Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

"Lord Jean, the current external temperature is minus 256.7 degrees. Please put on your space suit."

Accompanied by the sound of the mechanical AI3, Gene floated quietly in the space of the insulation layer. He pulled the fixed cable and moved little by little towards the spacecraft door. Now he must go out and actually see the situation up, down, left and right. That's fine, but Gene has no intention of building space suits. This kind of bloated equipment is only for use in certain tricky situations, and there are only three sets. It would be a bit troublesome if it was damaged, because it would be a bit troublesome to make it again.

Gradually, Jean came to the top, and AI3 prompted again.

"Do you need to activate the weapon, Sir Jean?"

Gene thought for a while and then shook his head.

"It is better to activate the weapon according to my suggestion. In an unknown environment, it is easy to encounter unknown attacks from the outside."

Jean looked at the hatch, which was not open for the time being. From the past to the present, he rarely acted rashly. Before taking action, Jean would consider some details of the action process, especially in such an environment full of unknowns.

It is now 0:49 on April 10th

Jean was still hesitating whether to go out. Jean thought about countless possibilities. During the catastrophe in the past two centuries, the earth may no longer be in the solar system. Although this bold guess has no factual basis, Looking back on the asteroid, most scientists at the time came to the unanimous conclusion that the asteroid was more like a manufactured planet than an asteroid.

A variety of new substances have been discovered on the planet, and according to testing, most of the substances are more likely to be synthetic than naturally generated, because natural generation has very obvious standards, and the atomic arrangement of the material structure, if it is naturally generated, The atomic structure of these substances must follow certain laws, and if they are synthesized, the atoms of these substances will have very obvious traces of third-party processing.

In just seven days, scientists from various countries met every day to present what they had discovered, and then debated. Finally, as time went by, more and more things were discovered, and everyone felt more and more that this was the universe. An aircraft made by a certain life form.

Gene still clearly remembers that on the third day, the daily harmonious discussion turned sour. After a European scientist discovered a special substance named life crystal, all scientists focused on this kind of life. There was a discussion about crystals, and everyone worked hard to bring this life crystal back to the laboratories inside the spaceships of various countries.

This is the purpose of human beings taking such great risks to board this asteroid that passes by the earth, to achieve immortality in the true sense.

In the past, after a small exploration robot landed on this asteroid, scientists discovered that inside this incredible life crystal, there were a large number of multicellular invertebrate organisms living inside the crystal, which completely violated the theory of biology. Time and time again, robot mining surveys found that the survival time of these invertebrate creatures was unknown. After the robots conducted a large number of experiments, many scientists witnessed the process of these experiments. Many people surprisingly discovered that this kind of The cells of unknown invertebrate organisms can divide indefinitely, and the structure of the cells is very similar to the structure of biological cells on the earth, and is more than 67% similar to human cells.

Such a value attracted all biologists at that time, because in the eyes of biologists, they saw the possibility of human beings being able to live forever in the future. Although there were already many genetic improvement technologies in that era to increase There are also special medicines for human lifespan, but the effect can only reach 30% of the maximum human lifespan. This number is accurate data obtained half a century after experimental research started in the early 21st century.

The people who control the earth's 99.999999 wealth have grown old. Many people don't want to die but want to live. So when these people get old and weak, they invest all their huge wealth into biogenetic technology. Looking forward to extending my life, even if it is just one more day, it is worth it.

But 30% is already the critical value. In the middle of the 21st century, a rich man lived to be 112 years old and eventually died. This was already the most successful research field in this huge research field of biogenetic life-extending technology that has spread around the world. Once, based on the length of the rich man's NDA, the technology at the time could determine that he could live to about 86 years old, but in the end the rich man lived to be 112 years old, and relied on new biotechnology to increase his lifespan by 30%. None of the many rich people in China can break through the 30% limit.

At that time, the entire world was in an extremely delicate situation. The occurrence of multiple global disasters caused a lot of differences among the originally harmonious human beings. War was the norm for most small countries, and there were usually superpowers behind them. support.

Everyone is moving forward in a world where plank roads are built openly but secretly. Today's allies are very likely to become tomorrow's enemies. Problems such as technological blockade, financial sniping, material monopoly, etc. are already eating away at the originally healthy human society. .

People in many places don’t even know if they will be alive tomorrow. As sea levels continue to rise and a large number of organisms become extinct, humans seem to have initiated the mass extinction of organisms themselves. Chaos is spreading around the world. In the face of countless disasters, the past Those close allies have long distrusted each other.

No country wants to fall behind others. However, it is against this background that the new material on the asteroid was discovered, which was like a dawn in the darkness.

When the asteroid was identified, various countries discussed and finally decided to name the asteroid. The asteroid named Hope would arrive in 20 years. At that time, scientific workers around the world were expressing their opinions.

