Prologue Chapter 2: What Should the Sea of Stars Do (1)
Time jumps to five hundred years later.
On October 1, 2129 A.D., the time of this day stops at 10:30 a.m. in the earth calendar.
"Damn it......" Wang Xingping wanted to change his position and continue to nap, obviously, he couldn't sleep anymore.
This bone transmission alarm clock is still the technology of the last century, and it made Wang Xingping's brain hurt early in the morning, and he secretly regretted his decision to buy this antique, and today is obviously the first day of the golden month, and it is really difficult to be woken up early in such a paid holiday in such a way, not to mention that it will be a few days before it dawns.
Naturally, now the word "paid" has nothing to do with Wang Xingping, since he came to this place on the earth, Wang Xingping has been "free" for more than half a year. However, Wang Xingping himself is not a little anxious, after all, at this time in China, the so-called "leisure" is just not enough yuan to do interstellar travel, and the last generation of Chinese people who have memories of hunger and deprivation have left this world for a century.
What's more, the news of interstellar travel enthusiasts who disappeared somewhere in the galaxy without knowing the severity of their lives has never been less in the past few decades, so he is not interested in it, after all, the word "travel friend" is one of the few terms that has been retained since the beginning of the last century and has not changed significantly, and sometimes Wang Xingping has to sigh at the literary attainments of his ancestors.
Since the beginning of the last century, the first man-made object flew out of the solar system, which is a very long memory for mankind, even though the life expectancy of human beings has been greatly improved thanks to the advancement of medicine, but in the face of war, life is still just a luxury for citizens outside of large countries such as China and the United States.
Sensing the change in the owner's vital signs in the room, the curtains were automatically closed, and the night outside the window was pitch black, and the dark sky reflected a piercing gray building, as well as a starry night sky. In the words of his ex-girlfriend, the city on the moon is nothing more than the countryside, although the time from Shanghai to the city of Queshan (note: Queshan is one of the names of the settlements that China developed for China on the moon according to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", in fact, the scale of Queshan is only slightly larger than the average county on the earth) is not slightly longer than to the rest of the earth, but. 'Countryside' has still become another Chinese character term about the worldview of Shanghainese that has not changed for hundreds of years.
Thinking of his ex-girlfriend, Wang Xingping seems to be a little disdainful, although his IQ plummets when he is in love, but there is no doubt that he is still reasonable, when his fiancée, or rather, under the instruction of his future mother-in-law, proposes to him the conditions required for marriage, these have nothing to do with him. Originally, he retired from the army and had some foundation, and these conditions were not completely unbearable for him, an outsider, but his natural uninhibited character finally ended this relationship of more than two years with his own hands, and he was indeed young.
Since then, the young man has been on the moon alone, and since the completion of the new survey, the situation on the moon has stabilized, originally it was coveted by various countries as a helium-3 mine, and 60 years ago, after China and the United States successively conquered the practical technology of solar furnaces, it gradually became an imperial outcast. Although only China and the United States have the ability to station troops on the moon at present, the situation on the moon still maintains a delicate balance, and it is not that European countries do not have relevant technology, but the political meaning of the stationing troops on the moon is obviously stronger than technology.
Eighty years ago, the world abandoned the Middle East, Europe gradually became an outcast, and China and the United States continued to monopolize the expansion of human civilization in the galaxy. Not only the Moon, but also Mars has already begun to develop.
"Bullshit," Wang Xingping still scoffs at the so-called era of galactic colonization, at least in the eyes of many people, so far, no intelligent life has been found in all the regions reached by human civilization in the galaxy, which is really a slap in the face.
The vast amount of resources has no positive meaning other than for politicians to squander, and although China is much more restrained than the United States in this regard, the debate about the significance of the era of space development still attacks the confidence of the citizens of the republic in the central government from time to time.
As a standard post-00s (born after 2100), Wang Xingping was born at the turn of the century in 2109, when his father was a participant in China's fifth-generation solar furnace project and his mother was teaching physics. When he was 13 years old, both his parents died in an accident. There are many theories about this accident, but in any case, Wang Xingping became an orphan, and what is even more tragic is the covetousness of relatives in the family over his parents' inheritance. His parents are not there, his grandfather and grandmother have long since died, in addition to lamenting the impermanence of the world, his greatest luck is the immediate help of his father's unit, so that he can avoid the embarrassment of life and be able to complete his studies and finally go to the army as an adult, Wang himself has some feelings for the army, although the Chinese army has not lost the tradition since the establishment of the army, although it is becoming less and less, but it still makes him have a sense of redemption.
