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Chapter 87 Sleeping Plan

"As for solutions, the Exiled Fleet has been discussed intermittently for 30 years, and countless ideas have been proposed, but they have been quickly rejected. Sociological scholars tell the leaders that this is an objective law of social development and cannot be stopped by humans. Unless it can be stopped, everything will inevitably happen and collapse will inevitably occur. Looking at the expressions of several guests, it seems that they have a certain understanding of this. I believe that similar situations have occurred in your hometown."

"Ha, your troubles are not unique to this world. I am afraid that as long as you are a human intelligent creature, you cannot escape this law." Shur sighed, "In Pavatiga, and even in my hometown, similar things have happened a lot."

Indeed, there are many similar examples of Pavatiga, and many of them are too lazy to recall them. The most typical one is the pioneering era that is known as the pioneering era in the golden age of Pavatiga. In the early days of the pioneering era, everyone walked out of their settlements and ambitiously challenged the world. New cities were constantly established, and the territory of various ethnic groups continued to expand.

On the road to pioneering, everyone worked together, including the city where the pioneering team belongs, and fully supported the construction and development of the pioneering territory. The residents would rather go hungry than let the pioneering territory get the best support. However, as time goes by, after several generations, everything changed, various contradictions continued to emerge, and the cracks between them became deeper and deeper.

As a result, the dark and cruel era of chaos came, wars broke out everywhere, killing continued, and corpses were everywhere. It can be said that the arrival of the era of chaos is the inevitable result of the pioneering era, and it is the prosperity and glory of the pioneering era that created the darkness and cruelty of the era of chaos.

During this period, that is, the few races with relatively long lifespans were relatively better. At least there was no major dispute within the country. The other short-lived races were all swallowed up by the Dark Ages.

"Sure enough, this is the inevitable result, and no one can escape." Ryan sighed with a wry smile, "As the situation becomes more and more uncontrollable, someone finally proposed a sleeping plan."

"Since we can't stop the situation from deteriorating as long as the replacement continues, we can simply stop the replacement. It's not impossible. Although you said before that our human body freezing technology is still in a relatively early stage, it is still possible to freeze the living organisms for thousands of years. Therefore, the initial sleeping plan was to freeze everyone and completely hand over the spacecraft to the central computer to control."

"But central computers are not artificial intelligence after all, and they cannot handle many specific problems themselves and must rely on normal people to make judgments. Therefore, the position of watcher came into being. At least one normal person should be kept awake on a spaceship. He is the acting captain of the spaceship, the so-called watcher, who has second-level authority and can issue all orders except for self-harm sexual behavior. Whenever the physical conditions of the contemporary watcher are confirmed to be unable to be supported, the watcher shall designate or the central computer shall choose the next successor. In other words, no matter what, it is necessary to ensure that there is at least one watcher on each spaceship to ensure the normal navigation of the ship."

"A very good plan." Most of Shuer understood it and nodded slightly, "But it's different from the current situation."

"Yes, that was the initial sleeping plan, which was formulated on paper, and it had not been tested in practice, so we certainly could not immediately enter the practical stage." Ryan explained. "So, when Nina and I were young, well, we were younger than Delia now, at that time, and Kemir should have not been born at that time. A group of volunteers were gathered within the fleet and began to conduct long-term freezing tests. The test took place for a full twenty years, and on the basis of determining that the technology was feasible, two fatal flaws were discovered."

"The first defect, long-term sleeping state, will damage the human spirit, and will cause a large number of adverse reactions, such as amnesia, personality distortion, violent tendencies, etc. It will take several months of mental treatment to return to normal. This is just a 200-year sleep. What if it is two hundred years? No one can guarantee whether this sleep symptoms will become permanent and cannot be cured."

"Deep space amnesia, common adverse reactions to dormant navigation." Wei's explanation came to Shuer's ears, "There are seven treatment methods, but the world's technology tree has obvious shortcomings, so it is normal for them to not know how to deal with it."

"The second flaw is that everyone falls into sleep, and the development of civilization will completely stagnate. It is useless to rely solely on the watcher. The meaning of our existence is to inherit and continue the Brown Star civilization, and try to delay the demise of civilization. On the other hand, we are actually in exile and are struggling to pursue a glimmer of vitality. For this slim hope, the development of technology must never stop. Otherwise, we might as well stay in our hometown and perish with Brown Star."

"Ha, I understand, so there is a virtual space." Shuer said thoughtfully, "But that space is too desperate. Since reality is so cruel, why should it be so difficult in a dream?"

