496. The Plan for Preserving Civilization
Based on the current situation, the committee has proposed three plans for the survival of civilization.
The first option is to accelerate research into space technology. According to the Helsingen Report, a wormhole connecting to an unknown planet in the region exists. The main idea behind this approach is to develop manned spaceflight technology, research space jump technology, and ultimately send humans to unknown star systems to find habitable planets, thus preserving civilization.
The difficulty of this plan lies in the fact that manned spaceflight technology is currently almost non-existent. Following the Sun Chaser spacecraft accident eighty years ago, governments worldwide suspended manned spaceflight research and development due to public opposition. The relevant data was lost during the establishment and evolution of the space alliance. Now, it's essentially starting from scratch, and developing the corresponding technology within five years is a long and arduous task.
Meanwhile, due to technological limitations, the number of the first interstellar immigrants is limited, and how to select immigrants will be a highly controversial issue. Furthermore, the ecological environment required for the long interstellar journey is also a challenge. Currently, this plan is being implemented in secret.
[The second option, the Human Body Modification Project, is based on the predictions of the Geological Research Office that the ongoing global geological disasters will gradually decrease within twenty years. At that time, the direct damage caused by geological activity will disappear. However, due to volcanic ash covering the sky from volcanic eruptions, global cooling and severe cold will occur, and the spread of diseases will be difficult to eliminate. Therefore, the committee has decided to use the new radioactive minerals discovered in the Kiran Char Region to study human adaptation and modification, thereby strengthening the overall human physique and adapting to the harsh environment to come.]
The difficulty of this plan lies in the unknown side effects of using mineral radiation to modify the human body. Current medical research has stalled due to the impact of previously widespread diseases, making it extremely difficult to achieve the initial research goals within five years.
[At the same time, the transformation is a long-term project, a century-long undertaking. Given that the current generation cannot enjoy its benefits, it is difficult to gain public support. Therefore, the plan is being carried out in secret.]
The third option is to establish a human database, recording all information about human civilization into it. At the same time, human consciousness will be digitized to create a virtual human civilization, which will then be launched into space via rocket. This is the ultimate means of sacrificing humanity's home and physical body in order to preserve civilization.
The challenge of this plan lies in how to digitize human consciousness without loss of quality, while ensuring that no unexpected errors occur during storage. Furthermore, experts are skeptical about whether the general public will accept such a plan.
[Due to the advancement of robotics technology, some experts have proposed implanting human consciousness into robots to achieve the mechanization of the entire population. Experiments are underway regarding this proposal. However, due to the significant ethical and moral challenges it presents, this plan is also being implemented in secrecy.]
The report contains much more information.
This includes the reactions of various countries, sampling surveys, and the progress of each plan.
After reading it, Lu Ban had only one feeling.
pill.
Neither of the options is without its reasons, and all of them are fraught with despair.
Moreover, these solutions all carry a certain degree of pollution characteristics. When faced with disaster, pollution itself becomes the only lifeline, which is quite ironic.
Based on what Lu Ban has seen so far, the first plan attracted the swarm of insects, the second plan caused the Crystallization Sickness to spread, and the third plan is probably also unsuccessful.
Although the robots in the Future City look like humans, they are ultimately just thoughts constructed from code.
Even Lin was no exception.
Even if they do succeed, it's hard to say that human civilization will survive in robots.
Looking at the lonely rocket launch pad, Lu Ban guessed that this was probably the database of human civilization that had been launched, but he wondered where those databases would end up after drifting in space for hundreds of years.
After reading these reports, Frostheart sat down weakly on the dilapidated equipment behind her.
"What is this? What is this?"
Her eyes lost their sparkle.
This report reveals not only the horrors of the disasters faced by Old Era Humans, but also the madness embodied in these solutions.
Each proposal carries an extreme "do or die" mentality, and it's hard to imagine that a person with normal thinking could come up with such ideas.
Perhaps more terrifying than natural disasters was the madness that spread throughout human civilization at that time.
What's even more disheartening is that people all over the world believe these solutions are feasible and have the potential to save the world, and they are putting them into practice with the highest level of awareness.
"Are we doing the same thing they are doing now?"
Frostheart's voice trembled.
Those people were completely unaware of the madness involved when they were making these plans, which was "normal" at the time.
Then, Frostheart couldn't help but wonder if the "normal" means of saving the world that she now believed in might have already been distorted?
Is it possible that the swarm is truly invincible, and the world is destined for destruction?
"Here is another report."
Lu Ban continued searching and found the last report at the end of the timestamps.
[Report on the Current Situation]
The contents of this report are not an official statement, but rather resemble someone's notes.
[This is the [number]th report from the Alliance Disaster Management Committee—I've forgotten how many—but whatever.]
[I have some good news and several bad news items; I'll start with the bad ones.]
[First, Bridge Plan was a success, but unfortunately, that's bad news. A bunch of damn monsters crawled out of the wormhole from Bridge Plan, and they devoured the engineers who built the bridge. Damn it, an entire platoon was sacrificed just to barely seal it off from the other side of that unstoppable impulse.]
Secondly, the modification plan was a fucking success. Those idiots in the biology department, after conducting three phases of human trials, rolled out the formulation, citing a fucking lack of funding as their reason. Within three months, everyone in the world was scrambling to inject the formulation, but only the wealthiest could afford it. And now, fucking, it's all over. The formulation has severe side effects; people over twenty will rapidly decline and die within a month after injection, and those under twenty will experience accelerated aging, not to mention the ensuing supernatural crimes. Thanks to my colleagues in the biology department, they've made this messed-up world even more chaotic.
[Then, to hell with Mechanical Ascension! Uploading human consciousness is simply impossible. Any uploaded human consciousness would completely collapse within a week due to the overwhelming amount of information received. As for that so-called database that preserves all of human civilization, due to memory limitations, various countries are arguing fiercely about which cultures should be preserved and which should be preserved more extensively. The one holding the most initiative is, freaking, a country that's less than three hundred years old! To hell with it!]
Upon seeing this, Lu Ban was filled with mixed emotions.
When faced with such a catastrophe, what limits humanity is not the external disaster, but its own human nature.
He continued reading.
[Of course, there's also good news. Thank God, we've found a way to preserve this world. Thank you, uh, to hell with those gods, thank ourselves!]
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