Time flies. After the shock of the last three months of 2014, half of 2015 has passed in turmoil.

The most chaotic place is still Europe.

Because the aurora borealis is too pragmatic, many people have been at a loss as to whether to support or oppose it.

After a long debate, those opposed to immortality ultimately prevailed, with right-wing conservatives feeling it was an offense to God. The left, however, argued that the aurora borealis could potentially be used to enslave the world through this technology.

This made Europe a no-go zone for human manipulation.

However, they welcome the Oasis; no one dislikes a virtual world that can greatly enhance their life experience.

At this point, they selectively forgot that the Wanderer is also a wet application, containing human cells as well.

Moreover, at this time, the left wing began to support Chen Yiran again, because the cyberpunk genre clearly stated Chen Yiran's attitude.

As long as human society can continue, whether you like men or women, whether you are male or female, or whether it's a refrigerator or a color TV, no one will care. When technology is advanced, you can change it every day without any problem.

Many LGBT people have already bought the Wanderer and experience different genders in the virtual world every day. They keep saying that although Aurora is evil, if it could be like Cyberpunk 2077 in Oasis, where everyone can freely install parts, then it would be a place worth visiting.

The right wing is very dissatisfied with this, but they also think that the aurora has its merits, namely that the robots are really useful for farming. While many small farmers in Europe are cursing the aurora for blaspheming God, they are also using the aurora's agricultural machines with great enthusiasm.

Small AI robots aren't expensive. Buy one, connect it to an agricultural machine, install some cameras, and farming will truly become effortless.

That's how Europe is—a minor squabble every three days, a protest every five days. Without any external interference, they become increasingly united, as harmonious as Jiangsu province.

In the past six months, Aurora has finally improved its policies for new students.

Of course, only Aurora still refers to these people as "newborns," while society generally refers to them as "adjustment people."

This is because there has emerged a group of people who have absolutely no health problems but are still replacing their brains with wet-solid ...

They began to rapidly influence society, and just like in many science fiction works, conflicts inevitably arose.

However, the strategy adopted by Aurora has temporarily stabilized the societies of various countries. Simply put, Aurora has not completely controlled these quotas, but has handed them over to its partners in various countries.

For example, South Korea is represented by Samsung, the United States by Apple, and China by the recently merged Xiaomi and Sohu. In every country around the world, Aurora selects a company as a partner to control these precious slots.

These companies quickly evolved into compradors, beginning to help Aurora exert influence within the government.

Governments around the world know this model is unhealthy, but they really have no other choice. More than one country has considered direct military action, but because they are unsure how other countries will react, they have all hesitated to act rashly and decided to wait and see.

However, a single spark can start a prairie fire. The aurora's intrusion was too rapid; within six months, it essentially disintegrated the hawkish factions in various countries and directly caused the collapse of several nations.

Because the hawks within the government certainly won't get these spots, while the pro-Aurora faction can directly gain a huge advantage by relying on a few key figures.

In this information society, the modified human almost represents the pinnacle of carbon-based life forms, being higher, faster, and stronger, yet possessing an absolute advantage in the silicon-based world.

The hawks couldn't even make a phone call; without the fog of war, they were almost entirely being manipulated.

Some neighboring companies in other countries have even learned to cultivate their own power and influence, shamelessly using various excuses to ask Aurora for more slots.

As the old saying goes, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Within Aurora Mobile, staff often have personal preferences, and many companies manage to secure more positions by being charming and persuasive.

There are never too many spots available, since the world's population is too large. Even if the aurora borealis were to accelerate at an alarming rate, there still wouldn't be enough to go around.

Previously, Chen Yiran conducted a poll on Twitter to see how many people wanted to give up their status as natural persons and become "adjusted persons." Ultimately, more than two billion people voted, with 18 billion of them voting "yes."

Of course, some companies, such as Google and Johnson & Johnson, have not given up on catching up and still hope to overcome the translation technology of wetware brain.

However, many other companies began to transform into subsidiaries of Aurora. For example, Sony finally completed its metaverse concept in Oasis and began to build an entertainment matrix.

In the Oasis virtual space, inside the Aurora Group's conference room, several of Aurora's current senior executives are having a meeting.

At the beginning of the year, Aurora underwent a major administrative restructuring, dividing its core personnel into eight groups.

Earlier this year, Alan Mulally stepped down as CEO. He is actually quite capable, but his capacity to manage things is clearly insufficient for Aurora's current size.

Of course, Chen Yiran did not let Alan Mulally, a manufacturing master, go. Instead, he put him in charge of the industrial manufacturing department and managed the manufacturing supply chain of Aurora's robots.

Robert Benmoche, who just secured deals with five major US insurance companies for Aurora Mobile in the first half of the year, giving the company nearly two trillion US dollars in cash reserves, has been appointed CEO. He is also responsible for managing the company's capital strategy department, including issues related to cash flow.

Amy Zeggart, the company's most resilient and inhumane leader who constantly plots how to enslave women worldwide, becomes the head of the company's security intelligence department.

