Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 582 - 579 Falling into the Constant Star

Chapter 582: Chapter 579 Falling into the Constant Star

The diary ended abruptly there...

Chen Bin and Wang Tiantian looked at each other, their curiosity replaced by deep anxiety.

The next letter, marked by many as "important," was a diary written by a senior government official.

"...The rebellion had broken out!"

"A young soldier found it hard to accept the people’s choice, refusing to accept becoming part of the Sinking Civilization. He tried to directly destroy the supercomputer that supported the Virtual World!"

"They pointed guns at my head, thinking all the blame should fall on us!"

"...Yes, all the blame is ours! But what’s the point of destroying this supercomputer? What about the humans inside? Are we just going to let them all die?"

"Can you bear the responsibility of killing millions of people?"

"It’s easy to kill me, but what about the next person? Who will manage things? Society has decayed so much, there needs to be someone to maintain order."

"..."

The letter detailed the causes of the uprising, the negotiations between both sides, and the ultimate outcome.

In times of crisis, there will always be a group who emerges, trying to save the world, but often it is too late. If successful, they are heroes; if they fail, they are bumbling fools.

These angry soldiers, under the constant persuasion of the official, could only accept the grim reality; they didn’t want to directly kill millions of people, yet they were helpless.

Force couldn’t solve the problem.

If they had started their revolt a few decades earlier, maybe they could have saved the civilization, but now it was meaningless.

These soldiers could only cryogenically freeze themselves in hibernation chambers, becoming one of the sixty thousand survivors.

And the government leader who had written this letter ended up committing suicide by swallowing his gun. Perhaps he felt intense shame for their past actions, or perhaps he felt he owed it to the civilization; either way, now, it was an ending without being an ending...

This piece of history, due to this precious document, was passed down.

Chen Bin and Wang Tiantian, with complex emotions, deeply felt the weight of history... This oppressive feeling made it hard for them to breathe.

If they had been part of it, what could they have done?

"Yes, there was nothing to be done, nothing could have been done. Barely maintaining order was the best they could do."

...

Thus, with the joint efforts of the general populace, all the suicide notes were quickly organized according to their importance.

In the process of this categorization, everyone received a profound lesson.

There were still some who were very curious about what exactly "Paradise" was like, and the television station specifically invited an expert to give an explanation.

"...It is a research platform that can influence one’s own philosophical mechanism."

"Usually, when people undertake an action, it is prompted by the philosophical mechanisms in their mind. When hungry, people eat; feeling full brings satisfaction; playing games brings a sense of achievement. Falling in love brings happiness, and breaking up brings sadness; these are all conventional mechanisms which we can refer to as pleasure-guiding mechanisms."

"But in Paradise, all emotions are defined by oneself."

"Customize emotions."

"You can be happy or depressed without any reason, and of course, most people would choose to be unreasonably happy, a kind of joy that is unattainable under normal circumstances. The vast majority would never choose to define emotions that cause them pain."

"This happiness is like a banned drug, masking normal emotions so that everyone who enters cannot stop, struggling to overcome it with their own will."

"This technology is not just a weapon, but also a piece of Black Technology, rapidly disintegrating people’s will completely."

The host asked, "Professor Guo, why allow such dangerous things to exist? Why not destroy them directly?"

The Professor waved his hand and shook his head, "Science is always a double-edged sword, it’s not entirely bad but an important subject for Level 5 Civilization, a tool for altering philosophical models and exploring directions of progression."

"So we cannot blindly discard it, of course, to utilize it effectively is extremely challenging... stringent regulations are needed. It’s not some mere game."

After this explanation from the expert, basically, everyone could understand and their curiosity was largely dispelled.

In fact, describing the situation as a "banned drug" is not inappropriate.

The education of the New Human Civilization in this regard is quite strict, starting from elementary school. Gruesome content would be pixelated, but the materials about "banned drugs" were never censored; images like a toothbrush inserted into a nostril, killing someone, or legs with rotting sores showing bones were all in high-definition, with every detail visible.

These gory contents have a profound impact on the tender hearts of children. But this form of education is indeed effective; combined with the control of raw materials, the rate of drug use among humans has nearly dropped to zero.

Now, there is another form of education, a long row of hibernation chambers, the shadowy figures inside clearly visible.

Scientist revived these hibernators, only to obtain vegetative people, having heartbeats but unable to speak. Some of these vegetative people had already been thawed, maintained by machines and gradually aging.

Next were various suicide notes, displayed in museums...

As for the final act, the spaceship Radiant Galaxy carrying so many hibernation chambers was prepared to cast these bodies into the Bright Constant Star to showcase humanity’s determination to fight against the "Sinning Civilization."

This burial of bodies was also made public to all citizens, whether at schools, workplaces, or commercial centers, where live-streams of the event were displayed.

On the television screens, one hibernation chamber after another was thrown into the Constant Star, bursting into massive flames.

The hibernation chambers melted quickly, revealing the human bodies inside which then carbonized, turned black, and merged with the Constant Star without causing so much as a splash.

The entire live-streaming ceremony, in the highest resolution, displayed every detail to the public with no commentator, as people watched in silence.

Compared to the enormous Constant Star, a human is too insignificant, merely sixty kilograms of mass. From a tiny fertilized egg, growing to adulthood, all the laughter and tears, joys and sorrows, were carbonized in that moment, revealing ghastly white bones, then vanishing like smoke.

What a short time a lifetime is.

This scene terrified the children, making them truly feel the shock. Many children, who hadn’t yet formed a concept of death, were touched by it this time.

Adults shed tears one after another.

But they also knew that this was a necessary ceremony for a real farewell.

Everything about humans comes from the Constant Star, most elements besides hydrogen are born from the stars, and life ultimately ends with the stars — this was the most thorough end.

In the end, many people spontaneously cursed in their hearts.

To hell with Sinking Civilization!

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