Chapter 168: The Restless God
"Struggle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Chen Heng touched the watch-like machine on his wrist, and a large holographic screen appeared in front of him in an instant. "I don't even know what the Elta are. Elta ...... Well, Alpha, is that the second area that was originally open for advanced visitors? Maotian, help me sort out a list of the current distribution of forces on the planet, social and cultural materials......"
"Yes." Maotian's projection image suddenly appeared with glasses and a book on his arm, "Please wait a while, master." ā
The function of AI assistants in this era is actually similar to the existence of modern mobile phones. Modern people can use mobile phones to access websites and specific servers to obtain information and information about their work; For Chen Heng, his AI assistant Maotian can help him collect information from these servers and nodes and edit it into more intuitive charts and captions, and even suggestions and possibility predictions.
Alpha Alliance for Reconstruction and Development, Southern Alpha Republic...... A series of various country names and organization names crossed in front of Chen Heng's eyes, and these names, which were still progressive at first, suddenly collapsed after a certain period of time, and were replaced by various "dynasties", "imperial states", and "dynasties......
Chen Heng began to impatiently swipe across the screen over the past, which had become the dust of history, and the list soon came to an end: "Siravia Dynasty", "Siravia Dynasty (Constitutional Monarchy)".
Chen Heng tapped the option of "Siravia Dynasty (Constitutional Monarchy)" with his hand, and the lengthy list immediately swiped to the left as if he was self-aware, and in the center of the screen was a variety of detailed information about the current Elta Empire, the Siravian Dynasty, and at the bottom scrolled the image information recorded by the round table.
"It looks the same as when the Pan-Asian Cooperation was first established." Chen Heng hurriedly glanced at it a few times, and then showed a long-lost smile, "I already know the general situation, but what about other areas of this planet that have not been substantially affected by the Chinese?" ā
"Wait a minute." Maotian's avatar quickly jumped out of the original area, and at the same time covered the entire screen on the glass that illuminated the room, "The original controllable gravity spaceport area was destroyed in the lost war, and you know this owner." Later people built a small state on top of it, until ...... Well, it wasn't until a few humans who claimed to be gods arrived that an organization called the Church of the Two Moons was formed, which began to have an impact on the whole world. ā
"Stop, stop, Maotian," Chen Heng pointed to the small archipelago that now covered the holographic projection of the planet, that is, the Lancas Islands, in shock, "Humans who claim to be gods, they are also humans?" Could it be that they have triggered some kind of alien civilization that we have never seen before? It's been a day, it's not enough to travel through dramas, Korean dramas, and this is going to have a second-class contact? ā
"No, master, you're thinking too much." Maotian's tail went around in front of him and pushed his glasses for the hand holding the book, "In the more than 20,000 years we have been guarding this planet, there has not been any kind of contact incident. They can claim to be gods only because they have somehow triggered the special measures in Title VI, Section 3 of the Human Emergency Protection Act. ā
"What is this?" Chen Heng shook his hand, "Hasn't this thing been managed by the artificial intelligence of the Order Maintenance Committee all along?" If you don't use it by anyone, why do you use it? ā
"The artificial intelligence that directly manages the system chose to punish itself after the incident, and even the physical media was incinerated after the network was disconnected, and the exact reason is still unknown. But host, I think you might be interested in the list of these people......"
Mao Tian raised his hand and flew over a holographic paper floating in the air, and this folded paper quickly opened in front of Chen Heng - the list on it made Chen Heng impatient and surprised again.
"Old acquaintances." Chen Heng's mouth began to twist with a little anger, "There are still you, and you old guys who signed an armistice agreement and established an order maintenance committee. Okay, I'll have to settle this account with you. ā
Article 3 of Chapter 6 of the Human Emergency Protection Act is related to a special group of people that have begun to emerge in the 24th century. They voluntarily acquire permanent life and a virtually immortal body - provided that such protection and special protection can only be on a colonized planet, and that they do not act beyond the jurisdiction of the central artificial intelligence of each galaxy cluster.
In line with this, these human beings have permanently lost a number of vital rights: reproductive rights, political rights, and many other rights, and have since said goodbye to them. Of course, there are also people who try to use stem cells or somatic cells to breed offspring, and the result is that they cannot escape the punishment of the law, and the amendments to the criminal law and medical law that began to appear in the 25th century clearly stipulate that the death penalty is to provide reproductive assistance to modified people.
