Blackstone Code

Over the weekend, Lynch and Kathleen strolled through Miracle City parks.

There is soft lawn under your feet, and the tender green leaves are full of vitality.

Just by looking at it, you can feel the vitality contained in it.

There were some people around, but no one bothered them. The two of them just strolled around.

No one spoke.

Kathleen is one of the very few people who has not fixed her life through surgery, nor has she transformed herself into a digital life. In other words, she already looks much older at this time.

Maybe from the outside, she looks about forty-seven or eighteen years old, but in fact she is approaching sixty years old.

According to Aurora's analysis of Kathleen's body, she can probably live to be in her eighties, in other words, she still has more than twenty years of life.

She refuses to use any technology to make herself live longer. Instead, the decay of nature becomes a result, even a state, that she pursues.

The closer someone is to death, the more fearful they become.

Kathleen is just the opposite of them. The closer she is to the end, the calmer she becomes.

The two walked for a while and found a bench to sit down.

"They all advised me to undergo surgery, what do you think?" she asked Lynch first.

Kathleen's parents have both undergone surgeries, and even the surgeries of digital life have been completed. As long as the server where their consciousness is stored is still powered on, they will exist forever.

Even if the server suddenly shuts down, they will still come back to life as long as the power is turned on again.

Unless the entire server is completely destroyed, the storage area where they are stored is shattered and completely destroyed.

Otherwise, they wouldn't die.

All of Kathleen's immediate family members had similar surgeries, but she was the only one who did not.

The natural old look gives people a very special kind of beauty, an indescribable feeling.

Lynch shook his head, "I respect your decision, Kathleen."

Kathleen looked at Lynch, "I know what you are thinking. Don't wake me up from my long sleep on your own after I die."

"Sometimes I think that life is really meaningless."

"When I was young, I was ignorant. Life has no special meaning to people."

"When you are young, you live for your parents and for the eyes of your relatives. You hope to be the person they need you to be."

"Study hard, or work hard, and become the person they think is good."

"I got married, had children, and started living for my family again."

"You want your family to be no better than others, but not worse than others."

"In your old age, it seems that you can finally live for yourself, but when you turn around, your children still need your care."

“You spend your whole life in a hurry, but you don’t spend much time living for yourself.”

"Some people like this kind of life, but I don't, so don't wake me up after I die. I know you have this technology."

Lynch thought for a while, but did not completely agree, "I respect your decision as much as possible, but... you know that sometimes we don't have such thoughts and decisions, and that's okay."

"If Fei Jiali gets married in the future, wouldn't you want to see her walk into the marriage hall wearing a wedding dress?"

"Don't you want to see the child she and her loved one gave birth to?"

"Do you want to miss this important stage in her and her children's lives?"

Kathleen was in a daze, but her eyes soon became clear and firm again, "It's life that has regrets, Lynch, you should understand this better than me."

"You are evading." Lynch commented on her behavior without convincing, "But... well, as I said, I will try to respect your decision."

"But I will still wake you up if necessary."

Kathleen smiled a little, "This is the best news I've heard in a while!"

She is also a little tired. Her family and relatives all hope that she can complete the operation as soon as possible or transform into a digital life as soon as possible.

Especially after Fei Jiali mastered the power of light, as Katharine's relatives and Fei Jiali's relatives, they were even more eager for Katharine's long-term existence.

This means that they will also get more benefits, endless benefits because of Kathleen and Fei Jiali.

This makes Kathleen, who has always been independent and has her own ideas, very irritated, and she is indeed not very interested in immortality now. Even if she can live forever, it will only be like this.

With supreme rights, wouldn’t it still mean three meals a day and a home?

The endless boring life is what she fears. Perhaps death is the destination she truly pursues.

Death will give her real peace and peace.

Lynch revealed the reality she was escaping from, and she did not deny it. Lynch could always guess her thoughts.

The two sat for a while, then got up and continued walking.

The entire Earth planet civilization is changing rapidly. Countless robots on the ice planet are mining resources at a speed that humans cannot achieve, and then sending them to the edge of the solar system.

