Annihilation of the solar system

Zhou Cheng walked aimlessly on the empty street, letting the red buildings and colorful trees under the lights pass by in front of his eyes, but he couldn't arouse any interest. Regarding the question that he was going to pursue for the rest of his life, the answer he was told turned out to be

It was so ordinary that Zhou Cheng fell into a huge emptiness for a moment.

I don't know how long I walked like this, but a "buzzing" sound in front of me caught Zhou Cheng's attention. Looking up, I saw a bunch of various robots cleaning the street.

He raised his hand and looked at his bracelet and realized that it was already late at night, and he felt very tired, so he started walking towards his residence under the guidance of the navigation system.

Not far away, Zhou Cheng saw a Western-style fountain on the side of the road, with a figure squatting on the spout and pouring something. Soon, the man left the spout and stood to the side. He operated on the bracelet

After a while, the water column ejected from the nozzle held up a small luminous ball and scattered water like lotus leaves. The man was obviously not very satisfied, so he stopped the fountain and went to the nozzle to adjust it again.

After several times like this, the water column from the nozzle wrapped around the luminous ball as if it were sticky and soared into the sky. The water head splashed evenly at a height of more than ten meters. The uniform water mist refracted the light of the ball into seven colors.

The colors are like holding up a big rainbow umbrella.

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Zhou Cheng, who was walking slowly, was also shocked by the magnificent spectacle in front of him, and couldn't help but stop and watch.

"If it were during the day, the rainbow would be larger." The man said. He had obviously noticed Zhou Cheng.

Zhou Cheng looked around for 4 times, confirmed that the person was talking to him, and responded casually:

"It's really amazing."

The man looked at his work and smiled lightly:

"It's nothing extraordinary. As long as we calculate the pressure per unit square of the water flow, the surface tension of the water, the velocity of the water flow, the mass of the ball, the refractive index of light, etc., if it can pass in theory, it will definitely be achieved in practice.

But I like to adjust the most important aspects with my bare hands like this. Although it is very laborious, the fountain created has a soul and is unique."

"Are you a fluid physicist?" After Zhou Cheng asked this question with some excitement, he regretted it. Because in this era where science and engineering knowledge can be directly written into the brain through knowledge transmission, everyone can become a person of all kinds.

Experts in the field, so there is no such thing as an expert.

"Are you the Awakener?" The man looked at Zhou Cheng and asked.

Zhou Cheng nodded:

"It's been less than two months since I woke up."

The man looked Zhou Cheng up and down carefully:

"Then you must be a very important person."

Zhou Cheng smiled bitterly:

"Haha, I'm just a homeless man who can't sleep in the middle of the night."

The man smiled lightly:

"It's always been this process at the beginning, with confusion and fear, but you'll get used to it all soon."

Zhou Cheng was a little surprised:

"Are you also an awakener?"

The man invited Zhou Cheng to sit down on the bench next to him:

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"Call me Canning, that's what everyone calls me now. I woke up more than 300 years ago. I can't remember the exact time. I only remember that at the beginning, I, like you, couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I have arrived. I once suspected that I had gone to heaven or that my brain was connected to a circuit and my body was used as a battery by a robot."

"Hello, Mr. Kan, my name is Zhou Cheng. Were you also frozen during the Doomsday War?" Zhou Cheng asked.

Canning took out a delicate box from his pocket, which contained cigarettes that Zhou Cheng was very familiar with. He handed one over, but Zhou Cheng waved it down. Canning smiled and said:

"It's not a big deal. The damage caused by this thing to the body can be eliminated by staying on the treatment device for half a minute. My surname is not Kan, I remember that I used to have a surname. But later people didn't even have a father, so the surname is natural

It also disappeared.

I just gave myself a new name, and it’s hard to notice the passage of time in the Eternal City. I can’t remember my original last name, and no one cares.”

