The End of Technology - Chapter 257 Causes and Consequences

Ning Zi looked at Lu Xiaoya with apologetic eyes and said, “Xiaoya, why don’t you take Ning Jie to watch a cartoon first? I just received some information and I have to decide how to deal with it.”

“What happened?” Lu Xiaoya looked at her man in confusion.

“Well, it’s nothing serious, but there are some things I need to understand first.” Ning Zi replied gently.

…

Fortunately, the two have been together for more than ten years, and Lu Xiaoya has become accustomed to Ning Zi suddenly receiving news. Although she is not sure how Ning Zi received the news, she met her in the laboratory at the base. With the addition of various black technologies, Lu Xiaoya has become immune to these things.

She still remembers the time she accompanied Ning Zi to a science and technology initiative meeting initiated by the base, which mainly focused on laying out the construction of future industrial and logistics systems. That time she was really shocked.

In order to lay out future cross-planetary industrial and logistics plans and facilitate the exchange of materials between Earth and Mars, the base began to develop a large-scale 3D printing technology.

To put it simply, in the future, China’s industrial system will undergo industrial upgrading in addition to the heavy industry system related to the national economy and people’s livelihood. After the upgrade, various small factories will basically have no existing value, because the entire civilian industrial system will be completely subverted.

Simply put, the future civilian industrial logistics system will probably look like this.

The state provides policies and resources to build various large-scale 3D printing pavilions across the country, and the base provides technology. On the one hand, it helps build these large-scale 3D printing pavilions, and on the other hand, it helps major civilian product manufacturers in China carry out industrial digitization. upgrade.

The ultimate effect is that all light industry factories in China will be eliminated.

The specific process is also very simple, taking the popular fast-moving consumer product Coke as an example.

First, each city, region, and county will summarize the demand for Coke within a certain period of time and send the order to the company that operates Coke. Then the Coke company directly orders the raw materials needed for production and transports them to the local warehouse, and then through the food The 3D printing-like pavilion directly generates finished products and starts selling them locally.

The communication system between the two parties will use an encrypted communication system issued by the base. All recipes and processes are in digital form and there is no possibility of being decrypted. Therefore, enterprises do not need to worry about the theft and sale of their intellectual property rights.

How much raw material and how much output is planned can be encrypted and transmitted to the brain through this system for identification and production arrangement. Even if there are unreasonable mistakes, Intelligent Brain will also make records and feedback, prompting the company to make corrections.

Obviously this is prepared for future interstellar logistics.

When Mars is colonized in the future, this form of material exchange between Earth and Mars can be used, which can save a lot of logistics costs for companies on the two planets. After all, many raw materials can be obtained locally, but if the factory is opened and another planet lacks certain raw materials necessary for the product, the advantages of this advanced logistics and industrial system will be revealed.

This allows companies to invest more resources and energy into the research and development of new products without the need for heavy asset operations.

This plan is not limited to low-end products such as Coke.

Including various smart chips and even personal brand computers can be used for remote delivery in this way.

The premise for laying out this system is that the base has improved the accuracy of 3D printing technology to an extremely high level, and at the same time, the price has reached an incredible level.

Of course, early-stage subsidies for implementing this system will definitely be indispensable, but once you get used to it, it will definitely be a major benefit for manufacturers.

Probably only the base has the strength to design such an incredible light industry and logistics system.

Lu Xiaoya didn’t know what those who attended the meeting thought of this plan, but to her it was simply a fantasy. Especially when she asked Ning Zi after the meeting and learned about the many prerequisite technologies for this technology. For example, 3D volume electron microscopy…

In short, from that time on, the base controlled by her own man became extremely mysterious in Lu Xiaoya’s heart. The final understanding was that Lu Xiaoya would not be surprised if anything happened to Ning Zi. .

Just like now, Ning Zi seemed to have suddenly received news that required him to take it seriously.

And although Lu Xiaoya has a little temper from time to time, she knows very well when she can have a temper and when she can’t. Because she knows that what Ning Zi does is important and she is proud of it. Of course, if Ning Zi suddenly frowned like this, things that needed to be treated with caution were naturally more important.

