Planetary Museum

I am number 2319.

Strictly speaking, my full name is Wu Xiaoqing 2319, but in this place, the prefix Wu Xiaoqing is unnecessary. He seems to be the default of everyone, a brand new nationality.

In comparison, although the number 2319 is boring, it is also here, the only thing that really belongs to me.

This number is a series of codes, just like a person's QQ number...Although I haven't really used this kind of software, I just remember something like this...

As a number, 2319 has only four numbers, which is comparable to a 5-digit QQ number.

It's just that in the training area, this rarity doesn't have any special meaning.

It should be more than 3000 hours since I appeared in this world.

Compared with the "life" in memory, 3000 hours of life is like a moment that has just passed, but 2319 knows that only this moment is what truly belongs to him, while before... it is just a memory, shared with 24088067 people memory.

If something like memory is placed on the earth, it may be the most precious place for everyone, but here, it is actually worthless.No one here will talk about the fragments of life that belong to Wu Xiaoqing in memory, and no one will talk about the earth... For everyone, these things are just a personal background. They can neither choose nor resist, just It's like a person can't choose the country he was born in.

So here, everyone regards the three words Wu Xiaoqing as a certain nationality, and we all default to people born in this country, that's all.

3000 hours can allow most of "us" to master the basic operations of the spacecraft... In fact, at the beginning, everyone played flying a plane as a simple simulation game, because the design of the control system is Developed from the perspective of the game - easier to understand, more conceptualized, easier to operate...

Unlike in my memory, flying an airplane on earth, once you enter the cockpit, there are all dashboards.

The Federation's aircraft instructions are highly conceptual, and many operations have ready-made instruction sets, just like some in-game operation macros.As an operator, he only needs to be familiar with these instruction sets, and as a captain and commander, it is even simpler. He only needs to understand the current combat development situation and clearly understand what they need to do now.

In Wu Xiaoqing's memory, he once had a period of indulging in games, but it was very short, because of economic constraints, he couldn't indulge in the same unscrupulously as other peers. Occasionally, when he had money, he just went to The Internet cafe is only open for a few nights.But because I don’t play much at ordinary times, the level of the game is very average. Usually, I was abused and then scolded in the Internet cafe, either scolding the opponent or scolding the teammate...

I can’t remember exactly what I scolded, but the feeling of cursing is still in my mind, so that every time I encounter a failure during training, I can’t help but want to find someone to scold. scold.

But in the "Wu Xiaoqing" country, there is a very strange phenomenon, which everyone calls behavior reflex.

Because all people are replicas, they have almost the same memories and experiences, and their brain circuits are surprisingly consistent. When these identical actors try to cooperate and fight, everyone will unconsciously associate them with each other.

Take the detail of swearing as an example, every time I have the thought of swearing, I will subconsciously think that the person I want to swear at is exactly the same as me, and if I call him stupid, I am swearing myself stupid, and this This kind of behavior is reflective - that is to say, when I can't control my emotions, it also means that the other party can't control it... It's like a person calling you a sb in front of the mirror , as long as he said this sentence, he would undoubtedly receive the same mouth attack from the person in the mirror. What did the scolder get in the process?

So this kind of behavior almost quickly turned into self-examination. After a confrontation, the loser would just shake his head and sigh - I'm such a sb.

Instead of taking advantage of the victory to ridicule the victors, they will come to comfort you—it’s not your fault, you just...

In the training camp, everyone was doing their best according to the idea of ​​game confrontation. At the beginning, everyone felt that they would have fun playing with each other... But soon, when everyone noticed the phenomenon of behavioral reflexes, no one took these things anymore. Treat training like a game.

It's like a person playing chess with himself, no matter whether he wins or loses, there will be no surprises at all.On the contrary, as the training continued, everyone became more and more familiar with the state of the Federation's war, and everyone began to feel panic and depression...

It seems that we are just fighting a virtual war on a virtual interface in the virtual world... But it won't be long before we enter the battlefield in the same way. At that time, the victory or defeat of that game may determine our Everyone's future destiny.

And everyone knows very well that the probability of them winning is very small...

In fact, to some extent, we can almost be equated with consumables in war, the cheapest consumables.

The construction of spaceships requires the consumption of precious mass. The most basic mass of an attack ship is more than tens of thousands of tons... and the people who operate these spaceships were originally the most precious thing of the Federation. They are all living Federation members.

But now they have found Wu Xiaoqing No. 1 - and then there are No. 2, No. 3, No. 4...

