Chapter 505: A Change of Times

The Spring Festival holiday has become a new cultural phenomenon. Due to the greatly extended life expectancy of human beings, there is a big year every ten years, the vacation period is about 30-40 days, most of the work will be stopped, and many recreational activities will be held during this period.

The rest are small years, and the holidays are about 10-15 days.

This year happens to be a big year, in the past, Zhang Yuan was only a small year, he would rather do experiments in the laboratory, and have little interest in participating in these activities, there are many people like him. But this year, the laboratory is also forced to take a holiday, so I have to rest.

Suddenly relaxed, there was a very "not cost-effective" feeling, and Zhang Yuan finally overcame this wonderful emotion.

"It's ...... Gluttonous snake applet? That's pretty good...... It's not bad to write this kind of program at such a young age. ”

Zhang Yuan saw a big screen in front of him, and a game of gluttonous snakes was being played.

The graphics are rudimentary, and the programs of the snake are very simple, and you can theoretically learn two-dimensional arrays, but you must know that the designers of these programs are only 9 years old......

Ahead there is also a fighting robot competition, all kinds of tall robots "jingle", passionate hand-to-hand combat, all kinds of parts flying around. This kind of competition is usually divided into two modes, one is the mutual fighting between artificial intelligence, and the other is the real knife and gun rely on the level and technology.

There is also a team game controlled by humans through remote VR software, a group of 5 robots, and there are messy things such as fighting creeps, leveling up, and pushing towers.

All in all, the winning group was able to get a large amount of prize money, attracted a large number of spectators, and it was quite lively to watch the robots fight at the sports site, with all kinds of parts crackling all over the floor, and everyone was cheering for their team.

Even if all kinds of hot weapons can kill these robots in seconds, everyone still likes to watch cold weapon fighting, and occasionally hot weapons have a cooldown time, which may be due to the instinct of advocating strength in human bones.

There is also a spaceship modeling competition in front of us, which is a competition in the university category.

In addition to this, what are the game competitions in the virtual world, esports, space movies, and much more. A variety of columns are launched during the Spring Festival holiday.

He is a person who likes to try new things, and while watching various competitions, he bought a pack of very strange purple beans, which tasted like crunchy chicken.

It is said that this alien plant called "Atlas" is rich in starch and is easier to digest, and can completely replace rice as a staple food for humans.

Even, just eating this bean can get all the nutrients that the body needs, including essential amino acids, various vitamins, proteins and other nutrients that the human body needs...... As a result, this alien bean has become an important food reserve inside the spacecraft, and in the event of an emergency, people can live very healthy even if they eat only beans......

Times may not seem to have changed as much as expected, but they are already very different from what they used to be.

Soon, the time of the day passed in such a hurry, and Zhang Yuan had a feeling of depravity......

The day, nothing was done, and then it passed.

Life is like this, and working and resting is the real life. In fact, life has no purpose, and the existence of civilization itself has no purpose.

Even if the future is bleak, life still has to go on. Do you cry and sigh all day long? Of course it is impossible.

Zhang Yuan suddenly understood, why did the various civilizations in the interstellar trading market want to fabricate a bubble of false progress, and who would want to destroy this happy scene?

Is it good for your civilization to burst this bubble?

Not really.

Blindly bursting the bubble, that high-spirited confidence, will immediately push their heads down, and they will certainly not be as happy as they are now.

Ordinary people always think that the government can do everything and solve all the difficulties, which is a good thing, but it is also a bad thing. It is very difficult to really recognize whether your civilization is progressing or not, and the information of this era is still exploding, and there is too much messy information.

Ordinary people, in fact, rely on social inertia to live in such a daze, even in the interstellar era.

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At 5 p.m., Zhang Yuan received a text message from a member of the small family beckoning him to dinner.

He quickly turned a corner and entered a Chinese restaurant.

Having said that, his old Zhang is now 67 years old, and his older brothers and sisters are older, almost 70 years old, and they have already stepped into the coffin with one foot in the past, but now they still look like young people.

The most bizarre thing is that many people are not looking for their life partners, and they are singles one by one.

Sister Hua Yun has a husband, who has also been with her for many years, and she uses a love chip, and she is the only one who has established a family.

Zhao Congcong's boyfriend has changed several times and has never registered his marriage. Married for less than 7 years, he is not even qualified to use the love chip.

and Lu Tao, who is a few days older than Zhang Yuan, doesn't know what he's doing, but he hasn't been in love...... He is 68 years old and has just found a robot girlfriend to satisfy his love life.

At the dinner table, people don't pay attention to these, they talk more about certain games, certain alien movies, the development of technology, and all kinds of news gossip and so on.

This is also a unique change of the times.

With the increase of lifespan, love becomes more and more unreliable, and the use of love chips can indeed enhance pleasure, forcibly bind two people, and finally transform into a more long-term family relationship. However, there are still a large number of singles among young people today.

The reasons for the birth of a large number of singles are complex: on the one hand, various robot companions are becoming more and more perfect; Second, there are many fewer people who write about love, and all kinds of TV series You Love Me and I Love You have disappeared and can only be found in the original database, and this kind of cultural output has decreased, so that girls are becoming more and more rational.

Everyone knows that the so-called love is nothing more than the product of surging hormones.

On the other hand, many young people prefer to constantly change their partners in pursuit of novelty. If you keep changing partners, the pleasure is actually similar to a love chip......

In fact, this phenomenon of constantly changing mates is a common phenomenon in biology called the "Coolidge effect", that is, the phenomenon of male animals mating and then mating with a new mate immediately after mating.

Most animals stop having sex for a period of time after mating, even when their original mate is around. This stage is called the sexual refractory period.

However, if a male animal is given a new object in heat after mating, his refractory period will be greatly shortened, and even the mating behavior will appear immediately and in high spirits.

Human beings cannot avoid this phenomenon, to give a simple example, many people have no feelings for their wives who have been married for several years, and they are very energetic towards other people's wives, even if other people's wives are not as good-looking as their own wives...... This is known as the "Coolidge effect".

The emergence of this strange phenomenon is mainly convenient in primitive times to increase the success rate of reproduction. However, in the interstellar era, it has become a point of instability in society.

Human beings are emotional animals, it is impossible to play and run, if there are a large number of such scumbags and scumbags, love killing, trapped by love, depression and other problems will increase significantly, causing social chaos.

In order to maintain social stability, the government has introduced a love whitelist system to encourage everyone to register when they fall in love, so as to prevent the phenomenon of scumbags and scumbags from cheating.

Zhang Yuan always feels that this social phenomenon is very strange, the love chip is much happier than messing around with relationships, and it can be installed as long as they get along for seven years...... But there are still many couples who can't do it.