Omnic Crisis in Super God's Beginning

Chapter 68 Ascension Agreement
"Cough cough..."

In the southern continent, Jin City, where the company's headquarters was originally located, is now located in a high-end medical institution in urban residential area No. 301.

An old man with a white beard was lying on a hospital bed. His bed was surrounded by helpless medical staff and several medical robots.

This old man's identity is not ordinary. He used to be a physics professor serving the Siris government.

During the unification war launched by the company a year ago, he was captured by the company's omnic force and quickly recruited into the company, becoming an internal employee of the company. He was later assigned to work in the scientific research department and participated in the construction of the space project. .

However, because he was too old, he was almost exhausted. After working for the company for nearly a year, he finally couldn't stand it anymore and was sent to a nursing home for recuperation.

By now, his life is on the verge of death and he is about to die.

All the advanced medical methods currently available to the company have been tried, but they can no longer delay his life.

"Sorry, Professor Li, we have made our last effort." The medical director responsible for Professor Li's recuperation sighed helplessly.

"..."

The old man on the hospital bed tried his best to open his eyes, shook his head slightly, and said angrily:

"I am over 100 years old. Material life has its limits after all. Death is the final destination of every life. There is nothing to be sorry for."

Even so, he still looked up at the snow-like ceiling unwillingly, and said vaguely:
"For more than 100 years, I have witnessed the withering away of millions of lives under the attack of nuclear weapons. I have witnessed the rise and fall of superpowers, and I have witnessed the hope of the development of aerospace technology... Now, I have seen the dawn of a new era. "

"The company has used machinery to create an era that I have dreamed of. This year of working for the company is one of the few happy periods in my life. The company has created a truly civilized paradise for tens of billions of people on this planet. I am witnessing and looking forward to a better future...ahem, but it’s a pity that I can’t see the future.”

"Alas, after all, I am incompetent. I want to stay in the dawn before the arrival of the new era. Ahem, it is up to you to start the space age... For me, witness the new century that I have never met..."

With that said, he closed his eyes with his last regret, feeling the vitality begin to disappear in his body, and prepared to wait quietly for the final arrival of death.

The medical staff nearby shed tears unconsciously. Obviously, this old man's life experience proved that he was the kind of person worthy of their respect.

It's a pity that time is ruthless and their physical lives are limited. When they face death, they can only become the same appearance.

Respect cannot free a dying life from its shackles.

Suddenly, the attending doctor received a notice from his superiors. The sadness on his face suddenly disappeared and turned into an expression of ecstasy. He said to the centenarian on the bed:
"Professor, there is one last way left to extend your life. Are you willing to try it?"

"Oh? It's...what, ahem..."

"Transform your life and achieve an ascension!"

……

With Professor Li's consent, the attending doctor ghostwritten it for him and signed a contract called the "Ascension Agreement" to the company.

Soon, Professor Li, who was still waiting to die in the hospital bed, was immediately transferred to a mechanical cabin in a laboratory at the company headquarters.

A few hours later, under the collective witness of the attending doctor and medical staff, a composite intelligent machine became active.

Moving his new body, Professor Li came to a mirror in disbelief, touched his face, and looked at the brand new mechanical figure in the mirror without moving for a long time.

Undoubtedly, he was given a new lease of life.

But he always felt that he had lost something, and he felt lost in his heart.

A few hours ago, he was waiting to die in his hospital bed.

But in the blink of an eye, his consciousness data was uploaded to this mechanical body, and he regained... a new life?
Professor Li’s cognitive thinking raised this issue.

Has he really regained his life?
If he really regained his life, why didn't he feel any, even a trace of joy?

This was something he had not expected and something he had never imagined.

A few hours ago, he was still regretting his own death and regretting that he could not see the coming of a new era. But after the threat of death disappeared in the blink of an eye, all he felt was endless confusion and confusion. ...a hint of fear.

After signing the "Ascension Agreement", he broke away from his original life form and became a mechanical life form.

Originally, he just wanted to die without any regrets, that's all.

But now, after turning into a mechanical life, he felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong with dying with regret like that.

