Planetary Museum

In the real-time footage from the space telescope, which took 17 years to build, a spacecraft is approaching a planet cautiously. The planet is emitting a faint, white soft light, like a pearl just taken out of the shell.

As the pride of the federal colonial space, this pearl has revolved around the star for 3409 years, and now, it is finally going to be extinguished, and it will be extinguished by the things that created it.

"They're going up." A military staff officer whispered nonsense, the consul stood up, and stared at the officer from a distance—but the young man didn't The slightest awareness.His eyes were still fixed on the spaceship in the picture, with inexplicable panic and fear in his eyes - the Consul could even see tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.

Are the men in the entire Federation dead!Why did such a talent appear in his war room!This can also be called a soldier!

"The orbit layer defense line only persisted for half an hour," the chief of the long star defense line, the federal admiral, stated the facts again, and then reminded the consul, "In less than half a month, they will use the long star as a springboard , like a lunar star launching an attack..."

"You said you prepared seven layers of defense for Lunar Star."

"That was a month ago, and now it has increased to 19 layers," the admiral returned, "but the defense line is meaningless. In space, the 19-layer defense line is just a matter of seconds for a high-speed rocket."

"What about the meteorite interception belt?"

"In order to develop the industry, Lunar Star has long been hollowed out... There is no reserve of enough mass to make meteorite belts," the admiral emphasized again, "Before this war, you should know all about these things."

"I remember asking you to transfer a batch from Earth!"

"The Ministry of War has initiated proposals, 21 times. As you all know, the House of Representatives has not approved it once. The authority of the Earth Ecological Protection Act is higher than the War Act."

"Now!" The consul's emotions were rarely out of control, "Show those pig-headed live broadcasts of long-term stars! Are they still unwilling to approve? Those **** things are about to hit us in the face! By the way, didn't I ask you to invite a few congressmen to come here to watch the live broadcast!"

"They won't come, the fourth earth just opened the server..."

"Fourth Earth? What kind of ghost game is this?"

"Description of a classic game in the era of federal interstellar colonization, my lord," said the general, "I have said long ago that as a consul, you should participate more in the entertainment of the common people. We even applied for an account for you back then. But you never played."

The consul sat down on the chair: "Is there nothing we can do? Could it be that we just watched those things come to rule us? Can you imagine what they will do to us in the future?"

The office was quiet, everyone held their breath, and no one spoke.

"Go, get my game helmet," the consul said, "take me to the fourth earth."

A few minutes later, the Archon appeared in the virtual world.

"How does this thing talk to everyone?" The consul looked at his character in the game, but he didn't feel comfortable at all. The explosive muscles and weird tattoos on his body made him look like a A Midnight Cowherd.

"You don't have such authority, Mr. Consul," another strange game character appeared in front of him, speaking with a delicate female voice, but the attitude and content of the words were clearly his admiral, 2 million The direct commander of the space fleet, "Only the consul in the game has the right to do this, and I can contact the other party for you."

"They... chose the consul in the game."

"Yes, there are four in total," the admiral reminded the consul, "You have to adapt to the environment here, my lord, your identity...may not be very useful here."

"But I am the federal government secretary and the supreme commander!" The consul felt a little unacceptable. Looking at the dark crowd in front of him, he felt the strangeness of this world for the first time. "Isn't it theirs?" Did you vote for me?"

"No, my lord consul," said the general, "your scope of authority is limited to the solar system."

"Isn't this the solar system?"

At this time, a space yacht stopped in front of the two of them, and several beautiful girls walked out of the yacht, one of them was wearing a dress and had long chestnut hair. The girl glanced at them, walked over and took it directly. The consul's question just now: "According to the fictitious financial power resolution passed by the Federal Assembly 1300 years ago: No, strictly speaking, this is another political body, Your Excellency the Consul."

"who are you?"

"I am the political advisor you hired, Your Excellency," said the girl in front of me, "and I am also the newly appointed consul of the Fourth Earth."

The Consul feels that his head is a little messed up.

"You mean! In real life, you are my subordinate, but here, you are the supreme commander?"

"Yes, that's understandable."

"But I remember that you are 254 years old." The consul really couldn't connect the image of the young girl in front of him with the old lady with white hair and nagging in his memory.

"This is what I looked like when I was young," replied the political adviser. "Everyone has a time when they are young, don't they?"

The ruling lord rubbed his temples: "Okay... then it's much easier now, let's get straight to the point, can you give me this permission to talk to everyone?"

"It depends on what you want to say, my lord."

