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Chapter 1122 Blue Star Civilization
Time has been turned back a little.

June 15th, 1,230,48th year of the pseudo-cosmic calendar.

Blue Star Federation, headquarters of the United Corporation.

The top floor of the building is very spacious. From the entrance of the lobby, you can see a smooth, mirror-like metal floor, which is specially processed to give it a classic feel.

On the outside side is a ten-meter-high floor-to-ceiling window that extends from the edge to the end. At this moment, under the control of the smart home system, the curtains on both sides of the floor-to-ceiling window quickly close, and the room is plunged into darkness in an instant.

At that moment, a beam of light shone down from above, illuminating the center of the hall. Compared to the vast area of ​​the top floor, the area illuminated by this beam was pitifully small, and in that spot, there was a round table.

Around the round table, ten chairs were neatly arranged.

As if everything was ready, a phantom figure appeared on the first chair. This was the latest technology: remote projection imaging, which could communicate with the person in question, allowing them to see, hear, and touch the object.

As the first well-dressed person took their seat, others followed, mostly men with two women. After they sat down, they began to make eye contact with the others.

After a few seconds of silence, the man sitting in chair number 1 spoke up, "The investigation results are in. The legend is true; there really is a real place."

The words "the place of truth" drew everyone's attention, and they all perked up.

The current calendar system is a pseudo-cosmic calendar. The reason it is called that is because 1.23 million years ago, human civilization exploring the universe discovered a horrifying truth.

That is, the universe might be virtual; unless observed, the outer star systems remain un-"rendered".

It's like a game where, to conserve energy, certain areas don't render graphics or even function until the player actually visits them.

This discovery shocked many top scientists, and in the same year, many scientists committed suicide because it overturned the theoretical framework of their life's research.

If the world is virtual, then all the laws and principles they study were predetermined by higher-dimensional beings. Many things can be explained, but many more cannot. They finally uncovered the truth of the world, only to find themselves trapped in a mire.

After the initial excitement, the world continued to function as usual, but people's passion for the interstellar travel era had faded, because even if they continued to explore the universe, they were only exploring the limits of virtual world rendering.

Furthermore, based on theoretical speculation, if this world is indeed virtual, and its perception is based on their observations, then they might truly be the center of the world, the key.

The key is these people, not the various resources in the universe.

Or rather, as the only known source of life in the universe, Earth is special.

Therefore, people began to shift their focus from exploring overseas to exploring the planet itself and humanity itself.

In the same year, when the truth could no longer be concealed, humanity's discoveries about extraterrestrial exploration and the truth about the universe were finally revealed to the general public.

As a result, in that year, the population of Earth decreased by 90%.

It wasn't because of war or disease, but because 90% of the people chose suicide.

Because they realize that the world is virtual, and they may just be NPCs in a game, or they may be 'players' who have blocked their memories to visit this place.

The former would consider themselves pathetic and meaningless creations, while the latter would fantasize about a different life after leaving, since according to their common sense, people who have money to play games should not have a bad life.

In this world, they are oppressed by the company, living like humans without any dignity. In the past, there may have been various reasons to support them to survive in the difficult environment, but with the emergence of the "gamer theory", more and more people have chosen to give up and head towards the end of their lives.

In the past, the world's top companies didn't care about the lives of ordinary people, because advanced technology could completely replace manual labor, and silicon-based life forms were far more useful than those humans who complained.

The untouchables can no longer create value for us. After all, even organ transplants and the like have been perfectly replicated by cloning technology. So, there's nothing of value left on the bodies of the untouchables.

The reason the company hasn't chosen to eliminate all the untouchables and let the upper class share social resources is simply because they can more easily gain a sense of superiority through class comparison.

But this sharp decline in the population of Earth has truly made the company panic, because they have only just begun to understand the truth of the world and can only see the tip of the iceberg. They are still seeing the truth through a fog.

Therefore, they cannot be sure whether the ideas spread by those 'cultists' are really wrong. What if this world really is just a game? What if those players do something bad to the 'server' after they leave?
Even if this world is really just a game, those who are already living comfortably in high positions don't want to leave this game world. Therefore, they hope to investigate the truth within the world while maintaining their own status.

Furthermore, the so-called virtual world game theory is just a hypothesis. No one knows what this virtual world is actually used for. As long as the truth is not clarified, it is impossible to put people at ease.

When the situation is unclear, they certainly won't let it get out of control. Besides, leading scientists unanimously believe that human consciousness is the greatest resource, and every intelligent life is perhaps priceless.

Without subjects to observe, scientists cannot conduct research. Furthermore, since the company's top executives have already achieved alternative forms of immortality through genetic technology, they are no longer of much research value. After discussion, the scientists unanimously agreed that only observing the entire life of an ordinary human newborn is of research value. In addition, they must observe human sociological behavior, requiring a stable social environment, and for comparative experiments, they also need people living in poverty.

Therefore, the ten companies that dominated various industries on Earth at that time united to form the Earth Federation, also known as the Blue Alliance.

They wave the banner of the new era, claiming to work for the well-being of all humanity, urging people not to believe in the game world theory, saying it's just a rumor, and that in the new era, the Blue Alliance will treat every Blue Star resident as fairly as possible and ensure their quality of life.

