Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 477 Private property is sacred and inviolable! (7k)

Following the coordinates of lightship E, the three lightships underwent a stellar leap and several short-distance space jumps before finally arriving at this galaxy.

"Wow, a single-star system with seven planets, that's a great place."

The lamp spirits flickered and chattered, showing great interest in this star system.

Generally speaking, it's considered good if a star system has one or two planets, and a few star systems have more than three planets. A single star system with seven planets like the one in front of us is simply a treasure!
What an exquisite star system.

This star system consists of two nearby planets, two moderately distant planets, and three distant planets.

A well-developed star system like this has a much higher probability of giving rise to civilization.

After all, among so many planets, there must be one that is at a suitable distance from its star. If this planet contains some common basic elements and substances suitable for the origin of life, then the probability of life emerging is even higher.

Such a star system would have abundant internal resources, enough for a civilization to develop for a very, very long time...

'It's a great place to retire.'

The new genies all had this thought simultaneously.

Lightship A, Lightship B, Lightship C and Lightship E soon met up.

Taking into account the lessons learned from the Sea Mother Civilization, the Lamp Spirits did not rush to land on the planet for a visit this time. Instead, they left a few Lamp Spirits on the Lampship in case of any unexpected situations.

Hundreds of lamp spirits left the lamp ship and boarded small lamp boats, descending one after another toward the target planet, like a rain of lamps.

Knowing the power of the lamp spirits, the planet's automatic defense system dared not activate, and could only silently watch as the lamp spirits landed on the surface.

Upon landing, the lamp spirits immediately began collecting all life information on the planet and assessing its technological development—since no intelligent life forms existed in the entire civilization, they could not pass the 'carbon-based test'.
The four leading golden lamp spirits did not land blindly, but instead floated in the sky above the planet.

These golden lamps flicker with the light of plasma, and their flames are not all the same shape, with characteristics of being "tall, short, fat, and thin," which correspond exactly to the four golden lamps of the four lightships A, B, C, and E.

Golden Lamp A: "This civilization seemed to be developing very well, how could it have died?"

Golden Lamp B: "Could it be that all individuals in the entire civilization have migrated to the virtual digital world?"

Golden Lamp C: "Then we've missed out on this civilized 'abortion festival'?"

Golden Lamp E had no idea what the three were talking about, nor did it know about the Festival Clan. It explained to the other three golden lamps, "No, this civilization has not been fully loaded into the virtual world. I have logged into the civilization's electronic internet. It is quiet inside, with only some AIs with extremely low intelligence levels."

These words dimmed the other three golden lamps, which were clearly deep in thought.

Golden Lamp A: "Does this star system have a name?"

Golden Lamp E replied: "I initially called this planet 'Coffin Star,' but later I fought with the planet's defense system and eventually defeated it. That idiotic AI told me that its civilization's name is Earth Civilization and that its star system is called the Solar System."

The flames of the Golden Lamp E reflected the scene of the battle between the lightship and the 'Earth Civilization'.

The Lightship E, resembling a fiery lotus reaching to the heavens, slowly descended from near-Earth orbit to the center of the largest continental plate on Earth. During this time, countless laser and nuclear weapons bombarded the Lightship relentlessly, and a massive army of robots piloted fighter jets flying within the atmosphere in an attempt to obstruct its descent. Furthermore, orbital space-based weapons bombarded the Lightship from above.

Unfortunately, due to the vast difference in the level of civilization, all the counterattacks by the 'Earth civilization' side failed. The lightship only performed the minimum 'lighting' before extinguishing the almost endless sea of ​​machines and incinerating the nanoscale, all-pervasive 'law enforcement units'.

After the planetary defense system of 'Earth Civilization' was destroyed by Lightship E, it took the initiative to propose peace talks. However, Lightship E realized something was wrong after exchanging only a few words with this 'Earth AI steward' and took the initiative to withdraw from Earth, hovering in orbit and waiting for other lightships to arrive.

After observing the reflection of the lamplight, the other three golden lamp spirits pondered for a while longer.

Golden Lamp A: "When I came here, I also scanned the other six planets and found many traces of civilizations."

Golden Lamp E: "Yes, this Earth civilization once spread throughout the entire star system, but later, for some unknown reason, it shrank rapidly and retreated back into Earth."

Golden Lamp A: "What are the names of the other six planets?"

