Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Chapter 374 Different Division of Labor

Rod was puzzled; he didn't understand why Lin Xuan suddenly wanted to go home.

But as the other party said, he had been fighting away from home for many years, and the last time he returned home was two or three years ago. He only stayed for a few days before returning to the army.

After being discharged from the military, he had thought about going home to visit his family, but he hadn't figured out how to explain his current situation to them yet, so he didn't go back.

After Lin Xuan's reminder, he also wanted to go back and take a look.

"Go back and take a look. Experience life at the bottom of the mechanical Earth as an ordinary person. After you've experienced it, you might have a different perspective when you come back to see me."

Lin Xuan smiled and exchanged contact information with the other party.

After reviewing Rhodes's information, he surprisingly developed a slight liking for this officer from an enemy country.

He was born 40 years ago.

At that time, the mechanical Earth, under the leadership of the Producers, had just won a war against foreign invaders.

Like Lin Xuan's Earth 4, Earth 1 also experienced a desperate situation similar to the Trisolaran crisis.

An AI named "Xinglan" has infiltrated the network system of Earth-1.

At first, it was just small-scale mischief, hacking into some surveillance systems and causing damage, like a child's prank.

But later, this AI did something really big for the entire mechanical Earth.

In their history, this experience is known as the "mirror deception."

At that time, the Earth-1 observatory discovered that a star was undergoing a blueshift at an extremely fast speed.

According to the Doppler effect, this indicates that the other party is rapidly approaching. At the same time, a large number of light filaments illuminate the entire sky of the universe. The analysis given by the Academy of Sciences is that this star is expected to collide with the star in its own orbit within 15 years.

This discovery terrified everyone, but AI had already tampered with all their observation methods.

In other words, unless Mechanical Earth sends a fleet to investigate at this time, no matter what observation methods they use, they will only get one result.

Two stars are about to collide, and at that time, neither of them will survive.

In order to cope with this epic disaster, Mechanical Earth completed the construction of space industry in just nine years. To prepare for the impending catastrophe, they even skipped the construction of the ring world and instead used fleet transportation, which was more feasible.

However, the drawbacks of building a fleet are obvious. What happened to the Earth Alliance back then is also happening on Mechanical Earth.

Large numbers of people took to the streets to protest, because the method of building a fleet to evacuate could only guarantee the survival of a small number of people, while the majority would not survive.

Mechanical Earth, on the other hand, chose a path completely opposite to that of the Earth Federation. They opted to use force to suppress dissent and to highly centralize their assets.

In those years, due to this AI's pranks, the mechanical Earth was engulfed in more than 300 civil wars of varying sizes, resulting in billions of deaths and injuries.

But the restructuring of the economy was also completely completed, and the ultimate producer was born, who controlled almost all the resources of the entire planet.

It could be said that back then, people were born with a huge debt.

You'll need to drink water when you grow up; water is the resource of the end producer.

You need to eat, for food is also a resource for the end producers.

Even in the end, the air we breathe has to be taxed on by the end producers.

However, the ultimate benefactor is very kind; he will not ask you to repay the money immediately, but will instead offer you a job so that you can work for him.

If you are willing to work hard, one day you will be able to pay back all the money you owe your future spouse.

By then, you'll be around 70 years old, and you'll be able to earn money for yourself.

Therefore, the debt of gratitude owed to the final benefactor can not be repaid even by three generations.

Later, the tax team of the end producers discovered the troublesome Starry Sky AI and, under unknown conditions, successfully eliminated it.

Therefore, countless people regarded the final producer as their savior.

Without the Producer, perhaps the mechanical Earth would have spent its entire life in civil war; it was he who ended the civil war.

The voices that initially felt that end producers were consuming too many resources were completely suppressed.

"If the ultimate producers hadn't received so many resources, would we have been able to weather this crisis?"

"Resources are limited and should be given to more useful capitalists. We ordinary people just need to work. Capital has a lot more complicated things to think about."

"It's just that everyone has a different role."

At that time, the polarization of the entire mechanical Earth was extremely severe. Although the lower classes often worried about not having enough to eat, they couldn't help but stand tall when they thought of the magnificent skyscrapers in the city center.

Rod grew up in this environment.

He was a pure soldier, loyal to his country and his government, which is beyond reproach.

Although they had ideological disagreements, Lin Xuan did not believe that the other person's ideas were necessarily wrong.

It is the corrupt government of Mechanical Earth that has failed soldiers like Rhodes, not their stubbornness.

Perhaps in their hearts, their continued maintenance of the machine is the only way to show absolute loyalty to the mechanical Earth.

Lin Xuan didn't intend to change the other party's stubborn viewpoint. He hoped that the other party could see for themselves and then make a judgment.

But seeing the other person turn and leave, Lin Xuan couldn't help but remind them.

"The mechanical Earth in your mind actually died 20 years ago. What you are seeing now is just the process of its corpse rotting."