tkworld Chapter 2957 A Large Number of Fugitives
Chapter 2957 A Large Number of Fugitives
Chapter 2957 A Large Number of Fugitives
In an instant, factories building escape ships could be seen everywhere on the planet.
Operating 24 hours a day.
Obeying its master's orders, the robot began frantically building the spaceship.
Various production lines were launched one after another.
The modular factory is back in operation.
Mountains, rivers, oceans, deserts, outer space—wherever there are resources, there are robots.
They are working frantically to process various aerospace materials.
And then assemble them.
The goal was simple: to fulfill the masters' orders and build the escape spaceship.
Unfortunately, these people regret it now.
They used to be addicted to the virtual world and to immortality.
I never expected a cosmic crisis.
Or rather, someone has thought of it, but always feels that there is still a long time to go.
At least dinosaurs ruled for 2 million years.
Moreover, they are resistant to common astronomical disasters, such as meteorites.
But to everyone's surprise, an alien has arrived.
Moreover, the level of technology they demonstrated was beyond their ability to compete with.
They had no choice but to try to escape.
……
They tried every possible way to build an escape spaceship.
The goal is to survive in the solar system for a long time.
They also understood that escaping out of the solar system was impossible.
Fusion spacecraft do not have that capability.
This mainly refers to the fact that the spacecraft is not capable of self-recycling its own materials.
Over time, the damage to various parts will cause the spaceship to gradually collapse.
Therefore, it is necessary to remain within the solar system, with the opportunity to approach planets for mining and repair.
If we leave the solar system, the nearest star system is 4.3 light-years away.
Modern spaceships would take at least tens of thousands of years to fly; in that time, they would have long since disintegrated.
To this end, the robot began to urgently prepare precious minerals such as gold and rare earth elements, as well as various knowledge and technologies.
They intend to cram all these resources into the escape spaceship.
They aim to build an "ecological escape spaceship" to ensure that the spaceship can achieve normal ecological cycles, allowing people to live inside it for an extended period.
This "long term" refers to ten thousand years.
That's asking too much.
It's worth noting that the oldest building in human history, the pyramids, is only a few thousand years old.
Normal equipment won't work.
Clearly, establishing a space for long-term survival is a very difficult task.
The robot will extract titanium-aluminum ore from the lunar surface and cast it into a massive keel 240 kilometers long.
Of course, such projects are all built directly in space.
Building on a planet and taking off are both problems.
Furthermore, it is encased in a 300-meter-thick layer of natural meteorite—which serves as both a shield and a reservoir for water circulation.
To prevent moisture from evaporating.
Natural meteorites have undergone millions of years of testing in space, which can increase people's confidence.
In terms of strength, it is certainly not as good as man-made materials, but it is "natural" nonetheless.
It also gives people a sense of being grounded.
Moreover, the outer shell is covered with 400 million "photosynthetic tiles," which turn towards the sun during the day like a sunflower, and fold into the hull at night for insulation.
As for the power source, it uses three hundred "Helium-3/Deuterium" tokamak fusion engines.
Hidden in the center of the keel, it can run for 100 years with a single pulse ignition.
It can accelerate the spacecraft to a speed of 1000 kilometers per second in three hours.
Of course, whether this meteorite can withstand a speed of 1000 kilometers per second remains to be verified.
The middle layer consists of an eight-layer "spiral farm".
The rotation simulates 0.9g of rice, quinoa, blue-green algae, and various ecological forests, creating an ecological cycle.
Try to simulate the real Earth environment as much as possible.
At this point, they felt very regretful.
"Damn it, we thought the previous ecosystem plans were useless."
"Yes, we were so stupid, really. We thought the virtual network was better, but we never thought that aliens would come."
"Yes, if we had come up with the ecosystem plan earlier, we wouldn't be in such a passive position!"
They had no choice but to bite the bullet and use it.
They attempted to simulate the solar environment.
The high-frequency LED spectrum switches between "dawn-noon-dusk" every 6 hours.
This can make crops forget the space environment and think they are still on Earth.
