The world enters the age of myth

The government of the City of Clouds controls everything from what people eat and wear to what kind of houses they live in and what electronic products they use.

I just can't care about personal matters, but these scattered little things add up to affect the future.

Sociologists don't know whether the impact of various social phenomena will become greater and greater, but they will definitely affect the development process of the City of Clouds.

"So to sum up, after the current married couples have children, in 10 to 20 years, the fertility rate of young people will drop to an extremely low level, and the annual birth rate will not exceed 1%. This is Our predictions are based on current social trends.”

"Unless...we can get artificial womb technology, we can expand fertility."

Lu Yiming frowned.

A fertility rate of 1% is equivalent to a reduction in half of the population per generation, which is no different from natural extinction.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This is a trap. I know it exists, but I just can't get past it... Hey, many couples have given birth to three children, and it is impossible to have another one."

In response to these difficulties, members in the conference room conducted a series of discussions...

In fact, there is no particularly good method, it is nothing more than "strengthening self-esteem and self-love education", "strengthening anti-pornography and anti-illegal work", and "building spiritual civilization", but whether it is effective is another matter.

Of course, the conservative cultural atmosphere that was inherited from the original still exists, and a large number of people still respect themselves and love themselves.

The views put forward so far are the latest trends observed by scholars, and they are points worth guarding against.

Next, Lu Yiming took the stage and reported on the latest military situation.

If the ideological changes in human society are "long-term worries", then the monsters staring covetously in the world next door are "near-term worries".

"As the number of people gathered on the planet reaches two million, the attraction for idealistic life forms in the world of Akala is getting higher and higher, and the number of special life forms around the space rift has increased significantly."

"In order to prevent the next monster invasion, we must expand the battlefield to the planet Akala instead of passively defending."

Nowadays, the City of Clouds has a large population, developed commerce, and the scale of the city has also expanded. Once a monster invades, it will inevitably suffer serious damage.

But if a battlefield is opened on the neighboring planet Arak, the monsters that are ready to move will definitely attack this battlefield first, instead of passing through the corridors of the underworld and attacking the sea of ​​clouds.

"They don't have such intelligence. This is equivalent to another kind of encirclement and reinforcement."

"Certainly, the pressure on this combat outpost is going to be enormous."

"Once we invade the world of Akala, fighting will happen every moment, 24 hours a day. Either we can't bear the pressure and withdraw again, or as the war goes on for a long time, we will clean up most of the surrounding area. monsters until they occupy a small corner of the planet. In fact, for us, a small corner is enough."

"After five years of development, we have nearly 70,000 soldiers. With the successful development of large-scale war weapons, we have become qualified to fight them."

"In addition, more civilizations will join the planet in the future, and more troops can be mobilized. As long as the number of casualties among our soldiers is kept at a low ratio, the hope of victory in this war is still not small."

As soon as they heard that there was going to be a war, everyone present, whether they were the military, high-level government officials or heads of major institutions, fell silent and flipped through the information on the table.

Even with high psychological expectations, it is still not so easy to make up my mind.

Moreover, it is a long-term war and cannot be accomplished in one battle. Once a battlefield is opened, no one knows how long it will last.

But no matter what, this battle must be fought, whether it is for the technological heritage of Akala civilization or for the safety of future life.

Now that the development of human society has encountered a bottleneck, whether it is population growth or the speed of technological development, it has dropped by a notch, and we must take the initiative.

Lu Yiming looked at everyone's expressions, paused, and then said: "In the past five years, we have conducted a total of 169 reconnaissance activities, and preliminary investigations have clarified the situation of this world... Generally speaking, the physical rules and regulations of the Akara world Our real world is similar, but there is a very strange point: the physical phenomena in the microscopic environment are missing."

"Specifically, the physical environment below the micron level may be somewhat different, and the random fluctuations will be greatly enhanced. This will lead to a lot of fallacies in high-tech weapons. To give a simple example, the original laser weapon can hit a target several kilometers away. It's just a mosquito, but now it can't be used at all. This laser weapon will be damaged due to various reasons."

"Even if it is not damaged and the laser is emitted by chance, its accuracy is far inferior to normal, and it is impossible to hit a mosquito."

"Computer chips below the micron level have a high probability of not working stably and will be damaged due to various reasons. Computers above the micron level can still work normally for the time being."

"This is also a common situation in the idealistic world. Only macroscopic physics can be simulated, and microscopic physics is largely missing, making cutting-edge technological equipment unusable."

