5 There is nothing in the desert

I didn't press it in the end.

I don't trust Sevia because he's a clone, not a real human.

But what really angered me was because he was so much like a human being—the kind of person who doesn't stick to a fixed pattern, who is improvised, who knows how to look at things with a developmental perspective, and who understands the importance of inheritance...... These are all robots, no, they are all custom-made lifeforms like clones, which are very difficult to have.

The sanity in my heart suppressed my anger for a moment, especially as I checked the information log of Capsule 1, which confirmed that Sevia was not lying to us.

Maybe he really has as many possibilities as humans?

Mike acknowledged that I didn't press the button impulsively, but it wasn't necessary, and the survival pod would automatically clear and reset the memory after the corresponding number of uses. Yesterday we talked a lot about how to move forward with the plan, and although I thought it would be safer to go straight to the future and wait for the results, he insisted on striking while the iron was hot and continued to send Sevia to Planet 10.

Where else to go and what to do? Mack explains that while the knowledge imparted by the "hermits" can influence generations, the power of books is needed to keep these classics alive. So he hoped that when Sevia visited Planet 10 this time, he would carry with him those books that recorded classical theories—they were available in the warehouse, and they could also be printed.

I had thought of something like "airdropping books" to accelerate the development of a new civilization, but I had to give up because there was too much uncertainty. But now it is different, with the experience of Sevia's successful "hermit", with the help of his selective promotion of these literatures, it should be possible to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

If it had been before my last hibernation, I would have firmly rejected the proposal, and now I don't have too many worries. Sevia has already proven his quality, and while he can't completely let go yet, the overall process is something to look forward to.

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There is no need to retrain without erasing his memory, and after Sevia came out of the survival pod, the traces of these 16 years of life disappeared from his body, but not from his expression, language, and attitude. It may be that the control of emotions is not very smooth, Sevia often shows very exaggerated expressions and emotions, the more obvious of which is his kind of smug performance, consciously superior, especially when he narrates the lecture on Planet 10 to those newborn humans, he seems to have blindly admired himself to the extreme, even if he intends to restrain himself, his expression betrays his pride and arrogance, I have even heard him call those newborn humans "guinea pigs"! Even if he has this kind of capital, this mentality cannot be easily demonstrated. I brought this up to him, and he explained that because he was created without emotion, he couldn't express it as naturally as a normal person, and had no choice but to express it in this almost exaggerated form—at least from a normal person's eyes. But he also said don't worry, he can hide such emotions through his acting skills, and I am skeptical. (This paragraph is a foreshadowing of Saivia's mood swings)

After that, Sevia inputs the four N-particle control commands he has mastered into the PDA, and the AI will change the new information to binary code and Morse code, and then turn on the communication device to the maximum power and send these messages to the direction of the wormhole. Because this kind of high-power communication consumes a lot of electricity, even high-precision equipment such as the Overwatch space station will reduce its lifespan, so it is only used when transmitting N particle control commands, and the same is true for Minerva on the other side of the wormhole. The message passes through a wormhole, and due to the interference of strong gravity and strong magnetic fields, perhaps the earth can only receive some fragments of words, but fortunately they are all English words, and a complete word or sentence can be deduced without one or two letters, but too long sentences will not work - alas, leave it to fate.

Mike seems to be designing some kind of instrument, according to him, to combine a "visual jammer" and a nanobot control device into one, with other functions, and it is obvious that he is preparing for Sevia's next departure.

Based on the results of Saivia's report, the AI selected 20 titles based on the current development status of Planet 10, including books on literature, mathematics, art (nine major arts, including games), politics, history, and popular science. I suspect that the AI humor mechanism played a role, and these 20 books contain some children's books: "Alice in Wonderland", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "The Wind in the Willows", ...... I feel like the last time I heard these names was when I was in the second grade of elementary school, and I wanted to remove these inconsequential (and literary) fairy tales from the catalog, well...... Forget it. (Do you remember what Erin's favorite book is called~)

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Mike told me that his device was built again, and that he had scrapped several designs and built a few prototypes that were prone to failures in the past few days, and that while our consumables could be recycled, I still wanted him to finish it as soon as possible so that I could sleep without the slightest noise.

