Earth Era

The scenario General Emmerk described is extremely possible. After all, with the retreat of the fugitive government, the Lyra deep space monitoring network originally used to monitor deep space intelligence has been completely destroyed. The autonomous government does not have the ability to conduct deep space monitoring at this moment. Although telescopes can see far away, their range is too narrow and they are basically useless for true deep space monitoring.

Then four years... is the best case scenario.

General Emerk pondered for a moment, then raised his head and asked Xiao Yun: "How long will it take for your plan to be ready?"

Xiao Yun and Dink looked at each other, discussed in low voices with several elderly scientists present at the meeting, and then replied: "We still need at least five years."

Dink lowered his head and blushed, as if trying to discern something: "There is no way. This plan involves too many and too complex aspects. In terms of theoretical physics alone, we need to reconstruct a completely different set of Regarding the physical system of our current technology, this physical system must accommodate any existing physical phenomena and must be self-consistent. This means a huge amount of mathematical calculations and physical experiments. We lack enough manpower and insufficient We lack almost everything in terms of instruments and experimental environment. This is just the work content of the physics group. In addition, the program group, measurement group, etc. are also facing similar situations."

Dink's words became lower and lower, and in the end they were like a mosquito whispering, and finally disappeared completely.

Xiao Yun whispered: "But the robot will not wait for us."

There was silence in the office. So Xiao Yun repeated again: "The robot will not wait for us."

The Robot Group will not wait until the autonomous government has everything ready. They just move at their own pace. When they arrive is beyond human civilization's control.

Dink said slightly confused: "I know. But what should we do?"

Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the office. General Emerk signaled, and the man opened the door and hurried in.

"General, I just received a report from the laboratory. Professor Zhao Haiqing suddenly fell into coma while working. The medical team has begun emergency rescue, but the situation is still unclear."

"Oh?" General Emerk was suddenly moved. He stood up and said to everyone in the office: "Let's go take a look together."

Xiao Yun's heart also lifted. Professor Zhao Haiqing is a highly respected physicist who was active on the front line of scientific research before human civilization was divided. He proposed many important physics theories and taught many outstanding students. It was only as he grew older that he gradually withdrew from the scientific research circle, and because of some reasons such as the difficulty of leaving his homeland, he finally stayed on Earth instead of leaving with the fleeing government.

After Xiao Yun proposed the plan and the fugitive government could no longer provide support to the autonomous government and could only rely on the autonomous government to support itself, Professor Zhao Haiqing naturally joined the base and became the head of the physics team. Such an important person suddenly fell into a coma, and the situation was unknown. General Emerk, Xiao Yun and others could not help but be anxious.

The group of people hurriedly left the office and took the internal commuter bus to the location of the medical team, but were blocked by a middle-aged doctor in a white coat.

"Professor Zhao is undergoing rescue. You can't go in." The middle-aged doctor said solemnly, "Just wait here. I will notify you as soon as the results are available."

The group of people stopped outside the rescue room in silence. Above the door of the rescue room, the red round light, indicating that the rescue was in progress, was always on. Xiao Yun's heart kept holding it and he could not let it go.

Compared with other aspects, the medical technology left by the fugitive government on the earth is relatively large. It can be said that the medical strength of the autonomous government is not much worse than that of the fugitive government. Today, when technology is highly developed, unless it is too extreme, most situations can be saved. But that doesn't put people at ease.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the red round light finally went out, and a doctor walked out of the ward with a tired face. General Emerk immediately came forward and asked solemnly: "How is Professor Zhao's situation?"

"I'm sorry, we have tried our best." The doctor whispered: "Professor Zhao's condition is too critical. In fact, he stopped breathing before he was sent to the ward. We tried everything we could think of. method, but still failed to save him..."

Upon hearing these words, Xiao Yun felt a bang in his head and his mouth was full of bitterness. Even the words of the connected doctor could not be heard clearly. I could only vaguely hear some fragments: "Professor Zhao is too old...too much work and mental pressure...too tired..."

