Chapter 58 Is this a bento as soon as you enter the venue?

It's all over, and the adventure in Overlord, King of the Undead is finally complete. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Although Info was unable to obtain any additional benefits, it managed to successfully rescue fifteen trapped people, none of whom were missing, and the rescuers did not suffer any injuries or sacrifices.

“…… Finally enough bonus points...... It's cold, and enough money has been spent, so let's stop this game now! ”

Located in the "Command Center for Otherworldly Operations" in Beidaihe, our protagonist Wang Qiu muttered while staring at the server transformed from the Book of Travel, "...... In order to allow millions of players to enter this online game to help us earn points, more than 2 billion yuan of special funds have been consumed...... The preparations for the real world are done! I don't want to end up like the opening scene of Sword Art Online, where tens of thousands of vegetative people suddenly appeared, their bodies lying in the hospital, but their souls traveled to another world! ”

“…… Please rest assured, the central government is more concerned about this matter than you do! Political Commissar Guo replied calmly, "...... We have completely disconnected the internet and deleted the account 12 hours ago, and all players are normal, nothing is abnormal. The public announcement is the end of the open beta, claiming that it is ready to release a new version of the game after the service is suspended and the settings are modified - of course, this new version of the game will never be available again. ”

“…… What about the other world? How do you explain the Lich King Ainz who graduated from elementary school? ”

“…… Not beat around the bush! Of course, only partially. We told him that there was a problem with the server's program and needed to be reset, so he needed to stop the server to end the open beta and pop up all players, and Ainz also expressed his understanding - he just didn't understand it anyway, and we couldn't do anything about it. ”

Political Commissar Guo sighed, "...... However, in order to get together, we left him a gift - printed out of an 'office golem', and we have all the Japanese middle school textbooks from junior high school to high school, as well as a complete set of textbooks from the University of Tokyo's law department. In this way, he can continue to study his own homework in the other world, so that he will not be a ruler because he only has the education level of a primary school graduate. ”

“…… Have you traveled to another world, do you still want to go to adult college? That's a ...... Alas! Forget it, let's end it here! ”

Wang Qiu showed a crying and laughing expression, stretched out his hand to start the preset program on the server, and the next moment, with a dazzling white light, the server in front of him transformed from the "Book of Traveling" once again changed back to the original appearance of most of the "Book of Traveling".

At the same time, in the surveillance screen hanging on the wall, the last two trapped traversers in the plot of "Overlord the Undead", the two twin sisters lying in the special care ward of a hospital in Changsha, Hunan, also gradually regained consciousness under the watchful eyes of doctors and nurses.

At this point, the rescue mission in the plot world of "Overlord Undead King" has finally been successfully completed.

However, Wang Qiu, who originally thought that he would be able to rest for a few days, was urged by the above and had to start the next rescue plan non-stop.

What made him even more distressed was that the designated mission location this time was still a difficult plot world that had never been encountered before.

"...... Marvel World? Five trapped people? Why did the central government let us go to this world in the first place? ”

Looking at the brief prompt information on the "Book of Crossing", Wang Qiu's head was as big as a bucket for a while, "...... This is the real Longtan Tiger's Den! ”

- The so-called Marvel Universe, also known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is a common alternate world composed of a series of films independently produced by Marvel Studios based on characters from Marvel Comics publications. These include Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man, The Avengers, and many more.

In short, this is a dangerous world where there are many strong and strife...... Of course, it's just like this, and the few worlds that Wang Qiu traveled through before were not necessarily peaceful. But the problem is that the intensity of the battle in "Marvel World" is not at all the same level as Wang Qiu's previous experience! What Resident Evil zombie siege or the like, compared to the battle in the Marvel world, it is simply pediatric!

Look at it, the Hulk is alive and kicking when he throws himself shirtless to an alien planet, Captain America can kill from one end of Nazi Germany to the other with a shield, Ant-Man Scott can be powerful and invincible, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying aircraft carrier suppresses the world, Iron Man Tony is the most "scientific", but he can also abuse five infantry divisions by himself without pressure...... In front of these superheroes and the supervillains who are enemies with them, not to mention the standard combat equipment of the People's Liberation Army, even if they sacrifice the magical props obtained from the Doraemon plane, they may not be beneficial!