Gene couldn't help but feel bitter at the thought of this. There might have been some ambiguity at first, but as the findings released by NAS became public, the opposition almost disappeared.

"Unfortunately Gene, I don't have much time left, I can't see all this, but human beings will one day destroy themselves because of their greed, and you who are about to witness all this are also unfortunate! "

Jean still remembers that these were the last words of his mentor before he passed away. At that time, young Jean only thought that it should be impossible. Many technology and biomedical companies around the world joined forces to formulate a plan called Save The plan for all mankind.

In order for this plan to be concretely implemented, it is necessary to obtain the consensus of the majority of people, and the consensus also includes countries. In the end, most countries gathered together and decided.

But some of the comments at this time seem a bit harsh, because there are not many sober people, because when new organisms are discovered, unknown bacteria and viruses may also exist. In the first half of the 21st century, there was a worldwide outbreak caused by viruses. catastrophe within.

But these remarks were soon drowned out by the huge and enthusiastic public opinion, because most companies were claiming, and many authorities in the scientific community were also claiming that in the future, everyone could even buy the plan jointly signed by various countries. The price of the next can of soda can be used to inject this special life-extending vaccine, and some companies that produce soda are also desperately advertising. They can even participate in a lottery by collecting specific codes on certain soda cans, and the winners can get these Priority shots sponsored by soda companies.

Everyone is looking forward to it, and entertaining yourself to death is the eternal theme of this world. No one realizes the danger, because everyone thinks that logging onto an asteroid is as simple as going to a space station hotel for a night.

Leaders from all walks of life are supporting this plan and investing in this plan. In just two years, driven by a large number of voices, countries around the world have established a special academy of scientists by the Seine River. , using top scientists in various fields around the world as lecturers, and recruiting outstanding young scientists from around the world.

Gene still remembered that he was just 30 years old at that time and could only be regarded as a lecturer in the field of biology. The reason why he participated in this project was because of Ellie. Ellie had already suffered a serious illness when the project started. After an accident and about to die, Gene followed the advice of a friend and froze Ellie before she died.

In order to be able to land on this planet and find a way to resurrect Ellie, Gene went all out, studied day and night, constantly overcame some biological problems, and was finally selected.

The whole world went crazy, and most people tried their best to make fuss about this plan. The world briefly ushered in some peace, because all countries knew that logging into this asteroid was the top priority, and top physics The experts gathered together and began to build landing spaceships from various countries.

Everything is in full swing. Although everyone in the college is a classmate on the surface, secretly everyone only belongs to their own country.

However, during the long wait, human enthusiasm has been consumed little by little, and the progress of human science and technology has also slowed down because of this plan that has already invested huge amounts of money and affects mankind all over the world. The economy in many places is not very good, and the world is in a state of decline. During this period of silence, except for the continued deterioration of the ecology and the rising sea level, there was almost nothing good.

But as the year approaches, humans begin to cheer again. Everyone is looking forward to the 13 days when this asteroid named Hope will pass by the earth.

Because news of new materials being discovered on asteroids is constantly spreading, and everyone is waiting for the moment when this beam of dawn comes to the earth.

Finally in 2076, the spaceship carrying the hope of mankind took off at 6 a.m. on January 1st amid cheers from all over the world. Everyone watched the liftoff journey all night long. The ship took off on a rocket carrying the world's top scientists. Gene was already over 50 years old, and basically most of the scientists on board were of this age, and some were even over seventy years old.

Many people don't understand why young and strong people are not sent up. In fact, this is impossible. Many complex experiments, the use of many high-performance equipment, and a large number of scientific problems such as numerical values ​​are left to nothing. Those who understand can only make this login more effective with half the effort.

The whole world is watching the program from the universe. In the end, everything was successful. After all the spaceships successfully entered the space station, the whole world was excited. Never before has anything happened that can make the whole world happy. Cheers, this is the biggest carnival day in the world since the first time of mankind.

Although the asteroid had deviations in the past half a month, all this had been expected by scientific workers. The moment he successfully logged on to the asteroid, April 10, Jean clearly remembered this date. , and this day is also a very grand day for most religions in the world.

Many people are praising that this is God's will. God is about to send down light to save mankind, which has been trapped in darkness for too long.

The first time Jean logged in, he and his teammates searched for this kind of life crystal as much as possible. Finally, Jean found it. They began to try various methods to conduct experiments. On the sixth day, The experiment has shown results. Many of the cells from experimental animals have self-repaired to varying degrees. This kind of repair is astonishing.

Without any hesitation, Jean decisively injected Ellie with this life crystal. During the process of everyone coming into contact with these life crystals, Jean even found that his skin seemed to become younger, and the skin that had begun to age exuded... Life, just when everyone was rejoicing and wondering what it would be like after returning to Earth in a week, the contact was disconnected.