Huge asteroids were captured from the galaxy clouds by the robot army, then hollowed out, and various war equipment built on them.

Commander Octopus has begun to prepare a preview of the invasion of the Octopus clan in advance, and everyone is working hard for the next stage.

The news broadcast in the media, and even some teaching content in schools, are also undergoing corresponding changes, and expansion has become the main theme.

For students in the past, scientific content may be the core of learning.

But for students now, the core subjects have become books such as "How to be a qualified captain", "The Art of Fleet Command", and "Analysis of Famous Space Battles".

Some of the actual war battle examples were brought back by Lynch from alien planets.

Aurora also uses its powerful computing power to directly simulate wars for students. They can become captains in the virtual star sea and control the fleet to fight space wars!

Of course, books like "Energy Boiler Maintenance Manual", "One Hundred and Eight Examples of Mecha Repair", and "How to Survive in the Universe" have also become elective subjects.

These may be the years when the Earth Star civilization has changed the most, and the entire civilization is full of a new driving force.

The more than ten years of Earth Star civilization are just a moment for the entire universe.

Lynch's five children all returned to school to receive war education again. Perhaps Adam, Haynes, and the Haynes brothers have really been exposed to the despair brought by the war, so their grades are always among the best.

Fei Jiali and Bosel were not as good as some ordinary students. They were a little lazy in this regard.

After the final exam, the brothers and sisters had a rare period of relaxation. They gathered together waiting for scores and assignments.

According to the new Earth Star Law, all graduates of higher education colleges will be randomly assigned to different fleets and bases to work according to their main subject scores and elective scores.

If the academic performance is good and the elective content is mainstream, then there is a high probability that they will work as captains or deputy captains.

This can be regarded as a success overnight, at least no longer at the bottom.

If the main subject scores are not good and the elective scores are average, then they can only become operators or soldiers on warships.

If the elective scores are not good, then they can only do the lowest level of work, engineers, ground forces.

Some people are not satisfied with Lynch's one-size-fits-all way of deciding the future of children, and think that children should be given more opportunities, but Lynch did not accept their opinions.

In the past ten years, quantum technology has achieved a certain degree of breakthrough, and they have completed the information synchronization of the surrounding universe.

It was also discovered that the war of the octopus tribe was moving towards a stage of total war.

In other words, in the stage of total war, whether it is theocracy or the monarchy, they must increase their war potential through plunder.

The solar system civilization, which they regard as a lower civilization, is obviously included in their plundering targets.

War is not far away.

In mid-July, the graduation exam results have appeared.

Adam was assigned to the Third Fleet with excellent grades in all subjects and served as the commander of a combat formation.

Considering their special characteristics, the brothers Haynes and Haynes served as the commander and deputy commander of a combat formation at the same time.

Bersell's grades were also good, but he personally did not want to go to the front line, and was eventually assigned to the ground logistics force as the commander of the logistics force.

As for Fei Jiali, she will stay with Lynch and learn the more advanced art of "command".

It was also in this year that Catherine finally left this world due to natural aging of her body.

Lynch respected her personal wishes and did not force her to undergo surgery to increase her lifespan or transform her into a digital life.

However, the power to wake her up at any time and anywhere was reserved. Aurora kept her in the laboratory with the highest confidentiality level, and only a few people knew where she was.

Catherine's death did not alarm too many people. In this interstellar era, the leader of a regime of surface civilization had long been forgotten by people.

Only the company and Lynch were the focus of people's attention.

In August, everyone went to where they should go and began to get familiar with their new jobs and new identities.

In September of the same year, news came out that external expansion would begin after the new year, and the whole society seemed to have entered a faster operating state in an instant.

Everyone tensed up and prepared for the arrival of that moment.

On January 1st of the new year, Lynch made a public speech on the Internet. In his speech, he said that the earth civilization had completed a stage-by-stage development, and the next step would be an important moment to verify the development results during this period.

The war of external expansion has begun!