As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 237

In the Mage League, mages are more about responsibility than power.

In essence, the residents in the jurisdiction are managed by artificial intelligence, and the artificial intelligence uses the mage tower as the carrier.

And not every mage can have a mage tower.

The mage tower is very expensive, not only the cost of building the mage tower, but also the cost of supporting ordinary people in your jurisdiction, and then distribute the mages who graduated from the academy.

Only mages with abundant resources can have their own mage towers.

Ordinary people can rely on the free food, clothing, housing and transportation provided by the alliance, as well as the means of entertainment in the virtual world.

For mages, there is only an endless pursuit of truth.

From the individual bred by the artificial womb technology to adulthood, all the way to old age are taken care of by the Alliance.

With the alliance's attainments in the field of biotechnology, there will be almost no pain.

In the process of growing up, they will receive general education, and then there will be various types of assessments.

Most people are eliminated in these assessments, and then become ordinary people.

The assessment is not only the knowledge level similar to the Huaguo college entrance examination, but more assessment is the assessment in simulated virtual reality.

Such as test core and problem-solving ability.

You are given a scenario and then use what you have learned to solve it.

Because the cost of training a mage is very high, from entering the mage academy to graduating, and then becoming a real mage, the resources needed to train this way alone can support tens of thousands of ordinary people from birth to death.

After passing the assessment, the mage alliance will sign a contract with them. If they don't want to be mages, they feel that mages are too hard and there is no hope in life, and they want to go back to live the lives of ordinary people.

It takes hundreds of years to work for the alliance.

Life extension resources are precious to ordinary people, but are common resources to mages.

Basically, as long as you can graduate from the Mage Academy and receive the 20-year life-extending potion, and then sign a contract with the Mage Tower, the Mage Tower will also give you the corresponding life-extending potion.

The Mage Alliance is not a Communism in the traditional sense of Blue Star, ordinary people only have basic resources to support.

I can live a life of carefree life, but only limited to virtual world entertainment and ordinary basic necessities of life.

Then the alliance will issue a small amount of credits every month, which can be used to purchase some other items.

For example, it is said that master apprentices can get [-] credits per month in the academy, while ordinary people only get [-] credits per month.

Alliance points can only be used to purchase magical artifacts and lore.

But many ordinary people will choose to work instead when they are facing death threats in old age.

I hope to earn money by working to prolong my life.

With the existence of artificial intelligence, most of the jobs that ordinary people can do are in the service industry.

Many people go to game companies to do planning when they get older.It just so happens that they have played the game all their lives and put their experience into practice when they are old.

There are also works such as participating in the expansion of the universe and the filling of interstellar population.

It is the normal state of the league for the elderly to work to prolong their life, and for the young to enjoy themselves and wait for their death.

Of course, some people will ask, is there any life in the Mage Alliance that is naturally conceived?
Naturally there is.

Although most young people are addicted to the virtual world, it does not mean that there is no product of natural combination.

For the life combined with nature, the alliance will take away the unified cultivation when the newborn is three years old.

Then when he has received a complete basic education and completed professional diversion, he can be reunited with his parents.

The purpose is to prevent the newborns from artificially causing differences in the test.

To put it bluntly, you are not allowed to pass the test. Parents privately teach children what the Mage Alliance exam is, how to pass to become a mage, and then exchange life-extending potions for them.

I don't have much memory before the age of three, and it doesn't matter if I don't have a magic brain.

However, if the parents dare to instill memory with the devil brain and interfere with the assessment, it is a felony and they will be directly destroyed if they are found out.

Of course, there are also privileges, and Fashen will have some privileges.

But most of the people who can become Dharma gods have less affection for ordinary people, and it is even more pitiful that they can find satisfactory objects.

It often happens that natural persons reunite with their parents after graduation and find that their parents have separated.

For ordinary people, the virtual world is too exciting, and feelings are very precious things.

It's like otaku living in a Two-dimensional world.

"Teacher, I'm curious why ordinary people have a much easier life than mages?

A mage will always only have work, and only a handful of time for entertainment. "

This is the question Zheng Li asked when he first met his direct mentor at the academy after becoming a sorcerer's apprentice.

The direct mentor of the academy will only appear on the first day of enrollment for the apprentice assigned to him, and there will be a chance to communicate.

The next opportunity for communication is when the apprentice graduates.

Therefore, the opportunity to communicate for the first time is very valuable.