Golden Lamp E: "According to their own account, the seven planets are named from the inside out as 'Wind Star,' 'Mars,' 'Mercury,' 'Earth,' 'Saturn,' 'Ice Giant,' and 'Cold Giant.'"

The first five planets are standard solid planets, while the latter two are standard ice giants, showing no signs of life, only remnants of planetary mining facilities. Among them, the planets 'Wind' and 'Mars' are too close to their stars, with surface temperatures exceeding 700 Kelvin (300°C), making them unsuitable for ordinary life.

Upon hearing this, Jin Deng A commented: "Wind, Fire, Water, Earth? The Four Symbols Theory is a typical way of naming things by making them concrete, which shows that this civilization had a self-consistent epistemology in its early stages of development."

The other spirits blinked once, indicating their agreement.

The golden lamp B glowed eerily: "So the planet we stand on is called Earth, and the civilization that arose from it is called Earth civilization?"

The gold light E flashed again, as if acknowledging the presence of the light.

Jin Deng A asked doubtfully, "That 'Mercury' also has a large area of ​​liquid water, and its size is similar to 'Earth'... and its position from the sun is even more suitable. 'Earth' gave rise to civilization, but this planet did not give rise to life?"

Mercury is the third planet from this star system.

The golden lamp E flashed: "This is the second reason I called you here. Based on my previous observations, Mercury was once home to a large number of life forms, and even developed a civilization that was no weaker than Earth's, but the 'Mercurial civilization' has been wiped out."

The other three Golden Lamp Spirits all guessed the truth.

"Did Earth civilization do this?"

Golden Lamp E: "Currently, that seems to be the case... However, the AI ​​steward of Earth's civilization does not acknowledge this. It has been emphasizing that the entire solar system is the legitimate property of the ultimate producers, and how to dispose of the life and matter of this star system is the personal freedom of the ultimate producers. Their development of all planets is legal and legitimate, and their personal property is inviolable."

"Damn it, the Producer of the End, isn't that an extreme version of ancient capitalism? Did this guy wipe out all the other intelligent life in this star system?"

"Don't rush to 'Earth' yet, let's go check out 'Mercury' first."

Soon, four golden lamps floated on Mercury.

Four golden lamps, like miniature stars, hover near the Kármán line of "Mercury".

Looking down from this height, one can see that this planet has a striking resemblance to "Earth," with similar size and geological structure.

It's practically another "Earth".

"Twins within the same star system?" Gold Lamp B asked doubtfully.

Mercury truly lives up to its name as the "water" planet, possessing vast oceans with a land-to-ocean ratio of approximately nine to one. However, unlike Earth, which is meticulously maintained and presents an artificially perfect blue and green hue, this planet before us resembles a painting filled with madness and despair.

《格尔尼卡》

For some reason, the Golden Lamp Spirits suddenly remembered the gift that the Old God gave to the Carbon-Based Federation Council after his return: a rough painting. Later, the Carbon-Based Federation shared this painting with all civilizations.

Vast swathes of land were an unnatural, charred black, as if afflicted with incurable gangrene.

The ocean, which should have been a deep blue, is now tinged with a murky gray-green hue.

The planet's surface is covered with numerous ring-shaped scars of varying sizes, all exhibiting typical characteristics of impact craters. These scars are densely packed, stretching from the poles to the equator, covering almost every continent and every shallow sea.

"Scan it first." The flame of Golden Lamp A carried an unprecedented solemnity.

Tens of thousands of neutrino beams extended from the flame, sweeping across the earth, ocean, and atmosphere like a comb, and the data stream quickly returned.

"There are traces of large-scale, high-yield nuclear weapon bombardment, with more than one million nuclear craters."

“Bombardment pattern analysis: kinetic and energy projection from near-Earth orbit and interplanetary space, covering the entire area, without specific target orientation, it is uniform bombardment.”

“This is heading towards extinction…” Gold Lamp B was secretly shocked.

"Dark Forest Strike?" Golden Lamp C saw further ahead.

The scanning of Golden Lamp A is still ongoing.

"Atmospheric composition: nitrogen, carbon dioxide, trace amounts of toxic chemicals and radioactive dust, with a certain oxygen content, a typical carbon-based biohabitable atmosphere, and obvious characteristics of a global nuclear winter."

"The average pH value of the ocean is 3.7, which is highly acidic. High concentrations of heavy metals, radioactive isotopes and complex organic toxins have been detected in the water. The original marine ecosystem has been basically destroyed."

"The life signal index is very low, with weak microbial signals and near-zero diversity."

