Chapter Seventy-Five: The Gods
"Play the rest?"
A deep man's voice rang out suddenly, attracting everyone's attention on the platform at the top of the Tower of Babel.
The voice came from within the Kabbalah Tree of Life, the trunk of the tree, which was composed entirely of strains, slowly splitting, emitting a warm glow across its sections.
A man walked out.
He was extremely tall, strong, and had grayish-blue skin, and was clad in armor of unknown material only at the joints of his torso.
An indescribable majesty lingered beside him, and he simply stood there like a towering monument.
The four knights bowed down to him in unison, with a reverent and humble attitude, and he just waved his hand nonchalantly to get the four knights to their feet from the ground.
He looked around and glanced calmly.
The sense of intimidation came to the face, and the profit and harm avoidance genes engraved in the instinct of the organism made the hands and feet of the Avengers members tremble slightly, their backs tingle as if flowing with electricity, and their scalps tingled as if they were about to burst, and they all avoided looking directly at him.
"Hello, I'm Apocalypse."
The gray-blue man looked at Li Ang, who was the only one who could remain peaceful, and said indifferently, "Can you tell me what you think?" ”
"Absolutely."
Leon smiled and rubbed his hands, in his spiritual sense, the apocalypse was like a torch in the night, emitting suffocating light and heat.
Judging from the energy contained in the body alone, the magnitude of the apocalypse even exceeds that of the Hulk and Thor in the Avengers.
"First of all, the homeland, as a perfect form of organization painstakingly created by Your Excellency, is essentially a utopian concept."
"In the art of Thomas More, the founder of utopian socialism, in his "Useful and Interesting Complete Book on the Most Complete State System and the New Island of Utopia",
It is a fictional form of utopia as a form of society, that is, the common ownership of property, the exclusion of oppression, the equality of all, the distribution according to need, and the stripping of private ownership. ”
"Since then, the word utopia has been used to describe an ideal community built through a specific noble concept, such as justice, freedom, and democracy.
As time went on, socialism entered the historical arena, and utopianism quickly changed from a mere social idea to a point of contention about socialism and its possibilities. ”
Everyone present nodded, as the world's lighthouse and the bridgehead of capitalism, Bald Eagle is extremely concerned about domestic ideological teachings, and has maintained guidance and teachings for the people for a long time, and is no stranger to these contents.
"Then, dystopian theories appeared on the stage of history, whether it was Butler's "Land of Nothing", Huxley's "Brave New World", or Orwell's "1984", all of which believed that utopias contained more terrible nightmares, and that no utopia could be realized.
Li Ang spread his hands and said casually: "I don't agree with dystopian theory, on the contrary, I think utopia has a basis in reality.
As long as the level of productivity can be continuously improved and the needs of human life continue to be satisfied, one day the human race will be able to reach that threshold and enter a higher form. ”
"Oh?" Apocalypse nodded with interest, "So you approve of my philosophy. ”
"No, to be more precise, I've already experimented with your ideas."
Li Ang shook his head and said indifferently: "As a scientific researcher, my research on social science is not limited to the fantasy stage.
I had the manpower, the material resources, and the financial resources to carry out a wide range of experiments, which were far larger and more ambitious than those Owen-style communes or Fourier communes of the early years. ”
He took out a remote control-like object from his pocket, pressed the button, and a giant three-dimensional projection appeared in the air through the output port of the remote control.
The picture shown in the projection is probably the depths of the ocean, dark and dark.
Suddenly, a myriad of lights flickered across the Manhattan night sky.
The light source comes from a mechanical octopus floating in the ocean, about 5 meters long from head to toe, with four tentacles, and a large head facing a pale searchlight, illuminating the sea in front of it.
These mechanical octopuses are extremely complex and streamlined, with tentacles that can split at the end to create several tools, giving them an industrial aesthetic like a steel suit.
In the entire sea area, the number of mechanical octopuses is extremely large, and there are at least tens of thousands of them in a rough sweep, densely packed like ant colonies.
"The design concept of these mechanical octopuses comes from the robotic arm of Dr. Octopus,"
Li Ang casually introduced: "Each mechanical octopus has a built-in networking chip, which is an independent mobile station.
And a certain number of mechanical octopuses, say 10,000, will be equipped with a base station subsystem that acts as a converter between the wireless network and the limited network.
The networks between these mechanical octopuses are superimposed on each other to form a cellular network, forming a huge wireless communication system, which can carry out overall computing and transmit information far more efficiently than before. ”
The tens of thousands of mechanical octopuses are busy cruising in the water, not colliding with each other, the whole is extremely harmonious and natural, pleasing to the eye, as if looking at a simple and beautiful mathematical formula.
What are they doing?
Apocalypse narrowed his eyes and stared at the picture carefully.
The octopuses chiseled into the depths of the seabed with the tips of their steel tentacles, extracting the metal minerals from the bottom of the seabed and transporting them to a giant pyramid building.
