Facing this universe-like world in front of him, Lin En was surprised for a fraction of a second before regaining his composure.
"Welcome to the Second World!"
A majestic voice resounded in the void of the universe, and then a figure turned from virtual to real and appeared beside Lin En.
"Long time no see, Professor Coleman!" Lin En greeted calmly. He naturally recognized the person in front of him, Dr. Coleman, the most famous scientist in the Federation in the previous life.
Lin En, who graduated from the School of Engineering, had the honor of attending the other party's courses, but the two had only met each other a few times.
Dr. Coleman obviously no longer remembers this former student, but judging from the fact that he watched the space monument after entering the Earth and was able to accurately recite all the information about recorder No. 097841, his previous words are still somewhat credible.
"Is this the so-called second world?" Lin En looked around. He saw through this universe the moment he came in.
"That's right!" Coleman nodded, with an indescribable emotion in his words. "Now all humans have entered the second world, where everyone can have everything he wants!"
As the words fell, scenes appeared in front of Lin En.
There are ancient battlefields of fighting, a luxurious life of feasting and revelry, and a bizarre fantasy world, and countless people are immersed in them and cannot extricate themselves.
Of course, these are not the real world. Lin En had long realized that the place they were in was a virtual space between reality and fantasy.
It was like the virtual universe he had created to fool Harov and others, but due to the massive computing power brought by the base stations spread across the galaxy, it was possible to simulate the laws of the universe at the quantum level. For the creatures inside, perhaps it was no different from living in reality.
"Can you tell me what happened in the Federation over the past thousand years?" Lin En asked in confusion.
He did not understand how the Federation, which was already a third-level galactic civilization at the time and could barely achieve interstellar travel, could have fallen to this point.
Coleman sighed and then spoke. "Part of it is because of the internal war, and part of it may be my fault..."
"Internal war? Is it related to the Useless Ones?" Lynn was very keenly aware of this.
"That's right!" Coleman nodded. The fact that Lin En could say the word "useless" meant that the other party was indeed recorder No. 097841.
The so-called useless people are a self-deprecating term used by the lower-class civilians in the Federation. Due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, which involves all aspects, almost 99% of jobs have been replaced, and the most horrific unemployment rate in human history has been caused! The Federation's response is to increase a large number of meaningless jobs so that the people have something to do, and to distribute 1,000 credit points to all people every month, which is just enough for a person's daily food, clothing, and some low-level entertainment.
With the productivity of a third-level civilization, it is still possible to meet the basic needs of tens of billions of people.
However, this only temporarily delays the conflict. After all, the terrible social class gap still exists.
And there is a second huge problem, which is lifespan!
A 20% concentration of genetic modification potion requires one million federal credits to purchase. An ordinary federal citizen would have to find a job and work hard for thirty years to barely save enough! As for more advanced genetic modification potions, they are almost impossible for civilians to obtain.
This also makes the transfer of power and wealth extremely slow.
This situation caused the lower-class people in the Federation to split into three factions. Some people gave up their jobs completely and lived a life of laziness, relying on the monthly subsidy of 1,000 credit points from the Federation.
Some people work hard and use all means to climb up, hoping that one day they can become a big shot at the top and enjoy all the good things.
Another group of people are constantly wavering between the two, unwilling to accept the status quo, wanting to change but unable to do so. After all, no matter how hard they try, only a few can stand out.
In his previous life, Lin En belonged to the third type of person, but his situation was slightly better. With his outstanding performance, he successfully found a seemingly important but meaningless job - recorder!
On the first day of his employment, Lin En knew that he would most likely stay in this position for the rest of his life...
However, the job of recorder also made Lin En more deeply understand the plight of the Federation, which was more terrible than he had expected. It can be said that only a torch was needed for change! And this torch was soon lit.
Just forty-seven years after his death, the war officially broke out and was put down after only nine years.
Lin En was not surprised by this. The federal upper echelons who controlled artificial intelligence were difficult to defeat, which was why they dared to hold on to power so tightly.
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Of course, these rebellions were not meaningless. They caused great turmoil to the entire federation. The most crucial thing was that the contradictions were not eliminated but showed signs of further expansion.
However, the curvature engine technology, which is regarded as a life-saving straw by the federal top leaders, has been slow to make a breakthrough. Unable to rely on interstellar immigration to absorb the tens of billions of unemployed people, the federal top leaders have to find new ways.
"The new method they found is the second world?" Lin En raised his eyebrows slightly.
Relying on the Internet and virtual games to stabilize the situation and resolve conflicts was a policy that the Federation had been implementing before he traveled through time, and it was very effective.
Because it only consumes a small amount of resources to give people a great sense of pleasure, it is the most important part of the [Civilian Entertainment Plan]! Coleman nodded and approved of Lin En's guess. In the third year after the end of the war, with the improvement of consciousness link technology, the Federation began to vigorously promote the second world and used it as a weapon to ease social conflicts and avoid the next civil war.
Especially after the successful development of the emotion simulation device, for humans who have linked their consciousness to the intelligent brain and are in a virtual space, the second world is almost no different from the real world!
But the difference is that the resources inside are almost unlimited!
Here, anyone can experience the life they want and achieve things that are impossible in reality, whether it is becoming an ancient general fighting on the battlefield, a dragon slayer in the fantasy world, or leading an interstellar war, it can be done easily.
The boundary between reality and virtuality has been blurred to the extreme! (End of this chapter)
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