Earth Era

In the blink of an eye, several years have passed by. The solar system still maintains calm, and beneath this calm there is still a tension and solemnity that says "disaster is coming." However, the large-scale evacuation work has not yet officially begun, and there are still no human immigrants from outer galaxies who have moved to the solar system and the surrounding star systems that are the most important and most protected.

Because the transmission of information also takes time, at this moment, the colonial galaxy farthest from the solar system developed by human civilization has not even received a retreat order from the solar system, let alone officially started the retreat. Even the several colonized galaxies relatively close to the solar system have only just begun their preparations at this moment.

Vast space means long time. With such space and time scales, as well as the huge scientific and technological framework developed by human civilization, any "big event" takes a long time that predecessors could hardly imagine - - Just like the residents of the earth in the national era, how could they imagine that it would take decades just to build a cutting-edge deep space observatory?

It can be said that the retreat cannot be completed without a hundred years. And... a head-on battle between the robot group and human civilization is unlikely to happen within a hundred years.

The preparation time left for human civilization seems to be very long, but similarly, the time required for human civilization to make preparations is also long, so one hundred years is not a generous time, and is even a bit urgent.

The focus of human civilization during this hundred years is the retreat mission, and the focus of the work after this hundred years will be the battle with the robot group. Countless people's lives and all their energy will be consumed by these two things, and countless people's lives will be centered on these two things.

The fate of all babies born during this period has been determined in advance, and they are destined to be busy with these two things throughout their lives. This may be a very sad and helpless thing, but there is no way to do it, because... this is human civilization, a huge and magnificent human civilization.

Xiao Yun's life will also be branded as a "robot". The three words "robot" will leave a strong mark on Xiao Yun's life. Compared with these three words, everything else in Xiao Yun's life seems so bleak.

Xiao Yun left the earth on a gloomy afternoon and came to the Pluto base again. Today is a very important day for the Scientific Affairs Committee led by Xiao Yun, because the number of robots here on Pluto has reached a certain scale and the next phase of the experimental process can be carried out.

Xiao Yun was flying aimlessly on a near-Earth space dual-purpose spacecraft at an altitude of one thousand kilometers from the surface of Pluto - this distance was determined after analysis, because an altitude of one thousand kilometers is the upper limit of the robot's flight capabilities. If it is lower than this height, the robot can rely on its flight ability to approach Xiao Yun's spacecraft, and this will bring many dangers to Xiao Yun.

The high-definition camera installed on the spacecraft truly transmitted the scene on the surface of Pluto to the big screen. Xiao Yun and his team sat in front of the screen and carefully observed the scene on the screen.

What appeared in front of Xiao Yun and others was a terrifying scene. At this moment, Xiao Yun seemed to feel as if he had returned to the Lager 728 galaxy and was surrounded by countless robots again.

Because... Pluto is already covered with robots at this moment. In the sky, on the surface, and even under Pluto, there are bustling robots everywhere, with claws and teeth. Their ugly insect-like bodies are either flying in the sky, or crawling on the ground and under the surface, like a group of demons. .

The landscape of Pluto has also been completely changed due to the growth of the robot population. Compared with a few years ago, at least hundreds of mountains on Pluto have disappeared, and countless more ravines have appeared.

"The total number of robots on Pluto at this moment is at least 300 billion, and they have occupied all the living space on Pluto, whether it is the sky, the surface, or underground. According to our model calculations, at this moment Pluto has It has reached the upper limit of the number of robots it can carry. In other words...if the technology of robots does not advance, their number will not increase further." A staff member reported to Xiao Yunhui.

Xiao Yun knew that the upper limit mentioned by this staff member did not mean that the resources on Pluto could no longer be used to make more robots. In fact, if all the resources that make up Pluto were mined, more robots could be made than at the moment. Ten times as many robots are no problem. But... there is no room for robots to survive anymore.

The so-called living space is purely literal. There are already too many robots. After all, they have a certain size and require a certain range of activities, and Pluto cannot provide such a vast space. The space in space is infinite, and countless robots can be placed there, but at the moment, robots do not have the ability to enter space.

"Program monitoring shows that...the core code program inside the robot has raised the need for evolution to the highest level. In other words, the robots at this moment are extremely eager to evolve, and even give up reproduction to evolve."

"Oh, actually that's not the case." Xiao Yun said, "The robots have indeed raised their evolutionary needs to the highest level at this moment, but don't forget that robots evolve to seek a greater living space, and the pursuit of a greater living space still remains It is for the purpose of reproduction, so in the long run, the highest need of robots has always been reproduction, and it has never changed."

"Yes." The staff member said, "So... what are you going to do next? After all, the robots at this moment have stopped reproducing."

"If they want to evolve, let them evolve." Xiao Yun said softly, "Provide them with some technology to increase their range of activities to 10,000 kilometers from the surface of Pluto."

"Okay." The staff member agreed, and then sent a request message to the fleet stationed around Pluto. There are enough military scientists in the garrison fleet, and they will select suitable things for the robots to decompose and analyze, so as to meet the needs of evolution without allowing the robots to overevolve.

In the end, several backward spacecrafts that were manufactured according to the technology that had been eliminated long ago and could only operate within a certain distance around the planet were rushed out, and then military personnel dropped them into a space less than a thousand kilometers away from the surface of Pluto. in near-Earth space.

Just as Xiao Yun expected, these spaceships were violently attacked by the robots as soon as they appeared, and the spacecraft was destroyed within ten minutes. The spacecraft parts are separately obtained by hundreds of millions of robots, and then the analysis of these parts is carried out simultaneously by hundreds of millions of robots.

No, it is not just these hundreds of millions of robots that are doing the analysis, but all the hundreds of billions of robots that are currently active on Pluto are doing the analysis at the same time. Program monitoring showed that after these parts were acquired, all detection information about them was immediately disseminated, so all robots on Pluto knew the structure of these parts, and in an unimaginably advanced distributed system Under this, the data that needs further calculation is divided into hundreds of billions. Each robot assumes a part of the calculation task. After calculating the results, they will be summarized and then broadcast to all robots.

This kind of distributed computing system that does not require a core host did not arouse Xiao Yun's surprise, because Xiao Yun had known this for a long time. What really surprised Xiao Yun was the ability of these robots to understand and digest technology, as well as further verification and the ability to absorb technology.

When it comes to this aspect, the robot's unique code program plays its role. Robots can understand what role a certain part plays in the overall machine. They can also calculate how to modify the volume or shape of the part for their own use. They can also calculate how to make a robot with the same function. parts come out.

The latter two are achieved through exhaustive calculations. As samples, the parts from human civilization and containing the technology of human civilization have been demarcated within the scope, and the robots have carried out exhaustive calculations within this scope, trying to restore these parts, and finally achieve the goal of making their own technology achieve the purpose of evolution.

In the third month after those spaceships were destroyed by the robots, a large-scale exhaustive attempt began, and Xiao Yun saw a shocking scene. A huge amount of information like a torrent flooded into the central server set up here by the Scientific Affairs Committee, and each piece of this data represented a robot's attempts in different evolutionary directions. There are many possible directions of evolution, but only one is correct. This is doomed to make mistakes in the evolutionary attempts made by the vast majority of robots, and mistakes... mean death.

So the robots began a large-scale "suicide" operation. Some robots were damaged due to insufficient strength of parts due to failure in the evolution of material science, and eventually lost their ability to move. Some robots were physically damaged due to insufficient heat resistance. Some robots exploded, and some robots were paralyzed. Some robots were simply burned out of their core chips...

All robots that fail to evolve have only one ending, and that is...death. (To be continued ~^~)