"Whoosh——"

In the night sky, aircraft followed invisible tracks under the clear sky. When they passed through certain areas, granary-like buildings on the ground projected light, illuminating the windows of many aircraft.

In the illusion space, the expressions of Lin Tuo, Hua Xi, Mount Sinai and even Hathaway have changed significantly.

Lu Liang's answer was completely beyond everyone's expectations.

The "imperial official" who dominates the entire Ueno Star Region, the "Governor" who is the source of all government issuing agencies, is actually not a human being, but a supercomputer?

Or maybe, in the empire, the meaning of "governor" is different from what they understand, and it does not represent an official position with real power, but an institution?

Just like on Earth, the legal person of a company is not a human being.

If the "Governor" is the network computing center of the planet, and political orders are issued by the officials who control it, then it is understandable, but Lin Tuo always feels that this is not necessarily the case.

"You said Governor Ueno is a computer," Lin Tuo stared at Lu Liang and said, "Then who is the real administrator?"

"It's the governor." Lu Liang became more and more confused. "The governor is the highest administrative official in Ueno. Except for accepting the leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, no one here has an administrative level higher than him."

"...So, you mean, it has its own consciousness?" Lin Tuo finally understood.

"Of course, the Governor certainly has self-awareness. Legally speaking, although it is not a human being, due to its special nature, it possesses the same power as a human being." Lu Liang said matter-of-factly.

Lin Tuo understood.

To put it simply, the nature of Governor Ueno may be similar to that of the spiritual lord or Hathaway.

His own spirituality was strong, and he developed an independent consciousness, thus becoming a member of the empire, and was awarded the position of governor by the emperor.

To use an analogy, it is almost like Lin Tuo sent Hathaway to World No. 2, and then gave her an official position to give her power.

"Are there many governors like him?" Lin Tuo continued to ask. He wanted to know whether Governor Ueno was the exception or the majority in the empire.

Lu Liang glanced at him and the others and said dryly:

"All governors are like this. I don't know if it's in Ueno, but officials at all levels in several star districts in the empire's home star field are also computers."

"Then the emperor..."

"Of course your Majesty is also a supercomputer." Lu Liang said subconsciously. After saying this, his face suddenly turned pale and cold sweat rolled down his face.

He finally realized something was wrong. If the people who kidnapped him were masters from the empire, how could they not know this "common sense"?

Unless... these people are not from the Empire at all! They are spiritual beings who don't know where they came from, or... from other unknown civilizations!!!

However, at this moment, Lin Tuo and others did not give up on Lu Liang's mentality. They had already made sufficient preparations for this unknown world.

But at this moment, after learning that the entire empire, from the emperor to all the officials were computers, not humans, several people still couldn't hide their shocked expressions!

emperor?

computer?

What is this?

To use an analogy, it's like the head of a certain big country on earth, as well as the leaders of various states and provinces in the country, are all computers... Even though these "computers" have intelligence that is not inferior to that of humans, or even surpasses that of humans, but...

"It's unimaginable," murmured Mount Sinai.

Huaxi glanced at Hathaway, and inexplicably the image of this guy as the leader of the country popped up in his mind... Hey, what kind of horrible scene would that be??

Lin Tuo was silent, looked at Lu Liang who was sweating profusely, and showed a gentle smile: "You..."

"You are not from the Empire!" Lu Liang stammered.

Lin Tuo looked at him for a few seconds and said, "Is this important?"

"I..." Lu Liang opened his mouth and faced Lin Tuo's gaze that was as steady as a still lake. After a while, he said bitterly like a ball that had been deflated:

"Just ask."

"Very good, then the second question..."

…

In the night sky, few people noticed an aircraft that was circling this urban area, and even if they did, they would not know what was going on inside.

Lu Liang seemed to be really afraid of death. Even though he realized that there was something wrong with the origins of Lin Tuo and others, he did not try to resist and almost answered all questions. This made Lin Tuo's interrogation work particularly smooth.

If before, we only had a basic impression of the empire from the bulletin board, now it is even more vivid.

In Lu Liang's narrative, the entire empire's administrative system was almost entirely dependent on a supercomputing network composed of the "emperor" and the "governors" of various places.

If the "Emperor" is compared to the computing core of the entire empire, then the "Governors" in various places are weakened versions of the "Emperor". They have the ability to think and have huge spirituality. They control all aspects of society through the entire network.

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It can be said that the operating framework of the entire society is built on these supercomputers.

