Planetary Museum

After the game is selected, a swirl-like special effect appears in the animation of the entire game visually. According to the hint of translucency in the inconspicuous part, this special effect can be changed, for example, it can be turned into a gate, a cave, or It's a device like a nebula.

Wu Qing didn't pay attention to these, he turned his head, looked at Changbai and Changhong behind him, and suddenly felt that the two "real" people, compared with the illusory world in front of him, seemed so thin and fragile.

As long as he is certain in his mind, he will enter a separate game world - in it, as long as he does not have contact with the outside world, theoretically no one can find him, and naturally no one can hurt him.But at the same time, it also means that no one will help him and remind him that after that, everything depends on Wu Qing himself.

In order to minimize the possibility of exposure, Changbai Changhong and the others hid in different games separately. The goal of a group of people playing together for a long time is too big.

Especially Changbai, he is now nominally retired, but Changbai is still under the management of the military organization, his physical address and corresponding data are public, and the military can investigate his computing resources in the virtual world at any time Consumption—almost certainly they are already tracking this way, and if he also enters the same game world together, it may soon be exposed due to the characteristics of computing resources.

Each game has its own unique characteristic value for the degree of consumption of computing resources-this is the same as the fingerprint of the game itself.By monitoring a person, it is easy to infer what specific game that person is playing. If Changbai followed Wu Qing to go deeper, it would be convenient for the federal government to follow this clue to capture Wu Qing.

But this kind of tracking can only track the characteristic value at most. It is like on the earth, based on the photos and information posted by a person on Facebook, roughly analyzing the person's recent living conditions. It is essentially a kind of intelligence analysis.It's just that the Federation's technology is more advanced, and the accuracy of details is also higher.

However, relying on this kind of analysis to accurately pinpoint their area and location... is still far from being achieved, just like there are satellite maps on the earth, but it is difficult to track and lock a person only by satellite. — Let alone searching for a person directly.

"Go in," Changbai finally told Wu Qing, "remember to stay vigilant inside, don't believe all information, including mine, only my information and Changhong's information are completely consistent..."

"Also," Changbai continued to remind: "... When you leave the game, you must not leave this building unless we come to pick you up. You can freely switch between game worlds, but remember not to communicate with anyone else— The traces of foreign culture on your body are too heavy, and it is easy to be targeted by federal investigators."

"Will Shen Changwen and Xu Yan come in the future?"

"Yes, because of your special situation here, I can only arrange for you first... They are safe for the time being. After you enter the game, I will find a way to arrange them into the game and let you meet once."

After Changbai said this, Wu Qing still looked at Changbai, until Changbai didn't speak for a long time, just nodded, Wu Qing turned around and nodded in his consciousness.

In an instant, the vortex in front of him began to grow bigger.

Wind and Cloud of the Solar System is a game that simulates the current federal civilization. It is essentially a political game. The main simulated history in the game is the historical process of the Federation's "solar system" in the past 1000 years, as well as the deduction of the future.

For an alien like Wu Qing, this game is undoubtedly the best tool to understand their civilization.If aliens really come to the earth and need the fastest time to understand the development history of the entire earth, it is estimated that the fastest and most efficient way is not to catch a few earthlings for experiments, but to find the game platform of the earth. Download "Civilization 6" and have a good time. ——Maybe after a few games, the alien's lifespan will be exhausted, after all, one round of this bastard game lasts for one night.

……

Shen Changwen has already learned how to use a communicator to connect to the network in this world, so he has received a lot of bad news: he can now be sure - Changxing, the Changxing who rescued them, has now been arrested .

The result of the trial has come out, just half an hour ago - the death penalty.

This is the first death sentence in the entire federation in nearly a thousand years, and the execution time is three months later.

It is said that the execution method is the instantaneous vaporization of high-energy laser... This can ensure that there is no corpse after death, and prevent anyone from "resurrecting" him in the virtual world through the most cutting-edge consciousness replication technology, usually the dead brain of Changxing come out. ——Really and completely wiped out.

Judging from the public opinion on the Internet, it is obvious that many people in the federation now believe that the current federation already has such a technology.

Xu Yan doesn't seem to understand what happened until now, and he keeps asking Shen Changwen if he has found any information about the search and rescue ship on the Internet - he is still thinking about how to send the information into space so that The search and rescue team came to rescue them.

But Shen Changwen, no, in fact, he changed himself to Shen Wen just like Wu Qing, and Shen Wen knew that all this was impossible.

Unlike Wu Qing, Shen Changwen knew almost all the technological progress of the Federation on the digitization of consciousness through the Internet in his temporary habitat. He only needed a little logical reasoning to understand his current state—they just It is just a piece of data that has been copied and left here.

Before participating in this mission, Shen Changwen had already made some psychological preparations when he learned about the danger of this mission. He originally thought that he might die in a completely unfamiliar civilization because of a mistake in the mission——but Nothing to be afraid of.Living to Shen Changwen's age, having achieved so many achievements, to be able to have such an experience after he gets old... Shen Changwen feels that his life is fully worth it.

