Time flies, a hundred years, in a hurry.

Jiangzhou.

The 1,404-meter-tall silver tower, which has been rebuilt decades later, is like a mountain piercing the sky, and there are countless skyscrapers under 700m in the city.

Only this Huateng building towers into the sky.

There is an unwritten rule here that no building shall exceed 700M except for Huateng Building.

In this long time, the city has been one of the top ten metropolises in China, but compared to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Tianjin, it can only rank sixth.

The Huayin Consortium rebuilt the Huateng Building here only to commemorate the mysterious number 1404, but also to highlight the special status of the Huayin Consortium in the city.

A century is a long time.

Today's Huayin Consortium has long been the only empire in the world, controlling the lives of 13 billion people, making the planet prosperous and peaceful.

At an altitude of 400KM directly above the Huateng Building, the magnificent Huateng Space City is maintained in far-earth orbit, and every day, at least 60 mining spacecraft fly out from here to collect mineral resources in the vast universe and maintain the operation of the Space City.

It is also a transit station to the Huateng Moon Base and Mars Base, an international aviation and material hub, and the world's first commercial international spaceport.

Even as technology continues to advance.

Xu Teng still has to rely more on a wheelchair in recent years, which can effectively relieve his joint pain, he can replace part of his cloned body, make himself younger, and also replace his mechanical body that will never be old.

He just didn't like it.

His office hasn't changed much.

In a four-season bamboo forest, he and Dr. Lu played Go.

For decades, Dr. Lu has always been so young, in his thirties, when playing chess with Xu Teng, he still has to deal with a large amount of data from the Huayin Consortium.

Every second, it has to make hundreds of thousands of decisions to ensure that the consortium is always operating optimally.

Human beings are small and important.

Fifty years ago, the international law on agents, adopted at the Geneva Conference in 2067, formally stipulated that the human world can only have 11 superagents, giving them the right to life, and they are given the right to live forever to maintain the operation of the world.

Dr. Lu's mission is to maintain the operation of the Huayin Consortium and Huateng Industrial Complex.

A young man enters the office.

He is actually not young, he is 45 years old, but like many people, he has the body and appearance of a 25-year-old.

He is Chen Haixing, one of Chen Jian's four great-grandsons and the smartest one, the new president of Huateng Company

"Director, the immigration spaceship to Thesis3 is ready, do you want to persuade the eldest lady again, she still insists on leading the team herself." Chen Haixing bowed slightly and told Xu Teng, the chairman of the board of directors, an elder at the level of a great ancestor, about the situation.

"Let her go, young people always have to have some great ambitions, we have spent half a century looking for traces of the Thesis civilization, except for those ruins that are millions of years old, there is almost no gain, maybe on the planet Thesis3, we can find some new breakthroughs." Xu Teng controlled his wheelchair with his mind, left the chessboard, and headed out of the office.

"Would you like to see her again before she boarded the ship?" Of course, Chen Haixing hoped that the eldest lady would stay in Jiangzhou and stay on this planet, and the two grew up together since childhood, and they were very deeply bound.

"We have been talking about it for a long time yesterday, don't bother her anymore, let her prepare for the voyage with peace of mind." Xu Teng thought for a while and instructed Chen Haixing, "You go and prepare some flowers, I want to go to Zilongshan Cemetery." ”

"Okay."

Xu Teng took the first step to go to the exclusive elevator, and slowly slid down, his elevator speed was very slow, and it took about a few minutes to return downstairs from the office.

Because he doesn't have much to do, life is always going slowly.

Many times, he would be quietly watching the city from the elevator.

In this city, there are not many places he is familiar with, even if he has always lived here, in the depths of his memory, the place where he reads, and the place where he falls in love, have slowly disappeared.

Only the Purple Dragon Mountain Cemetery, which will never change, keeps increasing his old friends and old friends, leaving only the middle position waiting for him to be buried in the ground.

From this point of view.

He is still very strong, and he is lucky to live to the heyday of the gene technology revolution, and his life has been improved again and again, so that he can live longer again and again.

According to the current technology, he can even continue to live for hundreds of years, constantly using genetic technology to repair the senescent cells in the body, which is actually a kind of clone transplantation treatment, using the cells of the clone to continuously maintain his own survival.

It's just that it is more morally in line with human ethics, and there is no need to directly create clones, and it is itself an incubator for clones.

Perhaps, for hundreds of years, the continuous progress of technology will make mankind completely immortal.

What kind of world will it be, we can already see the clues, the population is increasing, the urban buildings are getting taller and larger, and 95% of the work is done by the intelligent machinery industry.

