Chapter 422 The end is coming
Watching Karen board the train, and then watching the train pull out of the station, and finally even the thick smoke dissipated, Purficott stood up from the chair He got up and turned around to look at the station master who was respectful and did not dare to come out.
"Remember the faces of these people, especially that woman. If they show up again next time, don't alert the snake. Send someone to notify me as soon as possible. Do you understand?" Purficott didn't have any questions. The explanation was that the order was issued with the authority of the lord of the north.
The webmaster immediately felt as if he had been granted amnesty, and he nodded hurriedly and promised: "Please rest assured, Lord Count! I will definitely keep an eye on these people, and I will notify you as soon as there is any news! Ah! , No! I’m reporting to you! Please forgive me for my inappropriate choice of words!”
Purphycott didn’t care, he just waved his hand and said casually: “No need to be polite, I am. As a person who speaks well, as long as you have the ability to win my preferential treatment, or you are loyal enough to get my reward, you don’t need to care about some rudeness and disrespect. I haven’t needed to care about these to establish my prestige. .”
"Thank you for your free food...kindness!" However, Purficott's relief did not make the railway station director much less relieved, but made him even more nervous.
Perfect shook his head helplessly, and then left the train station.
"Am I really that scary?" After getting on a low-key steam carriage, Purficott looked at Befa, who was sitting in the car with him, wanting to hear her answer. .
However, Befa is just a doll. Even though she is very smart and even shows signs of awakening artificial intelligence, she cannot answer Purficott's question.
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with Purficott discussing this issue with Befa, it’s just that Befa doesn’t have the chat function, even though Purficott installed the latest language module and machinery on her. logic.
After she and Weier developed the micro-golem computer, Purficott tried to use this technology to upgrade the intelligence of the alchemy doll.
Although there are many alchemy dolls like this in the North, there are still none who have truly mastered the language ability and wisdom. Even Befa, who is in the most optimistic state, has not awakened to self-awareness.
Even though Purficott has been tolerant and indulgent enough, and invested a lot of energy and time in research, all the intelligence displayed by the alchemy doll has always relied only on mechanical logic and has not been produced. The possibility of true self-awareness or artificial intelligence.
Purficant is neither disappointed nor happy about this. For her, this is just a random research topic.
Compared with this, the news that the empire finally decided to announce the end of the world is the real focus that deserves Purficott's attention.
Originally, the Royal Council decided to issue a warning of doom to the entire empire this winter, and also to make a wave of goodwill to other countries in the old world.
To be honest, Purficott feels a little outrageous that other countries have not seemed to notice the signs of the end so far.
However, after she took over the capital of the Three Kingdoms Alliance before contacting her, the academic world in other countries in the old world declined terribly, and the empire was strictly controlled and restricted related research. It seems that other countries did not discover it. It’s not that I can’t understand it.
The scientific research capabilities of many small countries may not be as good as a random university in Langton, not to mention that there are only a few powerful countries in the old world. After three were wiped out by Perficott, the remaining Whether he still has the ability to detect signs of the end of the world is also a question mark.
In fact, if she had not discovered all this in advance, perhaps the empire would not have been able to make so many preparations in advance. If things go wrong, the entire world will spend the most precious time before the end of the world singing and dancing, so that when the end of the world comes, all countries will be caught off guard.
Instead of like now, at least the empire has sufficient preparations and plans. Although it still suffers heavy losses, at least the empire can save a considerable part of its people and preserve most of its industrial and scientific research strength.
Of course, the abandonment of the empire’s mainland is still painful. Even though Purficott has tried his best to relocate the empire’s mainland in the past three years, he cannot be moved until the news of the doomsday crisis is completely made public. The empire's local industry was completely transferred to the north.
Although this key information has been disclosed now, considering that the end is approaching and the maritime transportation lines will also be affected, I am afraid that it will be difficult to transport the precious industries of the empire to the north. A very difficult thing to do.
And more importantly, in the past, the empire relied on huge overseas colonies to support the consumption and demand of the empire. It was also relying on the continuous input of resources from overseas that the Victoria Empire was able to support industry. As a result of the revolution, China became the most developed country in the world.
Now that the end is coming, the empire's huge overseas colonies are basically gone. Even the empire's mainland will be abandoned. The only ones left are the northern border and the New World colonies adjacent to the northern border. The output of these two alone It is really difficult to meet all industrial needs.
Not to mention that in the cold winter of the end, agriculture and animal husbandry are almost zero, and a large number of raw material processing and production will also take a huge blow. What will the future of the Victoria Empire look like, even if it is planned? Having learned all this, Purficott can hardly make an accurate prediction.
After all, the future has entered a stage that no one has ever experienced. Under the pressure of the doomsday, what kind of development the world will have and how human nature will change are all unknown. number.
But behind all this, Purficott felt that if someone asked her the same question as a stupid donkey in the original world, she could at least answer it confidently, which was very worthwhile.
Whether it is her establishing a northern sanctuary, destroying the Three Kingdoms Alliance, or making various iron-blooded or cruel decisions, as long as they can continue human civilization, then everything will be worthwhile.
Civilization is civilization because it is made up of people.
Civilization without people is meaningless, but civilization with only people is also meaningless.
Perficott has saved the civilization of this world and left enough fire for the inheritance of civilization. This is undoubtedly a shining and great achievement for all mankind.
But her work does not end there, because she also wants to ensure that mankind can survive the period of doomsday smoothly, so that human civilization can transition from singing and dancing to surviving in the apocalypse.
Of course, there is a more important thing, which is to pass on the fire of civilization and wisdom.
(End of this chapter)