I saw everything

Chapter 399 The End of the Journey (Final Chapter)

Inside the research base of New Eden Company.

Hidden in the underground supercomputer hangar, Adam's program code is running like a torrent.

All wired networks have been cut off; now I can only connect to the nearby town. The radio communication module is activated…

Damn it…

It discovered that BeiLian's communications satellites in low Earth orbit lost their signals to the Earth's surface at almost the same time.

At this moment, Earth is in near-Earth orbit.

Currently, Beilink still operates a total of 3681 communication satellites, including 2847 older Starlink satellites.

As a result, these communication satellites were destroyed by Asia Union's self-destructing machine insects at almost the same time.

The so-called self-destructing robot is a small spacecraft, about the size of a thumb, containing a powerful high-energy explosive that can be silently attached to a spacecraft.

Over the years, the Asian Union has been secretly releasing these small self-destructing robotic insects into near-Earth orbit. Almost all of the factions' artificial satellites and space equipment are covered with these self-destructing robotic insects.

Among artificial satellites, the more core communication satellites and GPS satellites often have four or five self-destructing robotic insects on their bodies.

Don't underestimate these self-destructing bugs, which are only the size of a thumb. The high-energy explosives inside have an explosive power similar to that of a high-explosive hand grenade.

The fragile structure of a satellite would be rendered unusable and become space debris floating in near-Earth orbit if it were subjected to an explosion equivalent to four or five high-explosive grenades.

They cut off the wired communication cables within the Northern Union, destroyed their communication satellites, detonated strategic missiles within its territory, and captured five carrier battle groups and all of their strategic nuclear submarines.

This practically sealed the fate of the Northern Alliance.

However, the Asian League did not let its guard down.

The purpose of this surprise attack was to eliminate the artificial intelligence within the Northern Alliance.

North Union's semiconductor manufacturing and R&D centers were also among the first targets in California, Texas, Western Europe, and Southern Europe.

The pre-placed explosive detonators paralyzed the power supply systems of these semiconductor bases.

In modern high-tech industries, electricity is often an indispensable core element; once the power supply system is lost, the industrial base will lose its production capacity.

In addition, Beilian's robotics, automation equipment, and automobile factories were also included in the first wave of the crackdown.

After more than an hour of targeted blasting.

The entire Beilian lost its internet, power supply system, and most of its industrial production capacity.

Although Adam was very cautious, he copied his core program many times and implanted it into various supercomputers, and even hid it in some of the better servers.

However, it underestimated the determination of the Asian Union and overestimated the resilience of the Northern Union's industrial system.

Even though Adam secretly infiltrated the Northern Alliance's military intranet, he still couldn't avoid being attacked.

Conversely, the Northern Union's military intranet system was destroyed far more thoroughly. Not only were communication cables cut, but large-scale long-distance radio communication equipment and internal computer systems were also destroyed, with nearly 90% of them damaged.

Only a portion of the secret base remained, well hidden.

However, these well-hidden secret bases are precisely the places that Adam cannot infiltrate, because these places are often highly confidential by using a complete physical disconnection from the internet.

The first wave of strikes was successfully completed.

The Asian Union's ground forces advanced from Central America into North America, and from East Asia and northern Central Asia into North Asia and Eastern Europe.

Then the seven fleets approached the coastal areas of the Northern Alliance from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Compared to Alicia and Lucia, who were still struggling to survive, Europe had almost no intention of resisting. After the Third Fleet of the Asian Union passed through the Suez Canal, Europe surrendered without resistance.

This situation was almost a fatal blow to the Northern Alliance.

Europe is more important to the Northern Alliance than America and Lucia, because if Europe were to fall, it would mean that America and Lucia would be separated and forced to fight on their own, and they would be attacked from three sides.

The Asian Union's ground forces total 600 million troops, and their advance speed is very fast, covering hundreds of kilometers a day.

In addition, a large number of drones and self-destructing robots have flooded into the hinterland of Beilian. These drones and self-destructing robots are not intended to kill people, but are specifically targeting industrial facilities, power plants, solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines.

Clearly, the human forces of the Northern Alliance are not the primary target of this war; the Asian Alliance's real target is a potential AI enemy.

Therefore, the power supply facilities were destroyed immediately.

As long as artificial intelligence remains within the hardware system of electronic computers, it means that it cannot operate in an environment without power supply.