However, Political Commissar Guo said that it is also of great significance to set the next mission location as the Marvel world.

“…… Do you know what the biggest takeaway from the central think tank side was after studying the information gained from the story world of Overlord Undead? Not from that fantasy world, but from the future Earth before the main character Lich King Ainz travels through! That decadent world where classes are solidified, the environment is collapsing, and science and technology are regressing, but they still implement policies and knowledge blockades, and even make illiterates everywhere! ”

Political Commissar Guo sighed and said with a serious expression, "...... In such a world, there is little future for human civilization! However, although I am very reluctant to admit it, according to the analysis of the central think tank, if mankind has not been able to achieve new scientific and technological breakthroughs and launch the fourth industrial revolution, then the future of our people is really likely to be as bleak as "Overlord The King of the Undead" - what many people don't know is that since the end of the seventies of the last century, an overall stagnation of scientific and technological development has gradually descended on all mankind! ”

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For Chinese in the early 21st century, the so-called stagnation of scientific and technological development seems to be some kind of fantasy and absurdity

——In the growth experience of the "post-70s", "post-80s", "post-90s" and even the "post-00s" generations, "progress" has always been the main axis of the times, and the things around us seem to be constantly changing, and science and technology are the masters behind all these changes.

On the one hand, science and technology have infiltrated every corner of daily life, and in just 30 years, countless products and services that used to be only enjoyed by elites have rapidly spread to the masses, such as mobile phones, computers, the Internet, and so on. On the other hand, the surging wave of technology has impacted the social structure, which has led to the birth and rapid development of many new industries, such as Taobao online stores, smart offices, civil electric vehicles, and so on.

In the eyes of most people, the technological development that makes life change with each passing day seems to continue to develop forever, so how can there be such a phenomenon of "technological stagnation"? But in fact, the growth rate of science and technology in human society has indeed slowed down.

The reason why ordinary people in society, especially ordinary people in China, feel that the development of science and technology is getting faster and faster is mainly because the scientific and technological level of Chinese society has lagged behind the world for a long time. In the process of China's integration into the world, the absorption of various advanced technological achievements in the world is the method of swallowing whales, which has led to a drastic change in the face of Chinese society, giving the ordinary people the feeling that science and technology are too magical and the world is changing too rapidly.

But for Western countries, in the half century since the successful Apollo moon landing, there have been no revolutionary changes in other fields of technology, except for the brilliant IT technology. If we look beyond the glitz and bustle of the global scientific community and look at it in essence, we will be surprised to find that in many areas of technology, humanity is actually mired in a quagmire.

-- In the field of aviation, from the Wright brothers' wooden biplane to the first time to the air battle in World War I, there was only a total of more than ten years. Then, until the advent of jet engines, to the entry into service of Boeing 747 jetliners, transcontinental and transoceanic flights became commonplace, and the global air traffic network was successfully established, a total of more than 60 years, the speed of change can only be described as changing with each passing day.

However, from the seventies of the twentieth century, the development and change of aviation technology slowed down sharply, and the Boeing aircraft and B-52, which began to be produced in the second half of the last century, remained strong until the beginning of the twenty-first century. Of course, thanks to the IT technology revolution, the new Boeing airliner is more comfortable, and the communication and entertainment are better, but there is no major breakthrough in load capacity and range, which is enough to show that aviation technology is advancing at the speed of a snail.

In the field of energy, the main theme of the first industrial revolution is coal and steam power, the main theme of the second industrial revolution is oil and electricity, but the third industrial revolution is congenitally lame in energy, the scope of use of nuclear fission is still limited by many things, and the global energy market is still the world of oil and coal. Beginning with the first oil crisis in 1973, there have always been people who have jumped out to call for a new energy revolution during every energy crisis. But the cold truth is that so far, all photovoltaic and wind power technologies have not made a revolutionary breakthrough, the cost of power generation far exceeds that of thermal power, and the production process is not environmentally friendly, and it must rely on a large number of government subsidies to survive.