But the reality was more complicated than he imagined.

Shen Changwen began to realize that, compared with death, the more terrifying reality seemed to be eternal, living without his own control.

like they are now.

All other federal citizens in the Second Earth, although they have many virtual roles and identities, are essentially the same as Earth people. Behind each role is a real body and brain.

Although the current medical level of the Federation is very advanced, people can live an average of 800 years. Considering the hibernation technology, it may not be impossible to live for [-] years... But no matter how long they live, they will eventually age and die.Although the Federation's technology has been able to completely clone humans and treat almost all diseases...but the Federation has no good way to deal with the aging of the brain.

The mainstream medical community has begun to discuss the ethics of brain transplant surgery - this is not a brain transplant operation on earth where one person's head is replaced with another person's body.The brain replacement that the federal people are discussing now is to completely "copy" a person's brain by physical methods, even including the information in the brain-this is what it means to digitize consciousness.

Different from the real "silicon-based school", brain replacement surgery is only through the technology of digitizing consciousness, first storing the information in the human brain through the medium of data, and then reinjecting the data back A new body - this technology is obviously much more difficult than the simple digitization of consciousness. Even in the Federation, the latter is only an experimental scientific attempt and has no forming technology.

In other words, for the federal people, they always have to die.

But Shen Changwen, Xu Yan, and Wu Xiaoqing who haven't met yet, Wu Xiaoqing in this world is different from all of them.

For the federal people, because the legislation of consciousness dataization has not been completed, everyone will eventually have to correspond to a carbon-based body constructed of cells in real life, but for the current Shen Wen, he has already It is impossible to find the body corresponding to me. That body is still on the search and rescue ship and can go back to the body of the earth at any time.

Perhaps because of the mission, Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing will return to the voyage again, and contact them or the Federation civilization in a new way, but what about after the contact?

Is it possible for them to go back to Earth?Even if they want to go back, are they willing to go back, is there an environment on earth that can accommodate their life forms?

Just the hardware facilities of the second earth... It is simply an unreasonable miracle in the eyes of the people on the whole earth!The storage media of the entire Second Earth had a total mass of more than 60 billion tons when the server was first opened!What is this concept?One trillionth of the mass of the entire earth sounds small, but what if [-] Nimitz-class aircraft carriers add up?

These storage media are more than the total memory of the entire earth... If you simply calculate the storage density, it will be billions of times more...

Not to mention the software technology needed to maintain this life form - Shen Wen can see the entire computer technology development process of the entire federation on the Internet. After a rough calculation, no matter how high his confidence in human beings is... Without thousands of years, it is impossible for human beings to complete the magnificent construction process of this scale.

This is like in the era of Qin Shihuang, asking Qin Shihuang to build an aircraft carrier, it is impossible to unify the whole world for him.

The technical levels of the two civilizations are not at the same level at all.

In other words, technically, they are actually destined to be Federation people, not Earth people. Although they still have a complete Earth mindset, what they think about is the success or failure of this rescue mission...

"Professor," Xu Yan started to ask stupid questions again, since he came here, his questions never stopped, "Why are we never hungry or thirsty..."

"This is a virtual world! Our bodies are all decorations... Does your original body have hair?"

"But I still want to eat KFC..." Xu Yan thought about it, "Can you tell me if they can change it into a KFC here... By the way, eating here won't make you gain weight, isn't it okay to smoke and drink? ?”

Shen Wen's heart was about to explode, and he regretted it extremely now - how could he have thought of bringing Xu Yan here, and expected to train him.

"Professor Shen, did I say the wrong thing again?" Xu Yan's ability to observe words and expressions was still there, he thought for a while, and then cautiously continued, "The news seems to say that our spaceship is missing... You said search and rescue Will the team think this task is too difficult... just go back to Earth and leave us alone?"

It was hard for Shen Wen to imagine how the poor guy would react when he told the truth to Xu Yan.But he opened his mouth, still didn't say anything, just explained his doubt: "The search and rescue ship will not go to the earth, that would be a serious leak, and the impact on the earth will be devastating, even more serious than not being able to complete this mission .It should be on the back side of the star, but it’s just not visible for the time being.”

It wasn't that Shen Wen was soft-hearted, it was because he began to realize that the truth was actually meaningless to them now, if possible, he really wished that he was Xu Yan now - at least this way he could foolishly keep hope.not like myself...

And Wu Xiaoqing—with Wu Xiaoqing's current state of intelligence, it will be a matter of time before he understands this truth. ——Maybe earlier than me, no, definitely not earlier than me.

What will he do?

The door of the room was opened at this time, Changbai walked in quietly and quickly, then immediately locked the door, and watched carefully for a while.

After confirming that there should be no one following him, he said to Shen Wen: "Get ready to go, Wu Xiaoqing is safe now, I will take you to see him now."

"Is it the game building you mentioned?"

"Yes," Changbai looked at Shen Wen's eyes, as if he could see his confusion and uneasiness, and comforted him, "Don't think too much... When you see Wu Xiaoqing, many problems will be solved."