Planetary Museum

To a large extent, Changxing's opinion was consistent with that of the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing.

Long before entering this civilization, when the entire search and rescue team was discussing at the preparation meeting, a decision had already been formed—they wanted to prepare a game team on Earth.

On Earth, the original purpose of the game is said to be to simulate war.The famous early games in the world, such as chess and go, were essentially evolved gradually from weapon deduction, a highly conceptual simulation of war.

This kind of simulation may be far from a real war, but it still plays a huge role in cultivating everyone's awareness of war.Obviously, a master who is proficient in Go can easily understand the subtle influence of the strength of troops on the outcome of a war. If a person who is proficient in chess goes to command a war, he will obviously be very concerned about the safety of his headquarters...

In a real war game, the commander can easily optimize and improve the decision-making of the war through a certain set mode.

Especially for this kind of war between bc civilizations, in fact, people's initiative in war can actually be said to be negligible.Although it has only been a few days since they came to this galaxy, Wu Xiaoqing and the others have cultivated some simple concepts of the starship era by relying on a "spaceship" during these few days.Take Changxing and Changbai, the two people they rescued as an example.

After a battle fails, no matter whether it is the winner or the loser, they will not clean up the battlefield or rescue or kill the fighters in the past like the battle on the earth. The first thing everyone needs to do is to go back for supplies.

Yevgeny once described the particularity of interstellar warfare—the armies of both sides seemed to be marching in a desert ten times larger than the Sahara Desert. It is transparent and there are no secrets at all.The most critical thing that the armies of both sides need to do is to compete for some of the only water sources in the desert.

In Interstellar, these water sources are undoubtedly planets.

A planet can provide almost all material supplies for the army, and most importantly, it can also provide cover and gravity.Gravity is in space what water is in a desert -- saving the military's most precious propulsion fuel.

It can almost be said that the interstellar battle is a fuel-saving battle between the two sides - whoever can use less fuel to complete higher and more efficient combat actions will gain the upper hand.

It is easy to understand why it is difficult for people like Changxing and Changbai to get the support of their own army - because it takes a lot of fuel resources to rescue them, and because of the geographical advantages and initiative of the other side, they can A higher efficiency accomplishes this exchange.

And there is no doubt that it is difficult for human beings to compete with AI in such a combat mode—there is almost no inspiration in this combat mode. As a combat participant, everything is doomed from the moment the spaceship leaves the planet—— —What route do they need to take, what route will the enemy take, where will they meet... The combat simulation program can even help them calculate a winning rate...

The war has become a pure probability game, sometimes they can win, sometimes they lose, but the essence is the same - because victory and defeat have no clear meaning, they will not get any positions, captures and lands, The only thing added to the war is nothing more than small pieces of interstellar garbage in the galaxy...

This battle mode is actually more like the naval battles in the era of sailing warships on the earth. Before the two sides make up their minds to dispatch the main force to confront each other, most of the battles are small and medium-scale defeat battles, chase battles... Before there is no absolute advantage, neither side can fight. Will invest the main force for a decisive battle, even if invested, may not be able to win.

From this perspective, this kind of war seems to be easy to calculate and plan - as long as the two sides compare their respective resources and the current exchange ratio on the battlefield, it is easy to draw a conclusion of the battle.

"This kind of thinking is only half correct," Changbai explained. "The brain is probably using this kind of thinking to plan the war...but for our federation...we can't do it."

"Can't do it?" Wu Xiaoqing was very surprised, "Is it because this kind of calculation is very complicated?" From what Wu Xiaoqing has learned now, it seems that it is not too complicated. From a mathematical point of view, the fighting methods between bc civilizations have actually been extremely simplified, and can almost be regarded as some kind of idealized mathematical model.The weapons and aircraft used by both sides to participate in the war are basically produced under the same industrial standard...

This is simpler than some of the strategy games he has played. In the battle formation between BC, there is no difference in arms types - the only weapon used by both sides is the attack ship.In addition, most other weapons are arranged based on planets, or planetary orbits.

"It's not because it's complicated, but because it's too simple," Changbai said. "I don't know if your civilization has experienced such an experience... For those who participate in the battle, the most terrifying battlefield is not a battlefield that is as complicated as a maze. It is a battlefield as simple as a slaughterhouse... The battle between us and the intelligent body is like gambling life and death with probability. When you are sitting in the attack ship, the computer has actually told you everything. You have A series of choices in abcd, each choice has a different probability number behind it, everyone will choose the best one, we will, and the mind and body will also..."

