Planetary Museum

"Changxing," a voice came from the darkness, and the content was his name, "Damn...why is it so dark here...you are abusing my client."

The lights turned on, and the fresh air system, humidity system, and temperature system all started to operate, and the warm air flowed continuously from the small holes around the room towards Changxing. Changxing squinted his eyes and looked in the direction where the bright light appeared. At a glance, he could feel a figure staring at him.

"Is it Changxing?" The other party asked, "How is your physical condition now? Have they tortured you?"

Changxing closed his eyes: "I don't need a lawyer."

"According to federal law..."

"I don't need a lawyer," Changxing repeated, "you can go."

The other party had already entered the room at this time, came in front of him, and sat down on the seat opposite him: "If you refuse any form of defense, they may even sentence you to death. Since 280 years, the entire The first death penalty in the Federation!"

Changxing's body trembled slightly, but he didn't speak.

The lawyer took out the communicator in his hand and played the collected information in the room. Soon there appeared in the air the picture of Changxing leading Shen Changwen and Xu Yan to shoot back at the police, and then the video of taking them onto the aircraft lens.

"The government has ample evidence. It is a wartime crime against civilization. Once convicted, the probability of the death penalty exceeds 60.00%." ​​Speaking of this, the lawyer called out the comments with the largest number of replies under the video. "In addition, public opinion It's not very beneficial to you... But if you try your best, there is still room for fighting, but the government insists on prosecuting you according to the standards of the military court, and even this variable is gone."

The lawyer paused after speaking: "But we are not completely without opportunities."

Changxing turned around, met the lawyer's eyes, and immediately understood the hint in his eyes: "I won't plead guilty."

"Now it's not a question of whether you plead guilty or not," the lawyer patiently explained to Changxing, "The important thing is that people in the entire Federation think you are guilty. From the perspective of legal facts, whether you plead guilty or not is already guilty." gone."

"But I won't admit it."

"What's the point of that?" The lawyer put forward the plan he had thought up, "In fact, if you choose to cooperate with the government and are willing to cooperate, I can guarantee that you will stay in the game for at most ten years in the end, the second and third Fourth, you can choose any of the three virtual communities."

Changxing opened his eyes again. This time he stared blankly at the other party. The lawyer burst out laughing after a long time: "Did they fail in their arrest operation? Haha, you didn't find them."

"Yes," the lawyer admitted, "that's why I'm here, and that's why you have a chance."

"They..." Changxing's expression became lively, he jumped up from the bed, paced back and forth excitedly in the room, and said as he walked, "Do they want you to convince me to contact Changbai?" , so that you can catch them?"

The lawyer shook his head: "It's not that simple."

He paused before he said again: "Do you know the People's Army? The Second Earth?"

"I know," Changxing said in surprise, "how did you get involved with these people?"

"The accident during their escape," the lawyer showed Changxing the video recorded by the police in front, "The People's Army helped them escape, and now they may be in danger."

"Danger?"

"Haven't you heard of the People's Army?" the lawyer explained. "They are a group of outright rioters."

"That's just in a game," Changxing said disapprovingly. "The Second Earth is just a game. Since it's a game, it's no surprise that there are pros and cons."

"But they have been trying to bring the behavior in the virtual world to reality," the lawyer reminded. "The super bombing four years ago...haven't you heard of it?"

"I've heard of it, but it's just a naive idea. Why, do you think they can realize it?"

The case the lawyer mentioned was a criminal case with great influence in the federal area at that time. Some members of the People's Army collected a total of 50 kilograms of antimatter through various channels for more than [-] years, and prepared to use it They are used as bombs and detonated on the earth.Their ultimate goal is not to cause any destruction—but they just want to blow up part of the "earth" in this way to form a de facto "new planet" and complete independence.

It is said that for this operation, they also accurately calculated the mass of the entire earth, and ensured that the part that was finally blown out was exactly the ratio of the entire people's army to the total number of the federation—that is, they wanted to take away their own In the "property" of the Federation, realize the real "separation", and then make it an independent country or civilization.

In the end, this farce was only known by their insiders who took the initiative to leak information.

It wasn't until the police found the antimatter storage tanks that they realized the whole thing wasn't an Internet joke.

