Planetary Museum

"You already knew that, didn't you?"

Wu Qing nodded, Shen Wen smiled, Xu Yan couldn't tell whether it was a mockery or a wry smile, maybe both - this kind of smile appeared on a federal person's face, it looked so awkward.

"We've been wondering why you haven't figured it out yet."

"I didn't know you could talk about it!" Xu Yan felt angry almost subconsciously, and after this anger, he suddenly began to realize a more serious problem, "You all knew it early on, and you must have known what to do, right? ? Not only am I fake, but you two are also fake!"

Xu Yan was like a person who fell into the water and immediately grabbed the straw to save his life, and immediately asked: "Then what should we do? You must have a solution, right?"

Xu Yan looked at Wu Qing: "Aren't you the most familiar with the search and rescue team? Have you ever seen such an awesome civilization, a spaceship can be exchanged for a hair... He never told you that when encountering such a How are things going?"

Wu Qing shook her head: "What you said... I actually don't remember."

"I remember everything, don't you remember?"

"Yes," Wu Qing said, "I just know that I have that memory, but when I really try to recall it...it's gone."

Xu Yan turned his head away in disbelief, and looked at Shen Wen again: "Professor, what about you? You don't remember either? What about the books you've read?"

Shen Wen smiled bitterly: "Knowledge on Earth is useless here."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"There's nothing to do," Wu Qing said, "Now everything is about tasks."

"Mission?" Xu Yan was about to jump up, "They don't even recognize us! We still help them complete the mission?"

What Xu Yan was talking about was obviously the real Xu Yan, the miser who refused to share the common wealth with him...even though that person was himself.

Wu Qing nodded: "At least this is the only thing we can do now."

Shen Wen also said: "They didn't abandon us, it's just...we are completely different from them."

In this contact, the information sent by the search and rescue team did not clearly indicate the future arrangements for their fate, but only stated that everything is still being discussed at the consultation meeting on the earth.But he also expressed some unspoken meaning during the contact—that is, their fate might not be that simple.

Wu Qing and Shen Wen got together, and after discussing a few words, they basically figured it out.

Since the search and rescue team said it so euphemistically, what it really meant was obviously not good news.

And bad, how bad can it be?

Wu Qing and Shen Wen thought in this direction, combined with this mission, they now understand their own situation.

"You mean to say that if they can't catch us, we will take the initiative to send them to our door and cooperate with them?" After hearing the two of them's opinions, Xu Yan was so surprised that he almost fell from ear to ear, "God knows they What will happen to us!"

"We will be fine." After discussing with Shen Wen, the current Wu Qing has basically figured out these issues, including the way of cooperation, their possible future fate, and the interaction with the search and rescue team." Just like the real Wu Xiaoqing and the others, they are all fine now."

Xu Yan hadn't turned his mind for a while: "How can it be all right! We are wanted criminals! They caught us...they will definitely force us to tell the purpose! Can we say it?"

"This has nothing to do with whether it is possible or not," Shen Wendao, "Once you choose to cooperate...in fact, many things will be out of control...but it's hard to say, this kind of thing..."

He looked at Wu Qing, and Wu Qing also looked at him.

From receiving to contacting until now, the two of them have been paying attention to this issue.

Their current situation is like a few people standing on the top of a snow-capped mountain with a steep ski run in front of them.If they choose not to move at the top of the mountain, everything seems to be manageable - the only problem is time, the cold will gradually make them lose their temperature, and it is likely that they will be incapacitated before they make it to safety .

Corresponding to reality, this low temperature is the situation of war.

The longer the delay, the fewer opportunities for the Federation.

And choosing to cooperate is undoubtedly choosing a channel to solve problems quickly. This channel is fast, but once they choose, the situation they face will become extremely complicated.

"After the cooperation, the first thing the federal government will do is to copy us," of course this is only the first step, but the latter part will become faster and faster, "they will make tens of millions, Even tens of billions of us... At that time, what leaks or not leaks secrets... It's all irrelevant details. From a statistical point of view, leaks are certain, and we can't hide it, and it's impossible to hide it. We We can only control ourselves, but what about the other tens of billions of replicas?"

Xu Yan was completely stunned by Shen Wen's crazy idea of ​​tens of billions of replicas, and his tone began to tremble: "Aren't they... just like us? If we don't say..."

"Who said it's the same? Are you the same now as when you just came here to participate in the mission?"

When he first came to carry out this mission, Xu Yan's mind was full of the idea of ​​actively performing in this mission, striving for "contributions", and then being his own, but now... If there is a portal back to Earth, Xu Yan is willing to go through it immediately. Go in, even if he resigns from Qinglan Consulting later, he never wants to live the life of riding a roller coaster now.Hearing what Shen Wen said just now, Xu Yan felt that he had already stepped on the gate of hell.