Because at this moment, Professor Li suddenly felt that the world was a little boring.The mechanical body not only brought him new life, but also had many powerful functions, and also gave him an almost unlimited lifespan.

After acquiring these things in an instant, Professor Li only felt that the meaning and beauty that he had deeply felt as a human being in this world that had been stored in his mind in the past seemed to be accompanied by his aging body. 's dead.

After his consciousness was uploaded, it seemed that he was no longer the same person.

Can he still be considered a person now?
Professor Li couldn't help but regret a little, why he didn't resist the threat of death, and why he still had any regrets in the last period of his [-]-year-old life.

He could have died peacefully as a living person.

Now, he is entrusted in an infinitely cold body, and he has obtained the so-called new life, but he personally killed his original vivid self in the past.

With his own hands, he turned the more than 100 years of turmoil he had lived into into a silent scene that was so cold that it was no longer worth remembering in the future.

After realizing this, Professor Li stood silently, stunned.

Looking at Professor Li's appearance, his original attending doctor did not see the other person's inner thoughts. Seeing him so stunned, the latter thought he was immersed in the joy of being reborn, so he came up to congratulate him and said:

"Congratulations, Professor Li, you can continue to work for the cause you love in the future."

After hearing this, Professor Li became even more silent.

Work, yes, he had to keep working.

It's just love...does he still have it?
……

The "Ascension Agreement" announced by the company swept across like a tsunami and spread rapidly among the company's employees.

The specific contents of the "Ascension Agreement" shocked everyone from the bottom employees to the company's top management.

In the "Ascension Agreement", the company introduced the development and application of the Dawn System in detail, and informed all employees that the company's Dawn System can bring dying people back to life, and can also prevent countless patients suffering from diseases from suffering. suffering.

Transform life forms, upgrade yourself, and make life immortal!
The company used a lot of extravagant words in the agreement to introduce the concept of "mechanical ascension" to all employees, and promoted this concept in a beautiful direction as much as possible.

Due to the extremely high confidentiality of the "Synthetic Era Project", many company executives are still unaware of the existence of this plan. Suddenly seeing the CEO Lu Yuan's announcement about the "Ascension Agreement", many company executives They were all shocked.

“What is the CEO doing?”

The head of the operations department frowned as he looked at the contents of the "Ascension Agreement".

As a high-ranking person among the company's top executives, the head of the business department has changed a lot in the past year after taking charge of the first department of the company.

Long-term exposure to power will make a person's heart extremely sensitive.

The company's top executives are not fools. They smelled a lot of unusual things from the "Ascension Agreement".

First of all, why have they never heard anything about this agreement before?

At first glance, the "Ascension Agreement" is supported by some kind of large-scale project plan. According to past inertia, support for large-scale project plans like this requires convening a meeting for company executives to discuss it. .

Why did Lu Yuan, as the CEO, not hold a meeting before the relevant plan this time to inform the top management of each department of the existence of the project?
Not only was it not informed, but even the announcement of the "Ascension Agreement" was not notified to any department in advance, and was directly announced to all internal employees.

This series of actions made the sensitive senior executives feel a little weird and something was wrong, but they couldn't figure out what was specifically wrong.

Maybe they just feel that there is something wrong with the CEO bypassing the departments that are in charge of senior management and directly announcing certain policies, which also makes them feel a little uncomfortable.

This is a disregard, a dangerous disregard for power relations.

In the collective Gray Goo Company, the supreme power lies in the hands of the CEO, but according to common sense, if the CEO wants to use the power in his hands, he must also use the lower-level executives to execute it.

Otherwise, what is the purpose of setting up these high-level positions in the company?
No matter how progressive a collective is, it is also a collective that exists in the secular world.

No matter how supreme the power is, it is only the power held by secular people, and part of it must be shared with others in order to reflect its value. This is the inherent concept of senior officials.

In this concept, they believe that the implementation of all company policies is inseparable from their operations. Naturally, they believe that the CEO should not bypass them to announce policies.

This will create a disjointed effect in the company's power relationship, and will make them, who enjoy the many benefits brought by this power relationship, feel that some of their relevant interests are being ruthlessly deprived of.

This is an extremely dangerous signal!

(End of this chapter)