Chapter 177 The Endless Tower and the Archives of All Humanity
Seeing Xie Shen looking at him, Mr. Niu said: "Don't be nervous, you can answer whatever you want."
"As long as you have the qualifications and talent If you pass, then no matter what your answer is, this door will let you pass in the end."
Xie Shen didn't understand.
He asked: "If I can get through the door anyway, what's the point of the door asking me questions?"
Niu Laodao: "As far as I know, the answer you give will ultimately determine what you can get in the library."
"But, because there is no standard answer to this question."
< br>"So you don't need to worry about whether the answer is correct or not, just say it from your heart."
"I understand." Xie Shen nodded in response.
After thinking for a moment, he rushed to the door and said: "I feel that the end of the universe is a void, or an invisible wall."
"That wall cannot be destroyed, nor can it be acted upon by any force."
"And no substance can penetrate through that wall."
In the basement.
Not long after Xie Shen gave the answer, he heard a loud roar coming from the gate.
With the sound of the sound, the door slowly opened from the outside to the inside.
Xie Shen stood there and looked into the door, but he could only see a dazzling white light from behind the door.
The same goes for using spiritual consciousness to explore it.
From beginning to end, only endless white light can be seen.
Seeing Xie Shen hesitated in place, Mr. Niu urged: "Okay, don't stand there stupidly all the time, go in quickly."
"If you continue to ink, the door will move on its own. Retreat.”
"It will be difficult if you want to go in after that."
"Because each person is allowed to enter the library once."
"And then there is"
Lao Niu finally warned: "Remember, you can only stay in the library for a maximum of 7 days."
"After this time, you will never be able to come out of the library again."
"Remember!"
"Don't take it seriously!"
In front of the gate.
Xie Shenchong responded to Niu Lao: "You can only stay for a maximum of 7 days, right? I remember it."
"That's right."
When he was about to enter the door, he suddenly asked: "Can this door be moved?"
——Xie Shen asked this question just because he wanted to move the door to On board the Ark spacecraft, it will be available to all people on earth.
Old Niu smiled mysteriously and said: "Of course this door can be moved, but you have just joined the Academy of Sciences not long ago, so I can't tell you yet how to move this door."< br>
Okay.
This explanation is quite reasonable.
Xie Shen no longer dwells on this matter.
After he pretended to bring some dry food and water, he carefully entered the gate.
At this moment, endless white light filled the entire world.
After the white light dissipated, Xie Shen found that he had been transported to the bottom of a tower-shaped building without knowing it.
To ensure your own safety.
After entering it, Xie Shen decisively released his spiritual consciousness, wanting to have a glimpse of the whole tower-shaped building.
But what puzzled him was:
There seemed to be no upper limit to the number of floors in this tower-shaped building.
Xie Shen stretched his consciousness to the limit and explored to the 120th floor of this tower-shaped building, but still failed to reach its highest point.
When you explore the outside of the tower, you can see an endless nothingness.
——This kind of emptiness, Xie Shen has also seen it before in the small fairyland world of Tianyuan Star.
The range of activities available in the small world is limited.
Most of its edges are filled with this nothingness.
There’s not much to say about this.
Xie Shen then used his spiritual consciousness to briefly explore the inside of the tower.
He discovered:
Although this tower is scary high, the space inside seems extremely crowded.
On almost every floor of this tower, there are bookshelves made of unknown wood, as well as bookshelves filled with books.
A rough estimate is that there are tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of copies at least.
Beyond that.
You can also see that there is a hanging electric light installed in the center of each floor of the tower.
These electric lights are very bright and can illuminate the entire tower as if it were daytime.
But its energy source cannot be found.
Even if Xie Shen probed his consciousness into the wall, he could not see wires or other channels for transmitting energy.
The electric lamp seems to be able to produce a light source out of thin air.
Interesting.
Xie Shen disassembled the electric lamp with his hands and wanted to take it back to the Ark spacecraft and give it to Li Xiu for study.
But I don’t know why.
Once the disassembled lamp leaves your hand, it will disappear and return to its original place in the next second.
