2 Serious buildings in a serious universe

Another 67 days after passing through the wormhole.

When I woke up from the hibernation pod, I couldn't believe I had really slept for 2000 years, and when the AI routinely said hello to me, it felt like the last time we had a conversation happened yesterday. The furnishings in the room have not even changed in appearance, and it is worthy of the equipment with a standard age of 100,000 years.

The AI says that the "capsule system" is now connected to the Watcher, and that the automatic conveyor is transporting the books in the storage room to the various "capsules", and I remember that those books are a collection of three Verne novels in English ("Around the Earth in Eighty Days", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"), and the information shows that these books are printed on paper and ink made of special materials, and can be preserved for hundreds of thousands of years without deliberate destruction.

Saivia was still reading as usual, and to my surprise and puzzlement, he could call me by name! It should have been the AI that told him. Mike is now out of hibernation pod, and together we will go to see the results of the "terraforming" of the 11 planets.

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It has to be said that the scanning and monitoring of these planets by AI is terrifyingly meticulous, and from the results obtained so far, the "terraforming" is very successful, and the 11 planets have reached the natural environment level of the early Holocene, and all the data can meet the "seeding" work of the new human beings.

Mike and I both agreed that this was the time to start the next phase, and the AI's advice was that this phase should be repeated for three cycles to see results, i.e. 24 years. But I'm very confident in the implementation of the current plan, so we both think that instead of confirming whether the new human civilization has been colonized after three cycles, we can go directly to hibernate until 2000 years later and see what they will look like!

The AI agrees with us, but to be on the safe side, it will always monitor the situation on each planet and automatically wake us up if there is anything abnormal. As for Sevia, let him stay as he is. To be honest, once again I doubt the necessity of our coming here, alas, and I do regret it a little.

The "capsule system" will depart tomorrow to officially begin the work of "sowing new human beings". During this time and in the next few days, I want to take a good look at the details of these 11 planets.

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If it hadn't been for Sevia reminding me, I would have almost overlooked this interesting detail. In the process of "terraforming", many genes of animals and plants have been put into the process, ensuring that the natural environment on the 11 planets is consistent with that of the earth. However, in some planets, a small number of animals and plants have actually experienced large-scale atavism in the process of growth and reproduction, resulting in the emergence of many strange creatures! There are currently archival artifacts similar to saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, and large pterosaurs (Archaeopteryx?). Could it be that giant creatures resembling a 17-meter-long dinosaur in the sea are the ancestors of whales? There are ...... in terms of plants

Mike thinks that it is not surprising that there is such a biological mutation or atavism, which is also in line with the law of natural selection. But when I didn't think it would be possible to make such a huge difference in just 2,000 years, Mike thought it could be that the genes were already affected by the environment...... Although the two of us debated this issue for a long time, it was still inconclusive.

In the end, the two of us asked the AI about its judgment on this issue, and it prevaricated us with the imperfection of the relevant information. Alas, it's really a machine style.

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Tomorrow Mike and I will go into hibernation again, this time in 2000, but the AI will wake us up when it says something is wrong. It may be the previous experience, this hibernation, I completely lost the nervous feeling I had before, and the thing that I slept for 2000 years was able to make me so calm for the second time, and there will be a third and fourth time in the future...... Although there is an inexplicable feeling, after all, this is our duty.

I asked Mike what he thought of our current state, and he replied to me "The Watcher is a serious building in a serious universe", and I said are you comparing us to prisoners in Azkaban, he glanced at me and said nothing, and continued to watch his movie. Sevia reminded me that I wasn't right, I didn't really care, we had a much richer life than prisoners, after all, we had a future to look forward to.

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4,000 years and 101 days after passing through the wormhole

If the time shown on the screen is correct, it proves that the work of "sowing new humans" has been successfully completed, and it should now be the "development" stage.

Sure enough, the AI quickly reported to me on the development of "nascent human civilizations" on 11 planets. Not surprisingly, the new human civilizations on all 11 planets have entered the "development" stage, but the data scores have not met expectations. According to Gao Jie's computer simulations when the "Stars Project" was formulated, it will take about 3,000 to 4,000 years for the development level of new human civilization on a planet to reach more than 70 percent, and then the "test" stage can be started, but the current data shows that after 2,000 years of development, the highest level of development among these 11 planets is only 29 percent, can this really complete the development level of 70 percent within 4,000 or even 5,000 years? Even if there is a development situation where some technological explosion occurs with development, it is a matter of luck.

