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"This is the far side of the moon; you can't see the direction of Earth from here."
"Looking around, all I see are stars, but not Earth. Suddenly, I feel so lonely."
"Alright, everyone, come and take pictures! This is a historic moment!"
The journey to the moon was very easy. Upon arrival, apart from Fairy Yunmeng and other members of the Shenzhou civilization (Qin Shan and other ship girls made guest appearances), everyone on the spaceship was equipped with brand-new enclosed powered spacesuits.
This is essentially a type of lightweight powered armor, with defensive capabilities that would make most mainstream automatic rifles on Earth weep. Wearing it doesn't feel heavy or restrictive at all; you could even wear it to perform a Wing Chun routine.
The accompanying bodyguards have already started gesturing; they are doing this to test how much movement of humans on the moon would be affected, and this data is extremely valuable.
That's right, among these people are bodyguards from various countries. They may not be of any use, but what if they are?
"Gather, gather, everyone gather here."
Historic moments naturally deserve historical memories. With the press of the shutter, an exquisite historical photograph, under a magnifying glass, accurately reveals the faces of more than 20,000 people, and is etched into the long river of human civilization.
After taking photos, the next step is the allocation of personnel, which is completely randomized. Everyone has a room and a bathroom. You can eat at the restaurant or bring your own food back. Don't worry about missing mealtimes, because the food here is printed directly using a 3D printer. However, you don't need to worry about the taste of the food. Without looking at the processing, you can't tell the difference between these ingredients and those raised in free-range conditions.
Fake technology and ruthless practices: lethal doses of various additives.
Real technology and ruthless work: industrialized food processing that is completely harmless to the human body.
Of course, there are additives, but as long as you don't consume them every day, you'll be perfectly fine. Demonizing additives is completely unnecessary, just like the idea that sugar-free drinks, which are classified as Group 2B carcinogens, would require you to drink at least twenty bottles a day to potentially cause cancer. Before that, I'd already be in the hospital being treated for water intoxication. Even if I die, it'll most likely be from overeating.
However, this fully automated food production has seriously harmed the chefs in the team.
Well, there are chefs among these 20,000 people. In-flight catering is also an important learning program. I just didn't expect that after I came here, I would completely waste the opportunity and become unemployed.
"Don't be discouraged, you still have job opportunities."
His name was still Qin Shan, but he had changed his appearance. Qin Shan, who appeared as a special envoy of Chinese civilization, patted the French chef and the Chinese chef on the shoulder.
Those who can come here, even the chefs, are among the best in the world. Of course, we can't let such highly skilled people lose their jobs.
"Do you still need us here?"
After witnessing the production methods at the lunar base, the French chef, deeply traumatized, has entered a state of existential crisis, seemingly already envisioning the despair of his own and the culinary industry's complete demise in the future.
"Of course, once the traditional needs of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met, people need spiritual pursuits, and life still needs some sense of ritual."
Okay, basically it's about moving the culinary profession beyond the traditional act of cooking to an art form; simply put, it's about "giving food a soul."
Isn't this like taking off your pants to fart?!
Yes, but sometimes humans just like this kind of pointless behavior. Look at the lives of the powerful and wealthy; many of their etiquette practices are pointless, but that's called class, the ticket to the upper class, and the threshold that distinguishes the powerful from the lowly.
Qin Shan certainly didn't want them to become such disgusting excrement, but rather to guide the chefs' future development towards the realm of spiritual comfort and psychological therapy.
When people get tired of machine-produced delicacies, they will definitely start to seek out social content. The reality is that although many people don't like noisy environments, they also don't want their surroundings to be as quiet as a stagnant pool.
At this moment, the chef who cooks for you and chats with you at the same time becomes a spiritual enjoyment, nourishing your soul while filling your stomach.
Doesn't that sound really high-class?
Well, to put it simply, it's just the affectation that humans experience after they've had their fill of food and drink.
But as long as there is demand, someone will do it.
To the average person, immigrating to another planet only requires solving the problem of survival, and the rest can be left to time. From the perspective of pure life evolution, this statement is perfectly reasonable. Humans will always adapt to the environment, and those who cannot adapt to the environment can simply be eliminated, and everyone will be happy.