The scan of Golden Lamp A has ended.

The conclusion is clear: this was a genocide from outer space. The perpetrators didn't even bother with landing and conquest; they simply used the most brutal fire and radiation from the cold space to burn a vibrant planet into a still-warm (nuclear-radiation) charcoal.

All the evidence points to Mercury's sibling planet—that 'Earth'!
"To find the information carriers, we need to know what was here before and what happened."

The four golden lamps transformed into four streams of light, landing on the surface of Mercury and choosing a location that was once clearly the ruins of a huge coastal city.

Broken walls and ruins.

Skyscrapers were crushed by the shockwave.

The reinforced concrete skeleton is exposed.

The streets were buried in dust and rubble.

In this gloomy world, only the Golden Lamp Spirit flickers with golden light. Compared to the neighboring "Earth," which is less than 100 million kilometers away and resembles paradise, this place is simply the opposite hell.

The spirits scattered, their light probing deep into the ruins, searching for any remaining information.

A discovery was made very quickly.

Inside a partially collapsed building that appeared to have been a library or data center, Gold Lamp B discovered devices resembling electronic component storage devices, protected by lead alloy sealed cases. Despite extremely high external radiation, the internal structure had miraculously been partially preserved.

The spirits easily pieced together the fragmented data. The disjointed images, sounds, and words, like the murmurs of a dying person, began to piece together a hazy past in the spirits' lamplight.

The spirits also learned the true name of the planet.

It's not Mercury at all!
This planet is also called 'Earth'!
This star system, called the 'Solar System', has two 'Earths'!
But when the lamp spirits recognized this life form from 'Earth', they were so frightened that they began to shine brightly.

"God!!!!!"

The four golden lamp spirits flashed simultaneously, their intense golden light almost piercing through the earth's crust.

“Wait, they’re a little different from God… God has white hair and a white beard, but these beings, while resembling God, are very young… and they don’t look like God at all.”

Golden Lamp A was the first to react.

Golden Lamp E also said, "I was wondering why the skeleton on Earth next door looked so familiar; it also uses the image of God."

"Let's see what information is inside first."

Clip 1 (Video, vibrant colors): Under a clear blue sky, a bustling coastal city stands out in style from its neighboring planet. Its architecture emphasizes flowing curves and integration with the natural environment. Pedestrians wear colorful clothes and wear smiles, while children run freely in the park. Most striking of all is the towering steel structure on the city's outskirts—a manned spacecraft.

In the year 8247 of the Alliance calendar, the first manned spacecraft, 'Pathfinder 1', is about to be launched for its test flight.

• Segment Two (News Broadcast, tense tone): "'Pioneer One' test flight has been aborted... The observatory has once again confirmed the approach of a fleet from the fourth planet! They are coming from the direction of the inner system! Repeat, this is not a drill! All citizens, please remain calm and proceed to the designated shelters..."

• Excerpt 3 (Military communications recording, filled with static and despair): "This is the defensive stronghold. We've lost almost all of our counter-attack weapons. The enemy starships are too powerful. We don't even have weapons that can penetrate the atmosphere. They've started dropping them... God, nuclear warheads! There are too many!"

•Scene 4 (blurred surveillance footage): Dozens or even hundreds of blinding orbs of light explode in the sky at the same time, followed by a shockwave that sweeps everything away, and the scene is instantly replaced by static.

• Excerpt 5 (Underground bunker log, text): "Day 37, surface radiation levels remain deadly. 'They' have begun landing, they're all robots... God, why is this happening? They're releasing so much white mist... These are nanobots! Killing machines! These nanobots are spreading through our respiratory tracts, we're doomed! — Damn it, what do you mean we illegally used Earth's air and water? What do you mean we violated the legitimate personal property of the end-owner? This is our Earth! When did it become his?"

That's the end of the "last words".

But the spirits unearthed even more fragments of information.

Some well-preserved artistic holograms showcase the unique aesthetics of the Mercurian civilization: their deep affection for the ocean, their ethereal and timeless music, and their philosophy emphasizing balance and cycles… This was an era of the Industrial Revolution, before the advent of nuclear energy, belonging to a Type 4B civilization.

This is a young civilization full of potential.

However, all of this potential was wiped out by the gunfire from their "brothers".

...

"This is an extermination war, which can be characterized as a Dark Forest attack."

