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Chapter 283 - Chapter 283 Chapter 283 World of Unreal 13th

Chapter 283: Chapter 283: World of Unreal 13th Chapter 283: Chapter 283: World of Unreal 13th As expected, after reaching this conclusion, the group engaged in further discussion.

“Sigh…technology from others is indeed unreliable.”

“Not sure if the Gliese Civilization got lucky or unlucky!”

As an information specialist, Li Zhendong shook his head slightly, “I was saying, why is there still something as outdated as the telegram in our civilization? That technology was long gone! So it turns out all fields of Science developed together, with no clear sequence… How odd.”

After everyone gradually ceased discussing, Zhang Yuan continued, “Of course, there are indeed some quite advanced technologies in these databases that are worth our study and reference.”

“So the first short-term goal is to thoroughly understand the vast amount of technology in the databases, discard the useless and extract the essence for our use. Since there’s such an abundance of data in the databases, we might need a large population… a conservative estimate of more than 120,000 scientific researchers.”

“The second short-term goal is to reassemble the Universal Factory and make it function as it should. We estimate that 60,000 engineers will be needed, and the work could be completed within two years; afterward, only three to five thousand people will be required to maintain its normal operation.”

The Universal Factory was massive, and Humans lacked a powerful enough Transport Ship to bring it up in one go. Fortunately, the factory consisted of many parts that could be dismantled, so they had to proceed by breaking it down into pieces.

Reassembling would also require a lot of calibration work.

After laying out these points, Zhang Yuan sat down quietly, inwardly smirking about this cunning plan.

The screen now displayed the two short-term goals and the required population numbers.

After Zhang Yuan threw out his bait, he suddenly requested a population of 180,000. Although the New Human Civilization had over three million people, more than a million were young students who wouldn’t be of much use.

Subtracting the substantial number of medical personnel, teachers, surface workers, researchers with their plans, and the foundational staff needed to keep the entire civilization running, that’s another couple of million.

The truly flexible population was just around five hundred thousand.

But the tasks Humans had to undertake next were too numerous, including building space farms to cultivate a large number of Mutant Plants; producing armed spaceships to improve Humanity’s military capabilities; constructing bases on gaseous planets to provide more nuclear fuel… and this includes a multitude of projects that had been put on hold during the Space Elevator construction!

Experts from all professions finally realized this wasn’t about short-term goals at all; it was the perfect time to scramble and divvy up the population!

With a major project completed and a large population available for reallocation, if they didn’t seize the opportunity now, when would they?

“Listen to me, we should focus on agriculture first! Everyone wants to wear better clothes, and agriculture can provide more organic chemicals! After so many years, it’s not unreasonable to strive for a better quality of life, right?”

“We need to work on the fuel reserves! All the reserves we built up over the years were taken by the Glizerians, leaving our treasury empty. Once the small fusion devices are developed, we’ll need to upgrade from fission to fusion for energy…”

“Hear me out, we can start by building large Transport Ships…”

“The electromagnetic gun project!”

“Development of the Unreal 14th World.”

Fifteen minutes later, Zhao Qingfeng was dumbfounded, as if he was shocked by the frenzy of the group. The screen listed eight pages of short-term goals, with the total population needed exceeding six million, and it had to be the elite, high-quality kind!

What a joke, the entire civilization only had a bit over three million people!

However, this was a typical tactic of this bunch; the reality of a population shortage had long been ongoing, causing all lab heads to be in a state of constant discontent.

After a chaotic struggle, the 500,000 people were finally divided up…

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At three o’clock in the afternoon, after the meeting had ended, Zhang Yuan returned to his office, letting out a sigh of relief. He stared blankly at the computer screen, still savoring the memories of the long vacation that had just passed, and even now, they were endlessly delightful…

Humans really are creatures who find being lazy simple and being diligent difficult!

He sat quietly for half the day when suddenly there came a knocking at the door.

“Come in!”

It was Professor Yamamoto Ichiro from the Unreal Laboratory.

“Have you brought some news? If it’s good news, tell me, but if it’s bad news… allow me another minute of leisure,” Zhang Yuan joked with a smile. He was currently in charge of mainly two directions–first, the assembly of the Universal Factory to harness its full potential; second, the research into Consciousness Upload and the Virtual World.

The reassembly of the Universal Factory and related research went without saying; with so many high-level engineers under his command, experts like Ye Kaifu and Li Zhendong would participate in this work, and humans were fully capable of utilizing its complete effects.

Zhang Yuan wasn’t too worried about this task; it was something that could be accomplished by methodically following the process.

However, the research into Consciousness Upload and the Virtual World was dangerous and complex, necessitating extreme caution.

An era of true… Singularities!

Even though it had been the focal point of New Human Civilization’s research for 44 years, with some initial progress, these advancements were still disproportionate to the actual needs.

Because constructing a truly real world was almost frustratingly elusive for humans!

Some scientists once had the wild idea to create so-called “Magic Worlds,” “Cultivation Worlds,” “Superhuman Worlds,” “Mysterious Worlds,” but they later realized it wasn’t so easy.

The construction of various material rules, once intrinsic logical contradictions were manifested, would lead to the collapse of the entire world. It felt like building with blocks–if the foundation wasn’t solid, then it was impossible to stack up diverse buildings.

Moreover, the blocks themselves had to be plentiful enough in shape and type, or else the world built wouldn’t be colorful and varied.

Especially considering that humans’ current understanding of physics isn’t entirely true. Even if you directly copy the real world, bugs are bound to exist in the constructed world.

The so-called “Magic World” and “Cultivation World” had even more bugs, to the extent that they couldn’t accommodate any atoms and therefore couldn’t form matter.

Currently, the most realistic Virtual World is known as “Unreal 13th.”

It’s a Virtual World based on real physical rules, which, after extensive adjustment, could now accommodate various forms of life, including cats, dogs, and theoretically… humans.

Even more perplexing, these Digital Lives could reproduce other Digital Lives!

This was the most confounding aspect–the ability for life to reproduce within the Virtual World. When the scientists first learned of this, they were all nearly overwhelmed with shock, and even Zhang Yuan stood speechless, unsure of what to do and somewhat doubting the reality he lived in.

Yet, tormented by the inability to unravel the real mysteries of self-awareness, scientists still didn’t understand what exactly was going on.

In short, so long as no Proton Collider or positron-electron collider was constructed within “Unreal 13th” to delve into the study of the microscopic world, this Virtual World had become very stable, and various hidden bugs wouldn’t directly surface. More and more animals had already entered it, carrying out their natural existence and reproduction.

Professor Yamamoto said, “Mr. Zhang Yuan, although the rules of the 13th World are complex, theoretically, for us humans, they are still completely open; we can predict with precision what might happen in the next second. This openness also leads to a great extent of insecurity.”

“Therefore, we are attempting to create a kind of unknown randomness rule, to prevent any potential intelligent life within the 13th world from conducting research into the microscopic world…”

“We have named this algorithm the Quantum-Randa algorithm. Using this algorithm will introduce a degree of randomness into the microscopic world. Moreover, our human operational permissions over the 13th world will diminish, preventing us from arbitrarily modifying life’s memories and manipulating matter, or else it could easily lead to the collapse of the entire world. Whether to use this algorithm or not requires your approval.”