Earth Era

Time passed slowly under such circumstances. It takes time for new robots to grow up, and it also takes time to verify whether the evolutionary trap is effective. The work of the Scientific Affairs Committee is still busy, especially Xiao Yun, the person in charge, has more things to participate in and plan.

Besides Pluto, Xiao Yun also applied to open a second robot experimental base. Because the Pluto base will be used exclusively for evolutionary trap experiments in the future, and conducting both evolutionary trap and smallpox virus experiments on robots from the same group at the same time may cause inaccurate data, Xiao Yun needs a second robot experimental base dedicated to on the smallpox virus.

The new robot experimental base was finally selected on Eris. Eris is a planet slightly smaller and more distant than Pluto. Both it and Pluto belong to the vast and desolate Kuiper Belt. It is sparsely populated and rarely passes by cargo or commercial or tourist spacecraft. It is an ideal place for robotic experiments. It is a perfect place, and demarcating this place as a military restricted area will not have any impact on humans in the solar system.

Like the Pluto base, the first few dozen robots were placed on Eris, and they began to grow and reproduce. The team led by Dink is developing a new type of smallpox virus that is more lethal and contagious. When the new virus is developed properly, and when the robots at the Eris base have grown and multiplied to a certain extent, a new round of virus experiments will be officially launched. .

The work focus of the Scientific Affairs Committee is divided into these two points. Throughout human civilization, millions of scientific workers are busy day and night, perfecting plans to destroy robots. At the same time, in order to combat the robot crisis Several other institutions established were not idle either.

Thirty years after the highest-level meeting that Xiao Yun attended after returning to the solar system, under the coordination of the evacuation committee, the first relocation star system, the people who originally lived in the Tianyuan four star systems finally arrived in After a long journey, we returned to the solar system.

The Tianyuan IV galaxy is a fairly large inhabited galaxy, with hundreds of billions of humans living there for a long time. It has long since developed and become an important node in the interstellar territory of human civilization. Whether it is business or tourism, technology or culture are extremely prosperous. But all this is useless before the threat of war.

In this way, more than 100 billion humans came to the solar system from the Tianyuan Four Galaxy on various spaceships. These spaceships are either modified home spaceships, tourist spaceships, or cargo spaceships. They are large and small, with different passenger capacities and sailing speeds. The slowest spacecraft can even only be used Sailing at twice the speed of light, but there is no way. There are too many people who need to evacuate. The spacecraft collected by the evacuation committee alone is far from enough. Only by activating all available spaceships in the whole society can this be completed. task.

This is a huge fleet composed of more than one million spaceships. Even if there are so many spaceships, the living environment within this fleet is extremely harsh. The spacecraft originally scheduled to carry no more than 10,000 passengers was crammed into more than 100,000 people, while the specialized large-scale manned spacecraft carried a population of more than 10 million.

People can't even have their own rest room, let alone hibernation equipment. People can only take a short rest on the crowded street, and when they are awake, they can only stay at a sluggish pace in crowded corridors or halls. Live this difficult time. And this time... lasted for ten years.

Limited hibernation equipment was allocated to the seriously ill and extremely mentally unstable. The remaining people were closely monitored by the military. Anyone who tried to challenge the order would be swiftly and severely punished by the military. Under such circumstances, from the time the retreat order was received, plus the time spent on preparations, the entire retreat journey took nearly twenty-five years before this population of more than 100 billion finally successfully reached the solar system.

During these twenty-five years, the retreating fleet lost thousands of spacecraft due to various reasons, and tens of millions of people died as a result. In fact, excluding the new population and natural deaths, the number of people who died due to various accidents, such as diseases, suicide, conflicts, spaceship accidents, etc. is as high as 37.5 million.

Most of the population came to the solar system after experiencing this long and torturous journey like hell, but these 37.5 million people... remained in the vast and empty space forever, never having a destination.