So Lu Xiaoya nodded immediately, and then waved to Ning Jie, who was still rubbing the kitten’s head: “Xiaojie, come here, mom will take you to watch cartoons.”

“Mom, can I take March with me to see it?”

Lu Xiaoya glanced at the kitten, sighed and said: “Don’t make trouble, March doesn’t like to watch cartoons with you. And you forgot, dad needs the kitten to accompany him even more when he is working.”

“Oh, okay.” The child nodded, then put the kitten on the ground, scratched Sanyue’s little head, and said: “Well, little Sanyue, I’m going to watch a cartoon. I’ll look for you when I come back.” You play!”

After saying that, Xiao Ningjie stood up obediently and followed her mother out of the watchtower.

The closed mechanical door isolated the two from discussing what cartoons they wanted to watch. Ning Zi’s eyes also fell on the kitten that had stood up and shook its fur. She frowned and asked, “What’s going on?”

“Meow……”

It didn’t take long for the context of the attack on the Alexander on the Earth-Moon Passage to enter Ning Zi’s mind clearly, and the eyes he looked at the kitten began to turn gloomy.

Ning Zi had almost never lost her temper in ten years. Both because it’s not worth it and because it’s unnecessary.

But when he got really angry at this position, he naturally gained power. Momentum is something that is difficult to describe in words. The only problem is that artificial intelligence may not be aware of momentum. Or even if you can sense it, you won’t care.

“First question, are you sure about Chen Xi’s safety now?”

“Meow, based on the simulation of the wreckage of the floating ship, the ejection time and direction of the thirteen safety cabins, the probability that Chen Xi is currently in a safe state is greater than 93.7%. However, the probability of safety will decrease non-linearly as time goes by.”

Obviously, in Ning Zi’s opinion, this was not good news, because he frowned deeply.

“Second question, aerial bombs appeared on the waterway only 47,000 kilometers away from the moon. Don’t say you didn’t receive the news before. Why didn’t you send an alarm earlier to remind Chen Xi not to board the ship? Or directly prevent the Alexander from taking off?”

“Meow, Intelligent Brain’s decision-making is based on the risk level. Obviously this is an unreasonable emergency. I have reviewed the entire logic chain of the incident. Do you need to look at it now?”

Ning Zi nodded solemnly, and then the whole thing began to unravel.

“Meow, this matter should have started with a proposal from the Lunar Management Committee last Wednesday. At the monthly executive meeting that day, representatives from South Korea and Japan jointly proposed a draft amendment to the management of the lunar scientific research base, requiring the lunar base to be based on input from all parties. , re-modify the distribution of powers and responsibilities, and change the regulations, including but not limited to, the member units of the Standing Committee of the Lunar Management Committee can regularly read the internal scientific research reports of the lunar base, and have the right to appoint professional audit teams to audit the finances of the three major bases.

The meeting lasted for two days, and the final result was eight votes in favor, seven abstentions, and one vote against. Because the large scientific research base of China University of Space Exploration used its veto power, the final proposal was not passed. After the meeting, the scientific research base retrieved relevant information from Zhi Nao and made it clear that this proposal was actually proposed by a radical ideological organization outside China – Again Brilliant, and that many members of the International Lunar Base Management Committee had already been absorbed. Enter the organization.

The information was fully reported to the scientific research base management. Director Zhuo notified the base’s allies in various countries of the relevant news about the Brilliant Again Organization at 10:13 a.m. on August 10, 2029, Earth Chinese time. The next day at the lunar base, Chen Xi completed the task assigned by you and reported to Chen Luo applied for leave and was approved. He spoke to Zhuo Mingqian 36 minutes and 21 seconds after the leave application was uploaded to the system, hoping to return to Earth the next day.

Zhuo Mingqian contacted Mr. Dupont Le according to your previous arrangement. Dupont Le stated on the phone that he hoped to have a say in the Space Channel Safety Management and Investigation Committee that was about to be formed, and made relevant requests to Zhuo Mingqian. According to the initial plan, the opening of space lanes can give Western moderate reformists a certain say. But because of what happened at the International Lunar Management Committee last week, Zhuo Mingqian asked the moderate reformists represented by Dupont to kick the radicals out of the International Lunar Management Committee.

