Earth Era

Anyway, the war is finally over. But the end does not mean the end, it also means many new beginnings.

What lies before the Outer Solar System Alliance is an extremely bad mess. Because of the war, the total human population has been reduced by more than 70%. All heavy industry planets and bases have been destroyed, space islands have been destroyed, and the two administrative planets of Earth and Mars have also been severely damaged. It is expected that The ecosystem cannot recover for hundreds of years. Resource planets such as Jupiter and Saturn have also been hit hard.

But at this moment, the head of the Outer Solar System Alliance was filled with joy. Because the investigation team has submitted the investigation results of why the "natural disaster" level weapon did not explode to his desk. After realizing the twists and turns behind this incident, the head of state discovered that not only himself, but all the people in the solar system at this moment, and how lucky the entire human civilization was.

Human civilization was once only a little away from destruction. If you go to the left, you will be in heaven; if you go to the right, you will be in hell. At the most critical moment for the survival of the entire civilization, the leader of the Inner Solar System Alliance, Kavis, braved tremendous pressure and made the most correct choice with his extremely strong psychological quality and indescribable awareness.

Head of State Kavis was dead. In that conference room, he was beaten to death by the angry senior officials of the Inner Solar System Alliance. As the head of the Outer Solar System Alliance, the old man saw the body of the head of state Kavis with his own eyes. It was a scene so miserable that it even made the old man feel a little palpitating.

The body of Head of State Kavis was perfectly decorated, and then under the auspices of the old man, he was buried in a cemetery with the most beautiful scenery on earth, which has always been accessible only to the most outstanding heroes of human civilization.

At this moment, the old man stood in front of the grave of Head of State Kavis, looking at the portrait of Head of State Kavis with a serious face and an unsmiling face on the tombstone, speechless for a long time.

There was no entourage around the old man, and it was also dusk when the sun was setting. The late autumn wind blew through the cemetery, picking up some fallen leaves. It also makes people feel a coldness from the bottom of their hearts. The old man stood here like this, the setting sun stretched his shadow very long. It looks full of desolation.

"Hello, Kavis," the old man said, "Our rivals... have been competing for decades. Although you were defeated by me in the end, when facing you, I still It feels shameful that, yes, I’m not as good as you. I admit that.”

"You are the loser, but you are the ultimate hero. I am the winner, but after all, I am just a mortal. Hatred and conflict are endless. Even if we are heads of state, we are still under the coercion of the people and the public. When you were still unable to control yourself, you broke through all the obstacles in your heart, raised your vision from the nation to the level of civilization, and made a decision at the last moment that was enough to change our entire civilization. I think... if it were done differently I am standing in your position. I am afraid that my heart will be occupied by hatred and narrow-mindedness, and then I will make a decision that will make our human civilization irreversible. I... am really not as good as you."

The old man sighed deeply. Although at this moment. Grand celebrations have begun all over the Outer Solar System Alliance, and almost everyone is partying. With this victory, the old man's reputation has risen to almost the highest level, but there is no joy in the old man's heart, only frustration and fear, as well as shame and guilt.

"Now that the matter is over, I can look at the previous events with a relatively calm and objective attitude. It was also at this time that I discovered how the war between us... felt. Is it so meaningless? We all know that the trigger of war is the lack of resources and deadlock restrictions. But why in the later period, when the population of our human civilization has been greatly reduced? Not only did we not stop the war, but It's getting worse and worse, and no one feels that it's wrong?" The old man murmured to himself, "Even I didn't realize that this was wrong at the beginning. What I was thinking at the time was that I would do it no matter what the cost. Destroy you..."

"That's why I say...I'm not as good as you..." the old man kept sighing, "Compared with you, I feel like a humble ant. But the reality is such an irony that it makes me feel like an ant. The ordinary me won the victory, and let the great you enter eternal sleep..."

The old man kept pacing next to the grave of Head of State Kavis, and his figure became more and more stooped as he walked.

