Chapter 1. Beginnings
When Chen Ziyou woke up from this dream that seemed to have lasted for ten thousand years, he stood up in an ice coffin, and as far as his eyes could see, nearly a hundred ice coffins stood silently near him, except for some ice coffins that were already empty, there seemed to be a person lying in each of the remaining ice coffins.
He was in a deep state of confusion, his memories were disturbed by his long slumber and endless dreams, and the fragments of memories that remained in his mind were not enough to fully recall the memories that had passed for many years. But fortunately, an emotionless voice sounded.
"Executive Officer Chen Ziyou, hello, it is now 12387 AD, the year 387 of the new calendar, I will transfer your memories to your mind later, I am artificial intelligence zero, I am happy to serve you."
Two long pipes came out of the ice coffin that Chen Ziyou had just woken up from, and inserted them into Chen Ziyou's head, Chen Ziyou first felt a pinprick pain, and then his consciousness began to become clear, and those past memory fragments were connected, and he began to recall the past ten thousand years ago.
In 2200 A.D., after the third world war, human civilization collapsed, and the irretrievable natural environment caused the harsh living environment for human beings seemed to indicate that human civilization has come to an end, and various research data are constantly reminding that the time of human civilization is running out. In the earlier multinational talks, there were two main factions vying over how to ensure the survival of human civilization.
One group is the sleeping faction based on the existing mature cryonics technology, they advocate pooling all resources, selecting a group of people from the existing human beings and freezing them, and they will wake up thousands or even tens of thousands of years later, when the earth's environment has improved, and they will carry the memories of 10,000 years ago to rebuild human civilization.
The other faction relies on the emerging alien mothership technology and advocates doing everything possible to launch a mothership into outer space to find a new home for mankind and establish a new human civilization in that new home. This faction is known as the Mothership faction.
In the final meeting, the more conservative sleepers won a majority.
The Sleepers, who had received support, began to work around the clock to refine the plan.
First of all, under the multinational game, the number of sleeping places that each country can occupy has been determined, with China, the United States and Britain and other large countries getting the maximum quota of 100, and the rest of the countries ranging from 50 to 100.
The second problem to solve the problem of sleep time, under the data calculation, the maximum sleep time is 13267 years 213 days and 56 seconds, once this time has passed, in order to ensure the implementation of the plan, it is necessary to start forcibly closing some of the ice coffins to ensure the normal operation of the rest of the ice coffins, which is very cruel, because it means that some people will die suddenly in an unconscious state.
And in what time period of awakening is also an important technical difficulty, because even under the detection of the external environment of artificial intelligence, it is still impossible to ensure whether the earth's environment at that time is suitable for the survival and development of human beings, and this problem cannot be solved even in the end, and in the end it can only be judged by the external temperature at that time, which is also a major hidden danger of this plan.
But fortunately, the results of the study show that after 10,000 years, the probability of new humans appearing is more than 50%, so as long as regular global monitoring is carried out, it is clear whether new life has appeared on the earth at that time. On this basis, changes were made to the plan.
1. The ratio of men and women will be adjusted, because the first priority is no longer reproduction, so the original proportion of each will be adjusted by 50 percent, and men will account for the vast majority, because historically, men in ancient times enjoyed a greater voice in the old society.
2. Thousands of people do not have to wake up at the same time, their first task is not to survive and reproduce, they will be participants in the new human civilization to promote the development of the new civilization, every hundred years, the ice coffin will awaken 10 people from time to time, they as the fruit of the old civilization, the precursor of the new civilization, will stand at the forefront of the new civilization.
Thus, on the last night of mankind, the hope of thousands of selected civilizations of various countries fell into a deep sleep in the ice coffin.
At this point, the civilization restart plan was launched.
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Chen Ziyou, who recalled everything, opened his eyes, and he began to realize the burden on him at this moment.
He looked at the empty ice coffins around him, he didn't understand, those are people who have woken up, and now since it is 387 years of the new calendar, then many of them should have died, as the forerunner of civilization, and at the same time his predecessors, after 10,000 years, he lost his family and friends, and in this lonely era to bear the burden of civilization development, this has to be awe-inspiring. For them, what Chen Ziyou has to do at this moment is to do his best and live up to everything they have paid.
And those who have not yet woken up, Chen Ziyou doesn't know when they will wake up, maybe in the next second, maybe hundreds of years later, when he thinks of this, he is full of emotion.
At this time, the voice of artificial intelligence zero sounded again.
"Mr. Chen Ziyou, Executive Officer, your serial number is CN.036, please leave the sleeping room within 2 hours, there is a small intercontinental aircraft prepared for you outside, and you have only one mission, to do what you think is right for Chinese civilization."
Chen Ziyou took a long breath, he also understood that it was necessary to leave the sleeping chamber for two hours, the oxygen level here was too low.
As he was about to walk out of his sleeping chamber, Zero's voice began again.
"Artificial Intelligence Zero is over for you, and I wish you all the best."
Chen Ziyou's body trembled slightly, and he seemed to hear a trace of emotion from that simple sentence that should not belong to artificial intelligence.
There was a heavy snow outside, and Chen Ziyou knew that in order to maximize the implementation of the civilization restart plan and ensure the lowest outdoor temperature, the sleeping place was selected in Antarctica, where the temperature was extremely low.
And when Chen Ziyou stepped into this icy and snowy land, after a sound, the ground that should have been indestructible actually opened a slit, and a round egg-shaped human-sized mechanical ball rose to the ground, Lin Ziyou put his hand on the fingerprint unlock door outside the ball, the mechanical ball slowly opened, and Lin Ziyou walked in.
After a rumbling sound, the bottom of the mechanical ball erupted with red flames, like a meteor into the sky.
The cracks in the ground closed, as if nothing had ever happened.