"He's a born killer. The Dark Forest Theory generally only applies to inter-stellar environments because civilizations on the same star system are too close to each other and are unlikely to develop a chain of suspicion due to a lack of communication. Dark Forest Wars are extremely rare."

"But the facts are already clear: another Earth slaughtered this Earth."

At this moment, the gold lamp E suddenly flashed.

Have you noticed a problem?

"What's the problem?" the other golden lamp spirits asked.

Golden Lamp E: "The life forms on these two Earths look just like God. I just scanned the carbon-based amino acid information of the microorganisms remaining on this planet and found that the carbon-based amino acid information here is the same as that of the organisms on the neighboring Earth. In other words, the origin of life on these two Earths is the same amino acid."

"Things are more complicated than we thought... mainly because he looks so much like God..."

The four golden lamps were somewhat at a loss.

"Should we report this to the federal government?"

"Wait a minute, it's not too late to report after we've figured it out. If it really involves God, then the problem will be really serious."

Four golden lamps rose again into the sky, gazing down at the graveyard below, soaked in an ocean of acid and scarred by nuclear bombs.

"God is so kind, I can't lump these guys together with God. A civilization treating its own 'brothers' like this..."

"Sigh, there's no point in saying more. Let's go see another Earth."

Soon, the four golden lamps arrived at Earth from the orbit of the third planet.

More than a hundred lamp spirits quickly arrived beside the four golden lamps and announced the intelligence they had gathered.

The truth came out.

The two Earths were named 'Earth of the End' and 'Ocean Earth' by the Lamp Spirits.

The developmental stage of "Earth the Producer" far surpasses that of "Ocean Earth." As early as 30,000 Earth years ago, it had already "hatched" and entered the interstellar age, reaching a Class 5B civilization. It also quickly discovered its sister planet, "Mercury" (Ocean Earth), which was also located in the "Golden Belt" and had also given rise to intelligent life.

To the lamp spirit's astonishment, the Ocean Earth was still in the primitive stage of eating raw meat and drinking blood, and the final producer Earth did not launch a devastating attack on the Ocean Earth.

As the "elder brother," Earth, the final producer, even helped its "younger brother," Ocean Earth, in the early stages. For example, it accelerated Ocean Earth's transition from a primitive, primitive lifestyle to an agricultural civilization, and even inspired the people of Ocean Earth to build ships and learn to navigate the seas.

But the situation soon changed significantly. Around a certain point in time, the final producer, Earth, ceased all intervention in the ocean.

The ocean planet has great potential for civilization. In just 20,000 years, it has developed from an agrarian feudal society to the Industrial Revolution era, and even reached a 4B-level civilization, just one step away from launching a manned satellite.

It became a civilization on the verge of hatching.

But from beginning to end, Ocean Earth was unaware of the existence of its "older brother," only knowing that there was a "terrestrial planet" not far from its own Earth.

However, just before ignition, a space fleet from the Endermen Earth arrived. The Endermen's thousands of space warships easily annihilated all civilizations on Ocean Earth. Subsequently, Ocean Earth released a large number of 'law enforcement units,' killing this civilization, which was about to hatch, in its embryonic stage.

"What the hell? Where are the holiday enthusiasts who are supposed to be everywhere? They didn't even stop them?"

"Twenty thousand Earth years ago, which is two galactic years ago. Don't forget that one galactic year ago, the Carbon-based Federation and the Silicon-based Empire were still fighting in the Second Helical Arm. At that time, the Festival Clan, as an advanced civilization of the Federation, must have responded to the general war in the Second Helical Arm. They probably didn't have time to indulge them... After all, the Festival Clan's birthday celebration habit was only developed during the peaceful era of the last galactic year."

"At this stage, the final producer Earth is 8B, and the ocean Earth is 4B. The generational gap is huge. Once the final producer Earth takes action, the ocean Earth will basically have no chance of escaping."

"It seems we need to overturn our previous conclusions about the Dark Forest attack. Based on this information, the End Producer Earth has always maintained complete transparency regarding information about Ocean Earth. There is no chain of suspicion, and even Ocean Earth's technological explosion cannot threaten the End Producer Earth. Not to mention that the amino acid tracing results of both sides are the same... The End Producer Earth didn't make its move earlier or later, but it had to be right before Ocean Earth's birthday. There's definitely something wrong with this."

"Let's focus on the final product, Earth civilization itself."

The four Golden Lamp Spirits, looking at the 'Ender' lying on the recliner with only bones remaining, summarized the information brought by the other Lamp Spirits and began to systematically trace the development of the Ender's Earth civilization.

