Section 102 The Broken World
A strange map soon appeared on the light brain screen.
There is no Asia, no Europe, no Africa, no South America and North America, no Australia.
There are fragmented land everywhere, surrounded by vast sea, forming new islands.
The familiar Italian boots were not found, the Mediterranean completely disappeared, the area of the Pacific Ocean shrank by 30%, but the Atlantic Ocean expanded to incredible.
"...Is this the last image sent back by the surveillance satellite?" Tianhao held the wall with his trembling hands. He urgently needed a little enough support now.
"Yes." The old lady kept repeating these two or two monotonous words.
Tianhao slowly raised his head and stared at the screen with his red eyes: "Billions of people all over the world, are you sure there are no survivors?"
The mechanical answer was full of coldness: "Yes."
Tianhao suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his violent fluctuations caused him to lose his composure and shouted: "Where is me? Am I still alive? If according to your statement, all humans in the world are dead, then what am I?"
"You are different, you are a awakened person." The light brain has no emotions and just answers the question itself.
"Awakener?" Tian Hao gasped heavily, reason and awakening controlled his brain. His previous loss of composure was because of the huge gap between reality and ideals. He recovered very quickly, at least not as crazy as he had just now.
"All individuals who received dormant instructions before the war entered a sleeping state are awakeners." The text on the screen jumped line by line with the cursor: "You are the third batch, base number 000152, and overall number A, B, A,000271."
"The third batch?" Tianhao, whose mood had recovered slightly, couldn't help but open his mouth wide and asked in surprise: "What does this mean?"
"You are the third designated person to enter dormant state." Even if it is explained, the logic of the machinery is still so rigid.
"Wait! Wait first!" Tianhao suddenly felt an indescribable fear that was invading the brain space: "Old madam, what do you mean: In front of me, there are two groups of people like me?"
"It's different. There were six of the first dormant people. Their identities belong to the highest secret level, representing the highest power and top scientific research level of the entire country. Humans cannot compete with natural aging, and diseases such as cancer were terminally ill during that period. The old dormant method was based on low temperature and frozen, which was the most advanced research result at the time. It was claimed that these people had died, but in fact, they entered the dormant compartment at the last stage of their lives and frozen for a long time."
Hearing this, Tianhao couldn't help asking: "Why hasn't the first batch of dormant people thawed?"
The light brain was silent for a few seconds: "There are many factors involved. Their sealed base is of the highest level, and I am only responsible for accepting and saving relevant information through the main control device. The changes in the times, the advancement of science and technology, the composition of power groups in different periods, and the impact on the current situation... The existence of the first batch of dormants was listed as the highest secret, and even senior researchers could not access it. This is the power dispute between you humans, and you should understand it."
Tianhao breathed a long breath in the dark environment: "Come on, I want to know more."
"There are eleven of the second batch of dormant people. This is an imaginary attempt to the future in a peaceful state. The confrontation between the East and the West will exist for a long time, and no leader with a little mind will actively trigger wars. The probability of small-scale armed conflicts within the limited range is extremely low, and more are mutual testing and frictions carried out by remote control of third parties. As long as the global economy maintains steady growth, even if the growth rate is slow, the two sides of the standoff will remain and jointly stabilize the peace. The existence of nuclear weapons is only a deterrent, and any new nuclear-capable country will be severely sanctioned by the two major groups. In such a situation, history and existing culture have never been paid attention to. The selection criteria for dormant people focus more on loyalty to the core of power and their own attainments in their own national culture."
"Literary?" Tianhao felt even more incredible: "What do you mean is that all the second batch of dormant people are literati?"
"Literature, art and traditional culture are the core selection criteria for dormants in one stage. War can destroy everything, but civilization must continue in a way unique to its nation. The plan lasted for twenty-two years, and all dormants voluntarily signed a sleeping agreement."
"So...what am I?" While hesitating, Tianhao's heart was full of expectations.
"You belong to the third and the last. The sixth New York financial crisis has had a bad impact on the global economic environment. London financial markets have fallen one after another. Major stock trading indices around the world have fallen one after another. All countries are looking for solutions to the crisis. The confrontation between the group has escalated into a comprehensive crisis. It was from that time that both the enemy and the enemy chose to stimulate the economy with war. But in this case, there are differences in any world war in history. Advanced technology has led to the emergence of weapons of mass destruction. Whether they are in the first move or the last move in the war, the final situation will be both sides. For consideration of the future situation, including you, a total of 50,000 people have been included in the dormant plan."
Tianhao stared at the light-brain screen, his heart full of emotion.
My thoughts returned to that day many years ago. The base commander called himself to the office and took out the top secret documents. It was at that time that he knew the dormant plan. The soldiers took obeying orders as their duty... According to the content of the document, all dormant people were automatically promoted to the next level. As a colonel, I got the long-awaited Brigadier General Venus, but it only existed in my mind and files. There was no physical object that could be touched, and with unswerving responsibilities and ideals, injected medicine and fell into a deep sleep.
"That war... the war that broke out after my sleep. Have we... won?" Sad thoughts dominated the central nervous system, and their voices became low, dark and hoarse.
"The nuclear war is actually a misunderstanding."
Looking at the line of words popping up on the screen, Tianhao's pupils suddenly shrank: "What did you say? What does this mean?"
"This is a bit complicated." The emotionally unscrupulous light brain explained very clearly: "Do you know the technical project of the "Human Reform Plan"?"
Tianhao nodded slowly: "I know."
For a long time, people have questioned Darwin's "Origin of Species" and biological evolution theory. More and more people refuse to believe that they evolved from a monkey. This view reached its climax at the end of the 19th century, and opponents began to conduct comprehensive research on various data of the earth's environment and humans themselves. They believe that the earth's environment is actually not as livable as imagined, and the human body has too many insurmountable physiological defects.
