It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

0372 Development of a mindset that forces people to change their thinking

Boss Cheng is not a fool. He had asked the project team if there are other worlds like β-027 that humans can migrate to. However, Manong told the boss that there are not only worlds without people, but also many. But there are basically no absolutely safe worlds like β-027.

The reason why β-027 is a world starting with "β" is that this cornerstone world was destroyed due to human's own reasons. Therefore, the world starting with "α" represents a world where civilization was destroyed due to reasons other than human.

"There is a α-042 that looks safe, but when the technical department was investigating and reviewing, they found that this world had merged with a dark matter world. All the living people in that world were dragged into the shadows by the monsters in the dark matter world, and any living person who dared to stand in a place without light would be dragged into the dark matter world.

It is unknown whether the people who were dragged away turned into monsters or became food for the monsters. According to the technical department, the daytime of that seemingly normal world was also being devoured, and even the technical department was powerless to do anything. For their own safety, the investigation team broke off tens of thousands of high-brightness fluorescent sticks in the place where more than 2 tons of flares were burned.

"There is another world, numbered α-031. The most brutal thing about that world is that all the plants in the world want to kill humans. The flowers, plants and trees there can release neurotoxins. As long as people inhale the air containing neurotoxins, they will commit suicide in all kinds of strange ways.

By the time the technical department's investigation team went to that world to check, the neurotoxin was so strong that even the investigators could be affected. The air filtration system was completely ineffective, and the toxin could even penetrate the human body through the skin and eyes. Unless all the plants in that world were burned, it would be unsuitable for living there."

"As for the others, either aliens killed all humans, making the Earth unsuitable for human survival, or humans killed all humans, turning the Earth into a dead planet like Mars. Or it's just like the world you protect, except that they were unlucky. Their Earth stopped rotating before we discovered it, and the atmosphere without the protection of the magnetic field was destroyed by the powerful solar wind."

Therefore, the project team’s intention is very clear. Instead of wasting time in other unreliable cornerstone worlds, it is better to let those people stick to the result-oriented approach, develop targeted approaches to the key points and difficulties of existing problems, and force the lazy thinking that is seriously dependent on external factors to transform.

To put it bluntly, let them figure it out on their own.

As for this method, in addition to allowing more than 90 billion people in the future to experience natural selection, UEG has actually already found the answer for itself - space factory!

In other words, it is the cylindrical colony satellite where the space factory is located!

With the technology currently mastered by humans and the premise of having a space factory, it is possible to build a colony satellite with a diameter of about 5 kilometers and a length of about 30 kilometers in the universe. Although there are still some technical difficulties to overcome, it is generally not difficult to build such a thing.

It is just that humans still lack experience in building super-large objects in space, so they will inevitably encounter some difficulties in the early stages of experimental construction. However, these difficulties are not insurmountable. With the continuous accumulation of experience and the imminent survival crisis of mankind, any difficulty that can be overcome is not considered a difficulty.

"So you suggest that we try to build a colonial satellite?" Zhou Zhezhi asked his boss on the phone.

“不然呢？虽然求生欲低下、自暴自弃，以及追求自由灵魂的傻哔不在少数，但再多也不可能多过总人口的1/10吧！就算把这部分人的比例提高到1/5，但是以90亿人口作为基数的话，不傻哔的4/5也有72亿人呢！”

"Develop a colony satellite agricultural system to fill the gap in agriculture and animal husbandry?"

The staff of the Supreme General Staff Headquarters were certainly not stupid. They all knew that if the two mining ships continued to operate at full capacity for another five years, the resources they produced would be enough to support the entire consumption of the Mountain Moving Plan! Therefore, resources have never been a shortcoming in the development of space agriculture.

The real shortcomings lie in productivity and production technology!

"I think this is a very good plan." A staff officer stood up and said, "In the next 40 years, we need to consider not only the construction of planetary engines, but also the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation. But above food, clothing, housing and transportation, we must also guarantee their right to work!"

indeed!

Ensure that everyone has the right to work! And work is the best medicine to maintain long-term social stability.

When these staff officers first explored the β-027 world, they discovered a large number of autonomous intelligent machines in the hierarchical cities. If it weren't for the intelligent machines that have been maintaining the hierarchical cities day and night for the past thousand years, the hierarchical cities would never have survived until the day they were discovered and repaired.

Domestic research institutes, including artificial intelligence research institutes around the world, have been studying, copying and optimizing β-027's intelligent machinery over the years. After all, the work of building a planetary engine is not only arduous, but also requires a lot of delicate operations.

