Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Crisis Era 9 Years.

"We need to dig down further, at least 3000 meters."

The construction team was dumbfounded when they heard Lin Xuan's request.

"3000 meters underground? Are you planning to dig through the Earth?"

"It's part of the plan."

The construction team leader shook his head slightly.

"I'm afraid that won't work, Mr. Wallfacer. If you only need to build a basement or an underground laboratory, that's no problem at all. But this depth far exceeds the depth of the China Jinping Dark Matter Laboratory..."

“I know that the Wallfacers don’t have as much power as they used to. To undertake such a massive project, the PDC will definitely need to allocate a significant portion of its budget. So, I will explain my plan at the Wallfacer hearing.”

Lin Xuan let out a long sigh.

Just as he had thought, the PDC's control over the Wallfacers' rights was shrinking more and more severely, and with conflicts erupting everywhere recently, the entire human society was in chaos.

Given the current situation, we can only wait until Luo Ji convenes the hearing for the Wallfacers to discuss this further.

Liu Chang's research went very smoothly. When Lin Xuan found him, 32 identical clones were already waiting neatly in the underground laboratory.

Outwardly, they appear the same as normal people, but their eyes are dull, giving them a kind of beauty that comes from a lack of brainstem.

"Why are they all bald?"

Lin Xuan voiced her doubts.

Liu Chang picked up the thermos on the table, took a sip of the brewed red date and goji berry tea, and then spoke.

"They're just superfluous, useless tissues in the human body. Why bother making those things? They might even interfere with their growth in the nutrient solution. What you want is for them to be intelligent. I've already removed all the useless functions from them."

"for example?"

"gender."

Lin Xuan: ? ? ?

"These are all asexual beings. I made dozens of adjustments to create this thing. At first, I wanted to set them all as male because women have a weak period every month and their logical thinking is not very developed, which would be not conducive to your use."

"Later I discovered that even for men, there are still many problems. For example, men are more likely to have a sweating response. So I made some modifications in this regard to achieve a delicate balance between the sexes. The benefits are obvious, and I haven't found any disadvantages yet."

"alright."

Lin Xuan was speechless for a moment. What Liu Chang had created was far better than he had imagined.

"I recently looked into your Mewtwo database. If I'm not mistaken, you're planning to use cloning technology to increase the computing power of that machine, right?"

"Yes."

Lin Xuan readily admitted it; it wasn't exactly a secret, as almost everyone in the Red Coast Third Base knew about it.

"It can't be done."

"Can't do it?" Lin Xuan was taken aback.

"why?"

"The laws of nature".

Liu Chang gave the same answer as before.

"It's hard for me to explain this clearly to you. It's more of a philosophical question: ego, id, superego."

"First, you need to know what cloning technology is."

"Continuously replicating a segment of a gene?"

Liu Chang neither confirmed nor denied.

"To put it more professionally, you are a student of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. You are a pure cell line formed by the division and reproduction of the same ancestral cell. The genes of each cell in this cell line are the same, which is also called asexual reproduction technology."

"so?"

"So there is a problem. Your database works by using human consciousness as a medium, human intelligence as a computing unit, and human knowledge reserves as data. I can use technology to guarantee the latter two, but what about the issue of consciousness?"

How do you think they should view the fact that they are clones?

Lin Xuan was taken aback.

"What impact will this have?"

He thought that all he had to do was clone these people and connect them to the database.

"I do not know."

Liu Chang gave Lin Xuan an answer that she did not expect.

"do not know?"

"Yes, that's the crux of the problem. You have to understand, I was the first person to research human cloning. Of course, there may have been others who were researching it, but they also got stuck on this issue. Future history books will record us as sinners."

"what is the problem?"

"How to eliminate the sense of independence in clones."

Lin Xuan was startled. He suddenly looked at the clones behind Liu Chang and realized that they were not just dull-witted, but that their eyes had truly lost a trace of spirit... a trace of human spirit.

"Consciousness is a person's ability to recognize their environment and themselves, and the definition of 'I' for clones will have completely different possibilities from those of us humans."

"I won't give any examples, but you can try to imagine how you would define the concept of 'I am me' if you realized that there is more than one you in the world."

“You know I’m a biologist, and I don’t really understand philosophical questions, so to avoid potential future problems, I’ve made some modifications to these clones, only retaining their brain’s computational functions.”

Liu Chang spoke calmly, but Lin Xuan felt a chill run down her spine.

"Grass!"

Although he didn't know what aspect Liu Chang meant by "modification," the ability to erase a living person's awareness of their own existence was far more terrifying than Hines's mental imprint.

If Hines's mental imprint was merely a modification of human cognition, then Liu Chang, that madman, created something akin to mind control, completely stripping a person of their self-control.

Lin Xuan can even use the Super Dream database to directly control these clones and execute commands!

It's as easy as controlling a soldier in a strategy game.

For some reason, Lin Xuan suddenly regretted letting Liu Chang research this thing. Just as he said, no matter what the future holds, they would definitely become sinners in history.

The connection to the Mewtwo database was completed quickly, even faster than expected.

The moment the brains of the 32 clones were connected to the consciousness extractor, their brains began frantically providing computing power to the entire database.

Liu Chang succeeded. The self-awareness of these clones was completely erased. Even when connected by a consciousness extractor, nothing could be extracted. Therefore, they could only be used as computing units to complete the computer.

Although there are only 32 people, their brains have been upgraded to the current technological limit. The computing power provided by one clone is equivalent to that of at least 1024 ordinary people, which greatly exceeded Lin Xuan's expectations.

To prevent brain damage caused by overheating when the database was overloaded, Liu Chang buried all 32 people underground and used hibernation technology to freeze them in a huge nutrient solution pool to prevent them from dying from malnutrition if the time was too long.

He gave this thing a very fitting name—the Thinkers Array.