civilwarnovels Chapter 3541 This Man Comes from Krypton (8)
Chapter 3541 This Man Comes from Krypton (8)
Chapter 3541 This Man Comes from Krypton (VIII)
"We lack the necessary intelligence," Oliver said. "I'll send a message to Clark and the others to see if they can find any clues on Krypton. If Barry did something in the past, it will definitely be reflected at this point in time."
Oliver began to edit the information and sent it soon. Clark quickly replied to him, saying that they found that some machines in the breeding center could still be started, and only Clark could start them.
"Barry should have contacted Jor-El." Batman said firmly. "Clark's biological father must have done something to allow Clark to have the authority to activate these machines. The same goes for the energy problem. He must have done something to allow the machines to retain a certain amount of energy."
"The key is why Jor-El did this." Harry said. "If Hale is really their friend or adopted son, and Hale is hunting Barry, then they can't help a stranger instead of their own relatives."
"This proves that Hale is probably more than just an adopted son or a friend to them." Batman said. "They must know more about Hale's background and how dangerous he is. Or they must have been on guard against him, so they chose to help him directly after Barry showed up."
"So where did this guy come from?" Oliver rubbed his temple, looking a bit headache. He said, "I don't think he was created by the Jor-Els. If not, why would they adopt him?"
"It's a long story." Joe-El sat on the sofa in his home. Opposite him sat Barry, while Laura carried the young Hale to the bedroom.
"About a year ago, I was transferred to this laboratory. I am mainly responsible for the maintenance and optimization of the geocentric energy extraction equipment. I am also responsible for providing geocentric energy data to other laboratories. It is a relatively important position."
"You may not understand, but on the home planet of Krypton, almost all of its energy comes from the center of the earth. But after years of mining, the energy in the center of the earth is no longer sufficient and stable. Scientists have been trying to find new energy sources."
"What about your star?" Barry asked.
"For some reason, we can't use stellar energy." Jor-El didn't say much. He just continued: "To be precise, we can't use the stellar energy in our star system, and we have to find the most suitable star."
Although Barry felt it was a little strange, the universe was so vast that there were many strange things, so he did not continue to ask.
"In this case, we have two choices. One is to intensify our exploration of the universe, launching probes farther and deeper until we find the star system we dream of, and then move."
"Another is to further improve the efficiency of utilizing the energy in the Earth's core, and use the least amount of energy to do the most. This way we can both preserve our home planet and continue to develop technology."
"Why not do both at the same time?" Barry said. "They don't seem to be related to each other. We can do both at the same time, right?"
"I'm talking about the normal solution. In fact, they chose neither of the two options, but the third one." Al smiled bitterly. He said, "If the energy in the center of the earth is only supplied to the upper class, it will be more than enough and can continue forever."
"If we use space exploration or scientific research to solve the energy problem, it will cost a lot. It is not as fast as solving the problem of the grassroots people who occupy resources directly."
Barry already knew what was going to happen.
"But before solving the problem of the people at the bottom, the first thing to solve is who will be responsible for the responsibilities of those low-level positions after there is no labor force."
“You want to build a robot?”
Al gave him an approving look, as if praising him for his intelligence. He nodded and said, "Even though our gene editing technology is second to none in the universe, gene technology is very complicated and requires a large number of scientific researchers to maintain the operation of the breeding center. It is far less simple than the automatic assembly lines of many mechanical civilizations."
"The growth cycle of Kryptonians is also relatively long. Although there was ripening technology before, it has great flaws. It can only be used to ripen some warriors, and it will greatly reduce their lifespan. After many years of development, there has been no breakthrough. The masters have lost their patience."
"Okay, I knew it would be like this." Barry said, "But transforming into a mechanical civilization isn't that easy, right?"
"It's not a transformation, exactly," Al said. "They don't intend to turn themselves into robots. They just want to further develop mechanical technology to replace the lower-level Kryptonians."
"I have a question." Barry stretched out a hand and said, "Mechanical civilization doesn't mean no energy consumption. On the contrary, it should consume more energy at certain stages, right?"
"You got the point," Al said. "They created robots not only to replace the lower-class Kryptonians, but also to develop stars."
"Oh, I see." Barry suddenly realized, and he said, "You must be subject to some kind of genetic limitation and cannot directly use the energy generated by your star, so you plan to create a group of robots to use it. But why can't you mine stellar energy yourself?"
Al nodded and said, "I don't mean to hide it, but it's a little too complicated to explain. Anyway, a long, long time ago, probably dating back to when this race was just born, there was something wrong with our genes."
"It sounds a bit ridiculous, but we are indeed unable to adapt to the radiation from the stars in our own star system. The fact that we can move freely today is only possible after hundreds of generations of gene editing, which has reduced the impact of the original genes as much as possible."
