Chapter 274 – 28. Let’s Take a Break
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The next day.
Eun-kyung, who had been having a heated pregnancy with her wife for the first time in a long time, visited Ga-young Lee early on.
Even though she was in charge of Changcheon’s science, she was confined to the laboratory of the production facility as always, and her face blushed slightly as soon as she saw Eun-kyung.
It reminded me of an affair I had a while ago.
“What is going on so early? I understand there are still about 2 days left to report…”
Perhaps you came because you missed me?
She asked with brief expectations, but unfortunately, that wasn’t her purpose.
“I have something to discuss with you.”
“Do you want a consultation with me?”
Eun-kyung told me about what happened at her meeting the other day.
She especially focused on talking about super penis improvement, and Gayoung’s expression as she listened was mysterious.
“Hmm.”
“It’s a difficult problem, right? My head is about to explode too. Even though I had made up my mind about it, there are still some ambiguities. And even if it is implemented, there will be many challenges.”
“It certainly seems vulgar and cheap, but it is a necessary discussion. If you want to preserve the population, it’s best to take measures as quickly as possible. “I think it’s already too late.”
“Is it already late?”
“Of course. Even if the birth rate falls below 2.0, the status quo cannot be maintained. To be exact, it should be 2.1. If it falls below 1.0, it will be an unprecedented level of extinction in human history. But we’ve fallen to almost zero in recent years. There are no newborns being born. “No matter how great the measures, it is a fact and science that we cannot prevent the population from falling vertically in the coming decades.”
“Still, the death rate would have decreased due to the spread of LP and stigma, so wouldn’t it be better than expected?”
“Then we will become an extremely aging society.”
“One way or another, it’s a problem.”
“Yes. Anyway, back to the topic, there are a few things I would like to say.”
“Oh. “Tell me.”
Gayoung took a moment and opened her mouth.
“Is there any reason to go to such lengths to maintain the population?”
“Huh?”
“Until His Excellency awakened his editing ability and created various systems based on it, the population was clearly needed, but now I wonder if that is really necessary. To put it bluntly, as time passes, if the autonomous combat robot that His Excellency entrusted us with to research is completed and full-scale mass production begins, it would not be out of the question to use it for home use or other service production. Then, there will be no need for population from the producers’ point of view. If the population as producers is no longer needed, all production can be done by robots or artificial intelligence, which means that the economy will no longer be needed. All goods will be distributed to each individual as a pure government distribution. Then there is no need for consumers.”
“I’m sorry, but please explain easily.”
“This means that the population needed to form a society will be extremely reduced or will be completely unnecessary. In other words, most of the population becomes ‘surplus humans’ who only waste resources. If we come to this point, the question of ‘whether we should maintain the population and preserve humanity’ will not be based on practical necessity, but will move into the realm of philosophy. “Will we make an effort to maintain the population by consuming more resources even though they are of no use, or will we conserve resources by wiping out useless surplus manpower or preventing more of them from being born?”
Eun-kyung nodded.
I roughly understood what she was saying. The point is, why maintain the population when it’s going to become increasingly useless anyway? Is there any benefit to that? But he had a slightly different idea.
“First, there is something you need to know.”
“Please speak.”
“The most important resource at this point is LP. And there is no established method of supplying LP through machines yet. We did not test where the LP comes from when the autonomous combat robot catches a monster, and in the worst case, it may evaporate.”
“Hmm, I guess so.”
“The same is true even if a robot creates items that can be sold as LPs. In the end, you need someone to buy it, and of course that is the owners.”
“As long as LP production owners are involved, maintaining the population is inevitable. It was definitely something I hadn’t thought of.”
“And there is one more thing.”
“Again?”
Gayoung tilted her head.
The thing about LP was clear enough to make her nod her head as soon as she heard it, and it was a blind spot she hadn’t even thought about.
But is there something else like that?
“I must have a beautiful woman.”
“…”
As she was expecting to hear some kind of opinion, she suddenly made a rotten face.
“That’s a natural beauty that hasn’t been touched by humans!”