Whether Xie Shen used magic to imprison it or put it in a storage bag, the result was the same.
After studying for a moment, Xie Shen came to a realization:
It seems that most of the contents of this so-called shared library cannot be taken away.
Such as walls and ceilings.
For example, a bookshelf.
For example, an electric light hanging from the ceiling.
In this case, Xie Shen put away his greed and began to read the books on the bookshelf.
He randomly selected a book from the bookshelf on the first floor and opened it.
The contents of the book are as follows:
[Name of the person being recorded: Ga Da. 】
【Born at 13:11:02 on November 2, 73002 BC. 】
[Birthplace: Zhiyuxing 36.7311 degrees north latitude, 76.3233 degrees east longitude. 】
【……】
This is?
After randomly flipping through a few pages, Xie Shen discovered:
What is recorded in this book is an ancient human who lived about 80,000 years ago.
The content includes his life, death, residence, interpersonal relationships, and almost all major events he encountered.
Isn't that right?
After roughly browsing the contents of the book, Xie Shen quickly put it back to its original place and pulled out another book on the shelf.
Similarly.
The record in this book is still an ancient human being who lived about 80,000 years ago.
There are at least 10 million books like this densely packed on the first floor of this tower.
Obviously.
Being able to record the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of ancient humans in books is definitely not something humans can do.
After all, in that period, let alone words.
Perhaps even language has not been created yet.
How could someone possibly record the lives and deaths of so many ancient people in books?
As he explored more deeply, Xie Shen became more and more interested in the origin of this tower.
He then continued to look through several books placed on the second and third floors of the tower.
What is recorded in these books are also personal files about ancient humans.
Just the date of birth changed from more than 70,000 BC to more than 60,000 BC.
Then you don't need to think about it: if you continue to go to the higher floors of the tower, you will most likely see more human files with birth dates further back.
In addition to the many books recording human archives, Xie Shen also discovered a transparent glass cabinet about half a person tall from the tower.
And a palm-sized transparent glass jar.
——No surprise, this is most likely the ‘unbelievable thing’ that Mr. Niu just said.
Considering the incredible things, most of them have huge side effects.
For his own safety, Xie Shen was not in a hurry to touch those two items.
He tapped the storage bag on his waist, took out the Shinto Cauldron, and tried to contact Li Xiu who was far away on the Ark spaceship.
Xie Shen summarized his experience in the shared library and told the other party truthfully.
Finally, Xie Shen said: "Unfortunately, the records in this shared library are all human files on the Zhiyu Planet, not those of us on Earth or other planets."< br>
"That's not necessarily true."
Li Xiu thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps, after moving the shared library to another planet, the files in the library will also change accordingly."
"For example, move it to our earth."
"Then the human files recorded in the library will become our earth's people."
This.
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After hearing this, Xie Shen thought for a moment and said, "Maybe, it's really possible!"
"It's just that I'm not very familiar with the people from the Academy of Sciences."
" Therefore, it is not yet possible to obtain the method to move the library door."
"You must study this library. "We can only wait until later."
"It doesn't have much impact." Li Xiu retreated and said, "Have you obtained any items from the library? If not, then tear them down." It’s also possible to use the Shinto Cauldron to transport the bookshelf. I want to study the contents there.”
"As for items and props, I actually got two."
As he said that, Xie Shen put the glass jars he had just found from the tower and the transparent glass cabinet that was half a person tall through the Shinto tripod. Sent to Li Xiu.
The latter responded: "In view of what you just said, these two items may have huge side effects, so for safety reasons, my research progress must be slowed down. It may take a few days Only the genius can give you the answer."
"As soon as possible!" Xie Shen emphasized: "According to Mr. Niu, each person is only allowed to enter the library once."
"And. You can only stay for a maximum of 7 days at a time.”
"When the time is over, you will no longer be able to enter it."
After contacting Li Xiu, Xie Shen continued to explore the tower.
He walked up the stairs step by step, spending more than three days exploring a total of 16,023 floors.
