Chapter 309: The Data Emperor and the Secret of Immortality (4,000 words)

"Swish—"
In the night sky, under the clear sky, the aircraft followed an invisible orbit. As they passed through some areas, the granary-like buildings on the ground projected brilliance and illuminated the windows of many aircraft.
In the phantom space, the expressions of Lin Tuo, Huaxi, Mount Sinai and even Hathaway have all changed significantly.
Lu Liang's answer completely exceeded the expectations of several people.
The "Governor" who dominates the entire Ueno Star District, the source of all the issuing agencies of government orders, is not a human being, but a supercomputer?
Or in other words, in the empire, the meaning of "governor" is different from what they understood. It does not represent an official position with real power, but an institution?
Just like on the earth, the legal person of the company is not a person.
It is understandable if the "Governor" is the network computing hub of this planet, and the decree is issued by the officials who control it, but Lin Tuo always feels that this is not necessarily the case.
"You said, Governor Ueno is a computer," Lin Tuo stared at Lu Liang, "Who is the real administrative staff?"
"That's the governor." Lu Liang became more confused. "The governor is the highest administrative official in Ueno. Apart from accepting the leadership of the emperor, no one here has an administrative rank higher than it."
"...So, you mean, it has its own consciousness?" Lin Tuo finally understood.
"Of course, the governor has self-awareness. Legally, although it is not a human being, it has the same power as a human being in view of its particularity." Lu Liang took it for granted.
Lin Tuo understood.
To put it simply, the nature of Governor Ueno may be similar to the spirit lord, or Hathaway.
His own spirituality was strong and he gave birth to an independent consciousness, thus becoming a part of the empire, and was granted the position of governor of one party by the emperor.
To make a metaphor, it's like Lin Tuo sent Hathaway to World No. 2 and then gave her an official position so that she could have power.
"Are there many governors like it?" Lin Tuo continued to ask, he wanted to know whether the Ueno governor was an exception in the empire, or a majority.
Lu Liang glanced at him and the others, and said dryly:
"All the governors are like this. I don't know if they are in Ueno, the officials at all levels in the empire's home star regions are also computers."
"The emperor..."
"Your Majesty is also a supercomputer." Lu Liang subconsciously said. After speaking, his face suddenly turned pale and cold sweat rolled down.
He finally realized that something was wrong. If the people who kidnapped him were masters from the empire, how could he not know this "common sense"?
Unless... these people are not Empires at all! Is it the spiritual life that didn't know where it came from, or... from another unknown civilization! ! !
However, at this moment, Lin Tuo and others did not give up on Lu Liang's mentality, and they were fully prepared for this unknown world.
But at this moment, after knowing that the entire empire, from the emperor to the leaders of all parties, are computers, not humans, several people still can't hide their shocked expressions!
emperor?
computer?
what is this?
To make a metaphor, it's like the head of a big country on the earth, as well as the leaders of the states and provinces in the country are all computers... Even though these "computers" have no inferiority, and even surpass human intelligence, but...
"Unimaginable." Sinai murmured.
Huaxi glanced at Hathaway, and inexplicably popped out of his mind as the leader of the country...why, what kind of humiliating scene would it be? ?
Lin Tuo was silent, looking at Lu Liang who was in cold sweat, with a gentle smile: "You..."
"You are not from the Empire!" Lu Liang stammered.
Lin Tuo looked at him for a few seconds and said, "Is this important?"
"I..." Lu Liang opened his mouth and met Lin Tuo's steady gaze like a quiet lake. After a while, he said bitterly like a ball that has been discouraged:
"go ahead."
"Very good, then the second question..."
...
In the night sky, few people noticed an aircraft that circulates around this city. If there were, they would not know what was going on inside.
Lu Liang seemed to be really afraid of death. Even though he realized that Lin Tuo and the others had a problem, he did not try to resist. He almost answered all questions. This made Lin Tuo's interrogation work particularly smooth.
If it was said that from the bulletin board before, it only had a basic frame-like impression of the empire, then it has become more vivid now.
In Lu Liang’s narrative, the entire empire’s administrative system is almost entirely dependent on a supercomputing network composed of "emperors" and "governors" in various places.
If the "emperor" is likened to the computing core of the entire empire, then the "governors" everywhere are weakened versions of the "emperors". They have the ability to think and have a huge spirituality. Through the entire network, they control all aspects of society. .
It can be said that the operating framework of the entire society is built on these supercomputers.
Different from the human society, which is an administrative system composed of various departments composed of people, almost all government affairs within the empire's star regions are handled, instructed, and analyzed by the "governor".
Then it is sent to each specific department composed of people, who will complete some tasks that cannot be done directly by the governor.