Most people will ask for academic guidance, such as which direction is good, which subdivision has prospects and can produce results.

But Zheng Li doesn't care about this, he has his own thinking about what kind of research he wants to engage in.

What he wants to clarify more is his determination and will to pursue the truth.

"Yeah, in the alliance, ordinary people and mages are almost the two paths that can advance but cannot retreat, and there is no retreat.

Moreover, the two are almost living in parallel worlds, and ordinary people live in the wonderful virtual world most of the time.

The virtual world is instantaneous feedback. Every time you make a decision or an action, there will be feedback.

There are rewards for doing right and punishment for doing wrong. Instant feedback is very cool, because there will always be times when you do it right.

This round is wrong, and there is a chance to do it again in the next round.

But the mage is long-term feedback, you can spend decades on a problem, and you may not be able to see the results.

Even this result may be made by someone else before you.

After becoming a mage, you can advance but not retreat. If you want to retreat, you have to work for the alliance for hundreds of years.

No matter from which point of view, mages seem to have no advantages except to live longer.

When I first became a sorcerer's apprentice, I had the same thought as you. Why can ordinary people live so easily, but we live so tired?

Even at that time, my thoughts were even more extreme. Ordinary people should not be given such good benefits, and they should be forced to work hard by various means. Isn’t it a joke that mages work harder than ordinary people?

But when my research progressed, when the spell model I reconstructed increased the power by 50.00%, when I analyzed the new magical creature gene fragments.

It seems that the light of the wisdom of the sages has completed the relay in my hands, and civilization has taken a small step forward in the pursuit of truth.

The touch and satisfaction this brings me is unmatched by any number of virtual worlds. "

The young Zheng Li seems to understand:
"I hope I can feel this kind of emotion in my own pursuit of truth."

"I generally understand that a mage is a responsibility and an obligation, and a mage needs to guide and lead civilization forward."

The instructor in the virtual world nodded and said: "That's right, from ancient times to medieval times to modern times, to modern times, mages have made our civilization more brilliant through their own efforts.

We need to do more to move civilization forward.

Moreover, the resources that mages can enjoy far exceed that of ordinary people. "

Zheng Li asked: "Then this doesn't affect us not supporting ordinary people?
In fact, it is completely possible to support ordinary people without spending resources.

Such as virtual world charging, everyone needs a way to work. "

"With artificial intelligence, what jobs do they need? Apart from art and writing, in what field can ordinary people be better than artificial intelligence?

I also thought about why so many ordinary people are supported?

It should be written in the history books that it is for genetic diversity. "

For a highly developed magical civilization, the attainments in biology are extremely deep.

Genes can indeed mutate, and it is completely possible to select all good gene segments.

But the next generation bred in this way, having good genes does not mean that he can become an excellent mage.

Even the gene-edited offspring, in addition to being better physically, have a far lower success rate than naturally composed offspring.

As for the principle, mages have many opinions, but there is no one that is final.

Ordinary people need to provide their genetic samples, which are stored in the alliance's gene bank to provide raw materials for cultivating the next generation through technical means.

"Although no one has clearly stated why ordinary people should be treated preferentially, the predecessors who formulated this system at the beginning gave a very high-level reason.

But I guess it's because most of the mages don't get married, and their genes have to be unified to cultivate the next generation through the alliance.

You also don't know who the next generation is, how can you ensure that your next generation is also a mage and not an ordinary person?
And in the case of sufficient productivity, why not give preferential treatment to ordinary people? "

The alliance's preferential treatment of ordinary people is not only reflected in the free support of ordinary people, they also have the right to vote.

They can raise issues and then have voting rights.

It's just that the proportion of voting rights in the final result is different.

Due to the existence of advanced artificial intelligence, everyone's voting ratio is different.

Artificial intelligence has a complex algorithm mechanism to calculate the value of your vote.

For example, the vote value of ordinary people who have never worked is 1, the vote value of ordinary people who have worked and created value is 5, and the vote value of mage apprentices is 10.
Of course, the algorithm is not so simple, and the vote value of the vote will be calculated according to your contribution.

The same mages have different contributions to the alliance, and their vote values ​​are also different.

But the number of mages is small, and the number of ordinary people is large, and the voting value of ordinary people also has weight.

In the past, ordinary people did not have credit points issued every month, which is also the right they fought for.