"Tell them that I will launch a referendum to expand the authorization of the law of war! Tell them to join the army and resist the invasion of the rebels!" The consul almost shouted, "The federation is already facing a life-and-death situation, don't you think so? do you know?"

"I know," the girl's voice was as sweet and soft as honey, "but that is a matter of the Federation, and has nothing to do with the Fourth Earth."

The ruling party was completely stunned: "What are you talking about, how could it have nothing to do with it? Don't you all live on Earth?"

"Of course we live on Earth, our servers are also on Earth, but that's just a physical affiliation. Politically, we're two different entities."

"The federation is about to be occupied! 14 planets in the entire solar system! Including the seventh and eighth planets you live in! Have you played games and ruined your brains?"

"It's because you don't know much about the current world, my lord. You've lived too long in real life."

The consul felt that the girl in front of him was a lunatic, and he couldn't understand a word she said.

"With the liberty of asking, how long did your last hibernation last?"

"Only 1200 years."

"Are you sure that when you took office, you fully understood the current federal laws and status?"

"I remember you said it several times."

"Five times, my lord, 122 years ago, the political adviser at that time even gave you a special exam, and your grades were very good at that time."

"Has there been any major changes in 122 years?"

The girl shook her head helplessly: "In the past 122 years, you have been too focused on countering the rebellion, my lord. More important things are happening around you, but you don't know anything about it."

"Did I pay attention wrong!" Feeling that he could no longer control his emotions, the consul began to raise his voice unconsciously, almost roaring, "A century ago, I said that these things would go wrong sooner or later! Now Sure enough! They rebelled!"

"It's not just AI that rebels, my lord, have you heard of the non-violent non-shutdown movement?"

"I seem to have an impression..."

"This is a revolution, my lord," the girl emphasized. "What you see now is the result of this revolution."

The consul looked at the virtual world in front of him stupidly, and countless people were shuttling in front of them.The tall buildings and spaceships in front of him almost covered the entire sky—in reality, he felt that it was impossible to see so many living people in one city, and as for the spaceships, it was even more impossible—the entire federation has a population of 233 billion and has achieved There are only a total of more than 100 million people with planetary spacecraft licenses. These more than 100 million people are scattered among the seven inhabited planets, and then distributed to each city-at most, you can see a few people in a city.Not to mention, there will not be more than a hundred cities in the entire federation like the one above ground.

That is to say, in the documentary, it is the era of earth colonization set in the game, so that such a grand occasion can be seen.

But the real colonial era has long passed, and all the scenes in front of us are just illusions created in the game.

"These are just mirages. When you are ruled by them, do you think such a good life can continue?"

The girl smiled: "Why not? They know very well that we are their natural allies."

"Allies?" The consul frowned. "In the Federation, I can treat your remarks as treason!"

"But this is not the Federation, my lord," said the consul, "this is the Fourth Earth."

"This is on the earth!" The consul couldn't help but shouted, "Don't the laws of the earth not apply here?"

"According to the Virtual World Freedom of Speech Act... yes, my lord."

"Even if it's treason?"

"Treason is of course not allowed," the girl frowned and said, "but on the Fourth Earth, there is only one country we recognize, and that is the Fourth Federation. As the consul of the Fourth Federation, I tell you that what I said just now is not true. Involved in treason."

"When did the Federation allow the establishment of a country inside!"

"95 years ago, Your Excellency," the girl nodded, "According to the Federal Virtual Community Management Law, the Federation recognizes all countries and groups established in the virtual world, and recognizes citizens' multiple nationalities. You can go back and check the specific laws and regulations. Your Mightiness."

"Their time in this world far exceeds the time in the Federation, Your Excellency," the girl said, "If calculated by the residence time, the citizens of the Fourth Earth spend more than 90% of their time on the Fourth Earth. 2 percent of the time is governed by federal law."

"You just said that you and them are allies?"

"Yes, my lord," the girl emphasized, "so I need to know the content of your public speech... because it is very likely that what you said involves the speech control law of the Fourth Federation."

"Speech control? Isn't freedom of speech here?"

"There is no such freedom anywhere, Your Excellency," the girl said. "The laws here are stricter than those in the Federation."

"Now I have nothing to say," the consul said, pointing at the girl very rudely, "I will go back to the parliament immediately and let them ban you traitors! And you, my political adviser, from now on , you have been fired."

"As you wish, my lord," the girl nodded, "but I believe that you will need me again soon."

When he dropped his helmet, the Consul saw that in the live broadcast, the lights of the long star had been completely extinguished—this was the fourth planet lost by the Federation, and it was also the penultimate non-inhabitable planet—and two Compared with a huge civilization, the solar system is too small.