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Shen Jiyun's heart shuddered, isn't this the company that indicated that the video spread on the Internet is their new game promotional video?

Then, Shen Jiyun followed Xu Hong to a small closed room, a bit like a meeting room.

"Prepare a little bit, someone will give you a test later," Xu Hong saw that Shen Jiyun was a little nervous, and comforted him, "Don't worry, these are very simple investigation questions."

Soon someone took a tablet and handed it to him. The so-called "test" was inside, and the title read "MWCC Entry Test (Researcher Edition)".

Xu Hong didn't leave, but stood not far from him, and said, "If you have any questions during the test, you can ask me."

Shen Jiyun asked directly: "What is MWCC?"

Xu Hong said: "The initials of our company."

Shen Jiyun asked strangely: "Company? Aren't you a national organization?"

Xu Hong: "Indeed, MWCC is a national organization recognized by the government, and it is a global alliance enterprise. We can tell you what it specifically means after you pass the test."

Shen Jiyun frowned, and began to answer the questions resignedly.

This is more of a questionnaire than a test.

At the beginning, Shen Jiyun was asked to fill in a series of information such as name, age, and identity.

After Shen Jiyun filled in "Biology" in the "Professional" column, the question that popped up on the screen immediately asked him the specific time he had been engaged in "biology study" and how much he liked the field of scientific research.

Afterwards, the question went further, and he began to ask him his views on certain events, such as how he viewed the first human cloned creature "Dolly the Sheep", whether he was interested in the human transformation proposed by Professor Stanley Barton, and if there were "Dolly the Sheep" in the world. Will the "clones" feel disgusted, will they feel sorry for the "white mice" in the laboratory...etc.

While answering the questions, Shen Jiyun quickly analyzed the psychological orientation of these questions in his mind.

If this organization is related to the research and transformation of "mini-humans", then idiots will know how to answer - cloning creatures are naturally beneficial to the development of human beings, and they are naturally interested in human transformation. Will feel pity...

Shen Ji answered a series of questions fluently, whether against his will or not, at least he is sure that he will pass the test if he answers this way.

Sure enough, the last question of the test directly asked "If you are a national leader, before humans have explored a new planet suitable for human survival in outer space, and the global population explosion in 999 happened again, you would be most likely to accept What is the measure?"

Shen Jiyun was shocked, recalling the "population explosion" disaster described in detail in history books.

The so-called "population explosion" is not a sudden increase in the number of people, but a series of problems caused by the increase in population, which in turn leads to development regression.

Decades ago, the global population had already reached a state of supersaturation, and the overexploitation of land reduced the planting land and greenery, and the supply of food was in short supply.

In order to accommodate the flooding population, most developed countries no longer have their own agricultural production land. Almost 90% of the food is imported from countries such as A and C that have retained a small amount of planting land.

In 997, 30% of the planting land in country C was salinized. Even if the downstream country D, which relied on it for food, suffered a famine, this change greatly increased the pressure on country A to export food to other countries.

However, misfortunes never come singly. In 998, country A's largest northeast plantation was hit by a drought, and the global situation suddenly became severe.

In order to take the lead in ensuring the food and clothing of its own citizens, country A cut off food exports to several countries.

In the year that followed, food stress killed people, paralyzed urban systems, and stagnated economies in major cities in all three countries.

Just like a domino effect, countries that depend on other trade and technology industries of these three countries are also implicated, causing social unrest.

In 999, this situation reached its peak, and it is said that the global population was reduced by one-tenth due to famine in just six months.

A 30-day lack of food can turn a vibrant city into an empty ghost town.

As for the rest of the places where food is still being supplied, people with higher education are seen queuing up at the door of the food store overnight, looting it once it is on the shelves.

It seems that overnight, this planet has retreated from the civilization era to the barbaric era...

And all of this is caused by the overpopulation. If the population does not increase, the country will not be over-urbanized, will not lead to insufficient production, and will not cause many problems when accidental natural disasters strike. Therefore, such disasters It comes down to "population explosion".

In fact, apart from the incident in 999 in the new calendar, the population explosion also happened a long time ago.

That was still in 2890 in the Gregorian calendar. The population explosion in that year caused the number of human beings in the world to drop by two-thirds, and the international pattern was reshuffled.

In order to learn this painful lesson, the surviving humans started a new dating method.

But thousands of years later, the population explosion happened again.

Shen Jiyun and Shen Yuze had passed the most severe period when they were born, but everyone was still living in the shadow of the disaster.

I still remember that they cherished food very much when they were young. If the food was not clean, they would be educated by teachers and parents.

When Shen's parents died in a car accident, Shen Jiyun took over the family's finances, only to learn how expensive the food was. He chose to drop out of school, and he was worried that the remaining money would not be enough to support the two brothers... because the price of food changes irregularly , If you say it goes up, it goes up.