However, judging from the progress of planetary engine test projects around the world, planetary engines built solely by hand are unlikely to meet the accuracy and speed requirements of the design drawings. If only the simple construction of the engine casing is undertaken, the problem is still within the acceptable tolerance range. But once this tolerance is placed in the construction of the engine's core and plasma nozzle, no one can guarantee that the built engine can ignite normally.

Therefore, even though the project has not yet reached the stage of building supporting facilities at the core pole, UEG is already ready to use autonomous intelligent machinery to replace manual labor to complete this part of the construction work.

Using machines to replace manpower is fine for the construction of one or two engines, but once these intelligent machines completely replace manpower, the unemployment rate will soar to a terrifying level of over 50%!

"In other words, instead of just thinking about how to solve the problem of future human survival, why not take the opportunity to solve the problem of survival and come up with a way to waste a large amount of manpower and material resources to solve the problems of unemployment and future survival!"

"Then... let's start a new round of doomsday infrastructure construction all over the world! As long as it doesn't delay the implementation of the mountain-moving plan, we can waste as much manpower as possible."

"What do you think of adding an energy shield to the Earth?" A staff officer suggested, "Build it at an altitude of 10,000 meters. After the shield is turned on, it can not only prevent future atmospheric escape, but also block excess solar radiation, and even prevent solar wind from damaging engineering projects and engineering machinery. In the event that the Earth stops rotating and the magnetic field weakens, this shield can also help humans."

"But we don't have the technology to create energy shields!"

"Hey, let's put up the supporting structure first! As for energy protection technology, we can ask the Marshal to help us think of a solution!"

"The satellite colony should be repaired as it should be, and the colony and the protective shield should not be delayed."

"Reconsideration!"

"I think it's okay!"

"It's all a waste anyway, so why not waste manpower on something useful?"

"Add another dungeon! If human resources are insufficient, we can use intelligent machines to fill the gap. In short, we must make the best use of people."

“But with a deployment of this size, the performance of the 550A will soon be insufficient.”

"Where are the comrades from Sino-Wei Quantum? I haven't heard about their research progress on the next generation of quantum computers for a long time."

"Well, they are busy moving their belongings to Hualin City these days. They have moved their entire institute to Hualin City. It doesn't matter if they move early or late, there is no need to wait until the seawater covers the Big Pants (CCTV main building) before moving."

"Yes, Hualin City is at a high altitude anyway. Even if Hebei and Liaoning were flooded, Hualin would be fine."

Then, this group of people who represented the highest wisdom of a country gradually shifted from discussing "how to waste manpower" to the boring topic of "should we move to Hualin in the future?" And the more they talked, the more excited they became, and they even forgot that they had to compile the meeting minutes into a report and then submit it to UEG for review.

While the staff were chatting animatedly, the boss had already put on his Armani haute couture suit and headed to the railway transportation distribution center (train station) in Dawn Town to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Yes, this railway, which took the Rain Country a year and a half to build and has a total length of only more than 300 kilometers, is finally open to traffic.

In fact, it didn't need to be so slow, but because Boss Cheng transported too many steel rails to the Rain Country, the design bureau under China Railway changed the design drawings in anger and forcibly changed it to a "double lane" design.

The double-lane design obviously wastes the railway's capacity, but the boss and Hanzo both regard this double-lane railway as a model project in order to promote railway technology to other countries. Therefore, today's opening ceremony had the magical operation of starting trains from Yuyin Village and Dawn Town in opposite directions.

Boss Cheng did not make any high-tech locomotives for the Rain Country. It’s not that Boss Cheng didn’t want to, but CRRC Corporation, which provided the locomotives, did not dare to do so.

As UEG has fully mastered the manufacturing technology of fusion core (obtained from the wasteland world), CRRC Group has also completed the research and development and manufacturing of nuclear-powered electric locomotives. However, when Mr. Cheng proposed to buy this locomotive, the sales representative of CRRC Group only asked one question to make Mr. Cheng change his mind.

What if war breaks out again in that world and the front of the car is blown up?

Therefore, Mr. Cheng decisively chose a water-catalyzed hydrogen-oxygen internal combustion hybrid front end. In order to improve the safety factor of the internal combustion engine, the output power of the internal combustion engine was also limited. This resulted in the front end of the car only being able to run at a speed of less than 120 kilometers per hour under the maximum towing weight.