“That… “I don’t have anything to say.”
“Of course, I welcome beautiful women with plastic surgery. But isn’t it better for her to be a beauty from birth?”
“Hmm, but Your Excellency.”
“Yes.”
Gayoung made an embarrassed face and pushed up her glasses with her middle finger.
“No matter how great your Excellency is and how great your utility skills are, you cannot hug a woman worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“Well…”
“That means that even if there is an appropriate level of population, that is, a population maintained by the level of seeding activities that your Excellency is doing now, you will be able to supply enough beauties that you want.”
“Is that really the case?”
“Because you are different from ordinary men. Even if you spray it on just 10 people a day, 3,000 women will become pregnant in 10 months. And from then on, 10 children will be born every day, or 3,650 children per year. To put it simply, 20 years after the first child becomes an adult, 10 adults will be born every day.”
“But half of them will be women, and if we choose the most beautiful women, there will be only one person or not.”
“… I don’t think there’s anything to worry about because it’s influenced by genes. There is also a chance that they are twins.”
“It’s not like I always hug 10 people a day. “There are more times when you only hold on to two or three people.”
“Hmm.”
“And there is a very fatal error in what you say.”
“Fatal error? “Is there anything like that in what I’m saying?”
Lee Ga-young pushed up her glasses again.
Of course, stop.
“You don’t really think that the level of beauty possessed by the most beautiful woman among 100 women and the level of beauty possessed by the most beautiful woman among 100 million women are the same?”
“Ah…”
“It’s only natural that the quality of being number one out of 100 million people or number one out of a billion people would be much higher.”
“… That’s not necessarily true. Because everything has a limit.”
“I guess so. However, if you select 10, 100, or 1,000 beauties among them, it cannot be denied that the higher the overall population pool, the higher the average level of the beauties selected. From that perspective, I need to increase the population, not just maintain it.”
“…”
It’s embarrassing.
Maintaining the population is a problem, but we need to increase it further.
Is that really possible?
“Really… If you are thinking about doing that, you should implement the reform plan that came out yesterday in the most proactive way. Significantly increase the number of Reds units, and also improve and attach super penises. You also need to set up a system that sends dispatches to various parts of the world to establish mandatory relationships. I think you can think of it as a super-opposition policy. And even in a society with only women, there will be people who get married anyway, so I think it would be okay to make sure at least one person uses a super penis.”
“Ohh. Okay. That’s exactly the advice I wanted.”
“…”
Is this really the right advice to give as a scientist?
Gayoung, who continued to come up with ideas but suffered from feelings of self-destruction, struggled to let go of that feeling.
“Anyway… Other than that, do you have any questions? Are you going to give me an order?”
“Anything else? Ah, yes. There was also talk about my death yesterday, and everyone had a bad look on their faces.”
“After all, it is not unusual for His Excellency to have died.”
“I think we need something tangible to boost morale. Ordeal countermeasures.”
“Countermeasures…”
Even Eun-kyung, the most powerful person, died once, so is there such a thing?
“How about this? You’re building an autonomous combat robot right now, right? It’s about expanding the horizon further. “All over the world.”
“Worldwide?”
“Uh. Now 〈UO〉 and 〈Federation of Humanity〉 are actually my subordinates. I’m sure there are a lot of scientists there too. “In this case, we will create something like a global crisis response headquarters and conduct research, and when something like an ordeal occurs, instead of the owners leaving, we will have autonomous combat robots go out and respond.”
“I understand what you mean. In other words, we will create an army of combat robots that can carry all over the Earth to respond to all kinds of situations.”
“It’s similar.”
“It also fits the intention of His Excellency when he ordered the development of autonomous combat robots.”
“That’s right. If this is done well, owners won’t have to experience injury or death.”
“All right. I’ll prepare. “I have no connections with 〈UO〉 and 〈Federation of Humanity 〉, so that will have to be done by Your Excellency.”
“Of course.”
The executives of both organizations are women who will come running whenever you call them.
There is nothing difficult.
