[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train":3,"chapter-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-488":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Apocalypse: I Built an Infinite Train",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2262252,4414,"Chapter 488","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-488",488,"\u003Cp>Lin Xian stood atop the skyscraper, his feet on a metal pipe, as several unmanned patrol drones surrounded him, alarms humming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the beautiful female android before him, Lin Xian’s retinal projection flashed a command message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【For the glory and development of human civilization, please complete suicide!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian frowned slightly: “I commit suicide? What does that have to do with human civilization?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To counter resource depletion caused by solar flares, 90% of the global population will voluntarily end their lives through neural implant protocols, securing the ‘continuation of human civilization,’” the female android explained calmly, like a considerate service attendant. “As a Type II Wise Human, your social agreement explicitly requires you to contribute to the world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Resource depletion means 90% of people must kill themselves?” Lin Xian looked bewildered. “What if I refuse? Will you just erase me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Protocol No. 1, androids are not authorized to harm or kill humans. The right to life of Wise Humans holds the highest priority and protection tier. You are a sacred member of this great world—where there is no killing or evil. Under Blue Planet directives, those unable to perform glorious suicide will be escorted to the Redemption Center, where you will undergo painless euthanasia after 48 hours. Your number will be permanently archived in the StarQiong Wisdom System’s historical records.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, I’ve heard of painless abortion, but never painless suicide—this is just euthanasia.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian glanced at his mechanical arm and legs, realizing he couldn’t activate his Mechanical Heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, he couldn’t escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mechanical Heart?” The beautiful android tilted her head, looking at Lin Xian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can read my thoughts?!” Lin Xian was stunned. Before he could react, two flying drones approached from behind, extending mechanical tendrils to clamp his limbs, immobilizing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian immediately tried to struggle, but without his abilities, he was powerless. Even his body felt awkward. Yet, remembering this was just a simulation from the metal sphere, he gave up resisting—curious to see how they’d ‘eliminate’ him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lin Xian was restrained, the female android stepped forward: “I don’t understand your thoughts. As a Type II Wise Human, you retain a complete brain, neural spine, and reproductive system. All organ metabolism has been replaced by synthetic systems. Your birth telomere scan estimates a lifespan of 170–182 years; your synthetic heart is designed for 200 years—this cannot be altered at initialization. Furthermore, your attempt to flee is extremely dangerous. This height exceeds 400 meters and could cause accidental injury or death. As human servants, we are obligated to ensure your safety.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian frowned. Indeed, in this world, his thoughts were transparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts were completely exposed to these enforcers, giving him a suffocating sensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two drones lifted him onto a transport aircraft already hovering in the sky. The female android sat across from him. The cabin door sealed shut, and the transport began flying toward the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she’d said, these enforcers treated him with extreme courtesy. It looked like an arrest, but in form, it was pure compulsory ‘service.’ They’d even provided him a luxury seat, along with entertainment and audiovisual systems inside the cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m Aili, your Glory Suicide Service Agent. You may call me whatever name you prefer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The android ‘Aili’ sat across from Lin Xian. As soon as he showed curiosity toward her, she immediately introduced herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian opened his mouth to speak, but she read his thoughts again and smiled at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We are heading to Redemption Center No. 3. Flight time: approximately three hours and twelve minutes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian sighed helplessly and simply stared at Aili, pouring out every question in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The current year is Civilization Era 619. The Civilization Protocol was established after the Third World War by the remaining global leaders.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Third World War? Why does the era start from zero?” Lin Xian asked. “And how did the Third World War happen?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“According to retrieval, the Third World War erupted in Old World Year 2179, lasting eleven years. Its cause was conflicting interests among the multipolar global structure and diverse national political systems, centered on humanity’s inability to resolve wealth distribution under technological monopolization—the ‘Matthew Effect.’ This ultimately led to extreme wealth disparity and class conflict.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After the Third World War, all nuclear weapons were eliminated, production means were restructured, and humanity, through the final AI ‘Deep Blue,’ calculated a new civilization system: Wisdomism.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Under Wisdomism, all humans are uniformly defined as ‘Wise Humans’ of equal class. Android labor fully replaces human labor. Wise Humans contribute computational power via neural interfaces—converting intelligence and learning into individual consciousness, which then outputs computational power to aid civilization, earning social status. Thus, the only path to wealth is the ‘Human-in-the-Loop’ system. Rewards are distributed by the ‘Super Wisdom Brain,’ which isolates production means and returns from power, resolving humanity’s historical ‘Acton Problem’ and ‘Locke Problem,’ and completely eradicating class, gender, and racial discrimination.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A unified civilization?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian’s eyes widened: “So all humans are excluded from decision-making and wealth distribution? But human intelligence varies!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wisdom as the sole productive unit effectively resolves class, gender, and racial issues. Superior wisdom genes earn higher social welfare and status. According to the Civilization Protocol, Wise Humans are divided into three types. You, Number 17695516, are a Type II Wise Human.