The world enters the age of mythology.

Without more than two children, it will not work.

A DINK family without a single child is simply a sinner of civilization!

"Hey, no, it can be predicted that the current birth rate of 3.3% may be our highest peak. This is still a temporary birth peak that occurs when we have obtained a continent and a relatively comfortable environment. It cannot last for a long time. Even if it increases Welfare doesn't have any chance of raising birth rates any more."

Jin Lili bought a cup of hot milk tea from a vending machine on the street.

The little girl Lu Lingling held the big milk tea cup and took a small sip. She had never drank such a delicious thing, and her small face was like a red apple.

Immediately afterwards, she handed over the milk tea again and let Lu Yiming take a sip with a smile: "Papa..."

"Thank you!"

Lu Yiming sighed in his heart, if he hadn't adopted a child, he might be facing even greater pressure now.

In the current system, those who have not given birth to children will be named and notified!

"Why does she only drink it for you? This is the milk tea I bought." Jin Lili said.

"Because opposites attract, little girls generally like their father, and little boys like their mother." Lu Yiming laughed and said, "When you have a son in the future, you will like you even more."

Jin Lili rolled her eyes, "Hey, after settling down, the pressure to have children is too great."

She suddenly said: "Like the Nordic countries in the past, the social welfare is very good, and the birth rate is still below 2%. This is the price of industrialization and the improvement of knowledge level."

"Among all the developed countries, only Israel has a fertility rate of more than 2%, but the fertility rate of senior intellectuals in Israel is actually not high. They have a group of people who specialize in childbirth, called 'Haridi', who do not use contraception or join the army. , not even working. The mission of these religious fanatics is to have children, so they drive up the overall fertility rate.”

The fertility rate reaches 2%, which is equivalent to a couple having two children. In the long run, it can only ensure that the population of the race does not decrease.

If you want to increase the population, you must exceed 2%.

Now the capital of the sea of ​​clouds has no problem with houses. The first house can be said to be allocated to all the people, that is, it is a matter of size or size.Houses with large areas need to pay additional property taxes, while houses with small areas do not need to pay property taxes, but only need to pay property fees every year.

Everyone has a house to live in, education is almost equal, and there is no need to worry about the problem of housing in the school district.

But even so, the fertility rate is still low.

"Why do senior intellectuals slowly give up the idea of ​​having children? Is it a bit abnormal that the fertility rate is low?"

Naturally, Lu Lingling couldn't understand the topics of these adults, she was still looking for delicious and fun things on the street.

Lu Yiming glanced at her and sighed: "This is the price of technological development. Life expectancy is longer and living conditions are better. Who doesn't want to play for a few more years? It takes a lot of energy to cultivate a child. That's normal."

"There are even fewer people getting married, and there are a lot of scumbags and scumbags. Many people break up after playing, and find another one after breaking up."

"Young people nowadays, you can't afford to provoke them!"

Jin Lili said with a smile: "But there is another saying in our laboratory. The civilization with higher technology is more susceptible to the influence of some powerful abilities, which leads to ideological deviation..."

"All the intellectuals have stopped giving birth slowly because some kind of thinking has been rewritten."

On the night when human beings went to the Yanghe River, even the concept of "moon" was wiped out.

Back then, people didn't even know what the moon was...

It was not until later, when the moon reappeared, that the concept was revived.

This also leads to some other theories. Has this powerful superpower rewritten some human ideologies?

For example, the reproductive behavior of high-level intellectuals!

Smart people often have no children, or only one child, and excellent genes cannot be passed on.What is the difference between that and suicide for a civilization?

However, this phenomenon is very subtle, and most ancient civilizations cannot detect it.Only some civilizations with rich productive forces have faintly felt it after the emergence of group phenomena.

The expert group has conducted a detailed study on this issue, combined with the final outcome of the technological civilization that was pulled out to fuel the technological civilization in the idealistic world next door, and put forward a hypothesis: "Technological self-destruct phenomenon!"

The phenomenon of self-destruction of science and technology is reflected in every corner of the development of civilization.

The more technologically advanced a civilization is, the easier it is to self-destruct.