Therefore, the train took three hours to reach the destination of the 300-kilometer journey from Poxiao Town to Yuyin Village. However, for the invited representatives from various countries, the 3-kilometer-per-hour speed and the total weight of 110 tons of cargo in 20 carriages were enough to refresh their perception of speed and transportation capacity.

The second generation Kazekage who personally experienced the "electrified life" was very satisfied with the strong transportation capacity demonstrated by the train. After all, as a country with relatively rich mineral resources, the Kingdom of Wind has always suffered from a serious shortage of transportation capacity.

Otherwise, why do people always say "If you want to be rich, build roads first. Have fewer children and plant more trees."

But...

Boss Cheng had just arrived at the Rain Village and had not yet had time to participate in the subsequent series of railway promotion activities when Denise called Boss Cheng's cell phone.

That’s right, the Land of Rain not only has railways, but there are also 4G network signals along the railways!

"Hey? There's a handsome guy with a side-parted hairstyle looking for me? He's not from the wasteland of Washington? You asked him to take a taxi to our place. Did the driver take a detour?"

After all, Kai Tak Airport is close to the street where the boss lives, and the starting price for a taxi is only one (30 kilometers, 20 yuan). If you know the way separately, it only takes less than minutes to walk to the hotel.

"He said he took a taxi for more than half an hour..."

"Damn it, complain to that driver! Even if you want to cheat a foreigner, you can't treat him like a fool!"

"He asked when you would be back?"

"Tell him, 10 minutes!"

The boss hung up the phone, apologized to the guests around him, put on his armor, jumped up, and flew straight to Dawn Town at a speed of 1.5 Mach.

As for the guests who watched Boss Cheng, who had “turned into a handsome man,” fly away, they couldn’t help but sigh:

“Technology can really change our lives!”

0373 Always come up with something new

Leon stood at the foot of the giant red mecha, and when he looked up, he could only see the mechanical connection between the giant mecha's skirt armor and hips.

“Can this robot move?”

"Why would I buy it if I can't move it!"

Leon pinched his waist, continued to look up and sighed: "I really want to sit on it and try it!"

Then, the boss took out a remote control or something like that and pressed a few buttons on the giant red mecha. Leon noticed that the right breastplate of the mecha slowly unfolded, and then a steel cable with a pedal was lowered from the inside of the opened breastplate.

Lyon pointed at the steel cable and asked the boss: "Do you really want me to go up and try?"

"What else?" The boss tilted his head and said, "Anyway, the key is with me, and you can't drive it away. You can just sit in the cockpit and have fun."

Leon entered the cockpit, the boss closed the door, and helped him connect the power in the cabin. But as the boss said, the starter key was in his hand, so Leon was just having fun and couldn't do any real-time operations.

After Leon had his fun, the boss continued the topic they had just discussed and asked him, "You were not kidding, were you? Although assassinating the president is a normal operation in your country. Lincoln did it before, and your family did it later, but that was because the president needed to attend public events! Now that the daughter of your current president has been kidnapped, what's going on? Could it be that the federal agency is shutting down because of unpaid wages, and someone kidnapped the president's daughter to maliciously demand wages?"

“Wait!” Leon caught the flaw in his boss’ words and asked, “What the hell is asking for wages maliciously? Isn’t asking for wages normal? Why is it labeled as ‘malicious’?”

"So..." The boss couldn't help but sigh, "In your era, public opinion control was still very strict! Landlord-type capitalists are everywhere, you just don't know them."

"Come on, what the hell is going on here?"

"Nothing." The boss shrugged. "Then let's continue talking about the kidnapping of the commander-in-chief's daughter."

“Oh, not only does the White House not owe us a penny, but I’m getting paid really well!”

"How high?" the boss asked curiously.

"Annual salary after tax: $10!"

(Explanation: $2008 was still worth a lot before 10.)

"Oh." The boss nodded. Then he focused his attention on Brock, who was cleaning the floor in a cleaning car. Because this guy's salary last month was probably...

Probably……

Sorry, apart from being extremely sensitive about the pricing of lunch boxes and PT, the boss has completely lost any concept of money.

Then, Leon pointed to the storage area in the farthest corner of the underground base and asked the boss: "Are you still doing brass futures and spot trading? You have saved so many copper ingots. Are you planning to build a warehouse and stock up?"

"Ah... yes!" the boss admitted, "The market over there isn't very good recently, so I just saved it for myself."

"But your brass is so shiny!"

"Because it's not brass," the boss corrected, "it's tin bronze, so it's golden."

