Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 299 The Ruined Paradise

The home ship "Song of Dawn" ushered in the dawn from the endless darkness after a long absence.

A construction resolution issued by the leaders and passed by the Science Council has brought them new expectations.

Their daily life is like a black hole in a galaxy, which will form an endless darkness without filling it with new things, and this state has lasted for a long, long time until now.

Their leaders would be able to get out of this predicament when their leader announced that this resolution was complete, and whether or not it was just an inspiring lie, the darkened ones would have preferred to believe it to be true.

So a huge black square building began construction.

The expansion space reserved on the home ship was utilized. The garbage that had been piled up in these places due to management problems was sent to the universe, and a huge building was uprooted here. It was Li Wenyuan. The appearance of the "dimension maker" provided.

Although the construction process of the "Dimensional Manufacturing Machine" is a secret, and it has been designated as no-man's land with a radius of tens of miles, there are still some people with strong hands-on skills who use self-made binoculars to discover that the mysterious building looks like a ghost from the outside. Big black square.

However, the gossip did not spread. In the battle royale of civilization, individual privacy is not needed, and everything for everyone is for the survival of civilization.

Less than 10 minutes after the skilled citizen pointed his homemade telescope at the "dimension maker" under construction, law enforcement officers came to his door to give him a profound education and confiscated his telescope.

The appearance of the "mysterious building" thus became a mystery. Although everyone was looking forward to the day when the secret would be revealed, they tacitly did not talk about it.

Even if it is mentioned occasionally in the after dinner, it will be quickly exposed. Although life is still dark, there is always a little hope.

One month after the construction of the "Dimensional Manufacturing Machine" started, the people have gradually returned to their daily life from their expectations for a new life.

Although there is hope, life still has to go on. With the continuous accumulation of "credit points" one after another, darkness seems to have returned to the sky here again.

"..."

"Sun Engineer" dragged his exhausted body back home, but there was only silence to greet him.

He seemed to be familiar with this situation, but after heating up the dinner on his own, he couldn't help but smiled wryly.

He is one of the first-class engineers on the "Song of Dawn" home ship, and one of the few people who is directly responsible for the maintenance of the ship's "Artificial Sun".

They were originally born in the light and heat of the stars, and naturally they cannot live without the stars. When they embarked on an inward journey and all the stars were transformed into black holes, the artificial sun became indispensable here. facility.

All ships away from home must have an artificial sun. Its main function is actually to provide a soothing "spiritual symbol" to simulate the light of sunrise and sunset, and its heat generation is only its secondary function.

The entire civilized group had to leave the home planet that has settled for countless generations and go to the unknown deep space field, which is tantamount to a serious blow to the spirit of civilization.

Mild ones may only cause minor problems such as depression and reduced work efficiency; severe ones may even directly drive people crazy, or cause major problems such as riots.

In the past, spiritual needs could be ignored under strong thought suppression and high-concentration chicken soup indoctrination, but this time it was not feasible.

Journey into deep space is a long process with a unit of ten thousand years. When the span is stretched to such an extent, spiritual activity is the most important thing linked to survival.

The artificial sun is to create the illusion that "we are still living on the mother planet". Even if everyone knows that this is just an illusion, it is enough to become a rivet to anchor the spirit under self-hypnosis.

The "solar engineer" has also gradually differentiated from the engineer profession and has become an independent profession. He is responsible for maintaining the artificial sun every day, and the alternation of day and night is controlled by the spaceship's system.

The former solar engineer was also very famous. As a senior staff member on the spaceship, he received better treatment than ordinary people.

It's a pity that with the change of the times, his treatment has gradually become ordinary, even if he is a first-level engineer.

In other words, everyone is treated poorly, even the chief scientist.

It has nothing to do with corruption, just because of poverty.

The battle royale lasted for a long, long time. Although they also destroyed a lot of civilizations, they didn't get much nutrition from the "corpse", so they had to flee in a hurry.

Resources are being consumed without increasing the total amount.

And this contradiction reached its peak after the destruction of the production fleet, and even the planned society had to cut everyone's quota again and again.

Doing so will certainly cause complaints, but everyone knows the reason, so after putting up with it for a while, most people will look away, as long as they don't starve to death.

But the family of "Sun Engineer" is different. The wife matched by the government could not bear the increasingly low quality of life and chose to kill herself.

It is hard for anyone to imagine that the reduced quality of life can actually make people commit suicide, which made him face the accusation of "spouse killing".

Even though he got rid of this crime because of the ubiquitous monitoring, he was convicted of negligence for "failing to pay attention to his spouse's emotional health and failing to prevent his spouse from committing suicide in time", and a large amount of credit was deducted for this point.

——In this dark era of great escape, every manpower is precious. Although the death of his wife will reduce the pressure on resources, it will also reduce the available labor force, and he is responsible for it.

However, he really didn't have any feelings for this wife. The government assigned them to each other, just to allow them to give birth to offspring at the right time and form a family unit that was easy to manage.

The act of giving birth also needs to be done at a time designated by the government, because the extra lives will take up resources, and the final outcome of newborns that are not recognized by the government is to be "destroyed".

Although cruel, this is the reality here. The ever-shrinking world forces them to embark on this path. Only the strongest supervision can make it to the end in the battle royale of civilization.

The "solar engineer" ate his dinner in silence—an unpalatable solid energy bar that turned into a jelly when heated, making it easier to swallow.

In the past, when his wife was still alive, at least at this time they could chat for a while, which was considered a relaxation in a depressive life, but now he can only mechanically swallow the energy gel into his stomach, and plan in his mind how to use the few remaining credits point.

Here, all daily necessities are assigned quotas by the government, and they do not need to use electronic money—that is, credit points to purchase.

The only function of credit points is to fill the empty spiritual world.

After thinking about it, he called up the purchase interface of credit points on his electronic bracelet, bought an electronic book called "Once Upon a Glory", and started reading it directly.

"Once upon a time, our place was a piece of paradise. All planets were suitable for living, and they were suitable for any life to survive. All living things could obtain [-]% habitability on these planets."

"Every planet here is a 'Gaia Planet', this is the glory of 'Cradle'."

(End of this chapter)