But we still couldn’t explore all of the tower.
If we calculate that there are 10 million books in each floor of the tower.
So when Xie Shen explored the 16023rd floor, he discovered a total of 160 billion human files in the tower.
Most of the human files on the 16023rd floor were born around AD 6288.
That is to say.
From the birth of mankind until now in 6288 AD, a total of 160 billion humans have been born on Zhiyu Planet.
The lives and deaths of these people have all been truthfully recorded in this library.
Incredible.
In addition to countless human files during the exploration.
Xie Shen also found a total of three books in the library, which were cultivation techniques related to the scientist system.
He chose one of the books titled "On Infinite Energy and Moving Bodies" for practice.
As for the other two
Xie Shen originally planned to pass the other two books to Li Xiu through the Shen Dao Cauldron for research.
But it is the same as the electric lamp in the library and the human archives.
These are items that cannot be taken away. Once you leave your hands, they will disappear immediately and return to their original place automatically.
So Xie Shen could only record these three cultivation techniques bit by bit on jade slips.
In this way, it was successfully handed over to Li Xiu.
…
Because the files stored in the 16023rd floor of the library are all human files born around 6288 AD.
And this year happens to be AD 6288.
So unless the tower can predict the future and know the names of humans who will be born in 6289 in advance.
Otherwise, there will be no human files to record in the future.
Therefore, the 16023rd floor of the library should be the highest level that can be explored.
But unfortunately.
There are still stairs leading to higher places on this floor.
Driven by curiosity, Xie Shen tried to continue exploring.
But it’s not just why.
When he stepped onto the stairs leading to the 16024th floor, he suddenly discovered that there was an invisible force that was preventing him from continuing upward.
Xie Shen was unwilling to give in.
He released his spiritual consciousness and carefully separated a strand from it, trying to penetrate it into a higher floor.
The moment that ray of consciousness entered a higher floor, Xie Shen suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of fear in his heart.
This feeling of fear is difficult to describe in words.
It's like.
It's like people seeing wild beasts in the wilderness or ghosts in the dark.
It is an instinctive feeling of fear that occurs when a person sees something he should not see.
Although Xie Shen's body had the cultivation level of the God Transformation stage, he was forced by this feeling of fear and fell from the stairs.
After coming back to his senses, Xie Shen found that his body was shaking uncontrollably.
Not only that.
A certain amount of blood seeped out of his nose, eye sockets, and ears.
After a long time, all kinds of discomfort gradually subsided.
This encounter made Xie Shen feel scared for a while.
He did not dare to continue exploring the higher levels of the library, but returned to the first level honestly and studied the "On Endless Energy and Moving Body" technique he had discovered before.
…
Like this, 3 days and 3 days.
In the blink of an eye, Xie Shen has stayed in this shared library for six full days.
With the cultivation of the body in the transformation stage and the blessing of divine consciousness, Xie Shen successfully transformed the body from the original elementary level by studying the "On Endless Energy and Moving Body" technique. Scientists are promoted to senior scientists in one fell swoop.
At the same time.
Li Xiu's research has also made progress.
He contacted Xie Shen through the Shendao Dingchong: "I already have some clues about the two items you sent over and the three exercises."
" What to say?" Xie Shen asked hurriedly.
Li Xiudao: "Let's talk about the glass cabinet first."
"Everyone enters the glass cabinet and tells lies in it."
"Then the glass cabinet will release flames until the person is burned to ashes."
"During this period, the glass cabinet itself will not melt due to the high temperature."
"The flame The high temperature generated will not spill out to the outside world, but will be blocked by an inexplicable energy."
"So this glass cabinet cannot be used to generate thermal energy."
Thermal power generation?
Fortunately Li Xiu could figure it out.
The first floor of the shared library.
Xie Shen, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the Shinto Cauldron, concluded: "So, although this glass cabinet can verify whether a person has told a lie."
"But it also has huge Side effect. ”
“That is, the liar will be burned to death directly after the verification is completed.”
"Is that what you mean?"
(End of this chapter)