Mars, the latest inhabitation of the Federation, is no more than a hundred years old.

On every vast plain above Mars, there is a super-large man-made ecosystem with a diameter of more than 10 kilometers. Each ecosystem is home to nearly 20 million people.

With 20 million people living in a 10-kilometer circle, the density of the population is unimaginable.

There are a hundred biospheres in total, each of which is simply numbered, from one to one hundred, each of a similar size, and the total population of Mars reaches two billion.

Ecosphere 98 is Emily's residence, and she began to take care of what she wanted to carry almost as soon as she got off the line.

To bring the clothes with her, Emily rushed to the edge of the plastic closet, opened it, and took out all the clothes inside. Each set of clothes was old, but she still folded them carefully, only to find that she had no suitcase, so she had to put it on the bed for the time being.

Turning around, Emily secretly screamed, 'Not good!' ’。

Her clothes were too dirty and old to see anyone, so she immediately changed into the best clean clothes.

There is no way, the water sources on Mars are all artificially made, and the hydrogen and oxygen elements are collected in space, and the cost of every drop of water is very high and cannot be wasted. Clothes or something, you can't wash them yourself, you have to take them to a small shop outside regularly to wash, they have a special dry cleaning machine.

With her clothes ready, Emily spun around like a headless fly in her small room of less than ten square meters, trying to see what else she had to bring.

But after turning around, she found that in addition to a few pieces of clothing, a small bed, and a contemplative helmet from the former captain Arthur, there were only a few scattered and worthless little household belongings left.

There are no brain stewards here. The houses are made of extremely strong polymer materials and then overlapped like building blocks.

There are no hovercars on the streets outside, and if you want to go out and walk, you can all rely on a pair of legs, and compared to the earth, this place is as backward as a primitive society.

It's not that the Federation can't make this place as advanced as Earth. But I don't want to, because there is no interest, building an ecosystem is purely to raise people, and I can live on it.

But such poor material conditions did not make Emily feel much, because she had long been accustomed to all this. Ninety-nine percent of the entire Martian ecosystem lives the same life as her.

"yes, I'm going to have to buy a box for clothes." The thought crossed Emily's head, but she was worried again.

Arthur, the former captain, said he would pay her a salary. But in fact, every time I find all kinds of excuses to withhold the light. Half a year later, she didn't get a single credit point, and like most people in the ecosystem, they live on federal benefits, and they basically don't need money, although they have opened accounts, most of them are short accounts, even if they are not available. There will also be no more than four digits of credits in the account.

Emily sighed and sat down again. Habitually looked at her e-wallet, this is a habit she has cultivated in the last six months, after each mission, she always expects Arthur to send some kind money, but every time she is disappointed.

But at this glance, her eyes suddenly widened. The number in the electronic account on the dial turned out to be not zero, but an extra one, followed by a lot of zeros, counting, there were four.

She had 10,000 more credits in her account!

What's going on?

Emily hurriedly checked the transfer history. It was quickly found out, just half an hour ago, the money was transferred from the account of the Thorn Rose Squad, and there was a message on the back of the record, clicked on, and a gentle male voice came out, with a simple sentence: "The pocket money advanced will be returned from the mission reward in the future." ”

Her eyes were a little moist, and her nose was sour, and Emily felt that the voice was unusually pleasant, and she couldn't help but listen to the repeated words over and over again, but the scene of the modern century unconsciously appeared in her mind.

At that time, the two of them worked together to transform the Vulcan ship, although the other party behaved very strongly, but the tone has always been like this, gentle, patient, and never a little impatient and tyrannical.

This man is so good. Be sure to work hard and never disappoint his expectations! Emily made up her mind.

I didn't buy the box either, I heard that the earth consumption is very high, and for the sake of the future, she has to save this money.

Emily found a rope, tied her clothes together, and carefully packed the Reflection Helmet into the box, the cheapest of the kind, bought for her by Arthur, and certainly not for free.

Then she sat at the window of the room, looking up at the sky, waiting, waiting for the starship from Earth to take her out of here.

After sitting like this for a long time, the starship did not appear, and Emily was not disappointed, because she knew that the starship did not arrive so soon.

Feeling hungry, I opened the door and walked down the narrow hallway. From here to the food collection point, it usually takes more than half an hour to walk.

The corridor is dimly lit, but you can meet people from time to time, everyone is familiar with the neighbors, and they all go to eat at this point in time, and they will chat a few words when they meet.

"Emily, going to dinner?"

