Shirou's clones number 30 million

Any band can leave at any time. It's not like it's a contractual agreement. There's no reason not to let people leave.

Chapter 199 The Eternal Human Plan

Chapter 199, Section 200: The Eternal Human Plan

"Where am I? How did I turn back into this state?"

That night, inside the white mist space, an old man with a hunched back looked around blankly.

Soon, many more Shirou entered one after another.

"Another newcomer? Judging from your appearance and clothing, you must be from a modern society without magic, otherwise you wouldn't look so old."

"After sharing everything later, I wonder if I'll be able to regain my youth?"

"It should be possible. After sharing, the races will change accordingly. Whether it's a black dragon or a slime, they are both long-lived fantasy species. He's at most in his sixties, which is nothing for a fantasy species. He's just just come of age."

"That's true. Who wants to go first?"

"Me first! Me first!"

As he spoke, Rimuru Shirou in his slime form excitedly pounced on him.

Another experience, another world. Who knows what interesting stories will unfold?

The moment their skin touched, the newlyweds gradually became younger, and in the blink of an eye, they regained their youth and became young men in their twenties.

"So your surname is Narusaka? Wait, the Eternal Human Project, what the heck is that?"

A blue question mark appeared on the slime as it continued to recall new memories.

44 years ago, Shirou was transported to a modern society and became a high school student about to graduate.

The new body after the transmigration has fifteen magic circuits, and can use almost all the magic tricks that are known to him.

He was only eighteen years old that year, in the prime of his life, full of vigor and ambition.

With his unique magic skills, even a novice can live a very comfortable life.

The only inconvenience is that the time travel is too early in history, and many convenient things, such as computers and smartphones, were not yet widespread at that time.

Time flies, and thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

I've had several relationships and been married twice, but we broke up both times because of incompatible values.

At forty-eight, he was still all alone.

That same year, he suddenly heard that his cousin's son and his entire family had died, and his newborn son had been adopted by his daughter's family and renamed Kiritani Kazuto.

In that instant, past memories flooded back, and he finally realized what world he had entered.

Thinking about those immersive games of the future fills me with excitement, but also a sense of apprehension.

By the time those virtual games are released, I might be too old to move.

After that, he became increasingly frightened and used the money he had earned over the past thirty years to open a research institute, where he began to spare no effort in developing cloning technology in the hope of achieving immortality.

However, the technological gap is too large, and many experts say that there is no hope for at least the next fifty years.

Fifty years? Who can wait that long!

So he reopened another research institute and began looking for other breakthroughs.

It was at this moment that he suddenly discovered that the virtual technology in this world was developing extremely rapidly, and that many technologies that he had never seen in his previous two lives had already appeared.

After thinking for a long time, he came up with another way to achieve immortality.

They abandoned their physical bodies and virtualized their souls, thus achieving immortality.

Of course, while the purpose of the research is to achieve immortality, it certainly cannot be done for such a selfish reason in order to trick more people into joining the project.

Therefore, he came up with a "human eternity" project as a shell to package himself as a highly forward-thinking human mentor.

The so-called eternal plan for humanity is:

They released a special fog across the world, rendering all humans and animals on Earth unconscious, and then took the opportunity to upload their souls to the virtual world.

In this way, all of humanity will gain immortality in the virtual world.

The real world, on the other hand, is maintained by robots.

Not too many robots are needed; just a small number are sufficient for the daily maintenance of the virtual world.

As for the physical bodies of all humanity, they are considered unnecessary in the "Eternal Humanity" plan.

When the soul is gone, the body will naturally decay over time and eventually turn into dust.

Of course, that was centuries later.

He had just abandoned his physical body and entered the virtual world before entering the white mist space.

In the real world, all of humanity is already in a deep sleep, but because the time is too short, there is no danger to their lives.

"Isn't that outrageous? To want the extinction of all mankind for your own selfish desires?"

silence.

After a long silence, Shirou Narusaka sighed and slowly spoke:

"It's too late! Why couldn't you have come earlier? Even just fifteen minutes earlier, as long as I hadn't pressed the button, there was still hope."

