The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 538 - 531: Ten Years

Chapter 538: Chapter 531: Ten Years

Gao Yuan was truly worried that Xinghe would become a lifesaver coveted by many, a human-shaped drug container that could extend lifespan and preserve eternal youth.

Perhaps Big Ivan only needed a little bit of blood, but what about others?

Even if a person only needed to draw ten milliliters of blood from Xinghe, there would still be enough people to drain her dry.

Gao Yuan became unconsciously vigilant, he even felt an urge to take Xinghe and flee immediately.

But at this moment, Xinghe smiled and said with ease, "Don’t worry, I know what you’re concerned about, but there’s no need for concern."

Glancing at Ram and then at Big Ivan, Xinghe smiled and said, "You’ve only heard about the benefits, don’t you want to know if there are any side effects?"

Gao Yuan whispered, "Tell me quickly."

Spreading her hands, Xinghe said, "The robots inside me are nearing the end of their lifespan, which means my nanobots are about to die. Before the nanobots reach the end of their lifespan, they give me a warning, and now I’ve received that warning, just four days ago, hmm, I have ten years left to live."

Gao Yuan was stunned, not knowing what to think.

Xinghe said with a look of annoyance, "I don’t know how to explain this to you, as Earth doesn’t have this concept, there’s no relative term for it. All I can say is that I have about ten years of Earth time left. When the time comes, I’ll die instantly, and whoever has accepted my nanobots will also have only ten years left, regardless of how healthy they may appear, once the time is up, they’ll die instantly. Do you understand what I’m saying?"

Ram let out a sigh and said, "I understand now, actually... go ahead."

Xinghe looked at Gao Yuan, then smiled and said, "You don’t need to worry about these things, because you’ve been injected with my backup nanobots, brand new, with a very long time left until reaching their designed lifespan limit."

Gao Yuan immediately said, "Can I inject them back into you?"

"As I said, you’re unique, non-replicable, so of course not, unless I want to die right away."

Gao Yuan said with great annoyance, "Back then... you could have saved some!"

Xinghe continued to smile and said, "In your situation back then, there was only concern about not having enough nanobots, how could there be any thought of retaining some? I had to either give you none at all or give them all to you, that choice wasn’t hard to make for me."

All of a sudden, Ram said, "Wait a second, doesn’t your situation mean you’ve achieved immortality?"

Xinghe shook her head, her face serious as she said, "The self-renewal of the body has limits, even with the aid of nanobots. We can obtain about two thousand years of lifespan with them, hmm, excluding the total hibernation time during interstellar travel, because your body can be replicated and renewed infinitely, but your brain cannot. In other words, your brain will ultimately die. Having a brand-new body without the corresponding memories and personality is what you understand as... a vegetable. You get it?"

Ram said in a deep voice, "So getting nanobots doesn’t mean immortality?"

"No, immortality refers to the unity of body and thought, and to make thought indestructible requires the help of external devices."

After finishing her explanation, Xinghe pointed to her head and smiled, "You transfer your thoughts and consciousness to an external container, a biological robot, and then you need some time to completely renew your original body, mainly to replicate and remake the brain, and then transfer the consciousness and memories back."

"So that’s how it is..."

Xinghe chuckled and said, "Simple, isn’t it? It’s not very difficult to achieve either, but to complete this step, we went through a very long time, experienced many failures, and finally, it became a simple and mature process. But why the memory has to be preserved through a transfer is a mystery. We started to study this, but then no one cared anymore. After all, we had achieved immortality, there was no need to explore why even a self-renewing brain will still die."

Scratching his head, Ram said, "Sounds like a philosophical question."

Xinghe spread her hands and then smiled, "I believe with the genetic technology of the Serpent People, they can maintain their lifespan above a thousand years, or even longer, but they haven’t achieved immortality. Because a civilization that has achieved immortality will inevitably lose the desire to expand. This is complicated, simply put, it’s too difficult to find planets in the universe that can accommodate the population growth under unlimited life, the speed of finding new worlds cannot keep up with the rate of population growth under infinite life. So, there are two inevitable consequences of achieving immortality: one, the complete loss of interest and necessity in procreation; two, since there’s no need to procreate, there’s no need to expand."

After sighing, Xinghe continued to smile and said, "I just hope you don’t fall into the strange loop of your civilization destroying itself because of immortality. Fortunately for you, it will be a very long time before you achieve this step. Maybe by then you won’t care. For now, we need to draw my blood, separate and cultivate it, inject it into Big Ivan so he can gain ten years of healthy life. Besides, I only need to write out a concept that you all can understand, to tell you the concept and principle of separating consciousness. How to deal with the Sanitation Worker is up to you, what I’m looking forward to is the Serpent People getting it."

Gao Yuan said, somewhat distracted, "So you mean your life is only left with ten years? Just ten years?"

Xinghe said softly, "Are you worried about me? There’s no need. If we find our spaceship, the Ark, I can easily extend my life. If we can’t find it, hmm, I’m willing to accept death. Didn’t I tell you? Our civilization has already actively given up on immortality, so if it’s time to die then so be it. I don’t see it as a big issue."

For a moment, the atmosphere became a bit gloomy, because the three of them were always conversing in a language that Big Ivan couldn’t understand, which prompted him to finally say, "What are you talking about?"

Ram said in a low voice, "You will recover your health very soon, very soon."

Taking a deep breath, Gao Yuan said, "What about the Ark of the Covenant? It can extend your life, right?"

Xinghe shook her head and replied, "It can’t. Those are two completely different technological pathways. We can still get hurt, and the Ark of the Covenant can treat me, but it can’t extend life because its principle is likewise nanobot treatment. The nanobots from the Ark are larger, they repair the body faster, but they can’t replace the nanobots inside us. However, it’s true that the Ark really can produce vaccines."

Xinghe looked at Big Ivan and said, "After receiving treatment from the Ark, he can have a longer lifespan because his illness will be completely cured, so he might live another ten, twenty, or even thirty or forty years. However, if he accepts my blood, then he only has ten years, ten years without aging or sickness, and it cannot be extended beyond that. This is a choice you’ll have to let him make."