Chapter 1: The Secular Universe
"Perhaps, this is the true face of the universe!" Edward from the Old World sighed for the first time.
This is home number 286, and perhaps eternal wandering is all that "humans" have left behind in this universe.
Through the window of the "Polar Ocean" of the Northern Airlines, it can be clearly seen that this universe, which has been ruthlessly used, has been embarrassed.
The clusters are chaotic, and the planets are either scorching or icy and snowy, orbiting without orbit, and occasionally colliding violently.
You can't hear anything, but you can understand it by looking at it.
To a certain extent, this should be a kind of New World Axiom.
At the hands of the ignorant and insignificant group of human beings, how much life has been turned to ashes, and how many wars have been fought repeatedly.
But the axioms they believe in don't seem to want them to end there, and that's how they are.
In the contemporary understanding of the situation, there are no more than two of the most heinous and inextricable theories, all beginning with the Old World in 2031 AD.
The History of the Old World outlines that 2031 is the day of change.
According to calculations, it is speculated that in the near future, the parent sun of this galaxy will enter a dormant period. In order to survive the Ice Age, humans decided to build a virtual sun.
This idea, which seems impossible to succeed in contemporary times, has aroused many academic discussions.
In the midst of this mass, a large activist organization called the Doomsday Lonely Ship has published a theory that shocks all mankind - absolute conservation.
Their authoritative speaker said that with the current technology of human beings, combined with the integration statistics of logical development, the probability of success will always be 100%.
This so-called theory may seem absurd, but it plays a decisive role. Ninety-five percent of the discussants agreed that this was the absolute truth. It was later found out that these people were threatened.
Unexpected events occurred.
The Doomsday Lonely Ship once again released the news, they said: After 10 years of secret research, the planet code TP43 in the constellation Pojiang is a perfect terrestrial planet, and we will provide 100% free service for interested parties to follow them to investigate and rest through the Ice Age.
This news is even more suspicious. There are many free lunches in the world, but there are very few real ones, and only a few thousand people are selected to participate.
Before you know it, a simple incident has divided multiple positions, making people's minds confused.
In this world, there is always a right and wrong, and in the process of continuous development, a persuasive group has come out.
This group, called the New World, contacts the Worldwide Newspaper and media, and explains every bit of falsity of the Doomsday Lonely Ship, explaining that its organization will lead interested people into the Wandering Age and into the New World in the form of a spaceship.
Slowly, this is no longer the ordinary question of how to survive the Ice Age.
Now, it's a question of human survival. Human beings have found that the existing theories have failed, and the virtual sun theory and other similar theories have no reality at all.
The latest research has shown humanity that glaciers are not as easy as humans think.
The gravitational pull of the Sun slows down during dormancy, and it is no exaggeration to say that the gravitational pull of the Earth, and the entire solar system, will shrink to one-thirtieth of its original size.
In other words, at this stage, the pressure will increase by 5 times the current level, and human beings will not be able to survive normally.
Coupled with the imbalance of gravity, the Earth will face multiple large impacts, the atmosphere will shrink, and so to speak, everything will cease to exist.
Now that disaster has struck, there is only one chance. In a nutshell, the choice is simple: conservative or challenging.
The two positions are the old world adherents represented by Shen Depan and the new world advocates represented by Gong Yucheng and Rick Alonso. They are all high-ranking personnel of the Doomsday Ship and the New World Organization, respectively.
At that time, the United Nations drew up an official decision, which read as follows:
"The Choice of Human Society"
1. The Old World Project: Loyalty to Absolute Conservation; Believing in all the abilities of human beings, enter the stage of artificial solar tectonics (design, modeling, and manufacturing in one step). We hope that the public will consider carefully, and our joint ministry cannot guarantee its desirability.
2. New World Project: According to the New World Axiom, try to temporarily transfer humanity and explore indefinitely until there is a chance to move. Again, our Ministry cannot guarantee its desirability.
3. Glacier Project: According to the basic situation, our ministry fully guarantees that all the technologies developed in the world can correspond to what will happen, and in the next century, our economy may go back 50 years, but if there is the support of the masses, we will be able to tide over the difficulties.
Please log in to our official website within 7 working days and check one of them, and we will call all the population data that has been counted for IP address login statistics. If the timeout is not selected, the glacier plan will be checked by default.
This is a decision that concerns the fate of humanity, and we will carry out three plans at the same time on a voluntary basis, so please consider it again and again. ”
In the seven days since its launch, there has been a one-sided situation, with only 2 million people ticking Plan 1 and only 10,000 people ticking Plan 3.
