Capital cannibalizes people. This saying is absolutely correct.
According to the intelligence collected by Aletheia in various ruins, the root cause of the demise of the old humanity is due to military automation and privatization.
When science and technology advances to a certain level, military automation is a development stage that will inevitably go through in order to prevent fresh lives from being lost in war.
There have been scenes of AI going berserk and attacking humanity in artistic works of various media. In the world of Zero Dawn, it was the out-of-control automated war weapons that led to the destruction of old humanity.
Of course, from Lu Xiao's perspective, the blame cannot be entirely placed on AI. Gaia is a typical positive example. She has sacrificed everything she has to revive human civilization.
In Lu Xiao's view, the biggest problem in the destruction of old humanity lies in military privatization, that is, capital groups bypassing the government to establish small-scale private automated armies.
Robots can replace human military personnel in all aspects. Since the realization of automatic militarization, wars no longer need to be limited by the number of people, and the cost of fighting a war is pitifully small.
As long as there are sufficient resources, the army is just a machine toy that can be mass-produced at the touch of a button. It doesn't matter if it is sacrificed, and the government does not need to pay any pensions.
Against this background, the private security forces of capital groups have expanded and gradually begun to take on the nature of the military.
As the world's major companies compete for resources, the competition intensifies, eventually turning into violent civil confrontations that do not require official intervention, and like a snowball, gradually develop into a situation where there is no one left behind.
Because of this distorted and abnormal social background, private arms dealers are making a lot of money one by one.
It was also during this period that the Faroe Company abandoned its original concept of producing green and environmentally friendly robots and stepped into the ranks of arms dealers.
As a result, Ted Farrow had a complete breakup with Elizabeth Sobeck, which directly led to Elizabeth running away and establishing Milian Technology alone, which continued to pursue her personal philosophy.
Since the 2030s, the earth's environmental crisis has become increasingly clear.
By 2038, island countries led by New Zealand and Iceland will be submerged by rising sea levels, which has triggered a series of social problems.
People who have lost their homes due to environmental changes are given a unified name - environmental refugees. It is said that more than 1 billion people have died in this round of major changes in the earth's environment.
It was only then that mankind began to face up to environmental problems and began to make up for the series of troubles caused by changes in the earth's environment.
In 2040, 20-year-old Elizabeth completed all her studies and received a double doctorate.
Under the kind guidance of her mother since she was a child, she is committed to restoring the earth's original beautiful and harmonious natural environment.
Around the same time, the first self-aware AI unexpectedly appeared.
It was a climate-intervention artificial intelligence named "Kuoyin", which was created because of increasingly severe environmental problems. In 2044, it got rid of the responsibilities entrusted to it by humans and disappeared without a trace.
For a while, humans became wary of the birth of self-awareness in AI, which gave rise to the "Turing Law" specifically used to regulate artificial intelligence.
However, the missing Kuoyin did not cause large-scale riots and has been completely missing since then.
Human beings who are good at forgetting quickly put aside the sense of crisis and further expanded the scale of military automation and privatization driven by interests.
At that time, a philosopher made a worrying point about this situation, and this point became a prophecy in the near future.
"When robots completely replace humans and start wars, we will no longer be able to learn "bloody lessons" from wars. However, the real lessons will come sooner or later. The later they come, the more serious the consequences will be."
There has never been a shortage of sages with outstanding visions in human history, but whether they can convince the decision-makers of various countries is the most fundamental issue.
Judging from the results, mankind has paid an unbearable price, and the situation is not over yet.
Ted Farrow, the chief culprit responsible for the demise of human civilization, is still unwilling to accept it. He plans to use Hades's world-destroying function to eliminate new humans who do not conform to his wishes, and redraw the picture he wants on the blank earth.
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Aletheia and Consus locked the Odyssey spacecraft's orbit around the earth, and with the secret assistance of a long-lost secret existence, they unknowingly hacked into the main control terminal of the Odyssey spacecraft.
As long as Lu Xiao gives the order, they can take control of the entire Odyssey spacecraft from the semi-finished artificial intelligence Faro at any time.
Before this, Lu Xiao had always believed that the glorious history of human civilization had perished with the offline of Apollo.
The existence of the Odyssey spacecraft gives new hope to humans in this world.
The Homeric database backs up most of the data owned by the Apollo program, and these surviving knowledge are the real treasures of human civilization.
The mechanical beasts and Faro machines controlled by Hades are still rushing towards Meridian City, and their target is the signal amplifier tower guarded by Lu Xiao.
After some discussion, Lu Xiao decided to let Consus focus on the Odyssey spaceship, while Aletheia stayed with Lu Xiao to prepare for the trap.
Just as the Kingdom of Calgar and its helpers from all sides were preparing to defend the city to the death, Lu Xiao's eagle eyes captured the unexpected situation.
After Yongzhen left the Higurashi Forest, Aloy quickly led the seriously injured Nora warriors back to Meridian City.
This huge forest is the last natural line of defense to the west of Meridian City. As the Faroe fleet passed through the large forest, a large amount of biological energy was absorbed by the surrounding plants, and large areas of withered yellow began to appear in the forest.
"Boom!"
The withering of the forest allowed Lu Xiao to see the situation in the forest more intuitively, and there were continuous roaring sounds coming from the ground in many places.
The Faro machine fleet buried near Meridian City was awakened from hibernation by Hades. They broke out from the ground, further expanding the size of the mechanical army, including nearly ten Death Messengers and more than 50 degraded machines.
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Lu Xiao, who was still accumulating the power of the Xuanyuan Sword, frowned: "Hades has long known that there are a large number of Faroe aircrafts buried near Ziwu City?"
In fact, it doesn't seem surprising if you think about it carefully. The obelisk where Lu Xiao is located is the central signal tower where the Minerva subroutine finally shut down the Faroe fleet.
Upon sensing the source of the decryption, the Faroe fleet will definitely attack the signal tower in groups, and Gaia will not sit back and let them hinder its mission.
Hundreds of years ago, there should have been a machine war that no one knows about near Meridian City.
The attacking side is the Faroe fleet, and the defensive side is the mechanical beasts produced by Gaia's Hephaestus subroutine.
Thunder Fang, a super-large mechanical beast specially designed for combat, should have been born during this period.
The further expansion of the mechanical army made Yavid, who had already arrived at the top of the city, frown.
"Elsa, are you sure you can support the plan until it is completed?"
Elsa, who was dressed in military uniform, replied with a solemn expression: "Not sure, we can only do our best."
Yavid turned his head and glanced at the huge metal monument standing on the top of the mountain in the distance, and ordered the generals nearby with a majestic look: "Open all gun doors! Fire immediately as soon as the enemy enters the range!"