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Chapter 166 Delivery

Zhao Changxing knew that he had once again made the right choice. The development of facts has proved that these hundreds of thousands of years of continuous efforts to genetically modify, spread knowledge, and improve the quality of the population have yielded fruitful results.

Mandatory sperm and egg donation, in addition to the risks in the field of ethics and morality, as well as the risk of conflict between public and private rights, will undoubtedly have certain disadvantages for individuals. But it is obvious that most

Some people believe that it is completely worth it to suffer a little loss to contribute to civilization and make it stronger.

Making this judgment obviously requires sufficient wisdom, which most people possess.

Compared with the fact that his order was passed without any trouble, Zhao Changxing was even more pleased with the fact that "most people are quite intelligent". This gave him the feeling that "all these years of hard work have not been in vain".

feel.

After this, the human reproduction and breeding center, which had been operating at low power for decades, was finally able to operate at full power.

Among the 10 roller bases that were specially selected, a total of 2 million artificial uteruses were finally put into use. With the assistance of artificial intelligence Xiaoxi, each roller base only requires 100 staff.

Take on the responsibility of caring for these embryos.

Of course, it is just to take care of the embryos and monitor their growth. Other aspects still need to be done by other people.

For example, the delivery and transportation of newborns.

In each roller base, a special area is divided, specially designed for the birth of newborns.

At this moment, the birth area of ​​the No. 1 Breeding Center welcomed the birth of the first batch of babies after the implementation of the mandatory sperm and egg donation policy. The number of newborns increased significantly.

In the past, on average, only about 150 newborns were born in the birth area of ​​each breeding center every day. But today, this number will increase several times, reaching about 670.

In order to welcome the birth of these babies, the staffing here has also been increased four times. There are now a total of 30 midwives on standby here.

"The artificial uterus numbered 11056 has reached the standard, and midwife No. 3 is ready to start delivering babies!"

"yes!"

A midwife sitting at the "work station" wearing an isolation suit to prevent the germs she carried from infecting the baby immediately became energetic.

The automatic transmission device transported an artificial uterus, which was about the size of a basketball, with a middle body made of transparent glass, and complex instruments and pipes connected to the upper and lower parts, to midwifery table No. 3. The midwife immediately started busy according to standard operating procedures.

At this moment, in the artificial womb, the little crumpled baby was waving its arms irritably, kicking its calves, and crying silently.

After completing the preparations, the outlet of the artificial uterus was opened, and with the help of the equipment and the assistance of the midwife, the little baby struggled to squeeze out of the outlet.

"Wow! Wow!"

The baby cried loudly. The midwife methodically cut the umbilical cord, bandaged the wound, disinfected, and cleaned the whole body. She breathed a sigh of relief after wrapping it in a soft quilt and placing it on the waiting robot tray.

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This delivery took about 20 minutes.

The next delivery mission has not come yet. At this moment, she finally has time to take a look at this little life that she personally brought into this world.

The little baby's hair was soft and stuck to his scalp. His whole body was red and his skin was full of wrinkles. He was very ugly and had nothing to do with cuteness. But at this moment, the midwife's eyes were full of softness, as if she was looking at something.

Rare treasure.

"Hello little guy, welcome to this world..."

The little baby answered with a loud cry.

"Xiao Xi, give him a name."

"OK."

The robot aunt in front of me agreed and projected a screen with about 20 randomly generated names on it.

The last name is random, and the first name is also random.

"Just call it...just call it this."

The midwife looked at it for a while, hesitated for a moment, and finally chose a name.

"Wang Huan...from now on, you will be called Wang Huan. Huanhuan, hello..."

After completing this last task, Wang Huan was taken away by the robot aunt controlled by Xiaoxi and placed in an incubator in the nearby area.

Here, the babies born with Wang Huan will also undergo a series of vaccinations, health management and other tasks. They will not be moved to the next area until they are about nine months old and can crawl.

On this day, a total of 660 newborns were born in this breeding center. A total of about 7,300 newborns were born in 10 breeding centers.

For a moment, even this galaxy seemed to be enveloped in the cries of babies.

