Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 388 The Vast Robot Society
Luo Ji truly never expected that he would encounter Radiaz, who had been officially declared "dead" by PDC back then, in his lifetime.

Especially given that more than a hundred years have passed.

Luo Ji looked as if he had seen a ghost.

"Why do you look like you've seen a dead person?" Radiaz seemed quite pleased with Luo Ji's reaction.

Luo Ji's feelings were complicated: "Maybe it's because I attended your funeral back then."

"A funeral?" Radiaz's interest was piqued.
"Who arranged my funeral? Luo Qing?"

"No, it was organized spontaneously by the Venezuelan people... Hundreds of thousands of people spontaneously gathered in the square where you were 'crushed to death,' led by a soldier named Morales, who claimed to be your personal guard."

After the funeral, he assassinated then-US President Dugan in the name of revenge. Of course, he later disappeared in Kashmir. There are rumors that he met Luo Qing and then vanished without a trace…

Rediaz remained silent for a long while after hearing this.

"and after?"

"Are you referring to the soldier who assassinated the US president?"

"No, it's Venezuela. How is that country?"

Luo Ji sighed slightly: "Twenty or thirty years after your 'death,' Luo Qing went into seclusion, the Trisolaran rebels gained momentum, and the whole of South America was greatly troubled. Later, the United Nations promoted the integration process of Latin America, and the Latin American Socialist Alliance that you longed for was also established during that period, becoming the main government in South America and basically getting rid of the control of the United States. Later, the Latin American Alliance also became one of the founding countries of the coalition government."

“Oh…” Regiaz drew out a long syllable.

"I know most of what happened after that. Thank you, Dr. Luo."

Luo Ji forced a smile: "No need to thank me, you can find it all online."

"I know, I just never dared to look it up."

How's your solar phobia going?

"It has disappeared."

...

The two quickly boarded the airship and left the cavitation tunnel area, arriving in the city cluster.

"Like Mars, you can also call it Mercury City or Bubble City."

Are you the mayor?

"No, there is no mayor here. All departments directly connect with Earth International and Fleet International... However, Fleet International has suffered a great loss recently, and has basically transferred all its affairs on Mercury to Earth."

Luo Ji nodded.

After the apocalyptic war, anyone with a keen political sense could see that the era of two international powers was coming to an end, and the era of a solar system government with Earth as its core and its long arms governing the planets was approaching.

Since there is no gravity inside the cavitation bubble, the buildings here are not the square columns commonly found on the surface, nor the tree structure of underground cities, but rather present an overall 'honeycomb' shape.

Most buildings are constructed using a dodecahedral structure, resembling a three-dimensional honeycomb. This form of architecture maximizes the use of volumetric space, thus maximizing population carrying capacity.

Luo Ji exclaimed, "It's truly magnificent..."

"After all, it's humanity's interstellar Noah's Ark, a life-saving device. With a construction period of nearly 150 years, it's not surprising that it turns out this way," said Rediaz.

Reidiaz gave Luo Ji a thorough tour of this 100-kilometer-diameter cavitation city cluster.

Although the city was originally designed to accommodate the escape needs of 10 billion people, the actual permanent population of the entire Bubble City is only about one million. The vast majority of buildings are vacant, with only robots performing basic maintenance. "One million people is a lot, but scattered throughout this Bubble City, it seems rather sparsely populated," said Rediaz.

Looking around, Luo Ji could see very few people.

Mercury's permanent population is indeed small. In comparison, Mars has a permanent population of 14 million, Venus has a permanent population of 3.2 million, and Jupiter, as the core of the fleet international, has a permanent population of over 30 million in its orbit. Not to mention the rings, which have a permanent population of up to 9 billion dragons. In addition, there are 2 million human troops stationed on the rings and nearly 7 million human relocated residents.

Even Neptune and Uranus, two distant planets, have hundreds of thousands of permanent residents, and even Pluto is home to hundreds of thousands of flat-earth inhabitants.

In comparison, Mercury, as an inner planet, does indeed have a much smaller population.

This is also related to Mercury's scarcity of resources.

According to the information about the Trisolaran world submitted after its surrender, Mercury is an alternative Trisolaran planet, a giant iron ball.

However, this was not the case in ancient times. Mercury was likely a gas giant similar to Jupiter when it was first formed. However, it was too close to the sun, and after hundreds of millions of years, the sun stripped away all of its surface and atmosphere, leaving only the core of ancient Mercury.

And this celestial core is what we now call Mercury.

"Although Mercury has a small population, it is probably the most mechanized alien colony in the entire solar system. At least three million robots of all kinds live in the bubble. These robots are not the kind of intelligent machines like refrigerators, televisions and washing machines on Earth, but real humanoid robots with an intelligence level of up to LV5."

As they were talking, two robots dressed in human clothes flew over. They seemed very curious about Luo Ji next to Diaz and came over to take a look before whispering among themselves and leaving.

Robot A: "Wow, this is the second cultivator! He's so handsome!"

Robot B: "It looks a bit gloomy. I prefer the Qingxian type."

Robot A: "Oh, he has a melancholic vibe, I like this kind of melancholic handsome guy."

Robot B: "Shall I get your contact information for you?"

Robot A: "Ugh, you're so annoying."

After saying that, the robot covered its face in embarrassment and flew away.

Luo Ji: "..."

Radiaz smiled and said, "You'll get used to it. Level 5 robots are about the same level as ordinary people. There are also many level 6 robots, who directly serve as assistants to scientists. Level 7 robots are directly clones of MOSS. Don't we have such robots on Earth?"

Luo Ji shook his head: "The level of household smart devices on Earth is only lv2, and some industrial robots are only lv1. However, small devices like robot vacuum cleaners have a higher level of intelligence, lv3... Earth has experienced smart machine crises before, once with MOSS and once with the curse virus, so it is very sensitive to this matter."

Rediaz understood. "Earth has a large population and doesn't need that many robots. The main problem with Mercury is that there are too few workers. Moreover, only robots can withstand the 400-degree heat on the surface of Mercury. Even innate martial artists can't last long."

Radiaz waved his hand and said, "The maintenance and construction of the 3000 planetary engines on the far side of Mercury were basically done by these level 5 or higher engineering robots. There are 30 million such robots on Mercury."

Luo Ji exclaimed in amazement: "Thirty million units... This is practically a robot society! The two major international powers really trust Mercury."

Radiaz nodded: "The robots can't fly into space, they can only operate on the surface of Mercury, and they are under the unified control of the moss, so they pose no threat to Earth."

Then, Radiaz whispered, "If you're smart, you should know another function of these level 5 robots."

Luo Ji frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly understood.

"Serving as a carrier of digital personalities? I remember that the number of digital lives in the Digital Republic is also around 3000 million."

Current technology is sufficient to support the reverse downloading of digital personalities into machines, giving them a "body," but this is strictly prohibited due to ethical and legal imperfections.

Regiaz nodded: "It's better to be prepared. Who knows what the future holds?"

(End of this chapter)