My science and technology museum

Members of the Human Security Alliance showed great shock after learning about Xu Lei's plan. After all, whether it is sleeping consciousness or evolving into a mechanical body, it has completely subverted the normal cognition in the history of human civilization. To put it more seriously, It is against ethics and morals.

That is to say, we are in an embarrassing situation right now and there is no other better option.

Otherwise, if we implement the mechanical system in a stable period, we can easily guess that we will face huge resistance from the outside world.

I can only say that time is also destiny.

They had previously stated that Xu Lei would be fully responsible for this operation and try their best to save the lives of people hiding in air-raid shelters on Earth.

Naturally, there will be no interference midway.

After all, they are self-aware and know that they can only rely on Xu Lei to have a chance to save the situation.

So just as Xu Lei expected, this human security meeting was just a formality. In the end, all members approved this special rescue plan, even though they knew it contained extremely high risks.

However, in order to ensure better management of humans with mechanical bodies in the future, Xu Lei still needs to formulate a detailed execution rule.

Use this to constrain.

After all, once human beings leave the physical body and successfully ascend mechanically, they will have more powerful power, which is also a big hidden danger in a certain aspect.

However, it takes a certain amount of time for Xingtong to build a sleeping space for consciousness.

Although he knew that delaying for one more minute would bring more dangers, in this case Xu Lei had no choice but to hope that Xingtong's speed could be slightly faster.

Although the number of media virtual helmets used for consciousness to escape from sleep is sufficient and can meet the needs of personnel in air-raid shelters with the help of intelligent industrial robots, if the special virtual space is not established well, even if the consciousness enters the virtual world, there is no way to sleep safely.

In this case, it doesn't take long for consciousness to dissipate on its own.

By that time, all the efforts will be in vain.

What Xu Lei was thinking about this was that he hoped that the air-raid shelter could last a little longer and block the dead matter from the outside world.

Otherwise, no one can change this dead situation.

However, there is always a gap between ideal and reality.

Xu Lei and the others still underestimated the death substances created by extraterrestrial civilizations.

A few days later.

Just as Xu Lei began to study the amorphous alloy mechanical body manufacturing technology in his mind and prepared to complete the first experimental product on the Shenzhou, bad news suddenly came from Li Chengzhe.

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"Report to Captain, there is something wrong with some of the air-raid shelters, and you may need to come over."

Thursday, October 23, 2036.

Frost.

Shenzhou mechanical cabin.

Xu Lei had just brought various materials transported from the Earth and the Moon base into the mechanical cabin, preparing to try to make a special amorphous alloy, when Li Chengzhe's virtual image popped up in the latest version of the holographic smart quantum terminal device worn on his wrist.

Judging from what he said, he should have encountered something rather difficult.

Although the amorphous alloy mechanical body can carry human consciousness, based on the introduction of technical knowledge, it can be known that this is a toy developed by other advanced civilizations after all.

Even if the museum's evaluation of it is pretty good, it must still adopt a cautious attitude.

Prevent problems from arising.

You need to know that this amorphous alloy mechanical body is related to the safety of billions of human lives.

Before the effect is truly determined, mass production will definitely not be possible, otherwise defects will be a huge waste of resources.

It was out of consideration of these circumstances that Xu Lei planned to create an experimental body first to verify whether it could serve as a brain to accommodate human consciousness.

And it also ensures that the degree of control over the body is not lower than the original body.

Only after a series of tests confirm that it can indeed help humans achieve mechanical ascension can a large amount of resources be invested in this project for mass production.

Anyway, once the space of Xingtong is completed and everyone's consciousness is temporarily put to sleep, there is no need to care about the condition of the body.

Even if it is affected by death matter, it is not a big deal.

Therefore, this bought Xu Lei and the Human Security Alliance as much time as possible.

However, since Li Chengzhe took the initiative to contact him at this time, it meant that the matter was indeed very important. Thinking of this, Xu Lei had to temporarily stop what he was doing and turned around and walked towards the core command and control cabin of the battleship.

But this incident also gave Xu Lei a wake-up call.

According to the technical knowledge he has in his mind, it is not easy to complete the manufacturing of amorphous alloy mechanical body. Especially the difficulty coefficient of the first attempt is doubled. It is not known how long it will take to manufacture the first test body. .

After all, the manufacturing environment on the battleship is definitely not as good as the Binjiang City Research Institute, and he is alone.

Inefficiency is perfectly normal.

So in response to this situation, Xu Lei thought of temporarily awakening some scientists in the institute, such as Gu Sanlin and others.

This would save him a lot of energy.