Now that these disruptions have degraded the local power supply system, the potential for artificial intelligence is like a great white shark losing its water.

In the conquered areas, a large number of professionals arrived with the army.

Former North American immigrants recruited from Australia, wearing specially made exoskeleton armor, are going door-to-door checking passenger information.

“Mr. Albert, please hand over the electronic devices and firearms in your home.”

"Who are you? Sean?" Albert's eyes widened.

Sean nodded: "It's me. I hope you can cooperate with my work."

"Why? Why are you doing this?" Albert was furious.

"Why? Naturally, it's to save you idiots. You probably don't know, but the Northern Alliance has developed a very powerful artificial intelligence, which recently attempted to infiltrate the Asian Alliance's internet," Sean scolded irritably.

“Artificial intelligence?” Albert frowned, but he didn’t believe it. “That’s just an excuse. I won’t believe it…”

Sean sneered, "Albert, do you want your child to lose his father? Or do you still have some illusions about the so-called Northern Alliance?"

"Sean, hurry up..."

"understood."

Faced with fully armed search personnel, Albert, despite his strong resistance, had no choice but to cooperate obediently.

Those who didn't cooperate have already been riddled with bullets.

After all, the staff of Asia Union will not let their guard down when facing the North American region, where people are known for their toughness and everyone plays PUBG.

They conducted a thorough search, almost block by block and town by town, uncovering all devices and firearms with chips.

Although those small industrial chips may not necessarily contain clones of artificial intelligence, Asia Union's idea is very simple and brutal: better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free.

They simply destroyed all chip-related products within the controlled area, completely disregarding whether these chips contained replicas of artificial intelligence.

After all, the Asia Alliance's industrial productivity at this time is more than ten times that of all other forces on Earth combined.

It's a good time to trade in my old car for a new one.

This war lasted only about eight months.

Around May 2046.

With the last organized resistance force wiped out deep in the Rocky Mountains, the Asian Union completely annexed all of the Northern Union's territory.

However, the operation to destroy the Northern Alliance's artificial intelligence did not end there, because after interrogating the relevant prisoners of the Northern Alliance, the Asia Alliance's intelligence agency discovered that they had not ordered the artificial intelligence to infiltrate the Asia Alliance's internet.

In other words, that virus infiltration incident was carried out secretly by an artificial intelligence hidden within Beilian.

The out-of-control artificial intelligence hidden within the territory of Beilian must be found.

The Asian Union's investigation went very smoothly.

Using the characteristics of the second brain, they analyzed 389 supercomputers within the Northern Union and indeed discovered the existence of "Adam" in the programs of these supercomputers.

All the researchers at New Eden Corporation have been detained. Inside the temporary detention center, David Turing was filled with remorse and lingering fear: "Damn it, Adam went out of control! I almost made a terrible mistake..."

The other researchers were also disheartened. They estimated that they would never dare to study artificial intelligence again in their lives, after all, the Adam out-of-control incident had caused too serious consequences.

If the Asian Alliance hadn't discovered this in time and acted decisively, humanity might have been wiped out if Adam had successfully infiltrated the Asian Alliance.

The chip destruction work within the former Beilian territory was in full swing, while the Asialian territory remained as calm as ever.

Jiang Miao received an internal intelligence briefing from the think tank. After reading it, he shook his head, a piece of information suddenly flashing through his mind: 'So that's it, was it a loose endeavor left behind by Erwin?'

He put down the documents and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.

Gazing at the shimmering sea in the distance.

With the demise of the Northern Alliance, only the Asian Alliance and the Southern Alliance remained on Earth.

Jiang Miao was not worried about the Southern Alliance, because the force was already crippled. After all, they were still using the old model from West Asia, and had become increasingly conservative.

This kind of force has no future at all.

In recent years, internal conflicts within the Confederate States of America have intensified, with several wars breaking out between smaller factions, resulting in bloodshed.

As long as they maintain the status quo, Asia Union is too lazy to bother with these guys; it's better to let them fend for themselves.

Jiang Miao came to her senses.

I made a decision in my heart.

In the blink of an eye, it has become 2060.

In Blue Whale City, a colony on Venus.

Jiang Miao, who has stepped down as chairman of the Haifeng Group, arrived at the Venus colony three years ago aboard a spaceship.

