Great time travel

Chapter 568: Is this a bento for every entry?

Chapter 58. Is this a lunch box that you will receive as soon as you enter the venue?

It's all over, the adventure in Overlord is finally complete.Although no additional benefits were obtained, at least fifteen trapped people were successfully rescued, none of whom were missing, and the rescuers did not suffer any injuries or sacrifices.

"...Finally, I've collected enough reward points... It's getting colder, and I've spent enough funds. Let's stop this game now!"

Located in Beidaihe's "command center for combat against foreign worlds", our protagonist, Wang Qiu, muttered while staring at the server transformed from "Book of Time Traveling", "...in order to allow millions of players to enter this online game Help us score points, but it has consumed more than two billion yuan of special funds... The preparations for the real world are complete! I don't want to end up like the opening scene of "Sword Art Online", Suddenly tens of thousands of vegetative people appeared, their bodies were lying in the hospital, but their souls traveled to another world!"

"...Don't worry, the central government cares more about this matter than you do!" Commissar Guo replied calmly, "...we have completely shut down the Internet, shut down the server, and deleted accounts twelve hours ago. It's normal, nothing unusual happened. The public announcement is the end of the public beta, claiming that it is going to launch a new version of the game after the service is stopped and the settings are modified-of course, this new version of the game will never be available again."

"...What about the other world? How did you explain it to that Lich King Ainz, who graduated from elementary school?"

"...Tell the truth! Of course, it's only a part of the truth. We told him that there is something wrong with the server program and needs to be reset, so we need to stop the server to end the public beta and pop up all the players, and Ainz also expressed his understanding—anyway, he Even if you don’t understand, there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Political Commissar Guo sighed, "...However, in order to get together and get away, we left him a gift - printed out with the 'Office Golem', our Japanese middle school textbooks, from junior high school to high school. Everything is available, and there is also a full set of textbooks from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo. In this way, he can continue to study on his own in another world, so that he will not be a bad ruler because he only has the education level of a primary school graduate."

"...Do you still want to go to an adult high school after you have traveled to another world? This is really... Sigh! Forget it, let's end like this!"

Wang Qiu showed a dumbfounding expression, and stretched out his hand to start the preset program on the server. The next moment, accompanied by a burst of dazzling white light, the server transformed from "Book of Time Traveling" in front of him changed back to The original appearance of the tome of "Book of Time Traveling".

At the same time, on the surveillance screen hanging on the wall, the last two trapped transmigrators in the plot of "Overlord" - two twin sisters lying in the intensive care ward of a hospital in Changsha, Hunan, are also there. Under the watchful eyes of doctors and nurses, he gradually recovered his sobriety.

So far, the rescue mission in the plot world of "Overlord" has finally been successfully completed.

However, Wang Qiu, who thought he could rest for a few days, was urged by his superiors and had to start the next rescue plan non-stop.

What made him even more distressed was that the assigned mission location this time was still an unprecedentedly difficult plot world.

"..."Marvel World"? Five people trapped? Why did the central government let us go to this world first?"

Looking at the short prompt message on "Book of Time Traveling", Wang Qiu felt dizzy for a while, "...This is a real dragon's lake and tiger's lair!"

——The so-called Marvel Universe, also known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU for short), is a series of films independently produced by Marvel Studios based on the characters in Marvel Comics publications. The overhead world.These include components from Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Spider-Man, The Avengers, and many more.

In short, this is a dangerous world where strong people are like a forest and constantly fighting... Of course, that's all, the worlds that Wang Qiu traveled through before were not necessarily peaceful.But the problem is, the fighting intensity of "Marvel World" is not at the same level as Wang Qiu's previous experience!What kind of Resident Evil zombie siege, compared with the battles in the Marvel world, is simply a child's play!

Take a look, the Hulk is alive and kicking when he is thrown to an alien planet with his shirtless arms. Captain America can kill from one end of Nazi Germany to the other with a shield. Flying aircraft carrier suppresses the world, Iron Man Tony is the most "scientific", but he has no pressure to torture five infantry divisions by himself... In front of these superheroes and super villains who are enemies, let alone the People's Liberation Army With the standard combat equipment, even if you sacrifice the magical props obtained from the plane of Doraemon, you may not get any benefits!

However, Commissar Guo said that it is of great significance to set the next mission location as the Marvel world.

"...Do you know, after studying the information obtained from the plot world of "Overlord King of the Undead", what is the biggest gain from the central think tank? Not from that fantasy world, but from the protagonist Lich King The future earth that Ainz traveled to before! That decadent world where classes are solidified, the environment collapses, technology is retrogressed, but policies of obscuring people and knowledge blockade are implemented, and even illiteracy is everywhere!"

Political Commissar Guo sighed and said with a serious expression, "...in such a world, human civilization has almost no future at all! However, although he is very reluctant to admit it, according to the analysis of the Central Think Tank, if human beings have not been able to achieve With new technological breakthroughs and the launch of the fourth industrial revolution, the future of us people is really likely to be as bleak as "Overlord King of the Undead"-what many people don't know is that from the last Since the end of the 70s, an overall stagnation of technological development has gradually come to all mankind!"

