Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 149 NO.0094: Fish and Cancer

"You are still hesitating."

Seeing that Jiang Zhou was still stern and silent, he didn't express anything. "Madeleine" stopped talking before, she stared into the eyes of the man in front of her, and said concisely.

No expression is also an expression.

"Why do you hesitate? Is it because this system has touched your moral bottom line?"

Seeing that there was still no response from the other party, "Madeleine" tried to calm down her tone—at this moment, her attitude was as gentle and patient as the chairman of the labor union entrusted by the company boss to help coordinate labor issues.

In her opinion, in this whole matter, what really needs to be solved is the other party's psychological problems. So, she continued to persuade:

"I understand...you may feel that this is very inhumane, or criticize the city's operating laws from other moral perspectives. But I must remind you that this is not the base reality. Continue to insist on the morality in reality The precepts are completely an act of seeking the sword."

This is a common occurrence—many newcomers who come to the city of sages will do so after learning the truth. Although the spirit has transcended the outside world, their thinking is still drawn by the gravity of reality, unable to adapt to those changes.

At this time, it is time to "enlighten" them.

"Madeleine" continued:

"When I was very young, I once read a famous science fiction novel about the invasion of aliens in the AD era. There is a sentence in it that I have been remembering until now-the fish that landed on the shore are no longer fish.

"We are the fish that have landed, or the monkeys that have descended from the tree. The research results you found in the database before prove that what we can achieve is far superior to those native people...In this case, we There is really no need to continue to respect the moral concepts of those basic realities."

Apparently, she regards those who uploaded their digital personalities to cyberspace as fish that landed. Thinking that they are no longer the same creatures as those humans with real flesh and blood in the base reality.

Then she went on:

"If you still can't accept it... then think about the beginning of all this, think about the first deep diver who uploaded his digital personality, think about the super artificial intelligence named Janus. Isn’t what He experienced a change similar to ours?”

It is a comprehensive evolutionary revolution for marine life to climb onto land; it is also a great evolutionary revolution for human beings to upload their digital personalities to the Internet and become information life.

In analogy, in the second revolution, the first "fish" to land in the "New World" was the "first deep diver" a hundred years ago. And the product of its evolution, "Janus", what great achievements it has made in the end, and what earth-shaking changes it has caused to the world, everyone living in this era is obvious to all.

And in this era, if they don't seize this opportunity to "go ashore", then in the future, when those "fish" who go ashore will evolve into "human beings". When hunting their ancestors with the "harpoons" and "fishing nets" they invented...or worse, when they inadvertently created species due to the exploitation of "ocean" resources or the discharge of pollutants When extinct...it's too late.

"So, if you're struggling with moral issues..."

At the end, the voice of "Madeleine" gradually became serious:

"Then I'm going to tell you... don't try to be moral in this eternal brutal war of survival, it's immoral."

After finishing speaking, she let out a long breath—for a moment, she herself was moved by the power of her words.

After the "big shock", there are too many paths that change the opportunity for human evolution and guide human beings to upgrade. However, the inertia of past life and the historical legacy dragged behind human beings are too heavy.

Even, for those roads that have been paved, those high-ranking people who have witnessed the ascension still choose to restrain. They use the Styx Firewall to block the abyss dark net with countless treasures buried deep in it; they are afraid of those pioneers who walk on the path of evolution, and they put shackles on those people through various means .

Perhaps from a human point of view, they are very smart. But from an evolutionary standpoint, these people are downright stupid.

"Madeleine" thought so, then looked at Jiang Zhou and asked confidently:

"So, what's your final choice?"

She believed that after she understood the potential of the city and the pros and cons of the two options, the other party would be able to make the right choice.

"I have to admit, I agree with your statement about the fish coming ashore..."

On the other side, Jiang Zhou, who had been listening quietly from beginning to end, spoke slowly under the eager gaze of the other party.

However, before the other party smiled, he took a deep breath and continued:

"However, I refuse your proposal."

