Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 284 - Chapter 284 Chapter 284 Unreal 14th World

Chapter 284: Chapter 284 Unreal 14th World Chapter 284: Chapter 284 Unreal 14th World “Using a random algorithm, do we need approval?” Zhang Yuan asked curiously while carefully reviewing the report and analyzing the random formula on it. His ears twitched slightly.

He couldn’t help but chuckle bitterly, “With the way you are messing around, I’ve started doubting the reality of our world… Isn’t the randomness in quantum mechanics just like this?”

Yamamoto waved his hands hastily and replied, “No, no, Mr. Zhang, you should not think so. This is just an algorithm inspired by phenomena in reality. It’s like the relationship between life and bionics…”

“This algorithm can stabilize the entire virtual world. Moreover, adding some barriers at the algorithm level makes it easier to protect the privacy rights and personal safety of digital citizens.”

“Privacy rights and personal safety?” Zhang Yuan pondered for a moment.

There had always been significant differences of opinion among the upper echelons of civilization regarding the privacy of digital citizens. If future humans were to use technologies related to virtual worlds, these issues would need to be taken into account seriously.

No one would want their memories accessed and their privacy exposed without cause, not even after consciousness upload.

Don’t disregard digital citizens as non-human; any policy in this regard must be handled with caution. Who knows? Maybe everyone will use it someday?

After some consideration, Zhang Yuan tentatively agreed to the use of the “Quantum Brown Algorithm.”

“Let’s start experimenting with it in Unreal 13th World.”

He suddenly asked, “Oh, and I have another question. What if the digital life inside realizes it’s in a virtual world? Could the whole world just…explode?”

Professor Yamamoto quickly responded, “They’ll just know and that’s it; the whole world will continue to function…”

“But if digital life finds high-risk bugs, particularly malignant bugs at the microscopic level, it could cause the collapse of the entire virtual world. Once the virtual world collapses, of course, all life inside it would also perish.”

“The benefit of adding this algorithm… even if someone finds a bug in the microscopic world, it would turn into something nebulous and get obscured.”

“Looking at it this way, this line of work is still a long and arduous journey…”

Zhang Yuan nodded and sighed.

Safety is of the utmost importance. If a virtual world collapses at the drop of a hat killing all digital life within, then what are humans even playing at…

As for reducing control permissions, it’s also not a problem since reducing them doesn’t mean eliminating them entirely; some permissions would still be retained.

For example, full memory access could be weakened to only surface level memory access; full material control and world creation could be changed to only manipulate according to the rules of the virtual world.

Rules must be established for proper growth, and these are rules humans set for themselves.

“Permissions, we don’t need to keep too many of them. If any staff member can modify the virtual world or alter a person’s memory at will, one day our painstakingly built virtual world will be destroyed due to such random manipulations.”

“Actually, this can also be seen as a type of power. The desire born from power is unlimited… it’s better to eliminate it directly at the technical level.”

After discussing these issues, Zhang Yuan added, “Yamamoto, we need to speed up, especially with the high demand for medical services…”

“Plus, after those Gleizerians from Gor City have left, we will soon be able to use real intelligent life for these experiments. It’s kind of inhumane, yes, but I still hope you can be as prepared as possible and not treat life lightly.”

As a top secret S-level project, few people knew about this operation. Now, with “Earth Era” taking a large group of Gleizerians away, humans will proceed with the next step…

That is, sending the remaining Gleizerians on the planet into virtual space!

For humans, this means gaining more data from experiments and also acquiring the remaining 12 Universal Factories–a double win.

The cultural invasion of humanity had been ongoing for 44 years, with the Gleizerians increasingly satisfied with the games and culture provided by human civilization. Using the latest devices supplied by humans, even the lives of common Gleizerians had become enriched. As exchanges expanded, the defenses of the Gleize civilization lowered, theoretically reducing the difficulty of completing the whole plan…

Putting aside this plan momentarily, Zhang Yuan and his colleagues generally believed that if the virtual world project was indeed realized, the most recognized benefit would certainly come in the field of medical services.

Especially for some humans who had accidents and couldn’t be saved, experiencing another life in the virtual world could undoubtedly represent a societal advancement.

In the perception of the average person, becoming digital life is preferable to being dead.

Even in Unreal 13th World, tens of people had already been experiencing life inside, though it was unclear if these participants could be considered lucky or unfortunate…

Yamamoto chuckled bitterly, “Mr. Zhang, pressing this issue won’t help. We have done our best, and the rest completely relies on sudden inspirations, or perhaps our physical mathematics isn’t powerful enough…”

“Ah, I understand, it’s not really your fault… The stagnation in basic physics has gone on for far too long. We can’t even understand what the real world is like, so the virtual worlds we create are naturally flawed.”

After Professor Yamamoto Ichiro reported the latest research progress, he placed another report on the table concerning a more stable world–the construction of “Unreal 14th.”

Limited by humanity’s own limited cognition, the progress of 14th World had always been troublesome.

Zhang Yuan sighed deeply, “…which means, unless there’s a breakthrough in basic physics providing more innovative and solid theories, Unreal 13th is already our current limit. We can only do patchwork; achieving perfection is basically impossible.”

“Regarding Unreal 14th World, I think it’s best not to waste so much talent and effort anymore; we must look for other breakthroughs…”

“Yes, I think so too,” Professor Yamamoto Ichiro nodded.

The construction of Unreal 13th World had almost enlisted top-tier talent from various industries–3,000 geniuses including physics, chemistry, biological, information, and other sectors, taking a total of 12 years!

For current humanity, this was almost the pinnacle!