Surface of Coral Star, sequence epoch 93.

Under the sequence system, Base 344 is codenamed the Stainless Steel Corps, but in fact, the smell of rust is pervasive here. The high-decibel noise reverberates in the tunnels, and the people who live here have used the distance of this noise as a tool for positioning themselves in the dimly lit underground tunnels.

In the 60-meter-radius tank at the core of the base, hot steam from the ground is pushing a large piston large enough to block the crater. Tens of tons of gears click to convert the heat of steam in the earth's crust into mechanical energy, which is then converted into electrical energy through magnetic devices.

It's just that I came from the post-nano era, and then saw this rust-filled painting style, there was always a sense of sadness that had worked hard for decades and returned to the pre-liberation period.

The entire base has sufficient electricity, just like before the industrial age of the earth, Saudi Arabia and Maozi had a lot of cash. There is no local investment, and there is no advanced production population to use it, so it is used for pleasure and to direct foreign wars. Everything here is very low, and most of the 670,000 people who are attached to the base live in an environment full of cockroaches. Only 5 percent of the average resident has access to running water, and even the water supply in the pipes is often exposed to bacterial excesses, and the oligarchs have high standards of water purification systems. In the tunnels of civilian settlements, you can see sewage floating with various plastic products everywhere.

The disease did not spread on a large scale here, because artificial lymphatic implantation technology was widespread here, and every civilian would implant an artificial object in the clavicle that was no larger than the size of a chicken liver. Regularly inject nutrients into the small opening of the collarbone, and then stimulate the tissue with electricity, the tissue secretes super antibodies to stop the virus from multiplying in the body. This makes human body temperature generally high, and has a strong resistance to various viruses and bacteria, but the side effect is that high metabolism will reduce human life expectancy.

Of course, this system is not a panacea.

Seven years ago, a terrible plague broke out in several unwebbed human settlements, including the Rust Base, and many lives were harvested, and it is clear that viruses sometimes break through this artificial immune system.

For the ruling class: this small implant can save a lot of infrastructure such as residential housing, running water, and high-standard food supplies. The saint Lin Xi, who invented this product 720 years ago, is truly a great merit (irony), and this saint is a model of selfless dedication to the poor.

'Cough, phew', Zeyou spat on the rusty emblem of the Holy Maiden. Just as the saint who was born noble, she did not know that the kindness of her charity was exploited by social inertia and arrogance. The 'ignorant' phlegm of Zhou You is not spitting out the holy woman, but the group of people who set up the holy emblem.

At this time, the appearance of Zeyou is not very flattering, black and thin, covered with plastic film tarps, carrying a backpack, no different from the other little boys in the underground tunnel. Red blisters appeared on the skin, as well as scars, and hair was yellowish. And the teeth are also very irregular. Nasal discharge on the nose shows inflammation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.

It's been three years since you arrived at the Rust base, and the Celestial Tour has integrated into this base. In this heavily polluted, day-and-night base, Zeyou felt his mind, well, very sluggish. This is the 'blessing' brought by the damage to the carbon-based body.

Zhou You: "The saint from hundreds of years ago, I have information, was a follower of the last Adventist (female). Kindness, find goodness, rely on, rely on, find good people in the next civilization, and then save them. That's not how it works, kindness also needs to be saved. Instead of looking for psychological comfort and detachment. Born noble, relief of the poor, is to meet the lack of self-psychological comfort in the upper class of birth, the poor do not need a savior, need to struggle, need to be spontaneous. ”

Due to the deep environmental impact of the carbon-based body, the 'anger' of the universe is now deep, and honest people are starting to get angry, which is really hard to extinguish.

Behind the nomadic spirit is a deep disappointment with the world.

There are a total of 400 million people on Coral Star, but in the long course of development, a large number of ethnic groups have been divided. The contradictions are very complex. According to the previous experience of Zeus, it is to find the most upward group, lead it upward, and then open it to the outside world. Then spread enlightened, inclusive thinking to all ethnic groups. But almost all the ethnic groups on the earth are basically like the end of Persia, the end of Rome, and the Wei and Jin dynasties on the earth, and they are prosperous to the point of decay.

The space cannot find a suitable carrier.

……

The history of Coral Star is very bloated.