"Well, virtual space can perfectly solve the adverse reactions of long-term sleep and maintain the normal development of the brown star civilization. The method is very simple. All so-called memory chips are actually a receiver, connected to the brain waves of the sleeper one-to-one. For the sleeping person, it is like having another life in a dream."

“Where are newborns and the dead?”

"There are no real newborns. Those are artificially cultivated biochemical people. They have no thinking function and no reproductive function. The so-called newborns are just putting a biochemical human embryo into the mother's body." Ryan smiled bitterly, "These are actually easy to solve. We control all the machinery and even control everything in the virtual space. After the central computer calculates, they decide who should give birth. Just inject the embryo into the mother and let her conceive. After the newborn is born, they will immediately install a brain wave receiver, which is the so-called memory chip, and all problems will be solved."

"So who controls the newborn individual?"

"Of course, it is the passengers who are unfortunately waiting for the opportunity to be born, such as those who have passed away." Ryan shrugged. "We intentionally control the population and make the number of passengers on the spacecraft higher than the number in the virtual space, so that the space can operate normally."

"Ha, an alternative reincarnation." Xiuer thought of the legend of his hometown about the reincarnation of life, and couldn't help but smile and shook his head, "The reincarnation and reincarnation that sounded extremely mysterious in the past may be so simple and crude. However, Mr. Ryan, since this is planned, why don't the people inside know?"

"This was decided by all the fleet's spacecraft. At first, some people suggested that everyone keep their memories and live, but it will induce many other contradictions. For example, a human's mental power is limited. In the virtual world, generation after generation of reincarnations, the accumulated memories and pressure are a very terrible burden, which no one can easily bear. There are also a large number of unexplained contradictions in ethics and morality. Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, we finally chose the form of dreams. After entering the dream, we are people in the virtual world. Once we wake up from the dream, our memories will soon be forgotten and will not be affected. This is the most perfect result."

"What happened next is natural. With the assistance of self-disciplined machinery, it is not difficult to build that virtual space. Everyone needs to control the body through the central computer network of the spacecraft. The central computer can affect the memory of virtual biochemicals to a certain extent. Therefore, affecting their memory to make up a non-existent history, which can easily make the society of the virtual world run normally."

"Hmm? No." Shuer raised his eyebrows, "According to the following statements of humans and mechanical bodies, it has only been sixty years since the end of the mechanical end. Everything was normal sixty years ago."

"Ha, that's because this dream started at that time sixty years ago, and it happened to be a dream of mechanical doomsday." Ryan looked up at the ceiling of the cabin and said in a memory, "I have seen the records of various generations of watchmen. For more than a thousand years, most eras have chosen pioneering planets as the background. There are fewer people who choose mechanical doomsday like this generation. Well, the basic plot is similar, it is a dispute between humans and machinery, and then humans are trapped in an area that cannot be left. There is no way, because the spacecraft is only so big, and the brain wave controller will only work in the lower area of ​​the spacecraft. Of course, they cannot be allowed to move freely. After setting, the dream develops by itself. The watchmen cannot interfere easily. Only when the dream develops to an uncontrollable point can they intervene. At that time, the central computer forces the dream to reset, compile a new background story, and everything starts again."

"As for why they should make it so difficult for them to live in their dreams, this was also the common decision of everyone at the beginning. On the one hand, we must limit the space for activities in the dreams, and not feel incongruent. On the other hand..."

"Only when facing pressure can we generate motivation." Shuer nodded, "The mechanical bodies have told us the reason. It seems that this view is also set by you for them."

"No, once the background is set successfully and there is no special situation, the central computer will not interfere with the memory of people in the virtual dream. The mechanical body is actually humans in the dream, and their memories are also contained within the range of non-interference. So we just disguised ourselves as the main brain and gave them some instructions and guidance through the central computer, but we cannot tamper with their memories. Most of the people inside will think so. In fact, their body itself has this awareness, such as Di...Kemir."

"Dad, my name is Delia."

"Kemir she..."

"My name is Delia."

"Oh, Delia now remembers everything in the past. You can ask her. She also holds the same awareness. She would rather live under threat and pressure than do her part in the dream for the continuation of civilization. Those in the dream may have their own private messages, but this awareness is common."

"Okay, I probably understand the so-called dream plan. In fact, it is nothing more than a lively farce." Shure frowned and said, "The problem is that the time problem is still unexplainable. Your so-called virtual space is actually built in the real world. With your technology, it is impossible to touch the law of time. There is no doubt that you left Delia sixty years ago. What happened?"
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