Planetary Museum

The mission has progressed to the present, and the situation has changed considerably from the beginning.

The most important reason for this change is, of course, the appearance of Wu Xiaoqing's clones.

On the seventh day after Wu Qing cooperated with the federal government, the search and rescue ship received countless radio messages from the federal government.

In the past, all the radios of the Federation were controlled by the law of war. Except for encrypted military radios, search and rescue ships could hardly find any signals in the entire galaxy. Federal insider help...

But now, apparently, the federal government has begun to loosen this control.

"Because we have no value to them anymore." Wu Xiaoqing told Xu Yan his judgment while eating breakfast.

In fact, they should have thought of it long ago.

The Federation is a civilization at war, and it is a war that is critical to their survival. Under this premise, all other elements, such as aliens, search and rescue teams... have to stand aside.Looking back now, they should have vaguely felt that something was wrong since the federal government took the initiative to contact them and asked them to attend some conference, not to mention that they later offered to let them meet in a virtual scene.

It is also because of the habitual thinking of the people on Earth. At the beginning, Wu Xiaoqing and the others thought the most about the risks of meeting. They were afraid that after meeting the real person, they would be detained and tortured as hostages... So after the other party proposed this idea , and immediately agreed.

Thinking about it now, I still think less.

Now, the federal people have obtained the most important thing for them, an intelligent replica that can avoid legal consequences... It can be said that they no longer need the search and rescue team, and naturally no longer need to be vigilant—through During this period of getting along with each other, the federal people should be able to feel that there are no weapons on the search and rescue ship, or even if there are, the collection team is unwilling to use them on the federal people.

In addition, the search and rescue team is still in contact with the intelligence and body. No matter what the reason is, it is time to release a little information to give a step to the relaxation of the relationship between the two parties.

Most of the information from the federal people is meaningless, and none of the content in it deviates from the content in the report given by Wu Qing before.Many federal political groups are trying to imitate the People's Army, get a little support from the search and rescue team, and expand their influence.

Of course, there are also quite a few messages whose purpose is pure, including some keyboard visionaries for the peace of the universe and the future of civilization...Many people even tried to propose that they hope to join the collection team Civilization, contribute to their rescue cause, and contribute their own strength.

There is no need to reply to these messages. According to the confidentiality principle of the search and rescue team, the less communication with them, the better, so now Wu Xiaoqing can only look at the countless greetings to them in a daze. Be patient.

In the final analysis, these federal people's imagination of aliens is basically the same as that of people on earth. Either they are divided into good and evil, thinking that they are good people, and they want to join them wholeheartedly. This peace has been carried forward throughout the universe; those who think they are evil people naturally warn them not to covet the Federation now, even if the Federation people are at war now, they are not easy to mess with; other than that, it is right They asked for nothing more.

Among the vast information, only one or two were noticed by Wu Xiaoqing.

One is from Changbai. He participated in the government's training program for Wu Xiaoqing's clones and sent back their living conditions through this channel.

The exposure of this plan has a great psychological comfort effect on Wu Xiaoqing himself. In the past, Wu Xiaoqing always thought that he pushed those replicas into hell. Now that Changbai let him see the real situation of hell, he feels that it is more acceptable. Some.

Throughout the training program, the Federation did not torture the clones, using pain and mental torture to torment them—in fact, this was of no benefit to military training and would cause unnecessary resistance.From beginning to end, it was just pure military training and necessary screening.

Even for those who have been screened out, this process is not difficult for them to accept.

The deletion operation is just a deletion. Maybe humans will associate it with death subconsciously, but it is not.From the conversations with these duplicates, one fact can be found - they have no particular fear of being deleted, on the contrary, for those deleted duplicates, letting themselves be deleted is even their subjectively expected result .

Compared with a life with a real body, the data deletion of the replica is undoubtedly the most gentle euthanasia.No pain, no sadness, and the deleted can even be stopped at the last moment of the operation - as long as they are willing to cooperate with the federal government and return to normal training.

When Wu Xiaoqing saw the news, the number of replicas had exceeded 3 million, and this number was still rising exponentially, and the number of deleted bodies did not exceed [-]. In terms of "birth-to-death ratio" , can already be said to be far higher than any real society, because of the continuous joining of a large number of replicas, the organization composed of the entire replica can even be considered a fairly viable organization.

Another piece of news naturally came from the intelligence body.

The Federation is now releasing radio control, which means to take the initiative to expose the cooperation agreement they have reached with the replicas-even suggesting that this cooperation was proposed by the search and rescue team.Although this is the case, the federal people don't know it-but they tend to use this to attack the diplomatic relationship between the intelligence and the search and rescue team.

