Earth Era

In the blink of an eye, years have passed in a hurry. The solar system is still calm, and beneath this calm there is still a tension and solemnity that "disaster is coming". However, the large-scale evacuation work has not yet been officially launched, and there are still no human immigrants from other galaxies who have migrated to the solar system and the surrounding most important and most closely protected star systems.

Because the transmission of information also takes time, at this moment, the colony galaxy farthest from the solar system developed by human civilization has not even received an order to retreat from the solar system, let alone officially start the retreat. Even the colony galaxies that are relatively close to the solar system are just starting to prepare at this moment.

The vast space means a long time. Under such a space and time scale, as well as the huge technological framework developed by human civilization, any "big event" needs a long time that the predecessors could hardly imagine— —Like the inhabitants of the earth in the age of nations, how could it be possible to imagine that it would take decades just to build a cutting-edge deep space observatory at this moment?

It can be said that the retreat cannot be completed without a hundred years. And... the head-on confrontation between the robot group and human civilization is unlikely to happen within a hundred years.

The preparation time left for human civilization seems to be very long, but in the same way, the time it takes for human civilization to prepare for the work is also very long, so a hundred years is not enough, or even a little urgent.

The focus of human civilization's work during this century is the retreat mission, and the focus of work after this century is the war with the robot group. Countless people's lives and all their energy will be consumed by these two things, and countless people's lives will be centered on these two things.

The fate of all babies born during this period of time has been pre-determined, and they are destined to be busy with these two things all their lives. This may be a very sad and helpless thing, but there is no way. Because... this is human civilization, a huge and magnificent human civilization.

Xiao Yun's life will also be branded as a "robot". The three words "robot" will leave a strong mark in Xiao Yun's life, compared with these three words. Everything else in Xiao Yun's life seemed so bleak.

Xiao Yun left the earth on a gloomy afternoon and came to the base of Pluto again. Today is an important day for the Scientific Affairs Committee led by Xiao Yun. Because here on Pluto, the number of robots has reached a certain scale, and the next stage of the experimental process can be carried out.

Xiao Yun flew aimlessly in a near-Earth space dual-purpose spacecraft at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers from the surface of Pluto. This distance was only drawn up after analysis, because the altitude of 1,000 kilometers is the upper limit of the robot's flight capability. If it is lower than this height, the robot can rely on its flight ability to approach the spaceship that Xiao Yun is riding, and this will bring many dangers to Xiao Yun.

The high-definition video camera installed on the spacecraft conveys the real scene of Pluto's surface to the big screen. Xiao Yun and his party sat in front of the screen and carefully observed the scene on the screen.

What was presented in front of Xiao Yun and others was a terrifying scene. At this moment, Xiao Yun seemed to feel that he had returned to the Lager 728 galaxy again, and was surrounded by countless robots again.

Because... at this moment, Pluto is already full of robots. In the sky, on the surface, and even under Pluto, there are bustling robots with claws and claws. Their ugly insect-like bodies either fly in the sky, or wriggle on the ground and under the surface, like a group of demons. .

The landscape of Pluto has also been completely changed because of the growth of the robot population. compared to a few years ago. At least hundreds of peaks above Pluto have disappeared, and countless more ravines have appeared.

"At this moment, the total number of robots on Pluto has reached at least 300 billion, and they have occupied all the living space above Pluto. Whether it is the sky, the surface, or the ground. According to our model, Pluto has already It has reached the upper limit of the number of robots it can carry. In other words... if the technology of robots does not improve, their number will not increase further." A staff member reported to Xiao Yunhui.

Xiao Yun knows that the upper limit of the number mentioned by the staff does not mean that the resources on Pluto can no longer be used to make more robots. In fact, if all the resources that make up Pluto are mined, more robots will be produced than at the moment. Ten times as many robots are no problem. But...the robots have no place to live.

The so-called living space is purely in the literal sense, and there are already too many robots. After all, they have a certain volume and require a certain range of motion. And Pluto can't provide such a vast space. The space in space is infinite, and countless robots can be placed there. But at the moment, robots do not have the ability to enter space activities.

"Program monitoring shows that... the core code program inside the robot has raised the evolutionary demand to the highest level. In other words, the robots at this moment are extremely eager to evolve, and even give up reproduction to evolve."

"Oh, that's not actually the case." Xiao Yun said, "Robots have indeed raised their evolutionary needs to the highest level at this moment, but don't forget that the evolution of robots is to seek a larger living space, and seeking a larger living space is still It is for the purpose of reproduction, so, from a long-term perspective, the highest demand for robots has always been reproduction, and it has never changed.”

"Yes." The staff member said, "So... what are you going to do next? After all, the robots at this moment have stopped multiplying."

"If they want to evolve, then let them evolve." Xiao Yun said softly, "provide them with some technology to increase their range of activities to 10,000 kilometers from the surface of Pluto."

"Okay." The staff member agreed, and then sent a request message to the fleet stationed around Pluto. There are enough military scientists in the garrison fleet, and they will pick out suitable things for the robots to decompose and analyze, that is, to meet the evolutionary needs without allowing the robots to evolve excessively.

In the end, a few outdated spaceships that were manufactured according to long-eliminated technologies and could only move within a certain distance around the planet were driven out, and then military personnel dropped them on the surface of Pluto less than 1,000 kilometers away. in near-Earth space.

Just as Xiao Yun expected, these spaceships were violently besieged by robots as soon as they appeared, and they destroyed the spaceships ten minutes later. The parts of the spacecraft are obtained by hundreds of millions of robots, and the analysis of these parts is carried out by hundreds of millions of robots at the same time.

No, it's not just the hundreds of millions of robots that analyze, but the hundreds of billions of robots that are all active on Pluto at the same time. The program monitoring showed that after these parts were acquired, all the detection information about them was immediately disseminated, so all the robots on Pluto knew the structure of these parts, in an unimaginably advanced distributed system Below, these data that need to be further calculated are divided into hundreds of billions, each robot undertakes a part of the calculation task, after calculating the results, it will be summarized, and then broadcast to all robots.

This distributed computing system that does not require a core host did not arouse Xiao Yun's surprise, because Xiao Yun knew this for a long time. What really surprised Xiao Yun was the ability of these robots to understand and digest technology, as well as further verification. and the ability to absorb technology.

When it comes to this, the robot's unique code program comes into play. Robots can understand what role a certain part plays in the overall machine, and can also calculate how to modify the volume or shape of the part for their own use, and can also calculate how to do it in order to create a product with the same effect. parts out.

The latter two are realized through exhaustive calculations~www.NovelMTL.com~ As samples, they come from human civilization and contain the parts of human civilization technology that delimit the scope, and the robots are within this scope. Exhaustive calculations were carried out, trying to restore this kind of parts, and finally achieve the goal of making his own technology evolve.

In the third month after the spaceships were destroyed by the robots, a large-scale brute force attempt began, and Xiao Yun saw a shocking scene. A huge amount of information like mountain torrents and ocean waves flooded into the central server set up here by the Scientific Affairs Committee, and each piece of this data represents a robot's attempts to evolve in different directions. There are many possible evolutionary directions, and only one is correct. This is doomed that the evolutionary attempts made by the vast majority of robots are wrong, and wrong...means death.

So the robots began a large-scale "suicide" operation. Some robots were damaged due to insufficient strength of parts due to the evolutionary failure of materials science, and eventually lost their ability to move. Some robots were damaged due to insufficient heat resistance. Some robots exploded, and some robots were paralyzed. Some robots simply burned their core chips directly...

There is only one outcome for all robots that have failed to evolve, and that is... death. (To be continued.)(www..)