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For the Chinese in the early 21st century, the so-called stagnation of technological development seems to be some kind of absurdity

——In the growth experience of generations of "post-[-]s", "post-[-]s", "post-[-]s" and even "post-[-]s", "progress" has always been the main axis of the times, and the things around us It seems that there is never-ending change, and science and technology are the masters behind all these changes.

On the one hand, science and technology have penetrated into every corner of daily life. In just 30 years, countless products and services that were only available to the elite in the past have rapidly spread to the public, such as mobile phones, computers, and the Internet.On the other hand, the surging wave of technology has impacted the social structure, leading to the birth and rapid development of many new industries, such as Taobao online stores, smart offices, civilian electric vehicles and so on.

In the eyes of most people, the development of science and technology that makes life change with each passing day seems to continue forever. How can there be such a phenomenon as "technical stagnation"?But in fact, the growth rate of science and technology in human society has indeed slowed down.

Ordinary people in society, especially ordinary people in China, feel that science and technology are developing faster and faster, mainly because the level of science and technology in Chinese society has long lagged behind the world. Since the reform and opening up, China has actually used decades of It took a long time to digest and absorb the scientific and technological achievements of the West for 300 years.In the process of China's integration into the world, it absorbed all kinds of advanced technological achievements from all over the world, which led to a drastic change in China's social outlook. The ordinary people feel that science and technology are too amazing. The world is changing too fast.

But for Western countries, in the half a century after the successful Apollo moon landing, except for the glorious IT technology, there were no revolutionary changes in other technical fields.If we uncover the superficial glitz and hustle and bustle of the global scientific community and examine the essence, we will be surprised to find that in many technical fields, human beings have actually fallen into the quagmire.

——In the field of aviation, from the first time the Wright brothers' wooden biplane took to the sky to the massacre in the air of World War I, there was only a total of more than ten years.Next came the advent of jet engines, the entry into service of Boeing 747 jetliners, transcontinental and transoceanic flights became commonplace, and the successful establishment of a global air traffic network. In total, it took more than 60 years. The speed of change can only be described as rapid.

However, since the 70s, the development and transformation of aviation technology has slowed down suddenly. The Boeing aircraft and B-52, which began to be produced in the second half of the last century, have remained unabated until the early 21st century.Of course, thanks to the revolution in IT technology, the new Boeing airliner is more comfortable, with better communications and entertainment, but there is no major breakthrough in load capacity and flight range, which is enough to show that aviation technology is advancing at a snail's pace.

In the field of energy, the main theme of the first industrial revolution is coal and steam power, the main theme of the second industrial revolution is oil and electricity, but the third industrial revolution is congenitally lame in terms of energy, and the use of nuclear fission is still limited. There are many restrictions, so far the global energy market is still dominated by oil and coal.Since the first oil crisis in 1973, during every energy crisis, someone will always jump out and call for a new energy revolution.But the cold fact is: So far, all photovoltaic technologies and wind power technologies have not achieved revolutionary breakthroughs. The cost of power generation is far higher than that of thermal power, and the production process is not environmentally friendly. It must rely on a large amount of government subsidies to survive. .

In the field of nuclear energy, it took less than eight years from the earliest discovery of nuclear fission by human beings to the explosion of the first atomic bomb, which can be described as the fastest among gods.Next, it took humans just a few years to come up with nuclear fusion hydrogen bombs and nuclear-powered submarines.But then, controllable nuclear fusion has been studied for more than half a century, and I don't know how much manpower and material resources have been consumed. So far, there is still no possibility of success.

In the field of aerospace, since the 80s, there has been no major innovation in rocket propulsion technology, and the attempt to develop space shuttles has also been proven to be a failure, resulting in the high cost per unit mass of space transportation. Larger-scale space exploration and Construction was struggling.When it comes to the history of human beings rushing into space, it originated from the V1 and V2 rockets developed by Nazi Germany during World War II. Less than 30 years later, the Apollo lunar spacecraft successfully visited the moon, extending the space span of human activities. Stretched more than a hundred times.At that time, many scientists optimistically predicted that humans would establish a space colony in Earth orbit in about 30 years, and at the same time land on Mars.The cosmic sci-fi works such as "Mobile Suit Gundam" in the same period are also based on the above speculations, and they have various imaginations about the future human cosmic era.But now it seems that there is no revolutionary change due to rocket propulsion technology.Even in another 50 years, the chances of establishing a space colony and landing a man on Mars are slim.