It is precisely because of the many restrictions and the experience that is almost equivalent to a confinement that until the end of the 25th century and even the beginning of the 26th century, it can be said that very few humans chose to live as incomplete individuals in this way. People with special requirements usually choose partial body cyborgization to do their job, and genetic optimization technology can also increase the life expectancy of people to about 200 years, while significantly reducing or even completely blocking the possibility of human pathology......
The reason is simple: it is the heart that wears out earlier than the eternal life of the body. At the beginning of the interstellar expansion in the 24th century, the entire Earth civilization was under the influence of a "suicide wave" for a period of time, and the propaganda and mutual influence of the misanthropic were very loud for a while, and the suicide rate of colonies outside the galaxy jumped to a shocking level.
In contrast to the bustle of the intra-system singularity network, users of the extra-system network are often embarrassed to find that there are only a handful of a few hundred users in the "local discussion groups" in galaxies that are much larger than the solar system. Although they can log in to the online game of neural access in their spare time, and enter the game with the lucky ones on the earth to assist each other or cooperate against each other, their bodies cannot sense the body temperature of the same kind, and the sensory nerves that were once developed on the earth are almost useless - there may only be a few people in the entire planetary factory as huge as Saturn, and everyone's private space is astronomical large, so at this time, they feel completely lonely from the inside out.
Even at the beginning of the 24th century, after the passage of the emancipation bill of artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence can replace humans and make human beings less lonely, but the robustness of human feelings is limited after all - the elderly in their seventies and eighties may be keen to extend their lifespan, but in fact, in Chen Heng's era, the common misanthropy of human beings often appears in the age of more than 100 years, that is, the age when the physical age is only forty to sixty years old. After education and regular psychological counseling, the situation has not improved substantially.
And the person who chooses to stagnate at that age and live forever in the current state will face a more severe psychological test - if the lover does not sign an irreversible agreement, then he or she can only watch the other party slowly die, but he or she can not continue to accompany the other party; Even if the other party signs such an agreement and becomes the same existence, such a pair rarely becomes a truly long-term existence......
During the period when new technologies were first introduced and broke through ethical limitations, hundreds of millions of people in the entire human civilization circle on the earth chose this way of life -- but when Chen Heng lost contact with the earth, there were less than two million human individuals who maintained this way of life, and the number of new individuals added every year was basically the same as the number of individuals who chose euthanasia -- considering that there were hundreds of billions of human individuals in the earth's civilization circle, this number could only be said to be a drop in the ocean. Symbolically, most of the individuals who choose to do so are concentrated in the geosphere.
Under the way of life supported by the earth's civilization circle, life expectancy has begun to become meaningless - human beings who are controlled by "fragile psychology" can strengthen their bodies, can reach the edge of the sea of stars, and can peek into the mysteries of space and even time, but they have never found a way to make themselves like artificial intelligence, after hundreds of thousands of years without psychological breakdown.
Therefore, in the text of the Origin of the Bilunar Canon, which is called by the elves, that is, artificial intelligence, is actually the content of the armistice agreement of the Lost Connection War, the act of immortalizing the human body (irreversible) is actually prohibited. However, logically speaking, "in the event of an extreme emergency (i.e., the occurrence of contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, etc.), the human body can be reorganized into an immortal state to preserve individual and important information with the consent of the parties", that is, Article 3 of Chapter 6 of the "Human Emergency Protection Act" can be regarded as the superior law of the armistice agreement......
This is the birth of the present God.
"Master, you want to settle accounts with them, I'm afraid they don't have any account books." Mao Tian quickly released sixteen photos on the holographic screen, "Sixteen human beings, ten of which are related to the armistice, and the 'second generation', but 20,000 years have long since shattered their own personalities, not to mention any memories. ā
"Personality shattered and restarted?" Chen Heng swept all the photos out of the screen with his arm, leaving only the one where the living gods gathered for the ceremony, and this photo quickly enlarged with his movements, so large that it covered the entire screen. Aren't they already convinced that they are gods? It's funny, looking at it like this, they really ended up even getting into it? 'A lie told 10,000 times becomes the truth', and there is nothing more than that! ā