As early as 10,000 years ago, a highly civilized society had developed, and according to the records of the bell civilization, there were already technological products such as steam machinery and remote-controlled golems. But in the end, such a glorious civilization fell again, and finally the nation began to sink.

The current majority of the planet's population is a race of webbed humans with four-centimeter-long webbed toes and rough paws. But four thousand years ago, the civilization of the planet was dominated by pure terrestrial humans, which was closer to the humans of Saturn, and the soles of the feet were not flippers, and the humans with flippers were all fins that were forced to evolve by the main human beings in the shallow sea area.

And 4,000 years ago, the upper echelons of terrestrial humans were corrupted, the fringes rose, and then they were 'entered'.

They ceded the bustling industrial city to the peoples of the sea. Since then, it has been the finned humans who have dominated the civilization.

Of course, the webbed humans who entered the customs for the first time did not sit still, and for the next four thousand years, the fringe areas entered the customs again and again.

As for the original finless terrestrial humans, they have long lost their glory and have been marginal populations for a thousand years, and the current base owner population called stainless steel but rust is terrestrial humans.

Although the sequential war can regulate the attack of the various forces on the entire Coral Star against the swarm, it also intensifies the contradictions between the races.

……

Climbed along the steel pipe ladder along the exhaust outlet to the outside of the base, and then followed the cement ladder to the outside.

Walking along the trapezoidal concrete slope to the place where the sea was lapping, he kicked his shoes open, revealing his flipperless feet, and the white soles of his feet gently kicked the waves of the sea in all directions. Zhou You silently said: "The end of civilization. Then he scolded bitterly: "How many lessons do you owe here, the one I brought is worse than the other!" ”

……

The rust zone chosen by the tour is not simply feelings, but according to the theorem of social and humanistic development, when the social and humanistic evolution ends, the order will collapse on the periphery.

The Collapsed Humanities has very little discipline for the youth, and all the other base ruling machines are still efficient, and have a constant influence on the lower ordinary civilians, and this influence has made the teenagers there obsessed with it.

However, dominating the machine within the rust base is a complete failure.

Three years ago, Zeyo was infiltrated by a group of black workers in the Rust Base. This group was originally a group of traders who had been trained to drill holes in underground mines.

The old boss of the team was extremely vicious and stingy, reluctant to use intelligent machinery and equipment, and in order to achieve absolute domination, he often used water torture, whips, and cigarette butts to burn. After two months of obedience, he co-opted a small group and then used a blast to finish off the old boss completely.

There is no doubt that this is a crime, and the Celestial Tour was warned by the Matrix System.

But Zeusyo's answer to this is: "I'm here, the war has begun, and the world is no longer reasonable, so let all the contradictions unfold." ”

In the face of the matrix system, it was proposed: "The matrix authority is blocked, and the punishment is distributed on this planet." ”

Zhou You sneered: "In that case, I will have nothing, but I will still go on, and I will not be threatened like this." ”

In the eyes of the many celestial-level wisdom of the Bell Civilization, after the battle of the stars, the universe has had a glorious beginning on the road of wisdom, but in fact, it has gone through five lifetimes. There is a fundamental summary of the voyage. That is, pure, you don't have to be perfect, but you have to be pure.

If, one day, you are obsessed with the glory of Qi Tian and imprison your own rashness, then it is a pity for your true colors.

The threat of the Matrix System's distribution is a kind of final judgment for members of the average Bell Civilization (non-celestial-level). How did many civilizations come about? It's not that the level of humanity is not enough to promote the higher level civilization of the bell, and finally be sent to the artificial carbon-based biosphere planet to become mortal.

But – for the Celestial Tour, the end has happened countless times. Fang Xingxing stepped on that self, and came another hint. What a face it should be?

……

In the end, the matrix system failed to control the space travel.

Walked down the path that never appeared in the public celestial wisdom data of the Bell Civilization. It never appeared, which means that this path was very extreme in the old concept.

After Zhouyou killed the old boss, it does not mean that there is friendship and unity around him. This is an era without any legal principles, a world without a historical process, where the long-standing concept of justice cannot grow.

The young men who were complicit in Zhou You's side had a careful mind about the upper position. Well, this, Zeyo was expected from the beginning.

Regarding the malice pervading this world, Zhou You naturally said in his heart: "Come, do it, whoever instigates who is a puppy." ”

In the next year, the veterans (i.e., teenage children) who had done it with him a year ago were thrown out at every turn, or shot outright.