Leon shook his head, saying that he had no knowledge of this subject. However, Brock stopped the cleaning car and smiled as he watched his boss tease the fool.

There is no way, after all, normal people simply cannot accept the fact that hundreds of thousands of tons of gold are placed in front of them. Just like when Brock first came to work in the boss's shop, when the boss told him "If you think it looks good, go with it", he cried and laughed, and was greatly stimulated!

After all, it was a gold brick weighing one ton! The boss actually gave it to him casually!

It was at that moment that Brock swore from the bottom of his heart that whoever dared to go against his boss from now on would be his, Brock's, sworn enemy, just like those who played gamblers or took drugs!

It just so happened that Tony, the "show-off", also came to the underground base. Since he got the biochemical prosthesis, he has combined the technology of the Gantz tights and started to study electromagnetic artificial muscles without mechanical structures. Maybe it's because he has been enlightened in this research since he figured out the nano plastic armor.

So Tony came this time to show off his latest masterpiece to his boss - a nano exoskeleton armor with electromagnetic muscles.

"You've only been studying it for a few days, and you figured it out so quickly?"

"It's been more than 10 days." Tony also explained to his boss: "The underlying principles of many technologies here are the same. I just need to figure out their principles and then reversely deduce them, and these technologies will naturally be combined together. Of course, I am the key to this. Without my intelligence, it would be difficult to combine these technologies even if their principles are the same."

"So what about the finished product?" The boss imitated the judges of a talent show, raised his right hand and asked: "Contestant, please start showing off!"

"Come on, Makoto!" Tony complained. "Stop imitating the damn Got Talent, okay?"

Maybe Tony realized that the vest-shaped soft armor can better protect himself in daily life, or maybe Tony was simply led astray by his boss. He took off his shirt, revealing a charcoal gray V-neck vest that he was wearing next to his skin.

Perhaps the presence of strangers would make Tony more excited. Anyway, Tony didn't care whether there were strangers in the base or not. He reached out and patted the energy core on the chest of his vest. About 2.2 seconds later, a bionic power exoskeleton without external armor protection appeared on Tony's body.

"No, where is the outer armor?" asked the boss.

"What outer armor?" Tony said seriously, "If I cover the electromagnetic muscles with outer armor, how can I let you appreciate the beauty of my newly invented electromagnetic muscles?"

"It seems like you are here to show off to me!"

"What else?" Tony tilted his neck and grinned, "If I don't ask you to compare the strength of the electromagnetic muscle, how can I know whether my new invention is practical?"

As soon as Tony finished speaking, he saw the boss pull out a 9mm fully automatic pistol from somewhere, aiming at Tony's torso and emptied the magazine.

It was not until the last bullet shell fell to the ground that Tony, who had been hit by 17 bullets but was unharmed, reacted.

"Damn it, how did you suddenly pull out such an outdated weapon as Glock 18?" Tony complained as he scratched the bullet marks on his fingertips, "Your fingers have finally become thinner, right? You can finally use the 'little guy' that we ordinary people use, right! Can you not shoot all 17 bullets at a point of 10 square centimeters? Are you really going to penetrate my new invention?"

Boss Cheng threw the gun to Leon who was standing there stupidly, and then said to Tony with a nonchalant and handsome face: "It's quite sturdy. The surface craftsmanship is a little scratched, but at least it proves that this thing can block 9mm pistol bullets without armor protection."

However, just as the boss finished speaking, a shuriken suddenly flew out from his fingertips. Then, with a "ding" sound, the shuriken was once again deflected by Tony's exoskeleton.

"Fuck you, Cheng!"

But after Tony cursed, he turned around and fled outside the base because the boss had already raised a chainsaw (not a chainsaw sword) and rushed towards Tony.

Not long after, waves of curses from Tony continued to be heard, proving that Tony had successfully survived the clutches of his boss.

"It's okay as long as you're okay." The boss threw away the chainsaw, as if the devil who had just stepped on Tony and stabbed him in the thigh with the chainsaw was not him.

Lyon, who was fortunate enough to witness the entire process of the "armor test", only had three words left in his mind: seriously localized - awesome!

After all, the gunshots, the stabbings with the flying knives (shurikens), and the stabbings with the chainsaws were all ineffective against the gray-black protective suit. So, relying on the confidence of "my salary is really high", Leon took the initiative to approach Tony and said:

"Excuse me, sir, do you have a retail version of this protective suit you made?"

Tony turned around and looked at the (for now) handsome Leon after hearing the polite question.