"Well, what about you, Aunt Mara?"

"Me too. Let's do it together. ”

"Okay."

After a while, I ran into another acquaintance: "Emily, go to dinner?" ”

The questions are exactly the same.

"Well, let's do it together."

Two people turned into three, chatting casually, and a corner appeared in front of them, and there were several lines of red font on the corner that were very eye-catching.

"Brothers and sisters, unite!"

"Let those federal officials give us food delivery pipes, smart brains, and free distribution of Sigan helmets!"

"They're murdering! They don't give us hovercars, they make us waste all our time walking and eating in line, this is naked murder! ”

Aunt Mara looked at the handwriting in blood, and said disdainfully: "I think these people are idle, walking every day, how good, anyway, I'm quite satisfied, but if there is a smart brain to spend time, it would be better." ”

The brain is not widespread on Mars, and only about 1 in 10 people have it.

"Yes, yes." Many people echoed that at this time, there were already more than a dozen people who were on the way to eat.

The group walked for more than half an hour, and by the time they reached the food distribution point, thousands of people had gathered.

Several heavily armed intelligent robots are maintaining order, and thousands of people are lining up in an orderly manner, one by one waiting to get food to sustain their lives.

Normally, Emily would have to wait in line for at least half an hour, and she would spend nearly two hours for a meal, or six hours a day, which was really boring, but there was nothing else to kill time besides this.

"Alas, today is a nutritious paste again, when can you send glutinous rice and fragrant rice?" Someone whined.

"Definitely once a week. Wait, there will be. Someone laughed.

"It's so happy to hear that people on Earth can choose their own food."

Emily laughed when she heard this, she had the Sense of Feeling helmet that Arthur bought, and she could connect to the virtual network and know the situation on Earth.

The inhabitants of the earth can choose to choose, but they have to buy it with credit, most of them eat the same as them, and they have to face all kinds of temptations. Compared to a primitive and desireless life like Mars, I can't say which situation is better.

Thinking of this, she looked up at the sky again, hoping for a starship to appear above her head, and she was already desperate to leave this dreary, lifeless place.

As if in response to her desire, after a few minutes, someone suddenly shouted: "Look, the Federation is here, there are starships in the sky!" ”

"Hey, hey, such a beautiful starship, I haven't sat on it in my life."

"It's a rare sight."

"It's coming towards us."

Emily's heart was pounding, her face was flushed, and her eyes were shining with excitement, and she could feel that this must be the Thorn Rose man.

"Emily, what's wrong with you? If your face is so red, is it sick? Aunt Mara, who was beside her, asked strangely.

"It's because of the starship, auntie, it's coming at us." Emily's body trembled a little, and she was too excited.

"What's wrong with the starship? Those earthlings have eyes on their heads, and they are very proud, what does it have to do with us? Mara was dismissive, she had seen so many starships in her life, and she had never stopped.

As he spoke, the starship in the sky had already arrived nearby and began to descend slowly, and the starship's upper window opened, revealing a familiar face.

At this moment, Emily was extremely excited, she hugged Aunt Mara next door, and whispered, "Auntie, I'm leaving." ”

"Let's go, where are we going?"

"Earth!"

Needless to say, the starship was suspended at a height of ten meters, shooting out a transparent beam from the bottom

The rays of water, which is the Higgs force field.

Light enveloped Emily's body, lifting her up into the sky.

"I still have something to take." Emily was happy at first, then anxious.

"Go back and buy it again." There was a gentle voice coming down.

Emily was no longer entangled, and waved to Aunt Mara on the ground, "Auntie, I have a helmet in my room, give it to you." ”

Then she entered the starship, the bilge closed, accelerated, and left the biosphere.

Aunt Mara wiped her eyes: "I knew that this girl would be promising, which is really good." ”

Then she didn't get any more food, and ran back to her feet, and she was going to get her helmet, which she had heard was a great thing to relieve boredom.

In the starship, Sun Ran smiled and said: "Mars is actually nothing interesting, why don't you go back to Earth directly?" ”

No one has an opinion, except for the red desolate scene here, it is the ecosphere, and I get tired of seeing it at once.

The starship immediately rushed out of Mars and returned to the only blue planet in the solar system.

The three girls chatted with Emily and became familiar with each other, as they would become comrades-in-arms in the future.

Sun Ran began to look at the information about the Tang Empire that the Confucian world had passed on to him.

After a long time, he raised his head and said with a smile: "Datang, what a charming era. (To be continued......)