The Wishing World finally failed after hundreds of years of operation. The Elf Queen and the Council of Elders who originally established it had to admit to the public that this was another waste, but the Wishing World still gained some benefits during these hundreds of years of operation.
Unplanned results - not everything requires such precision. Only the hyperlight engine will be greatly affected by microscopic laws. Many other things can be tested under virtual conditions. The first batch to enter the world of prayer
Scholars have created more advanced space equipment and ecological dome maintenance devices through simulation calculations, and simulated a large number of projects related to social forms and rationing systems. These achievements are still playing a huge role today. It is precisely because of these achievements that Prayers
May the world not be completely shut down, but put to other uses.
Although it is not a perfect laboratory, it is at least a perfect virtual paradise.
The elves realized that the wishing world could greatly reduce their social consumption. Some less demanding daily research could still be done in that laboratory. At the same time, this virtual world could also allow them to have sweet dreams and temporarily forget about the depletion and boredom outside.
The real world. More importantly: after entering the world of prayer, the body that consumes too much energy and is bloated and useless can be abandoned.
"We passed the 'Prayer World Stripping Law' a thousand years ago, allowing more people to apply to upload to the server," Hilda said slowly, "I told you, right? Because the environment in the dome changes faster than the elves
The adaptability of some floating islands has reached the point where elderly elves cannot survive. We have many people suffering from incurable diseases. The royal family cannot execute them just because they are sick, but these elves who have lost their labor force after contracting diseases have been in the past.
They can still only wait to die slowly, but after the 'stripping method' takes effect, they are sent to the world of prayer. The old, sick, disabled, or elves who have lost their social value for other reasons must accept the upload.
Their consciousness is extracted into the server, and their bodies are destroyed and decomposed into resources. They are still alive, but they will no longer be consumed - and they can continue to contribute to the Irem society in a healthier form in the wishing world.
Make contributions, such as doing research. Some less demanding projects can still be carried out in the virtual environment. Now this is the destination of almost every Erim elf. We cannot leave a lifeless body in the world.
Rather than breathing air, it is better to break it down into nutrients in the dome and elemental blocks in the factory."
Hao Ren suddenly didn't know what to say.
Virtual worlds are no stranger to him. Whether he sees them in science fiction novels on Earth or real examples from the Imperial Data Network, he is very familiar with this concept. However, most civilizations create virtual worlds.
It is for entertainment. The few who do it for scientific research or to reduce energy consumption are not as extreme as the Irem elves. Those civilizations will leave their bodies in a connector, waiting to wake up and experience the real world again. However, the Irem elves
No: they enter the world of prayer after their bodies lose the ability to work, in order to abandon the body and allow the spirit to continue working.
They don't even want to waste a breath.
"In fact, for many elves, the wishing world is a paradise," Hilda suddenly showed a weird smile, "The sun is shining there, there is a vast sky, you can drive thousands of miles without seeing the walls, and there are some
Mountains and rivers that only exist in legends and video disks - every elf uploaded into the world of prayer will send back a word of thanks, and they finally no longer have to endure the reality of depletion."
"Why don't everyone just go in and dream?" Hao Ren asked a very direct question.
"Because then there is no hope," Hilda spread her hands, "That is escape. I hope the world is not created to escape reality. Someone must guard it in reality. We have an old proverb: Persevere until
The next day. We firmly believe that as long as we are alive, there is hope, so we can live until today. We have never given up our efforts to fly to other stars, and we pray that the world was built on this premise. If everyone is immersed in that resource
In the dream of abundance, who will save reality? The server will eventually crash, and the external servo will be damaged sooner or later. This is suicide, just prolonged and anesthetized by the dream."
At the end, she added: "Even if this world is going to collapse, I hope I can watch it collapse with my own eyes instead of losing my home unconsciously in my sleep."
Hao Ren pondered for a moment: "But not everyone thinks so, right?"
"Yes, we are mortals after all - the Paradise Organization is an extremist organization that hopes that all people can escape reality and allow everyone to enter the world of prayer to spend the rest of their lives. Their core is a group of technical elites who originally built the world of prayer.
Descendants or apprentices of scholars. When the Prayer World Project announced its failure and the Council of Elders discussed how to deal with this virtual world, a group of builders could not bear the excessive pressure and released a lot of unfavorable things - which eventually led to the emergence of the Paradise Organization.
.This organization believes that the real world is hopeless, and entering dreams can at least allow everyone to euthanasia. They have been dormant for a while, but after the last time-space accelerator explosion, they seem to have been stimulated, and now they are more active."
"Isn't it okay for them to sneak in by themselves? Anyway, as long as they lose their labor force, they can go in, so why make such a big fuss?" Hao Ren was a little confused, "If it was just to escape reality, they could just sneak in and come out with such a loud noise.
Instead, I was stopped.”
"Because they are not escaping reality for themselves, but really want to change the entire Kingdom of Airem," Hilda shook her head. "The Paradise Organization is not simple. Maybe I would admire them from another perspective: they are motivated by hope.
All other elves are happy. But this does not change their blind nature."
Hateful people must be pitiful. It seems that this is a group of idealists who have gone astray. In this case, it is no longer possible to simply judge who is right and who is wrong: everyone has noble purposes, and no one is
It’s for themselves, but they and the mainstream society are in opposition to each other. There are quite a lot of bad things like this.
"Okay, a group of idealists... but if the resource problem is solved, they probably won't continue to do it," Hao Ren muttered lowly, then raised his head, "You have a minister who got himself into trouble for this matter.
?”
"The Paradise Organization somehow controlled the main memory and established its own power in the world of prayer. They pulled some of the digitized elves who supported them into a place where they cannot be detected. I don't know what they are planning.
What, but it must be a big operation. Citizens in the praying world are also citizens, so Kadylan personally led a group of elites in to investigate the situation - but he disappeared," Hilda sighed, "I understand him
After all, he has passed middle age, and his mobility and brain power are not as good as before. He will soon exceed the value/consumption ratio line. It should be a few years before he is extracted and uploaded, but what he went to this time is really not
when."
An additional explanation is needed here: mental workers in Irem society "retire" much earlier than manual workers. Even if they are healthy, many mental workers must be extracted and uploaded after middle age, and the upper class is no exception.
Therefore, Erim elves usually choose the same practitioners to form families: just to avoid this premature separation.
Hao Ren realized that he might have another problem - the group of elves that had been uploaded to the server and even their bodies had been destroyed could not be ignored.
At this moment, a small blue light suddenly flew from a distance, and the data terminal almost hit him in the face: "Hey, this machine is back!"
Hao Ren dodged the traitor at the critical moment: "Are you done?"
"Well, the backup energy pool is also full, enough for them to repair the main line. Now a group of engineering ships are repairing the hole outside the floating island." The data terminal skillfully slipped into Hao Ren's pocket, "Hey, Mom,
I am so exhausted that I almost ran out of energy and died..."
Hao Ren patted his pocket and said goodbye to Hilda: "I have to go back and study this matter. You can calm down and restore order to society. I will give you an answer soon."
Hilda didn't speak, just lowered her head deeply.r1152