However, when many experts analyzed this case afterwards, they also mentioned that the power of 20kg of antimatter is not enough to explode the part they want to be independent. The explosion will only form a huge earthquake at most, and then gravity The function will automatically fill up these gaps-this process will cause a huge disaster on the spot, but the effect of "separation" and independence... obviously cannot be achieved.

It was also because of this incident that the People's Army, a small group in the Second Federation game, was known to the entire Federation.

Since then, the People's Army has been defined as an illegal organization on the First Earth, but in this way, their reputation on the Second Earth has become even greater.But that is a virtual community, the independence of the virtual community has been officially determined by law, and all governments have nothing to do with them.

It's just that no one would have imagined that such an organization would have an intersection with reality again in such a time.

"I don't think they will cause aliens... any harm to Changbai," the lawyer's explanation did not convince Changxing, "On the contrary, I think their safety is now being fully guaranteed. The federal government must be at the end of its rope now." Well... that's why I thought of asking me, a traitor of the entire civilization, to find them back... There are tens of thousands of virtual communities attached to the second earth... If the entire Federation is mobilized, I am afraid it is impossible to find these people .”

"That's why you have a chance to escape..."

The lawyer was only halfway through when he was interrupted by Changxing: "A chance to escape? It's a chance to betray a friend, right?"

"They betrayed the entire alliance," the lawyer reminded Changxing, "Do you really believe that these aliens saved you to save the entire alliance?"

"No, of course I don't believe it," Changxing said with a contemptuous smile, "I don't even believe that the federal government sent you to find me just to care about my life."

"We are all mature people, Changxing," the lawyer said with a different tone, "You can keep your dissatisfaction with the federal government for yourself. At this moment, what we are talking about is just a deal..."

"Hey, the more important thing is..." The lawyer stepped closer: "Hey, you should understand that those aliens who really saved you are unscathed at this moment! Maybe they don't know what happened until now! You saved Those few are just a program...and you are going to die for these programs now, think about it, how absurd this is."

"Is it ridiculous?" Changxing said, "But I don't think so."

The lawyer looked at him in surprise: "You also support the digitization of consciousness?"

"No," Changxing replied, after the lawyer breathed a sigh of relief, but said, "I oppose this technology precisely because I know the most terrifying thing about this technology-in my opinion, it can be like mass production. The mass production of personality is the same as the procedure, which is the most serious trampling on our human dignity."

"I don't understand..." the lawyer said, "Since we all have the same idea, why did you save those few data?"

"Is it the same?" Changxing glanced at the lawyer, "It's completely different. In the eyes of the federal government, data is just data, and even in your eyes, people are just a kind of data—you know when we asked for help ?Why won't the Third Fleet come to our rescue?"

"It's simple, because it's not worth it. It may take 2000 or more people to save the two of us. In war, human lives are nothing but numbers."

"But in our eyes, whether it is a program or a person, as long as they have the ability to think, they are all individuals worthy of respect-what I object to is that the ability to create such individuals should not be easily given to any organization or person, because Our current civilization can't harness this force - the ai's rebellion is the best sign. The aliens are the same, and the alien databodies are the same! Once they appear, I will not treat them as mere numbers deal with!"

When Changxing was speaking, the lawyer kept staring at his eyes and movements. After he finished speaking, the lawyer knew that he would definitely not be able to complete his task this time.

——The person in front of him is like a cannonball ready to explode at any time, full of strong emotions of self-sacrifice for a certain purpose.

The death penalty... may not be called a threat to such a person. For such an idealist, living in such a world that can abandon them is a nightmare in itself.

Death was nothing but a relief to him.

"If you insist on your approach." The lawyer stood up, bowed to Changxing, and walked out of the small cell.

"The trial will start in two days," the lawyer finally reminded when the door was closed. "If you change your mind, please contact me at any time...After the trial is announced, there will be no turning back."

"How long will it be executed?" Changxing asked, "How long after the trial will the execution be executed?"

"Soon," said the lawyer, "His Excellency the Consul . . . took your case personally."

"Then I'm relieved." Changxing watched the lawyer's figure leave the room, and then the room lights dimmed. In this darkness, Changxing stared at the wall for a long time. For some reason, he suddenly laughed, Then he closed his eyes again and returned to the way he was in the room at the beginning.