Chapter 1845 Tao and Etiquette
Luo Jie learned a lot of new things in the Rebel Alliance, and he has always been very calm. However, this does not mean that he really trusts Duran. In fact, he has been trying to find a way to investigate the truth of the Rebel Alliance in secret.
Luo Jie does not believe Duran's words about overthrowing the human regime and the Trisolarian system. He thinks Duran must have some hidden secrets.
Of course, this does not mean that no one in the Rebel Alliance can be trusted. Luo Jie thinks that his netizen Gaia can still be trusted, because she is concerned about the Wandering Plan, and she is also the person who hopes to promote the Wandering Plan the most among all people.
So whoever can help her promote the Wandering Plan, she trusts him. Luo Jie found that Gaia is actually very easy to understand and her purpose is very simple, so he needs her help.
In order to find out the truth about the Rebel Alliance, Luo Jie needs the help of internal personnel. He has found that there are many areas in the base that are not open to him, and only advanced door cards can open them.
So Luo Ji went to Gaia: "Do you really believe that the Rebel Alliance can realize the Wandering Plan by rebelling?"
"Is it impossible?"
"Of course not, because rebellion will lead to civil war, and humans will consume a large number of people and resources. Even if the unified government fails in the end, humans will not have enough ability to complete the plan." Luo Ji said: "So rebellion is not the best way to complete the plan."
Gaia looked at Luo Ji: "When Duran said that the plan could be completed by using the Sword Holder button, you also opposed it. Now you are rebelling, and you still oppose it. I doubt your determination to implement the Wandering Plan."
Luo Jie thought that he couldn't wander for the sake of wandering. The Wandering Plan was to protect humans, so how could it become an inevitable option? "The Wandering Plan is just insurance."
Gaia shook her head in disappointment: "It's you who don't understand." She is the Earth itself, and naturally knows that staying in the solar system is doomed to die. Humans can still build spaceships to send some humans away, but the Earth can't escape and can only die in the end.
For humans, the Wandering Plan is insurance, but for the Earth, it is a life-saving remedy.
Luo Jie really doesn't understand.
Gaia said: "The Wandering Plan must be carried out. If you humans don't carry it out, only the Trisolarians can carry it out." Anyway, it doesn't matter to Gaia whether humans or Trisolarians live on Earth. What she needs is the ability to leave the solar system so that she can travel the universe safely.
In fact, with the planetary engine, it doesn't matter even if the life on the surface is extinct, Gaia can fly by herself by then. Of course, Gaia will not really exterminate life, because the planetary engine must still need maintenance personnel.
Where Gaia gives civilization to live, civilization must help Gaia work well to ensure that the planetary engine can operate.
Only civilizations that maintain planetary engines are civilizations that are beneficial to the earth.
So even if the safest way to protect yourself is to exterminate the earth's civilization, not let the earth have civilization, and avoid advanced civilizations from destroying the earth. But Gaia is unwilling to stay in the solar system, because the lifespan of the planet is long, and the earth may even exist longer than the sun. If the sun explodes, the earth will still be finished.
In addition, Gaia is full of curiosity about the universe and must explore outward, so there can be no lack of planetary engines, and there can be no lack of civilization to maintain the engine.
The price is that if there is civilization on the surface, it means that the possibility of being destroyed by advanced civilization has increased. Then we should master mobility and run away if we can.
That's why Gaia is so active in promoting the plan, but Luo Jie doesn't understand.
Luo Jie looked at the excited Gaia and comforted her: "I know, I am also willing to help, but Duran restricted my actions. You help me first, and then I will help you, okay?"
Gaia said: "What do you want me to help you with?"
"Menka, I need an advanced Menka, so that I can better understand Duran's ideas and help you better." Luo Jie carefully observed Gaia's expression, wondering if she would help.
Gaia helped: "It turns out that I just want this thing, simple."
Luo Jie easily solved the Menka, and then he and Anya began to quietly explore the secrets of the base in the middle of the night.
This secret must be something they cannot accept. Because this base is just a cover for rebellion, and its real purpose is actually reproduction.
It is not ordinary reproduction, but the hybridization of humans and Trisolarans.
The inaccessible space was filled with petri dishes, which were full of reproductive organs of humans and Trisolarans.
When Luo Jie and Anya saw all this, they were already stunned. They finally knew what Duran was going to do. He was going to break the reproductive isolation between humans and Trisolarans.
Anya just felt disgusted. Humans actually wanted to defile the noble Trisolarans in this way. Duran was really too evil. In the minds of guides like Anya, Trisolarans were humans, and humans were just animals like dogs. Duran's experiment was like asking people and dogs to have children, which was simply disgusting.
But Luo Jie was more rational. He thought that if the reproductive barrier between the two civilizations was broken, then there was indeed a possibility of integration. There are many examples of assimilation through intermarriage in history, and conversely, there are many examples on Earth that refuse to intermarry with foreign races for the purity of their own nation.
Although the experiment was evil and the idea was terrifying, it was indeed a bold common sense.
However, although he could understand Duran's idea, through the various organs in the laboratory and Duran's deceptive approach, Luo Jie believed that Duran's experiment was still inhumane.
"We have to leave." Anya thought that this information must be communicated to the Trisolarans. Only in this way can Duran be prevented from continuing to abuse the noble Trisolarans.
Unfortunately it's too late.
"In this day and age, do you think there is no surveillance in our base?" Duran suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.
"Dulan, is this your real purpose? The rebellion is a lie, your true face is to integrate humans and Trisolarans." Luo Jie was really frightened by Dulan's idea, because the truth is the truth. Whether it can be accepted is another matter.
Anya felt disgusted, and Luo Jie couldn't accept it either.
"Lao Tzu said: Losing Tao is followed by virtue, losing virtue is followed by benevolence, losing benevolence is followed by propriety, and those who are propriety have weak loyalty and lead to chaos." Duran quoted the content of "Tao De Jing": "Ritual is what human beings give themselves. Various rules set by the people, many of them were eventually accepted and misinterpreted as "morals". This may be the habitual persecution. When people get used to the existence of ethics, the persecution of people by ethics at first becomes. "It is an indispensable necessity for future generations." "Look at your expressions now. You have deviated from the original path of life and are completely trapped by the shackles set by humans. If you cannot bravely step out, you will be trapped in this cruel universe. There is no place for survival in China.”
If Dulan wasn't so good at being a monster, Luo Jie was almost convinced by the other party. He had seen Dulan's eloquence, and he could really confuse right and wrong.
But what happened next would make Luo Jie change his mind, and that was the return incident of the 'Bronze Age'.
There were four spacecrafts originally chasing the defecting Natural Selection, and a total of five spacecrafts escaped the attack of the water droplet. But in the end, due to a chain of suspicion, the five spaceships killed each other, leaving only the 'Bronze Age' and 'Quantum'.
Humanity has been at peace for twenty years, during which time it has begun to recall them. The Bronze Age ship is faster and is already on its way back, and will be back soon.
And what will happen next is ‘Li’ judging ‘Tao’.
‘Etiquette’ is the law followed by peaceful people on earth.
‘Tao’ is the difficult choice made by the Bronze Age in the cruel cosmic environment. They rob the resources of their companions, use their corpses as food reserves, and use all means to struggle in the universe.