· 26000 years ago, the End Producer Earth civilization was the first to emerge, entering the 5B level of civilization development stage. At this time, the End Producer Earth society was in the stage of ancient capitalism.

· 25800 years ago, the civilization of Earth, the ultimate producer, saw several budding forms of ancient egalitarianism, all of which were nipped in the bud.

24000 years ago, after a thousand years of development, the End Producer Earth civilization reached level 1 of the Kardashev Civilization Index, reaching the 6B level civilization stage. At this time, the End Producer Earth society was in the Ancient Cyberpunk stage. Although there was a gap between the rich and poor within the civilization, there was still room for social mobility.

23000 years ago, under the combined influence of technological monopoly and the law of private property, wealth continued to concentrate in the hands of a few. However, with the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, the final producer Earth civilization developed to the 7B level civilization stage, began to explore planetary resources within its star system on a large scale, and began to pay attention to the development of the Ocean Earth civilization on its sister planet.

·22000 years ago, “super education” using brain-implanted supercomputers emerged.

· 21500 years ago, "super education" that lasted for 500 years could greatly enhance intelligence and creativity, but it was extremely expensive, which created an intellectual gap between super educators and ordinary people, similar to that between humans and dogs.

· 21450 years ago, the last popular revolution against “super-education” was suppressed. Dispersing the mob’s protests was easier in the eyes of the superiors than dispersing a pack of wild dogs.

· 21400 years ago, nanorobots called 'law enforcement units' that permeated the atmosphere were invented, and the principle of 'private property is sacred and inviolable' became the sole constitution of the end-producer Earth civilization.

21000 years ago, wealth was concentrated at an accelerated pace. This civilization adhered to an extreme law of "the sanctity of private property," strictly enforced by law enforcement agencies. The lower classes had no chance of resistance or redistribution of wealth. At the same time, the widespread use of robots rendered even the poor's labor worthless. Wealth accumulated rapidly.

At the same time, two thousand years of accumulation and the development of artificial intelligence have brought the final producer Earth civilization to its peak development state, and the civilization has been promoted to level 8B.

· 20900 years ago, 60% of the world's wealth belonged to ten million people.

· 20800 years ago, 80% of the world's wealth belonged to 10,000 people.

· 20700 years ago, 90% of the world's wealth belonged to 42 people.

• 20684 years ago, the last great revolution that swept the world arrived. A proletarian named Sun Jack ignited the last revolutionary flame of the End Proletarian Earth civilization. Together with an awakened artificial intelligence called "Tapai", he completed the complete purge of forty-two End Proletarians, including Lan Meng. Using machine deterrence, he successfully established the "Faulty Utopia". Thus, the End Proletarian era ended and the Utopian era began.

The 【Faulty Utopia】era lasted for 500 years.

Before 20184, due to the accumulation of uncertainties in the electron 'quantum tunneling' effect, and the accumulation of a large number of errors in the stable electronic components based on artificial intelligence, the quantum artificial intelligence 'Tapist' was unable to continue its intelligent machine deterrence. The Tapist chose to perish along with Sun Jieke in this 'uncertain' world. Thus, the 500-year-old utopia finally failed.

· 20180 years ago, just four years later, extreme capitalism has once again swept the world.

• 20170 years ago, after a mere decade of accumulation, wealth was concentrated to its extreme, with 99% of the world's wealth falling into the hands of one person, the ultimate producer. His wealth encompassed the land, oceans, and even the atmosphere of the ultimate producer's planet, leaving the remaining two billion poor people trapped in enclosed dwellings, barely surviving on a micro-ecological cycle.

The true era of the final producer has arrived.

• 20100 years ago, the End Producers built 20,000 immigration ships. These ships could travel at 1% of the speed of light to other star systems. The End Producers expelled 2 billion poor people from their planet by providing life-saving cryogenic chambers. The refugee fleet began a long migration of 20,000 years to a star system 200 light-years away that was also called the 'Solar System'. The End Producers society was fully formed.

• 20001 years ago, the Ocean Earth civilization was about to emerge, and the final Earth civilization's space fleet launched a non-dark forest attack on the Ocean Earth civilization.

· 20000 years ago, the civilization of the ocean-going planet declared its extinction.

In the same year, the woman who had given birth to the child stopped receiving the immortality potion and died.

In the same year, the final civilization of Earth declared its demise.

(End of this chapter)