Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 41 Torture, Super Double

"Afraid of death?" The leader of the six-man team asked puzzledly, "Don't the senior executives of each space station have priority in resurrection?"

"Yes, yes."

The giant brain replied: "But in the Tower Prison, the human leaders will only be tortured mentally, so they can't die at all."

"Mental torture?" The boss was stunned when he heard this.

But the giant brain explained: "There is a special room called 'VIP' in the tower prison, which is used to detain high-ranking humans. This room can generate illusions and make high-ranking humans suffer ten or even a hundred times the torture of the physical body."

"Illusion?" The boss was surprised when he heard it, "Is it the kind of illusion created by virtual reality technology?"

"It's not necessarily virtual reality technology." The giant brain said, "Some people also suspect that the tower prison is an illusion created by some kind of magic."

"Just imagine," the giant brain continued, "just the physical torture alone would make ordinary people feel that life would be worse than death."

"What about the mental torture that is ten or even a hundred times more severe than the physical torture?"

"Can you imagine that kind of pain?"

"This," the boss said with a hint of fear, "is indeed horrifying. Even just thinking about it gives me chills."

Then he asked in confusion: "But the problem is that human life span is limited, isn't it?"

"Even if the higher-ups of humanity don't suffer physical torture, they'll still die of old age, right?"

"When the day comes for me to die, I will be able to escape and return to the space station."

"Heh," upon hearing what the boss said, the giant brain suddenly sneered.

He took over the conversation and said, "If you think that Tower Prison can only do this, you are very wrong."

"What?" The boss's expression changed.

The giant brain explained: "According to the recollections of the high-ranking human who escaped from the tower prison: the flow of time in the illusion in the VIP room is different from that in reality - for every hour that passes in the illusion, less than 1 minutes may have passed in reality."

"Then according to this ratio," the giant brain directly stated the conclusion, "the human leaders who originally had to stay in the tower prison for 50-70 years before dying of old age may have to stay in the illusion for 300-420 years, and the pain they will suffer is ten or even a hundred times that of ordinary people. Moreover, there is no such thing as 'reincarnation', so they can only be the tortured ones forever."

"Unbelievable!" The boss sighed and then asked again, "Since the fate of the high-ranking human beings is so tragic, then the high-ranking human beings can just give up their privileges. If they just become ordinary people again, wouldn't they be able to avoid this kind of torture?"

"If you can think of this, do you think the human leaders can't think of it?" The giant brain said helplessly: "If you are useless as a human leader for a day, you will be a human leader for your whole life."

“It’s like being marked with some kind of mark.”

"Even if you take the initiative to become an ordinary person again, you will still be locked up in the VIP room of the Tower Prison after you die."

“So, giving up privileges is useless.”

"All the human leaders can do is to try every possible way to keep themselves alive."

"Like I am now."

The giant brain began to explain to the six-member team the nature of the "Biological Ascension Plan."

"In order to achieve immortality, I uploaded the consciousness of everyone, including myself, into this giant brain."

“When the plan first started, many people were resistant and worried about failure.”

“So I became the first one to try it.”

“And then, I succeeded.”

"Then, everyone in the space station started to go crazy."

"Everyone is trying desperately to upload their consciousness."

"No one, whether they are at the top, middle or bottom, wants to be left behind."

"No wonder!" The boss suddenly realized, "Now I finally know why there is no one left in the entire Europa Space Station. It turns out that everyone uploaded their consciousness." "Not everyone successfully uploaded their consciousness." The giant brain added, "There are also a small number of people who died in the process of competing for the quota."

"It is estimated that those people cannot be resurrected."

"After all, there is no one on the Europa space station anymore."

"So, they will be locked up in the Tower Prison forever."

“I can only say that it’s a bit of a pity!”

Having discussed this point, Brain suddenly extended an olive branch to the team of six and Xie Shen who was hiding in the dark.

He said, "How about it? Are you interested in joining us?"

As it spoke, a projection screen suddenly unfolded behind the giant brain.

What was displayed on the projection screen was an enormous modern city with blue sky and white clouds, green water and green mountains, as well as singing birds and fragrant flowers.

It is a scene of prosperity in the world.

"See?" the giant brain introduced, "This is life after uploading your consciousness."

"That is a virtual world simulated by biological ascension technology."

"In that world, you don't have to work, and you don't have to worry about birth, aging, sickness and death. You just have to eat, drink and have fun all day and all night."

Faced with the beautiful picture painted by the giant brain, the six-member team and Xie Shen were naturally excited.

But the problem is
Is all this really as beautiful as the giant brain says?
What if the virtual world is just a scam?
What if it was just a prepared recording?

In view of this, the leader of the 6-man team said cautiously: "It's not impossible to join you."

"But before that, I want to ask: Why did you invite us to join you for no reason?"

"What is our value to you?"

"Two aspects," the giant brain replied. "First, living in a virtual world does not consume any resources."

"So your joining will not bring any cost or burden."

"Moreover."

The giant brain continued: "Even in a virtual world, humans still have various spiritual needs."

"Like movies, TV series, comics, novels and games"

"And these spiritual needs have to be created by humans, so the more people who enter the virtual world, the better."

"I see." The eldest brother said thoughtfully, "Then what do the six of us need to pay?"

"It's very simple."

The giant brain replied: "I can make you a promise: as long as you are willing to stay and maintain the Europa Space Station and work for us for a full 50 years, then in return, I will let you enjoy the rest of your life in the virtual world. Is this a good deal?"

As it spoke, the giant brain suddenly pointed out something: "And to that friend who has been hiding, this promise also applies to you."

Seeing that the giant brain mentioned him, Xie Shen no longer hid.

He emerged from the darkness and nodded to the six-man team from the Heaven Space Station as a gesture of friendship.

The six-member team had no intention of becoming enemies with Xie Shen, so they nodded in response.

Now that he had appeared, Xie Shen took the opportunity to ask the giant brain: "Didn't you say before that the senior executives of each space station had never died? So, how did those senior executives not die before the 'Biological Ascension Plan' began?"

(End of this chapter)