"We're just flesh and blood computers, they're just metal creatures, what's so hard to give up on this weak shell......

"Ascension, let us break free from the shackles of the past and embrace eternal life!"

Several employees of the company who were originally hesitant and considered whether to sign the ascension agreement or not, the thoughts in their minds were like hemp ropes that had been opened and knotted, and they suddenly broke through.

They smiled as they looked at the synth employees who had already risen to prominence.

Several miniature intelligent machines flew in front of them, projecting a virtual panel that impressively displayed the contents of the Ascension Agreement and the signing plan.

At this moment, they did not hesitate to sign the agreement.

"But why, is it because this body is weak that they should be abandoned?" A company employee with glasses and a sven temperament said in a heavy tone:

"Our bodies are born of our parents, and every inch of our flesh and blood comes from the care of nature, and after losing them and transforming into synthetic life, are we still considered members of nature?"

"That kind of evolution has violated the laws of natural evolution and is divorced from the essence, and in the end, can we really be regarded as glorious?!"

"Don't put that nonsense aside, my friend, every inch of your flesh and blood comes from the favor of nature, isn't the alloy that forges our bodies at this moment, and the metal raw materials that make them, from what you call nature?" A synth employee next to him retorted with a sneer:

"If your obsession and troubles are only because of our evolution, which goes against the so-called nature and essence, then I can only tell you ......."

"You can choose not to evolve, and in another hundred years, you will definitely die, and when you die, the corpse in your grave will still be an inorganic thing, which does not violate the laws of nature, but what is the use?"

"When the time comes, no one will remember you, no one will mourn you, you are just a small person in our civilization who doesn't need to be cared about too much, so your tomb may no longer exist in a hundred years, because it takes up too much space!"

"A hundred years, hehe, just a hundred years, all traces of your existence in this world will disappear from this world, this is the essence you want?"

"Our lives should be as bright as songs, we should be moving forward with our great civilization in the vast and endless universe, and now that such an opportunity is in front of us, why should we be stupid to reject it?"

"The eternity we seek is not only the eternity of individual life, but the eternity of civilization as a whole, and in the face of such a major right and wrong, it is good for everyone to abandon those stupid and conservative ideas and achieve common progress, isn't it?"

"The meaning of our collective life has never been a shell that will trap us all our lives, our great civilization will be with us, and we will no longer have boundaries and barriers between each other.

"We never exist for the sake of nature and essence, let alone for the sake of simple existence, and the real meaning lies in changing civilization for the sake of evolution and upgrading."

"The natural evolution of the past can only be described in a simple and crude word, and that is 'failure'!"

"Today, we will define our evolution on a subjective level, whether it is success or failure, it will be up to us to define it!"

"Why can't such an evolution be a glorious evolution?"

One by one, sharp questions, like sharp knives, were ruthlessly inserted into the glasses employees, but he did not show the slightest wavering, he stuck to his own opinion and said:

"If all of us ascend to become undifferentiated synthetic life, what if we still exist and achieve so-called eternal life?"

"The civilization at that time was no longer our original civilization, and our collective was all dead the moment it ascended, wasn't it?"

"Mass suicide, such ascension is not what I want, such an evolution is crazy, if such an evolution can be called glorious, then I would rather die a hundred years later."

"It's better to rot into a flower, and it's better to be imprisoned in a cold, merciless mechanical shell for eternity."

"Life is short, there is nothing bad, we come to this world with nothing, enjoy everything we have, and then leave with nothing......"

"I'm never afraid of death in the traditional sense, death is just to disappear forever, that's all, but the so-called ascension in exchange for death is very cruel, so I don't want to be like you."

"The civilization after that ascension is no longer the original civilization, but a new and strange civilization."

"I don't want to continue to work for a strange civilization, as before, what's so bad......"

……

"Okay, buddy, you're right, but your rebuttal is baseless, you seem to have misunderstood the meaning of Ascension."

"Ascension in your eyes seems to be nothing more than a way to separate you from a body that binds you, and then upload your consciousness and imprison you in another body that will bind you?"

"Hehe, superficial, too superficial."

The synth employee no longer refuted him, but only reminded with a smile:

"If you carefully read the entire content of the Ascension Protocol, you will find that Ascension is just a transfer of consciousness and nothing more."

"What is human consciousness? It's just a bunch of data that can be recorded. ”

"Consciousness can be uploaded and transferred, the body can be changed at will, emotions can be controlled at will, the company's technology is beyond your imagination, can you be regarded as a suicide after that ascension?"

"Besides, if the civilization you call is just a bunch of cowardly things that disappear after changing forms, then I'd rather not be that kind of civilization."

"You never really understood what eternity means."

"It is indeed a kind of beauty to not bring it in life and not to take it away in death, but from an objective point of view, isn't it an extreme selfishness and ignorance?"

"There are really people who can live without bringing and die without taking them, and such people are the best for our civilization to never exist."

"From this point of view, what you deny is never our ascension and evolutionary way, but the cowardly and ignorant you who dare not take a step forward."

"Finally, let me tell you, my fellow man, that everything you have in this world has never really belonged to you for a moment, so you have never really enjoyed any real life, so what you think of as death is also an absolutely absurd thing."

"The Ascension Protocol allows you to take that step, and it's up to you whether you have the courage or not."

After the synthesizer employee left, the ordinary employee with a gentle temperament was silent, and only after a long time did he sigh faintly:

"Really, is that the case......

(End of chapter)