Although Chu Guang had done a lot of things to set up flags, this time his open mouth showed no signs of manifestation.

Singularity City is safe.

It's not even an exaggeration to say that it's much safer than any of the Alliance's settlements.

Not only that, but time here seems to have slowed down, and even the birds that occasionally fly by are leisurely and enviable.

Under the coordination of AI, not only people have reached the highest level of harmony, but even people and other species have achieved the co-prosperity of "autumn without offense".

Agricultural zoning to the west of Singularity City.

Looking at the farmer sitting lazily basking in the sun on the edge of the field in the distance and the sparrow eating a buffet not far from him, Chu Guang, who was walking accompanied by the frost, recorded this moment like a world-famous painting with his camera.

After grinning, he suddenly sighed.

“…… To be honest, I didn't even think you would succeed, and I even planned for your failure and how to take over the mess here. ”

His concerns were not unfounded.

After all, the original inhabitants of this settlement were not very good people, and there were even some cunning and treacherous people and lackeys who had taken refuge in the torch.

In terms of moral standards, some "hybrids" who have been excluded by mutant tribes may be more noble than their character.

The only people who are truly innocent are those rescued by the Alliance from the mutant tribes who were kept as cattle.

However, on the other hand, those rescued captives do not have the ability to take care of themselves, and they do not even have the most basic social attributes.

Both groups of people belong to the group with the highest "assimilation cost" in the Union society.

For them to play a positive role in society, it will take three times or more of the average amount of public resources.

This includes but is not limited to the prosthetics of the White Prostitution's Homeless Home, sweeping the shelves and dumplings of the aid station, and abducting other wastelanders who have also just joined the Alliance.

Miraculously, however, Singularity City managed to digest them.

Or to be more accurate, their "free-spirited" nature and Singularity's outrageously strict rules unexpectedly fit into each other.

Hearing Chu Guang's compliment, Hanshuang smiled both shyly and proudly and said.

"You've won a prize...... Although it seems to you that we have done well, in fact, in my opinion, we are still far from the ultimate success. ”

Chu Guang glanced at it.

"What is the ultimate success?"

Frost said softly.

"At the very least, it has to allow us to operate independently of outside help."

Chu Guang was stunned when he heard this, and said with a smile.

"This goal...... It's too grandiose indeed, not to mention you, and no settlement in the alliance can do it. ”

"yes, so Singularity City still has a long way to go......" Frost sighed softly, "To be honest, I sometimes think pessimistically that this may be an unattainable goal. ”

Chu Guang asked a little surprised.

"Are you pessimistic?"

"I'm a android, not a robot. The 1% calculated probability is the threshold for my emotion control, below which I get frustrated. ”

Frost nodded, sighed softly and continued.

"We have tripled our arable land, our food production has tripled, and people are living in abundance, but we still struggle to break free from our dependence on the outside world."

"Not only that, but there are always two distinct situations in our place, one of us who is full of energy but always plans to leave, and the other who are mentally depressed, who do not plan to leave, but who become more and more dependent on our care, who on the one hand passively complete the tasks we have set and cut energy consumption to meet the minimum standard of living we offer, and end up being more like a machine than a machine, but far less efficient than a machine."

Although, in principle, those who leave Singularity City cannot take anything from Singularity City, and the percentage of income from converting labor points into silver coins is pitiful, knowledge and skills are not a thing, and they are almost free in Singularity City.

In addition to sleeping at the stipulated time, people are free to spend their spare time.

Those who are eager to leave this place will spend a lot of their free time learning knowledge and skills, but paradoxically, this part of the population is what Frost wants to keep the most.

Although it also tried to procure some hobbies from Ideal City and reward them within the framework of the Alliance's constitution, it only delayed their departure and did not change the final result.

In fact, Singularity City has been reduced to a production base for the Coalition to supply professionals and cheap food products, but has not given birth to a new social form that can surpass the Coalition and even other settlements in the wasteland.

Once the input of external innovation is lost, this closed settlement will become a backwater, entering a vicious circle of "spiral down".

Chu Guang also noticed it suddenly.

The penetration rate of automation here is not as high as that of the dust town next door.

Hanshuang, who was standing beside Chu Guang, suddenly asked abruptly.

"Is it human nature?"

Chu Guang thought about it and gave an ambiguous answer.

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't."

Frost looked at him intently, broke the casserole and asked.