At this moment, in the primary breeding center, tens of thousands of children who can crawl or waddle are laughing and crying under the care of robot aunts and caregivers, accompanied by many dolls and music.

Playing.

In the playgrounds of the intermediate and advanced breeding centers, babies who can run and talk are playing happily. In the kindergarten, the children are reciting poems one after another in unison. In the elementary school, the children are studying literature seriously.

and mathematics, opening the first stage of enlightenment in accepting knowledge.

In college, young people received their diplomas one after another. Depending on their future plans, they either continued to study in school or received free spaceship tickets to other space cities or planet bases to start their professional lives.

In the coming period, the trend of substantial population growth of human civilization has taken shape and cannot be changed.

However, with the expectation of a substantial increase in population in the future, at this moment, there is no fundamental obstacle to overdrawing some future resources and wealth in advance and forcing the construction of two super particle colliders at the same time.

Thus, in the equally vast and vast Lakai 9352 galaxy, human civilization finally entered a truly prosperous development stage.

In the orbit of the planet, in the void of space far away from any stars, under the surging ocean, in the core of the asteroid, on the top of the planet's mountains, on the vast plains...

Factories rise one after another. Infinite chemical raw materials, metals, machinery, industrial products, etc., supported by the energy of nuclear fusion power plants one after another, surge in like mountains and seas.

Research equipment that can be regarded as important scientific research equipment has appeared in the galaxy one after another. Basic scientific research equipment such as gravitational wave detectors, dark matter detectors, neutrino detectors, particle colliders, radio telescope arrays, optical telescope arrays, etc.

The number is constantly refreshing, and application-level research institutions such as chemical laboratories, materials laboratories, metal laboratories, biological laboratories, genetic laboratories, blood research centers, neural research centers, supercomputing centers, etc. are also springing up like mushrooms after a rain.

At this moment, the scientific research field of human civilization, from basic science to applied science, has formed a complete closed loop. Although the scale of this closed loop is still relatively small - because the population is too small, the structure has been completed and the framework has been formed.

All that needs to be done in the future is to continuously enrich and expand it as the population increases and the number of scientific researchers increases.

This is a natural process, and there is no need to worry about setting it up again.

In the year 1203 of the New Calendar, which is now 70 years after human civilization officially arrived in the Lakai 9352 galaxy, the population of human civilization officially exceeded the 10 million mark, and has maintained an average annual population increase of more than 2 million since then.

speed.

This number has taken into account the increase in the population due to natural reproduction under normal circumstances, as well as the population that died due to various reasons.

As a result, just five years later, the population of human civilization exceeded 20 million. Of course, most of them were minors and could only stay in breeding bases and schools.

In the 18th year after the order of compulsory sperm and egg donation was issued, the first batch of children born into this world due to this order reached adulthood and could join the production and life of society. The total population of human civilization reached

An unprecedented 33 million.

This has increased by almost five times compared to when it first arrived in the Lakai 9352 galaxy.

At this time, a new problem appeared in front of Zhao Changxing.

The existing 200 roller bases, which are enough to support 20 million people, will soon be insufficient.

In some ways, this is a good thing and means that human civilization is becoming stronger and stronger.

In this regard, Zhao Changxing does not intend to change the status quo and develop larger roller base construction technology. He still plans to continue building this kind of roller base that can carry about 100,000 people.

If the individual carrying capacity is insufficient, just rely on the quantity to pile them up. Although this will cause a lot of trouble and inconvenience, considering the costs and benefits comprehensively, this model is the most cost-effective.

After all, these things will be discarded in the near future.

"But...how many should we make?"

Zhao Changxing fell into thinking.

The essence of this problem is actually how much the total population of human civilization should be maintained in the Lakai 9352 galaxy.

Based on the basis that the more the population, the stronger the power, Zhao Changxing should undoubtedly go all out to increase the population. However, this problem is actually restricted by many factors.

The first factor is that Zhao Changxing cannot devote all the power and resources of the entire civilization to increasing population.

After all, scientific research also requires manpower, infrastructure construction requires manpower, resource extraction requires manpower, and so on.

This results in that, at best, only a certain proportion of social resources and wealth can be invested in reproducing the population.


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