Anyway, for the sake of their safety, he brought all the company's senior management and scientific researchers to the Shenzhou.

There's just enough time to make it work.

Originally, Xu Lei wanted to wait for the crisis on Pluto to be resolved and then send them directly back to Binjiang City to continue their research.

But now the Earth is shrouded in dead matter, and all living things except the remaining humans have lost their lives. There is definitely no way to go back. We can only move the work site to the Shenzhou first and wait for the moon and Mars to be established. Immigrant cities can get rid of the uniqueness of the earth star.

certainly.

This matter needs to wait until he comes back.

The mechanical cabin is located in the upper space of the battleship. Although it is somewhat far away from the core command and control cabin, considering that the entire interstellar battleship is only more than 300 meters long, this distance is automatically omitted.

that's all.

Xu Lei arrived at his destination in just a few minutes.

As the system automatically recognized Xu Lei's identity and opened the hatch, as soon as he stepped in, he immediately noticed Li Chengzhe with a sad face.

Apparently he really had something to discuss.

"What happened to the air raid shelter?" Xu Lei asked proactively and walked quickly to Li Chengzhe's side.

Lee Seung-cheol was in a low mood: "Today, ten air-raid shelters around the world that were renovated in accordance with Human Security Alliance standards lost their ability to block deadly materials, causing a total of millions of deaths, including two air-raid shelters in China."

"I'm afraid the time left for us is getting less and less." Li Chengzhe didn't forget to add another sentence as soon as he finished speaking, his slightly red eyes staring at the content on the screen.

These few words of Li Chengzhe already speak volumes.

The air-raid shelters that were modified in the early stage were not able to completely isolate the impact of dead matter, but only slowed down the speed.

If this situation continues, the number of accidents in air-raid shelters will increase until the Earth completely becomes a planet that no longer has carbon-based life.

And Xu Lei also knew that as the death material continued to spread in the past few days, the scope of influence has now entered the land.

It is also rapidly expanding its scope.

The most important thing is that according to Xingtong's calculation results, the spread speed of the influence of dead matter seems to increase a lot after entering the land.

I'm afraid it will completely cover the world in half a month.

After hearing this result, Xu Lei couldn't help but frowned and thought about the matter carefully.

He had been searching in the upper space of the Science and Technology Museum for such a long time, and finally spent 40 million influence points to purchase the amorphous alloy mechanical body, a technological exhibit. His purpose was to save the survivors in the air-raid shelter.

If they all die one after another, then what's the point of doing all this?

Xu Lei admitted that he had selfish motives.

He wants to use the amorphous alloy mechanical body to improve his overload condition, but this does not affect his willingness to save others.

No one wants human civilization to be reduced to just one billion individuals.

With his mind running rapidly, Xu Lei did not dare to hesitate, and immediately asked Xingtong: "How far has the construction progress of the virtual space where consciousness sleeps reached, and how long will it take?"

"Boss, according to calculations it will take about three days." Xing Tong's mechanical body next to him said with a serious expression.

Xu Lei frowned: "Can the current level of completion support uploading and storing consciousness?"

"This will lead to the possibility of incomplete dissipation of the consciousness, and the risk rate is as high as 80%. I don't recommend you, boss, to upload it in advance." Xingtong shook his head very firmly when faced with Xu Lei's question this time. , which shows that this road ahead of time is not feasible.

Having grasped the entire situation, Xu Lei didn't have any good solutions at the moment.

We can only wait for another three days.

Of course he understood that according to the current situation, many people would probably die in three days, but he could only accept the fact.

But before that, Xu Lei thought it was necessary to let everyone know the full truth.

At least you have to know who your enemy is.

Nowadays, it is no longer like when all marine life died. In recent days, everyone's acceptance is gradually increasing. In addition, smart industrial robots are also deployed in air-raid shelters, so there is no need to worry about chaotic scenes.

When this thought emerged in his mind, Xu Lei could no longer suppress his thoughts.

The next second, he suddenly turned around, looked at Li Chengzhe and explained: "Notify the world that in three days, people can upload their consciousness to sleep through the virtual helmet. In the future, they will wake up with a brand new mechanical body and reunite with their families. At the same time, with the Human Security Alliance Promulgate regulations for the management of all human mechanical bodies in the name of

Every place has its own rules and laws.

It is precisely by relying on so-called rules that we can ensure the internal stability of civilization and promote the development of science and technology and the improvement of technology.

Human beings have legal constraints.

Mechanical bodies also require a special set of management methods.

As for the regulations on the management of machinery, it was decided and passed by Xu Lei and many representatives of the parliament.

