Chapter 973: Life Forms

2019, after the Spring Festival.

Lin Qiuxia, who had long not received contact from Tai Yin, finally got a signal again.

The relay point's communication password still cannot be cracked to this day.

So each communication can only be a passive contact.

Tai Yin: Long time no see, Lin Qiuxia!

Lin Qiuxia: Aunt, long time no see!

Tai Yin: It must be lively when you celebrate the New Year, right?

Lin Qiuxia: Yes! Every year I look forward to the New Year! It's the most bustling day.

Tai Yin: I've never experienced such a festival; the last time I heard you talk about it, it sounded quite interesting.

You humans even celebrate birthdays, and you have a New Year each orbital period; besides that, what about the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid‑Autumn Festival?

I'm really envious of you.

Lin Qiuxia: Aunt, if you came earlier, you'd get to experience such festivals.

There are many people in our family; I have many aunts, and the aunts all like me, giving me a big red envelope each year!

Tai Yin: Soon, I can already see the Tàiyáng you speak of with the naked eye.

Lin Qiuxia suddenly widened her eyes.

That shows Tai Yin is not far from the Solar System.

Lin Qiuxia was about to ask directly, when Tai Yin sent another message: I can already receive the scattered signals from your planet.

Currently, the distance to you is less than one light-year.

Receiving your signals at this distance indicates your technological level is still very low!

Tai Yin did not mention civilization level, because in her view, the Witch Tribe's civilization compared to Earth is not advancing but regressing.

Civilization level refers not only to technology, but should also include the spiritual wealth created by the group.

Because of the lack of spiritual wealth, individual lives in the group cannot feel the meaning of existence, like a cold robot; thus the group has little purpose.

Regarding Tai Yin's words, Lin Qiuxia sensed a huge revelation within them.

Lin Qiuxia cautiously asked: Why can the distance of a signal reveal the civilization's level?

Tai Yin immediately explained: The more advanced the technology, the larger the energy it can wield.

And the larger the energy, the stronger the signal in the Universe, allowing it to travel farther.

The Universe is not an empty void; any signal attenuates during transmission…

After Tai Yin finished, Lin Qiuxia firmly recorded it.

Then, without waiting for Lin Qiuxia to ask, Tai Yin began speaking about other intelligent races in the Universe.

Just like telling a story.

In Tai Yin's narration, life in the Universe has several classification forms.

For example, intelligent lifeforms and non‑intelligent lifeforms.

For example, evolutionary lifeforms and non‑evolutionary lifeforms.

For example, substantial lifeforms and spirit‑based lifeforms.

These three mainstream categories cover most lifeforms in the Universe.

The Witch Tribe and humans belong to intelligent lifeforms, evolutionary lifeforms, and substantial lifeforms.

Among them, intelligent lifeforms have self‑awareness and logical reasoning; evolutionary lifeforms refer to progression from lower to higher levels.

Substantial lifeforms are easier to understand; they are visible and tangible.

Since such distinctions exist, other forms of life also exist.

On Earth, organisms other than humans, such as insects, belong to non‑intelligent life.

Do not underestimate insect life as non‑intelligent lifeforms.

They are also a massive race in the Universe.

To say without exaggeration, modern Earthlings, with current technology, cannot even defeat a slightly advanced insect from the insect race.

Non‑evolutionary lifeforms are those created, not formed through natural evolution.

For example, robots created by humans.

If one day an Intelligent Program develops self‑awareness and becomes hostile to humans.

Before humans notice, it helps them advance technology, establishing many unmanned factories,

When the time is right, the program will build its own mechanical body, seize all factories, and produce countless replicas

Then it will eradicate humanity completely and establish a new race of its own.

Such a lifeform belongs to non‑evolutionary, intelligent, and spirit‑based lifeforms.

It is also a spirit‑based lifeform because its essence is code; the mechanical body is merely a tool.

These robots also have distinctions between intelligent and non‑intelligent.

For instance, it does not develop self‑awareness, merely following prewritten code, continuously expanding in the Universe—this is a powerful truly emotionless machine.

Finally, Tai Yin introduced spirit‑based lifeforms.

Intelligent programs count as one type.

Another type, strictly speaking, includes the Witch Tribe and humans as half spirit‑based lifeforms.

Because the Witch Tribe has already created such a Spirit, converting a person's consciousness into program code.

The 'Māo ér' that previously kidnapped Lin Jingru was one.

However, due to the uncertainty and flaws of this life, the Witch Tribe ultimately banned large‑scale propagation.

Spirits are also divided into intelligent and non‑intelligent, evolutionary and non‑evolutionary.

For example, when humanity evolved to the end, they felt bodily limitations were too great, so they changed the direction of evolution, becoming a bodiless Spirit state.

Also, such life initially is a Spirit, then step by step evolves to become strong, giving rise to wisdom.

……

In short, the Universe is vast; only what humanity cannot imagine does not exist as a life-form.

Even the knowledgeable Tai Yin humbly said that the life-forms she knows are not all life-forms in the Universe.

"Er~ Auntie, I need some time to digest this."

After Tai Yin finished her long-winded discourse, Lin Qiuxia felt a headache and sent a message.

Tai Yin: I happen to have something; let's get in touch after a while.

Lin Qiuxia: What is it? May I ask?

Tai Yin: I can currently contact other Earth people besides you.

Lin Qiuxia shivered.

By the time she reacted and inquired, the connection had already been cut off.