Chapter 1 Preface

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"I hate being arranged, especially if I can't say no."

Lu Cheng looked at the rough sea and shouted angrily.

"Ding~ Dear player, please name your camp."

The system prompts the Nth pass.

Lu Cheng turned around impatiently, and in front of him was the completed camp council hall.

"I didn't expect this game to be quite conscientious, the game graphics are very realistic, it's really the same."

In 2100 AD, the population of the earth exceeded 15 billion, although human beings have opened up colonies on Mars, but because the natural conditions of Mars are not as ideal as predicted, the Martian climate modification plan led by the United States and Europe and other Western countries finally failed regrettably, and human beings have to turn their attention to habitable planets outside the solar system. For the sake of the continuation of the human race, dozens of major countries, including China, the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and India, which fought a non-nuclear war for 10 years at the end of the 21st century, have no choice but to unite to find a new homeland.

In 2120, jointly built by China and Russia, the survey telescope 6 in the orbit of Neptune found a suspected habitable planet 7 light years away, after more than 10 years of observation and demonstration, it was basically confirmed that this is a habitable planet with a mass of 1.7 times that of the earth and a surface area 30% larger than the earth, and through complex calculations, it was found that the ocean coverage of this planet has reached an astonishing more than 90%, and there is very little large land, and it is an ocean planet with islands all over the planet. In 2130, at the beginning of the century, the United Earth Government, formed by the former five permanent members of the United Nations, announced the name of the habitable planet Tylenol, codenamed E2, which means Earth 2.

After confirming that Tylenol is a habitable planet, the United Earth government immediately launched an ambitious interstellar colonization program, and thanks to technological advances, humans can build interstellar colonization ships that reach 20% of the speed of light. According to calculations, taking into account the time taken to accelerate and decelerate, it would take 45 years for the spacecraft to fly from the solar system to reach Tylenol.

Based on long-term research, scientists have come to the conclusion that at least 200 million people need to be sent to colonize Tylenol to ensure the continuity of civilization, otherwise colonization will lead to technological and cultural regression. The cost of a 45-year journey of 200 million people will be extremely staggering, even if the level of human space technology has improved a lot at this time, it is still unbearable, so scientists propose to hibernate the vast majority of colonists during the journey.

Ironically, the technical side of the problem was quickly resolved, but the political side became the final obstacle.

"Which country is in charge of this colonization project?"

The United States threw out the issue at the United Earth Government and demanded American-style cooking and freedom on the planet Tylenol, and submitted a detailed plan for the construction of the planet Tylenol at the plenary meeting, which in terms of politics almost replicated the existing political system of the United States.

China, Russia, India, and other countries almost immediately stood up against it, while Japan, Europe, and other countries, the younger brother of the United States, also jumped out to tear up with China, Russia, and India.

After several months of arguing, there was no sign of resolving the differences, except that the language was getting sharper and the movements were getting more and more rude. None of the countries obeyed anyone, and even in the end, conflicts and contradictions began to break out between the United States and Japan.

"If this continues, the United Earth Government will be finished sooner or later." Media reporters reached a consensus.

Just when the media was generally pessimistic, a turning point suddenly appeared. A proposal submitted by Science International was presented to both the United Earth Government and the major media outlets.

"Since everyone can't talk about it, it's better to let the colonizers choose for themselves."

That's what the proposal simply boils.

Science International is a non-governmental international alliance of scientists, whose members are top scientists from all over the world, and is a super-heavyweight multinational organization that plays an important role in the scientific community, although this organization has always been very low-key, and many people do not even know that this organization exists, but the influence of this organization is all over the world, mastering the world's most advanced technology and theory, and even the chief designer of the colonial spacecraft is one of the members of the organization.

The core content of the proposal submitted by Science International is a game, the name is very simple "Ocean-Century", the Chinese name "Ocean Century", this is a virtual reality construction game, commonly known as the farming game, the game map is set according to the speculation of the surface of the planet Tailen, composed of many large and small lands and islands.

After the colonists enter hibernation, they will enter the game through brainwave connection technology, and after 45 years of journey to reach Tylenol, they will determine their position in Tylenol according to the comprehensive score of each player in the game.

