"Can understand."

Xie Anan nodded. The girl with a red apple face, a little fat, shy but persistent girl has now become a peaceful, calm, round and smooth middle-aged lady with mature and elegant temperament. The only thing that remains unchanged is the trust and admiration of Li Yao in her eyes. "This is a problem that many long-term hibernators have to face. It seems that the master is also like the master's wife, and is slowly becoming a 'Leap Tribe'."

"Leap Clan?"

Li Yao was slightly stunned and looked at Ding Lingling, "What is that?"

"This is a new concept proposed by senior hibernator Gui Xianshou. After handing over the 'tombstone plan' to preserve civilization to Professor Mo Xuan, he has been engaged in research in this area. Long-term hibernation was originally just a means for us to achieve a certain goal, but in Gui Xianshou, he regards 'super-long-term hibernation' as the goal itself."

Ding Lingding explained, "Like you, I have been hibernating for most of the past century, and my waking time will not last more than twenty years. Every time I return to the Federation, I feel that things change.

"For the first time, I missed the wedding of Wu Mayan and Xie Anan; for the second time, I missed the birth and growth of their children... There are many people, many things, all of them, like shining golden sand, quickly passing through my fingers. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch them.

"That feeling is really like you said, disappearing out of thin air for decades. We hibernators and normal people live in two different time dimensions, creating a strange sense of alienation, just like we have not made much contribution to the construction of the new federation, but a beautiful and bright home comes on its own, and we just need to sit and enjoy its achievements."

"How could it be?"

Xie Anan hurriedly said, "Master and his wife discovered three great worlds, plus the exiled government of the former Xinghai Republic, and made great contributions to defeating the Imperial Expeditionary Force. What does it mean to have no contribution!"

"I know."

Ding Lingdang smiled and said, "This is not my modesty, it's just a very strange feeling. It's hard for you 'creepers' who have not hibernated for a long time.

"In fact, the reason why I want to run for the Speaker of the Federation this time is to reconcile the relationship between the New Four Realms and the Old Three Realms and try to maintain the balance between us and Jin Xinyue, but the more important reason is that I really want to use this method to make myself closer to the new Federation and be able to reintegrate into the current Federation, from the 'leap tribe' that I don't know how to say, and return to the ordinary 'creep tribe'."

Li Yao heard a trace of very rare melancholy contained in Ding Lingdang's words, and became more and more strange: "What exactly are the Leap Clan and the Climb Clan!"

Ding Lingling drank a full glass of red wine and said, "After a long time of hibernation, I have been alone in the sea of ​​stars for a hundred years. After returning to the Federation, I felt that I was out of place with the world around me, so I went to chat with Senior Gui Xianshou, who is also a long-term hibernator. He happened to be conducting research on this aspect, told me a lot of things, and gave me several notes.

"Old Senior Guixianshou said that the four directions are called Yu, and the past and present are called the universe. The universe is a continuum of time and space. In the three-dimensional universe we live in, time and space are originally continuous, linear, and stable. Time passes by second, and the meaning of each second is the same. The civilization living in such continuous time and space, for example, the current human civilization is a turtle slowly crawling on the road of time, so it is called the "creeper clan".

"But in fact, whether it is the Pangu tribe, the Nuwa tribe hundreds of thousands of years ago, or today's human civilization, they have discovered a way to transcend spatial continuity, that is, jumping in the sea of ​​stars.

"Using wormholes and four-dimensional space, you can transcend the continuity of three-dimensional space, and from this point, you can instantly reach another point a million light years away.

"Since the continuity of space can be surpassed, can the continuity of time be surpassed?

"In a sense, of course, that is the human body's hibernation technology.

"Before the invented and matured hibernation technology, all the intelligent lives living in our universe were 'creepers'. Whether beggars or emperors, ordinary people or cultivators, one second is one second, one minute is one minute. At most, by stimulating the brain nerves, the illusion of slowing down time in the virtual world, but that is false, the time flow rate in the real world is still the same.

“But that is not the case for us hibernators.

"Even if this technology has just been invented, the Starlight Federation is still very simple and inefficient, hibernators like you and me can sleep for hundreds of years in one go. Before we go to bed and after we open our eyes again, we face two completely different worlds.

"And what about those civilizations with more developed hibernation technology, for example, the Pangu people?

