Chapter 746 Human History (Part 1)

"Moon Guard Base"...

Xia Fan noticed this keyword.

So this is really the moon, and the blue planet he saw is the true hometown of mankind.

Nowadays, everyone lives under a huge "curtain", including mountains, rivers, sky and sea. If you have not seen scenes outside the ecological circle, it will be difficult for anyone to distinguish the difference between this place and the natural world.

He also thought about what it would be like if humans set foot on the moon and established a space base, but he did not expect that this place would become a paradise that could replace the earth - if there were no evil spirits.

But in the explanation of electronic sound, the situation seems to be slightly biased. For example, the development of this paradise was not so smooth, so that artificial life had to be used to make up for the lack of labor. Generally speaking, when a large-scale project is not progressing smoothly, priority will always be given to reducing the scale, or even ending it completely. It is definitely not common for a project to be reversely forced to change regulations.

So the core of the problem is all about the earth.

Only by understanding what changes happened on the earth can we truly understand the occurrence of this change.

Xia Fan took everyone all the way to the elevator nearest to the control room and pressed the button.

The elevator door opened in response.

"Is this a room? It looks a bit small." Ning Wanjun probed her head and asked.

"It's the elevator of the escape tower. It's essentially the same thing as the one we took before, but it's much faster." Xia Fan walked into the elevator and demonstrated how to use it in public, "Just select the floor you want to go to. Wait until the security door closes and wait for a while to arrive. ”

"Ding dong, the elevator is going up, please hold on to the handrails." The electronic voice said in perfect harmony.

"Is this what you are talking about?" Xia Fan asked consciously.

"If you refer to the speaker, all the intelligent responses in the entire escape tower are spoken by me. But you should be able to understand that I can run multiple systems in parallel and talk to different people in many locations at the same time. These logical links only occupy me Very little performance. But..."

At this point it paused.

"But what?" Xia Fan raised his eyebrows. Could this guy actually be trying to show off his skills?

"But even in a parallel system, I will pay separate attention to those more important conversations, such as yours." The other party said, "So the upward reminder just now can be understood as my 'personal words'."

He couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

Is this really what the system would say?

I don't know if it was an illusion, but after he did not choose to forcibly stop the cleaning process, the other party started talking more and more - although the tone was still not much different from the electronic sound.

"Are you really artificial intelligence rather than some kind of biotechnology? Like a canned brain or something..."

"There is no such equipment on the escape tower." It immediately vetoed, "In addition, using the natural human body as a device is a serious violation, and offenders may be sentenced to death at most."

"Okay, so do you have a name?"

"Feixiang Company's Esprit Unbounded third-generation central control system, version number is 3.108.15——"

"Okay," Xia Fan interrupted, "Just call me Sikong."

After all, it’s quite awkward to call it system every time.

"Command accepted." It was silent for a moment, seeming to be updating its database. "The new codename given to Omega by Sicon has been entered into all subsystems."

Xia Fan took a deep breath while watching everyone chattering about how they felt about riding in the elevator for the first time.

"So...what happened on Earth? Why did people escape, and where have they fled now?"

He could absolutely assert that the escape tower was not built to return to Earth.

The distance between the earth and the moon is so close that there is no need for the forerunners to spend a lot of time preparing.

Judging from their technical capabilities, it should not be difficult to achieve a one-day round trip flight between the Earth and the Moon.

Besides, going to Earth cannot be considered an escape no matter how you look at it.

They undoubtedly abandoned their hometown and went to a more distant place.

"The earth is now a dead place." Si Kong's answer made Xia Fan's heart sink slightly. "In fact, not only the earth, but most places within the reach of humans are already dead."

He couldn't help but think of the metal debris floating in orbit around the moon... "Are they foreign enemies?"

"There are no invaders from other galaxies. All of this is caused by human technological progress."

"Technological progress?" Xia Fan couldn't help but be startled.

"Yes. The most critical progress is the exploration and utilization of dark energy. According to the records in the database, it has brought about unprecedented changes, and its influence far exceeds the previous five industrial revolutions." Sikong said calmly, "— —At least that’s how humans describe it.”

"It makes everyone a god who changes the world."

Xia Fan quietly listened to the other party's story.

It's not that complicated. If you put aside the technical details, anyone can fully understand how humans got to where they are today.

In Xia Fan's memory, dark energy is just an empty concept, because it does not absorb or reflect light, nor does it emit radiation itself, so humans have no means of observing it. Even whether it exists can be indirectly speculated based on various phenomena in the universe, and there is never a definite number.

It is like the human eye cannot see ultraviolet light, so it is destined not to see a more colorful world like a bird. No matter how to describe or imagine it, it can only be simulated with known experience, and no one knows how far it is from the reality.

Unless the human body is modified to upgrade three cone cells to four cone cells.

In that era, it was normal to modify oneself.

People always yearn for the unknown, hoping to step into unprecedented fields and experience feelings that ordinary people cannot touch in their lifetime.

With the progress of neurotechnology and brain science, some projects have expanded by leaps and bounds.

For example... physically expand one's brain capacity.

This is the same idea as the development of electronic devices, either miniaturized for portability or giantized to improve performance. The larger the volume, the more powerful the computing unit can be, and the more powerful the power supply and cooling system can be. Under the premise of equal technical capabilities, the bigger is always better than the smaller.

Therefore, a bigger head has become a popular modification project.

Although it will destroy the beauty of the human body and turn a normal person into a "deformed child", the effect is real. With the great abundance of social materials, reproduction is no longer the primary pursuit of human beings, and more and more people are willing to make such attempts. In the end, this quantitative change brought about a real qualitative change.

When the development of the brain exceeded a threshold, people opened another "eye" and saw the other side of the universe for the first time.

——Humans personally felt the existence of dark energy.