"How should I put it, mages and ordinary people are two different paths, and mages can see brilliance far more than ordinary people on the road of life."

Even in the virtual world, Zheng Li could clearly see the stunning look in his mentor's eyes.

Zheng Li nodded and said, "Understood. In addition, I would like to ask what happens when a mage chooses not to become a mage and become an ordinary person again?"

After thinking about it, the instructor said: "There is a research report in the library that specifically analyzes that mages give up the pursuit of truth and just want to eat and wait to die. You can find it and have a look.

Judging from the situation around me, the price of giving up being a mage is too heavy, and few people will choose this path.

Because being able to become a mage has gone through a lot of assessments.

Generally they will give up. I only know one person, because the results of his research that took hundreds of years were first published by others. Others rely on this achievement to become a god of Dharma. He could not accept this blow and chose to give up.

He also applied for an appeal at that time. The problem is that it is a coincidence that the person who published the result review before him did his own research, just two days earlier than him.

Then I heard that some people chose to give up becoming a mage because they developed feelings with ordinary people in the virtual world, and just wanted to spend the rest of their lives with that ordinary person.

Of course, I've only heard of the latter, never seen it. "

The combination of a mage and an ordinary person is almost impossible to succeed if the mage does not give up his career.

Because mages don't have time to fall in love, but ordinary people have all time.

This is a fatal contradiction.

Of course, the goal can be achieved through spells or potions, but ordinary people also have magic brains.

Once you do this, it is a felony to be detected by the alliance's artificial intelligence.

It is almost impossible to hide from a strong artificial intelligence.

At that time, Zheng Li couldn't understand: "Because you want to spend the rest of your life with ordinary people?"

Even now Zheng Li still can't understand.

The instructor nodded and said, "Yes, I've heard of this, but I haven't actually seen it. But this kind of thing should have happened."

Later, after Zheng Li became a mage, his mentor at the mage academy was sent by the alliance to open up wasteland in a distant galaxy because he didn't want to be a mage anymore.

Going to a distant galaxy to open up wasteland for a hundred years as punishment.

When Zheng Li found out, his heart tightened. He still remembered how his mentor was full of enthusiasm for the pursuit of truth, and he thought about asking him why he made this decision when he came back.

It's just that before the mentor came back, Zheng Li had already taken a step ahead.

It's not bad to come to Blue Star, whether it's the environment or the quality of personnel, it can't be regarded as land reclamation.

If it came to the Javanese era 80 years ago, it would be called land reclamation.

If he didn't want to open up wasteland successfully, Zheng Li would really want to die.

The current Bluestar Technology has merits for Zheng Li in some respects.

This environment is much better than land reclamation.

The alliance has two jurisdictions over the planet of intelligent life, deeply involved, and the mage will directly transform into the same social form as the alliance after arriving.

Because this requires high productivity, if the civilization is relatively backward, it will take a long time.

The colonization of the planetary system must be completed first, and then the entire society will be taken over by artificial intelligence.

Not only is the productivity requirement, but also the running-in between civilizations will also take time.

Another way is the alliance method, which only trades knowledge and does not intervene in the internal affairs of the other planet.

In addition, some basic requirements will be mentioned.

Judging from Zheng Li's experience in Blue Star, the current Blue Star is more suitable for the second method.

More is unnecessary, the solar system is not a resource-rich galaxy.

There are no magical creations here, and the value is too low for the Alliance.

The only thing of value is the intelligent life here, but intelligent resources can be obtained through cooperation, and there is no need to spend a lot of effort to take over Blue Star.

If the Alliance of Mage wants to take over Blue Star, it must first break the current situation.

Zheng Li doesn't think the alliance will do thankless business.

Blue Star is too far away from the alliance.

　There are a lot of things in it that are not easy to expand and write, so I will write them roughly, and everyone can take a look.

　　As for any doubts, you can ask, and I will answer them later after I compile them.

　　I roughly conceived the social form of the Mage Alliance in this way. Didn’t I say in my testimonials that Zheng Lihui and Clark would swap bodies?

　　In my vision, Zheng Li turned into Clark, and then couldn't stand such a life, chose to give up being an ordinary person, and then was assigned by the alliance to the front line against the empire to experience the days of manipulating a magic ship.

　　The first Dharma god in the history of the alliance to give up his status as a mage.

　　Of course that's another story, it belongs to my lifetime hahaha.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)