It is impossible for ancient civilizations to destroy themselves. Even frequent wars and mediocre kings have no ability to destroy their own civilizations.Someone will always survive the war and continue to reproduce.

Chapter 566 A Year of Development

Compared with ancient civilizations, technological civilizations are much more capable of self-destruction. Nuclear bombs, chemical weapons, self-destruction are only a matter of minutes.

But compared with these weapons of war on the surface, the fertility trap is also a very hidden crisis. Technological civilizations with a fertility rate exceeding 2% are extremely rare, almost none!

The Sea of ​​Clouds and the Hope have experienced several worlds of science and technology, and obtained historical data of these worlds.

Like the White Mist Continent, the Grudge Continent, and the Abyss Continent, as long as it is a technological civilization, in the long process of development, the more developed, the lower the birth rate.

In some civilizations, the birth rate is only 1%!

That is to say, the population of each generation is only half of that of the previous generation. Over time, even if there is no need for major disasters, human beings will become extinct.

Decline, if not extinction.A society without human beings, no matter how advanced technology is, is meaningless.

There are many social reasons that can explain the problem of fertility, and there are many answers. From the perspective of economics and human nature, it can be explained accordingly.

But in a certain meeting, a certain security expert asked: "Could it be that some extremely powerful demon god... tampered with human thinking?"

This kind of statement is simply horrifying to think about, and it makes people creepy!

What if, human nature itself is not like this?

Maybe human nature is better than imagined?Is it because human beings are like this after their thinking has been forcibly tampered with?

There is no way to get proof of this question...

But the most worrying thing is this. As a technological civilization, the Yunhai will have to face the troubles caused by these problems in the future.

Or rather, have been troubled by these problems!

"Of course, technological civilization also has a way to increase the fertility rate, that is artificial womb technology and social robot rearing." Lu Yiming said: "The Akara civilization next door to us has greatly increased the fertility rate by doing this, and it has crossed the barrier of self-extinction. A threshold."

"We can learn from what they did."

"It's just the artificial womb technology. We won't be able to develop it anytime soon." Jin Lili shook her head. This is a scientific forbidden area for human beings. Due to the influence of ethics, it is impossible to study it seriously.

Even humans are deeply aware of the great convenience of this technology.

But inventing new technologies requires experiments and a lot of data.

Just imagine, how much of an ethical challenge is it to use human embryos for experiments?

At present, the laboratory strictly follows the 14-day rule. Scientists cannot observe human embryos in the laboratory for more than two weeks, otherwise they run the risk of challenging ethics.Scientists who violate this rule will be severely criticized by public opinion.

Ethics is the cornerstone of social morality, and no destruction is allowed.

Therefore, without enough experiments, the current Yunhai society has no possibility of inventing artificial womb technology.

"Artificial wombs are impossible, and social upbringing is even more impossible at the moment... A more sound child rearing system can be tried."

Speaking of this, even Lu Yiming himself felt that the road was too long.

The self-destruction of technology is not only a birth trap, but also the end of history under capitalism.

That is to say, the historical process has entered a dead end. Some scholars once proposed in the last century: "History will end in freedom and democracy." It sounds like a joke, but it is not impossible.

The self-destruction of technology also includes the natural laziness in the state of extreme affluence. Most human beings lose their motivation after losing their spiritual pursuit.It is human nature to pursue comfort, but too much comfort will hinder development.

Like the Akara civilization in the world next door, it has fallen so rich that all the people hid in the virtual world.

Until the whole world was occupied by evil gods, no one was willing to come out, wasting a lot of technology donated by Xia Wenming.

The reason why the Sea of ​​Clouds has been struggling so far is because the threat from the outside world still exists, and it has not obtained a full set of advanced technology from the interstellar era.

Heishasha can do a lot of work, but not everything. Many things must be done manually.

If the productivity explodes in the future and the situation is extremely rich, how many people are willing to fight?

This question is difficult to answer.

Lu Yiming didn't know the answers to the relevant questions, and finally he sighed: "It will also degenerate... The quality of the whole people has not yet reached this level."

"So, let's explore... We must explore the spiritual world next door as soon as possible, explore the remnants of civilization, and figure out the future path as soon as possible."