Still, Mike's new cube mechanism struck me, judging by the reflected light, made of nitinol; In addition to the bottom surface, there are three to five joysticks distributed on the other five faces, most of which can only be adjusted in a forward-backward, up-and-down, horizontal and vertical manner from the interface point of view, while two of the joysticks on the cube appear to be joysticks that can be rotated in all directions, and each joystick has its role or function written in English. All in all: very textured, very old, I almost thought it was the console of an old-fashioned crane.

The device does exactly what Mike designed: visual distractions, controlling nanobots, solar charging. Mike equipped it with at least two 3D printers, which made it not portable enough, so the device should be fixed somewhere or in the building. The joystick was used to cater to the current state of the art of Planet 10, otherwise the holographic projection buttons that were too sci-fi would have left the nascent humans dumbfounded after only 2,000 years of development. This is also due to the fact that the device should be relatively simple to operate, and easy to use for the newborn humans who will continue to act as "hermits" in Sevia's absence.

If it was just the integration of the two functions, it wouldn't have delayed Mike for so long, and this machine obviously has a mystery, and under my questioning, Mike showed me an important new feature he added to the nanobot: real-time video. This is not a new technology, it is the use of nanorobots to form optical sensors to achieve live broadcast of images, the player is installed in front of this cube, probably to save electricity, Mike uses a low-tech projector, although there are shortcomings such as unclear images and limited light in the field, but as long as it can meet the work needs on Planet 10, it is enough. Mike showed me how he manipulated the nanobot in and out of the "capsule system", and the projector gave a first-person real-time view of the whole process, and the overall effect was satisfying. When I proposed to allow nanobots to enter and leave the space station to take space images, Mike decisively rejected my idea because it was too risky.

I'm very concerned about a small chance event: could someone, primarily Sevia, use the device to attack the Overwatch or hinder the "harvest"? Mike said that he had already taken this into account, so he added an order to "prohibit attacks on the Overwatch and its associated personnel and equipment" when designing the core of the device, so that even if it operated independently, there was no possibility of harming us, which was very reassuring.

After the final adjustments, Mike sent the instrument to Capsule 1, and I was finally able to clean up the rest of the day.

But I always felt like Mike had added other features to the instrument, but he always did—I didn't ask, he didn't say.

(This device, we've seen it in the desert before, right~)

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Sevia showed me a map of Planet 10, and he set the site for his next landing in a coastal desert, just west of the isolated island where he had last been a "hermit". He plans to build a settlement in the middle of the desert after landing, and to place and activate the instruments made by Mike to make people who enter the desert hallucinate a sandstorm, so that they cannot enter the center of the desert by land. At the same time, he will deliberately leave a path along the coast that is not affected by "visual jammers", so that the newborn humans can enter the settlement by sea.

I have to say that this design of his is very creative, and it is more mysterious than that "lonely island hermit". I suggested that Savia could build a lighthouse or similar marker along the coast while the settlement was being built, so that those who came to study would not feel dangerous, otherwise "hermit" would become synonymous with death. Sevia agreed with my suggestion and said that a stone path would be paved in the desert from the sea to the settlement for the convenience of visitors. Hmph, it's digested very quickly! Brat.

When I asked Sevia how he solved the problem of survival in the desert, he mentioned solutions such as groundwater, dew collectors, fruits and vegetables suitable for growing in the desert (such as desert melons), raising poultry, etc...... He's definitely read a lot of books about it anyway, and I don't think I have to worry too much about it. To be on the safe side, I suggested that he make sure that there were no other people living in the desert, to which he replied, "There is nothing in the desert,and no man needs nothing."

(The above content can be found in the fourth and fifth parts)

There are still three days left before his departure, and with his first experience, I think he should be able to continue to deal with things on Planet 10.

Another 132 days in 4016 after passing through the wormhole, Sevia set off again on the "Capsule System" and started the journey of the next 16 years.

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4032 years after passing through the wormhole, another 98 days

Not long after we woke up from the hibernation pod, the "capsule system" returned, and as usual, Sevia still had to enter the survival pod first to repair the body tissue. I took this time to check the current situation of Planet 10: the overall development level of the planet has reached 32%, which means that the development level of the planet has increased by more than 2% in the past 32 years, and the highest level of the other ten planets has only increased by 1%. From this point of view, the credit of Sevia as a "hermit" is obvious...... Really, I'm so disgusted with clones.

- That's ...... Can you give him control of the space station with confidence?