Regarding the first question, how to deal with the natural people, although there were significant disagreements, most did not harbor a desire for complete annihilation.
This was because these natural people had degenerated severely.
They posed no real threat.
With careful care, they were likely to become extinct.
There was no need to dirty their hands over this matter or to disrupt the new laws they had previously established.
The point of contention primarily lay in whether to continue supporting these natural people. Some believed that since these natural people were now useless, they had no work they could do if they were released. To abandon them would be akin to indirectly killing them.
Therefore, it was best to continue supporting them as before.
Others, however, felt that even if they didn't need to exterminate the natural people out of revenge, they also had no obligation to continue supporting them. Not causing trouble for the natural people was already more than enough.
What more could be asked of them?
After much debate, the outcome, as Ding Yun had fully expected, was a compromise. They would no longer provide natural food to these natural people, only the minimum living standard stipulated by the new human welfare system.
Additionally, they would receive welfare assistance for intellectual disabilities.
This meant that all natural people would be classified as having level three intellectual disabilities. This would allow them to be legally and ethically provided with specialized robots to care for their daily meals, preventing them from starving due to nutrient solutions and synthetic foods.
These robots would also be responsible for watching over them, preventing them from going out and disrupting social order.
As for whether these natural people would become extinct later.
They no longer required the genes of natural people. What relevance was their extinction to them? Not directly euthanizing them and allowing them to perish naturally was already their greatest concession.
With this compromise reached.
The first question was considered to have a clear resolution.
The second question, whether to develop space travel technology, was resolved even more quickly.
After several people had presented their reasons in turn.
No one could find any grounds for objection.
"I believe that space travel technology definitely needs to be developed. It's like during ancient warfare when everyone had to develop air forces. If others have a technology, we must have it too, otherwise, we will fall behind and be vulnerable.
Although the humans who migrated to other habitable planets early on may not necessarily return, and even if they do, they may not necessarily compete with us, as long as there is a possibility, we cannot relax. We must be fully prepared in advance.
Rushing at the last minute is hopeless."
"I agree completely. The resources on a single planet are ultimately finite. Even if we strictly control the population, purify the environment, and conserve resources through frugality.
All resources will eventually be depleted.
So, even if we don't need to guard against enemies or search for habitable planets to migrate to, we must develop space travel technology because we need more resources. We need to extract resources from nearby planets, and perhaps even from distant star systems in the future. Without developing space travel technology, how can we achieve these goals?
The future of remaining confined to a single planet is inevitably bleak.
Throughout history, to develop, every step must be outward. Only by constantly moving outwards can we broaden our horizons, acquire more resources, and develop a more advanced civilization. Stagnation will only lead to self-destruction."
"I agree with both of the previous statements.
However, I have one more point to add, which is that when developing space travel technology, we must be restrained and base it on not polluting the environment. This point must be emphasized."
"Indeed. Shall we finalize this then?"
"Does anyone object? If no one objects, we will finalize this matter and officially include it in next year's plan!"
"I have no objections!"
"I have no objections either..."
The entire discussion process lasted less than ten minutes, and everyone harmoniously incorporated the development of space travel technology into the next year's plan.
Then they began to negotiate the last issue.
There was no controversy on this matter either, as everyone had suffered enough from various forms of pollution. Not only were they willing to concentrate their efforts on environmental purification, but they were also willing to bear even greater costs.
Therefore, the global environmental purification project not only did not have its costs reduced due to the meeting but actually saw increased investment as different people spoke. In the end, everyone unanimously decided to set aside all other matters for the time being, and even food intake would only be sufficient to ensure basic sustenance.
They would concentrate all the power that the new humans could muster to completely resolve all currently solvable pollution problems in the shortest possible time, preferably within five years.
The aim was to restore clear waters and green mountains.
Only Ding Yun's research team was an exception.
Her team continued to receive full resource allocation.
This was because more than ninety percent of all the plants capable of purifying the environment that they had mastered to date had originated from Ding Yun. It could be said that Ding Yun's research team was the foundation of their confidence in purifying most of the world's environmental pollution. Therefore, the investment in this area could not be reduced. They could save money elsewhere.