The slower than expected level of development is not a good thing for us. If every 1,000 years from "sowing" to "harvesting" is completed, this cycle will be 4 to 5 days for the other side of the earth, and it seems that it doesn't matter for a few days, but it can add up to a lot, and six or seven cycles will delay the earth for a month, and for the upcoming invasion of the Nt fleet, this delay will be very deep......

No, I need to ask the AI to analyze the cause for me right away.

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Maybe it's because of the confusion that makes me feel like it's because of the heavy information, maybe it's the distance that affects the accuracy of the information, maybe it's the most representative...... The AI only showed me information about one planet.

This planet, numbered Planet 10 by me, is slightly less than three-quarters the size of Earth, is very close to our space station, and is the last planet visited by the Capsule System on each trip, and it takes at least 4 months to reach the Watcher, and 6 months at most. It is worth mentioning that the territory of Planet 10 is also the closest to Earth.

The information shows that after the "sowing" is completed, the new human beings form settlements in various places at a very fast speed, and soon unite into a nation. Gene editing technology is engraved in the DNA of newborn human beings with language ability (Chinese), knowledge and wisdom to help them build their respective civilizations at an incredible speed, and although the initial base is not large enough, the future development prospects will be worth looking forward to over time.

So why is it that the level of development has risen more slowly than expected?

Because while the new human beings have played to their human strengths, they have also inherited and repeated the mistakes that human beings have made in history. Humanity has a sense of cooperation and solidarity, but also a despicable nature of cannibalism, and even if it does not encounter natural disasters and perish like Loulan or Pompeii, humanity will struggle, rise, weaken, and wear out in the constant killing - and the new humanity is no exception.

Planet 10, which has undergone nearly 2,000 years of development, has been fighting each other on several major continents similar to the Warring States period in Japan, where countless people, civilizations, and resources have been devoured by wars for many years. I even have a concern: Will these new human beings have come to worship war as a kind of life faith? If you lose war, you lose the meaning of life? - In the history of mankind, such concerns are highly likely.

This is true of Planet 10, and the other planets should be similar.

It's ridiculous that the new humans we have worked so hard to sow through the wormhole are constantly killing each other and consuming themselves meaninglessly. Even if they are preserved in the end, they will be harvested by us...... Woe!

I finally understood what Mike was saying: this is the universe in earnest, this is in the realm of architecture.

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The AI had no way to detect the number, degree, and efficiency of the development of N particle control instructions, and there was no obvious anomaly or information on the surface of the planet that was transmitted, and some of them were only obscured by endless gunsmoke.

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In fact, to put it another way, this kind of situation of conflict among nations has also appeared on the earth, and many times, so how did humanity end this situation?

One of the more common is of course the sudden rise of a country or power, and finally the annexation of most countries, which has been exemplified in the history of many countries - our China is the most representative example. This situation is inseparable from the emergence of heroes or great men, and judging from the 800 years of war on Planet 10, at least during this period, there are no people or groups that have influenced the direction of the whole world.

It is also possible that with the development of science and technology and the disappearance of small countries, several medium-sized countries have achieved mutual restraint and fighting without breaking, just like the development of civilization on earth, where all countries eventually return to cooperation...... Never mind.

However, my fear is also very likely that many small countries will continue to fight back and forth, and no one country will be able to achieve a decisive victory, and it will only be a new force to continue the struggle in place of the old one. However, if you are optimistic, this will also lead to the development of human weakness, and the possibility of war is still quite large. Of course, various natural disasters will also affect the direction of development, and the specific probability cannot be predicted.

If we do something to accelerate the progress of the "development" phase, will some of the above situations arise sooner? It's not impossible, like history, if there are no heroes and great men, we can "make" heroes and great men! Such an intervention would have an accelerated effect, but the question arises: how to implement it?

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Mike agrees with me that it is a very effective way to educate a small number of formal or potential national leaders on some planets during the "development" phase (provided they are willing), and to give advanced knowledge, ideas, ideas, and even direct technology to a small number of countries to rise and eventually become a dominant power. After all, we can't control the environment, and we can't make the difference between winning and losing a battle on the space station.

But we can interfere and influence the development of the entire planet.

If you look at it this way, the next step becomes clear: how to intervene and educate?

Mike's answer surprised me—

- Use the "Hermit".