Unlike human society, which has an administrative system composed of various departments composed of people, almost all government affairs within each star region of the empire are handled, given instructions, and analyzed by the "Governor".

Then it is distributed to various specific departments composed of people, and these people complete some work that cannot be completed directly by the governor.

A great advantage of this structure is that it almost solves the problem of internal loss.

On Earth, when a government order is issued, it needs to be discussed by various departments and then issued bit by bit. This is inefficient, and different departments have different demands and restrict each other.

Internal friction often occurs.

Not to mention the damage that some private behaviors of department heads may cause to the entire system.

In the empire, these are all done by the governor. Its super spirituality and digital features allow it to do this easily.

This eliminates a series of problems and is extremely efficient.

In particular, because the Governor coordinates the affairs of the entire sector, he can calculate and summarize the demands of all parties and calculate a relatively optimal solution.

Within the framework of this system, the entire society has truly become a "machine", and the people of the Empire only need to accept the ubiquitous services of the "Governor".

The governors of various places only need to be responsible to the emperor and have clear instructions to complete the rule of the entire "empire" that spans many light years.

"But, in this case, don't all people have to obey the one emperor? Your entire civilization changes according to the emperor's mood and wishes?" After hearing this, Lin Tuo couldn't help but ask.

In his opinion, this incredible "centralization" is simply too terrifying, tying the entire civilization to the hand of one will... This behavior is too difficult to understand.

Lu Liang thought for a while and said:

"Of course this problem exists. Some scholars in the empire have always had this concern. Many works of art in our world also have this kind of reflection. However, after so many years of operation, the effect is obvious to all."

"oh?"

"Although I have never experienced it, I learned in school history classes that a long time ago, the empire itself was governed by people.

However, as the ability to jump to the spiritual world matured, the territory of the empire gradually expanded and became increasingly difficult to control. Coupled with some technological breakthroughs, the ancients tried to delegate power to supercomputers.

Then after a long period of testing, the results were indeed much better than the original governance method, and then it was gradually promoted, and finally evolved into what it is now."

Lin Tuodao: "Those computers...were made by you?"

"That's right," Lu Liang said, "According to history books, the early empire used ether energy to develop a series of new things. Super computers were originally something modeled after spiritual and extraordinary items.

Later, when their spirituality was sufficient, consciousness was born, which is equivalent to humans from a legal perspective."

"Of course, the early ancients must have been worried, so at the beginning of production, some rules were written into the bottom layer of the emperor's system.

These rules ensure that no matter how powerful the emperor is, he must put human rights first and cannot do anything that harms human civilization.

Over countless years, although there have been some things that seemed unreasonable in the short term, in the long run, the emperor has indeed been resolutely fulfilling this set of rules."

"And, limited by these rules, the humans of the empire actually have restrictions on it."

Lin Tuo raised his eyebrows: "For example?"

Lu Liang swallowed and spit:

"Proposal. Human beings can control the emperor or governors of various places by initiating proposals. It must accept any proposal initiated, and different people have different voting rights on proposals.

In this case, different groups can also fight for their rights and interests through proposals... Of course, as far as I know, most proposals will not involve too big issues."

This statement made several people instantly think of Proposition 15.

"And once important matters are involved, some groups in the empire composed of those with higher votes can also play games, such as the Ethics and Morality Committee, which is said to have a lot of votes..."

Lu Liang said with some yearning.

"This model... really won't cause problems?" Mount Sinai was a little unconvinced. This kind of structure always sounded weird to her.

"I don't know. Anyway, things have been going very well over the years." Lu Liang said, shrinking his neck.

After a brief silence, Lin Tuo asked: "What about resurrection and memory uploading?"

Lu Liang was silent for a moment and explained:

"This involves energy circulation with the spiritual world. You know that human existence can anchor the ether, right?"

"I know, keep talking."

"According to our research, the human soul is actually composed of spirituality and memory data. Under normal circumstances, after a person dies, the soul will return to the spiritual world, return to pure spirituality, and the memory will dissipate...

When a person gives birth to a new life, he will absorb spirituality, give birth to an initial soul without any memory data, and form a new person..."

"This reincarnation is death and rebirth. However, no one wants to die... Therefore, a long time ago, the empire was studying methods of immortality, and finally explored two ways."

"One is evolution, absorbing ether, tempering the body, extending lifespan, gaining more practice time, absorbing spirituality, and growing the soul... When the body ages, it can be reborn through the spiritual world."
To be continued...