After this explanation was completed, the basic issues were brought to a close. Everyone present began to silently read the various documents on the screen. They had little say in the technical aspects; their current comments focused mainly on the so-called "basic morals".

These basic morals were compiled by the Unreal Laboratory, the most universally acceptable material, many of which were proactively provided memory templates by Zhang Yuan and other great scientists. But even so, some disagreements still arose.

For example, "optimistic spirit" and "confident spirit" are quite excellent qualities in humans. But what constitutes optimism? How do you quantify optimism? Over-optimism becomes blind optimism, turning into arrogance.

Is arrogance good?

Certainly not.

There's an endless array of situations in the universe; it's impossible to use a classification discussion method to exhaustively list all choices.

Furthermore, there's "sorrow"; a race without negative emotions has a hard time continuously progressing. Negative emotions can force humans to correct some bad habits; doing something wrong gets negative feedback while doing something right gets positive feedback.

These emotions are quite valuable.

But how should "sorrow" be controlled? Everyone has different tolerances for it.

The balance needs a degree; excessive sorrow can lead to mental illness, while too little fails to have any effect.

What is the right thing, and what is the wrong thing is once again a monumental challenge.

Zhang Yuan and other experts from the Unreal Laboratory designed a very complex function with several important parameters that require joint discussion.

Some issues must be resolved with so-called "moral exemplars," real human references.

"Moral exemplars? Who can be a moral exemplar?!"

"Where is there a perfect moral saint... we can't achieve what the Half-sphere Civilization does."

"We can only strive for perfection; actually, we can tolerate some flaws."

Thus, this Scientific Council meeting discussed these various points of contention for a week, covering most of the major and minor issues.

Even if there are unresolved questions, they are only minor ones.

After a public vote, the Captain finally concluded, "Well, I announce that the secret project 'NT New Human Project' officially commences execution!"

"This project is a step toward the Level 5 Civilization. Sincerely hope it can be successfully completed."

Facing this anticipated result, Zhang Yuan was not overly excited. After all, public sentiment was already so fervent, the technical aspects were well arranged, and with such matured conditions, delaying further was unlikely.

Yet, it's still a highly dangerous plan. On one hand, experiment participants might face personal danger. Thought modification technology has been tried with natives and the Half-sphere Civilization many times, but never with humans.

On the other hand, after modifying thoughts, there's a chance of developing anti-human tendencies!

This is merely the first iteration of the experiment; no matter how well planned, there will certainly be oversights.

The more dangerous thing is the latter; if a highly intelligent species emerges with some anti-human tendencies, it could spell doom for the entire civilization!

Therefore, due to these various dangers, the NT New Human Project is temporarily kept secret from the public. Moreover, the entire plan could not possibly gain universal public support; current social surveys show substantial opposition, better complete it before discussing further.

"The total number of participants in the first batch of experiments is 14."

"10 are human members, while the other 4 are Glizerians... They will undergo a series of thought modifications to adapt to a 100-200-fold thought acceleration process in the Virtual World."

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and signed his name on the proposal document.

NT New Human Project defines the concept of race relatively vaguely but defines the concept of civilization more clearly. When the concept of civilization outweighs that of race, those with unified thoughts can be considered the same civilization. Therefore, the auxiliaries like the Pangolins are included in the plan.

Glizerians possess very outstanding mathematicians whose greatest hobby and goal is mathematics. Their simple personalities are quite suitable for acceleration.

Even Zhang Yuan himself insisted on participating in the plan, becoming the first-generation transformer.

As the main developer, many things are hard to fully imagine without personal experience; understanding the quality of one's design requires firsthand experience...

As for danger... it's certain; thought acceleration remains a rather complex technology for now. If his thoughts completely collapse, equivalent to death, only succeeding generations can be entrusted with the entire plan.

Initially, many workers in Unreal Laboratory, upon hearing of the matter, disagreed with Zhang Yuan personally partaking in this dangerous experiment.

Even Professor Yamamoto Ichiro strongly opposed it, shouting, "You're too impulsive, why do this? Though we've planned for a very long time, using our intelligence, a series of loopholes invariably will emerge!"

"What if... It's too dangerous!"

Structured like a complete thought program, people have no idea whether it contains bugs or loopholes, akin to charging into battle nude.

However, after Zhang Yuan's explanation, everyone gradually calmed down.

Zhang Yuan sighed and said, "Everyone, listen to me first. In the entire New-Type New Human Project, the experimental subjects selected are not death row inmates, nor are they random natives from the Sinking Civilization; they are all highly respected Transcendents!"

Yes, all human experimenters are Transcendents, and all the Glizerians are Great Mathematicians.

"Why do you think this is? Because this experiment has the most fundamental difference; it's not just thought acceleration, but also exploring the future direction for humanity!"

"Choosing Transcendents or Great Mathematicians is to minimize the emergence of anti-human thinking; we must eliminate this possibility!"

"We couldn't use death row inmates for endless intelligence enhancement; that's too terrifying! So they must be civilization-loving Transcendents!"

"We've done enough experiments with natives; the gained experience is already sufficient. Humans must personally step up."

"Everyone, this is a war, a war to ascend humanity to become Divine beings!"

"As the main person responsible for this project, I'm most familiar with it; I'm in the best position to sense the process of thought transformation... During the experiment, I can discern what's done well and what's not, significantly benefiting future research improvements! I might even be able to transform myself."

"Moreover, this experiment might not fail. No, it won't fail, it will definitely succeed!!"

After saying all this, the young people in the laboratory fell silent, no longer opposed.

Yes, this is a war!

A war planned over thousands, even tens of thousands of years!

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