Since that day, the suicide rate has dropped significantly, and many impoverished people have regained their social status, able to eat well, dress warmly, and have shelter simply through social welfare.

Because the top management of Blue Union has mastered all of Blue Star's resources, its technology is highly advanced, and its silicon-based life forms with artificial intelligence are entirely dedicated to serving humanity, Blue Star has never lacked survival resources for humans. Even when the population was large, the company's top management could ensure that everyone was well-fed and clothed if they wanted to.

But the company's people never do charity. After all, they won't do anything that doesn't benefit them. The commoners can no longer create more value for them, so why should they care about the life or death of the commoners?

As for rebelling, that's even more ridiculous; it's not like we're living in the ancient era of cold weapons.

Without cutting-edge weaponry, even if billions of poor people revolt, the company only needs to send one armed mech to wipe them out in half an hour. Moreover, they have precise biological destruction technology that can kill only humans without damaging buildings and industrial facilities.

Therefore, the company's previous attitude towards the commoners was "take it or leave it," and they didn't care even though the population of Earth had already plummeted to 300 million before the Great Suicide Incident.

After the establishment of Blue Union and the implementation of various welfare policies, five or six years later, Blue Union experienced a baby boom.

The first generation of newborns were initially educated by their parents, who told them about the horrors of the old era and how the company had oppressed people. They were also told that the current changes might only be temporary and that they should not forget that there would be opportunities to change the social landscape in the future.

However, as the children enter school, the simple education provided by these parents is overshadowed. After all, most of these parents are just poor people from the old era who don't have much education, so how could they know how to brainwash them?
Moreover, as social attitudes change and children grow up, parents will also change their tune and teach their children to find ways to get jobs in companies in the future.

After all, as times change, they often see news reports that although companies have issued welfare policies, these policies are not being implemented in some remote areas, and there are still many people living in poverty.

Through comparison and the tempering of time, they have become more and more settled in their current lives, not wanting to become like those people in impoverished mountain areas. At the same time, they also feel a sense of urgency, fearing that their next generation will return to that kind of life.

Time slowly passed, and after three or four generations, the memories of the oppression that the old-fashioned company had inflicted on people had long since disappeared.

Humans are pragmatic creatures. As long as they are well-fed, clothed, and live comfortably, who would go against their leader?
Three hundred years later, Blue Alliance truly became a utopian world of universal harmony, where silicon-based life forms nurtured humanity. Due to highly advanced medicine, even though ordinary people could not achieve immortality through advanced genetic engineering, they could generally live to be three or four hundred years old. Therefore, the company also implemented population-restricted development rules.

According to calculations by the company's most advanced AI, given their technological level at the time, Blue Star could support a maximum of 200 billion people in a sustainable development cycle without experiencing resource shortages, while also maintaining the extravagant lifestyle of the company's top executives.

And so, after thousands of years of development, the human population reached its historical peak.

Thanks to advanced technology, the company has long mastered planetary environment modification technology. They have transformed deserts into oases suitable for living, and places that were previously unsuitable for human habitation, such as canyons and volcanoes, have all been transformed.

Therefore, even though the population of Earth has increased, it does not appear crowded. On the contrary, the residential areas are quite spacious. In addition, with high-rise buildings everywhere, the utilization rate of vertical space in residential areas is extremely high. In fact, the buildings in the city are very wide apart, and the streets are also very wide.

Ironically, most people born in this era take it for granted that they can live a comfortable life after birth, and they too are prone to suicide and world-weariness.

They draw solace from reports of the few remaining impoverished areas, yet yearn to actually join the company and become powerful figures in such times.

In reality, since the calendar system was changed to the pseudo-cosmic calendar, although the company has recruited employees of the new era, very few people have been able to enter the company's senior management. At most, they can only get a decent position in the company's military.

The truly immortal high-ranking figures are still the same people from back then. This is a very realistic fact, because immortal emperors would never share their power with others.

Even though the immortality technology in genetic engineering is no longer a difficult problem for current technology, they will not share it with outsiders because it is a symbol of their authority.

After 1.23 million years, they finally found the truth of the world. Ironically, they had spent their whole lives pursuing the truth, wanting to understand the truth of the world, hoping to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to become immortal emperors, whether in the virtual world or the real world.

But the information about this truth was actually unearthed from 'documents' of the old era.

Thirty years ago, ten companies jointly developed a new type of AI. This AI was built on a star in a star system next to our solar system and powered by the Dyson sphere principle. It constructed a star-level computing matrix and is the most powerful AI to date. It is named Talma.

It is said that in a closed model, this AI can estimate the future of Earth with an accuracy rate of up to 90%. However, in reality, due to many external factors affecting Earth, Talma's actual predictions about humanity are only about 50% accurate.
Originally, the company developed and built Talma in the hope of having stronger computing power to help them calculate the tipping point between virtual and reality. However, unexpectedly, during its self-learning process, Talma scoured human data from ancient times to the present and sifted out a useful piece of information.

That was in a company in the old days. There was a group of martial arts masters who hunted down a martial artist. The reason was that the martial arts masters believed that the martial artist named Lu Feng who was hunted down had been to a place called Tiankeng and brought out something called the Holy Soul.

After further data collection and investigation, Talma's conclusion shocked the company's senior management, because all the information confirmed that the sinkhole was real!

(End of this chapter)