What if you were the one eliminated? Would you willingly accept being completely abandoned and eliminated simply because you couldn't adapt to a new environment?
Of course not. No one, unless they have a serious tendency toward self-destruction, would want to be kicked out of the Earth Online server like this. So, in the coming period of time, an even greater test will be placed before all of humanity.
Everyone has probably heard the phrase "unaccustomed to a new environment," which, if broken down, involves a combination of factors such as disease, diet, environment, and psychology. Different people on the same planet can experience this, so why is it that humans can adapt unconditionally to the environment of other planets? This clearly doesn't make sense.
Admittedly, those who can come to the lunar base are the elite of humanity. But you should know that there are only a handful of astronauts in the world, and only the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have the ability to cultivate true space talent and have a solid technological foundation. This time, Qin Shan brought a full 20,000 people from all walks of life. They are indeed elites in their respective fields, but that does not mean they are also excellent astronauts. Their physical and mental qualities are far from meeting that threshold.
Simply traveling on a spaceship, protected by various built-in safeguards, would certainly not cause them any problems. However, if they were to live on the moon for an extended period, the mere fact that they could not see Earth could lead to uncontrollable psychological issues.
Of course, if a child grows up on the moon, they certainly won't think about Earth in the future. After all, Earth is just a concept to them. It's like the Shandong people who ventured to Northeast China back then. After settling down in Northeast China, how much affection do their descendants still have for Shandong? Unless they frequently return home, in the memories of the new generation, they are just people born in Northeast China on the black soil. Shandong can only be called the hometown of their ancestors, not their own hometown.
But no matter how these people ultimately end up, their lives will become the greatest testament to this era, great navigators who pioneered the exploration of extraterrestrial living space for humanity.
Before arriving here, they had already received word that they would be staying on the moon for five years. During these five years, they could contact Earth at any time using instant messaging technology that would allow for zero-delay communication between Earth and the moon. You could even play online games with other players on the moon, and your latency would be even less than theirs.
This technology currently requires the input of blood crystals, and without protection, only superhumans can process them. Therefore, superhumans are not just a title, but two completely different types of humans, whose living environment is even incompatible with that of the former.
In Qin Shan's previous life, some scientists hypothesized that the whole world was enveloped in high concentrations of blood crystals, forming an environment similar to the revival of spiritual energy. In fact, by the 24th century, this trend was already very obvious. At that time, more than 30 percent of the world's regions were covered by blood crystals that were absolutely deadly to ordinary people, but to extraordinary people, those regions were like seaside villas and mountain scenic spots, desirable places that people flocked to.
According to this grand model, if the blood crystals were allowed to spread unchecked, the entire Earth would eventually be filled with their energy, forcing everyone to ascend, since those who couldn't ascend would all die.
In the later stages of Qin Shan's life, this probability was one in ten, which is equivalent to one in ten people becoming a superhuman, or one in ten seemingly ordinary people becoming a superhuman after being tainted by the blood crystal.
Now, it would be good if there were only one in ten million. A generation is ten years. Qin Shan lived to the 24th century. In that time, a third of the population of the Wandering Earth had been replaced. Humanity has been replaced twice from beginning to end.
"Next up are the space elevator project, the human starship project, and Mars exploration. Tsk tsk tsk, are they already in such a hurry, or is it that, apart from China, all other countries are in a great hurry?"
Thanks to Qin Shan's persistent meddling, the old-era beneficiaries on Earth are now living a miserable life. Every now and then, they get their streetlights hung up or their entire families killed. Although these are just trivial matters, these people are rich. Since they are rich, they will naturally try to find a new place for themselves to avoid working with these corrupt and unruly people. We must rebuild the ideal utopia of the new world!
A utopia for the elite, huh? Then you'll have to train a new batch of slaves.
Qin Shan, of course, would not allow such disgusting behavior. He had already seen such disgusting places before. In World Three, under the Free Earth regime, there was a neutral teleportation node that implemented a capitalist slave system.