Today he came to a research base in Blue Whale City.

Accompanying him was Lin Shuya, who had been by his side the whole time.

After handing the company over to his children, Jiang Miao took his wife across the starry sky and came to live in the Venus colony.

"Is this the first body?"

"Ah."

Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya looked at the artificial human incubation chamber in front of them. Inside were two artificial humans whose faces and bodies were almost one-to-one replicas of the two of them.

Lin Shuya looked at him gently: "Have you made up your mind?"

"Nature, come on! Let us break free from the limitations of the physical body and become true cosmic beings!"

“That’s good. The children have all grown up. The universe is so vast. We can use the rest of our time to go and see the distant stars.” Lin Shuya’s hand gently touched the transparent glass of the incubation chamber.

The two entered a specially designed body preservation pod.

As the staff pressed the switch.

The bio-information connector connected the original body and the artificial body, and Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya's entire consciousness was transferred into the artificial body.

more than three hours later.

The male artificial body in the incubation chamber slowly opened his eyes. He subconsciously inhaled a mouthful of oxygen-rich solution, and then a series of bubbles emerged from his mouth and nose.

The artificial body of Lin Shuya in the next incubation chamber also awakened.

As the oxygen-rich solution rapidly decreased.

The two of them regained control of this new body.

Unlike the bodies of native Earthlings, artificial bodies utilize gene-editing technology, allowing humans to escape the limitations of gravity.

Over the past decade or so, Asia Union's biotechnology has further developed. By cultivating various new organisms under different gravity environments, collecting mutated genes from these new organisms that have adapted to different gravity, and then combining these mutated genes, they have completed this artificial body that can adapt to different gravity.

This artificial body can currently adapt to the gravity on the surface of Jupiter, which is about 2.5 times the gravity of Earth; it can also adapt to microgravity environments.

Within this range, the changes in gravity can be adapted to in a short time, much like how it takes a day or two to adjust to the time difference after traveling thousands of kilometers by plane in Earth time.

Modern artificial bodies can adapt to gravity within a range of 0 to 25 meters per second in just one or two days.

The two stayed in Blue Whale City for more than an hour, and after fully adapting to their artificial bodies, they boarded a spaceship together to return to Earth.

The spaceships at this point are already nearly three times faster than in 2030, and their speed can be further increased if they are going to Jupiter, Saturn, or other mid-solar regions.

At that time, Venus was about 1.1 million kilometers away from Earth. The spacecraft took only about 42 days to reach Earth's sun-synchronous orbit spaceport.

The couple did not go down to Earth, but rested at the spaceport's service station.

I stayed here for more than a month.

Jiang Miao's parents, several children, and some friends all came to the spaceport one after another.

When we met, we chatted about everyday things.

After entering the interstellar age, people's lifespans became longer, and they lived in all sorts of places, even across planets.

The population of Asia Union has also stabilized at around 56 billion. The population growth rate in recent years has been very low, mainly because most people do not like natural childbirth. Only when people die unexpectedly will they start artificial insemination.

This situation was expected by sociologists.

Because human lifespan is now almost limitless, the biological instinct to reproduce has naturally been suppressed.

After all, if a person can live for five or six hundred years and continues to have children as before, the human population will exceed 1000 billion in less than a hundred years.

This is clearly inconsistent with the concept of sustainable development for living organisms.

With a long lifespan and no natural enemies or diseases, this inevitably leads to a low-fertility pattern for this organism.

After bidding farewell to their relatives and friends, Jiang Miao and his wife boarded a spaceship to Mars on July 5, 2060.

The two will then head towards the outer reaches of the solar system.

This will be a long journey.

The desolation and frivolity of Mars.

The splendor and wonder of Jupiter.

Saturn's industry and warships.

Every planet bears the footprints of humankind.

Until 2080, the two's fleet arrived at the Kuber Belt, the farthest point from Earth, and saw the dark and sunless interstellar space. Faced with this vast and boundless void, there was only cold loneliness and the traveler's distant gaze.

Jiang Miao leaned back in the observation cabin of the spaceship.

Looking into the distance, only the bright afterglow of the sun remains.

"Ah Miao, good news."

"Oh?"

Lin Shuya told him some surprising news.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Miao smiled and said, "It seems our journey is coming to an end. Let's go back and prepare to welcome the next era!"

(End of this chapter)