This creates two situations. To the surprise of the United Nations departments, their budget was to abandon at least half of the population if Plan 2 were to be implemented, otherwise there would be a lack of resources.
On the other hand, the Doomsday Lonely Ship is very happy. In fact, the so-called absolute conservation theory is just a disguise. They have long understood that this civilization cannot continue, and they planned the "Doomsday Plan" as early as 3 years ago.
They tried to put the people who ticked Plan 1 in the artificial black hole space at the level of molecular structure cells, that is, the twisted chamber, and after completing the complete distortion of the cells, they combined with contemporary technology to awaken.
To put it bluntly, this is a hard and hard plan to bury alive. If you don't succeed, you will succeed.
Here's the hard part of the problem. According to the repeated calculations of the most elite scientific organization on the planet (impromptu by the United Nations), the number of people who must be discarded is about 4.3 billion.
This part of the people can only follow the arrangement. And how to decide this group, the United Nations uses the oldest lottery.
On the day of the lottery, people who committed suicide, squandered money, and overate filled the streets. At this time, the earth was only seven months away from the outbreak of the crisis.
This is a sight that the United Nations would never like to see. even hopes that they will fight and fight for it.
Everyone has only a 42% chance of surviving. Those who often give up on themselves are those who are ignorant of the world, while those who believe in the axioms of the new world always understand the equality and cruelty of this world.
4.3 billion people became martyrs without much effort, and their direction was, choosing Plan 2 or 3. At least it's a choice.
The History of the Old World does not go into details, but only summarizes the above.
But as we all know, the ending is that the New World Project was successfully implemented, and the Doomsday Project also miraculously successfully awakened three people, namely Acasandro Edward, Liu Enming and Julicada Bronis. Two of the three were normal, and the other was neurotime-lapse.
This year is 10570, and the members of the Northern Airlines Division are holding a slightly grand ceremony. This is the day they welcome their new chief scientist.
According to the regulations, when the new chief scientist is replaced, a joint meeting of the whole department shall be held.
The new chief is named Shen Xinghai, who is only 27 years old, and this is his first position.
According to the previous personnel qualifications, only eight or more ranks can be promoted, not to mention that this is just a hairy boy who has just graduated for a few years.
Everyone is obviously not optimistic about such a figure. There was a light of disdain in his expression.
Shen Xinghai never thought that he would give his first grand speech in the Beihai Hall of the Beihang Division: "Seniors... Hello friends. I know that it seems impossible for me to stand in this position today", and there was a lot of discussion at the bottom, "but, but the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, I hope you understand." ”
The speech was fast and concise. Edward, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Airlines Division, appreciated this confident young man very much.
Edward is known as "Mr. Chitose", and in his own words, he is no longer supposed to be a man of this world, but it turns out that the challenges of humanity transcend nature.
He hadn't had a day of peace since he woke up. or interviews, or looking for ways to survive, at first just a superficial celebrity, but in essence a poor ghost.
To say why he was able to change his fate and why he was able to become the commander-in-chief of the Beihang Division, in his own words, it is knowledge.
Fortunately, he happened to be a literate person, and when he entered the warp at the age of 21, he was in college, and he found this new world strange and ignorant......
"The History of the Old World" has also been very rough - "Edward, a life spanning thousands of years, had nowhere to go every day for three years, and was promoted to the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Airlines by the New World Federation for publishing some 'official undisclosed' ethics." ”
"Actually, after just a few words, it's unimaginable pain," Edward often replied when asked.
He, like Shen Xinghai, was successful in the midst of disapproval, having been in office for 43 years and exploring 4 worlds, 3 of which were adopted. It is the highest personal record in history. This probability of success is also one of the best.
He found Shen Xinghai after the ceremony.
"Hello, young man, welcome to Beihang Airlines!" Edward greeted Shen Xinghai through the language adapter, showing a kind smile.
"Hello, you are Mr. Edward, you have long admired the great name, I should call the chief." Shen Xinghai smiled and shook hands in return.
"You don't have to be so serious, you will be your own person in the future, but I like you to call me a teacher, after all, I have not been around for a long time, and I want to teach you something more."
"Okay sir, oh no, it's Mr. Edward." Shen Xinghai buried a respect in his heart.
"I heard that you're a little unaccustomed to coming here just the past two days?" Edward tactfully probing.
"No, everything went well. Merely.. No, nothing. Shen Xinghai still smiled.
"Young man, I know what you want to say, and if you want to solve a problem, you can ask me to learn from you, but in traditional etiquette, you have to go with me and have a glass of apprenticeship wine." Edward got straight to the point, and said in his ear.
Shen Xinghai had no choice but to nod and follow him curiously......