Planetary Museum

When Wu Xiaoqing walked into the company's gate, Yan Yan noticed at a glance that the boss of the company had a strange expression on his face: "Mr. Wu, what's wrong with you? Are you sick?"

Wu Xiaoqing couldn't see the slightest trace of blood on his face, his lips were chapped, and his eyes were red, as if he had been up all night for several consecutive nights without rest.

Yan Yan suddenly thought that he had indeed not seen Mr. Wu for several days recently.

It's just that the company has been busy recently, and Wu Xiaoqing rarely goes in and out. Yan Yan subconsciously ignored this, but now it seems that Mr. Wu has obviously encountered something.

"Have a glass of milk, Mr. Wu," Yan Yan handed him the milk she had just warmed up and was about to drink, "then go back to sleep."

Wu Xiaoqing took it, and seemed to want to walk into his office, but he stood at the door in a daze for a while, but only sat down by a workstation at the door of the office.

The original employee at that station immediately felt nervous, and quickly switched to the work interface.While drinking milk, Wu Xiaoqing turned his head to look at his screen... Just staring blankly at this unlucky employee, he quickly completed the information summary of a consultation meeting at a speed three to five times faster than usual .

When the second summary was almost finished, Wu Xiaoqing finally finished his milk before he stood up and went back to his office.

Fifteen minutes later, Shen Changwen also came back. He looked like Wu Xiaoqing, he was a bit out of his wits... Even his hair looked a lot grayer.

Yan Yan also poured him a glass of milk, and then went to report the situation to Chen She. Chen She came out to check on the teacher's situation, but Shen Changwen had already walked into Wu Xiaoqing's room at this time.

"Are you too busy?" Yan Yan asked concerned, "How many meetings are there today?"

"Not many today, there are only two in total, and they don't need to attend, they are only B-level."

Level b is the company's internal ranking of the importance of consulting meetings. It can be seen from the outside that level b must be behind level a.Generally speaking, the consultation content of the A-level consultation meetings will require the participants to keep confidential, and Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen usually participate in person, and some of them are particularly important, and several people will participate together.

But there is not much need for level B. They just read the report at most, and sometimes they don’t even read the report, and directly give the conclusions to some participants who participated in the discussion of level A, and use the results of these level B meetings as the basis for some kind of discussion. technical foundation.

"It's almost 12 o'clock, go ask them if they want to have lunch at the company...or have a party."

Yan Yan went to ask, and then came back soon: "They don't eat."

Chen She frowned, just at this time Xu Yan walked over, Chen She went straight over and signaled for a chat with him.

"What's the matter, what happened?" Even though Shen Changwen had told Chen She not to communicate with Xu Yan Wang Youquan in private...but he still couldn't help it today.

Xu Yan's complexion was better than the two of them, but it wasn't much better. He shook his head and said, "Manager Chen, according to the company's regulations, I can't say anything. And it has nothing to do with the company. Don't worry. "

When Xu Yan walked into Wu Xiaoqing's office, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen were in a daze.

After returning from the spaceship, Xu Yan noticed the expressions of the two of them. Of course he knew the reason. It was because the clone started to implement the plan and chose to cooperate with the Federation.

Strictly speaking, as far as this mission is concerned, they basically have nothing to do with them.

Next, what the entire search and rescue team needs to do is to wait until the cooperation between the Federation and the clones deepens, the war develops further, and the two sides form a temporary stalemate... After a large number of clones have mastered the Federation fleet, it will inevitably form Strong political influence.

Compared with the search and rescue ship that Wu Xiaoqing got from Civilization A, this kind of influence from the other civilization is the key to really promoting the progress of the entire mission.

Only in this way, the idea of ​​relying on the strength of a few people to save the two civilizations that they imagined, seems to have completely changed.

What was originally thought to be the most difficult mission turned out to be the easiest among several rescue operations.From the beginning, they just went to chat with each other for a few words, and then they were kicked out.But this short one or two days of contact has gone wrong, and it has reached the point where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.

But for Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen, this was the most "unacceptable" experience.

Yes, they are relaxed, but instead of being relaxed, it is the countless individuals that will be copied from them...

Although the replica had only had contact with them a few times from the beginning to the end, during these several contacts, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen had already developed a strong curiosity about each other—they really felt that the other party was very much like another Own.

But now, until the end of the mission, they may never have the chance to meet again, and when they meet next time, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen dare not imagine what the scene will be like.

"Take a vacation and rest for a few days." Wu Xiaoqing said to Shen Changwen, "We all need to calm down and adapt to life on Earth."

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Having said that, Wu Xiaoqing's lifestyle now is really not like a person on earth.

Going back and forth between the company and the basement all day, all I can think about is the task, the consultation meeting... so busy that I hardly touch the ground.

Now that he is suddenly idle, Wu Xiaoqing even has an illusion—as if he is a copy of himself, the busy Wu Xiaoqing before is the real one, and now he is just a spare accessory.