In the field of nuclear energy, less than eight years have passed from the earliest discovery of nuclear fission to the explosion of the first atomic bomb. Then, it took mankind a few more years to develop a nuclear fusion hydrogen bomb and a nuclear-powered submarine. But then, after more than half a century of research on controlled nuclear fusion, I don't know how much manpower and material resources have been consumed, and there is still no possibility of success.

In the field of astronautics, since the 80s, rocket propulsion technology has not had any slightly larger innovations, and attempts to develop the space shuttle have proved to be unsuccessful, resulting in the high cost per unit mass of space transportation, and the difficulty of larger-scale space exploration and construction. In terms of the process of human beings rushing into space, it first originated from the V1 and V2 rockets developed by Nazi Germany during World War II, and less than 30 years later, the Apollo lunar spacecraft successfully visited the moon, stretching the space span of human activities by more than 100 times. At the time, many scientists were optimistically predicting that humans would establish space colonies in Earth's orbit within about 30 years, and that they would also land on Mars. At the same time, "Mobile Suit Gundam" and other cosmic science fiction works were also based on the above speculation, and various imaginations were carried out on the cosmic era of future mankind. But now it seems that there have been no revolutionary changes due to rocket propulsion technology. Even in another fifty years, there is little hope for a space colony and a manned landing on Mars.

Even in the most popular field of information science, since Shannon put forward his theory, the basic framework of communication has not changed much, and neural networks have been lively for a while, but everyone soon felt that the future was bleak, and they were not engaged in it, and the originator of all computers at present was Turing machine. In fact, even the latest computers work on the same basis as those of the Cold War era, with only improvements in computing speed, unit volume and storage capacity, and the final physical and technical bottlenecks are getting closer and closer – readers who are familiar with computers will probably know that in recent years, the pace of computer performance has been slower and slower than in the first decade of this century.

In the field of biology, starting with the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, scientists have repeatedly declared that they want to enter the century of biotechnology and manipulate DNA like building a house. As a result, until now, the principle of DNA has been "unknown but not why", for example, why a genetic change will lead to the difference between a high and low nasal bridge, and what the intermediate process is, is still unclear.

During the Cold War, people were optimistic that they would be able to understand the thinking characteristics of the brain by 2000, but now there is no much difference in the understanding of the brain compared to 50 years ago. If anything, it is the recognition of the complexity of the brain that is far from being described by human knowledge today. Then, in the 80s of the last century, the "People's Daily" interviewed a medical expert, who was very optimistic about the estimation that by 2010, mankind would defeat cancer, which was based on the previous estimate of the speed of human medical technology progress, but now it seems that this goal is obviously difficult to achieve. Not only cancer, but also many diseases are improving at a frighteningly slow rate. In fact, the progress of medicine and biology in recent years is mainly due to the progress and diffusion of IT technology.

In terms of materials science and chemistry, you can look around you, many processes and technologies are decades, even half a century old. There are many, many more examples like this. Until now, the reason why human society has believed that technology is developing at a rapid pace is based on the experience of the two centuries since the Industrial Revolution, but this does not fully prove that science and technology will continue to develop rapidly in the future.

Due to the delay in the arrival of a new round of scientific and technological revolution, science and technology are likely to enter a period of stagnation in the years to come, and as for the length of this period of stagnation, if not forever, it is also a very long time.

In fact, human civilization has had a similar "stagnation of science and technology" a long time ago - in the process of transformation from primitive society to ancient society, a technological revolution represented by agriculture, horses, wheels, metallurgy, and writing has liberated mankind from the era of ignorance and exploded by leaps and bounds. But after that, the development rate of human civilization has greatly decreased. In the next few thousand years, if religion and culture are not considered, the changes in human society can only be described as rapid in terms of the level of science and technology. In China, for example, the difference between the daily lives of the Han and Song peasants was pitiful. In the West, the living conditions of medieval serfs were not superior to those of slaves in ancient Greece. It was not until the advent of the Age of Discovery and the Industrial Revolution that human life was rapidly turned upside down.

Of course, if it is just the stagnation of science and technology that allows future human beings to live like we do now, then there is nothing unacceptable for ordinary people. But the problem is that the global population is still growing when technology is no longer advancing......