And this... is just the retreat of the star system closest to the solar system. In the entire interstellar territory of human civilization, there are dozens of star systems that need to be retreated. Among them, any star system is farther away than Tianyuan Si.

Although the losses were heavy, everyone knew very clearly that this was the plan with the least loss. Facing the threat of the robot empire, retreat is imperative.

At the same time, during this total of thirty years, the Evacuation Committee and the Escape Committee united, coupled with the scientific research and development power of the Academy of Sciences, led by these three important departments, the engineering power of human civilization was fully mobilized, More than a thousand "space islands" have been built in the solar system.

The habitable planets in the solar system can only carry the original population of the solar system. The more than 100 billion people who have retreated from the Tianyuan four systems cannot be accommodated in any case. In this case, it has become inevitable to build space islands that can carry a large population.

These space islands are ten times or more larger than Earth-class battleships, and the ultimate carrying capacity of a space island is as high as 150 million people. Of course, in this case, comfort cannot be guaranteed. However, it is not easy to survive now that the clouds of war are hanging over us. Who would want extravagant comfort?

These space islands are all placed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and they will orbit the sun in a two-year cycle. And if one day, the war situation becomes irreversible and the robot empire captures the solar system, these space islands can also break away from the sun's gravity and escape from the solar system with the help of their own power. They can also travel at twice the speed of light. As long as they can operate normally, they can carry people to escape into the vast space.

After the residents from Tianyuan IV were resettled on the space island, under the organization of the civil affairs and industrial departments, the people who had just breathed a sigh of relief immediately followed the indigenous people of the solar system into busy construction projects. In the next few decades, the population of more than a dozen star systems will move to the solar system. Although those star systems are not as prosperous as Tianyuan Four, and the population of a single star system is not as large as that of Tianyuan Four, the ten The sum of several star systems is different - their population will far exceed the population of the Tianyuan Four star system.

Having just over a thousand space islands is far from enough. Human civilization needs more and larger space islands to host its own population.

The solar system has become more lively and busy than ever before. All waterways are occupied by spaceships traveling back and forth, and countless materials and people are circulating within the solar system. Forced by the clouds of war, human civilization has exploded with unprecedented vitality.

In addition to the retreat, the progress of human civilization in other aspects has not stopped. When the potential of a civilization is forced out, the explosion of technology will naturally occur. The achievements of basic science and technology and applied science and technology in the past few decades have exceeded the sum of the past hundreds of years. In fact, a spaceship that can sail at ten times the speed of light has already appeared on the design drawings. As long as some more problems are solved With key materials and dynamics issues, this kind of spacecraft will truly appear in human civilization. Technology that communicates at hundreds of times the speed of light is also emerging in laboratories, and is expected to be widely used in a few decades or less.

In other aspects, engineering science, materials science, structural science, computing science, life science, military technology, etc. have also made great progress.

The explosion of technology is certainly a gratifying thing, but no one feels relaxed because of this reason. Because everyone understands that as long as there is no qualitative change in technology, then whether you use the technology of fifty years ago or the technology of fifty years later to deal with the robot empire... the outcome will be the same.

What should be stolen by robots will still be stolen by robots, and what should be destroyed by robots will still be destroyed by robots.

All these breakthrough technologies can only be used in escape and retreat matters at best. They are useless when facing the robot empire. Although this is very hard to accept, it is true.

The hope of human civilization has always been maintained on the Scientific Affairs Committee headed by Xiao Yun, and this has never changed.

At this time, Xiao Yun was guarding the Eris base, swimming in the ocean of data. Eris, not far from the base, is already populated by robots, just like Pluto decades ago.

"Conduct an evolution trap experiment and let the robots start evolving according to the technology tree we set." Xiao Yun said.

"Okay." A staff member agreed, and then conveyed Xiao Yun's order. A moment later, an abandoned spaceship containing special technology was thrown onto Eris, and instantly disappeared into the sea of ​​robots... (To be continued ~^~)