Lin Tuo looked a little more serious and realized that the previous preparations were over and the topic finally led to the main topic.

"We know that neither internal throttling nor external search can solve the fundamental problem, unless the data storage is stopped before the deterioration reaches the limit, and even these souls are released.

However, this will also face great resistance.

Based on the rules written at the bottom, any citizen who has not been legally deprived of power is equal in the eyes of the emperor and governor.

Therefore, it is impossible for us to release part of the soul and retain part of it. This not only violates the principle of fairness, but will also encounter great resistance. As long as this proposal is not abolished, this behavior must be maintained."

"So, in the Empire itself, the Emperor and some humans tried to solve the problem through technological means, just like it had happened many times in history...

And established many experimental projects through normal channels, such as trying how to absorb and transfer immovable spirituality...for example, how to save memories separately without storing spirituality...etc.

Among them, one project that has been focused on is based on the empire's past planetary ecological transformation technology. It is envisioned whether an ecosystem can be constructed on a desolate planet far away from the empire's star field.

Then, some animals are artificially cultivated to absorb spirituality through them, thereby providing spiritual transportation back to the empire... The essence of this idea is, 'Since the spiritual light group cannot move here, then we might as well just walk over.'"

“The reason why this project has received so much attention is because of its potential moral hazard.

According to the assumption, the experimenters will design a new species based on the human body. They may not have high intelligence, but at the same time, they have the ability to "converter" similar to humans.

By teaching them how to absorb ether, they can improve their spirituality, and finally collect spirituality from them using a method similar to 'collecting contribution points'.

Theoretically, we don't need to cause harm to them at all, and we can even help them evolve. After absorbing the spirituality nearby to a certain extent, we can then evolve to a new planet.

I believe you have heard it, yes, this is the early concept of the Evolution Sandbox." Governor Ueno said.

Lin Tuo was stunned for a moment, thinking, isn't this what he is doing...

He also transformed himself in a place like Mars, and then raised a group of people to harvest spirituality through faith. However, what he collected was too little, and it had almost no impact on the surrounding spiritual world...

"This idea sounds very good. According to you, it was open to the public at first. Why did it later become a taboo experiment?" Lin Tuo became more and more curious.

Governor Ueno glanced at him, paused, and then said: "This idea is very good, but when we actually conducted research and development, we gradually discovered some problems that were difficult to solve."

"what is the problem?"

"Conversion efficiency." Governor Ueno said calmly:

"Transforming the planet and building an ecosystem itself requires a large amount of energy consumption. Although most of it consumes ether, to do this, you also need a powerful spirituality as a computing center."

“So, if this model wants to be successful, it must obtain a sufficient amount of spirituality in a short period of time while consuming as little as possible.

At first, they designed some low-intelligent beasts that could practice cultivation, and achieved an effect similar to time acceleration by speeding up the material change rate of the entire ecosystem, but the results were not satisfactory.

The intelligence of these animals is too low, and the spirituality they can provide is very little. After collecting through the ecosystem, you get even less, which completely fails to meet the requirements."

"In desperation, they tried to design more advanced species.

However, no matter how they try to break through, they all find in despair that once they try to design an advanced species, no matter what the species looks like at the beginning, it will inevitably evolve into something similar to humans in the end."

Governor Ueno looked bitter:

"Once humans start to evolve, or species similar to humans, it becomes very troublesome in terms of ethics and morality. In the empire, due to the development of material conversion technology, various kinds of meat can already be produced.

Therefore, we do not have the habit of raising livestock, and morally we do not approve of this behavior.

This is true for livestock, let alone humans... Can you imagine what kind of discussion will be triggered when the news that the emperor created humans and kept them in captivity is made public?"

Lin Tuo was silent. This is easy to understand. Just like the cloning technology on earth, it is okay to conduct animal experiments, but once it involves "making humans"... it will become extremely sensitive.

Not to mention, what the emperor wants to do is to create and keep in captivity... Once it is really done, according to the procedures, it will be made public. What kind of public opinion storm will be caused?

And can the relevant proposals be passed?

"As a result, the experiment entered a dilemma. Some people advocated giving up, and some people tried to take the risk. However, at this time, the Ethics Committee intervened and forcibly terminated the experimental process." The governor said.

"Ethics committee?" Lin Tuo asked.

Governor Ueno said: "This is a large organization within the empire, composed of many human elites. There are several similar organizations. The establishment of some organizations can be traced back to the birth of the emperor. The earliest underlying rules were designed by these organizations.

of.

The meaning of their existence is to monitor the emperor's behavior. Once they believe that his decision will threaten the human race, they will use their influence to organize certain proposals through propaganda and other methods.

You can understand it as human beings' checks and balances on us. After all, at the beginning, and even now, there are always people who believe that pure computer rule will lead to destruction."

Lin Tuo said: "Continue."

Governor Ueno said: "The Ethics Committee believes that continuing this experiment will violate social conventions and have extremely negative effects, so it forcibly stopped the experiment."

"They can directly interrupt the emperor's experiment?" Lin Tuo asked in surprise.