This view has a wide influence, and some of its theoretical basis attracted the attention of military personnel from various countries. The most important part is "giantization" and "diversification of human functions".
"Giantization" belongs to the traditional school of opponents. The core of this theory is based on the earth's mass and later universe research data. It believes that the optimal height ratio of human beings should be about three meters, based on strengthening their physical fitness and comprehensive environmental adaptability, further reducing the population size to achieve the goal of "quality for quantity".
This view has gained a large number of supporters. Eliteization and ordinaryization have always been the two major conceptual forms of opposing groups in human society. A few elites at the top of the pyramid believe that most humans are just wasting food, and they are the source of various chaos. Conversely, the ordinary people have a deep disgust of a very small number of elites, believing that the minority obeys the majority is the only choice to distribute power.
New text continues to pop up on the screen: "Fifty years before the implementation of the third dormant plan, we have conducted research on the enormousization of the human body. The initial goal is entirely based on military considerations. Bone strength, motor ability, comprehensive battlefield reaction, material load... Comprehensive calculations of all projects, soldiers with heights of 270 cm to 300 cm are most in line with the requirements, and the first batch of 30 experimental subjects were injected with drugs and received training inside the base."
Two hundred and seventy centimeters?
This is the current average height of the northern barbarians.
Tianhao tried hard to control his violently beating heart and continued to look at the information displayed on the light brain screen.
"The Giant Project was successful, and the entire project lasted for 45 years. From drug injection to changing the inherent form to genetic improvement directly acting on the fetus, the Giant was proven to be significantly better than ordinary humans in all aspects. Considering the public's ability to accept and the social panic that may be triggered, it can only temporarily take a small-scale group within the military as a pilot, and through long-term and multi-level extensive publicity, the purpose of national transformation will be finally achieved."
"In other words, all humans on this land are genetically modified bodies of the Giant Project?" Tianhao asked seriously.
"Yes."
“They aren’t survivors?”
"no."
"...Where did they come from?" Tianhao stared at the screen: "Where did they come from without survivors?"
"Since the 19th century, countries have formulated plans for the continuation of civilizations in the environment of great destruction. Among them, the project with the largest amount of funds is space immigration. There are two key points: the first is to choose a planet suitable for human habitation, and the second is an interstellar spacecraft that can carry humans on a large scale."
"Some people have raised doubts that there are too many uncertainties in the "Earth-like planets" discovered through space radio telescopes. The habitable data obtained by computer analysis is very likely to be some unknown component that humans have not discovered yet. Taking oxygen as an example, the space analysis data is entirely possible from another thing with similar components. It may pose a fatal threat to humans. After all, the "Earth-like planets" on paper are too far away. Physics, mathematics, biological reproduction systems... all of these are just proven to be true and effective on Earth. Once you leave and enter space, on another strange planet, no one knows whether these things work."
"The establishment of a large number of frozen sperm databases is carried out in this context. Both military bases and scientific research bases are equipped with intelligent release devices. These devices have to undergo security inspections every year, and the information database is connected to satellites to automatically determine the optimal release time of reproduction. Especially in the year before the outbreak of the full-scale nuclear war, small intelligent robot technology was successfully developed. They carry comprehensive detectors, rely on solar energy to continuously operate, search for environmental data from the outside world, send back to the base, and the central optical brain changes the reproduction standards according to these data, thereby achieving the best effect."
"In other words, these people on the northern continent are all comprehensive products of intelligent machinery and frozen sperm bank?" Tianhao didn't know whether he should cry or laugh?
"Yes."
"Why are their wisdom..." Tianhao hesitated for a moment and changed a more appropriate question: "Well...their social civilization is so low?"
The northern barbarians are actually very smart, and the national guru Wu Peng is the best example.
"The level of social civilization requires a lot of knowledge to be input to confirm that it is maintained. The earth's environment after the outbreak of the nuclear war was very harsh, and the central light brain determined that it could not start the reproduction plan at that time. Moreover, the number of human survivors after the war was large, and the main problem they faced was the lack of food. Starting the reproduction plan would only make the situation worse. The asteroid hit the earth and caused a global disaster, and the harsh environment lasted for a long time. Frequent earthquakes caused serious damage to each base. By the end of the long dust period, the central computer had lost the ability to instill knowledge in reproduction during the Earth's disaster. We could do nothing except to maximize the number of humans."
Tianhao sighed silently in the dark shadow: "What about other species? I mean animals. Asteroids cannot only destroy humans. The recovery of other species is also part of the overall reproduction plan?"
"Yes."
The flashing light spots on the screen were obviously slower than before, and the "old madam" seemed to be thinking: "The standards of the giant human body are invincible. The initial plan was formulated by the military, and the plan focused on cultivating soldiers. In the later stage of the plan, all breeding groups were genetically modified. Therefore, after the great destruction, humans appeared in the northern continent had very strong adaptability to the environment, and their comprehensive physical energy index exceeded that of previous generations. Especially the radiation resistance."
"Radiation?" Tianhao's heart sterned: "What do you mean is that there is still radiation left in the northern continent?"
"This radiation is not a product of the nuclear war, but comes from a series of disasters after the impact of the asteroid. It is mainly volcanic eruptions and crust movements."
"What's going on with Lock Dragon Pass? And why are the white people in the south of the mainland, short stature?" Tianhao immediately thought of a series of questions.
"These are many questions, and I need to answer them one by one." The brain is as straightforward as possible.
Tianhao changed to a more comfortable standing position: "Tell me, I have enough time."
Chapter completed!