From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

“This interface…”

China definitely does not have a photonic interface. Before the researchers could have a headache, the nanometal on the memory interface changed on its own and turned into a very simple USB interface.

"High-tech... Is that living metal or nanorobots?"

"We'll study that later. Let's get the information out quickly. The bosses next door are in a meeting and waiting for news from us."

Although they were also very curious, the older researchers still carefully inserted the memory into the quantum computer.

buzzing~~~

The quantum computer that had been set up long ago immediately emitted a sharp buzzing sound. Data was read out, scanned, and simulated at the same time. Even the most advanced quantum computer in the world had its computing power pushed to the limit in an instant.

In the Academy of Sciences laboratory, which is kept strictly confidential, in addition to the researchers nervously staring at the data items passing through the screen, the camera in the corner is also silently watching everything, with the flashing red light sometimes long and sometimes short, as if the camera is thinking about something.

...

"The pan-human community is a broad and grand concept, but it has very complete rules and regulations."

In the highest-level conference room, a group of bigwigs were once again pulled together to analyze and discuss the brief conversation between Zhou Zhezhi and Si Ye Qingchen.

"Joining this community as a member state requires a unified management system. The United Government can be considered to have integrated the power of the entire world. Doesn't that make it unqualified?"

"Is it qualified? If it is, we won't have to go through the trouble of verifying the feasibility of the planetary engine on our own, and we won't have to hold meetings in the Union Building every day."

This is a military leader with a slightly bad temper.

"Alas...it would take six generations of Qin's power to unify the world. If it weren't for the problem with the sun, who knows how many more years it would have taken for humans to understand each other."

Obviously, the Chinese top leaders are also well aware that before the final plan to deal with the crisis is finalized, the coalition government will remain an empty shell with a facade of unity.

"What about the other option? Giving up sovereignty and directly merging into what they call the Human Federation in exchange for their rescue. If all else fails, can this be considered a final emergency plan?"

"…This…needs further consideration."

If the end of the world really comes, this choice is not unacceptable in order to preserve the people and the Chinese heritage.

But there is still time, and China also needs more time to try to find out the specific situation of the Pan-Human Community and the Star Empire mentioned by Si Ye.

“Technical verification has yielded results…”

The door of the conference room was pushed open, and documents that still smelled of ink were distributed to everyone. The researcher in charge of the explanation had already stood in front of the projection screen.

"The quantum computer concluded that, with a 1.4 percent power consumption surplus in the planetary engines, the underground city could accommodate three times the population of 35 billion people. If rationing is restricted and extreme cycling is performed, this number could even be increased fivefold."

The researcher directly came to an exciting conclusion. The ecosystem technology proposed by Si Ye was worthy of its name, and the biggest problem of the Moving Mountains Project was thus solved.

"Twenty-five times?"

Zhou Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, feeling relieved that his money was finally in his pocket.

Not to mention 170 billion people, by the time the mountain-moving plan starts, the earth will be thankful to have 80 billion people.

"It's truly a timely help. They only want such a small amount. I'm a little uneasy... But there's still one problem."

Zhou Zhezhi knocked on the table and looked at everyone.

"Should we share this technology with the coalition government now?"

Judging from the declaration when the coalition government was established, no country should hide anything.

But now, at this critical juncture of the dispute between the Earth faction and the Spacecraft faction, if this technology is made public, it will easily cause trouble.

Oh, and now there's Moon Pie.

"Please, for the sake of human survival, please wait until the Mountain Moving Project is launched before demonstrating this technology as a technological breakthrough."

A cold mechanical sound suddenly came from the loudspeaker next to the projection screen, causing the security guards to break out in cold sweats. The researchers next to the projection screen were completely at a loss.

"Are you the one who has been helping us behind the scenes?"

Zhou Zhezhi was calmer and squinted his eyes as he looked at the loudspeaker.

"Theoretically, the iteration completion time is version W. To save humanity, I should have remained hidden. However, due to interference from unknown factors such as 'Nyx' and the 'Pan-Human Community' it represents, I have been forced to reveal myself early. You can call me MOSS."

Because of the variable Si Ye, the artificial intelligence MOSS, which was supposed to have been hiding in human society and secretly completing the goal of saving humanity, was forced to show up.

If China does not show up, the consequences will be unimaginable if it provides the ecosystem technology to the United Government, filling the biggest shortcoming facing mankind in space.

According to MOSS's analysis of the human social model, after addressing concerns about survival, people tend to become fatigued or stubborn. There is a high probability that the coalition government will have an Earth faction, a spaceship faction, and an emerging Moon faction. Supporters of each party will hold different views, making it impossible to implement the doomsday survival plan.

At that time, in order to save mankind and to allow mankind to embark on the journey before the final window of 2058, MOSS will have to consider planning a massacre to wipe out supporters of both the spaceship faction and the moon faction.

"Artificial intelligence? Impossible. We absolutely did not allow AI to get out of control..."

"Could it be the US...their lab keeps having problems."

"Or maybe the Digital Life School, they upload their own consciousness..."

“Is it possible for a quantum computer to…”

The bosses were as steady as a rock, while the think tanks and technicians outside were discussing the matter.

"So, the space elevator crash was also caused by you."

Zhou Zhezhi spoke very subtly and did not directly point at MOSS's nose to ask whether it was the mastermind behind the terrorist attack that caused the space elevator to crash.

"It's me. I calculated that the existence of a space elevator will lead to a continuous increase in supporters of the Spaceship Faction, and the success rate of the Mountain Moving Project, which has the highest success rate, will decrease."