That place is a paradise for a very small number of people. Everyone is divided into different classes in the placenta. Except for the people at the top who can live and reproduce, the rest of the humans are subjected to various prosthetic modifications and drug stimulation from the day they are born. They are forced to mature into what appears to be an adult in just a few hours. Then they are castrated and have part of their brains removed, turning them into slaves who can only obediently serve capitalists. They are only theoretically human. In reality, they are killed from the day they are born, leaving only their flesh and blood to be slaves of the times.
Those at the very bottom are relatively fortunate, because they have never had self-awareness. They are born as flesh and blood machines, and they lose the possibility of being human both physiologically and physically without even the opportunity to feel sadness or pain.
In contrast, those middle-class individuals who are allowed to possess self-awareness but are essentially just everyday commodities have only the value of pleasing the upper class. Capitalists and powerful figures can do whatever they want with them, creating a seemingly free birdcage called the "free world" within a certain area through various simulations and deceptions. They watch these individuals grow freely while secretly interfering with and influencing their lives at will. Their world is like a living game, and they are merely characters manipulated by the players. If the players are dissatisfied, they can be deleted at any time, meaning they are eliminated.
Being killed is still "happy". If you like playing R18G games, then it's another brutal and bizarre scene. You can always believe in the terrifying depths of human depravity. Even the masters of Pornhub can't understand what the extreme malice of humans looks like. After all, they are just ordinary people who make a living by playing games. They wouldn't actually play such perverted games.
If human civilization in this life becomes like that, Qin Shan's rebirth would be a complete failure. So those humanoids who want to take advantage of interstellar development to build their own capitalist utopias will never be able to leave Earth in this lifetime, and the technology of the Divine Continent civilization will not be used by them. If they still don't behave, just kill them. Don't forget, there are still many "evil" superhumans on Earth who are eyeing us covetously. Under such circumstances, the death of a few powerful people is nothing.
Aside from the greed of those who benefited from the old era, there is another factor forcing countries other than China to accelerate interstellar development: the continued weakness of the international economic order.
To put it bluntly, in today's world, whoever has the most advanced manufacturing sector can consume more resources and rely on the world to export cheap resources to feed themselves. China has clearly exceeded that threshold.
As we all know, one should be established at thirty, free from doubt at forty, know one's destiny at fifty, be able to hear and understand at sixty, and be venerable at seventy.
This means that when your industrial output accounts for 30% of the world's total, the country is truly independent and self-reliant; when it reaches 40%, you will not be troubled by the strength of your enemies; when it reaches 50%, this is your destiny; when it reaches 60%, everyone around you will be agreeable; and when it reaches 70%, the enemies around you will become fewer and fewer.
This shows that Confucius knew about the importance of industry more than two thousand years ago (humorous).
Although China's children may be talking about nuclear weapons, we truly love peace. Please believe us, won't you? Vietnam, India, and our "friends" in northern Myanmar?
They all said yes (no)).
A group of "friends": I have no objection.
In his mind: Ah, Minos! (very quietly).
Regardless of what other countries think, with the birth of the world's first industrial empire with a population exceeding one billion, coupled with the high recognition and comprehensive cooperation of Chinese civilization, China has now become the de facto leader of global civilization. Many countries are actively, or even begging, for China to look at them, or even to hurl a single insult. The pain of being forgotten by the world is too torturous. We also want to go to the stars and the sea!
Not long ago, of the 5,000 slots allocated to China, 1,000 were actually distributed to more than 50 countries, including North Korea, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Palestine, and Pakistan. The United States, on the other hand, only received 100 slots, and those were given only to countries near its borders. The two dogs didn't even get a chance to drink the soup; they could only watch helplessly.
This further alienated them from the United States, which had already been the case for a long time.
Recently, a certain North Korean has been frequently visiting Beijing. It's unclear what he's here to discuss, but he always seems to be looking south. Meanwhile, border clashes between North and South Korea are becoming increasingly frequent, and South Korea clearly cannot rely on the United States for protection at this time.
Who else can we expect help from? Japan?
This joke is hilarious. It's like after Japan intervenes, China will provide aid to North Korea, and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army will come to help, along with Japan and South Korea, and they'll all get beaten up together.
There are now more and more voices within China calling for unification and revenge, and it is time to settle some scores.
