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Historically, mankind has never experienced a cosmic war, and it has never been clear how such a war is conducted.
But now they know that the cosmic war may be a collision between two civilizations!
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2135 A.D., Earth.
It is still that intoxicating blue, filled with the surging breath of life, so unique in the solar system, it is the gift of the Creator, the miracle of the universe!
Outside the atmosphere, the once densely woven constellation of satellites has disappeared, and only a few hundred are still faithfully carrying out the mission entrusted to them by mankind, but it is no longer the same as the grand occasion of tens of thousands of satellites operating in different orbits a hundred years ago.
The level of human science and technology is changing with each passing day, but it is far from the extent of replacing tens of thousands with hundreds of satellites.
Is it a catastrophe that human beings have to experience and must experience in the history of development, or it may be an opportunity?
As the lowest level of civilization in the entire universe, the earth of a first-level planetary civilization, strictly speaking, it may not have reached the planetary civilization, and it has encountered a challenge from a second-level stellar civilization!
No one knows where it will go in the future! But judging from the current situation alone, the tens of thousands of downed satellites represent the attitude and tendency of this second-level star civilization!
It's just that the infiltration of extraterritorial civilizations is still only in outer space, and for the time being, there is no intention of going deep into the earth, but no one is sure that they will not come in?
Control or destruction!
There is not much time left for the people of the earth! But in the collision of civilizations, what can be changed in hundreds of thousands of years?
There will be no suspense about the head-on collision between the first-level planetary civilization and the second-level stellar civilization! The only chance is that the fleet that came to Earth might be just one of the countless attempts that the stellar civilization has sent to the universe?
So, presumably there's still a chance?
In the near space outside the Earth's atmosphere, there are occasional spacecraft fighting in twos and threes, which is not only to test each other, but also to protect the last hundreds of satellites!
The brightest pearl of the galaxy has come to a crucial crossroads!
However, life still has to go on!
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Bei Haiyang, one of the many people in a megacity in northern China, drove his Hongqi electric car on the intricate overpasses of the city.
In his direction, he finally turned onto the Airport Expressway, which ended at the largest airport in Huaguo so far!
The profession of pilot has always been the most respected part of the huge professional system of modern life, with high salaries, mysterious, flying around, and making people yearn for it!
But now, it's a bit of a waning day.
Everyone has a dream of flying, but there are very few who can really realize this dream, and Bei Haiyang is lucky in this regard.
Twenty-six or seven years old, he has a persistent dream of flying since he was a child, and has been working hard for it; in the capital of China, the relatively special environment also gave him more opportunities, after graduating from the Civil Aviation College, he was assigned to Longteng Airlines, and began his flying life.
After several years of hard work, it has officially become an honorable ...... The co-pilot, or only flies domestic regional flights.
He has nothing to complain about, the road ahead is not bumpy, step by step, he will slowly accumulate experience in ten years, become the captain of domestic flights, and then start international flights, probably that's it, clear and unambiguous.
This is not his most ideal dream, relatively speaking, he prefers the speed of fighter jets, more exciting, and more able to challenge himself, but his physical condition is not up to the level of fighter piloting, so he has to retreat to the next best thing, and it is also a helpless choice.
They all fly, but one flies as agile as a harrier, and the other flies with a big belly......
Open the car window a little, let the deep winter breeze blow in, and wake up a slightly inexplicably low mood, this is not the emotion of him alone, but the emotion of all human beings!
It has nothing to do with one's own living situation! In the 22 nd century, the gap between the rich and the poor may still be widening, but in China, which is already highly urbanized, the national happiness index is no longer the same as that of a hundred years ago, and the population is stable, as long as you have hands and feet, you can always find your own happiness!
There is no question of survival.
As a pilot, he is still proud! But compared with a hundred years ago, there have been too many career latecomers, and relatively speaking, the career of a pilot is no longer high, and has gradually become mediocre.
It's just a relatively closed means of making a living.
But his mood is not because the glory of the pilot profession is not there, but because of a certain threat to all human beings!
I can't shake it off, I can't forget it, I can't forget it, it's useless to think about it......
It was a collision of civilizations, a clash of the collective wisdom of the entire human race and extraterritorial civilizations!
No one knows what the outcome will be? What started decades ago and what will happen in the future? Will it be a boiled frog in warm water, or will a catastrophe struck suddenly? Or will it slowly disappear and make a false alarm, as most human beings do?
No one can know!
It's not something that ordinary people can control, so there is wine today and drunk today!
In the Internet, there have also been countless conjectures about the end times, zombie aliens, the sky falling apart, and various literary descriptions!
But when the real danger came, everyone realized how unreliable those conjectures were!
What kind of poor imagination does it take to position itself in the realm of primitive man's response to natural disasters?
As a planet that is already close to a first-level planetary civilization, how can the rigorous system make it possible for human beings to lose control in an instant?
The collision of civilizations, coming quietly, unfolding quietly, heavy and depressing, while not affecting the lives of ordinary people too much, has pressed a boulder on the hearts of every adult!
What will the future hold? Rich or poor, this is a question that everyone will face!
A question where an individual simply can't make a choice!
Half an hour later, driving into the airport and parking in the special underground parking lot under the terminal, it took Bei Haiyang a quarter of an hour to walk to the navigation building; here, the entire crew will have a meeting meeting, the final confirmation of the route, and other messy content.
Even if he is far away from the departure hall, the vehicles coming in from all directions and the bustling crowd can make him feel the busyness of the airport!
As the capital of China and the largest international airport, the annual throughput here does not count the goods, and the number of people alone has already exceeded 300 million!
Especially when the future is uncertain, while the future is still calm, go out and have a look, instead of putting your savings in the bank and turning them into waste paper after the collision of civilizations, the travel industry has become the most prosperous industry in the 22nd century!
By the way, revive the aviation industry.
The terminal building is also very lively, you can imagine dozens of crew members preparing at the same time, divided into different rooms, there are also unspoken rules of high and low, international transoceanic flights, domestic intercity flights, and surrounding regional flights, there are fixed flight mission rooms.
As a newcomer to Bei Haiyang for a few years, he can only mix as a co-captain on regional flights to accumulate experience for his flight experience.
Push open the glass door, this is a large suite, different rooms are different units, some are quiet, some are noisy, for them this is just the style of different units, but there are no hard and fast rules!
When I came to the door of the D-2 room, I could hear the voice of the captain Wang Cannon inside before I entered the door, he was born in the Northeast and had a humorous personality, and the natural two-person factor flowed in the blood, especially in front of the beautiful flight attendants, he always played extraordinarily.
“…… It's not me who blows, our daughter-in-law in the northeast is very capable! I fly around in the sky, and it is common for me to be away from home for ten days and a half months, and my daughter-in-law is responsible for all the big and small things in the family alone!
One person does laundry, one person does housework, one person cooks, one person takes care of the baby, one person takes care of the elderly, and one person has to make his own money!"
looked at Bei Haiyang, who pushed the door in, although Huaguo has already relaxed the hukou restriction now, but the concept of region will always exist, and there is always a natural and unnatural ridicule of the people of the East China Sea who were born at the feet of the Son of Heaven, even if it is not malicious.
"Haiyang, can you daughters-in-law of the East China Sea do it?"
Bei Haiyang didn't think about it, but he was usually silent and low-key, but he had a poisonous tongue that seemed to be completely inconsistent with it.
"We, Donghai, like your daughter-in-law in our village, are called widows in us!"