These metallic minerals are centrally integrated, screened, refined, and slag-removed in a pyramid-shaped mega-factory, and then melted into the most basic parts, which are then pieced together with extreme efficiency under the assembly line to produce a new mechanical octopus.
Apocalypse was stunned and said, "Being able to replicate itself and multiply, isn't this the von Neumann machine?" ”
"That's right, the concept of the octopus, similar to the Wise Servant in the Homeland Project, is a mechanical creature that replaces human labor."
Leon nodded and said indifferently: "At the beginning, I just laid out a thousand mechanical octopuses at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and after two months, the number of octopuses surged to three million. ”
He pressed the button again, and the 3D projection repositioned and refocused.
This time, floating over Manhattan is a city at the bottom of the ocean.
More precisely, an urban agglomeration.
New York, Washington, Sydney, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Seoul, Athens...
All the great cities of human civilization have been restored at the bottom of the ocean.
"I made the mechanical octopus recreate these big cities, streets, bridges, houses, in the same detail."
Li Ang said with a smile: "Each mechanical octopus is the most versatile worker, the most durable engineering equipment, and under the overall calculation of the cellular network, no labor will be wasted every minute and second, which can be said to be almost the optimal solution."
If I wanted to, I could have allowed the octopus population to continue to increase, encroaching on the oceans of the blue planet, creating billions of mechanical laborers, and bursting out with a productivity comparable to the sum of all human beings. ”
Nick Fury and the others all looked at him with extremely stunned and confused eyes, and the "slot" in their hearts overshadowed one wave after another.
It's not the same as the script that was promised, aren't you here to help the humans negotiate? How do you look more evil than the other side!
Leon didn't care about the shocked expressions of Nick Fury and the others, and still said indifferently: "The problem of labor productivity that restricts the future of human beings has been easily solved. The plan to keep all of humanity in captivity seems to me to be easy. ”
Rao is apocalypse has seen people, and he can't help but be slightly stunned at this moment, but fortunately, his gray-blue face is not easy to show expression, and he still has that unfathomable indifferent expression: "Then it seems that you have also reached the threshold of realizing the homeland plan..."
"Not only that,"
Leon rudely interrupted the words of the oldest mutant and said indifferently: "Actually, I have long thought of your plan to rule all of humanity with an unprecedented giant artificial intelligence,
Relying on the social apparatus to maintain the absolute authority of the individual allows me to lead 7 billion of my fellow citizens and lead them into the future. ”
“...”
Nick Fury's lips trembled slightly, and the swear words in his stomach didn't know where to start, and he could only stare at Leon with his only remaining eye.
"In that future, I am like the final producer in Mr. Liu Cixin's short science fiction "Supporting Mankind", the entire social machine is controlled by my will, and the human race will move forward on the path I have set."
Li Ang spread his hands and said nonchalantly: "But becoming a Buddha and an ancestor is too boring, isn't it?" ”
His tone was so light-hearted, and he talked and laughed so eloquently that he regarded the supremacy over all mankind as a slash.
"Human beings are a race that is good at fighting."
"Bonfires are lit in the wilderness, painted paintings are left on the stone walls of the caves, the claws and teeth of beasts are carefully carved under the tombs, the tips of bronze knives collide with sounds, the feudal dynasties rise and fall, and even the roar of steam engines, the breech guns are lined up, and the cannons of giant ships are filled with gunsmoke.
The history of mankind is the history of struggle.
The old order collapsed, and the new order was established in the ruins, destroyed, rebuilt, strife, and fought.
The history of civilization for 10,000 years is that human beings have forged ahead on the thorny road of blood and fire, and walked alone on the lonely cliffs that have been frozen for thousands of miles. ”
Li Ang looked at the apocalypse and said with a smile: "Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement. The homeland plan to keep 7 billion living beings in pig pens is worthless in my opinion! ”
Apocalypse shook his head and sighed, "You are also a smart person, how can you not see the crisis that mankind will inevitably face in the future?" ”
"The Lotus Sutra has clouds, and there is no peace in the Three Realms, like a fire, full of suffering, very terrifying, and there are often sorrows and sorrows of birth, old age, sickness and death.
Li Anglang laughed and said: "You look at the world like a fire, all living beings are suffering, you want to enlighten the light, you want to be peaceful, and you want to cross bliss."
But in my eyes, this is the world of great controversy! To fight, to grab, to fight, to fight, to fight a bloody road in this vast universe, and finally crowned as the king with the glory of the human race. ”
This is the argument of two people, and it is the argument of two gods, and everyone present is at a loss, so they can only stand on the edge and watch, waiting for the result to appear.
Apocalypse and Li Ang's gaze collided in the air, and the momentum like an abyss and a sea accumulated and condensed, and the two of them determined one point at the same time-
The other party can't be convinced.
Li Ang rolled up his two sleeves and said indifferently: "Then I can only fight...."