The stern has a large number of "black water towers" that can ferment various garbage and waste into methane, which is then fed to methanogenic bacteria to produce protein and plastic.
Even considering people's feelings, the robots created ecological beehives.
It can float in the zero-gravity region.
Bees can use the principle of static electricity to attract pollen and bring it back to their hive.
Honey production is actually 18% higher than on Earth.
The most crucial component is the spaceship's main AI, named "Orpheus".
It used a total of 700 million quantum chips connected in parallel.
The simulated personality is rewritten every six months to prevent the robot from becoming "lonely and depressed," which could lead to the development of self-awareness.
While the crew members sleep, their dreams are sampled in real time—if the collective nightmare index rises, the AI automatically plays childhood lullabies.
Wenren Sheng did notice this, wow, this AI is quite clever.
The lullabies playing were all dark and cruel fairy tales.
What about "Walton picked up the axe and chopped XX40 times, and when she realized what she was doing, she chopped XX41 times..."?
Songs like these send chills down your spine.
In fact, in the Middle Ages, to get children to sleep early and prevent them from being too active, parents who didn't understand science used these scary rhymes to frighten their children.
This is similar to the saying among parents in the East, "If you don't listen, you'll be carried off by a tiger." It's the same principle.
By scaring the child and reducing their activity level, you can reduce your own workload in caring for the child.
There are 1200 “honeycomb cabins” arranged like Lego bricks along the central axis. Each cabin can accommodate 5000 people, which is 600 million people.
In that case, if one spaceship can carry 6 million people, only 1,000 spaceships would be needed.
Yes, that's about 60 billion people.
However, is it possible to build so many spaceships?
There is no shortage of labor; we can simply have robots replicate ourselves.
Time and resources are far more valuable.
The spacecraft has more details.
For example, the streets are made of 3D-printed mycelium, which is elastic when stepped on and can absorb carbon dioxide to prevent people from falling and getting injured.
After all, in space, there is no shelter, and it is easy to be hit by meteorites.
The building also includes courts, churches, bars, and all other types of structures.
Monday is for trial, Tuesday for mass, Wednesday for dancing; the projections on the wall change according to the function: gavel, cross, neon lights.
The spacecraft also has a unique "hibernation method".
Every five years, 20% of the population is randomly selected to enter a period of low-temperature hibernation to reduce resource consumption.
Of course, some people might say that I can play games in a virtual network.
However, virtual networks themselves also consume resources.
In reality, the consumption is very small, but the current fugitives are in a state of stress, wanting to consider everything to the extreme.
Once awakened, the dormant individuals will automatically assume the role of mentors in various skills to prevent cultural discontinuity.
In other words, by taking turns teaching others, knowledge becomes more enduring.
This is to prevent the computer's storage from failing.
They even introduced a "memory tax," requiring crew members to periodically upload a portion of their memory chips to a public database.
Because resources and labor are readily available with the availability of robots.
On the contrary, memories and knowledge are more precious.
...And so, one after another, escape ships were being built rapidly.
And the efficiency of robots is naturally unprecedented.
Before long, the first spaceship was finally completed.
The fugitives immediately began the application process.
Many people were preparing to flee.
In Wenren Sheng's eyes, they were not intellectually inferior.
Everyone knows that resistance and surrender both involve facing the unknown.
The only certainty is that they will flee.
Because they could also tell that the other party's flight speed was not high.
Otherwise, why would I waste time and come directly to Earth?
Then, everyone went through a long process of drawing lots.
The people were fairly well-behaved, after all, a large number of escape ships were under construction.
Therefore, a lottery method is used.
Those who are chosen by lottery board the spaceship and escape in the opposite direction.
The wormhole we are observing now is in another direction.
Of course, this direction is relative.
After all, the entire solar system itself is also rotating.
The sun must be used as the coordinate system.
If the sun is in the center of a flat map, the wormhole is in the east, and they escape to the west.
Of course, their escape was purposeful.
They won't go too far.
They knew they couldn't escape the solar system.
Unless it takes a very, very long time.