Dr. Lu's Huateng industrial complex can basically sustain the daily needs of more than 7 billion people, and the breakthrough of nuclear fusion technology and the unlimited use of energy have brought the whole world into a new era.

Within the framework of the law, you can do anything.

In the basic human rights protection system, you can enjoy good benefits from the moment you are born, and you do not have to worry about the quality of life throughout your life, such as food, housing, education, and medical care.

If you want to get more, you still have to find a way to get into the job, however, this kind of work is always demanding.

It takes humans roughly decades to learn before they can find a suitable job.

The number of artists is innumerable, and almost one-third of them work in the arts and sports.

Even so, the world is still not perfect, military conflicts and violence are endless, there are still many backward countries and regions, and blind superstitious religious ideas are still constantly distorting the world.

This is what human beings can never be perfect.

Even if you give them free electricity and food, they still want more, they want to live like people in other areas.

A lot of times, you can't be reasonable.

That's what humans are.

Xu Teng had given up reasoning with humans many years ago, and he didn't even have to spend much time dealing with the affairs of the consortium, and he had a lot of time every day to get along with his family.

In the past century, after Charlie's burial, he still had a new wife, but no new children, because neither he nor his wife were young, and they just lived by taking care of each other.

It's like a fate in the dark.

She is a girl from the Gu family, who has been his secretary and has taken care of his life for more than ten years.

He also has a daughter and two sons in this world, and they all have their own families, one lives in the United Kingdom, the other lives in the United States, and only the eldest daughter has been living in Jiangzhou and will visit him once a week.

He has many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and every year on his birthday, he gathers in Jiangzhou from all over the world to celebrate his birthday.

Except for these family members, Xu Teng has no friends in this world.

That year, the friends of that month had been buried there one after another waiting for him, and he didn't know how long he would have to wait.

Xia Li, Mei Jiali, Chen Jian, Gu Chen, Zhao Pu, Gu Xueli, Jiang Yingyu, Yu Suyun, Han Dai, Meng Xiaomeng, Song Yuanyuan, Su Wan, Liu Junsheng, Luo Yujuan, Chen Zhen, Zhu Peipei, Liu Huiling, Xing Huiyun, Qi Xiaopeng, Yan Xiaoqing...... Everybody's gone.

In addition to Xu Teng, the longest-lived person is Liu Junsheng, which is very interesting because both of them happen to have DOT4-specific genes, which allow them to be abnormally anti-aging by combining with the Thesis genome.

Even so, Liu Junsheng voluntarily gave up the new treatment more than ten years ago.

He said that we are so old that we should not be kept waiting too long.

Xu Teng still insists on living, in his heart, if he also dies, who will remember the Seven Knots of Danguiyuan and those things under Nightingale Mountain, he must continue to live.

Because all of them are still alive in his life, in his memory.

At the foot of Zilong Mountain.

In this Zilong Mountain Forest Cemetery belonging to the Huateng Foundation, everyone in Xu Teng's life is buried, and every time he comes, he will bring thousands of Weizhou chrysanthemums, one by one to these people who sleep here.

Today.

He went to see Chen Zhixin, the founder of Huateng Automobile Group Company, who was first buried here.

How many people still remember this gentleman?

Today's Huateng Automobile Group Co., Ltd. is still the world's largest manufacturer of transportation vehicles, controlling 50% of the world's intelligent vehicle operations, there are very few internal combustion engine cars, as early as 40 years ago, electromagnetic vehicles were widely used, suspended on the track, can also be driven close to the ground.

Next to Chen Zhixin and his wife, it was the tombstone of Li Daxiao and his wife.

Not many people can now remember Huaxia Financial Group, which was replaced by China Europe United Banking Group, a global financial group after the merger of Huaxia Financial Group and Intertrust Group.

Every former friend.

Xu Teng will leave a chrysanthemum to commemorate that period of history and thank them for meeting in life.

Chen Haixing followed behind him and accompanied the elder.

Chen Haixing has never seen more than half of the people who are buried here, and when he was born, these people have been buried here.

"Starfish, do you know how many funerals I've attended?" In front of Xia Li's tombstone, Xu Teng had some lonely and sad waves floating in his heart.

"I don't know."

"4307 times." Xu Teng sighed, "This is all my friends in my life, some have a good relationship, some have a bad relationship, and some can only meet occasionally to talk about something, no matter what, they are all gone." When I was young, I read a book about a martial arts master whose whole family was killed, he hid in the mountains and practiced hard for decades, and when he felt that he should be invincible in the world, he ran out to take revenge, and as a result, his enemy family had already died. ”

"You told me about this, and I went to see that martial arts book on purpose, but I think the chairman was already invincible before those people died, right?" After Chen Haixing's parents divorced, they neglected to discipline him, and they stayed by Xu Teng's side to raise him when he was very young, and he was also the last child that Xu Teng personally took care of.

