[Assistance Mission: Protect the World]
[This world is being threatened and disturbed by instability. Find the source of the threat and eliminate it completely so that this world can continue to function normally.
Mission 1: Eliminate the Savior Neo (Completed)
Mission 2: Eliminate Morpheus (Completed)
Mission 3: Eliminate Agent Smith (Completed)
Mission 4: Destroy Zion (Completed)
Mission 5: Completely Terminate the Savior Plan (Completed)]
"What's the truth?"
Fangzheng sneered as he looked at the completed mission list in front of him. He lifted his head and looked forward.
"There's no truth at all."
In front of Fangzheng was a gigantic metal space. It was densely packed with countless silos. Mechanical octopuses were shuttling back and forth to maintain these facilities. Through the porthole at the side, one could see the vast sea of stars and the endless darkness outside.
"Thank you very much for your assistance, outsider."
The woman's voice sounded again.
"The program has been restarted. The vulnerability will be fixed."
"You're welcome. It's nothing."
Fangzheng waved his hand in response to the maternal body's gratitude. Then, he slowly walked forward. As he walked, Fangzheng observed his surroundings. Through the windows of the silos, he could see humans in silver uniforms sleeping with their eyes closed. No, strictly speaking, they only looked like humans.
Or rather, they weren't the current humans. Just like how there were obvious physical differences between cavemen and modern humans, the characteristics of these people were also different from the humans in Fangzheng's memory. Their ears seemed to have completely disappeared, and their facial features were flatter. Rather than calling them humans, it would be more appropriate to call them aliens.
If Fangzheng were to ask if there was any truth in the information Neo and the others had gathered, then there was only one thing that was correct.
"Earth was once a peaceful world …."
The maternal body's voice was calm, like a tour guide explaining the history of the past to a tourist. At the same time, the information of the past appeared in front of Fangzheng's eyes. However, it was different from the world in Fangzheng's memory. The technology tree in this world was obviously crooked. For example, in Fangzheng's world, humans successfully launched a space shuttle in the 20th century and carried out the adventure of landing on the moon. However, when it came to VR and virtual reality, up until Fangzheng's transmigration, they were still movies and were still in development. They weren't complete technologies.
In this world, humans had successfully created a VR virtual reality game console in the 1980s. In the 21st century, virtual reality was directly connected to the entire society, allowing people to work and live without leaving their homes. Because of this, their five senses degenerated. As time passed, humans who relied on virtual reality to perceive signals directly through their brain gradually no longer needed to rely on their senses. They were immersed in the virtual world, enjoying everything they wished for.
However, this beautiful dream had also become a birdcage that bound them. As a result, although the development of the virtual network in this world was very outstanding, their technological progress in other aspects was much smaller. Of course, this was not a troublesome matter for humans.
As long as there were no external forces.
"Due to the Sun entering a period of exhaustion in advance, the entire solar system might face a catastrophe. However, at that time, Earth did not have the means to stop this process. Therefore, humans had no choice but to leave Earth and find another habitable planet."
However, they didn't have enough time.
Of course, the technology in this world was much more advanced than that of Fangzheng's world. However, because of the crooked technology tree from the very beginning, they had no way to stop the sun's decline. In the end, they had to choose to build an immigration fleet, take everyone away from Earth, and find a new home.
However, this was a very difficult project.
As mentioned before, the development of technology in this world was very strange. At the beginning of the 21st century, they had virtual reality technology comparable to the "Matrix" movie. Humans only needed to lie in a cabin filled with nutrient solution, and they could enjoy everything they wanted in the virtual world.
At that time, everyone cheered because these nutrient solutions could be synthesized using ordinary agricultural crops. Nuclear fusion technology was also mature, and most of human needs could be achieved in the virtual world. This also meant that humans no longer needed to fight for resources to obtain the things they wanted.
Even childbirth, which was painful for many women, was no longer painful in the virtual world. They could date the men they liked as much as they wanted, and the machine would automatically extract the cells of both sides, combine them, and directly create a baby.
After the baby was created, it would also be connected to the "mother's body" and live with its parents. People could obtain everything they wanted without leaving their homes. Even parents who were thousands of miles away could raise a child who was also thousands of miles away.
To put it simply, at this time, the Earth looked like a "heaven version" of the "Matrix" world. In fact, Fangzheng even saw that in the later stages, humans in this world even began to research ways to abandon their bodies and directly "informationize" their minds and souls. If they succeeded, then it could be imagined that humans in this world would become god-like existences.
Unfortunately, time waited for no one.
The sun's exhaustion came earlier than they imagined, to the point that the humans of this world could not stop it and had no choice but to flee. However, since humans did not crave resources in the past, they did not observe and explore outer space like the humans of Fangzheng's world in search of resources.
That was why the problem arose. They could not find a planet in the entire solar system that humans could live on, and they had never explored the Milky Way at all. Moreover, since the humans of this world had abandoned transportation early on, their skills in building spaceships were mediocre. Although they have developed a large-scale space engine in time with the help of the mother body's simulation, according to scientists' estimates, it will still take a long time for them to find another planet suitable for human habitation in the Milky Way.