At best, modern spaceships are just wandering around the solar system.
If they were outside the solar system, a meteorite could wipe them out.
In the solar system, at least there are some big brothers to shield us.
And so, one after another, a large number of escape ships were successfully built.
After spending some time on Earth, people eventually bid farewell to the planet.
In fact, most people don't have much affection for Earth.
They live in the virtual world year-round.
Many people have become desensitized to reality.
They wouldn't have come out unless aliens directly interfered with their physical safety.
In short, as time went by, most people became refugees.
People left Earth one by one.
They had absolutely no intention of staying.
They are used to living in the virtual world, as long as their bodies are safe in the real world.
They exhibit a "do whatever you want, I'm not going to cater to you" mentality.
They didn't want to surrender, nor did they want to resist; they just wanted to escape.
They are just like ordinary people without any organization.
And at this time.
The administrator began to panic.
Would it be a good thing for aliens if there were no people?
Normally, this is a good thing.
After all, aliens must be comfortable having an empty planet.
However, this is not a good thing.
The reason is simple: those aliens came to Earth in search of some special substance.
This special substance comes from intelligent life, specifically highly developed intelligent life.
It cannot be man-made, nor can it be made by barbarians.
This looks familiar.
Wenren Sheng knows this all too well.
Isn't this spiritual energy?
Clearly, these aliens have seen through part of the truth of the small world.
They embarked on a journey to explore the void.
They didn't come for just Earth.
Thus, following the communication with aliens, the current administrators, faced with the rapid population decline, began to panic.
In a virtual space, several administrators are discussing the current issue.
"This is bad, a large number of these people are fleeing now."
“In the area we manage, 8% of the population of the previous planet is gone.”
"Damn it, those bastards, if it weren't for them, we wouldn't be in such a passive position."
"Yeah, it was all caused by those bastards."
"Number 1, if you ask me, you shouldn't have been so merciful. You could have just used snipers from the start. Instead, you sent robots to capture them alive, and they found a loophole and escaped," someone complained.
“Damn it, killing is unacceptable, especially of normal, good people. If we can kill him today, we can kill us tomorrow!” Number 1 immediately retorted. “I would rather not accept the power of aliens than kill him.”
"You're right, I support you," the others agreed.
"So what do we do now?"
"The aliens said that enough people must be left behind."
"Some may escape, but not all."
“They won’t agree to hand over their forces to us if we don’t have enough people.”
"Strange, why would these aliens need our population?"
“There’s definitely a big problem here, a very, very big problem.”
Several people were discussing it.
"Perhaps it's because they need a sense of superiority and emotional value."
"Impossible. Why would aliens need emotional value if they traveled all this way?"
"Forget about the conspiracies involved; we need to stabilize the population first."
"How can we stabilize the population?"
"If you want to stabilize the population, you have to tell them that aliens don't exist and that aliens are actually very kind."
"However, they no longer believe us."
"Damn it, this means the virtual games didn't achieve their goal of turning them into brain-dead monsters."
"That's true, but many virtual games do require some brainpower."
"Wait a minute, according to their requirements, let's change our approach. Why don't we just mass-produce people?"
“That’s right. When someone leaves, we create someone to replace them.”
"In that case, those aliens don't know Earthlings, so they won't be able to see the problem."
"Yes, their technology isn't very advanced either. They've just mastered a special power that allows them to protect themselves, which is exactly what we immortals need most."
“That’s right. Last time, I was almost killed by a domesticated venomous snake.”
"Ridiculous, why do you still keep them?"
"Can't I just do what I want?"
"You're brain-dead."
The two administrators started fighting.
Others ignored them.
Number One said directly:
"Alright, let's do it this way. If they can fool us, we can fool them too."
And so, the administrators reached an agreement.
They began to mass-produce people.
Just then, the ecological spaceship started storing memories.
They used their access privileges to copy these memories.
Therefore, they can easily replicate the escapees.
Of course, this raises another question:
Those who copy will also flee.
That's simple, just adjust their memories and make them believe that aliens are friendly.
(End of this chapter)