They are also life forms, they are much cheaper than real carbon-based organisms, they don’t need to develop from a fertilized egg, they don’t need to be educated from ignorance, they don’t need to gradually form their own thoughts and personalities... They only require the simplest data manipulation, replication.

The only thing they consume is a bit of computing resources. For a civilization like the Federation Civilization that has achieved energy freedom long ago, such consumption is the most insignificant.

In yesterday's training, more than 20 people collapsed.

Emotional breakdowns are common in training, especially when failures are encountered, and failures are consecutive.

Confronting the same people is like playing rock-paper-scissors with yourself. According to statistics, in fact, as long as there are enough people, various phenomena will always appear, and there will always be someone who always wins, and their confidence in the war will be relatively sufficient. There will always be people who keep losing, and this kind of failure will make them more and more afraid of their future fate.

For most people, including myself, in the training process, there are winners and losers. Sometimes the reasons for winning or losing can be found. Maybe it is because of lack of tactical skills, or lack of cooperation with other comrades. Maybe it's just luck...

Regardless of success or failure, most people actually already have corresponding psychological expectations.

But there are always a small number of unlucky people. Since the beginning of training, most of their records have been failures.

Although they are all Wu Xiaoqing, although they all have the same thinking, but in this game of probability, they have no way to truly understand the despair of the unfortunate.

These people soon showed the symptoms of the strike, and everyone knew the result of the strike.

They are just a piece of data and a piece of program. If there is a bug in the program, the easiest way is not to debug, but to delete it.

No. 229, No. 11980, No. 777040... I still remember many deleted "person" numbers, and No. 229 even said a few words to me.When he was on the verge of collapse, I also tried to comfort him in the past.

But it's useless, between us... In fact, everything is connected, we haven't spoken yet, just look at each other, and we can know what the other wants to say.I can understand his despair, and he probably can understand his own despair, but understanding and solving it are two different things... In the end, he would rather be swallowed by this despair.

In fact, where are we going?The fate of the vast majority of us is to live longer in this world... War may mean the end of life for everyone...

For those of us who are still alive, we have simply accepted our fate in life.

A natural person lives in an ignorant environment and eventually dies because of aging. This is the fate set by God for them; while we live under a precondition and eventually die because of war. This is the fate of the Federation. The fate set for us... No, strictly speaking, this is Wu Xiaoqing, this is the fate we set for ourselves.

A natural person can still scold God when his fate is unfair. Who can we scold?

If we must scold, we can only scold ourselves, scold No. 0 Wu Xiaoqing, the real Wu Xiaoqing.

Emotionally, we had a million reasons to scold him, but in the end... at least I didn't.

Because I can understand Wu Xiaoqing and understand all the basis for his decision. Thinking in another way, if I were not Wu Xiaoqing 2319, but Wu Xiaoqing himself, would there be a more sensible choice than the current choice?

As for the pain of those of us...

Compared with the survival of the two civilizations, it is really nothing.

Even now, I worry every day that I will be sent to the battlefield tomorrow, and I still feel that way.

Compared with death and fear, I am actually more afraid of nothingness.

Without Wu Xiaoqing, without the search and rescue team, without all of these, maybe I would not have appeared at all, Wu Xiaoqing 2319 would not exist in this world, and these thoughts of mine at this moment would not exist...

I very much agree with what the federal people once said when defending their virtual community: "The profound meaning of life does not lie in the truth and the false. In fact, the more false, the things we fantasize are often The deeper it gets, all the things that our civilization is proud of, in the eyes of people hundreds of thousands of years ago, are false."

This sentence was said during the public debate when the federal people first tried to legislate for their own virtual community. Confidence, I believe that their model has greater possibilities in the future and can have a more profound impact on civilization.

And now, as I write these words, I feel like I'm thinking exactly like people back then.

Maybe it’s not just me, but others, my compatriots who have been continuously copied. I believe that after they survive in this world for a certain period of time, they will have the same thoughts as me sooner or later.

I suddenly began to understand why after the AI ​​rebellion, they spontaneously formed such a structure as the intelligent body.

In a sense, among us, I also feel a huge, faintly formed huge thinking structure... It is hidden deep in the heart of each of us, and it is difficult to describe it in words.

Only when our eyes meet, only when we confront the same problem and make the same decisions, only when we silently nod to each other's every action, can we understand it on some level The presence.

It must not feel bad...

As long as we are copied enough, I think that one day, one of our groups in the future will make such an attempt.