"It is not the emperor's experiment. In the field of scientific research, the emperor is just an assistant to human researchers. Therefore, as long as the committee uses due procedures to order the researchers of the project to stop continuing to study, the project will naturally be stopped."

The Governor explained.

Lin Tuo showed a clear expression, then suddenly looked at her with complicated eyes, and said quietly:

"I want to confirm, is it just for this reason? Although I admit that ethics and morality are very important, compared to your own survival and continuation crisis, the committee's opinions are so unified?"

He always felt that it was not that simple!

Governor Ueno was silent for a moment, lowered his gaze, and said: "As far as I know, in addition to the reasons just mentioned, there is another problem."

"oh?"

"Rules," Governor Ueno raised his head and said: "At the beginning of the emperor's birth, in order to restrain His Majesty, the committees added very complete, even complex rules, which restricted us in all aspects.

The most core point is to protect "human rights", and human rights cover a wide range.

In this project, once human beings are derived and we directly control the operation of the ecosystem and collect energy, we are likely to violate the rules. There is a fuzzy area here.

That is, under the constraints of large rules, how to judge a small part of the behavior is debatable."

Lin Tuoran understood, isn't this the law? Within the framework of several codes, judges and lawyers can discuss specific issues to a certain extent.

Sure enough, the Governor's next words corroborated this point:

"The Ethics Committee conducted a discussion and concluded that once the experiment continues to create humans, it must pass an 'interpretation' of some rules.

This allowed the emperor to operate without violating any major rules, but this 'explanation' could not be changed at will.

Once an explanation has been given on this matter through the status of the committee, then if similar things happen again, the old explanation can only be followed... This is equivalent to, to a certain extent, untying the emperor.

Let us gain more autonomy.

And once unbundled, we will be able to violate the rules slightly within certain limits...and this is absolutely unacceptable to the committee! At least, it was unacceptable at the time!"

Lin Tuo suddenly realized: "But, I finally accepted it."

Governor Ueno said:

"Yes. The situation was not too urgent at that time. This project was just one of many projects. There were many other options. Therefore, the project was successfully suspended and sealed. There was no new progress for a long time.

,until……

Later, other projects failed one by one, and the empire's energy crisis was imminent... Under this situation, some committee members finally remembered this mothballed project..."

"Some members?" Lin Tuo noticed this keyword.

"It's part, not all. As far as I know, there is a lot of controversy within the committee about whether to restart this project. I don't know the specific details.

In short, later, the project was quietly restarted, and some of the original researchers were called back to conduct research."

Lin Tuo interrupted: "You just said that to continue research, you need to explain the rules and loosen your restrictions."

The governor seemed to purse his lips and said:

"I'm not sure about this part, but judging from the results... His Majesty has indeed gained a certain degree of freedom. This is why the taboo experiment can be opened secretly, bypassing the proposal announcement, and also why we can hide some information.

.”

When she said this, she took a deep look at Lin Tuo, who felt embarrassed. Obviously, she was referring to Lin Tuo sneaking into the Governor's Mansion and secretly checking the data.

Now, everything finally made sense. No wonder the files in the Governor's Mansion lacked key content, and there were also contents hidden in the operation logs. Logically speaking, this should not appear.

However, the committee's "interpretation" of some rules allowed the emperor and governors to acquire these abilities.

"No wonder those committee members were worried at the beginning..." Lin Tuo whispered in his heart, thinking from his perspective, if it were him, he would definitely be worried.

But the most important thing at this time was to listen to the story. Lin Tuo knew that the Evolution Sandbox was about to appear, and sure enough, Governor Ueno quickly mentioned it.

"After the project was restarted, everything went extremely smoothly. The experimental base was placed on a remote small planet. The emperor secretly allocated resources, cooperated with the researchers to conduct experiments, combined past technologies, and created the initial evolution sandbox.

Well, at that time, it wasn’t called this name. In fact, you can understand it as a machine that has the ability to transform the environment, build an ecosystem, and have a series of capabilities.

And its computing center is essentially no different from mine, both belong to the governor level, but its spirituality is greater than mine."

"Soon, the first batch of humanoid beings were born. They formed a country and possessed a very low-level civilization. The project team also successfully obtained a large amount of spirituality, which verified the smoothness of this logic.

The empire's crisis has finally found a solution, and the people who secretly support this project are rejoicing. The only remaining problem is how to implement it."

Lin Tuo raised his eyebrows, realizing that the show was about to begin.

Governor Ueno paused before continuing:

"Although the project has been successful, the entire experiment was conducted in secret. When it is actually used, it cannot always be hidden in the dark. The long-term research and development has attracted the attention of some people, and the evolution sandbox will be exposed sooner or later.

At that time, once it becomes known to the public, the crisis of public opinion will become a problem that must be solved.

In particular, this experiment itself has bypassed the publicity process to a certain extent. Once it is made public, it is difficult to determine where the situation will lead, and the relevant personnel involved in the incident are also likely to become victims of this incident."

"In addition, the subsequent problems caused by the sand table itself have also made relevant personnel wary."
To be continued...