Planetary Museum

"I didn't expect such a result." When meeting the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing was surprised by the first sentence the search and rescue team said.

Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen glanced at each other and smiled wryly. On the way there, the two of them were still discussing whether the search and rescue team had already considered this level when they formulated the plan.

If this is the case, then the scheming shown by the search and rescue team when they made plans, or the depth of their grasp and understanding of a civilization, is too scary-the key is that the search and rescue team never revealed it to them from the beginning to the end , which means they are not trusted at all.

Now the search and rescue team said he didn't expect it himself, which made things even more dramatic.

"The main reason is that the government of the federal people is not good," the search and rescue team gave the most direct explanation. "When the impeachment referendum was launched by the people, the current government was still paying attention to the progress of the war... Just when the impeachment referendum was launched. For several days, the main energy of the government was still planning the next battle. A habitual thinking dominated the behavior of the government. They obviously felt that as long as the war was won, everything could be solved.”

"At least on Earth, this principle is still correct." Shen Changwen said.

"The Federation is not the Earth... The political thinking of the Federation people is much more mature than that of the Earth people. You should have seen the content of the Federation game sent back by your clones, and actually governing the country... For the Federation people , is no different from the game, or in other words, governing the country in the game is no different from reality. On the earth, only a few elites are qualified to experience and participate in the job of politicians, because the cost of politics is too high. But in In the virtual community, almost everyone has the opportunity to experience.

This principle is actually the same as military games.

I believe that on Earth, before strategy games, many people actually did not understand military affairs. Even novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which are highly related to military content, always appear naive when writing about war.But an ordinary player in modern times can easily understand the importance of military logistics, concentration of troops, and many other military elements. An ordinary modern military game lover can almost be an ordinary general in the past. up.

For the federal people, politics is actually such a game. The entire federal government is not so much a civilized supreme authority, but a live broadcast of a certain game champion.

The biggest source of power for the federal government is not political prestige or achievements... Since politics has become a game, these achievements are just the final results of the game. Do you feel admiration and admiration for the results achieved?Do you think it is incredible for the opponent to defeat a certain boss and obtain certain equipment?

Certainly not, because everyone can try to play a game like politics in the virtual world, and play it countless times. Everyone may admire the level of a gamer's game play, but the result of his playing the game is not true. with any emotion.

This term of the federal government is precisely to confuse the difference between the two. "

These two metaphors from the search and rescue team are very apt. Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen understood the meaning almost immediately. Now on the earth, the live broadcast industry is also in full swing. There are all kinds of live broadcasts on it, from home cooking, to playing games, or Live broadcast your own work site...

In the political field, this tendency has become even greater. It is no longer news for politicians to live broadcast campaigns. The president of a big country can also openly govern the country through the Internet... It is conceivable that it will not take much time. Behavior is basically public.

In history, power struggles may have been under the table. It is difficult for ordinary people to really grasp the details, and they can only imagine the specific battles through various imaginations.

But in modern times, due to the development of technology, power struggles have inevitably become public; watching elections in many countries is actually very similar to a live game with full participation to some extent.

With the development of technology to the level of the federation, in fact, the decisions made by all governments are completely transparent. People on earth may not be able to accurately understand the specific meaning of a president proposing a certain bill or nominating a certain judge, because they are not familiar with the game after all. They are unfamiliar, but the citizens of the federation know all the actions of the federal government clearly.

Ironically, in the Commonwealth, governments began to know less and less about the citizens they ruled; in large part, this phenomenon was due to the fact that the Commonwealth as a whole was not concerned with reality and focused instead on reality. into the virtual world.

From the many reports sent back by Wu Xiaoqing’s replica, we can also see the analysis that fits this judgment—the federal people don’t take politics too seriously in reality. For this reason, the power of the government in reality has also begun to shrink day by day. .

At the same time, there is a faint risk of splitting the entire federal civilization. Many members of the civilization have begun to join some virtual countries and live a life in a purely virtual world. For them, the real federation has nothing worth nostalgic for place, the virtual world is the ideal paradise.

But because of this war, all people living in the virtual world have to be forced to face up to real problems.

The intelligence and body are coming from planet after planet, and everyone is forced by the war to prepare for war. The government uses the live broadcast of war to exaggerate the cruelty and necessity of war in all virtual spaces... This is of course very important for mobilizing war. It has a great effect, but invisibly, it also makes everyone have a deeper fear of war.

Some people are willing to join the army as warriors, and some people must think of various ways to avoid being drafted. Even some small "virtual countries" are already considering the act of surrendering intelligence bodies in wars...just because the intelligence bodies cannot communicate with them , That's why he didn't really do this kind of "ball rape".

Then, countless Wu Xiaoqings appeared, they joined the army one after another, and the government's triumphant publicity, while letting everyone breathe a sigh of relief, they also began to express sympathy for those Wu Xiaoqings who participated in the war from the bottom of their hearts.