"My intellectual plugin tells me that you have a better answer...... Please do not hesitate, you are one of the most visionary organisms I have ever met, and your opinion is invaluable to me. ”

Listening to this strange sentence, Chu Guang made a helpless expression and said with a sigh.

"What can I say...... 'better' is a false proposition in itself, and most practical problems have no standard answer or optimal solution, only a relatively appropriate solution. It seems to me that your confusion is more like a law of nature than human nature. ”

Frost: "The laws of nature? ”

Chu Guang nodded, and set his eyes on the golden yellow of the mountains in the distance.

"We have come to more than one conclusion over the past tens of thousands of years, but none of them can solve all the problems we have encountered in all historical periods."

"I'm more inclined to think that the absolute perfect method doesn't exist in the first place."

"The People's Union was once close to perfection, and the era of prosperity satisfied all our imaginations of the future in the old era, but the result of the straight line upward is ultimately the straight line down that we see today."

Looking at the frost that was deep in thought, Chu Guang suddenly changed his words and patted it on the shoulder with a smile.

"However, the exploration of the 'ultimate proposition' itself is not meaningless...... Whether it's physics or sociology, there are always unexpected discoveries on the way to perfection, and this is far more beneficial than standing still. ”

"Keep going, maybe one day in the future, the alliance will need to be saved by you."

He has prepared many baskets of eggs in his hands, and in addition to the alliance, there is also the South China Sea Alliance.

As long as there are enough options to choose from, there is always the right one to find.

Even if existing methods don't work, future alliances can create new ones.

He believes that his child has such potential.

And the power that keeps the Alliance young forever is more useful than the legacy he leaves behind for his children and grandchildren to squander.

Feeling the temperature coming from the palm of his hand, the surprised frost suddenly understood what he meant, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

"I'm so ashamed that I didn't expect my confusion to need to be answered by my customers...... Thank you, and I'll keep going with your advice. ”

It seems to have a new understanding of its work, and at the same time it has regained its motivation.

Chu Guang nodded with a smile and said in a gentle tone.

"I'm relieved to have your words."

……

Throughout the afternoon, Chu Guang spent the whole afternoon visiting Singularity City, which included the local garment factory and soda factory in addition to the farms here.

The factories here are similar to the farmland, and the motivation for production is not high, but it is enough to meet the needs of the settlement itself.

Nothing was said all night.

Chu Guang, who returned to the annex to stay, slept until dawn, and after saying goodbye to frost, solar eclipse and Yin Yin and his party, he went straight to the station outside Singularity City.

Most of the passengers waiting in front of the platform were the same people who got off the train yesterday.

In addition, there are also some young men or middle-aged people carrying suitcases of uniform style, with a demeanor and temperament like players who have just walked out of the novice village, looking full of ambition.

Whatever their reason for coming to Singularity City, it now seems that they have picked themselves together and are ready to hit the road again.

It was also at this moment that Chu Guang accidentally noticed that the registration office at the entrance of the settlement "checked in" was not only from the wasteland wasteland, but also some residents of the ideal city.

Those people appeared to be the same group of passengers who got off the bus as themselves.

After a day of investigation, they did not leave with their unfinished compatriots in the tour group, but seemed to have decided to stay and join the Singularity City family.

Chu Guang was curious about what they were thinking, so he used a holographic camouflage device to modify his appearance, and walked over to one of the young men wearing flat glasses and accosted him.

"Dude, do you think life is good here?"

Chu Guang's processed voice didn't make him hear anything unusual, and the latter also seemed to be very talkative, and answered him with a hearty smile.

"What's so bad? My room in Ideal City is only 20 square meters, with no windows and only a vent to blow hot and cold air. Even if I try hard all my life, I may not be able to let the real sunlight shine into my room...... But here, I just have to lie down on the ground to get it. ”

Looking at this overly optimistic young man, Chu Guang kindly reminded him.

"But there are no endpoint clouds here, and probably not in the future."

"That's even better, I'm tired of being in a virtual world without a sense of borders. The AI there is all like a puppet, and the real person cuts through the virtual shell as ugly as it gets...... Including myself. To tell you the truth, I'm here just to get away from the end clouds," the young man smiled heartily, shrugged his shoulders and continued, "and it's not a very difficult choice, anyway, you can go." ”

In fact, the last sentence is the point.

Hearing this young man's answer, Chu Guang couldn't cry or laugh for a while.

His biggest concern at the beginning was that people would use the "drug rehabilitation center" as a nursing home, but now it seems that everything he feared has happened.

But......