This game is supervised by the wisdom of the colonial spaceship, including the map and other settings are randomly generated by the wisdom brain, and does not accept any external modifications after generation, and the core player comprehensive evaluation system is gradually modified and improved by the wisdom brain according to the progress of the game.

When the plan was first launched, most governments made it clear that they would not accept a game to determine the governance system of Techlenol, which seemed very naïve and ridiculous.

However, as time went on, all other solutions were rejected, and Science International continued to promote the plan on various occasions and in the media, detailing the technical details and design concept of the proposal, the media and scholars gradually accepted Science International's idea, and governments began to seriously consider the feasibility of the proposal after weighing the pros and cons.

In 2136, at a joint meeting of the plenary, Science International's proposal was formally adopted with 102 votes in favor, 46 against and 47 abstentions.

While there were still quarrels on the ground, the construction of the colony spacecraft in the asteroid belt was not affected in any way, and it was still progressing in an orderly manner. In 2139, the colony ship slowly left the dock and was officially delivered.

Named "Hope", the colony ship is a cylindrical giant spaceship, 10 kilometers long and 3 kilometers in diameter, and the Hope is divided into more than 300 cylindrical partitions, of which more than 100 partitions are covered with hibernation chambers, and the maximum number of people is 330 million.

After more than 4 years of sea trials in the solar system, Hope embarked on a journey to Tylenol in 2145 with 300 million colonists selected by various countries after a thorough inspection and adjustment of equipment and technical performance.

At this time, Lu Cheng, who was only 25 years old, was a colonizer from China, because China undertook more than 20% of the construction tasks, so China won the largest number of colonists in the world, with a quota of 50 million, followed by: a total of 50 million in European countries, 30 million in the United States, 20 million in India, 20 million in Russia, 10 million in Japan, 15 million in Brazil, 10 million in Indonesia, 10 million in Pakistan, 5 million in Vietnam, and a total of 5 million in North Korea and South Korea. 5 million in Iran and 70 million in other countries.

In the end, the quota was distributed according to the proportion of the construction task, and at the same time, taking into account the limited strength of many weak and small countries, a certain quota was allocated to small and weak countries, such as Pakistan, where more than half of the 10 million quotas were given by China.

Since the colonization is a distant exoplanet, unless there is a special talent, the vast majority of young people who can have children under the age of 35 are mainly single and family members in consideration of social problems.

Most of the 300 million colonists are civilians, and after passing the physical and cultural checks, they enter the shortlist and determine the final colonist list through random selection, although each country will leave some places for specific people, such as Lu Chengcheng is the internal candidate, but he is not the internal candidate of China.

Lu Cheng is one of the youngest scientists in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, most scientists will only have relatively large achievements in a single field, and Lu Cheng is different, he graduated with a doctorate at the age of 18, and has obtained a lot of research results in less than 5 years, and has made outstanding contributions in the field of intelligence, high-energy physics and even astronomy, and is one of the official members of the international organization of science, and the youngest member of the organization.

But these are not the reasons why he became the candidate, and the real reason is that he is the core code designer of the Hope intelligent computer "Zhizi No. 1".

Zhizi No. 1 is an artificial intelligence that highly simulates human thinking, as a core code designer, Lu Cheng knows that although Zhizi No. 1 is not a real self-aware artificial intelligence now, but because she has the ability to quickly self-improve, after a long period of contact with humans, there will still be a small chance of realizing the awakening of self-consciousness, and this is also the deep-seated reason why Science International's plan was adopted, due to the fear of public panic, this information has not been publicly publicized, and only the high-level leaders of major countries know the truth.

And the reason why Lu Cheng is determined is to let him observe and stimulate the growth of Zhizi 1, and at the same time control the sword of Damocles, if he finds that the awakened Zhizi 1 has anti-human tendencies, he will implement a destruction plan to eliminate Zhizi 1. And these are known only to Lu Cheng and Ike Daru, the chief designer of the Hope, and only the chief designer knows that Lu Cheng is the core code designer of Zhizi 1.

"Ah, dear Lu, I am too old to hang up at any time, and I am not suitable for such a long journey, so this difficult task is left to the young man to complete."

Ike Daru said with a smile as he lay on his sickbed, and then hung up in a few days.

Therefore, only Lu Cheng himself knows his mission: the 300 million and 1st colonist of the Hope, who controls the power of life and death of the brain.

Ike Daru, your uncle's !!

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