Planetary Museum

Second Federation.

The sun is setting, and there is light rain like fog in the sky. The sun has dyed the clouds in the sky into colorful colors, just like the rainbow on the earth.

This is the favorite natural scenery of the federal people. They call this scene the transition of light and dark. In many virtual games, the most common scenery is this scene, and it is the same now.

Wu Qing did not know the background of this game in advance, but judging from his understanding of Federation games during this period of time, his understanding of Earth games in his hazy memory, and his feeling after entering this world, this should be a classical game— —Because there are no modern elements in the game world.

Unlike the people on Earth who became nomadic or farming civilizations after entering the civilized age, the people of the Federation have continued to live in caves, because they are smaller than the people on Earth, and they inevitably have a lot of natural enemies in nature.

Even in modern times, words like "ground" and "under the sun" in the dictionary of the Commonwealth still represent a dangerous world.

For the ancient federal people, the most comfortable time is the twilight world. At that time, most of the predators have returned to their lairs, and the sun has not completely set. At this time, the bravest federal people in ancient times will come out of the underground caves. Come out from the middle, take a look at the incredible beauty on the ground, and then present these scenery to the compatriots underground through the form of art.

These people who come out all possess great courage, and at the same time must have a considerable romantic temperament. In the words of the Federation, the meaning of poet and warrior are often the same word.

This should be such a game that simulates the ancient life of the Federation, and Wu Xiaoqing's current role is a poet.

Only by entering the game in person will you know that the ancient federal "poet" is really not that easy to be.

Within Wu Qing's visual range, a huge, dinosaur-like beast was hovering not far from the entrance of the cave. Judging from the size comparison, the actual size of this beast should be similar to that of an ordinary wild boar when placed on the earth. , but from the biological point of view of the federal people, it appeared in front of Wu Qing at this moment, but it seemed to be a moving mountain.

"It's incredible," Wu Qing said to Changhong and Changbai who brought them here, "It's hard to imagine how you survived in such an environment!"

"History books say that we didn't have the ability to really deal with these pigs until we entered the industrial age," Changbai said, "but now we don't need to be afraid, all of these are visual backgrounds."

"Won't this make you feel scared?" Shen Wen looked at the surrounding environment and said, because this kind of wild boar is not the only one.Not far from them, there are a few weasel-like animals—but they already look as terrifying as leopards and tigers. "Or do you like this stimulating background?"

"It's just nostalgia, to get back the savagery in our genes," Changhong told Wu Qing, "Our current life is too far away from reality. You may not believe it. Many people don't even know the federal government until now. There's a war."

This does not make Wu Qing feel strange, such a virtual world can almost make people stay in it for a lifetime.Not to mention this kind of completely virtual world, on the earth, many people just play computer games, and they can stay away for years and months. It seems that they are staying in their own rooms, but in fact they are living in another form. virtual life.

Changhong went back to the room, and after a while took out a torch, and Changbai behind her brought a large bundle of firewood and some black stones that looked like coal.Soon, a bonfire was lit in this world. At this time, the sunset in the sky was almost completely down. Wu Qing raised his head and saw three moons of different sizes and shapes, and a sky full of moons. star.

Wu Xiaoqing paid special attention to the constellations. Unfortunately, there is no familiar constellation pattern in his impression. In fact, Shen Wen has already confirmed this point.

The earth had turned black at this time, and bonfires gradually began to appear on the distant horizon, and soon Wu Qing noticed that some people with torches were rushing here one after another.

There were more and more people, and the dots of torches could almost catch up with the moon in the sky. Their bonfire seemed to have some kind of gravitational force, attracting all the torches.In front of Wu Qing, more and more people began to gather together, but none of them spoke, but sat around the campfire one by one.

The light of the bonfire fluctuated from day to day, Wu Qin stood up, took a look around, and found that people around them were already full of people at some point, and more torches were still appearing at the end of the horizon, showing no sign of stopping .

Wu Qing glanced at Changbai, and Changbai nodded at him—everything went smoothly as planned.

When the crowd was almost filling the edge of Wu Xiaoqing's field of vision, Changhong stood up in front of the campfire and raised a torch so that everyone could see her face clearly.

"Comrades," Wu Qing almost laughed when he saw the Chinese subtitles automatically given by the translation program. After entering the Black Star, the last live broadcast channel on the Black Star has also been cut off, and the Black Star has completely fallen."

"The federal government must be held accountable for this!"

"This government is not good, it is too incompetent!"

……

The crowd below started to yell, but when Changhong raised his hand, it fell silent again.

