System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 709 - 313: Damn it, those damned vermin. (Request for monthly votes)
"Not a big issue."
Inside the Constant Star Train floating in the Cosmic Star Sea, Chen Mang stretched lazily on his chair, letting out a long breath. Despite seeing the severe internal contradictions of so many civilizations, he felt it would be difficult for such issues to occur in his future civilization.
Once stepping into the Star Sea, the civilization progressed rapidly.
Except for the "Black Tortoise Civilization," a cultivation civilization, all cultivators generally have very long lifespans.
Aside from that, most people’s lifespans only extend to around a hundred years.
Of course.
For those in the middle class, or the Train Captain and upper echelons, their lifespans can be much longer. By consuming certain resources in the "Medical Cabin," they can restore all internal organs to their most perfect state.
People do age.
And age quickly. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
In youth, doing seventy or eighty sit-ups feels effortless, but entering middle age, even doing just one can leave you breathless, making it hard to get up.
In a daze, one might recall the seventy or eighty sit-ups done during P.E. class on the school playground under the sunset in youth, seeming like an illusory memory, impossible to imagine.
The body is the greatest asset.
And this top-tier accessory, the "Medical Cabin," only requires consuming hundreds of thousands of units of iron ore resources to easily restore the body to a perfect state.
Of course, achieving immortality involves more than just irreversibly aging bodily organs; various factors must also be countered.
For instance, the long-term memory storage limit of the human brain is about 150 to 200 years. Beyond that, one must clear memories at the "Memory Bank," or find a way to add more memory.
External mechanical brains, external memory access devices, and other miscellaneous things.
There are always means.
This isn’t a big issue, but it requires spending considerable resources.
Once both these issues are overcome, theoretically, with sufficient resources, "immortality" can be fully realized!
Except—
The resources consumed for each perfect repair of the body exceed the last.
This means one cannot enter the "Medical Cabin" for constant perfect repair of internal organs; no one’s resources are infinite. Essentially, after consuming 200 billion units of iron ore resources, one can live up to a thousand years.
If more resources are available, one could even live up to 2000 or 3000 years.
The largest disparity in all civilizations is the "wealth gap."
The disparity in wealth between the upper echelons and the common people is astonishing, but often overlooked is the disparity in lifespan; upper-echelon people can live for thousands of years, while the lower class can only live a hundred.
Compounding is fearsome.
Over such a long time, the accumulated wealth of several generations will be a colossal figure!
It indirectly blocks the chances of the lower class rising.
Reincarnation becomes the only watershed moment, the only opportunity in life.
Of course.
There are also underhanded paths.
Such as risking life exploring "mechanical remnants." If fortunate enough to become a Train Captain and gradually grow, one could also join them. But out of thousands taking this path, how many will survive?
The vast universe is never short of brave adventurers.
Nor lacking, are the remnants of adventurers.
It’s precisely for this reason that one sees so many upper-echelon figures of high status and power who still retain an elderly appearance, looking balding and toothless as if they’re on their last legs. Each time the "body organs" are repaired to a perfect state, it consumes more resources than the last time.
The most perfect utilization method.
Is to wait until the body organs are in dire straits before repairing, which can greatly extend their lifespan, and reduce resource consumption to a minimum.
The aging of the rich is to welcome rebirth.
The aging of the poor is leaving the pressure of funeral costs for their offspring to handle.
All class contradictions in the world exist because they’re not intense enough. When it reaches such an intensity, there will be no contradictions, and the people below will not stir up any waves. It’s quite normal for families of seventeen or eighteen generations to work for a family or a company.
"..."
Chen Mang leaned back in his chair, gazing at the components on the train screen, and after pondering for a while, he upgraded the "Medical Cabin," a yellow-grade component, to Level 200 in one go!
He consumed 1.3 billion units of iron ore.
The resources required to upgrade a yellow-grade component aren’t many.
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"Medical Cabin Level 5 Supermodel Effect": Can regrow limbs.
"Medical Cabin Level 10 Supermodel Effect": Humans have never had any disease in the true sense, including so-called cancers, that cannot be treated. Various diseases require different amounts of iron ore to cure; the more severe the disease, the more resources needed. Replacing any mechanical organ in the medical cabin will cause no discomfort.
"Medical Cabin Level 20 Supermodel Effect": Can accelerate the repair process.
"Medical Cabin Level 50 Supermodel Effect": Can increase brain capacity.
"Medical Cabin Level 100 Supermodel Effect": Resource consumption is halved.
"Medical Cabin Level 200 Supermodel Effect": Can repair broken planets.
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"Hmm?"
Chen Mang raised an eyebrow. The 200-level Divine-level supermodel effect of the "Medical Cabin" is quite impressive, as it can even repair shattered planets, like "Water Blue Star." The core energy of Water Blue Star is rapidly leaking, and once the core energy is completely depleted, the planet will degenerate into a Dead Star.
And slowly crumble.
The entire process is irreversible.