"People will change," Wu Qing also said, "and they will change with the environment, and the speed of this change is even faster than we think. Even if these replicas are ourselves, what kind of consequences will they face? The environment, what challenges they will encounter, and how they will respond... We will never know. In this regard, the federal people must have more experience than us... As long as they design this kind of environmental change, they will definitely be able to get what they want. All the information you need."

Xu Yan began to roughly understand what Wu Qing said: "If we are all copied, what about us? What will we do?"

"I don't know," Wu Qing said, "Maybe they will put us aside as backup data and won't do anything to us, but they don't rule out treating them as ordinary replicas. We don't know the technology of consciousness digitization." Understand...once we choose this path, we cannot control ourselves later.”

Xu Yan felt himself breaking out in a cold sweat.

At this time, there was a knock on the door - this is Wu Qing's personal game space. This knock on the door is a system sound effect he set, which means that someone is applying to enter this space.

Wu Qing looked at the information and found that it was Changbai.

"He must have known it too," Shen Wen said. "The information is open to him, and he also has a Chinese character library."

Other federal people, including people from the People's Army, although they have read the original text of the contact, because they do not have the corresponding text library, they must not know the meaning.

"It's probably because he came to speak with us," Shen Wen said, "Let him in."

Changbai came here because of the content of this contact, and conveyed Changhong's opinion: "People from the People's Army feel that the search and rescue team...is not sincere. They thought they would support us with some weapons, or take them to the search and rescue ship. Go see."

Wu Qing did not speak. The search and rescue ship did not carry weapons. This is the biggest secret of their trip, and it must not be easily revealed to the People's Army.When persuading Changhong before, Wu Qing used the reason that he might get corresponding support, but now the support has not been seen, and even the text sent is completely incomprehensible, which obviously makes Changhong feel that he has been used.

In fact, it was true that Wu Qing was using them, and it seemed that they would soon lose their use value.

Now Wu Qing has no time to think about the People's Army. After seeing Changbai, he is more concerned about cooperating with the government.

"Cooperation?" Changbai was stunned by Wu Qing's idea.After listening, he shook his head subconsciously, "Don't even think about this idea! It's impossible!"

"why?"

Changbai didn't explain directly, but paused for a moment, then changed his tone and said, "Actually, I have some bad news to tell you today. Changxing is dead."

"died?"

"His death sentence...was carried out," Changbai said. "The federal government will not talk to you about any morals, nor will it keep any promises to you. As long as conditions permit, they will turn their backs at any time. If you really Choosing to cooperate with the government...that would be a disaster for the entire Federation."

"Disaster?" Wu Qing felt that Changbai was a bit sensational, "At least it can stop your military failure."

"The intelligence's attack is not a threat to us. I believe you have all heard that many federal people are ready to surrender to the intelligence."

"Keep intelligence... may not accept your surrender." The path Changbai said would have been feasible without the existence of the mysterious A civilization.The federal government will fall amid internal strife and foreign aggression, and eventually the federal civilization will transform into a new civilization that is dominated by AI and supplemented by humans, and even humans are completely eliminated.

However, the existence of Civilization A, as well as the attitude of the federal government that it is doomed to fail willingly, completely blocked this road—as long as the federal government was forced by the military situation to launch colonization ships towards the galaxy where Civilization A was located in an attempt to protect itself, the two civilizations Almost certainly finished together.

But there is no way to tell Changbai about this reason, and this is also kept secret.

The most ironic thing is that Wu Qing himself still remembers a vague outline of this confidential content—he doesn't even remember the whole process of his dealings with Civilization A, and the detailed reasons for exchanging his hair for spaceships.He just remembered the existence of such a powerful civilization in his mind.

That is to say, when his duplicate body was obtained by the federal government, his memory was unconvincing. The content that needs to be kept secret cannot be told to friends, because friends will believe it, but it has no value of keeping secrets from enemies—— Because the enemy will subconsciously question the accuracy of the replica's memory.

"If you cooperate with the government... your replicas will cause a huge moral crisis. Can you imagine that lives exactly like you, countless lives, are bound in spaceships, for some reasons called by the federal government, to carry out Is it a meaningless war? If this war continues in this way, the worst result... is that the entire 15 planets of the federation may be completely consumed by the war in the end."

Wu Qing has seen the situation Changbai mentioned in the game. In the game, this kind of ending is the worst ending, because both sides lose, completely lost.

It's not the same as simply losing one side. Even if one side loses, they just lost control of civilization in the game. The winner will step on the corpse of the loser, and continue the fire of civilization in this galaxy.But if you encounter this kind of lose-lose situation-the 15 planets in the entire solar system will completely become a completely fragmented asteroid belt because of the war.

The mass of the planet will be split into countless mass particles composed of battleships, which will be scattered throughout the galaxy.Without a stable source of gravity and a solid foundation for survival, no matter how brilliant a civilization is, it will gradually dim like a torch without fuel, and eventually disappear.