Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster! Chapter 214 - 84: Speculation on the Causes of the Catastrop

"The Fu Xi Project, in essence, is a super-large and comprehensive exploratory project."

"But many people also consider it a ’disaster preparedness project’ in itself."

Fu Xi’s tone was quite calm, but it seed to be so that Chen Jian could see more clearly, as his words were accompanied by subtitles appearing on the screen.

"Through the various pieces of information on your resu, I think you also understand that the 20 years from 2025 to 2045 were quite turbulent decades for humanity."

"Various new technologies continued to develop, basic theories constantly made breakthroughs, the balance of power between countries was disrupted, and the old orders were at a critical point of renewal."

"Conversely, the advancent of cutting-edge technology couldn’t quickly convert into productivity in a short ti, making it impossible for countries and groups to quickly establish tech hegemony with the advanced technology they held."

"Contradictions were further intensified, yet at the sa ti, the fragile thread of technological developnt was maintaining the final balance."

"At that ti, we were already leaders in nearly all fields of applied technology and basic theories."

"Artificial intelligence, energy, information, computing, materials..."

"By the end of 2045, we had even touched upon that final piece of the puzzle."

"Which was, ambient temperature superconductors."

"Unfortunately, we ultimately did not have enough ti..."

Here, Fu Xi paused, as if its heart was also filled with sorrow.

And after a mont, it continued speaking:

"In any case, under such circumstances, the external pressure we faced was imnse and terrifying, and the pressure for developnt was enormous and urgent."

"And so, the Fu Xi Project ca into being."

"This project was initially established in 2038, which is the year when the ’Great Saint’ quantum computer officially ca into existence."

"Its original purpose was to train an AGI capable of handling most tasks, a general-purpose artificial intelligence, supported by the high computational power of quantum computers, and with the aid of this AI and a large number of intelligent machines, to attempt to start a true intelligent industrial era."

"However, the developnt of matters exceeded our expectations."

"The advent of the quantum computer not only sounded the drums of humanity’s glorious era, but also the death knell of certain old orders."

"Its birth inadvertently started the countdown to a full-scale human war..."

"Why?"

Chen Jian interrupted Fu Xi, then asked:

"The value that quantum computing can bring far exceeds its threat, how could it beco the fuse for a great war? I don’t understand this."

"You do understand---- because you were one of the whistleblowers back then."

Fu Xi continued:

"You did not oppose quantum computing, but you believed that at the ti our confidentiality level for quantum computing technology was too low, and the protective asures were insufficient."

"That was truly insightful... but unfortunately, history is always limited."

"Back then, we were indeed overwheld by the sea of technological advances, thinking that quantum computing was just one of the more shining stars."

"Perhaps so people realized the threat it posed, but compared to nuclear fusion, compared to the endless stream of new weapons, the threat of quantum computing seed sowhat insignificant."

"Thus, your suggestion was not adopted imdiately."

"A leak occurred, and in 2041, information regarding the ’Great Saint’ was spread in a way we did not want to see."

"Imdiately following, the shockwave swept like a tsunami across the entire foundation of the old order."

"The first to collapse was the myth of all encryption algorithms."

"RSA, AES... these encryption algorithms widely used in military and economic fields beca like broken locks with their cores knocked out, unable to ensure data security anymore."

"To quote one of your statents at the ti: When you’re playing a ga with full map vision, do you think your opponent won’t co along the network line to cut you down?"

"That’s exactly what happened. Although our enemies did not imdiately co at us with knives, they were indeed already preparing."

"And that’s just in the military field."

"In the economic and financial fields, so currency systems that were already on life support announced their collapse the day the news was released, international finance was in chaos, and so stock exchanges even witnessed the phenonon of all data resetting to zero."

"Although, according to post-incident investigations, it was just an organized revenge by internal personnel, everyone put the bla on us."

"Because they knew that all data based on information technology was no longer secure."

"We beca the center of the storm, and worse, we indeed had that capability."

"By the ti the third ’Great Saint’ was running smoothly, we could even just lightly press a keyboard and change a few numbers, breaking through all the seemingly impenetrable firewalls in the world, and wantonly modifying any data we didn’t agree with to the form we desired."

"Unless, they isolated our invasion physically."

"Therefore, we had no argunts to make, only continuously publishing statents, publicly asserting that we had no intention of attacking any virtual or non-virtual targets."

"Such statents were naturally weak and powerless; we were giants holding a sharp blade, and that blade might be swung at any mont."

"For our enemies, their best response strategy... probably had only one path left."

"And when they had only one path to follow, of course, we also had only one path to follow."

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