Earth Era

The thickness and darkness of the universe are the best curtains, which can block everything people want to see and don't want to see from sight. The war broke out and the war ended. The victors continue their journey of escape, while the defeated stay here forever and turn into cold stones in the universe.

In the initial stage, there were a lot of debris brought by the war, and these things can be seen everywhere in this area. But they all have initial velocities, and their motion directions are not the same. As a result, in just a few months, the contents here were reduced by at least 90%, and they continued to decrease rapidly. In just two years, nothingness and loneliness will return here, and no one will be able to find any trace of the war that took place here.

It's like nothing happened.

Naturally, people on earth will not know what happened here. First of all, the fugitive government and the autonomous government have disconnected. Secondly, this place is too far away from the earth, and the autonomous government cannot detect the signals that have been sent here through any detection means. Thirdly, even if the autonomous government's detection means are sensitive enough to carry The rays and signals of information about this war have not yet traveled the long distance to reach here.

Life on earth is still as busy and tense as it was in the past. The doping program has been implemented for more than two years now. Just as Xiao Yun expected, after the implementation of the doping program, the work efficiency of the team of scientists has at least doubled, and all work is progressing. Continuously advancing rapidly, if we continue to develop at this pace, everything will be ready in up to three months.

But along with the rapid advancement of work is the rapid aging of scientists' bodies. The doping program has severely damaged the physical foundation of scientists and overdrawn their vitality.

Their eye sockets were sunken deeply, and their eyeballs were always covered with bloodshot eyes. Their bodies were also losing weight rapidly, and now they can even be described as skinny and bones. But in contrast to the rapid physical weakness was their spirit. The weaker the body, the more excited the spirit. People's bodies are as thin as wood, but their voices are still full of energy, and their actions are becoming more and more neat, and they even walk like a trot.

The same goes for Xiao Yun. During this period of time, no matter what he did, Xiao Yun always felt that he was full of energy. His increasingly thin body seemed to contain infinite power, making Xiao Yun not know what fatigue was.

But everyone knows this is not normal. In fact, the consequences of the doping program are already beginning to show. I don’t know how many times, people who were working one moment fell to the ground the next and never woke up. This kind of thing even happened to Xiao Yun several times.

Xiao Yun once watched an elderly scientist who was respected by everyone fall in front of him. One moment, I was still communicating with him about some issues about how to use code to simulate the most basic composition of particles in high-energy physics theory. The next moment, he lay softly on the chair and closed his eyes forever.

The sound of the water glass in his hand falling to the ground was like a sledgehammer, hitting Xiao Yun's head hard. Xiao Yun was absent-minded for a few seconds, but he came to his senses after a moment. Xiao Yun did not investigate his situation or give him first aid. Instead, he calmly picked up the communication equipment, contacted the head of the physics team, briefly informed him of the situation here, and asked him to send another person. Members of the physics team came to discuss the previous issues with themselves.

Members of the medical team came in later and took away the scientist's body. No one among the dozen or so people working in the laboratory even glanced here.

People don't feel sad about the death of their companions because they know that this situation will eventually happen to everyone without exception. The only difference is that it's earlier and later.

Death is not important, work is the most important.

Occasionally, happy scenes will appear in the base, but they are rare. The entire research group led by Xiao Yun is divided into many subdivided groups, each of which has its own area of ​​responsibility. After this group completes all work tasks in their field, they can go on "vacation" - because they will no longer be needed for the next work.

Whenever someone can say goodbye to the heavy workload and go on vacation, the entire research base will congratulate them and hold a small farewell party. After the farewell party, the vacationers will leave the base in a special helicopter. Specialized logistics personnel will send them to where they want to go, and will be responsible for providing full medical and life support services.

Some people will choose to go back to the place where they grew up, and quietly review and think about their lives in the continuous cycle of sunrise and sunset. Some people will choose to go to places where they have never had time but have always wanted to go, in famous mountains, rivers, lakes They linger in the magnificent natural landscapes such as the ocean, and some people choose to numb themselves with alcoholic beverages, let off steam in the feasting, and experience this kind of life that they have never experienced or been exposed to before.

But no matter which way people choose to take their vacation, it won't last long. The long-term doping program has seriously damaged their bodies, and the sudden mental relaxation after vacation and unhealthy lifestyle make this situation even worse. So, after experiencing life for a short period of time, scientists entered death one after another.

But death cannot scare people. Every scientist who completes his or her mission will choose to take a vacation, and the vacation method becomes more and more crazy and bizarre. They seem to have unanimously chosen to squander money without considering the consequences in the last stage of their lives, so as to truly experience life. Even if this kind of life will accelerate his own death, he will not hesitate.

General Emmerk chose to remain silent about the situation. General Emerk knew that they had sacrificed everything for civilization, and now it was time for them... to truly live for themselves.

As time goes by, more and more people in the scientific research base are taking vacations, and fewer and fewer people are left. In the end, only Xiao Yun and Dink were left, as well as only a few members of the programming team led by them who still stayed in the scientific research base.

The skeleton of the entire deception plan has been set up, and the only remaining work is to combine and implement these things at the program level. This is the most complex and time-consuming task, but no one except members of the programming team can do it, even just to help.

Fortunately, the scientists from the other teams completed their tasks ahead of schedule, so Xiao Yun had enough time to carry out this work - the entire deception plan was linked one by one. If the former task was not completed, the latter task would not be completed. ongoing.

Time slips away quietly in this constant busy work. Occasionally there are some embellishments, and obituaries are often sent to Xiao Yun's workbench. Those obituaries are usually simple and clear, describing things such as "such and such died in such and such place at such and such a date in such and such a month. "A certain age" and other information. But the cause of death is the same, all of them "died from sequelae or complications after the implementation of the doping program."

Familiar people died one after another, some died at home, some died on the road, some died while drunk, and some passed away quietly in their sleep...

Even now, only Xiao Yun and Dink are left in the programming team.

All the scientists involved in the deception plan, except Xiao Yun and Dink, were all dead, without exception. They finally failed to wait for the execution results to appear. No matter whether the final execution result of the plan was success or failure, they would not know.

Xiao Yun and Dink never stopped moving forward. Originally, more than 2,000 people were following Xiao Yun and Dink, but this road was too difficult and the followers died one after another. In the end, only the first two people were left, still struggling to move forward.

In the end, Dink also died - although Dink was as young as Xiao Yun, his health had never been good and he was far less strong than Xiao Yun. So Xiao Yun was the only one left on the way forward.

Dink died in front of Xiao Yun. Dink died peacefully. As if he suddenly knew that he was going to die, Dink calmly explained some things to Xiao Yun, then sat on the chair and closed his eyes, as if he was just sleeping.

Xiao Yun desperately held back his tears and tried his best to calm the fluctuations in his heart. Xiao Yun knew that everyone was dead and that he was the only person alive on earth who could carry out the deception plan. If he breaks down mentally...the deaths of all of them will become a joke.

A few minutes later, Xiao Yun calmly notified the medical team to take away Dink's body, and then continued to immerse himself in the editing and calculation of the program.

The entire base fell into silence, no longer as busy and noisy as before. So those monkeys could finally play freely in the entire base, and no one would drive them away anymore.

I don’t know how long has passed, whether it’s a month or a year. When Xiao Yun raised his head in a daze, he saw General Emerk standing in front of him.

"The Sky Survey Observation Base just sent me a message. They confirmed that they have discovered traces of the robot group." General Emerk said in a low voice, "They are only two months away from us, and their number is about... 100 million."