He first looked up the background Melinda had told him about. Sure enough, the Melinda of this world was exactly as she had described herself: her father was a major tycoon, and her mother was a high-ranking official.
Then, after searching the internet, Chen Cheng finally understood what kind of world this was.
According to historical records, a war that swept across the entire world had erupted one hundred thousand years ago. It could no longer be described as a world war in the sense of the world Chen Cheng had known in his previous life, because that battle had directly shifted this world's history from the Ancient Era into the New World.
Before the New World, society's development and stability had been maintained by a group of elected social elites. Yet it was precisely because of them that a world-destroying war had ultimately broken out.
Therefore, after the war, society developed an extreme distrust of human nature. In the end, all sides joined forces and pooled everyone's wisdom, giving birth to the most rational and intelligent system.
The system took over the entire society and became the highest decision-maker over social power.
At first, some factions advocating an artificial-intelligence crisis opposed it. But as the society controlled by the system developed better and better, the previously fierce social conflicts eased under the system's coordination, even disappearing temporarily. All theories about the dangers of technological development consequently lost their market.
Aside from absolute fairness, the system's only restriction on society as a whole concerned love—or, more precisely, the right to choose a spouse.
When Chen Cheng saw this section, he wondered whether there was some sort of conspiracy. But the content that followed gave a corresponding and reasonable explanation.
The main contradiction in society was the uneven distribution of benefits.