Survival on the Star Sea: Starting from a small broken ship and becoming stronger

After carefully reading the ship information coming from the spaceport, and confirming the information given by the other party, Zhao Feng then pushed the rudder and officially headed to the location of the accident of the mining ship Telide 22 after ensuring that there was almost no difference between the two. .

But before Zhao Feng could control the warship and move towards the target, another distress signal suddenly came out.

Looking at the signal transceiver with the red alarm flashing, Zhao Feng thought to himself: "Here he comes."

"Paraly Space Yacht?"

Zhao Feng was very doubtful that the clustering of these distress signals might be related to his trial.

But no matter what, he still chose to answer the communication request.

"Thank God, someone finally received the signal. Hello, captain of the Eamon 3, we are the Parale space yacht. During the voyage just now, an asteroid crashed into our engine, and we lost power. Now we are rushing towards the deadly asteroid belt, and in about an hour we will be torn directly into pieces by the asteroid."

"Please come and save us. Without your help, the 50 college students on this boat would be dead. They are all the future pillars of the empire. They should not die here!"

Looking at the two distress messages in front of him, Zhao Feng couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly, and he already had a rough guess in his mind.

At the same time, Zhao Feng once again confirmed the specific number of people on the opponent's yacht according to the previous method.

There are 20 crew members and 50 college students.

At the same time, in order to stabilize the people's hearts in the mining ship, he did not interrupt the previous rescue communication signal, so the two parties seeking help soon learned of each other's existence.

Then Zhao Feng had to confirm again the specific locations and distances of the two warships that needed his rescue in the star field.

Sure enough, after final calculation, with the sailing speed of the Eamon 3, only one ship could be selected for rescue at most.

He must choose to give up one side.

‘The trolley problem? Last time, I tested my observation skills and my thinking ability by solving math problems. This time, you will play philosophy and discuss ethics for me, right? ’

Zhao Feng knew this dilemma very well.

In the age of the earth, this kind of problem is a representative type of logical reasoning and even philosophical reasoning.

When life-saving resources, such as donated organs or vaccines, are scarce, it is like the situation Zhao Biao is facing now.

At this time, it is quite difficult to decide how to allocate such resources and how to solve such problems.

It seems to be a simple mathematical question, but in fact it is a philosophical question about ethics.

‘Why do the ancients want to take this exam? What is their purpose? ’

Zhao Feng felt that he might be able to pass the level by simply distinguishing the numbers and giving a random answer, but there was absolutely no way to pass the level perfectly, so he had to consider more.

‘What if I solve it from a “utilitarian” perspective. . . ’

From a utilitarian perspective, when faced with this problem, the approach that maximizes overall happiness will be required.

But the problem is, how to define and measure happiness is a big problem.

For example, a hedonist would say: "A happy life is to have the most fun and the least pain."

But there are also other hedonists who believe: "Only a life that can satisfy desires is the happiest."

But no matter how happiness is defined, from a hedonistic point of view, Zhao Feng feels that the happiness generated by saving 132 lives must far exceed the happiness generated by saving 70 people.

But the question is, this is a trial. What exactly does the ancient one want to test?

Just comparing a single variable?

In that case, just considering the number of people saved would indeed be enough.

But Zhao Feng felt that things should not be viewed so one-sidedly, and must be considered comprehensively.

for example. . . Add the variable length of life.

Assuming that the upper limit of life span is 80 years, if we save college students with an average age of 20, it is equivalent to saving 3,000 years of life.

But if the average age of miners is 65, it would only be equivalent to saving 1,500 years of life.

Since there is not much difference in the number of crew members, and the average age is 40 years old after offsetting each other, the life of the miners' ship has only increased by 480 years, reaching the level of 1980.

If all other conditions are equal, a longer life span will represent more overall happiness than a shorter life span.

Therefore, the happiness generated by saving small spaceships is the greatest value.

But Zhao Feng still felt something was wrong with this answer.

It is impossible for an ancient person to give a simple riddle from ancient times.

“So perhaps the issue of ‘life circumstances’ should also be considered.”

For example, benefiting people who are in a poor situation is more important than benefiting people who are in a better situation.

To assist those whose basic needs have not been met, even if it is more difficult to assist these people than to assist those developed individuals, we should try to give priority to assisting them.

But when it comes to determining which group is worse off, the situation quickly becomes complicated.

It can be seen that even the world ruled by the Ancient Ones is still deeply suffering from the inequality of wealth and opportunity.

Therefore, those who have money to take a vacation in space and take a luxurious space yacht must undoubtedly belong to those who are in the best situation among the ancients.

In contrast, workers, especially those mining workers who continue to work at an advanced age, are definitely the most vulnerable.

They have to leave home for months or even years at a time to perform service work, and may even die without being able to see their families again.

Since they have fewer opportunities and resources, their lives will basically be harder than those who take vacations.

So with that in mind, maybe these workers are more deserving of being saved?

But Zhao Feng did not define death, because on the other hand, students have relatively little life experience. Maybe considering this aspect, their situation may be considered worse?

After thinking about it, Zhao Feng suddenly felt that he had been tricked?

He shouldn't be swayed by these variables. The Ancient One deliberately made things difficult for him and made him contradict himself.

‘Maybe I shouldn’t care about those numbers. Everyone and every life is equal and should receive equal attention and respect. ’

So the best way to save those passengers should actually be. . . Throw a coin!

Although it may seem casual at first, this method is the fairest and treats both parties equally.