Incidentally, she also concurrently served as the head of the Geopolitical and Governmental Department, but because she was a bit too radical, Chen Yiran specifically asked Jasmine to keep a close eye on her.

Chen Yiran was terrified that one day, she would be inexplicably draped in a yellow robe.

As one of Chen Yiran's most trusted people, TED took over Aurora's global legal and patent affairs, as well as the company secretariat, now known as Aurora's Treaty Department.

The technology research department is the most troublesome. Chen Yiran considered many people. There are really a lot of talented people under Aurora, but after looking at them one by one, he found that none of them were suitable to manage such a large group.

Fortunately, there were many big names among the newcomers. Chen Yiran eventually appointed Ge Shouren, the founder of modern EDA, as the minister to coordinate the SEELE platform.

This department is incredibly powerful, with several Turing Award winners among its members.

The Life Regeneration Department was handed over to Xie Nuoyi, and it also has Nobel laureates such as Edelman under its command. Chen Yiran specially gave them greater authority, and each of them has a lot of computing power at their disposal. The wet component brain is running at overload all day long, and the development speed is already a bit frightening.

Finally, Aurora couldn't find anyone capable of handling the media and public opinion department, so Chen Yiran forcibly brought Igor from Disney to take charge of this part of the work.

At this moment, besides Chen Yiran and the other department heads, only Musk was in the conference room.

Musk was given maximum authority by Chen Yiran, and everything in the company was tilted towards SpaceX, with the priority being to cover the satellites.

So at the start of the meeting, Chen Yiran stared blankly at Musk.

Musk said somewhat embarrassedly, "Our progress is still a bit slower than expected. Even though we have completely stopped accepting external orders and are focusing all our efforts on launching our own satellites, we still can't catch up."

As for the starship, there are still many things to overcome. The first flight test is expected to take place sometime next year.

Chen Yiran was a little dissatisfied: "I already told you, it costs money! One launch a day is definitely not enough. We've given you so many resources, so get to work! In the second half of the year, you need to complete two launches a day as soon as possible. After that, all the functionality will depend on Starlink."

"Okay, I'll try my best."

"Don't try your best, go for it! Go poach people! Europe is in such a mess, and Russia isn't peaceful either. Poach all their aerospace talent, give them some brains, and let them work like crazy."

After Chen Yiran finished speaking, he looked at Amy Zegart and gestured for her to talk about the main topics of the day.

Amy Zegga nodded and stood up, saying in her usual loud voice, "We have received definite intelligence that the situation in the Middle East is about to change."

Israel has reached its limit and is preparing to launch a full-scale war against Iran. It is currently consulting with the US government to determine whether it agrees to the war.

We don't care about that, but there's one thing we can't tolerate! Perhaps because we have good relations with several oil-producing countries in the Middle East, Israel will not be purchasing weapons from our Aurora series this time.

They will seek cooperation with Google. Although Google is terrible and their AI is also quite weak, it should be sufficient for this kind of war scenario.

Another more troublesome issue is that our intelligence agencies discovered that Iran was also very determined this time. They also obtained a lot of Google-based chips through special channels in Russia and developed a bunch of secondary drone weapons.

They also have a lot of homemade missiles, and they might attack our allies.

It's important to know that countries like Bahrain, the UAE, and Qatar have purchased our Aurora security services and even our issued bonds, effectively turning the interest into petroleum currency.

Therefore, we cannot sit idly by.

Furthermore, the stalemate between Russia and Ukraine has lasted for too long. Russia may try to take advantage of the chaos in the Middle East to make another effort and see if it can take over Ukraine.

Russia has now begun signing contracts with prisoners, and they will use prisoners and ethnic minorities as cannon fodder to solve their manpower problem.

We have no stake in this, but because the Russians are using Google's framework, we can't let them win.

The bigwigs present weren't too surprised. For the past few years, these two places had been locked in a life-or-death struggle, so the current situation was quite normal.

They all looked at Chen Yiran, wondering if Aurora would take this opportunity to flex its muscles.

"You don't need to worry about it. Each department just needs to do its own job. We won't get too involved in these two wars; we'll just offer a little help."

Afterwards, the departments aligned their granularity. For example, Robert emphasized to the new employee department that many of the previous insurance company's clients were eager to become "steel men," and that waiting in line for too long was not good, so they needed to speed things up.

After quite a while, the meeting finally came to an end.

Chen Yiran did not leave immediately, but instead looked at the intelligence on the two wars in the oasis.

He suddenly felt that the world really is a circle. No matter what you do to a powder keg, it's still a powder keg. Even with his alteration of the timeline, these two regions still did not change their fate of total war.

Moreover, all developments are similar; the only difference is that he has accelerated the development of various AI weapons, which will likely result in even more deaths.

However, given that Aurora's actions of fighting Israel in the Middle East and supporting Ukraine in Russia and Ukraine, it's unclear whether he will be considered a good or bad person on the Chinese internet.

Regardless, this time people need to see that AI can only be used by Aurora, and that using Google's AI to fight a war would end badly.

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