"Now, please exchange the contract rings," the host announced.
Then a pair of special silver rings hovered between the two. These rings connected them, allowing each to sense the other's condition at any ti. The contract rings also imposed certain restrictions on the personality logic code of chanical life, preventing major changes, and whenever a personality adjustnt reached a certain level, the partner could also sense it.
This function was designed to prevent unexpected incidents that could cause a chanical life to undergo a sudden change in temperant, ensuring the partner's personality remained stable and safe.
Ling picked up one of the silver rose petal rings and carefully placed it on the other, watching as silver threads spread across the other person's body, transforming into so kind of data firewall and defense asure, embedding into Valerian's personality code.
"Hmm, is this what the establishnt of a contract feels like?" Valerian closed her eyes to feel it, then opened her expectant blue eyes.
She picked up the other ring and placed it on Ling, and soon silver threads began to spread across Ling's body, allowing Valerian to sense his physical condition.
"Ling, you stayed up late again last night, couldn't sleep?" She covered her mouth with a light laugh, her eyes filled with irrepressible joy.
Have we finally reached this day? She encircled his body and slowly went in for a hug, wanting to give him a kiss.
"It's too dazzling!" soone in the audience exclaid, unable to bear the sight of the two kissing.
"We're still single, can't stand these displays of affection."
Then, the wedding march played once again, and the entire venue turned into a sea of happiness.
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Sigma chanical Council, Central Brain Matrix S-85.
This was a magnificent building standing in the center of the city, shaped like a flat hexagonal flying saucer, supported by a volcanic base, overlooking the entire area.
128th floor, outer hall, located on the side of the hexagonal saucer shape, with dark gold transparent tal glass showing the sky and the earth on one side, and on the other, a wide corridor with occasional simple rectangular resting areas.
Tilan and Xia Lan walked side by side along the corridor, occasionally stopping to take in the view, discussing the exchanges over the years.
"Nowadays, there are many humans marrying chanical lives," Xia Lan said with a hint of pride, looking at Tilan as she spoke of recent developnts.
"Yes," Tilan didn't disagree, finding Xia Lan's childlike and romantic personality as the central brain quite interesting.
"However, the situation of marriage and relationships in the Federation is not as great," she remarked, not entirely unaware of the Federation's status, often learning through the Aijeika Network.
"Perhaps humans today don't see marriage as a necessity," Xia Lan analyzed thoughtfully.
"In ancient tis, living alone posed many risks, and biological instincts also required reproduction, thus giving rise to the institution of marriage."
"People living in modern cities don't face life-and-death crises daily, and the conveniences of various conditions have greatly reduced the cost of living alone, allowing solitary life to be easy and joyful."
"In ancient tis, even just cooking required collecting firewood, consuming much ti, so two people cooking together saved the most ti and effort in that regard."
"Otherwise, having to prepare a large amount of dry wood and make a fire every day consud much ti and energy."
"Self-care such as during illness can be handled by many autonomous units and doesn't necessarily require offspring to fill the gap."
"The only remaining problem is loneliness and solitude," Tilan sighed.
"Humans inherently crave understanding and acceptance, and also companionship, with peers serving as a mirror to reflect and compare, helping people recognize differences and variations in themselves."
Continuing to speculate on possible future human marriage formats, the topic gradually shifted elsewhere.
"There has been significant progress in technology that changes form through extraordinary power," Xia Lan began to narrate.
"Tilan has probably seen the Grey Feather Species among the newborn races. They possess a certain ability to change form, allowing them to hibernate for long periods, which helps repair bodily defects."
"Furthermore, the Electromarrow Species' ability to communicate through electrical signals has been successfully experinted with."
"This is a very unique invention, enabling humans to communicate directly using electrical signals, like chanical life forms."
"Once this technology matures, it could greatly enhance individual capabilities within civilization, further narrowing the gap between humans and chanical life."
"However, according to current experintal results, when engaging in high-level cognitive tasks, the human brain may not dissipate heat effectively, thus requiring an increase in one's transcendent rank to provide the necessary hardware conditions."
"The Spirit Particle Sequence has done well in this regard, utilizing the Transcendent Core as a central processor to solve many computational problems."
"Moreover, as you ntioned, the Phantom-Eyed Race possesses seven-color vision, which we are currently researching. In fact, this is an extrely powerful ability, surpassing chanical life in observing the world." Xia Lan said, lightly twirling her long hair, eyes gazing at the distant earth.
"chanical life primarily utilizes light and shadow observation, whereas so special mystic perceptions and sensory collaborations create a sense of 'mood' that is less effective than humans."
For the newborn races of the Fifth Epoch, Tilan did not entirely dismiss them; one could argue that the Black Sun took a wrong path, but the birth of these newborn races embodied the exploration of human future forms during the end of the Fourth Era, each with their unique specialties, enhancing humanity's advantages in the vast universe.
"If their strengths can be unified and summarized, they can widen the human future's path."
Early Earth life could only survive in specific environnts with suitable temperatures, humidity, nutrients, and pH levels, but as evolution progressed, their adaptable environnt range increased. Despite external tools aiding advancent, humanity's inherent fragility continuously restricted technology application.
Ordinary people who haven't practiced the Transcendent Sequence can only withstand up to ten G before reaching the limit, while aircraft speeds keep increasing, and high-level combat requires increasingly stringent physical conditions.
Improvents in societal systems ultimately have limits, a ceiling. Without stronger foundational conditions, creating grand edifices on top proves unfeasible. Tilan visited the Sigma chanical Council for discussions exploring changes to humanity's foundational civilization elents.
"As for our chanical council, our desire is for humans and chanical life to be interchangeable," Xia Lan leaned lightly on the railing, overlooking the bustling city below.
"We cannot find a necessary reason or support for our existence in the empty universe, but humans have it. If one day, chanical life can transform into consciousness flowing in flesh, even if the transformation entails so harm or change, we might break free from being castles in the sky, establishing contact with the most solid ground and ultimately evolving into a truly complete civilization."
"At the mont life desires are born, all operational power will continuously erge."
The two stood quietly side by side, imagining the foreseeable future scenes.
"However," Xia Lan abruptly shifted focus, glancing at the black-haired girl beside her.
"Tilan, promoting this within the Federation might be quite challenging: firstly, the genetic writing aspect contradicts the Federation Constitution, and various other ongoing projects disrupt the order left by Isenisha."
"Moreover, according to your conception, within the future civilization model, the Songstress's status will significantly decline, becoming rely individuals with slightly special talents."
"Yes, isn't that good?" Tilan extended her finger, gently touching the air in front of her. A circle ford, releasing the refreshing sumr wind from the sky outside.
"An endless reliance and waiting."
"When will humans beco their own heroes?"
The gentle breeze softly caressed, blending the girl's face and hair into the azure sky background.
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