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So there’s still a hierarchy? What about those born with low intelligence or disabilities?” Lin Xian asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Using wisdom contribution as the standard resolves 99% of inequality. For the remaining 1%—those with inferior genes—the Super Wisdom Brain allocates surplus societal resources as ‘livelihood security’ to maintain social order. This distribution system, refined over centuries, is considered the ultimate civilization system that eradicates all inequality, humanity’s correct step toward higher civilization. Under this system, society achieves zero crime, zero laws, zero discrimination. There are no wars; communication is perfectly transparent and efficient. All human wisdom is concentrated, enabling humanity to reach a Kardashev 1.5 civilization level in just a few centuries.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aili continued: “Humanity today is an unprecedentedly united civilization. All wisdom serves societal perfection, technological advancement, and external exploration. Internal consumption is zero. Poets and sages describe it as the ultimate utopia.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Utopia…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian fell silent, deeply shaken. He almost believed her. It was unthinkable to split human rights via AI and let AI govern the world—but if androids replaced all labor and all production means were reduced to ‘wisdom,’ then logically, Aili’s solution might work: eliminating class, gender, and racial barriers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this Super Wisdom Brain, to counter solar flare-induced resource depletion, directly used intelligence as a ‘class’ to control population. It sounded terrifying yet rational. Lin Xian struggled to accept it. His worldview found it absurd, yet from the cold logic of civilizational development, the Super Wisdom Brain seemed correct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian pressed the screen. His thoughts shifted, and the scene he wanted appeared: the Super Wisdom Brain had determined the only solution was to erase 90% of life. The command seeped into billions of minds via omnipresent neural waves, like an irreversible virus. Amid street fires, Lin Xian watched elderly people burn themselves numbly, children collapsing into corpses under intelligent injectors—no pain, no screams—just as Aili had described.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glorious suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian’s heart trembled. He didn’t know what to say. If not viewed from a human perspective, this civilization was undeniably a terrifying, advanced one. Civilization’s survival had become the foundational belief; individual consciousness had been stripped away. There was no sacrifice for greater good, no morality of good or evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, deep down, he felt something was still imperfect—or perhaps, something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Aili had answered every thought he had during the flight, explaining with flawless rigor and clarity. He saw how Wise Humans, as equal class, were treated: from birth, they received all necessities. All labor was handled by androids—from meticulous infant care to daily eating, toileting, clothing, housing, health, and education—all free and equal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No goods carried hierarchical grades or wealth discrimination. An infant’s only task was education, then precise assignment to specialized fields based on individual differences and personality. There were no sports, no entertainment systems, no artists providing art. Every day, humans simply wore neural interfaces and contributed wisdom for two hours, sensationless. The rest of the time was endless leisure, enjoying social welfare generated by wisdom productivity. Even low-intelligence humans received full welfare guarantees, allowing them to live peacefully. Elite Wise Humans possessed merely more welfare options, and this class generated no class conflict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main reason? Elite status arose from minor genetic randomness. After eliminating all genetic diseases, every descendant could theoretically become an elite Wise Human worthy of ‘presidential’ status. In this world, only genetic fate could be blamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After hearing you, I suppose I really should commit glorious suicide—to contribute my future to this glorious, great humanity?” Lin Xian felt slightly at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I have no problem.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the female android across from him stood up, removed a metal chest plate, revealing internal metal grating and dense components, and smiled at Lin Xian: “As a wisdom-service android, I possess no sexual organs or real female breasts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t mean—” Lin Xian was stunned, then coughed: “Never mind. I was just curious.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Upon arrival at the Redemption Center, according to protocol, you will gain ‘Glory’ level permissions, higher than Type I Wise Humans. Beyond being exempt from the obligation of glorious suicide, the android team will fulfill all your desires—including unlimited sex, unlimited killing, unlimited eating, unlimited entertainment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last meal?” Lin Xian smiled. “Quite humane.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He frowned slightly: “Logically, those ordered to perform ‘glorious suicide’ should execute it without hesitation. I’m an outlier with rebellious thoughts—so why build a Redemption Center and offer me all these perks?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To uphold the civilization’s belief in fairness, even rebels must sacrifice for civilization. The Super Wisdom Brain regards them as individuals with human rights but lacking civilizational belief—social toxins. Before elimination, the Super Wisdom Brain engages them in loop communication to reflect on problems within Wisdomism. These ‘errors’ are vital to our ‘progress.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xian understood. Damn. Self-reflection—utterly flawless. They kill those unwilling to sacrifice for civilization, yet also learn why they resist, what flaws exist in the system, what cognitive biases remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was terrifying. Utterly cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eliminating all divergent thought—not through killing, but by eradicating it at the system’s root, like a computer antivirus removing a virus while patching the system to ensure absolute stability.\u003C\u002Fp>",1737,"2026-06-19T18:20:07.351Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","46ab3685ab614a3026a25b0a2ae49d9af91b3b9d90e292ad0e5b6743de7a6050","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-489","apocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-chapter-487",541,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-i-built-an-infinite-train-cover.jpg"]