The earth is blue.

The socialists who held high the red flag left it to the capitalist groups of the blue camp and their followers. Set off on an expedition to the red Mars.

Of course, this statement is somewhat nonsensical, and the real reasons are complex. The Mars expedition is the result of a long-term game between the red and blue camps.

The red camp took this step, in fact, admitting that the number of steps in the early stage was too bad, and it was chased and intercepted by the blue camp in the later stage, which was difficult to perform.

At the same time, the blue camp letting the red camp go is also an acknowledgment that the red camp has the ability to die together.

This is also a delaying tactic for them, they think that the two sides can be separated from the dog's tooth state, and they can better free up their hands to give each other a heavy blow.

They always believe that the other party is not an opponent, and going to Mars is a strategically stinky chess.

Xu Changqing has seen the relevant history, and in the six years before and after, 1.6 billion people went on an expedition, involving almost all species and ethnic groups in the world.

The blue camp has achieved an unprecedented victory, while the red camp has been fighting on Mars for 40 years, and two generations have dedicated their youth to the red Gobi desert. For the rise of the Martian Republic, the foundation stone was laid.

The two sides did have a period of peace and quiet. The blue faction is busy with global integration, and there is a moon for them to play with.

The red camp was busy with hard work, and the cultivation nation was the main body, that is, the stone also had to squeeze out a few taels of oil, and Mars gradually prospered. The signs of brilliance are becoming clearer and clearer.

But the blue camp is the predatory nation as the main body, and the Europeans and Americans have played the role of raiders since their ancestors Viking, occupying Britain, destroying ancient Rome, the Crusades, Africa, the New World...... That's how it was snatched all the way.

In modern times, it looks more glamorous on the surface, but the core is still that, global looting, who breaks into the door without opening the door, or instigates the son of a loser to play the wall in the name of freedom......

When the oil and water for the internal raid are not enough, their eyes are once again set on the gradually thriving Mars, as well as the mining area of the space age, the asteroid belt.

From that moment on, the clouds of war began to gather and brew again.

After some time, the Republic of Mars was stopped from creating brilliance.

The rise of the refugee wave is similar to the Syrian refugees from the origin world who have gone to Europe for refuge, far away from the world, squatting at the gate of your house, watching them all starve to death?

The Republic of Mars knew that behind this wave of refugees was the Mars hidden by the Earth-Moon Federation, but it also had to swallow it. Not only because there are former relatives of the same species, but also because the full development of Mars does require a larger population.

However, compared with the Long March, the refugees have a white paper, which is mainly reflected in political authority, and those over 10 years old have no political authority for life, and only the next generation has it.

In addition, if you go against the tune, you will be driven away directly and sent back to the Earth-Moon Federation.

Naturally, there are a lot of grievances, hatreds, joys and sorrows. The Republic of Mars has indeed been held back. The Earth-Moon Federation took the opportunity to attack the asteroid belt and won many important points.

To do so is to break its promise, because the asteroid belt that met at the beginning was developed, which is not like this. Now I start to break all kinds of reasons, anyway, the occupation has become an established fact, we are digging hard, and the skin is slowly pulling with you.

The arms race with the Earth-Moon Federation started because of this, a large amount of resources were tilted towards armaments, and the planetary transformation plan was delayed again and again.

Since more than a decade ago, the contradictions between the red and blue camps have further escalated.

This is mainly due to the fact that the demand for the resources of the asteroid belt has increased significantly on both sides.

For the Earth-Moon Federation, the asteroid belt has become almost the only relatively good economic growth point. The Republic of Mars has completed the global basic layout, and to go to the next level, it needs a lot of resources for the needs of great development.

Xu Changqing didn't have much feeling about these histories.

What he doesn't understand is why in just 170 years, the total human population has soared from more than 7 billion to more than 40 billion.

Later, he thought about it, remembered some data, and understood. In 1900, the global population was 1.65 billion, in 1987 it was 5 billion, and in 2013, the global population exceeded 7 billion.

The invention of controlled nuclear fusion technology has ushered in a new period of development for mankind, with cheap energy further reducing the cost of industry and agriculture, and limited land can feed more people.

The advent of the space age has further alleviated the land problem. So another period of full-scale population expansion arrived, and it had its current scale.

He felt that human beings were really like a virus-like population, expanding every time against the red line of survival.

Like now, with the technology of this era, it is indeed difficult to feed such a large number of people.

As a result, quite a number of low-level people have not greatly improved their quality of life because of the arrival of the space age, they are still poor, hungry, or unguaranteed in terms of safety, medical care, etc., compared with the origin world, there is not much difference in nature.

Or, in other words, the problems are different, but the situation is just as serious. Humans living in the asteroid belt, including the Alpha Space Station, for a long time, have serious problems such as osteoporosis and muscle dysplasia caused by low gravity, as well as problems such as air and pure water.

On Earth, environmental problems are still commonplace, with problems such as lack of water, lack of clean water, lack of enough food, and so on in many places.

Then there are all kinds of shocking humanitarian crises.

Mars is a little better in these areas, but it also has other problems, such as the problems caused by the delay in planetary transformation. To put it simply, everyone is working hard, but the days are very hard, hope is ahead, but they can't arrive for a long time, knowing that it is the Earth and Moon Federation that is doing things, and they are very angry from top to bottom.

The hawks of the Republic of Mars have been raising their heads rapidly in recent years, and they are about to fight when they see this. But at this time, there is not much advantage in fighting, and even the blue camp wants to start a conventional war, because they can't get by anymore, and they need war to drive the economy and transfer contradictions.