A great advantage of this structure is that it almost solves the problem of internal loss.
On the earth, a decree is issued, which needs to be discussed by each department and then issued little by little. The efficiency is low, and different departments have different demands, which hinder each other.
Internal friction tends to occur.
Not to mention the damage that may be caused to the entire system by some private actions of the department head.
In the empire, these are all done by the governor, and its super-high spirituality and data-based characteristics make it easy to do this.
This eliminates a series of problems and is extremely efficient.
In particular, because the Governor coordinates the affairs of the entire constellation, he can calculate a relatively optimal solution by summing up the demands of all parties.
In this system framework, the entire society really becomes a "machine", while the people of the empire only need to accept the ubiquitous services of the "governor".
And local governors only need to be responsible for the emperor and have clear instructions to complete the rule of the entire "empire" spanning many light years.
"But, in this case, don't all people have to obey the only emperor? Your entire civilization changes according to the emperor's emotions and wishes?" Hearing this, Lin Tuo couldn't help asking.
In his opinion, this incredible "centralization" is simply too terrifying, binding the entire civilization to one hand of will... This kind of behavior is too difficult to understand.
Lu Liang thought for a while and said:
"This problem certainly exists. Some scholars in the empire have always had this concern. Many of our world's art works also have this kind of reflection. However, after so many years of operation, the effect is obvious to all."
"Oh?"
"Although I haven't experienced it, I also learned in the school history class. Long, long ago, the empire was also governed by people.
However, with the maturity of the spiritual transition ability, the territory of the empire gradually expanded and gradually became difficult to grasp. With some technological breakthroughs, ancient talents tried to delegate power to supercomputers.
Then after a long time of testing, the result was indeed much better than the original governance method, and it was gradually promoted, so that it finally evolved into what it is now. "
Lin Tuo said, "Those computers...you made them?"
"Forget it," Lu Liangdao, "According to the history books, the early empires used etheric energy to develop a series of new things. Supercomputers were originally something that was made after imitating spiritual and extraordinary objects.
Later, their spirituality was enough to give birth to consciousness, which is equivalent to human beings from the legal point of view. "
"Of course, the early ancients must have been worried, so at the beginning of manufacturing, some rules were written at the bottom of the emperor's system.
These rules ensure that no matter how powerful the emperor is, he must put human power first and cannot do anything that endangers human civilization.
In countless years, although there have been some short-term things that seem unreasonable, in the long run, the emperor has indeed been firmly fulfilling this set of rules. "
"Moreover, limited by these rules, the imperial humans actually have constraints on it."
Lin Tuo raised his eyebrows: "For example?"
Lu Liang swallowed and spit:
"Proposals. Humans can control the emperor or the governors of various regions by initiating proposals. Any proposal initiated must be accepted, and different people have different voting rights on proposals.
In this case, different groups can also fight for their rights through proposals... Of course, as far as I know, most proposals will not involve too much of a topic. "
This statement made several people instantly think of Proposal No. 15.
"And once important matters are involved, some groups in the empire composed of higher votes can also play games, such as the Ethics Committee, which is said to have a lot of votes..."
Lu Liang said with some yearning.
"This model... really won't cause a problem?" Sinai was a little unbelief, this structure always sounded strange to her.
"I don't know, all these years have been good anyway." Lu Liang shrank his neck and said.
After a short silence, Lin Tuo asked, "What about the resurrection and uploading of memories?"
Lu Liang was silent and explained:
"This involves the energy cycle with the spiritual world. You know, human existence can anchor the ether?"
"Know, keep talking."
"According to our research, the human soul is actually composed of spirituality and memory data. Normally, after a person dies, the soul will return to the spiritual world, returning to pure spirituality, and the memory will dissipate...
When a person is conceiving a new life, he will absorb spirituality, give birth to the original soul without any memory data, and form a new person..."
"This reincarnation is death and rebirth. However, no one wants to die... Therefore, a long time ago, the empire was studying the method of immortality, and finally explored two ways."
"One is evolution, absorbing ether, tempering the body, prolonging life, acquiring more time for practice, absorbing spirituality, growing soul... When the body ages, it can be reborn through the spiritual world."
Lin Tuo nodded: "I know this."
Lu Liang swallowed and spit again, and said:
"But there is a problem with this approach.
For one thing, few people in normal cultivation can evolve to this level, and if they find a way to take a shortcut, the spirituality is not enough...not only for the evolvers, but also for computers and other equipment...
This thing is not as much as ether. "
"Secondly, even if you are born again, there will be sequelae, such as past memories may fade and disappear."
"Therefore, this road was unworkable, and then a second road was found."