At the same time, countries have also carried out more stringent family planning and introduced related scoring systems. If both men and women do not contribute much to society, they are not eligible to conceive offspring.

It is only now that the aftermath of the disaster has gradually subsided and society has returned to stability.

However, the existing population is still overwhelmed by the governments of various countries, and no one knows when the next population explosion disaster will happen...

Shen Jiyun withdrew his mind from his brief memories, and looked at the options below this multiple-choice question——

A. Execute some people who are useless to society, and ensure the survival rate of the rest who have made contributions to society;

B. Let it go, let people go through natural selection through starvation, and the lucky ones survive until the population and the environment are in balance again;

C. Use new technologies to shrink some people, reduce population, reduce resource consumption, and avoid the recurrence of population explosion;

D. Other suggestions______

When seeing the third option, Shen Jiyun's face turned pale.

Although he doesn't know the relevant inside information, but through this test, he has already guessed that "human shrinkage" is probably already a secret project approved by the government.

And these questions are to test his psychological bottom line for this kind of behavior. If he doesn't approve, he probably doesn't even have the qualification to continue to the next door.

Shen Jiyun gritted his teeth and ticked C in the answer.

The test was automatically graded by the tablet computer, and Shen Jiyun immediately gave a score after clicking submit—95 points, passing.

"Congratulations," Xu Hong said with joy, "From now on, I can officially welcome you to join MWCC."

Shen Jiyun also shook Xu Hong's hand with a false smile, and said, "Thank you."

Then, Xu Hong took him to enter his identity, and implanted the so-called "surveillance chip" of the Security Bureau by the way.

The identity entry requires extraction of Shen Jiyun's fingerprints, pupils, and facial features, and then the programmer will upload these data to the organization's personnel files and write them into the monitoring chip at the same time.

In the end, Shen Jiyun was asked to sit on a strange instrument, and a chip was implanted from the back of his neck.

"...does it hurt?" Shen Jiyun asked Xu Hong pretending to be afraid.

Maybe it's because he is handsome, showing such an expression made Xu Hong's motherhood furious, she smiled and pinched her fingers and said, "It's just a little bit like an injection, you, a big man, are still afraid of this?"

While they were talking, Shen Jiyun felt a pain in the back of his neck, and the implantation was completed.

Shen Jiyun touched the back of his neck and stood up, rolled his eyes, and said, "It doesn't feel like it's implanted very deeply, did it fall off accidentally?"

Xu Hong shook his head: "Don't worry at all, I haven't dropped it after three years, even if it does drop, the system will respond, and then it will be re-implanted."

Shen Jiyun asked jokingly again: "It won't even monitor and upload when I go to the bathroom?"

Xu Hong laughed and said, "Of course not, it only has positioning and radio functions."

Shen Jiyun thought to himself, it seems that there is still a certain risk in taking it off by himself, but if it only has positioning and radio functions, it will not prevent him from communicating with others in other ways, such as writing, and he can still pass on what he sees and hears here. go out.

...It seems that this organization's "monitoring" is still a bit of a joke.

In any case, look back and see if you can safely hack into the chip implant system and see how it works before making any plans.

In that room, Xu Hong handed Shen Jiyun a new tablet and said, "Let's take a look, it's the detailed introduction to MWCC that you just wanted to know."

Shen Jiyun was startled, and quickly browsed... During the process of reading, Shen Jiyun's face became more and more serious.

Although he thought he was mentally prepared, Shen Jiyun couldn't help but tremble when he saw this document with his own eyes - the content on it really subverted his three views.

MWCC's true identity is the "Mini World Base Construction Center", which was established in 1003, four years after the population explosion disaster of 999.

Mainly carry out "shrink transformation" on some people, turn them into miniature people, place them in the mini world base, and manage them in a unified way.

Country A, Country B, and Country C are the first three countries to put forward the idea, and because Country A has the strongest national strength and technology, the headquarters of MWCC is established in Country A.

In addition to these three countries, in the few years since the establishment of MWCC, new countries have joined in one after another. At present, a total of 23 countries have participated in it, and a total of [-] mini world bases have been established, including eight in country A, Country B has seven, accounting for the largest proportion.

From 1003 to 1026, in 23 years, MWCC has relieved about 3.6% of the global population pressure, which is far more effective than family planning in terms of promotion.

Moreover, although the transformed person has changed to another posture, he still enjoys the identity and human rights, just like continuing to survive in another world.

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The whole document reveals a utopian sense of harmony and perfection, as if people can't help but look forward to it and hope.

But Shen Jiyun was the only one who felt chills running down his back. He raised his head and asked Xu Hong: "So many people have become smaller, why don't we know?"