Chapter 459 The Second Dimension
Of course, the complete collapse of the financial system is not actually a big trouble for Yamato, which has been making strides on the road of planned economy for many years.
As early as more than ten years ago, Ceres, the high priest of the Sea Tribe, had already seen that human economic development actually relies on globalized trade to a large extent.
Therefore, it believes that by attacking trade, it can very effectively create an economic crisis in human society and slow down the pace of their development.
So he ordered a large number of sea tribes to drive their lower-level counterparts to attack all human ocean-going merchant ships regardless of the cost, in order to cut off the most important ocean trade network that communicates around the world.
And because of worries about possible tsunamis, and preparedness for a surprise landfall, the sea tribe harassed them. Except for countries that really had no choice but to retreat, most countries have moved their political and economic centers inland after the disaster, and coastal areas have become the front lines of the battle.
Various reasons eventually led to a sharp decline in maritime trade. Only large quantities of valuables that could not be transported by plane would be hired by ship-calming experts at high prices.
This move by the Sea Clan is undoubtedly a fatal blow to an island country like Yamato, which is surrounded by sea and relies heavily on maritime trade.
Under such circumstances, the Yamato people who had no choice quickly began to implement a material rationing system, stipulating the daily distribution of necessary daily necessities for each person, and reducing unnecessary consumption as much as possible.
A large number of bankrupt factories were uniformly taken over by the state, and only needed products were produced to adapt to the new environment of shortage of various raw materials. The country soon entered a wartime economic system.
Yamato, the bridgehead of capitalism, was like this more than ten years ago. It was forced by the cruel reality to move towards a planned economy.
The nearly 180-degree crazy U-turn in national policy will inevitably be accompanied by countless sacrifices.
They have always been accustomed to skewing the technology tree. In order to alleviate the extremely serious problem of too many people and too little land after the tsunami, they have developed a lot of black technology.
Not to mention the technology that specializes in reclamation, which is a normal category, the Technology Development Bureau under the official leadership of Yamato has spent nearly ten years developing such a crazy technology as "human two-dimensionalization".
Initially, the effect they wanted to achieve was to further improve the Huaya Federation's virtual reality system, allowing some people's bodies to stay in the nutrition cabin, and then live most of the time in the virtual network.
Because once this technology is popularized, the material needs of people living in the cabin from the real world will be reduced to the extreme, and the space requirements will be almost zero, which can greatly reduce the pressure on the country.
Yamato has extremely rich spiritual stone resources, but after the sea route was strangled, it was short of resources and could only pinch its nose and accept high-priced raw materials jointly supplied by the Huaya Federation and the United States to maintain the normal operation of the country.
At the same time, the price of the astonishing number of local spirit stones has been suppressed by the alliance, making it easier for neighboring countries to do business and shear sheep one after another.
Although extraordinary people who have cultivated to a certain level gradually evolve their bodies to become independent of the outside world and can get rid of the problem of eating by absorbing spiritual energy, ordinary people who make up the vast majority of the population still need to eat, drink and consume.
What's more, extraordinary people also have the desire to enjoy themselves, so while large quantities of materials are imported, a large number of spiritual stones are exported through secret channels in exchange for luxury goods from all over the world.
When the research entered its fifth year, the first batch of life-support cabins was successfully put into production. Thirty volunteers participated in the experiment and lived healthily in the cabin for nearly three months, declaring the success of the experiment.
Subsequently, the existence of the life-sustaining capsule was made public by the Yamato government. However, even if the vast majority of people did not live satisfactorily in reality, they still expressed considerable disgust with living in the virtual world, and very few people took the initiative to sign up in Kyoto.
Only a handful of people who hate daily boring work and like to stay at home all day readily accept this kind of thing.
Living on the Internet around the clock without having to worry about various problems in real life is, in a sense, seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence.
It is a pity that a large part of the work in modern society can be completed remotely through the Internet. The Yamato government, which is eager to split a penny in half, will certainly not support them in vain.
These guys whose thoughts are wandering on the virtual reality network, thinking that they can escape from work by escaping into the survival cabin, still cannot escape the fate of becoming social animals, they just moved their office location to the virtual world.
Two years after the existence of the survival capsule was made public, through various overt and covert efforts, more than 2% of the population in Yamato, either semi-forced or induced, finally became one of them. .
The underground center of the Kyoto life-sustaining module located inland has gathered two million people with physically dormant bodies. They "live" together in a virtual city called "New Tokyo".
This virtual city is like the shadow of the city on the ground, silently supporting the development of the entire Yamato.
Naturally, with the emergence of survival capsules and virtual reality, some people will want to go one step further and explore the possibility of human beings completely breaking away from the constraints of the physical body.
The Ghost King who was located in the ruins of Tokyo more than ten years ago was instantly killed by a mysterious light man and made into a soul crystal. After that, a lot of residue was left behind. These residues, under the guidance of spiritual energy, slowly evolved into some non-intelligent beings. Ghostly things.
After cruel fighting, these ghosts finally gave birth to a very small number of highly intelligent elites, who were called drifting spirits by the Yamato people.
Yamato, who urgently needed to unite all forces, ignored the so-called differences between humans and ghosts, and it didn't take long to reach a consensus with them and let them reintegrate into the country.
In the study of human beings completely breaking away from the shackles of the physical body, Piao Ling is undoubtedly an excellent research example. Bai Mo's clone Kuroyuki, who stayed at the Yamato Technology Development Bureau at the time, was also involved in related matters.
It was not until the eve of the outbreak of the Red World Rebellion that the "thinking informatization" plan took off. Yamato couldn't wait to start human trials. However, the results this time were disastrous.
Among the one hundred test subjects, thirty-one died on the spot after their brains exploded, forty-one became insane due to disordered thinking, and twenty-five successfully transformed into "two-dimensional creatures", but they were just a bunch of people who lost all their sanity. , unintelligible gibberish.
There were only three people in total who finally achieved the purpose of the experiment. They were able to successfully cut off all ties with the physical body and become true digital beings while maintaining normal thinking.
However, before each research center had time to analyze the experimental results, the spirit-eating virus broke out crazily, and the research team composed entirely of extraordinary people was forced to disperse and hide in the deep mountains and old forests.
During the subsequent chaos of the Red World, the almost unmanned experimental site was destroyed by the mob. Bai Mo, who was originally able to save it, was also entangled by the Red World gangsters and could not control the clone, so the experiment eventually came to nothing. .