Even in the current hottest field of information science, since Shannon proposed his theory, the basic framework of communication has not changed much. Neural networks have been lively for a while, but everyone soon feels that the future is bleak and they do not engage in it. Yes, the ancestor of all current computers is the Turing machine.In fact, even if it is the latest computer now, its working principle is not much different from that of the computer during the Cold War. The only improvement is the computing speed, unit volume and storage capacity, and the distance from the final physical technology bottleneck is getting closer and closer. Recently—readers who are familiar with computers probably know that compared to the first ten years of this century, has the replacement speed of computer performance become slower and slower in recent years?

In the field of biology, starting from the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, scientists have declared countless times that they will enter the century of biotechnology and manipulate DNA like building a house.As a result, up to now, the principle of human beings on DNA is still "knowing what it is but not knowing why it is". For example, why a gene change will lead to the difference between a high nose bridge and a low nose bridge, and what the intermediate process is, so far it is still unclear .

People during the Cold War optimistically declared that the thinking characteristics of the brain would be understood by the year 2000, but now, human understanding of the brain is not much different from what it was 50 years ago.If anything, it has been the realization that the brain is far more complex than current human knowledge can describe.Then, in the 80s, "People's Daily" interviewed a medical expert. The expert estimated very optimistically that by 2010, human beings will defeat cancer, which is based on the speed of advances in human medical technology. Estimates have been made, but now it seems that this goal is obviously difficult to achieve.Not only cancer, but the speed of improvement in the treatment of many diseases is horribly slow.In fact, the progress of medicine and biology in recent years is mainly thanks to the progress and proliferation of IT technology.

In terms of materials science and chemistry, you can observe your surroundings. Many processes and technologies have a history of decades or even half a century.There are many, many more examples like this.So far, the reason why human society believes that technology is developing rapidly is based on the experience of two centuries since the Industrial Revolution. However, this does not fully prove that science and technology will continue to develop rapidly in the future.

Due to the delay in the arrival of a new round of technological revolution, science and technology are likely to enter a period of stagnation in the years to come. As for the length of this period of stagnation, if not forever, it is also a very long period of time.

In fact, human civilization has experienced a similar "technical stagnation" long ago - a technological revolution represented by agriculture, horses, wheels, metallurgy, and writing during the transition from primitive society to ancient society. Liberating mankind from the age of ignorance has exploded by leaps and bounds.But after that, the development speed of human civilization dropped greatly.In the next few thousand years, if religion and culture are not taken into account, the changes in human society can only be described as slow speed in terms of technological level.For example, in China, the differences in the daily life of peasants in the Han Dynasty and those in the Song Dynasty were pitifully small.In the West, the living environment of serfs in the Middle Ages was not superior to that of slaves in ancient Greece.It was not until the advent of the Age of Discovery and the Industrial Revolution that the lives of human beings changed dramatically.

Of course, if it is just the stagnation of technology that allows future human beings to live like our current life, then there is nothing unacceptable to ordinary people.But the problem is that when technology is no longer advancing, the global population is still increasing...

"...Since World War II, the reason why the world has been able to enjoy such a long period of general peace is no longer like in the past. Every major country must regularly use war, famine, plague and massacres to wipe out a part of the excess population. The key is because of advanced technology The popularity and spread of the world have enabled the world to feed more people. However, if the fourth industrial revolution cannot be launched and the population continues to increase, the competition for resources between countries will become more intense , and even made peace and development no longer the main theme of the world! Finally entered a very bad future!"

Political Commissar Guo said with a serious expression, "...in the Marvel world, there is a treasure that can allow us to achieve technological breakthroughs and even start the fourth industrial revolution! That is Iron Man's Ark Reactor! As long as there is a glimmer of hope, we You should get it..."

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In short, under the persuasion of Political Commissar Guo, Wang Qiu finally agreed to enter the Marvel world—anyway, sooner or later, he will have to go there, and he can't avoid it.Since it was the first time he entered this plot world, he didn't know where it would land, so Wang Qiu only brought Commissar Guo and four well-trained agents of the National Security Bureau.Everyone wears suits and leather shoes, with pistols and a full set of secret service equipment hidden in their waists, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.

Then, with a flash of white light, they suddenly found that they were in a closed space filled with the smell of detergent.

"...This seems to be a...regular-looking...ladies' restroom?"

Looking at the flush toilet in the next cubicle, and noticing that there seems to be no urinal here, Wang Qiu couldn't help but scratched his hair, and said dumbfoundedly.

On the other side, although the agents were a little embarrassed, they still spread out in a professional manner. After a quick search, they found that the women's toilet was empty and there was no window. Somewhere, don't even know which floor this is,

So, after a brief exchange, an agent sneaked up to the door with a pistol, intending to peep through the crack of the door...but at the next moment, accompanied by a scorching flash and an earth-shattering explosion, the agent The poor agent was consumed by flames!

At the same time, Wang Qiu was thrown away by the air wave, and hit the ceiling with his head. Immediately, his eyes went dark from the pain, and he passed out.

So far, just about a minute after entering the Marvel world, this small team suffered a bloody and tragic blow...

(End of this volume)

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PS: Guess which scene is this in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?