Chapter 52 Why?
"We don't want our existence to cause any trouble to any other intelligent life in this universe.
We just want to live, and we just want civilization to continue. The resources we need are very few, and the small earth is enough to provide us with everything.
Even if it is not enough, we do not have the ability to transmit any influence beyond the earth.
We just want to continue civilization, nothing more.
Dear Moon God, if you can hear these words I say on behalf of the entire human civilization and give a definite response to them, I will lead the entire civilization to implement the previously confirmed "resource depletion" plan.
If possible, please respond to us politely, thank you."
The first decision-maker has finished speaking, but the live broadcast has not ended.
He was just like everyone else sitting in front of various media outlets watching the live broadcast, waiting quietly.
At this moment, the radio signal carrying this live broadcast is being transmitted to the entire universe through all frequency bands in the form of broadcast.
Countless people stared at the live broadcast screen intently, afraid of missing any information.
At this moment, whether old or young, whether in the wild or in the cradle, hundreds of millions of people around the world are silent, waiting for the possible answer from the Moon Goddess.
In the area where young people live, Zhou Cheng and Liu Yu sit hugging each other, with the little monkey sitting on his shoulders.
As if the little monkey realized that his masters were paying attention to something extremely important, he was unusually quiet at this moment.
Looking at the increasingly tired face of the first decision maker on the screen, Zhou Cheng was also waiting silently.
If the Moon Goddess responded to this...what form would it take?
Zhou Cheng didn't know.
The image of the moon depicted by the Yangjiagou tribe as coming to the surface is more of a symbolic description, symbolizing the arrival of the moon god, not that the image of the moon god is really the same as the moon.
In fact, the reason why the unknown existence was named "Moon God" was simply because the ancestors of the Yangjiagou tribe believed that the moon was in charge of the power of fertility and reproduction.
In fact, it is very likely that the Moon Goddess has nothing to do with the moon at all.
So... will it be a ball of light? Will it be a spaceship descending from outer space? Will it be a strange-looking alien in a spacesuit?
Both are possible.
A few minutes passed quietly while I waited silently.
While staring at the screen, Zhou Cheng's thoughts unconsciously drifted far away.
He once again recalled the scene two years ago when he came alone to the Yangjiagou site to start excavation, as well as the events that happened afterwards.
From the discovery of skeletons, to the confirmation that the ancestors of the Yangjiagou tribe had also lost their fertility, to the dispatch of engineering forces by the World Government, to the confirmation that the Moon Goddess had descended, to the discovery of the oracle tablet, to the deciphering of it...
Zhou Cheng can confirm that according to conventional logic, analysis and speculation, "survival competition" is the most likely reason.
If it is not a competition for survival, then what in the future can threaten you?
At the same time, Zhou Cheng can also confirm that the "resource depletion" plan jointly proposed by him and Liu Yu does have the ability to lock the potential for human development, at least under the current technological level of human civilization.
Since even people today can't find a solution, can people whose technology has regressed to the feudal era find a solution to bypass this limitation?
Impossible.
Besides... even if this plan is not feasible on a practical level due to some unknown reasons, then since our human civilization has shown such great sincerity and determination, and since you, the Moon Gods, have technological capabilities that exceed ours, you should have a more reliable and better plan than "resource depletion".
Just tell us what you want us to do. How could we object?
At the same time, this has led to a state of infertility in human civilization, which needs to be maintained continuously. In this case, it means a certain degree of investment.
If we humans proactively eliminate our development potential, doesn't that mean we can save you these investments?
This way, you get the best of both worlds.
Based on this logic and rational judgment, Zhou Cheng believes that there is a high possibility that humans will receive a response from the Moon Goddess and lift the fertility blockade.
But at this moment ten minutes had already passed.
All human beings on the entire earth waited in silence for ten minutes.
The first decision maker slowly raised his head and stared at the ceiling.
There, the lights were still as bright as before.
He continued: "As far as I know, all observation stations and signal stations around the world have not received any abnormal information reports.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the Moon Goddess didn't respond to us.
Maybe they have already responded and we just don't know about it.
So...we're going to conduct an active test.
I will give the order to take out one thousand sperm and eggs from the sperm bank and egg bank, which, as we understand, have the best genes, the highest quality, and the highest survival rate, and conduct sperm-egg fusion experiments.
If among these one thousand sperm and eggs, even only one can successfully combine and produce an embryo, we will know what the answer from the Moon Goddess is.
Now, the experiment begins.
We've already done the preliminary preparations, so you won't have to wait too long. Using the latest equipment from the heyday, the results will appear in just two hours."
The camera turned and came to a laboratory with white as the main color.
Inside the laboratory, a thousand robotic arms were neatly arranged in rows, each holding a thawed sperm and egg.
The sperm-egg fusion test then began.
Two hours passed slowly in the anxious waiting.
The experimental results appeared.
A secretary quickly walked behind the first decision maker and handed him a report document.
Looking at the document, the first decision-maker's calm face finally showed some expression.
His hands holding the report document were shaking slightly, and his eyes were full of shock and disbelief.
After a long pause, he sighed deeply and spoke into the microphone, addressing the hundreds of millions of his compatriots who were closely following the incident: "Just like the millions of experiments over the past few decades, this sperm-egg fusion experiment... has failed once again."
He raised his head, a look of bewilderment crossing his resolute face. He stared at the ceiling, as if looking at an invisible presence.
His voice was trembling: "We just want to live, just wanting to live is enough.
To this end, we can pay any price, even cutting off the potential for civilizational development.
What do you want? Tell us, tell us. Why don’t you tell us?
Why? Why?
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