"Our people's army has long given up any hope for the federal government, and the government's failure has long been expected," Changhong said. "Today, we are calling everyone here to help the federal government fall into the greatest crisis. Thoroughly unite all of our forces to save the fate of the entire Federation. I believe you have all heard the public speeches of the search and rescue team, and during this time, you have also heard some rumors."

"Now, what I want to tell you is that what you heard is true."

"The three members of the search and rescue team, who are wanted by the federal government, have always been in the federation. Now, please cheer for the guests who came from afar!"

The light of several torches immediately illuminated the faces of Wu Qing and the three of them, and the eyes of everyone around them gathered at once, as if the heat of the torches made Wu Qing feel hot all over.

He nodded to Shen Wen and Xu Yan, and then the three of them stood up together, glanced at everyone around them, and acknowledged their identities.

The crowd began to boil, and some people couldn't help shouting: "Long live the search and rescue team, long live peace!"

"Long live peace!" everyone else began to shout.

The torches in the crowd also began to light up at this time, and countless torches undulated like waves along with the sound.

Wu Xiaoqing frowned when he heard this. During this period of time, he had met many federal people on the Internet, and most of them gave him a good impression, with good reason and balance ability, but these people in front of him... from this From a point of view, the quality of personnel absorbed by this organization called the People's Army can be seen.

On the other hand, Xu Yan, who was next to him, seemed to be very familiar with this atmosphere. Looking at the crowds of people around him, he seemed to have begun to enter a certain state.

After the enthusiasm of Changhong and other people receded a little, they continued: "We already knew before that the root of the AI ​​rebellion lies in the government, in the greedy bureaucracy!"

"Faced with a new technology that could improve the future of all federal people, the bureaucrats of the federation are eager for quick success, forcibly expanding the scope of ai's application, and trying to use ai to replace everyone's jobs. They almost succeeded, and then encountered failed..."

"After the failure, they still put all the blame on AI! However, justice may be late, but it will never be absent! Now, we invite the representatives of the search and rescue team to say a few words for us!"

Everyone started to wave the torches in their hands, and the red and yellow flames from far or near dyed the world in front of them almost into a golden ocean.

Wu Qing began to talk about the manuscript he had prepared a long time ago: "As a representative of the search and rescue team, we have done some basic understanding of your civilization during this period of time in the Federation. Now, I can basically draw a conclusion that even if But in the entire universe, the Federation civilization can still be counted as an outstanding civilization!"

The flames and cheers surged like a tide, and when they receded a little, Wu Qing continued: "Like all other carbon-based creatures, you have undergone evolutionary selection as creatures; like all other civilizations that have survived, you have experienced The failures and growths that civilizations must experience in the growth of civilizations are social and cultural, as well as scientific and technological; just like those civilizations that eventually matured and became great, you began to use spaceships to go to the stars, and use computing to pioneer..."

"...But we all know and can understand that every step of civilization is not easy, and in this step you have taken a small wrong step - but this step, if not corrected, will be on the wrong path Go farther and farther up."

"The universe is so big that any civilization can get completely lost in this vast world if it takes a slight step away."

"We are the search and rescue team. We came to the Federation to help you correct that small step."

After Wu Qing finished speaking, Changhong followed Wu Qing's words and talked a lot—more than an hour.

These words are only a small part of the front, which is the continuation of the meaning of Wu Xiaoqing's words, but more content is still the internal affairs of their people's army.

Wu Xiaoqing had already learned about the history of the People’s Army organization on the Internet in detail before. To be honest, since the emergence of virtual communities, there have been as many half-political, half-game organizations like this. There is a joke that the entire Federation has more than 200 billion people, the name of such an organization may be more than 2000 billion.

On average, each federal person has joined more than a dozen organizations, just like the game guilds in online games in Wu Qingma's vague memory of the earth. Obviously, such organizations have little binding force on people.

In the earliest days, the People's Army was such a standard game organization. The name People's Army was just a random name made up by everyone at the time. The earliest organizers of this organization were just playing role-playing in the game. Everyone played a group of anti-social That’s all for the criminals in the virtual game—it’s obviously one of the most popular behaviors in the early days of the virtual game.

However, as the entire virtual community matures, it turns out that it was just a place for false play, and gradually order inevitably emerges.

It's not that players hate crimes in the game—because it's the same as PK in the Earth online game, strictly speaking, it's still an important part of the game, but because as the virtual community becomes more and more influential , people began to pick and choose the rules in the virtual world with realistic eyes.

The virtual community was originally a reckless place, but after receiving enough attention from the whole society, everyone began to think that the virtual community should be regarded as a federal utopia in a sense, and it should be a place that is more beautiful than the real world. , which is more attractive.

As soon as the signs of idealism appeared, an irreversible trend appeared. The virtual community began to become more and more like reality. Reality is not the same way of life...