Chapter 5

Half a day later, Chenxi's worldview underwent a dramatic change.

It turns out that this place is more than 10,000 years in the future.

It turns out that there are no humans left in this world.

It turned out that the golden-eyed man in front of him was not human, but a robot, an artificial intelligence.

Chenxi couldn't help but rub his forehead, feeling that he needed some quiet time.

Chen Xi was cryogenically frozen in 2022 AD.

A hundred years after he was cryogenically frozen, humanity successfully applied controlled nuclear fusion technology. From then on, the energy sources available to humankind underwent a revolutionary change.

Through controlled nuclear fusion technology, the energy released from burning one liter of seawater is equivalent to that released from burning 300 liters of gasoline. It is pollution-free, inexhaustible, and a nearly limitless clean energy source for humankind.

The upgrade in energy represented the liberation of productivity. With almost unlimited energy to squander, coupled with the already very high level of mechanization and automation at the time, fully automated planting, automated breeding, and automated production of daily necessities were achieved. The continuous output of resources could easily support all of humanity, and people soon lived a life where they no longer needed to work for survival. This year was called the first year of the new era.

Having escaped the struggle for survival, humanity had ample time. During this period, human technology developed rapidly, artistic achievements soared to unprecedented heights, the entertainment industry flourished, and with access to higher-quality energy, humanity easily broke out of the solar system to explore more distant places.

As more places are explored, more substances are discovered, and the gaps in human science are rapidly filled. Many ideas that were feasible in the past but could not be realized due to the lack of suitable materials are now being realized thanks to the new substances discovered in space.

The realization of new ideas and the development of new and more powerful technologies have given humanity new energy, making humanity like an engine that is constantly accelerating, soaring into the sky.

Humanity, centered on the solar system, has spread rapidly throughout the universe, encompassing countless galaxies. To humanity's surprise, they have not discovered any other highly intelligent life forms in the universe. The imagined formidable enemies have not appeared. Their exploration and expansion have proceeded peacefully without any resistance.

At this point, the existence of nations has long lost its meaning. After all, the reason why nations exist on Earth is because on this small planet, humans have to compete with each other for scarce resources. But now the vast universe is right in front of us, and we can take whatever we want as we please. Compared to the vast universe, the human race is far too insignificant. We can barely cooperate. Gradually, all humans only remember one identity—Earthlings.

Under these circumstances, the original governments of various countries have long since merged into the Earth Federal Government.

After the development of controlled nuclear fusion technology, humanity will become a race that is born without needing to work for survival, but only needs to be provided for.

Subsequent technological advancements and space exploration have led to an inexhaustible supply of resources allocated to each human being at birth.

Against this backdrop, humanity began to ponder the meaning of existence and how humans should live.

As a philosopher once said, humans are born with the right to happiness and joy, and should enjoy eternal pleasure.

Ultimately, this statement was enshrined in the Constitution of Humanity.

All humankind lives by this principle: if you believe that achieving success in a particular field will bring you happiness, then explore it to your heart's content and achieve it. If you believe that pleasure will bring you happiness, then indulge in pleasure to the fullest.

As human beings, we are born to be happy, joyful, and free to do as we please, and human technology is our strongest support.

Under this principle, everything that makes humans feel unhappy is being gradually eliminated. Because of illness, there is unhappiness, so all illnesses are eliminated. Because of the feeling of a short lifespan, there is unhappiness, so various methods are used to extend lifespan until immortality is achieved.

Finally, humanity became a race without any worries, with eternal health, eternal life, and ever-expanding, almost inexhaustible resources and material enjoyment.

But at some point, humans discovered that they felt less and less joy. They no longer felt joy for the things they were born with, whether it was endless material enjoyment or eternal life. Even the entertainment methods that humans had developed to their peak were becoming increasingly difficult to stir human emotions.

I don't know when it started, but some people began to get tired of living and chose to end their own lives.

Then this situation escalated, and more and more people, feeling that life was meaningless, took the same path.

The birth of human beings has long since departed from the primitive model of human gestation and family upbringing, and is now uniformly conceived by the government from the human life bank.

Humanity's population crisis has not yet arrived, but soon, human governments discovered that the time humans choose to end their lives with each generation is getting shorter and shorter, and many humans are even unwilling to give up their eggs and sperm to replenish the life bank.

Why should their descendants experience such a boring world?

To prevent being resurrected, they even used the most thorough methods of ending their lives, making sure they would never return to this world.

This mentality and trend is irreversible, and it is slowly spreading even within human governments.

Eventually, the number of humans in the world dwindled until only one human remained.

This great human, with his indomitable will and life spanning over a thousand years, was once filled with a strong sense of racial responsibility and made great contributions to the advancement of human technology. But now, with a weary expression, he pressed the button to destroy the human life bank, completely annihilating the last remaining sperm and egg bank of humanity.

Then, he lay down in the particle annihilation chamber and commanded the mainframe to execute the program.

At the very last moment before the program was executed, a look of relief appeared on his face. Goodbye, this boring world.

This year was the year 7128 of the new era.

From that moment on, humanity completely disappeared from the world.