Earth Era

In the lonely and cold space of the universe, the concept of time seems to have lost its meaning. Because no matter how much time passed, the Xinghai spacecraft always made no movement at all. It was always suspended quietly in this dark space. Not only was it motionless, there was no change in the environment it was in.

When Wei Feng woke up again, the starry sky he saw was no different from what he saw ten years ago. The sun is still the brightest star in the sky, and the infinite stars in the starry sky still stay in their original positions without any change.

They are like a quiet painting. Paintings, naturally, will not change.

But Wei Feng knew that this was just a perception with the naked eye. If you use precision instruments to analyze it, with your own movement, the position and brightness of the stars are actually changing every moment, but you are just not aware of it.

"Another ten years have passed, Ye Luo, have you discovered anything during this period?" Wei Feng asked.

Ye Luo's voice was still calm, "I didn't find anything. In these ten years and 950 billion kilometers of voyage, I didn't see anything within 500 million kilometers next to us. The emptiness of this universe is beyond Our imaginations.”

Ye Luo has been working without a break for ten years. Ye Luo was manipulating the telescope equipped on the Xinghai spacecraft to search the surrounding space every second, but Ye Luo didn't find anything.

This is a very boring job. If Wei Feng were to do it, Wei Feng would go crazy within a month. Only Ye Luo can do such a job.

"Ye Luo, thank you for your hard work." Wei Feng said very seriously.

"I am an intelligent program, and the program will not feel tired." Ye Luo replied, "As long as there is enough energy and hardware support, I can work until the end of the universe."

This statement sounds like nonsense, but generally speaking, there is always truth in the nonsense. Smart programs really don't feel hard, they always have endless energy. They won't be upset or sad. Will not be controlled by any emotions. They are born to strive for the goals set from the beginning. As Ye Luo said, "As long as there is enough energy and hardware support," they can work until the end of the universe.

This is the biggest advantage of intelligent programs compared to life. Sometimes, Wei Feng, no, not just Wei Feng. Scientists on Earth have also imagined the existence of mechanical civilization. Compared with living organisms, the advantages of mechanical civilization are too obvious. They will not be troubled by short life, nor will they be hindered by difficulties such as culture, ideology, and internal disputes. Spending a thousand years on an interstellar voyage may be a difficult thing for human civilization to accomplish, but for mechanical civilization, there is no difference between a thousand years and one second.

Back then, hundreds of thousands of computer scientists, physicists, materials scientists, structural engineers, structural engineers and others joined forces and spent more than ten years programming the huge intelligent program "Ye Luo". Now, it has spent thirty years proving its reliability. Although there are occasionally some minor bugs. Although its capabilities still have great limitations, its powerful abilities have been fully demonstrated.

This gave Wei Feng a little more expectation for the possibility of mechanical civilization. Think about it, if Ye Luo's original goal was not to assist Wei Feng in controlling the Xinghai spacecraft. Instead, they simply acquire resources—copy themselves—voyage to other galaxies—continue to acquire resources, and this cycle continues. So... what kind of scene will it be?

Artificial intelligence is a product that appears along with intelligent civilization. If intelligent civilization wants to develop, it cannot do without the help of artificial intelligence. But artificial intelligence is a very dangerous thing, and its existence may destroy the entire universe.

Perhaps because he had just woken up and his mind was not yet under his control, Wei Feng couldn't help but think a little more at this moment. So Ye Luo said: "Captain, what's wrong with you? Do you feel uncomfortable? Do you need help?"

Wei Feng came back from his thoughts and tried to leave the hibernation cabin. At the same time, he said: "No, I'm fine. I have nothing to do. Ye Luo, please report to me what happened in the past ten years."

"Nothing worth paying attention to happened." Ye Luo replied, "The number of parts that need to be replaced and repaired has increased to more than a hundred, and my cumulative number of BUGs has also increased to more than a hundred. In addition, on the earth, More than thirty notifications have been sent to us, but the urgency level is all B-, and it has not reached the point where we need to wake you up urgently."