That doesn't seem like a bad thing either.

The conversation he had with Frost yesterday actually not only affected Frost, but some of his own thoughts also changed a little quietly.

Even if what he feared did happen, it didn't mean it would necessarily lead to the worst of what he expected.

And even if he makes all the preparations in advance to eliminate the hidden dangers, the final result may not necessarily be as he hopes.

After a few words with the chatty young man, he slowly returned to the entrance of the official passage.

At this moment, the southbound train just entered the station, and Lu Bei, who was dressed in formal clothes, walked to his side in a low-key manner.

"Tube...... Sir, the carriage we booked has arrived at the station and my colleague in the carriage has been checked in advance, please come with me. ”

Looking at Lu Bei with a serious face, Chu Guang nodded and said with a smile.

"Okay, let's go, don't keep other travelers waiting."

Until Chu Guang sat down in the reserved box, the group did not attract the attention of any passengers.

The next stop is Weifu City.

After Weifu City and Shifeng Mountain, it is Haiya Province close to the southern sea...... I've heard that there's been a lot of excitement there.

As a result of his "shock treatment" program in the eastern provinces at the beginning of the year, a large number of outlanders have moved to ten settlements along the coast of Haiyaxing Province.

In addition to the large number of Wasteland settlers there, there are also survivors from Borneo and even the Willantes from the Legion.

Some of them were expeditionary forces who chose to retire and stay behind, while others came across the ocean to flee or pan for gold.

Space elevators and gravity shafts have created vast employment opportunities and business prospects, and the influx of immigrants has brought technology, wealth, and labor.

This asset is much richer than the "Meissner Effect Armor" sold to the Alliance by Mavftown.

In particular, the South Sea Alliance, with the help of Mammoth Nation laborers, has gradually emerged from the haze of civil war.

This force of survivors, also incubated by the inhabitants of the Vault, is like an engine that has rejuvenated its second spring, using those 200 years of technical reserves and maritime construction experience as fuel to drive the development of the entire coastal area of the southern sea!

Today, Haiya is gradually replacing the port of Golden Gallen and Mammoth City in Borneo as the next emerging market sought after by investors.

And unlike when the owners of the alliance first rushed to the port of Golden Gallen, the alliance today is different in terms of production methods and financial instruments.

The miracles that have been born there may be even more amazing than those of Borneo.

Chu Guang took a copy of the Daily Survivor issued by Settlement No. 1 from X-16, which was printed on the printer on the train.

Shaking the newspaper on his thighs, he looked at the headlines.

I saw a lame Velante veteran depicted on it, wearing the uniform of the Southern Legion, standing in line under the sign of the homeless house to receive a free prosthesis.

Except for the second-rate editors of the Survivor Daily in Dawning City, the Survivor Daily in most areas is quite skilled when it comes to drawing satirical cartoons.

Including Boulder's.

And the accompanying text below the picture is even more ironic.

[An unprecedented "Great Population Migration"! The transport ship "Nest of Salvation" arrives at Settlement No. 1! 】

It can be seen that the editor who wrote this report should be from the Moon Clan.

Although this benevolent brother has restrained his emotions in terms of wording and expression in order to ensure objectivity, a trace of disgust can still be seen between the lines.

Chu Guang's eyebrows were raised slightly, and a somewhat surprised expression appeared on his face.

"These are immigrants from Nevernight Harbor?"

Xiao Qi, who was sitting on his shoulder, nodded and said.

"I guess so...... There seems to be a post on the forum mentioning them. ”

Chu Guang knew about the post that Xiao Qi said.

About half a month ago, a guy named [Taran Raider] serialized a short story on the forum, recording the two legends of Eternal Night Harbor and Blackwater Lane.

This short story has just been written about the Enlightenment, and the "guides" hiding in Eternal Night Harbor and their ulterior plans to destroy the world have only just been revealed.

Chu Guang is also chasing that post, but so far, his "desert corps" that suddenly appeared has not made much progress.

The blockade of Eternal Night Harbor and the massive crackdown are still ongoing, and it is not easy for them to act rashly.

In that post there is a mention of a merchant named Yarman and his "Nest of Salvation", which is said to have carried 5,000 men and 1,000 tons of gold on board the twelve ships.

After Chu Guang learned about the situation, he also sent a telegram to Li Minghui, instructing his fleet not to accidentally injure these civilians.

It's just that I didn't expect these twelve ships to drive quite fast, and they have all arrived......

(End of chapter)