"No... I didn’t—" Lin Xian was immediately taken aback, then cleared his throat: "Forget it, I was just a bit curious just now."

"Upon your arrival at the Redemption Center, as per the agreement, you will have ’Glory’ level privileges within 48 hours. This privilege is higher than that of Type I Intelligent Humans. In addition to relieving you from the obligation of ’Glory Suicide,’ the android team will fulfill all your needs, including but not limited to, unlimited sexual activity, unlimited killing, unlimited dining, unlimited entertainment."

"Last meal?" Lin Xian chuckled, "Quite humane."

After thinking for a moment, he couldn’t help but frown: "Logically, those asked to carry out ’Glory Suicide’ should do so without hesitation. People like me, with rebellious thoughts, are outliers. Why, then, build a Redemption Center and give so many benefits?"

"To uphold the fair faith of the civilized system, rebels are also to sacrifice for civilization. The ’Super Brain’ perceives these people as having human rights but lacking the belief in civilization, hence as rejects and societal toxins. Before extermination, the ’Super Brain’ will communicate with you circuitously, reflecting on the issues that exist under intelligentism. These ’errors’ are crucially significant for our ’progress.’"

Lin Xian suddenly realized, good heavens, reflecting on oneself, it’s absolutely impeccable. It aims to eliminate those unwilling to contribute to civilization and understand why they refuse to contribute, what problems still exist in the social system, and what cognitive biases are still present in the world.

This is terrifying to the extreme and cold to the extreme.

To eliminate all different thoughts and this elimination is not through killing but fundamentally eradicating them from the world, like an antivirus software clearing viruses while patching up, maintaining the system’s absolutely stable operation.

When this computer operates, all principles are correct.

Lin Xian shivered, seeming to have realized something in his mind but unable to grasp it. Sitting opposite him, Ai Li tilted her head and glanced at him with a strange expression appearing on her beautiful face.

A few hours later, the transport ship stopped outside a massive hemispherical building, resembling some kind of planetary palace. Under the confinement of two drones, Lin Xian stepped toward the vast black stairs. Looking back, Ai Li stood by the transport ship, watching him depart.

Lin Xian said nothing, just stepped up the stairs one by one. Looking down, he discovered that each step he ascended revealed a line of text.

For instance, on the step he was on at the moment, glowing words appeared, saying ’Without the state, there is no order.’

Thomas Hobbes questioned in "Leviathan" ’Why do humans need a state.’

Lin Xian frowned in thought and suddenly looked up at the massive hemispherical palace, realizing something.

His thoughts and issues had been spied upon!

So he stepped onto the next step, this one revolved around his opinions on the Thucydides Trap.

Lin Xian understood, this is what Ai Li just mentioned, the ’Super Brain’ was provoking his thoughts, then obtaining his views on the issues.

Lin Xian felt somewhat stifled, simply closed his eyes, quickening his pace as he went in. Contrary to his expectations, there was no one else along the way. The gigantic planetary palace was as empty as a vast plain, seemingly a heartless mockery of Lin Xian the ’Rebel,’ yet a supreme praise for the ’Super Brain.’

Suppressing the thoughts in his heart, he walked into that massive palace. As he moved deeper, it brightened up, with a blue light cluster shining in the sky of a hall, like God’s descent or the manifestation of wisdom.

Just as Lin Xian thought he was the only intelligent human here, the massive light cluster began speaking, addressing not Lin Xian, but another person.

A human also bound by two drones standing under the light cluster.

The person wore a velvet suit, short hair groomed neatly as if by sea breeze, and stood with a straight spine.

"Number 18201128, you just proposed a proletarian theory. What is the judgment standard for considering the ’Equality Class’ a pseudotopic?"

Proletarian theory?!

Lin Xian’s gaze sharpened, looking solemnly at the silhouette. In his subconscious, he seemed to have caught a glimpse of it in some ancient history book.

"Dividing humans into Type I, II, III according to ’intellectual contribution,’ stratified based on the preset physiological and genetic endowments. How is this fundamentally different from capitalism dividing classes based on ownership of production materials?"

"Except, you replace capital with computing power output, establishing a more precise, inescapable ’digital caste system!’ Type III humans, those needing ’life support,’ who might be laborers or ordinary folks in the old days, in your system are merely ’digital poor’ dependent on computing power sustenance, stripped of the right to realize personal value, participate in community building through various forms of labor (including but not limited to physical, emotional, mutual aid, creativity). The true class elimination is the universal social ownership of production materials, eradicating any privileges based on birth, asset, genetic presets, where everyone collectively owns, produces, each according to their ability, to each according to their need—this is the fundamental revolution in human relations, not your gene-determinism grade reproduction!"

"Moreover, you claim to have eliminated conflict, war, and evil? Absurd! You degrade humans into computing power batteries, depriving them of all decision-making on their destiny, production materials, and superstructures. Conflicts do not vanish, but are suppressed to the individual and collective unconscious level by your pervasive monitoring, thought transparency, and mandatory ’Glory Suicide!’ Look at this forced population purge plan—in the face of resource crises, your ’optimal solution’ is for 90% of humanity to forsake life, rather than mobilizing the entire society’s strength to overcome difficulties!"