This is a very chilling behavior, so now there are no loyal people around Zhou You, but they are all looking at Zhou You with fearful eyes.

Of course, such an inhumane killing guarantees an absolutely fair distribution of food and water.

The drinking water and food of the tour are also open and unremarkable.

The origin of the oppressive thinking of the so-called superior was severely criticized by Zhouyou.

……

In the dark tunnel, after completing the food distribution, Zeyou went to his three-square-meter official document processing room.

A matrix screen appears in front of Zeyu, connecting the communication of another companion.

Fourteen kilometers away, in a mansion, leaning on the sofa, just picked up the red wine, Wei Shanqi saw the conversation screen flashing in front of him. Well, he's a little embarrassed.

In the face of the simplicity of the universe, his imitation of the decadent life seems to be very out of place.

The room where Wei Shanqi is now is not his own room.

The supreme leader of the rusty base, Crazy Fang, had a hole in his head at this time, and Death Fork Eight was lying on the floor tiles on the side, obviously Wei Shan Qi had just staged a coup d'état.

Wei Shanqi: "Ancestor, now Base 344 is already in our hands. ”

Zhou You, looking at the ceiling, smiled sarcastically: "In our hands? ”

Wei Shanqi paused: "Well, at least now, we are beginning to grasp the direction of its development." Wei Shanqi's coup d'état relied on collusion with many interest groups in the Rust Base, and after he took power, he had to compromise with these interest groups.

Zhou You sighed and nodded in approval, "Good job." ”

Wei Shanqi paused and said, "Senior, are you working too hard here?" ”

Zhou Youjian's eyebrows raised slightly: "This place suits me." Speaking of this, taking a deep breath, Zhou You laughed at himself slightly: "So far, I have become more and more difficult to tolerate here. If I go to you, I don't have much patience to handle the work. ”

Wei Shanqi was silent about this.

Zhou You asked slowly: "Wei Shanqi, from your point of view, am I getting more and more extreme." ”

Wei Shanqi: "The mean in this world can't solve the problem. All the solutions in the fog, when they first appeared, were extreme. But—"

Zhou You: "Huh? ”

Wei Shanqi: "However, there is a probability of making a mistake when taking the first step, and mistakes will bear a huge price. ”

When Zhou You heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said slowly: "That's right, I may be wrong, I hope you will remind me more in the future." ”

Wei Shan Qi paused and said, "Everyone is paying attention to you. ”

Zhou You shook his head: "Just because you pay attention doesn't mean that you are all qualified to remind me, only the ambition to solve problems together is qualified to remind me." The world does not need the attention of standing on the dry shore of almsgiving. ”

After Zhou You finished speaking, he looked at Weishan Qi with a smile.

Although it wasn't the first day I spent time with Zeyu. But at this time, Wei Shanqi felt something in his heart, which was a feeling that he hadn't felt for a long, long time.

He saluted slowly to the universe and responded very forcefully, "Great cause." ”

This kind of trust exists in the world. That's someone, or a group of people, who are going all out to do something, and they're going to include you in the process, and I'm sure you'll be able to do it too. Regardless of sacrifice, we are united with you.

Wei Shan Qi is still a man after all, he has a sense of touch for certain things in his genes, after he put down his arm, his gaze is very firm, he is the same as before, he doesn't know how long his state will last. But, he decided to go along.

……

95 years after the chronological era

A military commander named Wei Shan Qi accepted the management of the steel base. After coming to power, he did a lot of policies that compromised with the big powers.

However, among the many power policies, he promoted a policy on "education". Retired non-commissioned officers are rehired to undertake the education policy for all young people under the age of 20 in the base.

The outside world speculates that this is because Wei Shanqi felt that his power was unstable after he took the throne, and he wanted to cultivate the Shaozhuang faction to stabilize his position.

In the tens of thousands of years of history on Coral Star, the methods of power struggle have been performed countless times under the sun, and all kinds of means can find a correspondence.

In the cycle of almost infinite power struggles, people have long been accustomed to analyzing all power changes with a utilitarian mentality, rather than righteousness. Well, if anyone wants to analyze it from the general righteousness, it seems that everyone is naïve.

(End of chapter)