Like the quilt he's folding right now, even if he sleeps until noon, these details are forever etched into his life.
The time was about the same, and breakfast was already warm.
3D printed artificial food is not an uncommon thing in this era, of course, delicious food has nothing to do with these foods, it is the exclusive welfare of another class, those foods that are still farmed and artificially cooked are completely hypocritical in Wang Xingping's eyes, but he can only complain a few times, which is the prerogative of the rich and officials.
Facts have proved that this kind of life of clothes to stretch out hands and food to open mouths is easy to make people bored, he is such a person, the government's guarantee period for the unemployed is two years, and now, Wang Xingping's time is still one and a half years left. He felt that he needed to do something, and that if he didn't, he might be "assigned" to the development team to Pluto, maybe for the rest of his life.
Wang Xingping always felt a little annoyed when he thought about these questions occasionally, but when he looked out the window, he would soon calm down, the three-layer vacuum glass could not block the desolate scene outside, although it was all in a dark shadow, he could still feel the pressure from the huge shadow of the earth. He habitually stretched his hand out of the window, but was blocked back by the glass, the building looked a little dilapidated fifty years ago, after all, this was only a cheap dormitory provided by the government, and he didn't even pay a penny of rent for it, and there was no need to hope for any proton to penetrate the curtain wall, not to mention that the safety of that kind of thing in the lunar environment still had some problems in Wang's opinion.
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Holograms appeared in front of him, and the scene could not have been more familiar, the square, the majestic music, and the portrait of the chairman on the castle tower. The procession of the masses must have been very long, there were 16 floats with the core portraits of the past dynasties, and he couldn't understand why it was the 22nd century, and some people liked to use the form of floats to express a mood, which was really a bit outdated. I have long heard on the Internet that the airspace over Beijing today is controlled by the Star Destroyers of the 38th Army, and even the sunlight has undergone special treatment before shining on the square.
The format is not much different from ten years ago, and the passing through the square is the Rocket Army's Dongfeng-9B railgun, whose predecessor, the Dongfeng-8, gained fame for destroying an asteroid that crashed into Earth over Kalimantan 25 years ago. Although the 9B Railgun is officially unveiled in public for the first time, his reputation has long spread in the solar system, although it is not very good.
Since the asteroid destruction, there have been subtle changes in the relationship between Indonesia and China, especially among the people. Although the meteorite did not cause a devastating blow to the earth, the downed debris was still scattered in the waters of Southeast Asia centered on Kalimantan Island, causing a large number of civilian casualties and subsequent radiation contamination.
As a prospective immigrant to the moon, facing the camera, he will feel that there is something that cannot be seen on the earth, as if the time of this military parade, it is already 11 o'clock in the morning, but he has just begun to display the equipment, which is obviously post-processed on-site information, and the purpose is self-evident.
Enjoying everything that the state has to offer, Wang Xingping is not very interested, he really does not have much resonance with the history that is to be shaped in the square, the sages of the founding of the country may be able to successfully predict what will happen in sixty years and deal with it, three sixty years later, obviously they do not want to know everything that happens here.
Perhaps the interstellar age is like the Age of Discovery, which has not been discovered in the history books, but humanity continues to reach the edge of the galaxy after all. Maybe, just maybe, Wang Xingping remembers a science fiction novel from the beginning of the last century that he read as a child, about the prophecy of intelligent life forms on the constitution of Centauri.
Boom...... Knock, knock, Wang Xingping is familiar with the sound of this knock on the door, in fact, in the twenty-second century, people who still maintain such traditional etiquette, I am afraid that in Zhaoyao Mountain (note: a district located in the eastern suburbs of Queshan City), no, maybe there is no second one in the entire Queshan City.
Opening the door, a thin man appeared in front of him, so thin that even the heavy fabric on his body could not make him look any stronger. Despite the implantation of artificial lenses, the apparently modified eyes still make it possible to detect problems with the man's eyesight.
The man had unpolished stubble, and the beads on his right wrist were incompatible with his atheist status. At 37 years old, it's hard to say if he's a true historian as he describes himself, and he's always emphasised the word "real." To be honest, the study of history is a thing that is rarely talked about anymore, after all, when a much larger stage suddenly unfolds in front of humanity at a breakneck speed, there are no longer too many people who focus on the past.
"I think you're in the house."