The last human in the universe

Chapter 167
Zhao Changxing knew that he made the right choice again.The development of facts has proved that these hundreds of thousands of years of uninterrupted efforts to genetic modification, knowledge dissemination, and improvement of population quality have reaped fruitful results.

In addition to the risks in the field of ethics and morality, as well as the risk of conflict between public and private rights, mandatory sperm donation and egg donation are undoubtedly harmful to individuals.But obviously, the vast majority of people believe that it is completely worthwhile to let oneself suffer a little loss and make contributions to civilization, so as to make civilization stronger.

Making this judgment obviously requires a lot of intelligence, and most of us have it.

Compared with his order being passed without any disturbance, Zhao Changxing was even more pleased with the fact that "most of the people have considerable wisdom".This gave him a sense of accomplishment that "all these years of hard work have not been in vain".

After that, the Human Reproduction and Breeding Center, which had been operating at low power for decades, was finally able to operate at full power.

Among the 10 specially selected roller bases, a total of 200 million artificial wombs were finally activated.With the assistance of artificial intelligence Xiaoxi, each roller base only needs 100 staff members to take care of these embryos.

Of course, it is only to take care of the embryos and monitor the growth of the embryos.For the rest, other people are still needed to do it.

For example, the delivery and transfer of newborns.

In each roller base, there is a special area that is specially set up for the birth of newborns.

At this moment, the birth area of ​​No. [-] Breeding Center ushered in the implementation of the mandatory sperm and egg donation policy, and after the number of newborns increased significantly, the first batch of babies were born.

In the past, on average, only about 150 newborns were born in the birth area of ​​each breeding center every day.But today, this number will increase several times, reaching about 670.

In order to welcome the birth of these babies, the staffing here has also been increased by four times accordingly.At the moment, there are a total of 30 midwives on standby here.

"The number 11056 artificial uterus has reached the standard, and midwife No. 3 is ready to deliver the baby!"

"Yes!"

A midwife sitting on the "station" and wearing an isolation suit to prevent the germs on her body from infecting the baby immediately revived.

The automatic transport device transported an artificial uterus about the size of a basketball, with a middle body made of transparent glass, with complex instruments and pipes connected to the upper and lower parts, to the No. 3 delivery table.The midwife immediately started working in accordance with the standard operating procedure.

At this moment, in the artificial womb, the wrinkled little baby was irritably waving his arms, kicking his calves, and crying silently.

After completing the preparations, the exit of the artificial womb was opened, and with the help of the equipment and the assistance of the midwife, the little baby managed to squeeze out of the exit.

"Wow! Wow!"

The baby let out a loud cry.The midwives methodically cut the umbilical cord, bandaged the wound, disinfected, and cleaned the whole body. They didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they wrapped it in a soft quilt and put it on the waiting robot tray.

This delivery took about 20 minutes.

The next delivery mission is yet to come.At this moment, she finally had time to take a look at this little life that she personally brought into this world.

The little baby's hair was limp and stuck to his scalp, his whole body was red, his skin was wrinkled, very ugly, not cute at all.But at this moment, the midwife's eyes were full of tenderness, as if he was looking at a rare treasure.

"Hello, little guy, welcome to this world..."

The little baby answered with a sonorous cry.

"Xiao Xi, give him a name."

"Ok."

The robot aunt in front of her agreed and projected a screen.There are about 20 randomly generated names on it.

The last name is random, and the first name is also random.

"Just call it... let's call it this."

The midwife looked at it for a while, hesitated for a moment, and finally chose a name.

"Wang Huan...from now on, your name will be Wang Huan. Huanhuan, hello..."

After completing the last task, Wang Huan was taken away by the robot auntie controlled by Xiaoxi, and placed in the incubator in the nearby area.

Here, the babies born with Wang Huan will also undergo a series of vaccinations and health management. They will not be transferred to the next area until they are about nine months old and can crawl.

On this day, a total of 660 newborns were born in this breeding center. In 10 breeding centers, a total of about 7300 newborns were born.

For a moment, even this galaxy seemed to be enveloped by the cries of babies.