"Otherwise... the future will be full of big pits."

……

On the pedestrian street of the capital of the sea of ​​clouds, citizens come and go.

Men and women discuss new things and enjoy their slowly getting richer lives.

"The electric car factory has started construction, and the first batch of electric cars will be sold soon! There are about [-] cars!"

"The price must be high."

"The price of a lithium-ion battery car is around 20 to 30 yuan, with different configurations. However, the previous crystal energy batteries are no longer available in large quantities."

"It's a pity that the crystal energy battery is gone."

A great weekend.

What the common people talk about is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation.The house is allocated, and the car has become the main goal of everyone's struggle.

Traveling around the island by car is also quite interesting!

The number of commodities is slowly increasing, and a new wave of entrepreneurship was born in this era of great development.The electric vehicle industry chain alone is enough to support tens of thousands of people.

The production capacity of Universal Factory has not been directly involved in the private sector, but there are still many scattered things flowing into the private sector.For example, some discarded experimental equipment can still be used after simple treatment; there are also retired military products, many of which can still be used.

The spare parts that flow out from this point alone are enough to make 30 people live a better life.

According to the statistical forecast of economic experts, in the past year, the original GDP growth rate was about 24%, but now it has soared to 31%, a full increase of 8 percentage points!

Most of the reasons are due to the inadvertent leakage of the huge production capacity of Universal Factory.

This is also a helpless thing, not knowing whether it is good or bad.

Most people are satisfied with their current living conditions. Pedestrians on the streets and alleys are all smiling. Even if they meet strangers, they are quite friendly and give each other a smile. Violent garbage man.

The recent crime rate has reached an unbelievably low number, and there is only one reason for this change...

Good hopes for the future!

As long as the future is getting better and better, there will be no decline in civil satisfaction.

"Let's go! Go to your grandpa's house. Don't even think about drinking milk tea. It's not good to drink too much of this stuff." Lu Yiming hugged little Lu Lingling and stuffed her to his old father-in-law.

Chatted with relatives for a while, turned and left.

In the very center of the capital of the sea of ​​clouds, stands a super building with a height of 800 meters, which is the current administrative command center.

Under the construction of Heishasha and a large number of workers, this central building was completed in one year.

It towers into the sky, and at the very top of the tower, there are special devices like lightning rods.This is an important part of the defense plan: the city-level psionic shield!

These special psionic devices can disperse like umbrellas at critical moments.

In this tall tower, there are 2000 permanent soldiers. The super spiritual energy shield it produces can temporarily protect the center of the city from long-range strikes, and even nuclear strikes can weaken it by more than 95%. !

Don't underestimate the tens of seconds or 1 minute.

Perhaps, it is such a short period of time that is enough for the army to launch a counterattack.

It is also enough to allow civilians to hide in underground shelters in a chaotic environment, saving tens of thousands of lives.

"Hey, I don't know how long this vigorous vitality can last..." Lu Yiming said suddenly.

"Maybe one or two years, maybe three or four years? I don't think it will be too long, and it is impossible to exceed five years."

Lu Yiming and Jin Lili entered the central building after iris scanning and fingerprint scanning.

People without thought, he must worry about.

These difficulties may sound distant and unreal, but if they are real, they must be considered early on.

Jin Lili said: "You don't have to worry too much. We haven't developed to that stage yet, just like the earth civilization in the past. Although there are many shortcomings, they are still making progress, aren't they?"

"Progress? Hmph, if there were no challengers, history would almost have ended." Lu Yiming snorted coldly, obviously not too satisfied.

This tall tower is not only an administrative and military center, but also an excellent place for reconnaissance. From an altitude of 800 meters, it can observe the surrounding conditions of 100 kilometers.

The two came to the big conference room and sat down. There was nothing particularly important today, just a routine annual development summary report.

Since this year is the first year since the establishment of the Capital of the Sea of ​​Clouds, many reporters are already looking forward to it.

There are discussions from time to time, and the steady development of this year has brought about great achievements, and everyone is in a very good mood.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the government spokesman officially took the stage to speak.