It seemed that as time passed, various flaws and malfunctions in the Xinghai spacecraft and Ye Luo itself began to slowly be exposed. Wei Feng knows that this will be an irreversible trend, and the number of faulty parts and accumulated bugs will only increase, just like the spaceship will always become more and more broken.

Wei Feng had already been mentally prepared for this, so he didn't feel there was anything unacceptable about it. Just like before, this time Ye Luo had sent all the malfunctions and bugs that had occurred during the ten years of slumber to the Earth in advance, and Earth experts had then drawn up a maintenance plan. Wei Feng only had to follow the script.

Just like restorative training and hibernation, repairing the spacecraft and troubleshooting bugs were part of daily work, and Wei Feng didn't have much interest in these things. What Wei Feng is interested in is the notification sent from the earth. From Wei Feng's point of view at this moment, this is the only thing that can maintain a "sense of connection" with the earth.

The first thing Wei Feng saw was a document signed "Deep Space Exploration Committee." This organization did not exist when Wei Feng left the earth, and Wei Feng did not know what work this organization was responsible for, but there is a relevant explanation below the document. It said that the Deep Space Exploration Committee is the latest organization established by human civilization to conduct deep space exploration. The leading agency responsible for all matters related to deep space exploration beyond the orbit of Neptune. The Island Project is naturally part of the Deep Space Exploration Plan, so it falls within the scope of the Deep Space Exploration Committee. To put it simply, this organization is Wei Feng's immediate boss and has the right to command Wei Feng.

In addition to announcing the change of ownership and expressing encouragement to Wei Feng, this document only explained one thing, and that was about the discovery of metal fragments of an unknown technological civilization sent back by Wei Feng.

Wei Feng originally thought that this incident would cause an uproar among human civilization, because apart from the "plasma life form" incident hundreds of years ago, this should be the first time that human civilization discovered evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent civilization. But to Wei Feng's expectation, the Deep Space Exploration Committee simply informed Wei Feng in the document that they had received Wei Feng's relevant report and were organizing manpower to follow up and study the matter. , let Wei Feng not distract himself from this matter, nothing else.

The Earth's calm attitude puzzled Wei Feng. It seems that Wei Feng really doesn't know how to explain this matter other than "the earth attaches great importance to this matter, but they don't show their eagerness to reassure themselves."

Since the earth has already made relevant arrangements, Wei Feng did not continue to delve deeper into this matter. Except for this document, the rest of the notifications were sent by the Time Travelers group.

"We feel that the social atmosphere is getting worse and worse. When we go out, we actually see beggars appearing in the city. We don't know if this is a loophole in our social welfare security system, and we don't have enough. We spent time and energy investigating this matter, but we just felt from the bottom of our hearts that something was wrong. The technology of our human civilization has developed to this stage. There were no beggars a few decades ago. Why are there beggars now? "

"There seems to be more and more hostility in this society. We always feel scared when we walk on the street, because just a few days ago, I saw with my own eyes a group of people coming out of nowhere. He pushed a stranger next to me to the ground, punched and kicked him, and then walked away. During the whole process, no passers-by came to the victim's aid, and no police appeared."

"There was a serious incident at the Mercury Heavy Industry Base some time ago. A worker blew up a storage tank, poisoning tens of thousands of people and hundreds of them died."

"The Academy of Social Sciences recently released survey data, which shows that the growth rate of human population has greatly exceeded original expectations, and we are experiencing a new round of population explosion."

"I have a vague feeling...our human civilization seems to have gone through its most glorious period, and has now begun to decline. This process is extremely slow, because it is too slow, so people have accepted these things subconsciously. , I don’t think there is anything wrong with these things. But we time travelers are different. We are people outside the society, and we can easily discover these things.”

“The breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion technology has greatly increased the total resources of our human civilization, and has also brought us a highly material-rich life for hundreds of years. But now, this rapidly increasing population base seems to be disappearing. With the amount of our surplus resources, I am worried that if our resource extraction speed cannot keep up with the increase in population, our civilization will once again fall into an energy crisis..." (To be continued~^~)

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