In AD 2338, the first batch of artificial life, created by a combination of cutting-edge technologies such as gene manipulation, nanomachine implantation, and artificial **, entered the [usable period]. The research department quickly deployed them on Earth for environmental survival tests, and the results were basically in line with the expected figures. In extremely harsh environments, the mortality rate of the test subjects remained below 1%, and the experiment was a complete success.
Society, government, businesses, and individuals all boiled with excitement over this result. Not only did the experiment signal the possibility of accelerating Earth's recovery, but it also heralded a better future.
Dangerous and heavy space development work now had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of low-cost labor, suitable for both vacuum environment operations and colony development farming. Medical achievements no longer needed to rely on naturally born animals. Politicians successfully preserved their votes and election funding, and businesses found new avenues for profit growth.
Everyone seemed to be immersed in a state of euphoria, until the shrill voice of a particular group poured cold water on everyone's enthusiasm.
The military raised an apparently unavoidable question - if, in the future, mechanically manufactured artificial life demanded equal treatment and rights as naturally born humans, or even resorted to armed rebellion for independence, how would everyone handle it?
After a brief period of silence, the government and the people made it clear - increase the budget and maintain a powerful military force to defend the constitution and the interests of the people at critical moments.
As for whether artificial life possessed human rights and corresponding legal status... apart from a small handful of fanatics, who cared about whether [everything] was sentient and what should be given to it, and the unimaginable nonsense of equality with oneself?
With an expanded budget and a stronger voice, the army quickly selected an isolated island in the South Atlantic as an annexed facility, establishing a large, fully enclosed research institution to conduct research and development of military-grade artificial life.
In order to establish an overwhelming advantage against a hypothetical large-scale rebellion, the military demanded stringent performance indicators, which directly led to slow progress and a prolonged research and development period.
- In order to carry out long-term combat and have adequate output power, a Fallback Furnace should be mounted as the power source for combat.
- Implant nanomachines with explosive augmentation ability to change body shape and structure, improving versatility and adaptation ability in different battle situations.
- Photonic computer's calculation ability, possessing excellent judgment and analysis capabilities.
- Unconditional obedience to commands, without questioning superior orders.
In order to create the military's desired [artificial life weapons with the best cost-performance ratio], the researchers artificially manipulated gene sequences to produce artificial life forms with congenital genius syndrome as experimental platforms. These experimental subjects were collectively referred to as [test subjects], distinguished by numerical codes added as suffixes.
Over nearly 20 years, the research institute created almost 100,000 test subjects, with one success and the rest discarded due to various failures. The corpses were thrown into decomposition furnaces for recycling purposes.
Successful test subject [Test Subject 60278]. Manufactured in AD 2356, the implanted special genetic fragment produced symptoms of genius syndrome manifested in prodigious physical abilities, calculation abilities, and observation and analysis abilities. However, there was a significant defect in emotional cognition, lacking any emotions such as happiness, anger, sorrow, or joy. As a result, an artificial intelligence (AI) module was implanted surgically to analyze external stimuli and generate necessary expressions and reactions based on the test subject's own analysis.
Due to being later in the sequence, the trial did not commence until after the completion of the Fallback Furnace and nanomachine activation and operation tests, but a major incident occurred during the examination process.
The special forces of the Internal Affairs Department launched a surprise attack on the research institute. The core control room was quickly subdued and occupied, causing the defense system to fail and countermeasures to be completely disrupted. From this point, it was deduced that the action leader was likely a group of civilian bureaucrats from the Earth Federal Government, unwilling to see the military group expand and launching the operation to seize all results.
Out of frustration or resentment, General Basque, the leader of research and development, activated Test Subject 60278's Fallback Furnace, which was not in a critical peak state at the time, sparing Earth from direct destruction by gravitational turbulence. The small-scale singularity explosion nonetheless swallowed the whole island along with the personnel and equipment, temporarily interfering with Earth's rotation.
The incident was settled on this basis - at least in terms of Earth.
The core of the singularity explosion - the test containment and Test Subject 60278 - survived the collapse and landed on this miraculous land that defied Earth's scientific common sense, crossing time and space barriers.
Dragons, elves, dwarves, beastmen, magic... words that should have only existed in fantasy literature, games, and comics were now a living reality on this land.
Bloodshed, slaughter, suppression, annihilation... the words this strange land possessed interwoven with Earth's reality were incredibly similar, no, they were the same thing.
- War.
The reason for the birth of Test Subject 60278 and the hundred thousand failures, their true mother that nurtured them into this world.
What to do next?
The young man with the label [Test Subject 60278] sorted through his memory intel, taking 5 seconds to complete the archiving process before beginning to build this question in his mind and starting to solve it.
After a minute, the lips that had been tightly closed since setting foot on Welt's land began to expand and vibrate, the sound once again appearing in the dark unconscious space.
"Judging that the project leader and related personnel are all dead, contact with Earth's side has been completely cut off. Freeze and discard all search plans, enter self-action mode. Discard the login name [Test Subject 60278], change to the fully-realized expected login name [Li Lin (lilin)]. In conjunction with the current situation, I will autonomously choose Mission B4."
The young man now known as[Li Lin] paused for a moment, and a voice from the deepest part of hell spread an icy chill through the air.
"Infiltrate, invade low-level civilizations, colonize them, and make them Earth-like."
With a starting point that should not have existed, that must not have existed, and had no reason to exist, the turbulent waves of the era set off small, inconspicuous ripples in the land of Welt, turning into hidden undercurrents beneath the surface, waiting for the moment to become raging waves that would wreak havoc on everything. The stage full of lies and the soundless opening act had begun.
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PS: Last night I had a dream where a white-faced bear with a hammer and sickle on its chest asked a rabbit, "Is it time to burn the image of a handsome, dashing, suave, and strong person down for us?"
The rabbit was shocked and replied, "Isn't it already burned for big brother?"
The bear looked deflated and said: "Well, I still miss the beacon of the Human Hope Empire."
The rabbit suddenly understood: "Don't worry, big brother, I'll make sure to burn a bald eagle for you!"
What do you think, should a bald eagle be burned to keep the bear company?
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