Japan and South Korea are under a lot of pressure, but South Korea is at most worried about being beaten half to death, while Japan could really be beaten to death.
Looking at China's recently launched sixth aircraft carrier, the pressure must be immense. Six carriers! They need to demonstrate how they strike the enemy. Is there a better target for exercises nearby?
So what was the situation like in China at that time?
Section 91: This is what it means to be decent.
Bureaucrats are like spinning tops; they won't work properly unless you whip them.
The problem is that from the middle to the top, all bureaucrats belong to the same system, which is why there is the saying that officials protect each other, because they are more likely to become one of their own.
Unless, of course, some force compels them to be good people.
Qin Shan's "Dragon of Desire" plan was very successful. The constant appearance of various avengers, coupled with his favoritism towards his motherland, led to the near-complete replacement of the Celestial Empire's bureaucratic system in just three years.
It's not just a matter of replacing one batch of bureaucrats; it's about cutting off their families who benefited from the system as well.
Is it safe to escape abroad? Avengers' revenge is relentless; it's perfectly normal for them to travel thousands of miles to kill you.
Moreover, the Avengers' revenge has a self-destructive attribute. In other words, in order to kill their targets, they can easily carry out a nuclear-level self-destruction at the end. As for how many places are affected and how many other people die, what does that have to do with the Avenger who is about to die? He is already a dead man.
Therefore, the families of corrupt officials who fled abroad were soon subjected to a self-destructive attack by the avengers, an extraordinary self-destruction equivalent to a thousand-ton explosion, enough to raze an entire village or even a small town to the ground.
After this happened several times in a row, no country dared to take in these guys. If they were discovered by the local people, they would be beaten to death without explanation. Even the number of corrupt officials in their own countries began to decrease rapidly. Even if they were embezzling and accepting bribes, they had to hide it tightly so that it would not be discovered by the public, otherwise the avengers would definitely come knocking.
Under the absolute deterrent of "if you're not a good person, your whole family will die," those who survive, even if they lack a shared sense of morality, at least possess a shared integrity, like those lotus flowers in the national football team that remain untainted by the mud.
How touching... my foot! Who says officialdom has to be a cesspool?!
The corrupting influence of power on human nature is terrifying, but people tend to compromise. If corruption would guarantee the death of the entire family, then all officials would claim they are willing to be good people!
Because officials are struggling to make a living, the popularity of civil service exams in China has dropped significantly. In addition, civil service positions have now been adjusted to a market competition mechanism, no longer considered a guaranteed job, and a strict performance evaluation system has been implemented. As a result, those who are promoted are not necessarily without flaws in ability and morality, but at least they have made great progress.
This is what it truly means to not want to be corrupt, not dare to be corrupt, and not be able to be corrupt.
As a result, the Party organization also began to conduct a self-examination, a very strict one. The number of Party members nationwide dropped to just over one million, which was a truly concentrated essence. Under Qin Shan's knife, at least two generations later, the original aspirations will be almost back, and the Party organization's self-purification ability is gradually recovering.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call this the second self-revolution.
But wait a minute, can a party organization with only a million members really effectively manage the entire country?
Haha, that's great, even more efficient. Many policies that couldn't be implemented before due to political factors, such as the disclosure of officials' and their families' finances, the disclosure of fund flows, and public opinion supervision, are now all in place. After all, those who disagreed have been eliminated, and the rest either serve at least fifty years in prison (without sentence reduction or medical parole, and have to perform hard labor; dying from overwork is considered atonement, but no matter how old you are, if you can't do it, you're directly executed, the reason being that corrupt officials have no right to waste the wealth created by the people), or they are directly removed from the ranks. Naturally, the resistance to reform no longer exists.
The first three rows were no exception. Now a third of the people have been replaced, and the unclean family members have also been purged. It is truly touching that two-thirds of them are still left. After such a phoenix-like rebirth, the Celestial Empire has unleashed unimaginable energy.
Everyone can afford to buy a house, prices are so stable they seem to have no fluctuations, and people can enjoy all kinds of industrial products at low prices. Although domestic capitalists may not make a lot of money domestically, they can enjoy a stable and advanced supply chain and a secure base of business, allowing them to compete in the international market without any worries.
