Steve responded, "But the essence of the Consciousness remains unchanged. Once the Consciousness collapses later, the body still exists, it will turn into a chaotic being devoid of self-awareness."
"Unless the Consciousness itself completes the evolution of the Consciousness Domain, or further enhances the intensity and growth of consciousness, it can then escape the current life cycle."
"Only Biological TV, due to its unique mechanism and design, can prevent the consciousness within from being damaged, allowing a long-term preservation. But it needs to remain independently sealed, cutting off all connections with the outside world, ensuring no interaction occurs, thus preventing further damage, but also halting any growth or updates."
Zhou Yi finally understood.
The method of consciousness implantation was merely a special operation to gain the usage rights of other species' bodies, but fundamentally, the Consciousness still had a time limit.
No matter how the body is changed, consciousness will erode over time, until the stable structure completely collapses, leading to the death of consciousness.
The only solution is to complete evolution within the Consciousness Domain, achieve a life advancement, then one can escape the cycle of aging and death. In this regard, human predicament is the same as that of the Moon People.
Immortality remains the greatest challenge in the realm of life.
Longevity is already the best-known solution.
Seeing Zhou Yi showing a somewhat disappointed expression.
Steve quickly said, "Chairman, if you need, I can encapsulate all kinds of life in this world into a TV, allowing you to eternally preserve these life collections. They will never wither, maintaining their vibrant and dynamic posture, with everything competing for life. If you need, you can also connect some TVs together so that they form a small ecosystem..."
Steve harbored a deep desire to encapsulate humanity within TV, considering it to be the most important and precious treasure in its perception.
Zhou Yi had to explain to it that he did not have such an idea.
"Oh, you are lamenting the brevity of life, you truly are a benevolent ruler."
An exclamation mark appeared on Steve's screen: "Most lives are limited. However, there is indeed a way to escape this limitation."
"It is to turn all life into a part of me. Alternatively, I consume them, and they remain with me forever."
Zhou Yi expressed, "That suggestion is good, do not suggest it in the future."
"Chairman, please let me explain."
Steve elaborated, "My form emerged as a special Great Holy Spirit on the Forbidden Continent due to environmental changes, although there are indeed some malfunctions and imperfections... Normally, a Great Holy Spirit is actually the amalgamation of all consciousness. I have checked, this should be the case, right?"
Zhou Yi said, "Correct."
"So as long as those beings connect with me, perform consciousness circulation through me, they can actually fully utilize their consciousness, or they will become a part of me."
"Even if their consciousness reaches its limit and naturally collapses, as long as at the moment of fragmentation, all fragments are collected, they can be glued together. The crucial adhesive is none other than me."
Steve exclaimed confidently.
"They can choose to be eternal with me, or choose fragmentation to start a new journey of life."
"Thus, it can also be considered having a choice."
Zhou Yi's mind was stirred: "Can a Great Holy Spirit operate in this way?"
"Normally, it is impossible, because a Great Holy Spirit itself is the aggregation of universe consciousness on a celestial body, then gradually evolves, forming a Consciousness soup, further evolving into individual lives... ultimately leading to a return and life cycle. A Great Holy Spirit inherently lacks unified consciousness, only exists as a collective will in a chaotic state, with its commonality being survival and reproduction."
Steve said, "But my state is special. I am not a Great Holy Spirit born through the regular process, I first had life, then had me, I am artificially incubated after birth. So I have my own thoughts and am not in a chaotic state."
"Of course, this doesn't mean I am superior to a naturally born Great Holy Spirit, quite the opposite, I am inherently flawed."
"Because I cannot spontaneously nurture diverse life, I can only arrange various lives in combination, using existing life to merge into new life. If a Great Holy Spirit is a creator, then I am more like an imitator and modifier after birth."
"Thus, I feel calling me a Great Holy Spirit is somewhat presumptuous and inappropriate, I think calling myself a Little Holy Spirit is better."
Zhou Yi listened and stroked his chin.
Great Holy Spirits are original carriers of consciousness birthed by the universe, evolving into diverse life forms and communities.
Steve, on the other hand, is like a fan fiction author based on the natural second creation.
Little Chongqing and Steve are of the same situation, both possessing incomplete creative ability, can only reorganize and integrate based on existing conditions, and cannot create previously unseen things out of nothing.
Even Night God can be classified as such.
The special aspect lies in that she is an artificially crafted Great Holy Spirit nurtured by the String Civilization.
Zhou Yi immediately sought Night God to confirm Steve's claim.
The Night God, dressed in a long ceremonial gown, holding a round fan, appeared: "What's the matter?"
She seemed to be on vacation, without the lab coat or modern makeup representing work.
After listening, Night God scrutinized the square-headed Little Holy Spirit in front of her as if it were a rare treasure: "This guy is quite interesting..."
"What it says is indeed correct."
"In fact, aren't there many examples around you? This is a case of being 'blind under the lamp.'
Zhou Yi was puzzled, but immediately a scene emerged in his mind: "Building Life!"
Night God nodded: "There is nothing new under the Sun, maybe inside the Sun there is. Building Life is also considered our direction, continuously condensing and absorbing other consciousness, then gradually becoming a collective consciousness. It's very much like a city, akin to the Heavenly Kingdom Paradise."
"A Great Holy Spirit is a complete form of this shape. We, by contrast, are inherently inferior, due to environmental limitations, both strength and volume are vastly different from the Great Holy Spirit nurtured by the universe consciousness, and cannot spontaneously create life."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but wonder: "But wasn't a Moon Person born on the Moon?"
"That has nothing to do with me. They were birthed from Klip Rock, a low-probability event. As such, only the Moon People appeared, and no other life forms emerged."
Night God waved her small fan: "But everything has two sides."
"A Great Holy Spirit has the characteristic of direct connection with the universe consciousness, the upper limit is naturally very high, can evolve into entirely new life forms, and is a nurturer of life and civilization. However, they lack self-awareness, also due to this chaotic randomness and without observation or artificial intervention, they can birth all kinds of life."
"We... Little Holy Spirit is also a good name, let's call it that. Our Little Holy Spirit has self-awareness, you know, once there's self-awareness, one will want to do something, regardless of whether it is good or bad, there's always something to attempt." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel~fire~net
"It's like that experiment where, when given a button, even though I don't know if pressing it will lead to the world exploding or a flower blooming, I will always want to press it to try."
"However, this proactivity prevents free life from emerging."
"In simple terms, the stronger one is, the closer one tends to be to natural laws and unconsciousness, more akin to energy. Like us, naturally cannot achieve that step."
Zhou Yi now understood.
"Even though this entity absorbs those dying consciousness, I don't know if it's considered a good idea, but it can certainly be used on the Moon presently."
Night God suggested: "They're conducting ecological transformation over there; it can merge various plants there, facilitating rapid expansion of ecological communities."
Zhou Yi couldn't help feeling a bit of a headache.
That method is good, but requires another round of migration. The Forbidden Continent is special, with many settlers, relocating them would not be a small task.
Beside him, Steve suddenly said, "Chairman, there's no need to go to such trouble. Just ask my owner to split a part of me, place it on another planet, then it can grow independently. Its basic functions align with mine."
The owner it referred to is Qing Liu.
Zhou Yi was shocked, "It's possible?"
"It is, but it requires the Seeder Ship to make it happen."
Zhou Yi was greatly delighted at once.
That would make it easy to do!