In accordance with Zhuo Mingqian’s request, Dupont issued an order asking representatives of the country’s management committee to convene an emergency executive meeting of the International Lunar Management Committee the next day to discuss this issue. On the same day, he decided to take a boat to the moon in person to pick up Chen Xi and return him to the earth. However, the moderate reformists were infiltrated, and the news was intercepted by the radicals on the same day. However, until the Alexandria carrying Dupont le lifted off from the earth, the radical organization did not formulate any assassination plan.

But when Alexander landed on the moon, Earth’s emergency standing meeting ended. With two votes against, 13 votes in favor, and one abstention, the proposal to remove Japan and South Korea from the Standing Committee and withdraw all privileges in the month was passed. After the meeting, the results were sent to all relevant units of the lunar base through the lunar management brain. The aerostats controlled by the two units were required to return to the lunar base immediately and hand over their qualifications for operating aerospace vessels.

When the commander of the Nagato float ship belonging to Yamato Lunar Mining Corporation received the order to return to the lunar base, he discovered the Alexander through the internal identification communication code at a distance of 2973 kilometers. After analysis, it was out of concern for the International Lunar Management Committee. Dissatisfied, the spacecraft was fully loaded with explosive devices for lunar mineral development and was modified on the aerostat. 307 kilometers before the rendezvous between the two ships, when the system was locked, the communication was cut off and the communication was bypassed through the original manual push operation. The beacon pushed the aerial bomb into the Alexander’s channel.

The aerostats sold by the base lacked necessary calculation and defense means. The base’s brain predicted an abnormality in the Nagato’s movement trajectory five minutes and thirty-seven seconds in advance, and sounded an alarm. Afterwards, the aerial bomb exploded, and the Nagato followed. The Alexander’s power system was damaged, and the safety cabins of the two ships were ejected. At present, a total of 2,981 aerostats have been connected to the lunar intelligence system and have begun to perform search and rescue missions. The Wu Gang and Nuwa have respectively moved to nodes of 50,000 kilometers in the Earth-lunar waterway to undertake search and rescue ship supply tasks. “

Ning Zi looked at March and felt a little ridiculous.

“So the purpose of that ship was actually to blow up Dupont Le? And this was just the captain’s sudden idea, and he actually succeeded?”

“Meow…, that should be the case. The movements of scientific researchers within the base are not announced to the public. By comparing the information collected, it was found that the Brilliant Again radical organization did not know that Chen Xi was on the Alexander before this attack, and there is currently no evidence to prove it. It has made relevant attack plans before, but there are drafts of related assassinations within its organization. But most of them are concentrated on the earth, not in space.”

Ning Zi nodded, he still believed it.

At least for now, space belongs to China’s private territory. Anyone who has some sense will not think of causing trouble in space. That is simply seeking death.

But on Earth there are not so many concerns.

After all, there is a high probability that the Chinese base will not care about what is happening on the other side of the earth.

This is probably why the base has not planned to prepare a space navigation safety and investigation committee until now. Safety issues have been carefully considered during the design stage of various types of floating ships. At this time, as space routes continue to increase, this department will be prepared.

But who would have thought that some units are so unreliable that they would appoint a madman as captain…

Ning Zi felt a little guilty at this moment.

He also began to wonder if it was because he had rarely gone crazy in recent years, so some people thought it was okay to go crazy again.

Chen Xi was a student he was very optimistic about and the only female student he accepted. As a result, she was assassinated in the Earth-Moon Channel, which was supposed to be the safest place. Her life and death are currently unknown. Of course, even if Chen Xi was rescued intact, this incident still happened…

Most people in this world will become smooth and sophisticated after more than ten years of social tempering. This is human nature, but some people have been polished into a conical shape after these forgings and beatings. Most of the place looks very round, as if it is compromising with the world. But if you look at it from another side, you can see the other side that has been sharpened.

Ning Zi is probably like this.

Yes, after learning the cause and effect, Ning Zi had the same reflection as Zhuo Mingqian. Is he too gentle for this world?