Zhiti didn't even pass the message through Yevgeny this time, but contacted the search and rescue team directly.Its meaning is very simple - to go to war.He will not pursue cooperation between the clone and the Federation, but in the upcoming war, he hopes that the search and rescue team will not intervene.

It turns out that for the intelligent body, continuing to hold back is the most ideal strategy, but because of the growing number of replicas, the greatest strategic advantage of the intelligent body has disappeared, and time has returned to the side of the Federation in this war .

Wu Xiaoqing, Shen Changwen and the search and rescue team just had a brief discussion and then sent a message to Zhiti: "Yes."

At this point in the mission, in fact, everything just needs to go with the flow, because no matter what, the worst result will not happen—because the intensity of the war has begun to increase unprecedentedly, and both sides will no longer focus on the colonial ship. .

In fact, the first people who needed colonial ships were the Federals. The biggest reason for them to build colonial ships was of course that the number of troops was incomparable with intelligence, and they could only think of escaping through colonial ships.But now that they have clones, the only thing they need to do is to put all the planetary resources they have in their hands into this war to the maximum extent.

A lot of news from the Federation shows that there is no doubt that the Federation's colonial ship construction plan has been shelved, and each of the twelve planets under its control is doing its best to manufacture warships. The construction even raised the surface temperature of several important industrial planets by tens of degrees—in the words of the Federation people, the Federation people are almost melting stars into ships.

The intellectual and physical colonial ships were originally set up for the Federation, and their biggest purpose is not to colonize, but to organize the colonization of the Federation.As a highly integrated form of civilization, the intelligence-body civilization is actually not suitable for interstellar development at all.The existence of the intelligent body itself is a common collection of countless individual AI consciousnesses, and its own dependence requires huge orders of magnitude support.If a colony ship is used for colonization, another intelligent body formed by its differentiated consciousness will be much less efficient than the current intelligent body. This is like a computer processor, which reduces the integrated components of a processor by two orders of magnitude. , then the computer simply cannot run the original software.

As a higher form of civilization, the intelligent body also means that it needs to bear higher operating costs, which determines that it is difficult for the intelligent body to carry out interstellar colonization.As far as the search and rescue team knows, such a civilization usually travels through the universe by means of teleportation after the technology is sufficiently developed.

And now, they can only choose to stay, and create their civilization, to fight for survival.

Wu Xiaoqing, the search and rescue team, and Shen Changwen started three shifts to work on the rescue ship and paid close attention to the progress of the war.

Although it is promised that the intelligence and body will not interfere, this promise is only limited to the battle between the two sides within the scope of permission.As far as the current situation is concerned, the federal people seem to be invincible, but judging from the actual situation, it is obvious that the training of replicants is not achieved overnight. From the time of more than half a month, the number of replicants is less than [-] million You can see it.

200 million, compared with the population of more than [-] billion in the Federation, there is no qualitative change. This shows that even virtual replicas are still limited in use. This limits the entire population of replicants except for power and computing resources. The form of organization is also critical.

As far as the report is concerned, there have been spontaneous cultural behaviors and corresponding laws within "Wu Xiaoqing Country". In comparison, in the replica group based on the replicas of Shen Changwen and Xu Yan, even such The foundation doesn't exist.

The biggest problem with Shen Changwen's replica is that there is almost no internal communication, because Shen Changwen is an elderly person, and his profession is a professor-he has always been a leader in character.Therefore, as long as the group of Shen Changwen replicas expands a little, there will be basically no internal communication. Everyone is too independent, so independent that they are almost autistic.In the words of the people on earth, he is too old and has no energy to communicate with other people - even if these other people are himself.

But Xu Yan is the complete opposite, he relies too much on communication.Excessive communication but lack of sufficient rational cognition makes Xu Yan's replica group prone to extreme group emotions—sometimes sudden group fanaticism, and sometimes group self-abandonment.

In fact, the clone group that can be used in the end is still Wu Xiaoqing. Their performance is more stable, they have appropriate internal communication and everyone can maintain appropriate independence and judgment ability-in war, this means that whether they cooperate, But fighting alone has better reliability and combat effectiveness.

Whether it is Wu Xiaoqing and the others who overcome their internal organizational problems first, or whether they are the first to use their tactical advantages to expand their winning rate, this is the biggest game point in battlefield warfare.

But for the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing, they don't really care who wins or loses in this war.

Because to a certain extent, their mission has been basically completed at the whole time—no matter who wins or loses, at least they will no longer go to the A civilization. A winner will be produced among them, and then they will inherit The entire legacy of two civilizations.

There is only one situation where the mission can be declared a failure—that is, the two sides fought evenly, and finally wiped out the entire 15 planets... Both sides died together with their last breath.

What Wu Xiaoqing and the others are focusing on now is whether this worst-case scenario will happen—if it shows signs of happening, then stop it.