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Chapter 14 Balance
Below the Q&A, there are hundreds of scattered hyperlinks, pointing to official organizations in various regions and countries, as well as the official websites of private associations. Unfortunately, only registered accounts in the forum can click in, and visitors do not have permission.

Li Sheng read the names of these organizations carefully and found familiar names such as the Special Affairs Administration (Special Affairs Bureau), Prometheus Laboratory Company, the Global Occult Alliance with a United Nations background, and the Special Incident Division of the FBI with an American background. .

And he discovered Changsun Yao's World Peace House in the corner. It seemed that the latter was not as shabby as he thought.

"Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, India and other countries have all established their own official organizations. The Vatican has the Inquisition, the European Union has European Heavy Industries, and the Middle East countries have jointly established the Middle East Abnormality Recycling Department. It can be seen that all parties of attention.”

Li Sheng tapped his temple lightly, opened the search engine, and looked for breakthroughs in different directions in the field of scientific research over the past four and a half years. And compare it with the speed of scientific breakthroughs in the previous decade.

"really."

After searching carefully for nearly an hour, he slowly exhaled and looked solemnly.

People living in a period of rapid development of the times actually have seriously distorted estimates of the speed of technological breakthroughs.

The Wright brothers invented the first airplane in 1903, and just 66 years later, humans officially landed on the moon.

Today, the computing power of any smartphone far exceeds that of the original Apollo 11 navigation computer.

The explosive development of science and technology over the past century has given people a wonderful illusion - it seems that scientific and technological breakthroughs are a matter of course and will continue to be so fast.

but it is not the truth.

In 2017, Russia dug up time capsules buried fifty years ago. Inside were extremely optimistic letters - We have just taken the first step into the universe, but you should already be able to fly to other planets. Bar. Many new secrets of nature that have not yet been discovered have been discovered. Nuclear energy can be controlled. The amount of elements can be controlled according to human will. The climate can be changed. Can gardens be developed in the Arctic? We are still building communism now, so you should already be living in communism, right?
This letter, which now reads like a joke from hell, illustrates a very simple truth - the scientific and technological progress of human civilization is constantly slowing down, and the speed of scientific breakthroughs is also gradually slowing down.

"This is not to say that people in the 21st century have become stupid, but that the subject areas of basic science are becoming more and more detailed and difficult to master. Scientists can only make breakthroughs in one or a few fields in their lifetime.

However, in the past four years, human civilization has made scientific and technological breakthroughs at an absurdly fast rate. Much higher than the rate of the past ten or twenty years. "

When the Q value (fusion energy gain factor) is greater than 1, the controllable nuclear fusion reactor lasts for more than thirty minutes. It is expected to be connected to the grid to generate electricity and put into commercial use within two years;

Gene editing technology has made another breakthrough and can completely cure certain types of diabetes, familial hypercholesterolemia and even Alzheimer’s disease;

At the Paralympic Games, mechanical prosthetics helped paralyzed athletes stand up again and even set a new Olympic world sprint record;

A new round of space race has begun. China, the United States, Russia and the European Union are all building permanent lunar bases;

In recent years, various media outlets have unanimously praised human civilization for reaching a new level, but war and chaos in some areas have never stopped.

Today an African warlord massacres a village, tomorrow a South American drug lord hangs the mayor, and the day after tomorrow a terrorist attack occurs in a developed country.

Due to the deliberate neglect of the media, these news rarely appear in the public eye.

Li Sheng said thoughtfully: "In the real world, all unreasonable technological progress, abnormal events and extraordinary powers come from the so-called killing fields and players. The selection criteria for players is to have outstanding characteristics in a certain aspect. Whether positive or negative, Negative.”

This is easy to understand. For example, a person's extreme lack of empathy and guilt are naturally negative traits in real society, but in a killing environment, they are not necessarily a disadvantage. There is no distinction between good and bad traits, only whether they suit the environment.

"It is mentioned on the webpage that the number of players alive in the world is currently about 70. In the early days of the Killing Fields game entering reality, % of new players did not survive the first three months. Although I don't know how many players there were in this early period. Early, but roughly speaking, the number of players that have ever existed on earth is at least over half a million."

Five hundred thousand extraordinary beings, even if each of them only possesses the most basic extraordinary power, is enough to cause social unrest.

There are two possible reasons why the mass media can still cover up the inside story.

First, regional official organizations such as the Special Affairs Bureau and European Heavy Industries are trying their best to block the news.

Second, a certain balance has been reached between players and players, players and organizations, and organizations and organizations.

The web page specifically states that non-chosen people can inherit their qualifications by killing the chosen ones themselves. You can use your toes to imagine the strong malice contained in this rule.

Players can obtain extraordinary power and scientific and technological achievements of different civilizations from the killing field, which is equivalent to a direct ticket to Jinshan.

For a powerful state apparatus, it is natural to want to seize all resources and control all social instability factors.

Players who are willing to obey will be recruited with preferential treatment. Players who are not so willing can cooperate and negotiate. Players who are restless or even causing trouble and causing destruction will be directly tried and executed, and their qualifications will be transferred to reliable subordinates.

For multinational groups and giant enterprises, everything is based on profit. For the sake of profit, they can trample any human law and commit any crime. It encourages unrest and strife if it brings profits.

It will have a lower bottom line than the former, and can even directly disclose the price and acquire player qualifications - that is, tie a player to kill.

For individuals, this dangerous environment, comparable to a dark jungle, is intimidating.

Even if two players who have never met meet each other, the first thing they think about is whether the other party will attack them for the huge bounty.

After this atmosphere continues for a period of time, the players who gain a certain amount of strength first will not be willing to become the meat on the chopping block, and form their own private guilds to recruit companions.

And then form a balance with the state apparatus and multinational groups.

"The opening of the killing game promoted the explosive development of science and technology and shaped today's international landscape."

Li Sheng thoughtfully said, “Although there are endless urban weird stories in China, overall social order can be maintained and stable.

Judging from the interaction between the Secret Service and Prometheus at that time, the forces of all parties had formed a certain delicate balance. On the surface, they were united and collaborated to jointly develop the killing field. The fierce rivalry remains private. "

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Since the killing field means unlimited possibilities, the [Insect Lord] infection that is difficult to solve in the eyes of the Special Affairs Bureau may not necessarily have no way out in other organizations.

(End of this chapter)