The Lakers are too far behind at home, which still disappoints the audience, you know, this year's Lakers are not weak, Kobe, O'Neal, Jones, Van Exel, and four players have been selected as All-Stars for the first time.

No one expected that the Lakers, with such a strong lineup, would be blown up by the aging Bulls.

Since the fourth quarter, some spectators have left the venue one after another, Zhang Chen saw that the audience had begun to become thin, and the probability of being found had greatly increased, and he also pulled Natalie away.

Walking through the streets of Los Angeles, Zhang Chen smiled: "I find that every time we meet, we seem to be talking about life, as if we haven't talked about other topics." ”

Natalie blinked: "Because we are all young, we will always have more expectations for life and the future, and because we are young, we don't know what the future will look like, so we will fantasize about what will happen in the future and what life will be." If we wait until one day and we start talking about the past, it may mean that we have grown up. ”

Natalie suddenly looked at Zhang Chen strangely: "You don't seem to talk about the future, don't you have curiosity about life and the future?"

Zhang Chen was stunned for a moment, and Natalie asked: "You have made a lot of money investing now, but you are not a person who is so persistent in money, and you are not the same as the Jewish bankers I have seen, what is the purpose of your pursuit of wealth?"

Zhang Chen was stunned: "Purpose?"

Natalie persevered: "Yes, there always has to be a purpose, maybe there is that kind of Grande miser, but you shouldn't be like it." ”

Zhang Chen couldn't help but smile when he saw Natalie's expression: "Thank you, Nat, but I'm quite a vulgar person, and accumulating wealth is a happy thing in itself." ”

Natalie put her hands behind her back and grimaced in front of Zhang Chen: "I don't believe it, you can't be so purposeless." ”

Zhang Chen asked rhetorically: "Then what do you think my purpose is?"

Natalie's eyes rolled, "Hmm... Money can indeed do a lot of things, and the United States is a country built by businessmen, ah, are you a follower of some secret sect in the East, and you want to rule the world?"

Zhang Chen was amused: "You are really imaginative, I am just a small businessman." Well... If you think about it, your question really stopped me, my first goal should be to make life easier for myself and my family, to achieve real financial freedom, and not to have insecurities about money, this should be the original goal. ”

Natalie was bored: "What about now? You should be financially free now, right? Why do you keep accumulating? Isn't it good to do something you really want to do?"

Zhang Chen thought for a while: "I really don't know how to answer, I haven't thought much about this question before." Ah, yes, maybe I'm trying to live longer and go further. ”

Natalie was curious: "I don't understand. ”

Zhang Chen explained: "This is also what I just thought, it's just an accidental idea, I'll just say it, you can just listen to it, don't take it seriously." ”

Natalie smiled innocently, "It's okay, I just like to listen to other people's nonsense." ”

Zhang Chen rolled his eyes: "It's not nonsense, you don't need to explain to live longer, everyone hopes that their lives can be longer, now people's average life expectancy is getting longer and longer, but after all, they can't escape death." As for me, of course, I also want to live forever, and if I can't do that, then try to live as long as possible. ”

"But if you want to live longer than your established life, you need more money, and now some medical institutions in Dongying can do millimeter-level whole-body CT to detect the earliest cancer, of course, the fee is also very expensive, and only one in 10,000 people in the world can afford it, and I am just entering this ranks. ”

"But if I want to live a little longer than I just said, it's not just about the money, it's probably not enough to invest a billion, a billion, or even a hundred billion. ”

Natalie smiled: "You were the first person to tell me that the pursuit of life is to live long." ”

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "Isn't death the ultimate fear of human beings? I think many people say that they are not afraid of death because this matter is inescapable and is a result of the eventual arrival of all living things." Therefore, in the face of this inevitable outcome, we can only tell ourselves that we are not afraid, and even say that eternal life may be a terrible thing. But I'm afraid, really afraid, so I hope I'd better live longer. ”

Natalie, after all, is young and not so interested in the topic of death: "What do you mean by going further?"

Zhang Chen showed a slightly more serious expression: "More than a month ago, you took me to the Griffith Observatory, and I became interested in the universe and the starry sky for the first time. ”

"Later, I checked some information and was surprised to find that human beings landed on the moon six times from 69 to 72 years. But from 72 to the present, there has not been a single attempt to land on the moon. ”

"Now that science and technology have been so advanced, and the total economic volume is dozens of times that of the 60s, almost 30 years later, we are still trapped on the earth, don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Natalie's eyes sparkled, "You want to go to the moon?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "No, it is easy to land on the moon once, but if you want to make human beings truly become a space race, one moon landing is not enough." ”

"We need to build bigger and more functional space stations in space, so that they can really play a transit role, not just for scientific research;

We need to build a base on the moon and turn beautiful Artemis into our outpost on our way to the stars;

We need to land on Mars to see if there is the origin of human beings and whether there is an environment for human beings to live;

We have to look outside the solar system, how many planets in the Milky Way galaxy are suitable for us to habit;

We want to know if there are other life and civilizations in the whole universe, and if we are not alone. ”

What could be more appealing to a little girl than the romance of facing the stars?