"After entering the era of interstellar colonization, we found that we are not adapted to the radiation of most stars in the universe. At least, there is no star available for development within the range we can explore now."
"Maybe there's a perfect star out there, but we haven't found it yet. That's about it."
Barry nodded. He already knew where the perfect star was, but he listened to Al continue.
"The Mechanical Technology Improvement Plan is no secret. There has always been a group of scientists doing research in this area. After I was transferred to this laboratory, I also participated in the research, but I found that there were some problems with this research."
"what?"
"In your opinion, we should develop some remotely operated machines and remotely control them to mine stellar energy."
"Yes, you should have done this a long time ago." Barry said, "Although my civilization's technology is not as advanced as yours, we can't get too close to the stars. The method we adopted is to send drones."
Al nodded to show his understanding. He said, "Most civilizations in the universe are not strong enough to withstand temperatures of thousands of degrees. Most of them do this, but we don't."
"What did you study?"
"Artificial intelligence." Al sighed helplessly and said, "I don't know why, but they seem to think that electronic life must be used to rule machines, so they took the lead in software development."
Al seemed a little confused and helpless, but Barry could probably guess why the parliament did this.
Through some previous intelligence, he knew what the political and social situation on Krypton was like. In any case, the parliament was above everything, and most Kryptonians lived under the extreme control and oppression of the parliament.
All the progress and development of Krypton cannot be higher than the ruling power of the parliament. This is the premise. Otherwise, the parliament cannot achieve such comprehensive control and oppression.
For example, if someone develops a super powerful weapon, but if the parliament cannot fully control the weapon, then he will definitely destroy both the person and the weapon. This is the same as when any civilization is closed in its late stage.
So what is the key to developing mechanical technology now?
The key is not whether mechanical technology can really be developed, because Al has already said that if it cannot be developed, eliminating the unnecessary lower-level people will be the same.
The key lies in whether the developed mechanical technology is under the control of Parliament. The right of control is higher than the right of development.
So in this case, they will definitely give priority to software development to ensure that all mechanical technologies developed can be directly controlled by them remotely.
Otherwise, if you develop a bunch of machines that can mine stellar energy, and you have both the machines and the energy, then if you don't listen to the parliament, wouldn't that be a ready-made army?
In this case, whether or not a useful machine can be developed is secondary. The most important thing is to first develop something that can strictly remotely control the machine.
But Barry didn't know whether these gentlemen in the parliament were not very smart or were really short-sighted. It would be fine if they just made a remote control system, but why are you making electronic life?
Looking at the entire multiverse, how many electronic lives are there that do not rebel?
But think about it, if they had been more cautious and far-sighted, they would not have destroyed their entire civilization.
But Barry soon found that he had underestimated the stupidity of these people.
"So they succeeded?" Barry asked.
"Whether it succeeds or not is another matter. They feel it's not safe."
"what?"
"Like, what if they create an electronic life form and it gets out of control?"
"So they've thought about this." Barry couldn't help but say.
"So they decided to add another layer of insurance for this electronic life." Al waved his hand and said, "To create a root server that can destroy the electronic life at any time from a physical level."
"Wait a minute, you're not saying..."
"Yes, it's Hale."
Barry slapped him on the forehead.
In other words, in order to prevent the Kryptonians who controlled the mechanical equipment from losing control, they planned to create an electronic life, and in order to prevent the electronic life from losing control, they planned to create a super Kryptonian...
"That's it."
Barry couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
This reminded him of a joke, that is, God gathered a plane full of criminals and let them crash together.
In Barry's opinion, God gathered all the unlucky people on the planet, let them suffer such torture together, and then destroy them together.
No wonder neither Jor-El nor Zod had any intention of saving the old Krypton under the rule of the Senate in the end. At this point, it would be too late even if you threw Batman over.
"Okay." Barry reluctantly convinced himself to accept this fact, and then he said, "If they created it, why did you adopt it?"
"Because the project failed." Al frowned and said, "Haier doesn't have any superpowers, he's just an ordinary Kryptonian. I also want to ask you, is the big guy who appeared in our house before really Haier?"
"Failed?" Barry also frowned tightly. He said, "You mean he only has the strength of an ordinary Kryptonian? He doesn't have any special super powers?"
Al nodded and said, "Because of this, he should have been destroyed. But Laura felt sorry for him and secretly brought him back."
"So what are these instruments in your house used for?"
"This is a necessary machine for raising a Kryptonian baby. We need to give him various vaccinations and give him regular physical examinations. Don't you need it?"
Well, Barry thought. So that's how it is. The couple brought back all the equipment used by the hospital for newborn testing.