Fate gives everyone an equal chance of salvation, can any passenger argue that the coin toss would be unfair to them?

Even if there is unfairness, it can only be caused by the person tossing the coin.

But Zhao Feng is obviously not a native of this illusory world.

He will not be affected by the two spaceships because there is no one he knows on board.

Likewise, he will not be afraid of the pressure of public opinion in the future.

Therefore, his actions are absolutely fair and there will be no bias.

Then the action of tossing a coin is absolutely fair.

Of course, it is not up to Zhao Feng to worry about how the two ships will feel about the outcome of the coin toss.

He is just responsible for choosing a method that best suits the current trial.

And when Zhao Feng actually took out a coin from his pocket, he knew that his choice was correct.

At the same time, he also realized a very critical point at this time.

‘Sometimes, isn’t the existence of civilization itself an accident of luck? ’

And when he announced to the two battleships that he would decide who he would save by tossing a coin, and the moment he tossed the coin, the trial was also declared over at the same moment.

[Congratulations to Zhao Feng, for successfully passing the second stage of the trial, with perfect completion! 】

[Reward 1: The third stage trial planet location coordinates, Super.1660.F2]

[Reward 2: Gravity Pulling Formula (2)]

[Reward 3: Destiny Coin]

Looking at the simple reward content, Zhao Feng was confused.

He can still understand the formula, after all, there has been a black hole formula before, and this wave, combined with the gravitational pull, just completes part of the formula.

Although he cannot fully understand it, Zhao Feng probably knows that with a complete formula, human civilization can truly get involved in the field of "giant stars".

Without the intervention of the Star Ocean System, humans alone can create an artificial celestial body similar to the Death Star, but more powerful than the Death Star.

For example, things like giant structures: black hole decompressors are even more powerful than stellar Dyson spheres.

The formula is easy to understand, but what the hell is the fate coin?

Could it be the one he threw just now?

Thinking of this, Zhao Feng, who returned to his battleship, couldn't help but touch his pocket.

Good guy, there really is a coin.

But unfortunately, the Xinghai System could not recognize what it was, and after visual inspection, the plug-in system seemed to be still cracking the Anti-Cheat system of the Ancient One.

So there was no other way, Zhao Feng could only put this thing away first.

After all, when it comes to the word "destiny", there is a bit of metaphysics involved.

It would be too terrifying if fate could really be divined or controlled with a small coin.

Almost equivalent to the law of cause and effect.

And with the strength of the Ancient One, Zhao Feng was not surprised at all when he came up with the Law of Cause and Effect weapon.

Therefore, Zhao Feng did not dare to put the coin in his hand randomly, and directly gave it a slot in the auxiliary backpack to show respect.

Returning his gaze to the starry sky in front of him, there was no doubt that the planet he had just explored had disappeared again.

Zhao Feng has gradually begun to understand this mysterious phenomenon.

After all, it was set by ancient civilization, so it’s reasonable! Absolutely reasonable!

Not wanting to miss those things, Zhao Feng directly took out the coordinates given by the reward and flew towards the next trial planet.

This is the second most habitable planet in the fourth planetary orbit.

It's still the same old routine, detect, detect, play.

But this planet is completely different from the previous two.

There are a lot of cities on this planet, but there are no life forms.

Would you say it is desolate? But the mechanical creation above is constantly moving.

Moreover, those mechanical creations, like humans, have their own social systems, and like humans, they form families.

Have you ever seen the life of a male refrigerator man and a female TV man after getting married?

The product of these two pieces of furniture was actually a microwave oven, which shocked Zhao Feng even more.

But after glancing at the oven king next door, Zhao Feng showed a thoughtful look.

There is no doubt that these living machines are very similar to humans, or creatures with sociology, even in terms of ethics.

Suddenly he thought of a possibility. Could it be that these household appliances were once human beings, but they lost their bodies due to the trials of the ancient ones and turned into those household appliances?

Thinking of this, Zhao Feng couldn't help but feel his scalp numb. He didn't want to become a moving refrigerator or washing machine.

So he dropped several satellites towards the planet.

As expected, these satellites all lost contact shortly after penetrating the atmosphere.

And based on observation, it can be clearly found that these satellites have human-like limbs and facial features.

In addition, they seem to have lost their original flying ability and cannot even fly half a meter after landing.

The specially designed engine is more like a decoration.

Obviously, there is some unknown radiation on this planet that can change all life forms on it.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Feng could only use the energy vision of his eighth sense again to observe the entire planet.

But it seemed that the eighth sense had been used too many times in a short period of time. Although Zhao Feng still had a few thousand points of mental strength, a strong sense of exhaustion made him drowsy.

Even if you use your brain even a little bit, you will feel a lot of pressure.

Realizing that he had indeed used his abilities too frequently in the recent period, Zhao Feng had no choice but to lean back, choose a comfortable position and fall asleep.

Indeed, in the second trial, in order to explore the planet maze, he used his eighth sense for more than 2 days. Although the Star Sea system cannot calculate the consumption on him, on the soul, these consumptions are real. .

24 hours passed quickly, and Zhao Feng's soul energy had almost recovered by half.

Although I know that I have not returned to full status, time is urgent.

This journey has taken almost 7 days now, but half of the task of the Ancient One's Trial has not been completed.

It's impossible to say there's no rush.

So Zhao Feng calmed down, took a bath and changed clothes again, and then returned to the captain's position again, preparing to study how to deal with this third stage of the trial. (End of chapter)