“…… Since World War II, the reason why the world has been able to enjoy universal peace for so long, and no longer has to use war, famine, plague and massacre to eliminate a part of the surplus population on a regular basis by every great power is because of the popularization and proliferation of advanced technology, which has made the world have the ability to feed more people. However, if the Fourth Industrial Revolution is delayed and the population continues to increase, the competition for resources between countries will become more and more intense, and even peace and development will no longer be the main theme of the world! Finally into a very bad future! ”

Political Commissar Guo said with a serious expression, "...... But in the Marvel world, there is a treasure that can allow us to achieve technological breakthroughs and even start the fourth industrial revolution! That's Iron Man's Ark reactor! As long as there is a glimmer of hope, we should get it......"

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In short, under the persuasion of Political Commissar Guo, Wang Qiu finally agreed to enter the Marvel world - sooner or later he would have to go through it anyway, and he couldn't hide from it. Since it was the first time to enter this plot world, he didn't know where it would be, so Wang Qiu only brought Political Commissar Guo and four well-trained agents of the National Security Bureau. Everyone wore suits and leather shoes, and they had pistols and full agent gear hidden around their waists, armed to the teeth.

Then, with a flash of white light, they were embarrassed to find themselves in an enclosed space filled with the smell of detergent.

“…… It seems to be a ...... It looks ordinary...... Lady? ”

Looking at the flush toilet in the next compartment, and noticing that there didn't seem to be a urinal here, Wang Qiu couldn't help but scratch his hair and said with a smile.

On the other side, although those agents were also a little embarrassed, they still dispersed very professionally, and after a quick search, they found that this women's toilet was empty, and there were no windows, so they couldn't tell what place this was, and they didn't even know which floor it was.

So, after a brief exchange, an agent quietly approached the door with a pistol, intending to peek through the crack in the door...... But in the next moment, with a scorching flash of light and an earth-shattering explosion, the poor agent was engulfed in flames!

At the same time, Wang Qiu's whole person was thrown out by the air wave, hitting the ceiling headlong, and then his eyes turned black in pain and he fainted.

At this point, just about a minute after entering the Marvel world, the small team suffered a bloody and tragic blow......

(End of volume)

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PS: Guess what, which scene is this in the Marvel Cinematic World? The ability to live a larger population. However, if the Fourth Industrial Revolution is delayed and the population continues to increase, the competition for resources between countries will become more and more intense, and even peace and development will no longer be the main theme of the world! Finally into a very bad future! ”

Political Commissar Guo said with a serious expression, "...... But in the Marvel world, there is a treasure that can allow us to achieve technological breakthroughs and even start the fourth industrial revolution! That's Iron Man's Ark reactor! As long as there is a glimmer of hope, we should get it......"

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In short, under the persuasion of Political Commissar Guo, Wang Qiu finally agreed to enter the Marvel world - sooner or later he would have to go through it anyway, and he couldn't hide from it. Since it was the first time to enter this plot world, he didn't know where it would be, so Wang Qiu only brought Political Commissar Guo and four well-trained agents of the National Security Bureau. Everyone wore suits and leather shoes, and they had pistols and full agent gear hidden around their waists, armed to the teeth.

Then, with a flash of white light, they were embarrassed to find themselves in an enclosed space filled with the smell of detergent.

“…… It seems to be a ...... It looks ordinary...... Lady? ”

Looking at the flush toilet in the next compartment, and noticing that there didn't seem to be a urinal here, Wang Qiu couldn't help but scratch his hair and said with a smile.

On the other side, although those agents were also a little embarrassed, they still dispersed very professionally, and after a quick search, they found that this women's toilet was empty, and there were no windows, so they couldn't tell what place this was, and they didn't even know which floor it was.

So, after a brief exchange, an agent quietly approached the door with a pistol, intending to peek through the crack in the door...... But in the next moment, with a scorching flash of light and an earth-shattering explosion, the poor agent was engulfed in flames!

At the same time, Wang Qiu's whole person was thrown out by the air wave, hitting the ceiling headlong, and then his eyes turned black in pain and he fainted.

At this point, just about a minute after entering the Marvel world, the small team suffered a bloody and tragic blow......

(End of volume)

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PS: Guess what, which scene is this in the Marvel Cinematic World?