Player Reload

Below the Q\u0026A, there are hundreds of scattered hyperlinks, pointing to official organizations in various regions and countries, as well as official websites of private associations. Unfortunately, only registered accounts of the forum can click in, and visitors do not have permission.

Li Sheng carefully read the names of these organizations and found familiar names such as the Special Affairs Administration (SASA), Prometheus Labs, the Global Supernatural Alliance with the United Nations background, and the Extraordinary Incidents Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the United States background.

And found Chang Sunyao's World Peace House in the corner. It seems that the latter is not as grass-roots as he imagined.

"Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, India and other countries have established their own official organizations, the Vatican has the Inquisition, the European Union has European Heavy Industries, and the Middle Eastern countries have jointly established the Middle East Abnormal Things Recycling Office. It can be seen that all parties attach great importance to it."

Li Sheng tapped his temple lightly, opened the search engine, and searched for breakthroughs in different directions in the field of scientific research in the past four and a half years. And compared it with the speed of scientific breakthroughs in the previous ten years.

"Sure enough."

After searching carefully for nearly an hour, he slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, his eyes solemn.

People who live in a period of rapid development have a seriously distorted estimate of the speed of technological breakthroughs.

The Wright brothers invented the first airplane in 1903, and just 66 years later, humans officially landed on the moon.

Today, the computing power of any smartphone far exceeds that of the navigation computer of Apollo 11.

The explosive development of science and technology over the past century has given people a wonderful illusion - it seems that technological breakthroughs are a matter of course and will continue to be so fast.

But this is not the case.

In 2017, Russia unearthed time capsules buried in various places fifty years ago, which contained extremely optimistic letters - we have just taken the first step towards the universe, but you should be able to fly to other planets. Many new secrets of nature that have not yet been discovered have been discovered, nuclear energy can be controlled, the amount of elements can be controlled according to human will, the climate can be changed, and gardens can be developed in the Arctic? We are still building communism, and you should already be living in communism, right?

This letter, which now reads like a joke, illustrates a very simple truth - the speed of technological progress of human civilization is slowing down, and the speed of scientific breakthroughs is also gradually slowing down.

"This does not mean that people in the 21st century have become stupider, but that the disciplines of basic science are becoming more and more detailed, and the difficulty of mastering them is getting higher and higher. Scientists can only make breakthroughs in one or a few fields in their entire lives.

However, in the past four years, the speed of scientific and technological breakthroughs in human civilization has been a bit outrageous. It is much higher than the speed of the past ten or twenty years."

When the Q value (fusion energy gain factor) is greater than 1, the controlled nuclear fusion reactor lasts for more than 30 minutes. It is expected to be connected to the grid for power generation and put into commercial use within two years;

Gene editing technology has made another breakthrough, which can completely cure certain diabetes, familial hypercholesterolemia and even Alzheimer's;

At the Paralympic Games, mechanical prostheses helped paralyzed athletes stand up again, and even refreshed the world sprint record of the Olympics;

A new round of space competition has begun, and China, the United States, Russia, the European Union and others are all building permanent lunar bases;

In recent years, various media have praised human civilization for reaching a new level, but wars and chaos in local areas have never stopped.

Which African warlord massacred a village today, which South American drug lord hanged the mayor tomorrow, and which developed country had a terrorist attack the day after tomorrow.

Due to the media's deliberate neglect, these news rarely appear in the public eye

Li Sheng said thoughtfully: "In the real earth, all unreasonable technological advances, abnormal events and extraordinary powers come from the so-called killing field and players. The selection criteria for players are to have outstanding characteristics in certain aspects. Whether positive or negative."

This is easy to understand. For example, a person's extreme lack of empathy and guilt is naturally a negative trait in the real world, but it may not be a disadvantage in the killing field environment.

Traits are not good or bad, just look at whether they are suitable for the environment.

"The webpage mentioned that there are currently about 270,000 players alive in the world, and in the early days of the killing field game entering reality, 70% of new players did not survive the first three months. Although I don't know how early this early period is, roughly speaking, the number of players that have ever existed on Earth is at least more than 500,000."

Five hundred thousand extraordinary people, even if each of them only possesses the most basic extraordinary power, is enough to cause social unrest.

There are two possible reasons why the mass media can still cover up the inside story.

First, regional official organizations such as the Special Affairs Bureau and European Heavy Industry have done their best to block the news.

Second, a certain balance has been reached between players, players and organizations, and organizations and organizations.

The webpage specifically states that if a non-chosen person kills a chosen person himself, he can also inherit his qualifications. You can imagine with your toes how strong malice is contained in this rule.

Players can gain extraordinary power and scientific and technological achievements of different civilizations from the killing field, which is equivalent to a ticket to the gold mountain.

For a powerful state machine, it is natural to want to grasp all resources in its hands and control all social instability factors.

Players who are willing to obey will be recruited with preferential treatment. Players who are not so willing can cooperate and negotiate. Players who are restless or even causing trouble and causing destruction will be directly tried and executed, and their qualifications will be transferred to reliable subordinates.

For multinational groups and giant enterprises, everything is based on profit. For the sake of profit, they can trample any human law and commit any crime. It encourages unrest and strife if it brings profits.

It will have a lower bottom line than the former, and can even directly disclose the price and acquire player qualifications - that is, tie a player to kill.

For individuals, this dangerous environment, comparable to a dark jungle, is intimidating.

Even if two players who have never met meet each other, the first thing they think about is whether the other party will attack them for the huge bounty.

After this atmosphere lasts for a period of time, the players who gain a certain amount of strength first will not be willing to become the meat on the chopping block, and form their own private guilds to recruit companions.

And then form a balance with the state apparatus and multinational groups.

"The opening of the killing game promoted the explosive development of science and technology and shaped today's international landscape."

Li Sheng thoughtfully said, “Although there are endless urban ghost stories in China, overall social order can be maintained and stable.

Judging from the interaction between the Secret Service and Prometheus at that time, the forces of all parties had formed a certain delicate balance, and on the surface they were united and collaborated to jointly develop the killing field. The fierce rivalry remains private. "

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Since the killing field means unlimited possibilities, the [Insect Lord] infection that is difficult to solve in the eyes of the Special Affairs Bureau may not necessarily have no way out in other organizations.