Li Chengzhe had long known about the mechanical body and the plan to save the lives of people in the air-raid shelter, so he had no objection to Xu Lei's current instructions, but had some doubts.

After a slight hesitation, he took the initiative to ask: "Captain, what if someone is unwilling to accept this plan?"

"Don't you accept it..." Xu Lei pondered slightly.

Everyone has the right to choose their own life and death.

Just as Li Chengzhe worried, some people are not necessarily willing to accept the plan of uploading their consciousness to make themselves into mechanical bodies, because in their view, this violates ethics and morals, and they will no longer be normal human beings from now on.

The people in the key air-raid shelters are all senior citizens.

Compared with young people, their thoughts are more old-fashioned and they are not very receptive to special things.

In addition, since they are all people who have lived for decades, death may not be too scary after all, and it may also be a relief for some people.

Xu Lei would definitely not force these people to upload their consciousness, and besides, he couldn't control the minds of so many people.

So after careful consideration, he gave the answer to Li Chengzhe: "Let everyone choose freely. We should respect it no matter what, and we cannot use the continuation of human civilization to morally kidnap them."

"I understand, Captain." Hearing this, Li Chengzhe nodded heavily and immediately began to execute.

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At this time, for the people in the air-raid shelter, it is impossible to get out even if they are forced to get out.

Because with the extinction of all marine life, and the death without warning of those who thought they had nothing to do and returned to the city to enjoy life, even if they only saw part of the information, they only felt extremely scared.

It is simply a tremor from the soul.

They knew very well that if they chose to leave the air raid shelter at this time, they would be courting death.

In the opinion of most people, the transformed air raid shelter is the safest place except the underground dormant base.

As long as you stay inside, you'll be fine.

It is worth mentioning that the members of the Hezbollah organization located overseas deliberately provoked confrontation between humans and robots in order to cause trouble for the future technology and human security alliance.

Turns out they didn't have anyone back in the dugout.

So much so that after the influence of the dead material spread from the ocean to the land, they became the first victims. Even Riyadi, the founder of the Allah Organization, died on the dining table.

All I can say is how ironic it is.

afternoon.

Binjiang City underground air raid shelter.

As a city where future technology is located, Binjiang City’s air-raid shelter renovation project also involved the participation of underground dormant base engineering personnel.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is the safest air-raid shelter in the world.

So when the outside world is full of death, here is filled with laughter and laughter.

In addition to many uncles competing with each other on chess skills, even the aunts did not miss the square dance when they arrived here. Only a small number of people were experiencing virtual games.

Intelligent industrial robots patrolling both sides of the passage are responsible for maintaining order and ensuring the distribution of various supplies.

The whole scene was simply harmonious to the extreme.

and the outside world are two extremes.

But at this time, whether they were using holographic smart terminal devices or immersed in virtual games, they all received a declaration from the Human Security Alliance.

At the same time, the equipment in the air-raid shelter also began to play relevant content.

"What is this?"

"Does the declaration issued by the Human Security Alliance mean that the crisis is over and we can all go out?"

"Let's take a look first and then talk."

"Hopefully it's not bad news."

When someone discovered this situation, the news spread quickly, causing quite a commotion in the air-raid shelter.

It is no exaggeration to say that the existence of the Human Security Alliance is their source of confidence. They believe that with Future Technology and Xu Lei around, the crisis will definitely be resolved smoothly.

So I was naturally very curious when I saw the announcement issued by the Human Security Alliance at this time.

But after everyone read the above content, they fell into a dead silence, because no one thought that there would be such a big gap between this and what they thought.

The contents of this declaration are not complicated.

To put it simply, it officially announced the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and the event that their modified Pluto caused this human catastrophe, and clearly introduced the current situation people are in. If you do not choose to let your consciousness pass through the virtual helmet If it is uploaded to sleep, sooner or later the air raid shelter will lose its effect of blocking dead matter.

Attached at the end are the regulations for the management of human mechanical bodies.

The regulations stipulate that personnel resurrected through mechanical bodies will automatically join the Human Security Alliance Space Force later.

Surviving humans cannot actively apply to be transformed into mechanical bodies. Only natural aging, death and sudden accidents can upload their own consciousness.

This is also to ensure the normal continuation of human civilization.

After all, if everyone eventually becomes a machine, then human civilization will exist in name only.

It may not be a good thing for future development.

The human beings transformed into mechanical bodies are incorporated into the Human Security Alliance Space Force. In the future, they will follow the fleet to complete planetary resource mining and fight against extraterrestrial civilizations. Normal humans will be placed on the moon and Mars to develop various technologies to further enhance the strength of human civilization.