"The second?" Lin Tuo asked back.
"Yes, like I said, the spirituality of the emperor and governor is very powerful, strong enough to compete with the spiritual world for the absorption of human souls... and even replace the functions of the spiritual world to a certain extent.
After experiments, we found that we can achieve immortality in another way.
That is, after the death of a person, the soul flies to the sky and is intercepted by the governor, not allowing it to enter the spiritual world, but is stored in a data pool created by itself, also called the cloud.
The spiritual part is integrated into the governor's body, while the memory data is stripped out and stored separately..."
"In this case, as long as you save enough contribution points, you can use genes to customize a cloned body for a deceased person, buy back memories from the governor, inject them, and achieve resurrection...Of course, this is very expensive."
Lin Tuo and Huaxi and the others looked at each other, without speaking, after a while, Sinai couldn't help saying:
"According to what you said, this kind of resurrection is expensive and not everyone can afford. This... thing will also be implemented? No one will think it is unfair?"
Lu Liang glanced at her carefully and said:
"There will definitely be fairness issues, but after all, there is still a chance to be reborn... Especially some upper-class people are fully capable of paying the price, even if they can't, they can count on the offspring.
If the offspring comes out with a powerful character, theoretically the entire family's ancestors can be resurrected, and it doesn't help... it's better to keep than to be scattered.
So... this proposal passed. "
"Then your resurrection..." Lin Tuo looked at him.
Lu Liang explained:
"We are quite special. I serve in the special operations team of the military. Our team often has to go deep into the spiritual world and go to the depths of the universe. The mortality rate is high, so there are special quotas.
As long as it is an action that meets the standards, the Governor will help us make a memory backup before setting off.
If people die outside, they can be resurrected...Of course, if they die accidentally in the empire, they can only queue up and wait for my turn to be resurrected. "
"...I understand." Lin Tuo was silent.
It wasn't until this moment that he finally understood why Lin Jing and Qin Feng were directly working on the highway outside Wucheng.
Why did Xiao Wuyang have no fear when he died, because they had a backup, so they were naturally fearless.
"I saw that there are no spiritual light clusters and no spiritual creatures in the spiritual world near the planet Ueno." Suddenly, Hathaway asked.
Lu Liang blinked:
"...Yes. Part of it will be sent to the Empire Headquarters, and part will be brought back to the Governor for energy use.
In fact... the daily task of our special operations team is to find ways to collect spirituality from a distance and bring it back. As for those creatures... they must be cleared when they are collected. "
"There are few strong evolutionaries here, because of spirituality?" Huaxi interjected.
"It should be," Lu Liangdao, "the higher the level of evolution, the more spiritual resources are needed. Most of them are supplied to the local area, plus the normal consumption...
In frontier star regions like ours, the number of evolutionary places is definitely far less than the local ones, otherwise, why so many people want to emigrate..."
"What about your fighting power? What do you rely on?" Lin Tuo asked.
Lu Liang hesitated, then said:
"Weapons, battleships and the like, the military base is also the largest weapon arsenal in the star area. With those weapons, we can consume ether and launch attacks.
However, to deal with life in the spiritual world, it still depends on the spiritual energy deployed by the governor...I know so much. "
"The last question, have you ever heard of evolving sand table?" Lin Tuo asked.
"No."
"What about the material converter?" he asked again.
Didn’t you say the last one... Lu Liang slandered, and said:
"It's the infrastructure. It can consume energy and magnify the material. One gram of metal turns into a lot of kilograms. It is available in every city. It is easy to find in the central area of ​​material supply.
"Very well, I'm fine." Lin Tuo sighed and said, "As for the next step, please help me with an experiment."
"Experiment? What are you going to do? I said everything!" Lu Liang said in horror as if he realized something.
Lin Tuo was silent and sighed, "Sorry."
"Do not……"
In the next second, Lin Tuo gave Huaxi a look, and the latter's body quickly disappeared in this room.
In the sky, inside the aircraft that kept the shape of a capsule flying at a uniform speed, leaning on the seat like a sleeping Huaxi opened his eyes.
Looking at the driver who was sitting on the opposite side, held by Lin Tuo on his shoulders, motionless, eyes closed, raising his hand, a thin etheric sword aura pierced into the opponent's heart.
A few seconds later, Lu Liang's body died.
In the illusion space, Lu Liang's soul was dizzy, and immediately flew towards the sky, as if to break free from this realm and leave.
Lin Tuo raised his hand and waved lightly, and the illusory chain suddenly tightened.
Lu Liang's mental body instantly disintegrated and dissipated without a trace.
"We are enemies, so I'm sorry to kill you."