"Kavis, don't worry. Although the hatred between our two nations has become so simmering that it is almost irresolvable, as long as I am still alive, I will definitely dissolve this hatred completely. Because we belong to human civilization together... … We share a common ancestor, we share a common culture, and apart from the illusory concept of “nation,” we are almost identical.”

"Kavis, at this moment, I swear in front of your grave in the name of the head of human civilization that I will use my life's energy to complete the matter of "national integration and elimination of hatred." If it doesn't work in ten years, it will take twenty years. If it doesn't work in twenty years, Just thirty years, until I die. Even if I die, I guarantee that my successor will continue to promote this matter, and our two nations will definitely merge together again, just like the outbreak of war Like before..."

"Kavis, you can have a good rest here. Your wish will definitely come true. If you really have a spirit in heaven... you will definitely see this." The old man said solemnly, facing Kavis. Weiss' tombstone bowed deeply, then turned and left. At the moment he turned around, whether it was an illusion or due to the change in light, the old man discovered that the portrait of Kavis on the tombstone seemed to have a more "happy" expression.

In his subsequent ruling career, the old man fulfilled his promise with his own actions. Many details about this war have been disclosed to society, and those who promote national hatred have been severely punished. After learning about the sacrifices made by Head of State Kavis and the guidance of public opinion that "human civilization is a whole" As a result, public opinion began to reverse the trend, and concepts such as unity, cooperation, friendship, equality, and mutual assistance were once again embraced by the entire society.

Of course, this was an extremely slow process, and it took more than a hundred years to complete this reversal. The old man had resigned decades ago and then died of old age. The new head of state continued to move forward along this path. After he also resigned, the same would be true for the next head of state...

Only after losing peace will people know how precious peace is. The war was finally over, and large-scale post-disaster reconstruction work began throughout the solar system. People began to clean up the ruins of warships and bases left in every corner of the solar system, began to clean up the clusters of interstellar mines left around various planets and key waterways, and began to rebuild cities. Start restoring the planet's ecology, start building an energy base... everything is on the right track.

Although we are on the right track, the speed is really slow. The new head of state suddenly discovered that although the war was over and peace had returned to the solar system, the population did not grow as rapidly as expected. Without enough population, there will not be enough labor force, not enough people to fly spaceships, not enough people to do scientific research, not enough people to produce industrial products, not enough people to mine minerals...

People know very well that if they cannot break the deadlock, they cannot break through the solar system, and the population carrying capacity of the solar system is limited. People are afraid of war, and war breaks out because there are too many people, so people invariably choose to have fewer or no children. But this has brought a series of social problems to human civilization. Some scientists even pointed out that if the fertility rate cannot be increased to a certain level, human civilization may fall into a serious decline. By that time, human civilization will have to give up Uranus, Neptune and some planets further away, and may even shrink its sphere of influence to within the orbit of Jupiter.

The new head of state is anxious about this matter, but no think tank can provide the head of state with a complete solution to the problem. Everyone made one point clearly: for human civilization to develop, it must be supported by a sufficient population base. However, if the deadlock is not broken, a sufficient population means an insufficient amount of resources, and an insufficient amount of resources means that war.

This seems to be another contradictory combination that cannot be broken.

Time has spent more than a hundred years in this contradictory state. Although peace has long been restored to the solar system, human civilization has not exploded with vitality again as expected. The solar system is very peaceful at the moment, but this tranquility is more like a pool of stagnant water, with no hope and no future.

If dying in war is a more violent way of death in a civilization, then the situation at this moment is like boiling a frog in warm water. The head of state knows that this kind of calmness and numbness will gradually erode people's hearts. When people finally find that something is wrong, I probably no longer have the ability to change this situation...

"Is it true that if the knot is not broken, the end of civilization is destined to be death?" the head of state murmured, "either die in the war, or die from... numbness after the war? But in this case, the death of the head of state Kavis Is there any point?"

The head of state fell into deep confusion.

At this moment, at the far edge of the solar system, a dilapidated small spacecraft has quietly arrived... (To be continued ~^~)