This was something Xu Lei finally decided upon after careful consideration in many aspects.

Faced with such a large amount of information, many people are unable to accept it for a while, and they only feel as if their worldview has collapsed.

I really didn’t expect that the enemy that mankind faced from the beginning was not Pluto, but the extraterrestrial civilization that created Pluto. No wonder all mankind has devoted all the various countermeasures it has formulated, but in the end still paid a painful price. cost.

And just as Xu Lei expected.

After reading the declaration issued by the Human Security Alliance, many elderly people expressed their unwillingness to become mechanical bodies and would rather end their lives like this.

certainly.

There are also people who hold different views.

He believes that as long as he can survive and have a chance to reunite with his children, it's okay to become a machine.

What's more, to a certain extent, this can be considered a new life.

The key is that after joining the Space Force, you can fight against extraterrestrial civilizations and avenge the deaths of so many human compatriots.

So as the impact of this declaration gradually fermented, many voices discussing this matter could be heard among the gathered crowd. After all, they only had three days left.

"Brother Ge, I asked you, how could such a big meteorite hit us? I dare to think that there is an extraterrestrial civilization trying to plot against us."

"He actually went to our planet to poison, and killed so many people and animals. This blood account must be settled. Isn't it just turning into a mechanical body? As long as I can do these things, I won't have any complaints even if I become a walking zombie. .”

"That's right, you can't just die in frustration."

"Count me in. My child is still waiting for me. How could he die here?"

"I believe in future technology, and I am willing to upload my consciousness and wait patiently for the day I wake up again."

"It's absolutely impossible for me to become that kind of iron lump who is neither a human nor a ghost. I have lived enough in this life anyway. Let the rest be left to fate!"

"How is it possible to upload consciousness? In my opinion, the Human Security Alliance is planning to give up on us. How can we have any chance of winning against powerful aliens?"

"There are still three days to consider. I hope everyone will be cautious."

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at the same time.

A corner near the wall.

I saw an old man with sparse and gray hair sitting here alone. He remained silent and seemed out of place with the crowd around him who were discussing the contents of the Human Security Alliance declaration.

Zhang Jingtong is 65 years old and was an outstanding veteran.

He originally lived a very happy life during the best period of his life. Not only did he fall in love and get married freely, but he also had a son.

But it turns out that God doesn't fulfill people's wishes.

I wonder if their happy life is jealous of God.

His son and his wife died unexpectedly in a car accident just two years after their marriage, leaving only an infant girl.

The couple finally raised their granddaughter and sent them to high school. Their husband also passed away, leaving them to live alone.

Originally, due to his deep feelings for his wife, he planned to follow her directly. However, considering that his granddaughter was still studying in school and was his only relative in the world, he finally decided to take care of his granddaughter until they got married. Then he went to find his wife.

In this way, when I met my wife and son underground, I finally had an explanation.

But at this moment, the crisis of Pluto came.

In order to allow his granddaughter to sleep peacefully in the underground hibernation base, he promised her that when she wakes up, the first person she sees will be her grandfather.

Because of this promise, he absolutely cannot die here.

He knew very well the character of his granddaughter. She had lost the company of her parents since she was a child, and her heart had become very sensitive and fragile. If she woke up and couldn't see him, she would probably take an extreme path.

It can be said that he is not only burdened with his own life, but also his granddaughter's.

Even though this would turn him into a mechanical body without flesh and blood, he would not have any complaints.

As long as you can survive.

And just when he secretly made up his mind, a familiar voice suddenly came to his ears: "Lao Zhang, do you really want to use the virtual helmet to upload your consciousness as the Human Security Alliance said? Lost it?" What’s the difference between this body and death?”

Zhang Jingtong slowly raised his gaze after hearing the sound, and suddenly a slightly fat aunt came into view.

It was his new acquaintance after entering the dugout.

Zhang Jingtong did not mean to impose his will on others. When asked, he just answered calmly: "I only hope that I can live and meet Xiaowen again."

After speaking, his right hand unconsciously clenched the virtual helmet that was transported by the smart industrial robot two days ago.

The same thing is happening in air-raid shelters around the world that have not been breached by dead substances. Everyone is trapped in a tangled choice.

I was thinking about this issue even when I was sleeping.

Try to imagine what it will be like after turning into a mechanical body, and whether it can adapt to a new life.

But three days passed quickly. As Xingtong officially built a special consciousness sleeping space, the choice that people were reluctant to face came as scheduled.