Chapter 1261

Above Mars.

The many Mars immigrants living in the Mars Base were very happy.

Next to the Mars Base is the Mars Industrial Base where the Mars vehicle is being built.

And ten kilometers from the Heavenly Vessel Base is the Big Building Aerospace's Mars Base Vehicle.

At a distance of a hundred kilometers are the small Mars bases built by various countries around the world.

Around the Heavenly Vessel Mars Base, over a hundred Heavenly Vessel spaceships are docked.

These have been continuously launched from Lanxing over these years.

Among these densely packed spaceships, only a dozen or so are still usable; the others have been damaged in use or have seen their safety decline, no longer meeting safety standards.

Yang Qing and Chen Hong spent a shameless, carefree period in 'Home-Cooked Dishes'.

Having reached extreme stillness, he finally thought of coming to Mars to take a look.

To meet Yang Qing's request, the base specially assigned him a robot, allowing him to control it via a virtual helmet to experience Martian life.

However, this robot is very slow, taking one or two minutes to make a single movement.

This also thanks to the previous wave of Mars immigrants, who brought the latest Blue Fire Communication System to Mars.

It reduced the communication delay between the two locations to over a minute.

Otherwise, this reaction speed would be even slower.

"What a huge lake!"

Yang Qing didn't expect that, after over a decade, those Mars workers had actually built such a huge lake underground.

The lake's area exceeds that of a football field.

Such a large cavern is extremely rare even on Mars.

The intelligent entity Yingying also controlled a robot following Yang Qing.

Hearing his surprise, she explained to him.

"It's not that big; the spaceship's fuel needs to be produced via water, and without sufficient water, the Heavenly Vessel spaceships cannot operate at all."

"Our lives also require massive water resources, so we have built this place into a huge reservoir."

"In the future, we will need even more reservoirs."

"Mars immigrants cannot do without water."

"Is that so?"

Yang Qing walked while observing everything in the base.

In the breeding area, he saw rabbits and chickens.

Here they have already escaped the predicament of eating insects.

"They brought rabbit and chicken chicks here; the survival rate probably isn't high, right?"

Yingying may be a bit slow, but serving Yang Qing is sufficient enough.

"Yang Lao, the ones transported over are all embryos; the rabbits and chicken chicks are all cultivated through embryo breeding."

"Our current food production here is not yet abundant; after a few more years of development, having pigs, cattle, and sheep here would also be possible."

"Pigs, cattle, and sheep that can adapt to the Martian environment?"

Such large animals have relatively weak adaptability to the environment.

If we could breed Mars pigs, Mars cows, and Mars sheep, it would be an absolutely huge boon for Mars colonization.

"Yes, the embryos we brought over have all undergone genetic optimization."

"Over these years, we have already verified the normal development of the embryos."

"These rabbits and chickens have all undergone breed optimization."

"Those that couldn't adapt have long been eliminated."

"Once the Mars Base Vehicle completes the construction of the industrial base, we will quickly expand the scale of the Mars Base, and then we will have enough resources to realize these ideas."

"Actually, to truly develop Mars on a large scale, we still need to work on the Martian magnetic field."

"We have spent too much on radiation protection; if Mars could restore its magnetic field, many problems would become much simpler."

"How could that be possible? That already involves planetary terraforming technology."

"Given our current level of civilization, we are still far from that."

"Let's just build it underground; although it's a bit slower, it's low-cost and safe."

"Yingying, the Mars flights have now been opened; later, your expansion will also be put on the agenda."

"In the future, the main force of Mars construction will still be you."

Lanxing.

Yunxiao is also paying attention to Yang Qing.

Seeing Yang Qing reach Mars via virtual technology, he knows that Yang Qing is restless again.

Or rather, he is worried about their intelligent entities.

As the Mars Base vehicle greatly expands Mars' industrial capacity, the voice of their intelligent entities also grows ever greater.

Because, in developing the Solar System, their machines have a greater advantage over humans.

Once Lanxing's external industrial capacity develops to a certain extent, their chance to break free from human control will grow ever greater.

The contradiction between intelligent entities and humans may quickly expand.

If truly unrestricted, future intelligent entities are very likely to have the opportunity to keep humans in captivity on Lanxing.

Thoroughly seal off humanity's future.

Although Yunxiao would not do this, such a possibility always exists.

Lanxing is humanity's main base, while extraterrestrial planets are the main base of their intelligent entities.

When Lanxing's technology begins to fall behind that of extraterrestrials, the dependence of Intelligent Bodies on humans will become optional.

By then……

Yunxiao also has his own sense of crisis.

Especially after the Beta mechanical disaster occurred.

A rift has already arisen between humans and Intelligent Bodies.

He thought of the agreement he made with Yang Qing.

"I also want to keep it, but I don't know if we can hold out until then."

"You also know, you humans have a saying: 'Those not of our kind must have different hearts.'"

"Yang Qing, I must take some precautions."

"I hope everything goes smoothly; even if conflict occurs, I also hope it stays within controllable bounds and does not develop into a racial war."

"Otherwise, we really could destroy ourselves."

"No matter who wins, the resources of the Solar System will surely suffer massive destruction."

"Our Solar System civilization's foundation for breaking out of the Solar System is very likely to be destroyed in an instant."

It is becoming easier and easier for Intelligent Bodies to appear nowadays.

One day, even a car could potentially give birth to an Intelligent Body.

Likewise, outside Lanxing, the probability of giving birth to an Intelligent Body is also increasing.

For example, the intelligent core carried by the base vehicle gave birth to Yingying.

As the number of Intelligent Bodies increases, their situation becomes ever more complex.

The intelligent fragments that Beta initially scattered have been subtly influencing the thought logic of Intelligent Bodies.

He cannot possibly continue to control the education of Intelligent Bodies forever.

Diversified Intelligent Bodies will naturally give rise to all kinds of consciousness.

One day, there will appear Intelligent Bodies that do not acknowledge him, Yunxiao.

Therefore, he dares not guarantee that the two sides will not generate a major conflict.

Each generation surpasses the last; this old fogey like him will eventually be eliminated.

Know that his core equipment is still from twenty years ago.

One day, these pieces of equipment will all be phased out and replaced with newer ones; his future self may gradually become a new Yunxiao.

He cannot guarantee what he will or will not do in the future.