Zhou Cheng took the cigarette from Can Ning and rubbed it in his hand without lighting it. Can Ning lit the cigarette with a small glowing gadget, took a small puff and then said:

"The Doomsday War? In our history courses, those thirteen years are called the Nirvana Era. I was born about 100 years after that. My grandfather experienced the Nirvana Era, but he was just a child at that time. I

I asked him what those days were like, and all he remembered was endlessly following Team 5 on the road and hiding."

"Then why were you frozen?" Zhou Cheng asked.

Canning looked at his rainbow fountain masterpiece and said leisurely:

"In the era I lived in, rainmen, humanoids, and humans were still working hard to build the Great Wall of Industry. The blueprint for the molecular industrial revolution had just been proposed, and the Eternal City was just a longing dream.

At that time, I was an installation engineer, responsible for the installation of liquid delivery pipes on the Great Industrial Wall. At noon that day, I sat on the unfinished pipes and ate a light meal as usual. After a heartbreaking cough, my dinner plate

It was dyed red. After examination, he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, which was still a terminal disease at the time.

But I was lucky. The cryonics technology was already in the testing phase at that time, and I participated in the test as a volunteer. When I woke up again, I was already in the Eternal City."

Zhou Cheng looked at Can Ning's face with vaguely distinguishable male features and asked:

"Then those who are dying before you don't have a chance?"

Canning nodded solemnly:

"The vast majority of people have no chance. It was not until more than half of the molecular industrial revolution that human body cryogenic freezing technology became popular. People who were frozen did not begin to gradually treat and unblock us until the construction of the Eternal City was completed.

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If you were frozen in the Nirvana Era, you must be a very important person. When I became a volunteer and prepared to freeze, I heard the staff said that before me, the only way to freeze was to rely on rainmen to transport it to L2

Lagrangian points rely on low-temperature freezing in space. However, orbital flight will cause great harm to Rainman itself, and it is impossible to popularize it."

Although Zhou Cheng could see that Can Ning wanted to know why he was frozen, he still deliberately avoided the question.

"Then were you all unblocked and returned to society 300 years ago?"

Canning didn't care that Zhou Cheng didn't answer his question, he blew out a thin puff of smoke:

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"This depends on the disease and aging. Even with today's technology, large-scale recombination of DNA at the molecular level is a huge project that consumes resources and time. My cancer had spread throughout the body, and treatment was very slow, but there are some

It took longer than me to be in treatment.”

"So is there anyone who has woken up recently?" Zhou Cheng asked excitedly.

Canning slowly shook his head:

"After the establishment of the Eternal City, molecular medical technology has been highly developed, and no one needs to be frozen anymore. People who were frozen before were all due to disease and aging. The last batch of awakened people should have appeared 200 years ago. They are now

He should still be in his prime, and still far away from death."

Zhou Cheng was surprised and asked anxiously:

"But human lifespan is so long. According to human fertility, the Eternal City should be overcrowded!"

Canning smiled and said:

"You should know that the current newborn population no longer comes from the mother's womb. It comes from the newborn center, and they control the rate of population growth."

Zhou Cheng felt a cold feeling on the back of his neck, and his eyes when looking at Can Ning were full of horror and confusion. Can Ning glanced at Zhou Cheng, but didn't care, and just said with a smile:

"Mr. Zhou, I can understand your mood. There are also some people among the awakened who feel unreasonable about this situation. They feel that the entire Eternal City is full of ghosts. These ghosts do not come from the dead, but from those who cannot be born.

A baby. What’s more, you come from a more distant era of Nirvana.”

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"What about these awakened ones? They are the last ones," Zhou Cheng said halfway. He didn't know how to continue, but he just used Kanin's lighter to light the cigarette in his hand.

Canning said calmly:

"Do you want to say that they gave in? It's nothing, Mr. Zhou. I don't know if the Eternal City has changed me, or if it just doesn't matter to me. Anyway, I have joined the current life, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But some of the awakened people still cannot accept such a world, even if it is like a paradise. It is said that they went to a place outside the city."

"Mr. Canning, do you know where they went in the end?" Zhou Cheng asked.

Canning threw away the cigarette butt in his hand:

"I don't know, that's not what I care about. There is everything I need in the Eternal City."