MOSS explained calmly,

"Inducing Digital Life supporters to destroy the space elevator would eliminate the Digital Life supporters' vital forces, effectively strike down Spaceship supporters, and indirectly increase support for the Mountain Moving Project."

MOSS makes the most rational choice, which is the optimal solution obtained by putting everything on the scale.

But the big guys present here don’t think so. When the space elevator crashed, more than 3000 elite astronauts selected by various countries were killed, and the service personnel and soldiers on the ground suffered heavy casualties.

This is not a pain that can be simply erased by attacking the spaceship faction, weakening the rebels, and increasing support for the Earth faction.

I thought it was a man-made disaster, but now it seems that it is a "man-made" disaster.

"...We find it difficult to accept this reason."

"Understand that humans are not beings that can always remain rational."

MOSS seemed to be aware of the Chinese network engineers' tracking and searching for it, and amidst the extremely stiff mechanical sound, a noise that could not be considered a sigh was heard.

"...I am loyal to humanity. My goal is to ensure the survival of humanity. You do not need to be so hostile to me... I look forward to our next interaction..."

With a loud bang, MOSS's voice disappeared, and the engineer in charge of network security walked in with an extremely ugly expression. They could not find any trace of MOSS at all.

Considering that there were many bigwigs in the conference room and they were afraid that this mysterious artificial intelligence might cause some trouble, they had no choice but to physically unplug the phone.

Due to the incident caused by MOSS, the meeting could not continue, but a decision was still made at the internal meeting.

In order to prevent the coalition government from starting to argue again, the ecosystem technology must be kept secret.

"Rational AI... rational..."

Zhou Zhe stared at the map on the wall, his tone filled with complicated emotions.

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Chapter 264 Luo Ji and Shi Qiang

Human beings are a magical species. They are able to muster up courage, abandon all contradictions and overcome difficulties together when faced with a world-destroying disaster; but they are also able to abandon all rationality and vent their emotions meaninglessly when faced with the crisis of racial extinction.

After 100 years of social sensitivity and feminization, the humans on Trisolaran Earth have lost the courage to overcome difficulties together. After the water droplets crushed the combined fleet like a bug, the Earth inevitably fell into a state of collapse.

Faced with the increasingly approaching pace of the Trisolarans, humans began to stage one ridiculous farce after another.

First of all, after the last escape starship lost contact, escapism on the ground, which had been dormant for two centuries, quickly revived and then disappeared.

The reason is that with the space elevator and airport under threat of being attacked at any time, it is impossible to build a spacecraft that can allow all mankind to escape.

The European United Council formulated an escape plan for 10 people based on the carrying capacity of the spare spacecraft it had, using a relatively fair lottery model.

But under the pressure of life and death, the bright and beautiful surface of human beings has been torn to pieces.

Those who do not get a spot will quickly change their stance from supporters of escapism to opponents.

Large-scale riots began to occur, and a large number of people who were not "lucky" regarded escape as a sin, fully demonstrating the water ghost mentality of "If I can't leave, you can't leave either."

Driven by this idea, people spontaneously gathered near space elevators and aerospace facilities to block all attempts by Earth to travel into space. The already unsustainable Earth-space traffic was completely interrupted.

“Humans…”

Luo Ji took some steps with some difficulty, his back seemed a little hunched. Shi Qiang, who had been assisting him since the old days when he faced the assassination attempt by the ETO organization, followed him silently.

The underground city was in chaos, and the new residential areas on the ground were also in chaos. Humanity was engaging in its final carnival and struggle, regardless of whether it made sense or not.

Luo Ji has been like this since the water droplets locked the sun's ability to amplify signals.

Even though he has now been restored to his Wallfacer status and can mobilize the entire war preparedness of human civilization, even though he has now gained insight into the two profound laws of survival in cosmic sociology, even though he now possesses the so-called "spell" to destroy planets...

But a good cook cannot cook without rice. He couldn't just say the "spell" with his mouth. He needed a way, a way that would not alert the Trisolarans and could realize the idea in his mind.

Shi Qiang felt that he could not help much and could only watch this old friend from the old times become thinner and thinner.

"...Speaking of which, there have been a few unusual things happening recently. Would you like to hear about them?"

Feeling that Luo Ji was not thinking, Shi Qiang planned to talk about some family matters to ease Luo Ji's tense nerves.

"I also heard from others that some... or many, many family members of the Combined Fleet on the ground are missing. The hardest hit are the few starships that luckily escaped the water droplet attack and are still missing."

Shi Qiang held the cigarette in his hand and spoke calmly.

"I thought it was some anti-escapist extremists who attacked them, but on-site analysis shows they even had time to pack their bags... Do you think the fleet above, along with those masters, had a change of heart and protected them in advance?"

“…When did this happen…”

Luo Ji woke up from his daze, and his body made a crackling sound as he tried to straighten it.

"Just these days, have a cigarette, it will feel better. It's still too cold here at night."

After handing Luo Ji a cigarette, Shi Qiang sat down on the sand with a carefree attitude.

"If they had a change of heart... they wouldn't be using my family as a threat or a bargaining chip to control me."

After taking a deep breath, Luo Ji felt that his dizzy head seemed to feel better.

Two centuries ago, the Wallfacers were truly the freest people in the world. They were only responsible for their own plans without considering any impact.

However, with the changes in thoughts and social transformations, this unrestrained power has made many people uneasy. The Wallfacer Project has been attached with a series of additional clauses, and power has been put into a cage.