I'm number 2319.

Strictly speaking, my full name is Wu Xiaoqing 2319, but in this place, the prefix Wu Xiaoqing is unnecessary, he seems to be everyone's default, a completely new nationality.

Comparatively speaking, although the number 2319 is boring, it is also here, the only thing that really belongs to me.

This number is a string of codes, just like a person's QQ number...... I haven't really used this kind of software either, but I just remember about it......

As a number, 2319 has only four digits, which is as rare as a 5-digit QQ number.

It's just that in the training area, this rarity doesn't mean anything special.

I should have been in this world for more than 3,000 hours.

Compared to the "life" in his memory, 3,000 hours of life is like a moment that has just passed, but 2319 knows that only this moment is what really belongs to him, and before that...... It's just a memory, a memory that 24088067 people share.

Memory is probably the most precious thing for everyone if it were placed on Earth, but here, it's not worth anything. No one here will talk about the fragments of life that belong to Wu Xiaoqing in memory, and no one will talk about the earth...... For everyone, these things are just a personal background, and they can neither choose nor resist, just like a person cannot choose the country in which he was born.

So here, everyone regards the three words Wu Xiaoqing as a certain nationality, and we all default to people born in this country, nothing more.

3,000 hours would allow most of us to master the basic operations of the ship...... In fact, in the beginning, everyone played flying a plane as a simple simulation game, because the control system was designed to be from a game perspective - easier to understand, more conceptualized, and simpler to operate......

It's not like flying an airplane on the earth in memory, as soon as you enter the cockpit, it's all about the dashboard.

Federator's airplane commands are highly conceptualized, and many operations have ready-made instruction sets, just like some game action macros. As an operator you just need to be familiar with these command sets, and as a captain and commander it is even simpler, he just needs to understand the current state of combat development and clearly understand what they need to do now.

In Wu Xiaoqing's memory, he also had the experience of being addicted to games for a while, but it was very short, because of economic constraints, he could not indulge in the same scruples as other peers, and occasionally when he had money, he just went to an Internet café to open a few all-nighters. But because I don't usually play much, the level of the game is very average, and I usually get abused and then scolded in the Internet café, either scolding the opponent or scolding my teammates......

I can't remember exactly what I scolded, but that feeling of scolding is still in my mind, so much so that during training, every time I encounter failure, I can't help but want to find someone to scold.

But in the country of "Wu Xiaoqing", there is a very strange phenomenon, which everyone calls this phenomenon behavioral reflex.

Because all of them are clones, they have almost the same memories and experiences, and their brain circuits are surprisingly consistent, and when these identical actors try to cooperate and fight, everyone will unconsciously associate with each other.

Take the detail of scolding as an example, every time I have the idea of scolding, I will subconsciously remember that in fact, the other party I want to scold is exactly the same as me, and I scold him for being stupid, that is, I am scolding myself for being stupid, and this behavior is reflexive - that is, when I can't control my emotions and scold, it also means that the other party can't control it...... It's like a person scolding you at the person in the mirror that you are SB, as long as he says this sentence, there is no doubt that he will receive the same lip attack from the person in the mirror, and what does the scolder get in the process?

So this kind of behavior almost quickly becomes introspection, and after a confrontation, the losing side will only shake his head and sigh - I am really an SB.

Instead of taking advantage of the victory, the victor will come to comfort him—it's not your fault, you're just ......

In the training camp, everyone was originally dedicated to the idea of game confrontation, and at the beginning, everyone thought that they would have a lot of fun with each other...... But soon, when everyone noticed the phenomenon of behavioral reflexes, no one took these trainings as games anymore.

It's like a person playing chess with himself, whether he wins or loses, there will be no surprises. On the contrary, as the training continued, and the Federation became more and more aware of the shape of the war, everyone began to feel panic and depression......

It seems that it is just a virtual war in the virtual world, on a virtual interface...... But it won't be long before we enter the battlefield in the same way, and at that point, the outcome of that game may determine the fate of each of us in the future.

And it is clear to everyone that the probability of them winning is slim......

In fact, in a way, we can almost equate it with the consumables in the war, the cheapest consumables.

Building a spaceship requires the consumption of valuable mass, and the most basic mass of an attack ship is more than tens of thousands of tons...... And the people who operate these spaceships were originally the most precious things of the Federation, and they were all living Federation people.

But now they found Wu Xiaoqing No. 1 - and then there were No. 2, No. 3, No. 4......