A scientific team from one country discovered an entrance. Scientific teams from many countries wanted to go down and explore. Jean was also very interested because Ellie, who had been injected with this life crystal, began to suffer from injuries that were difficult to repair and would lead to death in accidents in the past. After getting better, Gene gave up continuing the research and chose to stay with Ellie during the whole process.

However, during long-term contact, Jean discovered the conspiracy of some scientific teams. Finally, Jean confirmed it. He wanted to prevent a large number of scientific teams from entering the cave, because the cave was discovered by a scientific team when logging in. Yes, but they chose to conceal it deliberately.

In the end, Jean found the source of the conspiracy, and together with several people from other science teams, subdued one of the scientists, Li Chu.

"Even if I don't do it, others will."

Jean only remembered that after Li Chu finished speaking, he directly detonated some spaceships. Such external detonations would not have caused much problems originally. The key was the explosion inside the cave. It was this explosion that caused the entire asteroid to explode. There was a violent explosion.

Just seven days later, the reveling humans did not wait for hope. Instead, they only saw the light covering the earth and sinking into the center of the Pacific Ocean, causing a shocking tsunami.

"Go back to Earth!"

Gene and seven other people were extremely lucky. They worked together at the moment of the explosion and escaped when the asteroid exploded on a larger scale.

There were other scientists who escaped at that time, but the destination of most of them was the space station. Just when a few people were hesitant, Ellie said this after waking up.

Gene cried with joy and hugged Ellie, but he also knew that Ellie might have changed and become different from the past.

The asteroid named Hope did not bring hope to all mankind, but brought divine punishment. Death and fear are what humans need to face every day, and death will only continue to chase humans. When humans are exhausted When exhausted, it devours humans.

Everyone is running exhausted in the face of the disaster, and many remaining countries have not reached a consensus at this time, but are still blaming each other. However, they cannot even figure out the reasons and are eager to calm the chaotic public. The powerful people directly took a video and edited it. This video showed the fight between Jean and Li Chu.

After the coin that Gene was wearing fell, it accidentally fell into the core of a spaceship, causing an explosion, which led to the explosion. This was a plan failure caused by human error.

However, there will be a day when lies are useless, because in the face of ruthless disasters, it is meaningless to talk more. Disasters are rapidly destroying human civilization, and the sun begins to hide behind gray clouds day by day, not showing its head all day long.

Human beings no longer care about or think about why such a big problem occurs. They can only run for their lives, run to high places, hide in deep mountains, and hide underground. Everything is completely chaotic, and the past human society is completely destroyed. .

Twenty years have been too funny. After temporarily stabilizing, many people look back on this disaster with bitterness and want to laugh. Tragedies are being staged every day.

Everyone knows that this planet is no longer safe. The safest place now is the sky. After spending two years on the journey to find their families, Jean and others turned around and came to the launch base in Europe to watch human beings with their own eyes. The last hope was raised, and Gene still clearly remembers the feeling of powerlessness and deep despair.

It was already 1 o'clock when he came to his senses again. Gene dug into his trouser pockets, but the thought of smoking in such a gravity-free situation was asking for trouble.

"Open the hatch after 10 seconds."

Jean planned to go out to confirm in person. Blue particles began to emerge from the surface of Jean's body. The color became darker and darker. A large number of blue scabs soon wrapped Jean's body. It was like a moving sculpture, with its whole body covered in dark blue scabs like spar.

crunch

As the hatch opened, a strong suction force directly pulled Jean out. At this time, Jean's exposed eyes were like stones. He could not feel the cold. Under the action of the traction rope, Jean floated. In the sky above the fireworks ship, he looked around. Except for the colorful unknown object that was still approaching, there was only the dark universe with bright spots.

The reason why we know that the thing is matter is because AI3 has detected the gravitational force from the light spot and is attracting the spacecraft little by little.

Gene couldn't help but doubt his conjecture. Perhaps during the years when the earth was covered, the material surrounding the earth created a magnetic field that moved the earth to other places. If this is true, it will take nearly 200 years. In that time, the earth should have moved to a considerable distance. However, the reason why this idea cannot be confirmed is that Jean cannot see where the earth is now.

Judging from the knowledge Gene has mastered, it may also be the result of magnetic field distortion. Perhaps it is in the magnetic field generated by the three-state mixture of solid, liquid and gas wrapped around the outside of the earth. It has not yet entered the extraterrestrial universe where the sun can be seen, but Jean couldn't figure it out that nothing was detected in this space.

At this time, Gene felt a chill on his skin. He pulled the traction rope and went back. After the hatch was closed, the scabs began to break and disappear. However, they did not completely disappear. Instead, they turned into ice crystals and floated in the air. , Gene returned to the cockpit, AI3 was still investigating.