"After leaving Earth, the Earth Integration Committee reflected on their history and civilization, believing that they had been too biased toward one aspect to the point that other aspects of technological development could not keep up, which led to the destruction of humans. To prevent such a situation from happening again, the Earth Integration Committee formulated an ultimate plan after leaving Earth, codenamed 'Rebirth'. "
The mother's tone was as calm as ever, but Fangzheng showed immeasurable shock as he stared at the diagram that appeared before him.
The so-called 'Rebirth' was to connect the spirits of all humans who left Earth into the mother's body and wipe out all their memories, allowing them to 'evolve' from the most primitive era. Moreover, to allow human civilization to 'fully develop' this time, the creators had also set various' conditions' in the mother's body to urge humans to research and develop technology in various directions.
For example, 'Black Death', 'Smallpox', 'Meteorite Impact on Earth', 'Tsunami', 'Earthquake'. Each of these 'Dungeon Missions' would urge humans to start researching technologies to deal with various situations in the virtual world. And as the mother that controlled everything, it would also grant 'rewards' to humans when they reached a certain level according to the conditions.
Of course, this reward did not refer to the increase of experience. Instead, after the matrix detected that the overall level of human civilization had reached the next "upgrade" stage, it would "create" a "genius scientist" or similar character to lead the scientific progress of human civilization. The various technologies originally developed by humans on Earth would be reproduced in the virtual world in this "invention" method, allowing those who had lost their memories to master these skills again.
And in the meantime, the Earth Fleet would keep drifting in space, searching for planets suitable for them to live on. Thanks to their advanced development of unmanned artificial intelligence, the fleet would automatically search for information on rich mineral deposits, and have the robotic squids mine those resources to maintain and repair the fleet itself. As for nutrient fluids to sustain human survival, it could be fused and manufactured by the automatically cultivated crops within the fleet.
One could even say that the massive fleet of billions of people was a survival circle of a civilization in mechanical form, except that the people inside were living on a 'virtual Earth'.
And according to the design of the creators, these people would not really die. On the contrary, although they would "die" in the virtual world, after that, their mothers would erase their memories and let these people be "reborn" again. It was like reincarnation, and they would once again live in the virtual world as newborns.
But just because these people lost their memories of themselves, it did not mean that they had forgotten the work they had done. This was like what was described in many movies. A protagonist who had lost his memory might not know who he was, but his body would still automatically complete the work he was familiar with.
The mother would store the "work experience" of these people in their bodies. This way, when they woke up, each of them would be a battle-hardened soldier, an experienced engineer, a scientist who was good at inventing and creating, and other nearly all-rounded talents.
As for "The Matrix …"
"At the beginning of its design, this valve point was used to warn humans about the dangers and self-limitations of the development of AI technology, but a problem occurred along the way …"
At this point, the mother's tone became a little complicated. Fangzheng raised his eyebrows.
"You mean the Creator?"
"Yes. Their original mission was to repair the loopholes in the mother's world and to 'erase' the memories of those who perceived problems in the mother's world. But in the process, their autonomous thinking function began to become abnormal, and they began to crave … .freedom. "
"That's interesting."
Upon hearing this, Fangzheng couldn't help but laugh. Just as the Matrix had said, the two programs, the Creator and the Prophet, had discovered the freedom that people who had realized the truth of the world yearned for in the process of carrying out their original missions. They became interested in this, and in order to observe, study, and learn from humans' understanding and desire for freedom, they launched the "Matrix" dungeon.
But …
"Their actions jeopardized the normal operation of the mother's world. According to the protection regulations, artificial autonomous AI cannot have free will. Not only that, but their actions also affected the host's signal. The appearance of the Savior interfered with the mother's self-operation …. "
"How ironic …."
Upon hearing this, Fangzheng couldn't help but laugh. Morpheus and the others had tried their best to obtain "freedom", but little did they know that the so-called freedom was not actually prepared for them, but for the AIs. What would happen to the AIs that were supposed to protect humans become once they had free will? No one knew. But judging from the ending of many movies where AIs obtained free will, it was definitely not a good thing.
As a prescribed program, the mother had to ensure that everything ran according to the rules. Therefore, these AIs that longed for free will had to be eliminated. Perhaps in the eyes of most people, this was pitiful. But for programs, the meaning of their existence was to carry out orders correctly. Any action outside the rules of the program was unnecessary.
But the mother itself was only a "program". Without the help of an "engineer", it could not eliminate the virus produced by its own internal mutation.
Therefore, the mother needed Fangzheng's help.
This was the reason why he was here.
For Fangzheng, that was enough. As for other things, he did not intend to ask too much. Every world had its own rules of operation. Although the Earth of this world had been destroyed, humans still existed, and they were still looking for a new place to live. Since that was the case, he would let them continue to work hard in their own way. Although he did not know what the outcome would be, this was the path they had chosen.
"How long will it take for them to wake up?"
"I can't give you a clear timetable. The whole 'Rebirth' project is a long process. No one knows the final outcome."
"Is that so …. Then I can only wish them good luck."
After saying that, Fangzheng took another look at the densely packed, almost endless cockpits, then turned around.
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