"Nat, you know what? We humans have been wasting time for decades, and we have the ability and technology to explore the universe, but we are using these things to escalate our wars. Now we have nuclear bomb technology enough to destroy our civilization, but we have not developed controlled nuclear fusion until now. ”

"Facing the starry sky, in addition to curiosity, there is also fear. What scares me is that our lives and the planet we live on are so fragile that we can survive to this day is not a given, but rather a collection of countless accidents that cost a dollar and win the $200 million Powerball jackpot. Perhaps these fortuitous conditions will change one day at random, and the earth will no longer be our home for survival. ”

"We all fear that war will destroy the world, but there are so many things that can destroy us besides war, giant volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, the drift of continental plates again, even if the global temperature rises by 10 degrees and falls by 10 degrees, we will be destroyed. ”

"I don't know if there are extraterrestrial civilizations, but if they do, I can't wishfully think that they have good intentions, maybe they move a finger and we will be destroyed, just like we have to trample countless ants to death every day, without feeling. ”

Natalie was puzzled, "But none of what you said would have to happen." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Nat, have you heard of Murphy's Law? If there is a possibility that something will go bad, no matter how small this possibility is, it will definitely happen, it is only a matter of time." ”

Natalie looked thoughtful.

Zhang Chen was originally just a serious nonsense, bragging in front of the little girl, but the more he talked, the more creepy he felt, and he couldn't help but feel excited.

"We are really vulnerable, but even so, we are still wasting our resources, wasting our most precious time, doing things that are not beneficial to the future of humanity. Zhang Chen continued to say with emotion.

"More than 100 years ago, my motherland, China, was a weak country, but a thousand years ago, it was the most powerful country in the world. ”

"When the West entered the Renaissance, China was studying the subset of classics and history, when the West entered the Age of Discovery, China was still studying the subset of classics and history, and when the West had entered the Industrial Revolution, China was still studying the subset of classics and history. As a result, Huaxia, an ancient country that has been ahead of the world for a thousand years, has suffered unprecedented humiliation in this hundred years, and almost lost its country and species. ”

Because most of them don't know that there are other countries in the world, and there are countries that are far more powerful than themselves, and that the elite of the whole country is still thinking that it is the Celestial Empire when the world has changed, and that they are still busy with infighting, busy with personal gain, and busy maintaining their own power. ”

"More than 100 years later, have we really learned the lesson? No, we are like ostriches, not thinking about whether we will face a greater existential crisis, whether we will one day, whether we will encounter a more powerful civilization than us, whether there will be a day when the earth and even the solar system will undergo great changes and destroy us overnight. We were born intelligent and became the overlords of the earth, but we are no different from the dinosaurs of 70 million years ago, sitting in a well and watching the sky, naively and arrogantly believing that we are God's favorites and the only intelligent creatures in the universe. We are still squandering the precious time given to us by the Creator, not striving for the reproduction and development of our own race, but instead devoting most of our energy to the chores of flies and dogs. ”

"Yes, we haven't changed in the slightest, the history of China may be the future of the earth. ”

"Nat, maybe it's just my fantasy now, but I hope that one day, I will have enough wealth and ability to carve out a path to the universe for mankind, and I hope to be able to follow in the footsteps of Voyager 1 to explore that unknown cosmic space. And I am sure that this desire may require more wealth than finding the wealth and resources that make people immortal. ”

"And my wealth now is a drop in the bucket compared to what I want to do. Zhang Chen ended his speech with a sentence that seemed to be modest but was actually pretending to be forced.

"Nat?" Zhang Chen saw that Natalie opposite him didn't speak, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, and called out tentatively.

Natalie's lips opened slightly, she tiptoed slightly, and her cold ten-finger fingertips touched Zhang Chen's face lightly, turning her head slightly, Zhang Chen didn't have time to react, and a slippery and warm tongue stuck into her mouth.

"I'm going to go with you to see what this universe looks like. Natalie said softly.

More than 3,000 words。。。。。 It's not a short time, is it。。。。。 Although it's all nonsense.

(End of chapter)