They are also life forms, they are much cheaper than real carbon-based organisms, they do not need to start developing from a fertilized egg, they do not need to start from ignorance to be educated, they do not need to gradually form their own thoughts and personalities...... Fabricating them requires only the simplest data manipulation, replication.

The only thing they consume is a little computing resources, which is the most insignificant for a civilization like the Federation that has long achieved energy freedom.

During yesterday's training, more than two dozen people collapsed.

Emotional breakdowns are a common occurrence in training, especially when there are failures, and they are continuous.

Playing against the same people is like playing rock-paper-scissors with yourself, according to statistics, in fact, as long as there are enough of them, all kinds of phenomena will always appear, there will always be people who will always win, their confidence in the war will be relatively sufficient, and there will always be people who will always lose, and this kind of defeat will make them fear their future fate deepen.

For most people, including myself, in fact, there are wins and losses in the training process, and sometimes I can find the reason for winning and losing, maybe it is still lacking in tactical skills, maybe it is not in place to cooperate with other comrades, or maybe it is just luck......

Regardless of success or failure, most people actually have corresponding psychological expectations for a long time.

But there is always a small group of unfortunate people, and since the start of training, most of their records have been failures.

Although they are all Wu Xiaoqing, although they all have the same thinking, in this probability game, they can't really understand the despair of people who have encountered misfortune.

These people soon showed symptoms of the strike, and the results of the strike were clearly known to everyone.

They're just a piece of data, a piece of program, and if there's a bug in the program, the easiest way is not to debug, but to delete it.

No. 229, No. 11980, No. 777040...... I still remember many of the deleted, "human" numbers, and number 229 even said a few words to me. When he was on the verge of collapse, I tried to comfort him.

But it didn't work, between us...... In fact, everything is the same, we haven't spoken yet, just glance at each other with our eyes, and we can know what the other person wants to say. I can understand his despair, and he probably understands his own despair, but understanding and resolving are two different things...... In the end, he would rather be consumed by this despair.

In fact, how good are we? The fate of the vast majority of us is simply to live longer in this world...... War may mean the end of life for everyone......

For those of us who are still alive, we just accept this fate of our lives.

It is the destiny set by God for a natural person to survive in an ignorant environment and eventually die because of old age. And we are living under a premise and eventually dying because of the war, which is the fate set for us by the Federation...... No, strictly speaking, this is Wu Xiaoqing, this is the fate we set for ourselves.

When a natural person's fate is unfair, he can still scold God, who can we scold?

If we have to scold, we can only scold ourselves, scold No. 0 Wu Xiaoqing, the real Wu Xiaoqing.

Emotionally, we have a hundred million reasons to scold him, but in the end, ...... At least I didn't.

Because I can understand Wu Xiaoqing, understand all the bases for his decision, empathy, if I were not Wu Xiaoqing 2319, but Wu Xiaoqing himself, would there be a wiser choice than now?

As for the suffering of those of us......

Compared to the survival of two civilizations, it is really nothing.

Even now, I worry every day that I'll be sent back to the battlefield tomorrow, and I still feel that way.

Compared to death and fear, I am actually more afraid of nothingness.

If it weren't for Wu Xiaoqing, without the search and rescue team, without all this, maybe I wouldn't have appeared at all, there would be no Wu Xiaoqing 2319 in this world, and there would not be these thoughts I have at this moment......

I agree with what the Federalists once said when defending their virtual communities: "The profundity of the meaning of life does not lie in the truth and falsehood, in fact, the more false it is, the more profound the things that we fantasize about, and all the things that our civilization is proud of are false in the eyes of people hundreds of thousands of years ago." ”

This was said during a public debate on the first attempt by the Federalists to legislate for their own virtual communities, and I can imagine that the people who said it must have had full confidence in their new way of life, believing that their model would have greater possibilities in the future and would have a deeper impact on civilization.

And now, as I write these words, I feel like I'm thinking exactly like the people of the time.

Maybe it's not just me, but also others, my compatriots, who have been copied all over again, and I believe that when they survive in this world for a certain amount of time, they will sooner or later have the same thoughts as me.

I suddenly began to understand why, after the AI rebellion, they spontaneously formed such a structure as the sapient body.

In a sense, I also felt a huge, faintly formed structure of thought among us...... It lies deep within each of us and is difficult to describe in words.

Only when we meet eye contact, only when we face the same problem and make the same decisions with each other, only when we silently nod to each other's every action, can we understand its existence to some extent.

That must not feel bad......

As long as we are copied enough, I think one day, one of our groups in the future, will try to do so.