"But in the end, we'll take turns dying in this game of chance. I don't know if you have any coins, a kind of currency made of metal - with different patterns on both sides. It's just for commemoration now. Our battle It's like a part of the coin with the intelligence body, guess heads and tails, the person who guesses correctly survives, and then change another opponent, and continue guessing..."

"Russian roulette." Wu Xiaoqing almost subconsciously spit out the word.

"what?"

"A term used by our civilization to describe this type of combat. Six bullets can be placed in a weapon. There is a way to put only one bullet in at random, and then shoot in turn..."

"Yes," Changbai understood quickly, "that's the feeling. The most frightening thing is that only you care about your own life and death in this gamble, and your opponent doesn't feel it... The death of a battleship is just two nerve cells lost in his life... But for us, death means everything."

Next, under Wu Xiaoqing's intentional questioning, Changbai began to talk about the war. He told it from the perspective of a soldier. Most of them represent the views of many people on the Second Earth on this war.

From these conversations, Wu Xiaoqing quickly realized that Civilization B is very different from what he imagined...

Before they came here, most people's guesses about this more developed civilization than the earth would first think that this is a more united, more high-spirited, and more pioneering civilization.

Think about the achievements of this civilization - they have completely ruled the entire galaxy, and have established a complete industrial system on almost every planet above and used it.

They were able to make ships that traveled between galaxies, and they could even make ships that colonized galaxies—achievement, either of these, unimaginable feats to Earthlings.

In the consistent thinking of the people on earth, the productivity of a civilization must be closely related to the relationship of production. Since civilization b can make such great progress, their social status is infinitely better than that of the earth.

But since Wu Xiaoqing entered this virtual "earth" and listened to some social scenes described by Changbai and the second consul, Wu Xiaoqing seemed to have some kind of illusion—this great civilization seemed to be on the eve of disintegration.

"For most people, this war is just a product led by the government," the voice of the interpreter of the search and rescue team even brought the subjective attitude of the other party when he said this-it was unabashed contempt, "But for For us, the so-called war ... is really nothing more than a show by politicians."

"Performance?"

"Yes, the performance," said the Second Consul, "is like a military exercise... In the language database you sent, there is a word called "kill chickens to scare monkeys." Yes, this word is very accurate."

"Who do you mean to declare war on AI, but the target is you?"

"Virtual communities based on our three virtual planets," the consul raised his voice, "since the emergence of virtual communities, this kind of struggle has already begun. Now, in order to prevent us from promoting the process of citizen awareness... the government Even at the expense of framing AI and launching a war!"

Wu Xiaoqing's scalp felt numb when he heard it - this one was not what he expected, and the content of the conversation, such a scene, also made him a little at a loss.He almost had the urge to immediately disconnect and exit this virtual world.But the search and rescue team didn't give him any reminders - indicating that the search and rescue team itself didn't think it was reasonable to do so.

Before coming to this virtual world, the search and rescue team held a special meeting internally to confirm the tone of the action this time - they came here as envoys of civilization, and if possible, they should try to avoid getting involved in this civilization internal political struggle.So Wu Xiaoqing's visit this time is entirely with the idea of ​​learning about the local customs - but judging from the current situation, the other party obviously doesn't think so.

"These topics... It seems that I shouldn't be talking about it to an outsider like me," Wu Xiaoqing expressed his position carefully, "We don't know the situation inside your civilization."

"I don't know, it doesn't matter," the second consul said a little excitedly, "I'm here this time, just want to ask, the civilization that you can travel between the galaxies, the overall consciousness of the members of the civilization, or Say, digitalization, what do you think? Is this the only way for civilization to improve itself!"

"This question cannot be answered!" The other party did not continue to speak. This was the answer given to Wu Xiaoqing by the search and rescue team, "It's too sensitive! And suspected of leaking secrets!"

Wu Xiaoqing understands that this is like not being able to tell whether there are other civilizations on the earth that were destroyed by nuclear wars—whether the answer is yes or no, it will cause unnecessary shocks.This principle is like not being able to tell a poor man whether he will become rich in the future-it is wrong to say whether or not to tell.

"I can't answer your question," Wu Xiaoqing said frankly, "The problems encountered by civilization can only be solved within civilization itself."

Speaking of this, the second consul stopped knowingly.At this time, the submersible seemed to have just left the tunnel, and the scenery outside the porthole turned into darkness again. Just as Wu Xiaoqing was about to stay in the dark, thinking about how to guide the next topic, Wu Xiaoqing suddenly saw the darkness outside the window surrounded by several A bright beam of light pierced through, and before he knew what happened, several "faces" suddenly appeared on the outer wall of the window, one of them obviously saw several people sitting inside, flapping and diving excitedly The glass case of the device...