said that it has disappeared?
The only difference is that Pangu civilization continued to present itself in the same way as before, while other civilizations just let nature take its course.
After a while, Luo Ji once again managed to digest what Zhang Heng said, as well as the so-called reset to zero concept.
Then, he took a breath and said, "Then can I understand it this way? You were actually brought to this universe by the Pangu civilization during the so-called last universe zero cycle, and then you were like us, Living on Earth?”
"And, at that time, you and I not only knew each other, but also had a very good relationship."
"It's just that at that time, you didn't have the ability now, and you didn't have the ability to change the development direction of the story set by the Pangu civilization."
"When the deterrent I established against the Trisolaran civilization failed, you, who were given special care by the Pangu civilization, naturally knew that the Trisolaran civilization and human civilization would eventually be doomed and left the solar system."
"After that, you experienced a long wandering in the current universe until the universe was reset to zero."
"In the end, you came back here with your current abilities?"
Luo Ji continued to understand.
After Zhang Heng said so much, he now fully knew who Zhang Heng was.
That is, the one in the so-called Enlightenment Faction, the Enlightenment.
Several civilizations in the solar system today, including even angel civilizations, belong to this enlightener faction.
Luo Ji continued: "I heard from the King of Angels that you had regrets here."
"So, are you coming back here to make up for your past regrets and change the things you want to change?"
Although when Yan told him, he claimed that Zhang Heng might not care anymore.
But he felt that since Zhang Heng appeared in front of him, it was impossible not to care at all.
Definitely, I still want to do something.
(End of chapter)
