Spark

In two days, all the information that could be obtained from Paul and Jess had been squeezed out.

What Chen Nian didn't expect was that they really didn't care about his own death.

There is an almost pathological persistence and superstition in them. No wonder Li Xiang said, "They are the radical version of us."

In the office, Li Xiang sat opposite Chen Nian and told the details of the organization.

"To sum up, the ultimate goals of this organization are twofold."

"The first one is to promote human evolution."

"Second, promote the optimization of population quality."

"They believe that population quality optimization is an inevitable prerequisite for human evolution, and its basic principles are highly consistent with the theory of evolution."

"According to their theory, modern society is an accelerated version of the primitive jungle. Various species gather in this jungle and are either eliminated or eliminate others."

"Just like the theory of evolution, most human subspecies can only serve as food for the final 'Homo sapiens', providing nutrients for Homo sapiens so that this species of humanity that is on the right track can eventually dominate the mainstream."

"But at the same time, they believe that due to the impact of technological progress and high productivity development, the operating speed of this primitive jungle is gradually declining."

"This is a very obvious trend - as we said, after the birth of nuclear fusion, more and more humans can be supported, and the bottom line of human survival continues to improve. It is likely that in the end, a human sub- If a species wants to be eliminated naturally, it becomes impossible to achieve."

"For this, they cited the increase in the number of black people as an example."

"In short, what they want to do is to use some special means to re-activate the elimination mechanism of the 'modern jungle' under the premise of continuous development of productivity, so as to select the population that can truly represent the future of mankind in the shortest possible time. , and continue to promote the growth of this population."

"Wait a minute."

Chen Nian interrupted Li Xiang's words and pointed out the loopholes in this theory keenly.

"First of all, they believe that modern society is a large jungle, which means that this elimination mechanism should be based on the premise of natural selection."

“But now you say that they want to screen out ‘populations that can represent the future of mankind’. Isn’t this contradictory?”

"How do they judge which population can represent the future of mankind? If a population can meet this requirement, why do they need to screen and promote it?"

Li Xiang shook his head, with a helpless smile on his face.

"That's how I refuted them at the time - but their logic is highly self-consistent."

"You know, in the long history, the lowest number of their populations that eventually evolved into us, Homo sapiens, dropped to less than a thousand people."

"It can be said to be the most dangerous moment for mankind. Although we survived in the end, in fact, according to the views of many scholars, if there is even one more 'tribal-level' extinction at that stage, the entire human population will not survive." Exist again.”

"And the factor that caused the tribe-level extinction was probably as small as a crazy beast."

"So, they believe that high-quality human populations must be protected as a priority."

"Wait a minute, I know what you want to ask."

Seeing Chen Nian's hesitant expression, Li Xiang raised his hand to temporarily stop him, and then continued:

"You have to ask, how can they tell which stock is the superior stock, right?"

"The answer is, they don't judge."

"They only exclude the inferior populations in their eyes and work hard to destroy the order established by the inferior populations. That is what Paul and Jess are doing."

"Yes, they think the United States is a typical country founded by inferior species."

"Why?"

Chen Nian asked doubtfully.

"Logically speaking, the United States is still the most powerful country in the world on paper as of now. Even if they are indeed on the way to decline, it will probably take several years or even ten years before they can fall to the second place in the world. A few years.”

"How can a country like this be judged as an inferior race?"

“Isn’t this in line with common Western values?”

"When did I say they have Western values? In their eyes, what they uphold are 'species values'."

Li Xiang thought for a moment and finally said this representative word.

"Actually, we are not completely sure of the criteria by which they judge the American nation as an inferior nation, because this is not within the reach of lower-level executives."

"Taking Paul and Jace as examples, they did those things largely for emotional reasons, such as hatred, anger, unwillingness, etc."

"But they all mentioned one thing, which is that the strategy of 'confrontation rather than cooperation' will become one of the criteria for judgment."

"From the perspective of the top management of the organization, the benefits brought by cooperation are naturally higher than confrontation. If an organization chooses confrontation, it means that they have physiological flaws in long-term judgment - well, here, Jess used one example."

"Monkeys who are fast and furious, yes, that's how they judge the current US government."

Hearing this, Chen Nian couldn't help but nodded.

"It's unimaginable. This set of logic is really complete. I even feel like I'm about to be convinced."

"But the problem is that racial judgment is absolutely inconsistent with the universal values ​​of the current society."

"This is also one of their judgment criteria - I want to say something rebellious. Objectively speaking, racial differences absolutely exist."

Li Xiang sighed heavily, and then continued:

“There are population differences between dogs, how come there are not differences between humans?”

"As they say, the main reason why modern society avoids racial differences is that the development of productivity has covered up the 'efficiency differences' caused by racial differences."

"No group can guarantee 100% that it is the best one, so in order to avoid being eliminated one day, everyone can only prioritize establishing a consensus: victory or defeat will not be determined by the quality of the race."

"Such a consensus has greatly promoted the stability of human society and is one of the most correct choices made by mankind in the past few hundred years."

"Formally such a consensus has bought us long-term development time and greatly reduced the frequency of wars, but is this really right?"

"That's the question they asked."

"Their argument is that such a consensus that covers up conflicts is actually fighting evolution, and in the long run, it will greatly slow down the speed of human development."

"The ultimate utilitarianism."

Chen Nian immediately summarized the key ideas of this organization.

