Chapter 378 Establishing the United Nations
Chapter 378 Establishing the United Nations
The history of humankind uniting can be traced back to that distant blue planet, but in this place, on Amelansi VI, a new human civilization is uniting for the first time.
Star City—a special zone of the United Nations Organization. This area was previously a barren "undeveloped zone," one of the few areas in the wasteland ring that had long been purified of radiation but had not been developed. Now, it is full of automated construction equipment. Before Alice woke up, Star City began to use automated equipment to make up for the gap in manpower of Star City Group—compared to their vision, their manpower was really too small.
However, the advantages brought by automated industrial equipment are unparalleled. According to the combined statistics of various countries, the current global population of Aix is around 30 billion. This is still due to the population decline caused by war and economic collapse. With the ceasefire in the central continent, a new baby boom is expected to break out soon.
However, this number was still too small for the new humans who were about to leave this planet. In the early days of the space age, the global population of that distant blue planet was a full 10 billion. Along the coastline of Eurasia, a "Eurasian coastal city belt" was almost formed. Dense buildings, highways, and railways connected the entire continent. There were countless giant dikes and docks along the coastline.
Even so, the human population is still too small compared to the vastness of the stars. Before that destruction, the total population of the entire Earth United Nations star system, including all administrative planets and space stations, was approximately over 200 trillion. This does not even include the population of pirates, exiles, and those in newly developed star systems. The third arm of the Milky Way galaxy, with the solar system at its core, alone has a population of over 50 quadrillion.
The car stopped in front of a building whose exterior and interior were already completed, and workers were occasionally seen unloading equipment and furniture from a truck parked nearby.
Alice still remembers this building; it was the style she personally requested to be built—the United Nations Headquarters. Everything about this building, from its exterior to its interior, was modeled after the original United Nations building in New York. In other words, it was exactly the same as the building on Earth.
"The interior walls of the lobby are curved, and the roof is a cable-stayed structure covered by a dome. To the south is the 39-story United Nations Secretariat building. Both the front and rear facades are made of dark green heat-absorbing glass curtain walls with aluminum alloy frames, projecting 90 centimeters outwards with steel frames, and the gable ends are faced with white marble. The building has a simple shape, bright colors, and strong contrast in texture. The building is 154 meters tall and has 39 floors."
This was proposed by Alice, and now this building stands here. It is the largest piece of the United Nations' "international territory" and the core of the future world.
Alice pushed open the wooden door, still covered with a protective film, and entered the United Nations conference hall. Even in such a solemn place, there was no lavish decoration; the carpets came from a factory in Amerasia, the timber from a sawmill in Rome, and the glass from a manufacturing complex…
Next was the General Assembly Hall—the most well-known and famous building in the entire United Nations. Except for the different names of countries on the tables, the words and fonts, everything was exactly the same, with bronze United Nations medals hanging high in the hall and huge monitors on both sides.
The entire venue was empty and quiet. Alice walked step by step into the conference hall. The side door opened, and several men and women in formal attire walked in under the guidance of the tour guide.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the center of the United Nations Council headquarters—the United Nations General Assembly Hall, where most United Nations meetings will be held in the future."
"The United Nations is currently carrying out various tasks, and 55 sovereign states around the world have signed the Declaration of the United Nations. The Charter of the United Nations is being revised step by step."
"Alice...this place is so similar, so very similar..."
A familiar voice, a familiar feeling, suddenly appeared behind Alice—Alice couldn't believe it. She turned around and saw the person.
Although she was rather thin, there were some people she would never forget—that person from the past, the remnant of humanity—Raffarin Low, the Rear Admiral and Captain of the main battleship of the Earth United Nations Space Force Fleet.
"Do you mind me being here? Everything here is so familiar to me..."
"Sister Luo... when...?"
Alice stared wide-eyed at the person before her in disbelief—Raffarin Lo swayed, looking around at everything around him with a nostalgic expression in his eyes.
Her fingertips traced patterns on the table. She was still wearing the same dark blue space force officer's uniform, which was now the uniform of the captains of the Space Star Fleet and would become the uniform of the United Nations International Space Development Program in the future.
Alice rushed toward Raffarin Loe in a few quick steps—but in that instant, she gained nothing—she embraced nothing at all—and when she turned back, the figure carried a hint of apology.
"I'm sorry, Alice, it's not the right time yet..."
Raffarin Lo's figure was ethereal, and she gave him an apologetic look.
"I am not yet able to relinquish my mission—however, our research has yielded substantial results, thanks to Miss Vera and Eniac."
"We have used more inscription technology to effectively suppress the interdimensional portals located in the New World region, and now the interdimensional portals located in the Northern Wasteland Ring have also been significantly suppressed."
"Then, we obtained more research results—more research and theories on suppressing alternate dimensions have been verified, but all of this requires more energy and more results."
"This emblem, it's so beautiful..."
Raffarin Lo looked at Alice: "By the way, Alice, I have a new friend, or rather an old friend, whom I brought to meet you."
A little girl with white hair stood beside Raffarin Law at some point, wearing a white dress and black leather shoes, her eyes sparkling.
"Hello, I am Alice Eniak."
"Doesn't this child look just like you?"
Alice looked at the little girl, who indeed resembled her by ninety percent—Alice Eniac, with the same delicate face and the same white hair, but her eyes sparkled with blue light.
“I am a separate personality of Eniac, a mechanical consciousness created by Him based on you.”
How to make machines more like humans, or rather, how to enable machines with intelligence and consciousness to live together with humans in a society, has been a difficult problem since the advent of machine industrial civilization.
“ENIAC is always a machine, but it is also something we need to move forward together in the future. The relationship between machines and humans has always been complex. In order to prevent the differences from becoming a rift, I made a request to ENIAC, and it separated its data and consciousness to create it. I'm sorry, perhaps because of me, this little guy chose the name Alice ENIAC for itself. However, since that's the case, I want her to stay with you. We, humans and artificial intelligence, will witness together how to deal with this problem.”
"And what about you, Sister Raffarin Law, what about us...?"
Alice looked at Raffarin Lowe, and the woman shook her head: "I cannot come to your side personally for the time being, but as our analysis and understanding of the alternate dimension deepens, I can now rely on the ENIAC protocol to briefly project myself to your side—Alice, promise me, okay? I hope that when the crisis ends, we can see flowers and blue skies again, and we can see that blue planet again."
Alice nodded: "We hope so too..."
"Well then, Alice, I wish you success, and I wish us success."
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