But not a single penny could be saved here.
After all, radiation pollution had not yet been resolved.
With the final point thoroughly settled, the meeting concluded. After the meeting, the new world mainframe directly announced to the public all the achievements of their various teams over the past year and a half, and simultaneously launched the global environmental purification project.
As a result, the holographic network instantly became lively.
Some were discussing the purification project, some were contemplating the space travel plan, some were watching the newly released historical information of the past five hundred years, and some, too lazy to read, were waiting for others to post shorter summaries.
Overall, the number of people participating in the discussion was not particularly large, as so much new content required time to read slowly. It was only several hours later that people gradually began to discuss the hidden history of the natural people, and whether it was worth it to complete the world's environmental purification at any cost.
As for the outcome of the natural people's treatment.
More than a year ago, when they learned that the natural people had degenerated to the point of being almost idiotic, they had lost interest in them. Seeing the final treatment outcome now, they merely glanced over it. No one was willing to mention it, let alone discuss or argue about it.
In short, this matter was truly an afterthought.
So much so that it felt as if it never happened.
...
Three days later, on January 1st of the following year.
The first piece of information announced by the new world mainframe was the full launch of the global environmental purification project.
The organization Ding Yun's team belonged to had previously been using various mutated plants to purify the environment, but at that time, they had only established a company to do so.
The manpower and resources they could deploy were limited to within the organization.
This time, the manpower and resources they could deploy, by virtue of controlling the new world mainframe, radiated throughout the entire world and all of humanity, a completely different scale.
All robots that were temporarily idle and all new humans who were temporarily idle were commanded to move out together to plant mutated plants in various radiation zones. The scene was extremely grand and spectacular. The polluted areas turned green at a visible speed, pollution levels dropped at a visible speed, and various ruins and debris disappeared at a visible speed. These three points were not exaggerated.
In less than half a year.
They had already exceeded their task ahead of schedule.
All the plants had been planted, and the ruins and debris had been cleared. The next step was to wait quietly, waiting for the plants to fully mature, waiting for them to absorb or purify the pollution in various places.
Concurrently, Ding Yun was not idle.
She was continuously exploring the miraculous uses of Daughter Spring water.
Her utilization of Daughter Spring water was becoming increasingly advanced. No longer was she simply using Daughter Spring water as before. Now, she had learned to add different reagents or medicines to the Daughter Spring water to adjust its effects, making it more convenient for her use.
In addition, she even accidentally discovered a method to decompose Daughter Spring water, which was to break it down into Taiyin Creation Spring water and Taiyang Creation Spring water.
Although the decomposed spring water lost its ability to create embryonic forms, its effect on plants was even better, capable of cultivating more pure plants.
For example, when cultivating sunflowers using Taiyang Creation Spring water, the resulting sunflowers not only had their photosynthesis enhanced by more than a hundred times, but they also gained the ability to absorb all toxic and harmful substances. Through the tempering of photosynthesis, useful elements were directly absorbed, and useless elements were transformed into sunflower seeds, thus repurposing the pollution.
Many toxic and harmful pollutants.
The main issue was their excessive quantity or the inability to separate their elements. As long as the quantity could be reduced or the elements in the toxic and harmful substances could be separated.
Then they could become recyclable resources.
For instance, algae cultivated using Taiyin Creation Spring water, although they could barely perform photosynthesis, gained the ability to absorb water pollution.
They could even produce fruits of different elements.
The appearance of these results directly led to the development of mutated plants that could solve problems in previously difficult-to-resolve mixed pollution zones and water pollution zones, and that required only a short time to completely resolve them.
And as Ding Yun became increasingly adept at decomposing and utilizing Daughter Spring water, she finally made some breakthroughs in addressing radiation pollution and officially began a more in-depth and specific experimental procedure.
This was the third year after the new humans took power.
By the end of the same year.
An earthquake occurred in the extreme cold sea area. Satellite signals scanned and detected the revival of a large number of life forms, and a few days later, many natural humans were photographed landing on nearby land.
At that moment, the whole world was in an uproar...