Because of such a relationship, outside the company, Chen Haixing occasionally says something quite playful.

Young people.

"Perhaps." Xu Teng just laughed, in fact, over the years, the four most important people in his life are his second wife Gu Xiaowan, Chen Haixing, Dr. Lu, and the eldest lady of his family, his youngest granddaughter, the youngest girl among the third-generation heirs of the Xu family.

Xu Teng thinks about it now, and he doesn't know why he gave this girl the name "Xu Tianjiao" at that time, but her heart is really higher than the sky, she always wants to do big things, and she has caused a lot of trouble.

After stumbling along the way, at the age of fifty, he has finally matured and grown into a top expert in the field of space exploration, and one of the best space fleet commanders in the world at present.

This girl's life is destined to be very long, she has undergone the third generation of embryonic gene technology before birth, and perfectly has the 7 sequences of the Thesis genome, with strong telepathic ability, extraordinary memory and critical thinking ability.

Her genetic self-repair ability is about 7 times that of Xu Teng's generation, which means that even without using gene cell replacement technology, she can easily live to 140 years old.

If she insists on using the latest gene-cell replacement technology, she will probably be able to maintain herself in the same state as she is 27 years old for hundreds of years to come.

Although this is the most expensive medical technology, her surname is Xu, and she will never care about money.

She just wants to explore the universe infinitely, set off towards the farthest galaxy, looking for traces of the Thesis civilization, she has a speculation, and only told Xu Teng yesterday that according to her archaeological research, the Thesis ancients were the earliest intelligent life in the nearby universe thousands of light years.

They actively migrated to another universe in order to leave this universe to the developing Earth, but they will definitely still leave clues waiting for humans to join them.

How big the universe is, and how lonely they are.

Earthlings are also so lonely.

In addition to the Thesis Ancients, her team has also encountered a number of other galactic civilizations in the past few decades of exploration, all of which are derived from the Thesis Ancients just like humans.

No one knows how many years it will take the earthlings to reach the heights of the Thesis civilization hundreds of millions of years ago.

The three Thesis civilization sites discovered by mankind so far are only guarded fortresses left by the Thesis ancients, and the scale is very small, and from the current point of view, the Thesis ancients reached the level of immortality about hundreds of millions of years ago.

Eternal life is both beautiful and terrible.

Xu Teng has only lived for more than a century, and he is already very tired, so he has to seek the support of Taoist culture, live a simple life of retreat, make time meaningless, just live simply and simply, and feel the Tao of self and heaven and earth in a quiet and far-reaching state of mind.

He's also exploring.

He can also feel that with the continuous progress of science and technology, human civilization will also enter a new era, in which new changes will occur in culture and thought.

To some extent, the Chinese are fortunate to have this kind of culture naturally in the long river of Chinese history, and this kind of thinking can naturally transition to an era of near immortality.

Is it really just luck?

Based on the many clues that are known, I am afraid that this is not the case.

On Thesis1 planet, the Huateng Foundation has discovered the phoenix symbol, which is exactly the same as the phoenix in Chinese culture.

This is definitely no coincidence.

It's getting late.

Xu Teng gave all his old friends the Weishan chrysanthemum in the Zilong Mountain Cemetery, rested at Zilong Villa at night, and the next morning, thinking of the Huayin Explorer 17 spaceship, even if he flew to the planet Thesis3 at this time, he could no longer sleep.

When he got up, he found a man standing in front of the bedroom window.

A youth.

He initially thought it was Chen Haixing, but soon realized that it was not Chen Haixing, and that it was a complete stranger.

"Who are you?" Xu Teng was very strange, for so many years, he had not encountered such a strange thing, and a person could enter his room silently.

"I am the answer to all your questions, the last phoenix on earth, and you call us the Thesis Ancients." The stranger turned around and looked at Xu Teng, "120 years ago, I gave you and your parents memories of the future, that is my ability. Just as your granddaughter has telepathic abilities, different phoenixes have different abilities. I have chosen you, and I hope you travel to the planet Thesis3, where you can find the final answer. ”

"Xu, perhaps, you think you are already very old, but believe me, your path has just begun, and the universe is so vast that we can live with it forever." The stranger raised his hand and pointed lightly at Xu Teng.

A crimson lightning bolt gushed out from the stranger's fingertips, forming a sun-like force field around Xu Teng's side, making him burn and be reborn in the flames.

……

Thank you all for your companionship all the way, and let's wait for the new book.