And so, it's been a hundred years since we set out from Riley......

On this day, several old friends were gathering in private, and the people sitting in the room were basically Zhang Yuan, Li Zhendong and Ye Kaifu and other first-generation astronauts who set off from the earth.

For high-level officials like Zhang Yuan, the hibernation and awakening time remains at about 3:1, while ordinary people are about 9:1. So the ten years that ordinary people feel are the 25 years that Zhang Yuan feels.

"Time is like flowing water. Speaking of which, I can still recall the time when I first set out from Earth...... It's a time trip with no return. ”

"How many years have it been now, 5576 years, almost 3500 years......

"Haha, in fact, I never remember the year, because I always confuse the era I am in!"

At this point, a strange sense of unreality suddenly arose in everyone's mind, that is, most of us here have lived for 3,500 years, even if most of the time is hibernating...... But after such a long time, it has come.

Even the departure of Kunlun Mountain has been more than 200 years.

The journey to the interstellar trading market is only a third of the way.

"And the interstellar trading market is only the first destination of Kunlun Mountain, there is a second, a third, and perhaps more ambitious goals behind it." Zhang Yuan couldn't help but feel excited, "What a great journey...... It will take several generations to complete the first interstellar journey! ”

"It's really exaggerated enough, the thousand-year-old Wang Ba didn't live so long!" Li Zhendong also shook his head in the back and joked: "Speaking of which, Lao Ye, Lao Zhang, I have retired, when are you going to retire?" When you're older, there's no need to hibernate for a long time......"

"Only when you are awake can you really live. If you go into hibernation, even if you live for 10,000 years, 100 million years, what's the point? It's just a matter of closing your eyes, and for so long in between, it's completely blank. ”

"Do you say me?" Ye Kaifu licked his lips, picked up the teacup and took a sip of water: "It should be soon, now that the body is quite healthy, I can hold on for a while." Reach the next planet, let the young people practice it, and you're basically ready to retire. Retirement life is also good. ”

As a great engineer in Kunlun Mountain, Ye Kaifu is mainly responsible for the exploitation of planetary resources, and this project is the top priority during the rectification and maintenance period of Kunlun Mountain. Without resource replenishment, it is impossible for the spacecraft to span a distance of several light years.

"Basically, that's what I'm going to do. When all the staff wake up, it is time to retire and hand over. Zhang Yuan nodded and said.

"It's good to be retired, retired, and finally able to live out your old age in peace. It's not suitable for hibernation now, and if all kinds of hibernation diseases come, it's simply painful! Li Zhendong rubbed his knee joints, I don't know why, sometimes I feel pain, according to the doctor's diagnosis, it is caused by old age and hibernation. The long-term pain made him want to change to a bionic learning leg.

"By the way, after a while, the two of us can go to the newly opened lawn park together to play golf, recuperate, and strive to live for a few more years, and we have to earn back the pension we paid."

Li Zhendong is trying his best to live a few more years, trying to gather the wool of the whole society......

Of course, allowing the elderly to enjoy their old age in peace is what a normal civilization should do, and the new civilization has been preparing for it for a long time.

In ancient human beings, there was once a saying that Qin Shi Huang gave an order to be buried alive at the age of sixty if he did not die. The reason for this is very ridiculous, it is actually disgusted that the old man has no ability to work, and he wastes the country's food in vain.

But this should be a rumor, and the historical data has not even found the matter of "burying alive", and it is the tradition of the Xia Kingdom to respect the old and love the young.

There is also the Yuan Dynasty, after the unification of the Central Plains, the implementation of a cruel high-pressure policy, not only divided the Central Plains people into several classes, but also adopted a policy of burying the elderly alive for sixty years, in order to achieve the purpose of humiliating the Han people and reducing the population.

Whether this is a rumor or not, no one knows.

All in all, a sound pension system is the cornerstone of social stability in the future.

The productivity of Kunlun Mountain is tens of thousands of times more than that of ancient times, and the pension system has also been perfected, and the entire civilization will usher in the first batch of about two or three hundred thousand people in the next few decades.

Zhang Yuan replied with a smile, "That's right, after arriving on the next planet, after handing over the work, I shouldn't hibernate anymore...... However, the whole handover process is not so easy, and it may take several years. ”

“…… Golf? It's such a boring activity, I'd rather go on a trip to the virtual world, or play regular sports like badminton. You should have a few more years to live, and you won't die halfway through, right? ”

"It's no problem to live another fifty years!" Li Zhendong patted his chest, lowered his head and took a sip of water, and said excitedly: "I want to plan my life for the next fifty years, I don't need to work hard now, this also feels too cool and relaxed......"

"I just want to lie in bed and sleep and brag about my achievements when I see young people......"

He lay down in his chair with a big grin, imagining the future and starting his usual braggart and fart.

This guy did the handover of retirement a few days ago, and he was very free all day long!

In fact, Zhang Yuan knew that Li Zhendong was just a little empty in his heart for a while, otherwise why would he often run to the research institute?

Even if Li Zhendong retires at an old age, he is a hundred times stronger than a young man who has just started!

But then again, giving up a place to talented young people is also a thing to do...... Although the peak of human intelligence can be maintained for a long time, the ability to create will always decrease with the decline of energy.

Zhang Yuan himself is also preparing for retirement.

Aging is indeed the most terrible enemy of mankind, and even if he has delayed it through long-term hibernation, it is only delayed.

In this case, if you forcibly hibernate, you are likely to wake up with a variety of comprehensive symptoms, such as amnesia, paralysis, and a large number of neuronal deaths.

Therefore, many of the elderly of their generation no longer hibernate, and after handing over their jobs, they will enjoy their old age in peace for decades. As for how the new civilization will develop in the future, it can only be left to the new generation of people to worry about.

"How many captains are there?"

Zhang Yuan said: "There are probably two or three good seeds......

There are many talents in the new civilization, and it is very easy to choose a successor, for example, Ye Junchang of the military department played a great role in the last interstellar war, and his command ability and military ability are beyond ordinary people, and his age is quite suitable.

There is also Dr. Li Cheng of the Secretariat, who has already been the deputy captain for a long time, and he is quite good at dealing with interpersonal problems and the familiarity of the spaceship.

Of course, if there is no special accident, the captain is also a high-ranking cadre in the scientific council.

A large number of important decisions are discussed and decided together, and the management of the middle and lower levels is based on big data AI, and this management model is gradually recognized by people.

"Then, the next planet is the focus of the succession of the new and old generations."