Starlight in the Abyss
Chapter 180

Artificial Humans

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These artificial humans are entirely controlled by computers. Even Academician Xiao cannot distinguish them from natural humans in their every move, word, and expression.

They also obtain energy through eating, and they need to breathe, need water, and have metabolism. For this reason, the fleet specially built two supercomputers to maintain the daily activities of these androids.

Supercomputers can even simulate the operation of star clusters, so the activities of these tiny 5 billion artificial humans are even simpler. The computer can directly simulate the personalities, behaviors, lifestyles, and the jobs they need to do from various data of more than 20 billion natural people.

With computer control, these androids can completely replace natural humans in performing any job. The only drawback is that they must be under the constant coverage of specific radio waves. Once they leave the radio waves, they will immediately suffer brain death and can never be reactivated. For androids, this life is only given once.

The new androids perfectly met Hu Yu's requirements. However, in order not to cause psychological burden to the general public, the Artificial Human Plan was only known to a few people. After all, not everyone's psychological resilience is as strong as Hu Yu's. Ordinary people would have some reservations if they saw a rag doll being destroyed, let alone an android that looks like it's alive.

On the street, a young man walked under the scorching sun. Summer on Earth Two was also very hot, though it wouldn't reach 36 or 37 degrees Celsius, it was still over 30 degrees. All of this was done to make it as similar as possible to the real Earth. The evergreen season made people feel less hopeful.

Therefore, Earth Two continues to operate according to Earth's East Eighth Time Zone. It experiences harsh winters, scorching summers, warm springs, and bountiful autumns. People also enjoy this sense of anticipation—when will it snow? When will the fruit ripen? Waiting can sometimes be a beautiful thing.

The young man walked down the street, sweating profusely, but he didn't stop for a moment. On the vast road, he was the only one walking, making him particularly conspicuous.

"Hey friend, need a break?" someone resting by the roadside called out.

"Oh, no need, I'm in a hurry!"

"Why not use a flying machine if you're in a hurry?"

"Oh, it's not far. I like walking."

"That won't bother you. Take a rest if you're tired; the sun is quite strong."

"Thank you, I will."

The young man traveled on, passing a fleet market where he used his contribution points to buy some food and water. He continued on his way until late at night three years later, when he returned to Academician Xiao's side. Accompanying him were dozens of other men, women, and children, all of whom were androids.

"How is it, Academician?" Hu Yu asked.

"Test successful! The delay in radio waves will not affect the individual activities of androids, nor will it affect the activities between androids. However, there will still be some impact between androids and natural humans."

How so?

"If a natural person were to converse with an android, the android's response would also be delayed due to the latency of external electromagnetic waves. However, on Earth Two, this delay is imperceptible to ordinary people. If the distance is greater, the android would appear very sluggish in the presence of a natural person, taking several seconds or even longer to reply to each sentence. But this wouldn't happen between two androids, because the content of their simulated communication is predetermined by the computer, and the two electromagnetic waves are sent simultaneously. Thus, on the surface, there appears to be no delay."

"The same principle applies to the activities of a single android. Its delay only occurs with the computer's instructions. As long as the computer's instructions are uninterrupted, the android's activities are continuous, just like a natural human, so the outside world will not detect it."

"Furthermore, the electromagnetic environment on Earth Two is already very complex. Through testing, other electromagnetic waves will not affect the androids. The androids' brains only react to specific electromagnetic waves. After three years of testing, I can guarantee that these androids are successful."

"That's wonderful! With these androids, our Trojan Horse Plan is even more perfect. Academician, thank you, thank you so much." Hu Yu grasped Academician Xiao's hand, extremely excited.

"General, I haven't made any significant contributions to the fleet over the years. Although the biological warriors are already quite powerful, they're still useless. I feel ashamed."

"Academician, biological warriors aren't useless; they just haven't reached their time yet. I believe that in just a few years, your biological warriors will shine brightly."

"Haha, I hope I didn't work for nothing, old man."

"Definitely not."

The first fleet to depart is ready. This fleet consists of one hundred million Wind Master. Now that the time is ripe, these Wind Master will carry some machinery and equipment back to the vicinity of the vortex. These unmanned machines and equipment will complete their development tasks in the planetary system near the vortex in the coming period.

The speed of the Wind Master remains at 1800 times the speed of light. In order to deceive the Xuan Star Civilization, the Wind Master did not make any improvements after the new space travel method was developed. However, since the energy sphere had been exposed and had to be exposed, the Wind Master was still equipped with energy sphere weapons.

After more than 20 years of travel Wind Master arrived at their destination and immediately went into hiding on various planets, Wind Master were buried deep in the soil using the powerful conventional engines.

The robots climbed out of the Wind Master and carried the machinery into the hollowed-out space inside the planet that Hu Yu had previously excavated. The next task was for the ordinary machinery to continue slowly hollowing out the planet and building underground cities. Producing Wind Master here was no longer meaningful. For a nomadic civilization, one hundred million warships were already sufficient, especially for a civilization that had recently experienced a major war.

The purpose of building the underground city was to house the androids that were about to be created. Since it was going to be a simulation, everything had to be simulated realistically. A reasonable place to live was a must. The androids here were no different from natural humans in every way, so that the Xuan Star Civilization could not find any flaws.

As for the electromagnetic wave issue, Hu Yu was not worried. There would inevitably be a battle. Even if the Xuan Star Civilization did not attack the planet, the Wind Master could still create an attack. With the fragile human body structure, any energy ball could destroy everyone on a planet.

While the underground city was being built, some of the robots began synthesizing various organic materials. After all, this involved more than 5 billion artificial humans, and a considerable amount of organic materials were needed. There was no need to rush the artificial humans, as only 300 years had passed since the stars began converting into energy spheres. It would take at least another 1,300 years to complete the process. With the subsequent encapsulation, from the time Hu Yu returned to JD4, it would take at least 2,000 years.

The artificial human project will be completed within the next 1,000 years. If there is extra time, even more artificial humans will be created. Computers still have a lot of computing space to utilize, and the larger the population, the greater the credibility.

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