As for justice and right and wrong, that's not what the media says and how the people listen?

Individuals are shrewd, and once they get together, they are often easy to become fools. The existence of words such as 'blind obedience' and 'foolishness' is the best footnote.

The Martians can't continue to farm with peace of mind, and the people in the asteroid belt don't like them.

Although the exploitation of the Earth-Moon Federation made them feel like slaves, it didn't mean that they didn't know that Martians were just hungry wolves, and they knew that if Mars wanted to prosper quickly, it needed to step on asteroids and carry human bones.

The situation is so bad, the Cold War has never completely ended, and mankind is still pulling each other forward, and the grievances and hatreds in it cannot be said for a few days and nights.

This kind of environment, except for making Xu Changqing deeply feel that his set of 'spiritual civilization can't keep up, the more developed the material civilization, the more civilization will perish' is accurate, and he has successfully installed a **, there is really nothing to say.

The castrated version of the Extreme Fourth Age human civilization may make up for the part of the history that is missing between the Fourth Age of the Extreme Realm from entering space to becoming a quasi-solar system civilization. This is the comprehensive sense that this so-called future earth gives him.

He was almost certain that it would be impossible to give birth to the soul variables he needed here. As for the bullshit variable that the Celestials needed, it was about some kind of foreign matter or energy, and he guessed that the Celestials might have felt that with that thing, they could go further.

Because of this, his main focus is on gathering anecdotes about what is happening in the stars, but the results are close to zero, and even if the valuable information is hidden in the vast sea of information, he cannot complete the sifting. He found that his social status, or rather the power he had, was simply not enough to obtain that valuable information.

He decided to work patiently on the Constantine for another year or two, and if he didn't get anything out of it, he would have to start by making trouble.

Specifically, when Chen Sheng Wu Guang, or Huang Chao Wang Mang, he doesn't care, anyway, it's all from the head.

He didn't care about instigating a group of hard-working people to fight for life and death, but in the end they ended up in a dead end.

The world looks like a piece of, he is a-stirring stick, even if he gets splashes and everyone says it stinks, he has no psychological pressure.

Xu Changqing, an anti-human and anti-social element, successfully pulled his new suitcase on the Constantine half a month later.

Wayne ran to thank him, and instead of taking credit, he told Wayne that the second mate, Nick, had given more.

During this vacation, there were some personnel changes on the Constantine, mainly because another of the company's operation ships, the Alexander, encountered space pirates, and the two sides fought.

Among the people who were transferred, the one most closely related to Xu Changqing was the captain and the medical assistant.

The captain of the Alexander was seriously wounded, and the company needed a respected veteran. And his medical assistant was promoted to the medical officer of the Alexander, and the reason behind it seems that the captain and medical assistant had a leg when they were on the Constantine.

After a series of transfers, the most interesting thing about the Constantine is that Laris, who has been promoted from first mate to captain, is an old bastard who is about to have a nervous breakdown.

It is said that as early as 20 years ago, Lariss was already a ruffian. But he is really good at controlling the ship, so although he is a bastard, no one can bring him down, and the company doesn't care who bullies who on the ship, they care more about the sailing profit, safety factor and so on than whether the crew is happy or not.

After the Constantine left the factory, Laris's was already on this ship, comparing qualifications and abilities, and only he was the most suitable to replace the captain.

As for his mental problems, it doesn't really matter whether he has it or not, what matters is the views of the relevant leaders of the company. The truth is, the company is willing to hand over the ship to a half-crazy guy.

Perhaps because of the positive motivation brought by the fulfillment of his long-cherished wish, not long after he set sail, Laris took the initiative to come to Xu Changqing, hoping that Xu Changqing would arrange an antidepressant treatment course for him or something. You must know that the last time I returned, I couldn't please this goods, and he was still in a hurry with you when he said too much.

Xu Changqing was very happy, and he realized that with the entry of Laris, the process of Constantine becoming a pawn of him had been greatly accelerated.

Yes, he didn't have a good heart from the beginning.

Those who came to him for medical treatment would become more and more dependent on his therapy until they were completely lame.

He didn't want to turn people into full-time puppets, but after completing the control, at least the Constantine was already militarized and elite from a personnel point of view.

So in the course of this voyage, the atmosphere on the Constantine began to change little by little.

Starting from the bottom people, the chess and card room gradually lost the hustle and bustle of the past, but the gym became more and more lively. Even Captain Laris, who was already running 60, joined in, and in the arm-wrestling activity, he won the third place in the ship.

In addition, the people at the bottom have become responsible and meticulous in their work, and they usually clean themselves up, and they have also carried out three rat extermination operations to kill all the rats on the ship.

In addition, these low-level people with complicated backgrounds and most of them bastards, with faith, cleared out a warehouse of supplies and turned it into a makeshift church for prayer. They also washed away the tattoos that used to be medals or personal marks for them, and they wore only one type of tattoo, a blue cross on the upper right arm, and a number underneath.

These actions gradually creeped some of the people on the ship. In the words of their time together, "It feels like being taken over by an invisible alien, and those guys are no longer alive." ”

The funniest thing is that this small group of people just regards Xu Changqing as one of them. A lot of their intelligence came from Xu Changqing, and they believed that it was Xu Changqing's work in place that temporarily pacified these monsters.

Now the greatest wish of these people is to end this voyage as soon as possible, go back and solve this strange incident once and for all, if these people cannot recover their nature, then either they will be transferred, or they will apply for transfer......

(End of chapter)