Unlike Xiao Yun's gaffe, General Emerk still maintained his composure. He gently patted the doctor's shoulder and whispered: "Thank you for your hard work. You should also go and take a rest."

A heavy and depressing atmosphere enveloped the entire base building. Xiao Yun felt that his consciousness was a little unclear, and he even seemed to be sleepwalking for the next few days. There was always a question repeating in his mind: "There is not enough time, and now Professor Zhao has passed away... …what should we do?"

Professor Zhao's funeral was very simple. Under the auspices of General Emerk, only a simple farewell ceremony was held, and then people got into busy work again.

People work harder and their rest time is further compressed, but physiological limits are insurmountable. If you compress your rest time here, you have to make up for it elsewhere. In the situation where the body has been oppressed by the will to almost the limit before, further strengthening the pressure of the will on the body will not further improve the work efficiency. On the contrary, the work efficiency will begin to decrease.

This situation once again made General Emerk, Xiao Yun and others worried.

Xiao Yun began to fall into conflicts. In fact, it is not that people did not foresee this situation when they first made the plan. People have thought of it and formulated a response plan, but... no one is willing to implement that alternative plan unless it is absolutely necessary.

But now it can be considered a last resort...

Xiao Yun thought for a day and made up his mind. So, on the next day, a meeting involving all scientific researchers was held.

"As you can see, we have reached the most critical moment now. The robot group may arrive at any time, but our work is progressing slowly. We have a thousand reasons to excuse this, but no matter how we distinguish, we all have one thing You need to understand that...the robot group will not wait for us. Therefore, in order to speed up the work progress and improve work efficiency, I propose...to implement the stimulant plan."

There was silence in the venue. Xiao Yun paused and continued: "For a lofty goal, I personally don't mind sacrificing one of my lives. But I know that I cannot represent everyone, and I cannot use morality to kidnap everyone. So, doping Whether the plan should be implemented or not needs everyone to vote to decide. In order to prevent other factors from affecting the voting, the voting is anonymous. No matter whether you vote for or against, no one else will know. Moreover, the entire voting process is confidential, and all relevant matters will be kept secret. The data of this vote will be completely destroyed after the end. No matter whether human civilization can continue or not, no matter what the final result is, no one will know that such a vote has been held here at this moment.

No matter what your final choice is, I will respect and understand your decision. Choosing to dedicate one's life for the sake of civilization is noble, and choosing to continue one's life is not despicable either. Isn’t the idea of ​​our civilization that we respect everyone’s choice? So...start voting now. "

The agenda of the meeting was simple and the time was tight. After Xiao Yun finished his speech, all participants quickly started voting without any further steps.

Xiao Yun silently pressed the agree button, and then began to wait. At this moment, Xiao Yun's thoughts were a little complicated. Xiao Yun knew that if the vote passed, no matter whether human civilization would eventually win or not, he would have no future... and he would be destined to die.

Because the doping program comes at the cost of destroying the human body. With the support of technological instruments, people only need to spend fifteen minutes a day to receive nutritional injections and body repairs from the instruments to sustain a full day's work. People don't need extra rest, extra food, not even drinking water, relaxing, going to the toilet, etc. If a doping program is implemented...a person can work in optimal physical and mental condition for twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes straight.

But the cost of this plan is also huge. It can cause irreversible damage to the human body that cannot be repaired even with the most advanced medical methods. All the volunteers who participated in the project died in pain within one to two years. The stronger and younger volunteers may have persisted longer, but the longest did not exceed five years. Some volunteers who were relatively weak even died suddenly during the execution of the plan.

Therefore, this technology was urgently stopped and sealed a hundred years ago. But now, it's been brought out again.

Xiao Yun's thoughts were up and down, and he didn't come back to his senses until the sound of the end of voting sounded.

Xiao Yun turned his attention to the big screen in front of him and discovered to his surprise that the voting result was two thousand four hundred and fifty-six to...zero.

Not one person in attendance voted against it.