Anyway, you can't do whatever you want domestically, and you shouldn't go too far abroad, otherwise the country will have to use your heads to appease friendly nations. We want to build a harmonious new world together, and this is not just a slogan. Even if it's exploitation, we have more face than the United States.
A false sense of vitality, with everything flourishing: 800,000 troops were lost.
A true sense of vitality, with everything flourishing: the people are well-fed and clothed, and the world is thriving.
"In the end, a better era has arrived."
Qin Shan could finally put away the list in his hands. More than three million people, along with their families, had all disappeared from this world. In the five years before the abyss descended, the Celestial Empire had completed a cruel self-purification, with a total of 19,763,487 people becoming sacrifices from the old era to the new.
It sounds cruel, but compared to the innocent people these people killed and the future of humanity they buried, the sacrifice of less than 20 million people to secure a ticket to the future seems incredibly cheap to Qin Shan. It's like rolling the dice every time in a D&D game – a miracle that seems to happen endlessly.
"Great! Admiral, we have achieved a partial victory!" Saratoga congratulated Qin Shan, holding his arm.
My sister-in-law and wife are both very big!! (Very loudly)
"Cough cough, we can't let our guard down. Humans are such despicable creatures. We have to give them a slap now and then, or they'll forget how to feel pain."
Don't think that Qin Shan will become complacent after achieving a phased victory. Humanity must continue to purify itself and persist in self-purification. If it relaxes its bottom line even a little, what follows will be a dam-like collapse of authority.
History has proven this point more than once, and he doesn't want to prove it again.
So the dragon of desire continues to watch the world, waiting to see which little fish will take the bait today.
Jie Jie Jie.
Amidst the jubilation of the moon landing and the joy of the rebirth of the motherland, humanity entered 2028, the fourth year since the abyss descended. In Qin Shan's previous life, the entire Earth had been completely transformed. But now, many things that were not preserved, not retained, or not held onto in the past have been saved.
Happy New Year 2028!
What is your New Year's message?
Then came the bombshell news at the start of the year: a massive internal purge erupted in the United States, or what could be described as a modern-day Kristallnacht.
Under pressure from the avengers and the insatiable greed of Jewish capital, the Anglo-Saxon capital, having reached its limit, directly pulled out its guns and, together with the left-wing forces in the United States, staged a Wall Street night.
That day, a bungee jumping competition without safety belts was held on Wall Street. More than 500 people participated. Unfortunately, because they were not athletes, they were killed by Newton after freefalling from a height of 100 meters. The onlookers said that this had nothing to do with them and that the killer was not them, but Newton.
Jewish capital certainly wouldn't sit idly by, because they knew very well that during World War II, upper-class Jews colluded with the Nazis, using the lower-class Jewish population as bait to ensure their own smooth landing. After the war, they played the victim, successfully creating an Israel through their tears, and with the help of Western countries, they disgusted the Arabs.
But now, it is Anglo-Saxon capital that wants to purge Jewish capital. They have their eyes on the wealth held by upper-class Jews. Since they cannot carry out the same high-intensity self-purification as China, they can only resort to slaughtering the pig for the New Year. For Anglo-Saxon capital, which holds the gun, Jewish capital is their New Year's pig.
How much money could you make killing lower-class Jews? They were all poor bastards. Did they even have a passion for making soap? Besides, modern soap is much cheaper than human soap. It would be much more profitable to just rob the treasury of Jewish capital.
The conflict between the two sides quickly escalated. Jewish capital is deeply rooted in the United States and has a large base of support, even with the added benefit of religious faith. It is worth noting that many rednecks support Israel, but many of them also oppose the Israeli Holocaust. What is absurd is that the local Native Americans, who have been replaced, support Israel.
Well, these "addicted Native Americans" aren't really Native Americans anymore. Their culture and ideology died long ago, succumbed to the greedy desires of American expansion and plunder. What remains now is just a group of mixed-race converts and fanatical believers.
This is the tragedy of the Native Americans; even their name was given to them by the invaders.
What does it mean to cause the extinction of a race? This is what it means to cause the extinction of a race. In reality, fictional historians from Europe and America have completed their masterpiece of "the strangulation of civilization" on Native Americans.