After calculating with the optical telescope, the colorful object in front of him was about 45,000 kilometers away, Gene was still thinking about it.

"Speed ​​up to that patch of light!"

"I understand, Lord Jean!"

There was a buzzing sound, and tiny flames began to emit from the outside of the fireworks. Then Gene felt a wave of inertia. The person sat down and for a moment, the fixed straps had trapped Gene, and the speed increased to 50,000 in an instant. meters, and the subsequent acceleration increased very quickly. In less than a few seconds, the speed of the fireworks reached 117 kilometers per second.

At this time, a light and shadow panel had begun to calculate the gravity of the colorful mass of matter in front of him. Jean stared at the values ​​​​quietly. It would only take forty minutes to arrive, but now Jean is still thinking about whether there is any Leaving this planet, or should we say that this planet was really taken away from the solar system by an extraterrestrial package.

Gene closed his eyes, AI3 was still prompting some values, and Ellie's smile appeared in his mind.

"Promise me Jean, no matter what happens, you will never give up!"

Jean opened his eyes with a smile. The worst thought in Jean's mind just now was that he was taken to another galaxy and could not go back at all, but soon Jean laughed, Space travel may be possible in short distances, but it is impossible to achieve long distances.

"It has been determined that Sir Jean has a gravity value of 9.8."

In an instant, Jean laughed, and felt relieved. He should be in the interlayer space where the magnetic field of the package interacts with the earth's magnetic field.

Although gravity cannot explain the complex problems that Jean is encountering now, it is enough to show that Jean is still within the scope of the earth. According to the speed of this fireworks ship, he can leave the earth in 80 seconds, but in fact it only took 63 seconds.

The colorful object in front of him is getting bigger and bigger. Jean is not sure what it is. Gradually, he can see some outlines. The colorful thing in front of him is like an island floating in the sky. Average, but still within the confines of the Earth.

Jean looked at all the values ​​​​on the light and shadow panel. No wonder the detection wave did not respond. This thing was too far away from him. As time passed by, Jean could clearly feel that the speed of the spacecraft began to slow down. , the spacecraft has been affected by gravity, and the values ​​in all aspects are beginning to be close to the simulated flight values ​​on the earth.

Jean clearly remembers these values, because they can be used as a reference. Judging by the values ​​of the earth is the standard for knowing whether a place is suitable for human habitation.

This kind of judgment is the most accurate and efficient. At this time, accompanied by a strange breath, Jean felt that his heart beat slightly just now. This feeling made Jean alert.

Time passed by, and you could already see the appearance of the floating island in front of you. It was a colorful island. Through the remote observation equipment, Jean discovered that this was a crystallized island. Jean was shocked to see it. Look at everything in front of you.

The appearance of this island is very similar to the surface of that asteroid. There are luminous crystals everywhere, but life only exists in some life crystals.

Jean was extremely happy with this discovery, because everything in front of him was too similar to an asteroid. Every time he got closer, Jean could see it more clearly.

That asteroid was composed of a large number of crystals. According to some information at the time, the overall density of the asteroid was very high, and its mass even exceeded that of the Earth. This is something that many people cannot imagine.

Exploring the memories of the past, Jean felt more and more strange. Only part of the asteroid that exploded at that time should have fallen into the Pacific Ocean, while the rest all turned into light. Those lights did not know why they underwent some changes, and then... It turned into a three-state substance of solid, liquid and gas that enveloped the earth, completely blocking out the sun's light.

"Prepare to land! Please be prepared Lord Jean."

Jean nodded and watched as the speed of the spacecraft began to slow down, and the time was only 2:47 in the morning.

The inertia began to decrease, and the inside of the fireworks began to become stable. The speed value on the light and shadow panel was still shrinking. Gradually when the value reached 0, the fireworks stopped, and a white aperture began to appear outside. Enter floating mode.

Jean looked at the vast world below that was filled with all kinds of colors. It was a large forest and even a lake. However, everything on the island below was colorful. This surprised Jean. At this time, below A touch of light blue blew across the sky above the forest, and the image was immediately captured by external shooting equipment.

Soon Jean stood up. The gravity system had been lifted. Jean looked at the thing on the image. It was a bird, but its whole body was made of crystals. The surface looked very smooth, and accompanied by one picture after another. A picture of the impact was transmitted back, Jean exclaimed.

"It's new life!"

"Start landing, Sir Jean, please sit down!"

The fireworks began to fall slowly and evenly. Gradually, Jean could see clearly. In the entire colorful world, there were many jellyfish-like creatures floating in thin gauze clothes. These creatures varied in size, and the largest ones even exceeded the fireworks. The smallest ones are like flies and mosquitoes, and these things are all different colors, and the surfaces of their bodies are emitting shimmers of different colors.

"Compared to going to Mars, perhaps such a discovery is more exciting!"