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Chapter 482 - 316: Go Far Away, Don’t Look
Chapter 482 - 316: Go Far Away, Don’t Look
Chapter 482: Chapter 316: Go Far Away, Don’t Look
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While technology’s essence remained unchanged, the process of implementation underwent significant alterations.
There were opponents and supporters.
The ethical debate surrounding the mortally appalling new technology lasted for 80 years before it was eventually laid to rest and began to be gradually popularized.
Originally, such an inhumane technology could never have been promoted to the entire population, but another event put an end to the controversy.
In 2468, genius programmer Panda successfully deciphered the hidden content in Harrison Clark’s “The Madman’s Conjectures Collection” version 1.0, aided by the advanced quantum algorithms and budding true quantum computer of the era.
All information about S Bacteria was laid bare 32 years ahead of schedule, before the eyes of high-ranking government officials from various countries.
Major discussions were held at a highly confidential United Nations meeting.
Although it was impossible to definitively prove whether Master Harrison Clark’s predictions were right or wrong, considering his lifelong trajectory and the clear hints he left behind, as well as his great achievements, leaders believed that he could not be aimlessly shooting in the dark.
It is better to believe than not to believe.
At that time, high-ranking officials from various countries finally reached a unified understanding and decided that humanity needed to accomplish three things going forward.
First, start researching S Bacteria Antibody for immediate public implementation.
Second, initiate a large-scale retreat, leaving the Solar System as soon as possible with as many people as possible.
However, so far, none of the ten-plus expeditionary colonization teams dispatched by humanity have managed to reach their destination successfully.
Some are still en route, while others have already reached the end of their lives.
There is still no scientific proof supporting the prerequisites for this grand retreat, and the chance of surviving the journey remains abysmally low.
Besides, with only 32 years left and humanity’s current capacity for producing long-range spacecraft, even at full capacity, no more than 100,000 long-range spacecraft could be produced, with a total transportation capacity of only three billion people.
Today’s total population has already reached 40 billion, leaving 37 billion unable to leave.
As a result, a third decision was made: to bear the responsibility of their predecessors, continuing their legacy, and preparing for war!
Action began 532 years ahead of schedule, and nothing was off-limits!
If everything Master Harrison Clark said is true, war is now inevitable, and humanity must face reality!
Even the slightest improvement must be firmly grasped.
Those who leave are responsible for carrying on the legacy, and those who remain are responsible for resisting.
From then on, the highest leadership of the United Nations and various countries around the world jointly decided to withstand pressure and implement the gene modification technology with a mortality rate of up to one-third on newborns.
These leaders first persuaded themselves, and then they had to persuade the public, the diehard ethical adherents, and even their colleagues and well-intentioned scholars.
However, to avoid inciting nationwide panic, they could not disclose the inevitability of the apocalypse.
After much contemplation, the politicians made an extremely resolute decision.
To persuade others when emotions run high, one must first empathize.
So, they went through the process themselves!
And this time, the leaders really led by example.
It may seem unbelievable to many, but times were changing and so were attitudes.
In every timeline, strong ideologies will be formed.
This time, under the influence of Harrison Clark’s countless subtleties and accompanied by the premature advent of human unity, the leadership displayed a high level of self-sacrifice.
We can die, but our deaths must have value.
A considerable number of politicians went to the frontlines, conducting gene modification experiments on their own descendants first.
If their children were unfortunate enough to die amidst the one-third mortality rate.
Politicians would then subject themselves, as adults, to a modification process with a two-thirds mortality rate.
Some survived, and others perished.
Some succeeded in living through the sorrow, using their personal transformations to clearly tell everyone that all this is for humanity to become better.
Everything is for the future of humanity.
Our motive was not to eliminate anyone, but the evolution of our race must go through this painful process.
We cannot reveal the true reason for now, but we are indeed bearing some unimaginable pressures.
With a history of two million years, human civilization is actually at a critical moment of life and death.
We are not forcing anyone, but we hope you will make the choice voluntarily, just like us.
Under the influence of the booming new arts and culture, under the encouragement of countless works praising the spirit of sacrifice by Carrie Thomas, Avril Green, and others, and guided by Harrison Clark’s 150-year struggle, highly-conscious politicians took the first determined step.
The world gradually became affected and began to accept the painful major shift of the race.
More and more people reluctantly accepted the idea.
Apart from adults making choices, some mature children had the right to choose as well.
A small portion of underage children voluntarily stepped forward.
Among them, a teenage prodigy survived by a stroke of luck after the modification. His name was Frankie.
In 2475, the young genius Frankie did something fateful again by “breaking” Ganymede, and “Morning Wind” echoed once more throughout the Solar System.
That same year, humanity’s Vigorous Expedition Team One set sail, heading for the distant Proxima Centauri.
Over the following 25 years, humans sent a total of 98,175 colony ships beyond the Solar System, with more than 2.86 billion people embarking on a journey into the endless dark depths of the universe, each carrying their own mission.
Every departing Vigorous Expedition Team received the same message.
“Once you leave, do not come back. Do not try to communicate with the Solar System or concern yourself with our homeland. The future of humanity lies in the Milky Way, in the universe, and our home is this vast universe..”