He paused again. As for how Xia Wenming solved these problems... the answer is that he doesn't know.

Biological materials can solve a large part of the problems, but the biological materials that can make computers have not been found.

The consciousness cube where Heishasha is located seems to be able to ignore this lack of physical rules.

But no matter what, Heishasha cannot rush to the front line. Once she is destroyed by monsters, more than 90% of the productivity of the City of Clouds will disappear out of thin air, which is unbearable.

"As for the specific situation of the world of Arak, we have already conducted a simple investigation."

The current situation in the world of Akala is very much like the abyss in various fantasy novels. The whole world is filled with thick black fog. Only a very small number of people with keen eyesight can penetrate the thick fog and observe things further away.

The vision of ordinary soldiers can only see 10 meters away at most, and then there is a fog and nothing can be seen clearly.

There is no sun in the Akala world, food is extremely scarce, and plants are very rare... Even the idealistic world follows these basic laws. Plants need light to grow, and animals need food to survive.

For some special reason, the geothermal heat in this world is unusually frequent. The reconnaissance team has observed several volcanic eruptions. Around the volcanic belt, there is a black-purple fungus-like creature.

In order to draw more energy, the monsters in this world dug a large number of underground caves and cultivated this fungus to make a living.

"We believe that the 'geothermal' in this world may be the core of the entire planet that has been transformed from idealism, and the most powerful monsters occupy the geothermal energy in various regions. What are these powerful monsters, we have not yet figured out what they are. Enough to explore.”

"Normally, the powerful lords distributed in various geothermal zones will not conflict with each other. The closer the monsters are to the surface, the weaker they will be due to lack of food. The deeper the monsters go underground, the stronger they will be. Big. This is also the special reason why we think this world is a bit like an abyss."

"I see." An adjutant nodded and said: "This kind of monster distribution should be very beneficial to our plan. Most of the ruins of Akala civilization are distributed on the surface, right? The surface monsters are not strong, and underground monsters are not very powerful. The more powerful you are..."

"That's right, but even if there are only surface monsters, the number can only be described as massive. If the surface movement becomes too loud, the underground monsters will also come out. In this world, the use of nuclear weapons will be seriously interfered with. Even for conventional gunpowder weapons, the probability of errors will increase significantly, which is also the current difficulty. The upper limit of technology is limited to the steam era."

In addition, there is another big difficulty: after staying in the world of Akara for a long time, humans will have a lot of negative psychological emotions.

Lu Yiming's tone gradually became serious: "It may be due to the influence of the abyss environment. The reason why these negative emotions are born is unknown."

"Thirteen elite scouts from ancient civilizations spent a total of 14 days investigating the world of Akara, and they more or less suffered from psychological problems."

"Six of them developed mild psychological problems, which manifested themselves as taciturnity, depression, sudden panic, claustrophobia or agoraphobia."

"Five people have serious psychological problems, which are manifested in long-term hallucinations, irritability, loss of self-control, antisocial personality, obsession with corpses, fetishes, etc."

"One of the most serious mental patients claims to have seen 'the ultimate reality of this world'. He believes that humans are just a ball of flesh with slightly regular rules, and there is no essential difference from monsters. The final outcome of humans It is to walk into death and sink into the abyss.”

Lu Yiming spread his hands. These claims aroused people's vigilance, but in the end nothing was found in the investigation.

"The last soldier seemed to have serious signs of war fanaticism. He believed that as a man, he should pursue death in battle with honor. This patient pursued fighting all day long and was interested in anything other than killing. I can't arouse any interest. Even if I kill chickens or pigs, this special habit of killing is caused by the abyss of desire."

Faced with these bizarre psychological problems, many people here shuddered.

How should this unsolved accumulation of psychological pressure be resolved?

What if the soldiers who enter this world to fight have collective psychological problems? These need to be considered during preparations for war.

Having said this, Lu Yiming took a deep breath and said: "In addition, our soldiers in the City of Clouds have also conducted more investigations and believe that because the soldiers in the City of Clouds have better physical fitness and mental resistance, Even higher, a total of seven elite scouts developed a series of psychological problems after performing a one-month reconnaissance mission."

"The specific psychological performance is similar to that of soldiers from ancient civilizations, but the degree is relatively mild and should be able to gradually weaken over time."

"Among them, Lieutenant Colonel Gondor, who has been exploring the world of Akara for the longest time, has developed serious psychological problems."