At this moment, in the primary breeding center, tens of thousands of children who can already crawl or toddle, under the care of robot aunts and baby nurses, accompanied by many dolls and music, are laughing and crying, playing.

In the playground of the intermediate and advanced breeding centers, babies who can already run and talk are playing happily.In the kindergarten, the children are reciting poems one by one in unison. In the elementary school, the children are studying literature and mathematics seriously, starting the first stage of receiving knowledge enlightenment.

In the university, one by one young people got their graduation certificates. According to different future plans, they either stayed in school for further study, or got free spaceship tickets to other space cities or planetary bases, and started their careers.

In the next period of time, the trend of a substantial increase in the population of human civilization has formed and cannot be changed.

However, with the expectation of a large increase in the population in the future, at this moment, there is no fundamental obstacle to overdrawing some future resources and wealth in advance and forcing the simultaneous construction of two superparticle colliders.

Therefore, in the equally vast and broad Lakai 9352 galaxy, human civilization has finally entered a stage of truly flourishing development.

On the planet's orbit, in the empty space far away from any star, under the surging ocean, in the core of the asteroid, on the top of the planet's mountain, on the vast plain...

Factories sprang up one after another.Unlimited chemical raw materials, metals, machinery, industrial products, etc., supported by the energy of nuclear fusion power plants one after another, come surging like mountains and seas.

One research device after another, which can be called a scientific research tool, appeared in the galaxy.The number of basic scientific research equipment such as gravitational wave detectors, dark matter detectors, neutrino detectors, particle colliders, radio telescope arrays, optical telescope arrays, etc. is constantly refreshed. Chemical laboratories, materials laboratories, metal laboratories, biological Laboratories, genetic laboratories, blood research centers, neural research centers, supercomputing centers and other application-level research institutions have also sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

At this moment, the scientific research field of human civilization, from basic science to applied science, has formed a complete closed loop.Although the scale of this closed loop is still relatively small—because the population is too small, the structure has been completed and the framework has been formed.What needs to be done in the future is only to continuously enrich and expand it along with the increase in the number of population and the number of scientific research scholars.

This is a natural process, no need to bother to build it.

In 1203 of the new calendar, that is, when human civilization officially came to the Rakai 9352 galaxy for 70 years, the population of human civilization officially exceeded the 200 million mark, and has maintained an average annual population increase of more than [-] million since then. speed.

This number has calculated the population that people naturally reproduce under normal circumstances, and the population that dies due to various reasons.

Thus, only five years later, the population of human civilization exceeded 2000 million.Of course, most of them are minors and can only stay in breeding bases and schools.

In the 18th year after the order of compulsory sperm donation and egg donation was issued, the first batch of children who were born into this world because of this order became adults and could participate in social production and life. The total population of human civilization reached An unprecedented 3300 million.

This is almost five times higher than when it first arrived in the Lakai 9352 galaxy.

At this time, a new question was posed in front of Zhao Changxing.

The existing 2000 roller bases, enough to accommodate 200 million people, will soon be insufficient.

In a way, this is a good thing, which means that the strength of human civilization is getting stronger and stronger.

In this regard, Zhao Changxing does not intend to change the status quo, and does not intend to develop a larger roller base construction technology.He still intends to continue to build this kind of roller base that can carry about 10 people.

A single carrying capacity is not enough, just rely on the quantity to pile up.Although this will cause a lot of trouble and inconvenience, considering the cost and benefits, this model is the most cost-effective.

After all, these things will be discarded in the near future.

"But...how many should be built?"

Zhao Changxing fell into thinking.

The essence of this question is actually how much the total population of human civilization should be maintained in the Lakai 9352 galaxy.

Based on the basis that the larger the population, the stronger the power, it seems that Zhao Changxing should undoubtedly go all out to increase the population.However, this problem is actually restricted by many factors.

The first factor was that Zhao Changxing was unable to devote all the strength and resources of the entire civilization to increasing the population.

After all, scientific research also needs manpower, infrastructure needs manpower, resource mining needs manpower, and so on.

As a result, at most only a certain proportion of social resources and wealth can be invested in the reproduction of the population.

(End of this chapter)