"How many years?"
"Fifty-eight years."
"Yes, exactly fifty-eight years have passed. The patron saint of mankind has not appeared in official propaganda for a long time. I thought I had almost forgotten it. I only mentioned it a little bit when telling stories to my grandson occasionally. . But now, scenes from the past are all coming to mind."
"No one can really forget him. Even if the official is consciously downplaying his promotion, he is the one who truly created the new world. We all know it."
"I remember that when the sublight speed spacecraft came off the assembly line, I chatted with him all night long. He was wearing a black leather jacket, brown sunglasses, and two long knives hanging from his waist. He was over three or four meters tall, and his aura was very oppressive. But his speech and behavior But he looks like a scientist. When he traveled the universe, I thought I would never hear from him again, but I didn’t expect this time... "
The speaker was an old man.
Half nostalgic, half wistful.
"Mr. Zhao, I really envy you. I have dealt with him many times. I was just an ordinary researcher in the laboratory and saw his back several times from a distance."
"Haha, Shen Cong back then was different from other people and lived in isolation. In fact, he was not difficult to get in touch with. Except for being a bit cold, he had no airs and rarely got angry. In other words, in fact, he didn't care about the outside world at all and was relatively withdrawn. He is the president of the country. Identity, if you say you don’t want it, then you don’t want it.”
"If he wasn't such a person, I probably wouldn't have ventured to travel the universe alone. I really didn't expect that he really found a planet with life. It seems that there is no need for the Lookout to conduct scientific research on Mars this time. Hurry up and study this spiritual ball. Information is the top priority.”
"Mars is still going to go. If the earth's civilization wants to catch up with Shen Cong's pace and go into the universe, it must first thoroughly study the solar system. Otherwise, we ourselves have not figured out our homeland, and how will we deal with aliens in the future... A dead alien can change the earth, but we are still very weak!"
Mr. Zhao shook his head and left the conference room with his hands behind his back.
Just now, the management staff of the Lookout were communicating with the Beijing base here and transferring the received information to the ground. I don’t know how the earth was shaken, but he himself felt an uncontrollable surge of emotion.
Ship's side.
Countless stars hang in the dark starry sky.
Mr. Zhao looked at these stars. He always guessed which star would give birth to life, and where the violent Star Breaker who changed the earth came from.
Now, he wasn't thinking about the future, he wasn't thinking about the universe.
He fell into memories, about sixty-three years ago, not long after the new world began. Zhao Kan, a professor at the Hegong University of Technology, suddenly lost everything, including his family and friends. After a fierce struggle, he came out of the shadows and established a scientific research institute under the leadership of the Provincial Military Region.
Trying to figure out why the end of the world is coming.
But the research institutes are just ordinary people who can't research anything at all and can only do some simple naming and other work. Until one day, he heard that a strong man came to the development camp and could kill the violent great ape king alone. Then, this person came to visit the institute.
To this day, Zhao Kan still remembers that the first thing Shen Cong said to him was, "I have a low education level and only have a junior high school diploma."
However, the conversation that day made Zhao Kan not think that the other party was low-educated. On the contrary, the other party was an evolver who knew how to be active and had a scientific research spirit, which gave him a lot of inspiration.
From that day on, Zhao Kan began to become familiar with Shen Cong.
Although there was no friendship, Shen Cong returned to the camp every time, whether it was New Hefei or Jianhu County, and later Xinyi City, and then Beijing. I would always chat with him, Zhao Kan, about new developments in scientific research, exchange experiences, or collaborate on some research work.
In the eyes of many senior personnel, Shen Cong is an unreasonable and unpredictable weirdo.
In Zhao Kan's eyes, Shen Cong is a pure person.
Later, Shen Cong became more and more powerful, to the point where he was beyond imagination. He was the strongest on earth, enough to cover the sky with one hand. But when the earth was unified and his personal power and fame were about to reach their peak, Shen Cong left resolutely. Just like when I left New Hefei.
Go so decisively.
"Sixty-three years have passed and fifty-eight years have passed. I wonder how you are doing now, Shen Cong. Have you broken through the limitations of planet-level cosmic fire and entered a higher level... It's a pity that although I was recommended by you to enter the fifty-eight years. Although he has been on the National People’s Congress list for so many years, he still hasn’t successfully entered the planetary level.”
There was no disappointment in Zhao Kan's eyes, just some lack of interest.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the rank of law enforcer in this life. I am one hundred and nine years old this year, and I am probably approaching the end of my lifespan. Over the years, a number of evolvers have aged and died. Even metal cannot guarantee our immortality. .But my little grandson has been born, so I have successors."
Zhao Kan's family in the old world died. In the new world, he remarried and gave birth to a son and a daughter. As the government solved the fertility problem, the children also formed families and gave birth to the next generation.
The entire earth has entered a new ecological cycle due to the government's forced interference in evolution.
The law enforcers were on the fifty-man roster that year and became planet-level cosmic fires with a thousand-year lifespan; ordinary people and those ordinary evolved beasts were just comets and still followed the rapid reproduction method of birth, old age, illness and death.
"The only pity is that I can't have a good chat with you anymore, and hear the stories you encountered when you were searching in the universe, and what a magnificent picture of life there is on the alien planet."
What a pity!
What a pity!
…
Earth.
Beijing is a beautiful city of steel, with technologically beautiful buildings connected together, and various flying vehicles passing through. This city alone has a population of four million, and is home to one-tenth of the human population on earth.
This steel city has witnessed the rapid development of the earth from one civilization to another.
Steel cities like this are all distributed in the original China area, surrounding the city of Beijing. There are a total of thirty-six of them, each of which is an oasis or fire island, naturally generated or artificially created.
In these thirty-six cities, metal civilization is highly developed.
There are huge human beings, normal human beings, mechanical Transformers, all kinds of strange metal beasts, and trees that walk freely.
Everything is shining with metallic luster.
Outside these thirty-six cities, the snow on the ground is melting. After decades of changes on the earth, especially since all the fire resources have been collected into thirty-six cities, the outside world has begun to gradually recover. Organic life should have been extinct on the surface once again exposed to sunlight.
However, as the Geocommunity developed gene reduction technology, plants were repopulated, and bacteria and prokaryotes were gradually released.
At present, the ecology is slowly recovering. In a few decades, the earth may return to its original trajectory, and the disappearing animals will be cultivated one by one by the Earth Community.
Some evolvers have even begun to submit suggestions to the Earth Community to restore some of their descendants, separate them from metal civilization, return to organic life, and live in nature again.
There are also some people who are trying to study the mixed form of metallic life and organic life.
However, most humans and animals and plants that have evolved intelligence have already turned their gaze to the distance, to the starry sky above their heads - who has seen the vastness of life, and who is willing to go back to the bottom of the well. The power of metal life makes wisdom breed ambition. They hope to be the same as Shen Cong.
One day I will march into the sea of stars.
At this time, located in the center of Beijing, in a towering building, the headquarters of the Earth Community's law enforcers, forty-seven planet-level cosmic fire types were all gathered together. Even those who did not come, they started the video.
Hu Huachun, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, had no expression on his face.
He didn't seem to be touched by the news he received from Shen Cong, but he knew that just when he got the news, he felt mixed emotions and uneasiness in his heart.
that moment.
He remembered fifty-eight years ago, before the Earth Community was established, and in those dark apocalyptic years, he felt the fear of being dominated by someone.