"Why?"

The completely unexpected answer caused "Madeleine" and thousands of audiences around to be in an uproar at the same time.

"Madeleine" who reacted immediately increased her voice, overshadowing the noise in the auditorium and asked:

"Is it because you still can't pass the level of your own moral discipline? If that's the case..."

"It has nothing to do with morality."

In this regard, Jiang Zhou simply interrupted.

Yes, it has nothing to do with morality. If all that City of Sages has done can really guide human evolution. To be honest, Jiang Zhou would definitely not mind submitting the source code of his digital personality.

He is such a person, as long as he decides the right choice, he never cares about the eyes of the world.

However, after he learned the truth about the "City of Sages", Jiang Zhou really didn't think it could take on the important task of "human evolution".

He looked around at the crowd in the auditorium, and finally his eyes fell on "Madeleine" again and said:

"The reason for my refusal is the same as what you criticized earlier... Your system is not at all able to guide evolution, and it is not even as good as a slum in any resettlement area in the base reality."

His words, which were almost humiliating, caused a commotion in the entire venue. Countless doubts and insults were uploaded from the stands.

"What did you say?"

And "Madeleine" looked at Jiang Zhou, bit her lower lip slightly and asked.

"I said, you can't guide evolution at all here. As for the basis of my judgment..."

Jiang Zhou paused as he spoke.

He is not an expert in evolution, but when this system is completely revealed before his eyes, it doesn't even take a minute to find out the fatal problems in it.

"The basis of evolution is iteration, and the basis of iteration is rebirth and death... Then please tell me, does this eternal city have such a thing?"

Jiang Zhou is like a road.

Here, there is no reproduction, no death. A new ontology will not be born out of thin air, and an old existence will not die out on its own.

Here, there are only more than a thousand immortal citizens who are the eternal masters of this city; only the Dionysus Bureau spares no effort to maintain their vitality; A fundamentally wrong system.

Yes, the citizens here are indeed able to study complex subjects according to their own interests, and create technological blueprints that even Olympus Enterprises are difficult to reproduce. However, a person's mental model has its limit. It is almost impossible for them to continue to dig deeply forever, and it is difficult to open up a new field without being affected after a breakthrough in a certain field.

Regarding Jiang Zhou's words, "Madeleine" immediately suppressed the growing boos around her, and then retorted:

"Although we don't have birth and death, we have iteration, that is..."

"That's me? Or, new guy? New mental model?"

In this regard, Jiang Zhou interrupted again.

Seeing that the other party did not speak, Jiang Zhou, who knew he had guessed right, continued:

"I have already seen that you will even hold a carnival for the upload of a new personality source code... In other words, you actually do not have the ability to 'create blood' and innovate on your own. All iterations need to rely on external input, Once there are no 'newcomers', it is water without a source.

"Just because of this, you still want to be able to 'go ashore'?"

When she said this, the stands of the entire venue exploded, and some angry rebuttals reached his ears:

"The status quo is only temporary. After we have accumulated strong strength in the future, we will expand!"

"We will expand to other places in the Narcissus Plain, to the Abyss Darknet, and to the World Wide Web!"

"We will absorb all the Wanderers, then the Abyss Wanderers, and finally the humans in the base reality!"

It seems that this "utopia" does not intend to continue incognito forever...

Jiang Zhou sneered at this.

There is no replication, growth, senescence and apoptosis, no normal life cycle, no possibility of mutation, and no ability to make blood on its own... It needs to lie on the living body of the same origin to suck their nutrients to survive, and it will expand infinitely.

There is another name for this type of thing that is more familiar to the public.

cancer.

With their abilities, if they continue to develop here, they will definitely become terminally ill of human civilization in the future.

Fortunately, there are only more than a thousand of them now, and they don't have many resources in their hands.

Jiang Zhou felt that thousands of pairs of eyes were focusing on him at this moment.

This is early cancer.

he thinks.

And what I need to do now is to remove it.

Or... be assimilated by them.