Probably in order to publicize their political achievements, the tradition of keeping live broadcasts of all combatants during the war is still preserved, and the appearance of those cloned Wu Xiaoqings when they died in the battle is also the same as before, which was specially made by the government for publicity The theme of the war, in the eyes of the government personnel, is of course their best "political achievement". By sacrificing some irrelevant alien intelligence replicas, the entire federal civilization can survive.

The current consul even compared their administration to a "superhero group" that recreates the federal government in a public speech.

But the consul will not know that the public opinion of the Federation does not see him that way.

Take the earth as an example, why every time Trump publicly says that he has made the United States greater, he will always be ridiculed by a large group of people... In a sense, he is indeed using the power of the president , did a lot of things and fulfilled a lot of promises to voters.

Expanding further, politicians all over the world are now almost facing complaints from the people at the bottom. Almost no country has been spared. On earth, it seems that everyone with a certain education feels that they are qualified to speak on political issues. Make a little statement.

The reason is simple, because everyone has seen more.

The more live broadcasts of politicians, the more political games are played, the more professional people's judgments on the players participating in this game will naturally be...

This is the case on Earth, let alone a federation that is far more developed than Earth.People on Earth may still say that you can do what you want, but in the Federation... almost everyone can experience the addiction of being a president in a virtual game.

And I have to admit that the performance of many people in the game must be much better than the performance of the consul in reality...

Therefore, the consul's self-promotion, in the eyes of everyone, is ironic-the consul thinks it is because of his outstanding political wisdom, but in the eyes of most federal people, it is very easy for the government to achieve the current success. To a large extent, it's just because... morality breaks through the lower limit.

They lost their credibility in front of all other civilizations for this civilized infighting.

If there are other civilizations in the universe, if there is a second alien civilization that comes to contact the Federation, how will they evaluate this civilization after they learn what the Federation has done to the search and rescue team?

Thief, liar?

This is probably far more than that.

The most filthy and disgusting interstellar kidnapper, the most heinous civilized crime... This is the suppression of this behavior by most people on the federal network.

No one thinks that the consul has done such a great thing. To some extent, it is true that the Federation has been saved, but the means have already challenged the lower limit of ethics.All the Commonwealths are complicit in some way--and watch the fruits of their crimes every day.

Whenever the government publicizes the victory of this war and the data of how many replicas died, their original intention is to publicize how many precious lives they saved for the Federation, but in the public opinion of the people, it makes everyone feel more and more guilty. deep.

While the legitimacy of the government's actions began to be questioned, it was inevitable that everyone began to feel more and more guilty towards those copies of Wu Xiaoqing.

Only they are the real heroes in this war.

With the evolution of the war, the two sides inevitably entered a decisive battle in Xiaoyangxing.

At this time, it is already difficult for the two sides to count how many troops the other party controls, but one thing is for sure. When the astronomical telescopes of both sides observe the other party's planet, without exception, they can see everything from the planets in the back to the battlefield in front. A long "fleet zone" was formed.

The planet seems to have become a child blowing bubbles, constantly blowing more soap bubbles into the space. A pile of iron and steel ruins.

The war has entered a fever pitch, and after Wu Xiaoqing's clone went to the front line, the average survival time began to drop to less than three days.

The federal government has stepped up the promotion of live video broadcasts, and countless scenes of Wu Xiaoqing's death have become a nightmare for the federal people to watch every day.

On the other hand, everyone started to feel disgusted by it.

They don't loathe war, but the federal civilization that gets dirty in war.

Use individuals of other civilizations to fight for themselves, and be proud of it... The federal government can do this kind of thing shamelessly, but all federal people don't have the shame to bear it.

Every day of the live broadcast, every sacrifice of Wu Xiaoqing, has become a mental torture for all federal people.

At the beginning, everyone was still following the reports of the federal government, paying attention to the details of the battle, the nodes that the war had reached, and the ratio of losses between the two sides... But gradually, everyone became silent.

Another voice began to appear in public opinion—what if this kind of war is won?What have we all become?

Many federal people began to feel a sense of shame. For a while, many people even took the initiative to sign up, hoping to join the army to wash away this feeling-but at this time, the federal government no longer approved any federal citizen's application for enlistment.

The reason is simple, because these federal people are not as easy to use as clones.

All replicas only need to be in a virtual environment to receive efficient military training, and the discipline and obedience within the team are far better than those of the Federation... More importantly, the death of the replica There is no cost at all, but the federal people... just the social shock caused by pensions and deaths in battle is a social cost that the federation cannot bear.

What's more, as the war progressed, more and more federal citizens discovered that even if tens of billions of Wu Xiaoqing joined, they might not be sure of winning.

Zhiti still has a big move!

The subsequent development of the matter, in Wu Xiaoqing's view, is an unimaginable fantasy story.