I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 157 Population Explosion Transforms the Sun

[Project Clone] is one of the most radical measures taken by the coalition government to increase the global workforce.

Volunteers with strong will, outstanding comprehensive ability and high morals are selected from all over the world, and clones and artificial humans are mass-produced based on these elites. These clones and artificial humans will be engaged in the most dangerous occupations and positions, and will be deprived of the reproductive rights of natural persons. They will become pure contributors to Earth civilization until death.

The inspiration of [The Clone Project] comes from a famous science fiction movie from the old times.

In the movie, the villain uses a powerful warrior as a genetic template to create a clone army called the Storm Legion, which becomes a sharp spear for the villain to conquer the universe.

After rigorous research, the team of scientists believes that using a unified personality and thought template as the source can minimize clone rebellion and its impact on social civilization ethics.

Therefore, volunteers with correct values, values ​​and reliable thought and behavior patterns were selected from the loyal soldiers to serve as the template blueprint for the [Avatar Plan].

Due to the influence of some mysterious force (the protagonist's halo: yes, it's me), Liu Peiqiang passed layers of screening and became one of the first three selected candidates for the [Avatar Plan].

The other two selected candidates are also old acquaintances - Tu Hengyu and Zhou Zhezhi.

Liu Peiqiang is the template for the [Warrior Type] clone, and his clones will be sent to the front line to perform field missions.

Tu Hengyu is a template for [scientific research] clones and will be assigned to serve in scientific research institutions around the world.

Zhou Zhezhi is a template for [government-type] clones and will become an important supplement to the administrative power of the joint government.

The coalition government will mass-produce clones based on actual demand using these three people as templates to fill the labor gap in the Sky-Repairing Project.

[Resurrection Plan] Resurrect outstanding high-end talents around the world, limited to high-end talents who have undergone digital life backup after 2034.

The [Avatar Plan] will provide a large amount of stable basic labor force for the world.

At the same time, the various plans for population explosion that Zhang Hong had implemented in Resident Evil were also performed in The Wandering Earth in a different form.

【More Births, More Children Plan】 encourages citizens to expand their childbearing and use assisted reproductive technology to increase the fertility rate.

[Public Childcare Plan]: The coalition government will set up a childcare agency to collectively raise children and reduce the labor costs of raising children.

[Digital Twin Project], all citizens can apply for digital life backup. In case of accidental death, they can be resurrected according to the average life expectancy of 200 years (including real life expectancy).

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Under such radical measures, the global population grew explosively.

In 2058, before the plan is implemented, the world's population is 80 billion.

In 2059, one year after the plan was implemented, the global population reached 100 billion, an increase of 20 billion.

In 2060, the global population will surge to 150 billion, with a population growth rate of 50%!

In 2061, the world's population is 250 billion, a yearly population increase of 100 billion, of which 50% are artificial humans with biochemical mechanical bodies.

In 2062, the global population exceeded 400 billion, and the goal of 300 billion working population was successfully achieved.

At this point, humans are spread across the Earth, Mars, and various planets in the solar system like ants. Every day, millions of interstellar spacecraft travel through the solar system, mining planets and building space facilities.

The number of spacecraft is still increasing exponentially, and global productivity is skyrocketing.

2062, Neptune.

[Home, home, this is Galactus 5, 6, 7, 8, we have completed the mining of Neptune. ]

[Home received. Galactus 5 to 10, please proceed to Uranus to continue mining as planned. Galactus 11 and 12, please bring resources to Mars to build a base.]

【receive! 】

The original location of Neptune is now empty. The entire Neptune and its satellites have been collected.

Of the eight Galactus satellites parked in the orbit of Neptune, six are heading towards Uranus, and the remaining two are heading at full speed towards Mars in the orbit of Venus.

Galactus 11 and 12 passed by Saturn and Jupiter and stayed there for two weeks respectively. During these two weeks, millions of transport ships flew out from the Saturn mine and the Jupiter mine to unload the collected compressed solid hydrogen onto Galactus 11 and 12.

They will then be transported to the Mars construction plant by two Galactus spacecraft.

While the spacecraft was busy unloading, two million crew members stood by the windows inside Galactus 11 and 12, silently observing the busy work of the spacecraft.

The huge gas planets in space are like street lamps surrounded by moths, and countless transport ships are orbiting Saturn and Jupiter like swarms.

If someone enters the Devourer, they will see a strange scene.

The crew members of Galactus are all the same height and appearance, as if they were carved from the same mold. Among the two million crew members, less than 20,000 are unique.

The remaining 1.9 million people all have the image of an ordinary-looking, masculine and tough middle-aged man.

"Reporting the situation in cargo hold No. 5."

"Cargo hold No. 5 is 87% loaded and the transportation is normal."

"receive."

These 1.9 million people look exactly like Liu Peiqiang, and they are all "clones" of the Avatar Project.

The brain has an intelligent quantum chip that stores the digital life template derived from Liu Peiqiang, and the knowledge, ability and personality are extremely similar. The body is a mechanical biochemical body that can work continuously for more than 4000 hours and only needs to be overhauled every six months.

Normally, it only takes a few minutes every 24 hours to clean up the data fragments in the quantum chip to maintain the stability of the replicant's personality.

The clones have their own autonomous consciousness. In a sense, their thoughts are no different from those of the real Liu Peiqiang.

They are aware that they are clones and that they were created - Liu Peiqiang and others had already made psychological preparations, built up their thoughts, and had become aware of this before they were born.

I will serve as a "consumable" and contribute to human civilization until my death.

This is the choice made by "Liu Peiqiang" himself.

"Galactus 11 is fully loaded. Ready to sail!"

The Galactus' gravity engine started up, slowly accelerating away from Jupiter's low-Earth orbit and flying towards Venus' orbit.

Unlike traditional propellant propulsion, Galactus uses propellant-free [gravitational propulsion], which uses the gravitational force between celestial bodies for navigation. This is a profound technology brought by the travelers, and the current understanding of Earth civilization is only a drop in the ocean, and it is still impossible to replicate.

The propulsion technology of Earth spacecraft is still the mainstream nuclear fusion plasma propulsion.

Six days later, Galactus 11 and 12 arrived in the orbit of Venus, fully loaded with supplies, and orbited Mars parked there like two satellites.

Mars no longer resembles its original appearance at this point. The planet has been completely hollowed out and transformed into a celestial-level facility similar to Galactus.

Inside the hollowed-out interior of Mars, the rings and shells are nested within each other, and the core becomes a huge processing workshop.

[Solar Fusion Controller Nodes] as big as the moon are processed in the center of Mars, with materials entering from one end and finished products coming out from the other.

Anyone who has seen the production scene on Mars can't help but think of the process of ribosomes producing protein chains.

Mars is like a giant ribosome, constantly "synthesizing" spherical solar controller nodes, and the nodes are connected by long cable-like structures.

A dozen nodes are sparsely connected to form lines, like a sparse pearl necklace floating in the space.

These points and lines will be combined together in the structure of an equilateral spherical triangle, and eventually build the main skeleton of the [Solar Fusion Controller] consisting of 1872 nodes and 3744 axes.

(PS: I spent 15 minutes calculating these two numbers... I tried my best to make them reasonable)