"Li Yao, do you still remember the Pangu tribe you met in Kunlun ruins, but you have been sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years!

"Of course, he was killed by you just woke up, and before he could face the completely unfamiliar world.

"But let go of your imagination and apply it to the perspective of this Pangu tribe. If 'you' is not killed, how do you face a completely different world after hundreds of thousands of years, facing those 'descendants' who are lively and shouting under your feet, and facing the stars in the sky, there is no loneliness of the same kind?"

Li Yao was stunned and fell into deep thoughts.

Ding Lingdang said: "Great Senior Gui Xianshou believes that with the increasing development of hibernation technology, the harm and loss to hibernators will become smaller and smaller, and more and more hibernators will appear. Any civilization that masters this technology will sooner or later differentiate into two parts, the "creeping clan" composed of non-hibernators and the "leap clan" composed of hibernators.

"The world of the creepers is continuous, stable, and linear. They use every minute and every second to burn their lives, build their homes and civilizations, and enjoy stable relatives, friends, happiness and various emotions.

"But for hibernators who often span decades and hundreds of years of light and shadow, time is discontinuous, nonlinear, and fragmented. It is like a vast river. The river flows extremely slowly, but some stones are exposed on the surface of the river. The hibernators were originally fish in the river, but once they jumped out of the water and grew wings. They could use the wings and bounce power to move forward quickly. Seeing a new world in the river far ahead, they were originally left behind, and everything in the seemingly frozen "river water" was gradually peeling off their original meaning.

"You said that it was just a matter of turning your eyes open and closing your eyes, and the Starry Federation underwent earth-shaking changes. Your relatives and friends had different experiences and growth. Some people died and more were born, enjoying their slow, even and stable joys, sorrows, and sorrows.

"This is only a hundred years. What if you hibernate again, hibernate again for three hundred years, or five hundred years?

"Does the ideals, goals, moral systems, world outlook, outlook on life and values ​​of the past have any meaning to you who wake up again five hundred years later?"

Li Yao was speechless, and a picture that could not be described with ink and was extremely gorgeous and extremely bleak in his mind. While he felt a chill, he actually felt a little... looking forward to it?

Ding Lingdang said seriously: "Senior Guishou believes that when some people master the ability to jump forward in the long river of time, their understanding of value, morality and even 'life' itself will be completely different from others. It is like a turtle slowly crawling on the ground, like a bird that is speeding up in the sky. It is impossible to understand each other. The morning bacteria do not know the new and new things, and the summer insects cannot speak of ice. This is not a question of who is more advanced and who is less advanced. It is just two different life choices. One is the 'continuous life, the crawler tribe' and the other is the 'discontinuous life, the leap tribe'. The difference between them is probably much greater than the difference between cultivators and cultivators."

Li Yao's thoughts were heard, and he had to admit that what Gui Xianshou, the old guy who had been happy for a thousand years, said something was right.

It's really funny to think about it. The original body of this old guy is obviously a green-haired old turtle, but he just calls others the "creeping clan" and calls himself the "leap clan". Is this shameless in a sense?

"By the way, why didn't I see Mr. Gui?"

Li Yao said, "Didn't he say he wants to be a witness to all major events in the federal government? He won't come out to record the big news like the 'Imperial Counterattack'?"

"The realm of Gui Lao has improved again."

Ding Lingdang said, "He has completely entered the field of the 'Leap Clan'. Perhaps time has passed slowly, there is nothing worthy of his pursuit and attention. I haven't seen him for a long time. Maybe he has hibernated in an unknown corner and slowly "leap" to the next thousand years.

"When we met for the last time, he was still saying that the individual 'Leap Clan' was already so mysterious. If a whole civilization chose to hibernate itself, thaw every thousand years or ten thousand years, and continued to leap forward in the long river of time and evolved into a 'Time-crossing civilization', what would it look like? He really wanted to find such a nonlinear civilization in his own way.

"As for us, we have just experienced up to a hundred years of hibernation, and we are not really the true 'Leap Clan'. At most, it is an incomplete form between the Clan and the Leap Clan. The old concepts are slowly disintegrating, and the new concepts have not yet been formed, so we will naturally encounter various discomforts. Senior Guishou named such troubles as 'timeout' and 'the disease brought about by transcending the timeline'."
Chapter completed!