According to Miss Artificial Intelligence, the machinery known as the "ultra-micro universal machine" was first independently developed and developed by the Spring and Autumn Group in Asia.

Between 2050 and 2300, there will be 23 large-scale nuclear wars around the world, so that the entire biosphere has been severely damaged, with unimaginable changes, the atmosphere and water have been polluted with massive amounts of radioactive fallout, natural disasters have been frequent, and the radiation levels in human settlements have exceeded normal ranges, so that people have to live in places called 'greenhouse cities'. And people who live in the rest of the world do not live longer than twenty years.

In this context, the purpose of the first generation of ultra-micromachinery was to go where humans cannot, and to remove pollution and remediate the environment far beyond the efficiency of human labor.

Surprisingly, the first generation of ultra-micromachinery completed this task more smoothly than planned, and people at that time regained the clear water, green mountains, blue sky and white clouds.

Subsequently, with the full support of the Earth government, the second generation of ultra-micromachinery was born, which is built on the basis of the mature 'Metaverse', which officially realizes the global coverage sensor network and adds a variety of composite functions. In the decades that followed, the second generation of machines was widely used, and countless functional modules were added, eventually making ultra-micromachines more powerful and convenient, replacing most of the tools made by humans in the past.

In short, people can use the network to instruct ultra-micromachines to carry out almost all of the production activities that alter the natural world to meet the needs of life. Whether it's manufacturing, sabotage, or analysis, the labor model of the past has been completely replaced. Therefore, ultra-micro machinery is also called "universal machine".

In the decades that followed, the third generation of ultra-micromachinery, which added self-propagation and environmental adaptation to the world, covered more than 20 percent of the lithosphere, more than 50 percent of the hydrosphere, and more than 7 percent of the atmosphere, which were once inaccessible to humans, and now people can do things that seemed unthinkable in the past: for example, flying high in the sky without an airplane, swimming into the depths of the ocean without a submarine, You don't need to keep warm to walk on the North Pole. The Supermicro Universal Machine gave humans the all-powerful power to do whatever they wanted, making them infinitely close to the gods of religion for the first time.

Other cumbersome and incompetent tools are naturally discarded and can only be used as collections in museums that symbolize the evolution of history.

"It sounds like a utopian ......"

Richard couldn't help but sigh.

Although he was stunned by the various strange and difficult words that popped out of the mouth of the demon god and the extremely surprising history of social development, Richard was still gradually immersed in the girl's description of the future world.

It was an incredible, unbelievable world where all human dreams came true in the blink of an eye. Of course, he is well aware that it will take hundreds of years of hard work for dozens of generations to achieve the ultimate goal, but for Richard, an "ancient man" who lived in the first half of the 21st century, the narration of artificial intelligence can indeed be called "blink of an eye".

"Utopia?"

Once again, the demon god tilted her head slightly with a blank face—it seemed that this was a sign that she was expressing her doubts. The other party shook his head and replied, "No, it's far from the 'utopia' in the data. ”

"Why?"

Richard was stunned for a moment.

"Didn't you say that everyone in that era could make their wishes come true?"

"No, it's just that all legal citizens have this 'possibility'. Although people no longer need labor and tools, they need network resources to control machinery, and the more difficult it is to achieve and the greater the environmental impact, the greater the resources will be occupied. The demon god replied, "And controlling the vast network resources requires higher authority. ”

According to the description of the other party, the future society will also have a clear hierarchy. Citizens are determined by their social class based on their level of authority in the online world. Innate intelligence and birth will also affect everyone's future, and this hierarchical system of complete isolation from superiors and subordinates may be more strict than I imagined.

"Okay......"

Richard shrugged his shoulders with some regret. However, this is to be expected, and no matter how much the power of the human race has taken a leap, there has never been a fundamental change in human nature. In this way, the real futuristic world is exactly the same as the cyberpunk era described in science fiction.

For this Demon God Miss who was summoned by himself but claimed to be a super AI, of course he wouldn't easily believe her words at the beginning. But at this time, Richard, who had been thinking calmly, had actually gradually changed his mind.

The reason is very simple: the people of the future era described by the "Demon God" control the "ultra-micro universal machine" through the "virtual network", while the wizards and knights of today manipulate the "magic element" through the "magic network", and people of different levels of authority can only mobilize the corresponding level of network, just like the magic power of wizards of different levels......

There seems to be a huge gap between the two worlds, but this is only a superficial impression; In terms of the most fundamental worldview, there is a clear correspondence between the two, and it is not quite a coincidence to think about it.

Richard thought of one more thing. Speaking of which, isn't the "archetype" needed by wizards to cast spells just some kind of command? Mobilizing the power (network resources) of the magic net (network) through the prototype (command), everything is logical, but he never thought in that direction.

"The so-called 'spiritual world' is ......"

"Its official name is 'Hyper Metaverse'. That's where I'm now, sir. ”

Richard nodded thoughtfully. He had heard of this concept before, the so-called "super-metaverse", which is a shared virtual space built on the basis of the Internet with the help of various augmented reality technologies and virtual reality technologies, a new world with complete spatial perception and physical rules. In short, it is an upgraded version of the "Internet" of Richard's time. Of course, this thing is also what I thought would only appear in science fiction.

"I have one more question for you. By the way, what's your name? Is there a name? ”

"Just call me by my code name."

"It's called 'real name'."

What a quirky name, Richard thought to himself.

"Miss Real Name, what role did you play in the original world? In this day and age, it seems that you are seen as a spiritual ...... I mean, the highest-ranking being in the Transcendent Realm, call you the Demon God. ”