"It's not too late to turn back now, is it?"

"There's no going back. I only researched the technology of using electromagnetic waves to extract the human soul from the body and upload it to the virtual world. But I've never researched how to put it back into the body."

Even when in a coma, the body consumes less energy, but it still won't last more than a few days.

He wouldn't eat or drink; he just lay there.

Although there is no immediate danger to their lives, they will starve to death sooner or later.

After the other Shirou shook hands with him, they all gave him subtle glances.

As a fellow Shirou, I know his memories of every day and every second, so I can naturally understand his feelings.

While I can understand the situation, I find it hard to agree with this approach.

"And now? You can't just leave it like this, can you?" former investigator Shirou couldn't help but ask.

"Um... I really can't do anything about it."

The original goal was to achieve immortality, but now that immortality has been obtained so easily, the plan for eternal life in the human world can naturally be abandoned.

However, while that's how I see it, those who have been fooled by me and are working themselves to the bone for the future of all mankind certainly don't think that way.

"That was just a plan I came up with on a whim to fool people. I never expected it to gain so much approval. Now that things have come to this, I can only change my identity and disappear."

"Anyway, I have GM privileges in the virtual world, so no one can catch me."

"Apart from me, no one's soul actually becomes younger after entering the virtual world."

"Therefore, in the eyes of the world, I am still an old man."

"That way, if I change my identity, no one can catch me."

Former investigator Shirou stared at him speechlessly and asked again:

"So, you've created this mess, and you feel you can't fix it, so you're just going to abandon it?"

"There's no other way, this is the only option."

Narusaka Shirou shook his head slightly and sighed:

"If I could, I wouldn't want to do this either. But isn't there no other way? Anyway, if the sky falls, there are always tall people to hold it up; it has nothing to do with me."

“What are you saying? Aren’t you the tallest pillar right now?” Kitahara Shirou paused for a moment, then added, “It’s never too late to mend the fence after the sheep are lost, but it’s too late to turn back now.”

"They all say it's too late! Humanity is doomed. What other options are there?"

"No, there is still a way. Can't you adjust the time in the virtual world? In that case, why not speed up the virtual world a hundred times and try to develop a remedy technology in a short time?"

Chapter 200 Your Dream, I Will Carry It On

Chapter 201, Section Two Hundred: Your Dream, I Will Carry It On

"Huh...?"

It seems like it really can.

Narusaka Shirou fell into deep thought.

He spent fourteen years developing a technology that allows people to upload their souls to the virtual world.

With this technology as a foundation, reverse engineering won't take much time, at most two or three years.

Previously, they had developed several virtual worlds, but all of humanity has only just entered the virtual world and is currently in the initial modern world "Earth Online". Those fantasy-themed otherworlds have not yet been opened to them.

In the original plan, he would explain to humanity, through a projection in the sky, in about ten minutes that the Earth had been destroyed and that this was a virtual world.

But now, without explanation, many people probably wouldn't realize they're in a virtual world.

After all, the maps and buildings in "Earth Online" are replicated from Earth on a proportional scale using satellites. There may be some differences in details, but they are basically identical.

In that case, the most urgent task is to silence the staff who know the inside story.

As long as they don't say it, Earth Online is the real Earth.

The remaining task is to race against time and strive to develop the reverse technology for uploading souls within a week in reality.

Of course, considering that some people are in poor health, it is best to complete it within two or three days.

"I've got it! I've come up with a plan. I'm going to fake my death and then choose an heir from among those who know the truth."

"After changing my identity, the younger me will be like a hero, going to defeat the Demon King and save humanity from the virtual world."

"What do you think of this method?"

"Isn't this going too far?" Former Investigator Shirou stared at him speechlessly. "It's certainly a good thing for you, but for the successor you chose, this is just too outrageous."

"This is the only way. I can't just commit suicide to atone for my sins, can I? Or, if I don't use the disguise and show my true self, I will definitely become the world's most wanted criminal."

"So who are you planning to talk to?"

"It's Kayaba Akihiko, he must be really looking forward to this."