"Yes, the ultimate in utilitarianism. According to their theory, if one day killing 50% of the world's people can lead to 51% of additional development progress, they will do it without hesitation."

"On the contrary, if letting everyone else is the optimal solution, they will do whatever it takes to keep everyone alive."

"It's outrageous."

Chen Nian took a deep breath.

"Why do I feel like they don't look like real people living in this world, but like gamers?"

"Have you ever played the Paradox series? Their ideas are really similar to Paradox players."

"In order to maximize interests at any cost, morality does not exist, law does not exist, and the only thing that exists is the ultimate interest."

"I think this is an idea of ​​what kind of people and what kind of organizations would reach this level."

Chen Nian paused and continued:

"It is impossible for ordinary rich people and politicians to view the world in this way. They must come from a 'pinnacle' in a broad sense."

"I think you should conduct screening from this perspective. Maybe you can find the person soon."

"Already doing it."

Li Xiang nodded and replied.

"However, the key issue now is not the organization itself, but some of the problems revealed by the emergence of this organization."

"The soil of society is already changing, and we are clearly not ready yet."

"You don't have to think that far."

Chen Nian shook his head in denial.

"It doesn't matter whether we are prepared or not. In fact, it doesn't matter whether we are what they call the optimal population - anyway, the core technology is with us. What can they do?"

"They don't think that fusion and room-temperature superconductivity are already our limits, right?"

"That's true."

Li Xiang nodded in agreement, and then said:

"We are still too limited to this matter itself. In fact, if we think about it outside, it's really not a big deal."

"Anyway, let's deal with the problem at hand first."

"No matter how influential this organization is and what it plans to do, we still have to find them first."

"This is considered the job of our intelligence department, right? There is one more thing I must inform you about."

"whats the matter?"

Chen Nian asked.

"Your security measures are going to be tightened for some time to come."

"This process may last one or two months - of course, it may last several months if it is longer."

"But in short, your safety comes first."

"clear."

Chen Nian didn't say much, but nodded in agreement.

In fact, he had already guessed that his security measures would be upgraded from the moment the organization's "background" began to be exposed.

After all, in a sense, he might be the culprit who "hides the truth of evolution".

If the other party discovers this, will they resist taking action against themselves?

How could it be possible to be cautious when you should be cautious?

I still have a lot of things to do, but I can't let myself fail at this moment.

Seychelles.

The bald man and the straw hat man once again sat on the beach chairs, but this time, their expressions were no longer so relaxed.

"Both Paul and Jace were caught. Should I say they were discreet or not?"

"After such a long incident, the organization has completely cut off from them. Now we are absolutely safe. From this point of view, they are very cautious."

"The problem is, they shouldn't have been caught at all."

The straw hat man's tone was a little regretful, and the bald man beside him said while drinking an ice-cold Coke:

"Then what else do you want? It's China that arrested people this time, not the CIA."

"Chinese people don't have any conflicts between departments, and there are no shackles of mutual restraint. On such a major event, as long as they decide to do something, it is basically impossible to fail."

"They have real 'national' power. We should be lucky that the incident in Rasrakela ended early and the traces were wiped clean enough. Otherwise, our situation would be even more dangerous now."

"No matter what, Paul and Jace must be given up. But maybe this is a good solution for them?"

"They have always wanted to see what the real future looks like, and China is probably the place closest to their expectations, right?"

Hearing the bald man's words, the straw hat man hummed.

After a few seconds of silence, he continued to ask:

"They won't die, right?"

"Definitely not. Why do the Chinese need to kill them?"

"Who knows?"

"Don't worry, I know them too well. They are utilitarians just like us."

"It's just that they are hiding deeper than us. Besides, does the life and death of Paul and Jace have any impact on us? This is not like a question you would ask."

The bald man looked at the straw hat man with a scrutinizing gaze. At this moment, he had some doubts about whether the straw hat man was weak or hesitant. But when he saw those eyes, he suddenly found that there was no trace of anything in the other person's eyes. This type of emotion.

"I'm just worried that if they die, it means that our operating system has been forcibly destroyed, and grassroots operations will become more difficult in the future."

".Same. So we still have to find a way to at least fish them out."

"This will be a major boost to our reputation. How about giving it a try?"

"How to try?"

The straw hat man was instantly interested.

"Our relationship has been used, but the effect is very poor - they don't accept this trick, and putting pressure on them is useless."

"But if you want to rescue them, you must at least ensure that they both appear in the United States. Do you have any other options?"

The bald man frowned. After thinking for a moment, he said:

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be stateside.”

"We can give them a price they have to accept in exchange."

"For example, the secret about Starfire."

The straw hat man rolled his eyes.

"Do we have this thing?"

"Then go look for it! The investigation of Xinghuo has been going on for a long time. Although there has been no substantial progress, at least there is some direction."

"In the coming period, we will focus our main energy on this aspect. I don't believe there will be no breakthrough."

“Then try it—don’t use my resources.”

The straw hat man said simply:

"I don't want the entire organization to be destroyed. It's better not to touch this dead line."

"Let me know in advance when you are going to start, so that I can complete the cutting as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, I will tell you."

The bald man said helplessly.

His and Straw Hat Man's roles often reverse, sometimes he represents the radical side, sometimes he represents the conservative side.

However, this is one of the keys to the long-term existence of this organization.