Qinglan Consulting has received many guests from abroad, some of whom have relatively high social influence, commonly known as people with status and status.When inviting them to come to Qinglan Consulting for a meeting, they often take them to the scenic spots around Ningzhou for a while.

Wu Xiaoqing took the company's car today. Led by an employee who was recently in charge of this aspect of the company, he came to the urban park in Ningzhou alone.

Before you know it, it's late April, the best time of the year.

Today's weather is surprisingly good. Although there is sun, most of it is covered by clouds and the wind is still blowing.

Although it is a working day, you can still see pedestrians coming to spring everywhere in the park. In several open places in the park, there are adults and children flying kites.

Wu Xiaoqing originally wanted Rao Xin to come and talk with him, but in the end he didn't call him. Bringing Rao Xin with him, he would inevitably talk about the consultation meeting and the task...

Now Wu Xiaoqing suddenly felt that he was tired, and he was so tired that he didn't want to think about anything about this mission.He himself didn't understand where this sudden emotion came from, and how to avoid it... But the emotion still completely enveloped him.

Looking at the kites flying in the sky, Wu Xiaoqing couldn't help but think that this kind of emotion was largely due to their overconfidence in themselves.

Especially Wu Xiaoqing.

During the period after the operation, the passion and confidence brought to him by knowledge made him extremely excited in this mission. This excitement supported him to participate in consultation meetings all night long and maintain high-intensity mental work... …It can almost be said that every time he attends a consultation meeting, he feels that he has gained a lot of information. Every time he chats with someone, he feels that he has seen a whole new world.

People like Rao Xin can be found everywhere in the current consultation meeting. Like Wu Xiaoqing, they will be excited and excited about an illusory technical setting, and they will completely forget themselves in chatting with each other.

For Wu Xiaoqing, this experience is undoubtedly exciting, and sometimes, Wu Xiaoqing thinks that he can live like this for the rest of his life.He felt that his whole body was beginning to follow these tasks, like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, undergoing a difficult transformation.

But what he didn't expect the most was... the result of the transformation was not to become a butterfly. To some extent, Wu Xiaoqing felt that he had become a spider.

A spider that has begun to weave a gigantic web in an attempt to control all possibilities.

Probably because the previous smooth rescue operations gave them the illusion that it is the best way to do one thing well by discussing everything with a group of experts and getting professional results.

But this time, obviously not.

At the beginning of the mission, killing them would not have thought of the technology of consciousness replication, let alone the form of war between the intelligent body and the federation, and the possible connection with this technology.At that time, their imagination of intelligence and federal civilization was completely empty-to-air...

Even after full contact with the Federation and intelligence bodies, the conclusions obtained at the consultation meeting did not show any kind of forward-looking. The experts on Earth have always paid attention to the Federation's battery technology, computer technology, starship technology, and cell Industrial technology... As for the most critical consciousness digitization, most people will only use a general "ai" concept to explain it mechanically.

For Earthlings, technology seems to mean everything.

But in this mission, the most important part of the mission is not related to technology. From the beginning to the end, it is only related to morality, or in other words, the degree of acceptance of people's life patterns.

When they first went to the Federation, they had already heard about the concept of digitalization of consciousness, but it was not until this concept was really presented in front of them that they realized that it was not just a sentence, it was like "democracy and freedom" on Earth Similarly, it is not just a few words in the slogan.

These seemingly light and irrelevant things are actually the focus of a civilization’s persistence, the driving force and core of civilization’s progress.

Technological breakthroughs and progress are easy for people on Earth to accept, but morally...

At least Wu Xiaoqing has not read any related professional books, even the most cutting-edge philosophy.

In the movies, people on earth can imagine the civilized world thousands of years later. They imagine that in such a world, people use more cutting-edge technological products and enjoy an even more incredible life than they do now... It's just that it's hard for everyone to imagine the future. What is the real possible "moral state" of people? Will their attitudes towards the world and people be exactly the same as people today?

People on Earth admit that technological progress is endless, but morality... It seems that everyone thinks that the current moral system is the most perfect and most suitable. As for a possible form that is more "forward", not many people really want to to think about it.

This is why Wu Xiaoqing feels uncomfortable now, because like Shen Changwen, he is too deeply bound by the existing morality of the earth. Until now, when thinking of those replicas, Wu Xiaoqing still can't help but feel uncomfortable, thinking that he is sorry They, thinking that they are substituting themselves, perform a mission that was not theirs.

"Actually, this is a kind of arrogance," the search and rescue team's evaluation of their thinking can be said to hit the nail on the head. "You are always willing to believe that it is natural to use your own values ​​to help others, but more often than not, people are just Save yourself. You think your clones are sacrifices, but in fact, they may feel more that this is the best strategy."

On this issue, Xu Yan's performance was better than all of them. When Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen were still trying to say a few more words to their clones to get to know each other better, Xu Yan actually broke up with the other party decisively. .

——He was afraid that the other party would return to Earth and rob his deposit.