A New Era

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Yuan felt that life was not easy after realizing that he had returned to reality...

And a little nostalgic for those weird worlds I experienced in the past.

Good and bad are contrasted. Even in a world with a very harsh environment, after staying for dozens or hundreds of years, there is always a little nostalgia.

After the baptism of five reincarnations, Zhang Yuan no longer cares much about whether this is a virtual world or a real world.

In other words, life in the virtual world is not much different from life in the real world, and both need to be taken seriously and spent well. No matter where you are, there will be happiness, sadness, joy, loss, and pain... Where can there be a flawless and completely smooth life? If you treat the virtual world with the attitude of playing games, you are undoubtedly irresponsible to yourself.

However, compared with all kinds of messy societies in the past, the new human society is the only society that does not need to be worried. It takes a lifetime to save it, and it may not be saved.

There are a large number of talented people here, whether they are scientists, philosophers, or all kinds of versatile artists. No matter what line of work you do, you can always find like-minded partners.

He hadn't felt such a sense of relief for a long, long time.

He exhaled a long breath of turbid air from his chest, and immediately felt refreshed.

Except for some special people, no one knows that he is an "extraordinary person" after passing the screening, including a large group of peers around him, as well as three other members of his small family, two sisters, and a boy of the same age .

He also has no special rights in this society, he just follows his peers, studies and lives together.

I was a little autistic at first, but now I am fully healthy as I regain my self-awareness.

"Hey, Zhang Yuan, let's go eat, I'm starving to death!" A boy behind him was patting him on the shoulder. It was his friend of the same age, Lu Tao.

"Can you stop studying all day long? Hey, are you in a daze again?!"

Zhang Yuan came back to his senses: "Oh, eat, eat, eat delicious food!"

"Today's octopus..."

Zhang Yuan recalled that the huge octopus meat in the lightless world was very chewy. It was his favorite dish and he had been thinking about it for hundreds of years.

But now, you can eat alien octopus... from alien planets.

"Eat octopus meat again? In order to avoid alien virus infection, alien octopus meat is cultured aseptically in petri dishes, not the real original flavor." Lu Tao frowned and said: "Eat it once, it's too fishy Yes, the tabby cat at home likes it very much."

"It's because you haven't found a delicious sauce recipe! Today I will help you make the seasoning, and I will call my two sisters to show them my cooking skills!" Zhang Yuan said with a smile.

"Really? You can cook?" Lu Tao looked at Zhang Yuan suspiciously. He found that this guy seemed a little strange today, as if he was more lively and cheerful than before. It's like a different person, and it seems that there is no...

Zhang Yuan shook his head slightly. After his self-awareness recovered, his performance was of course slightly different from his previous performance. In the past, he was instinctively closed, but now it is normal.

Although his name is still "Zhang Yuan", which is the same name as the first captain of Kunlun Mountain, but there are too many names on this bad street, and no one will think about it. When a newborn is just born, it will be randomly assigned a name by a computer. Of course, choosing random names won't get that kind of very ugly or homonymous names.

The name is just a code name, not too important. If you really don't like it, you can change your name after you turn 18.

When heading to the restaurant, Zhang Yuan was still pondering whether a transcendent had already passed the assessment and returned to the real world. In theory, it should be so, but for a while, he couldn't find these old friends from the past...

In front of the general public, he is a returnee from the virtual world, which still needs to be kept secret, so it is impossible to work hard on this matter with great fanfare.

"I really want to go to space and take a look at our new mothership!" Zhang Yuan said suddenly, looking at the silver-white walls in the corridor.

"Bright Galaxy?"

"Yeah... I don't know what it really looks like yet."

"There are so many pictures on the computer, you can search for a lot."

Zhang Yuan was stunned, "I mean, observe the new mothership from the outside in person, instead of looking at the computer here... Only when you look at it from the outside can you feel its size and magnificence. Every giant city has a kind of own sense of power."

The overall structure of the Brilliant Galaxy is similar to Kunlun Mountain, and it looks a bit like a giant city in the shape of a disc. Its volume is 60% larger than Kunlun Mountain.

In other words, human beings already have two such super cities.

Theoretically, the new human civilization will not add a third city, because the operation of the city is implemented according to the planned economy, and the industrial division of labor between the cities will also be different. According to the current planning capabilities, the more cities, the more management. It will be more difficult.

When sailing at high speed, there will be delays in the exchange of materials, information, and personnel. If there are too many such giant cities, it is easy to cause confusion in management and control, resulting in a decline in civilized execution.

"If you want to continue to expand the population, humans may have to consider planetary-level spaceships. The truth is to gather the population."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's emotion in this regard, Lu Tao said with a smile: "Planetary spaceship, how dare you think about it! At least you must have curvature navigation technology to propel such a spaceship. Cosmic strings alone are not enough, If it breaks away from the cosmic string, wouldn't it lose mobility?"

Today's young people, especially boys, basically have to serve in the military after graduating from university at the age of 22, so everyone basically knows the parameters of various spacecraft. Of course, some students with excellent grades can make an exception. If they are admitted to graduate school and give up their studies to serve in the army, it would be too wasteful, and they can choose to be exempted from military service.

Talking to this point, Lu Tao suddenly thought of something: "...If you are really admitted to graduate school, you should be able to exempt from military service. In fact, I really want to be a soldier for a few years. I can touch all kinds of spaceships and weapons with my own hands. Practice is also very important."

Zhang Yuandao: "If you want to, then go, you can continue to study when you return from serving as a soldier. For me, forget it, honestly take the postgraduate entrance examination, and then study for a doctorate."

When the restaurant arrived, the two found a seat and sat down.

"I'm treating you today!" Zhang Yuan hurriedly said, these friends took care of him a lot.

Although the new human civilization has achieved great prosperity long ago and provided many basic social benefits, the money system has always been preserved.

Various robotic services are usually paid for.

The money system is linked to the degree of contribution to civilization. The main reason is that human nature tends to be lazy and comfortable. Even though the quality of citizens of the new civilization has been greatly improved, they still have to rely on a certain degree of money to stimulate their enthusiasm for work, otherwise they may go further. Follow in the footsteps of "Sakura World".

After all, it is impossible for everyone to be a saint, even in this interstellar era. Before the genes are completely modified and the "motive force for progress" is completely modified, it is impossible to completely avoid laziness.

So many virtual worlds are not without any value. For the new human sociology, they provide a good social sample.