Time flew by.
In Wenren Sheng's eyes, the Middle-Aged Leader had already gained control of vast numbers of microorganisms, covering more than half the planet.
Only the snowy mountaintops, the polar regions of The Deep... places truly unsuitable for microbial survival remained uncovered.
But as time passed, the robots were not fools either.
They gradually discovered the emergence of new microorganisms.
"Microorganisms communicating with one another?"
"Strange electromagnetic waves?"
"Could this be some new mutation?"
They realized the danger as well.
The Middle-Aged Leader had also underestimated just how formidable the robots were.
Their world differed from that of humans.
They might lack innovation and the ability to transform things.
In Wenren Sheng's view, however, that was not entirely accurate.
On the contrary, within an existing framework, they could optimize methods and processes to the utmost limit.
That was what made them formidable.
Their greatest problem was that they could not propose new goals.
It was simple: robots lacked human desires, and thus lacked far too many needs.
According to modern market economy theory:
Demand was the driving force behind all development.
What economic development lacked was demand, not productivity.
Therefore, any qualified economy tried its best to ensure that more people possessed more wealth, so that demand could expand dramatically.
No matter how extravagant a wealthy person's consumption was, the problem was that they only had twenty-four hours in a day.
They could not spend money twenty-four hours a day. At least eight of those hours would be spent not consuming.
More importantly, there were too few wealthy people. Their consumption could not promote the efficient reproduction of high-end labor.
If a billionaire spent one hundred million in a month,
it would be useless to output anything.
But if one hundred million were used to support ten thousand people's