The mischievous child lit the fuse and ran to his parents, covering his ears and looking forward to the brilliant moment when the fireworks exploded.

People gathered in Union Square, laughing and waiting for the arrival of the New Year, everyone has already seen that this is a cosmic catastrophe, is an unavoidable disaster, rather than for their own mistakes to feel sorry for themselves, it is better to live in the present, feel the time with relatives and friends.

The collapse of the universe is non-uniform, non-homogeneous, and unstable, and in NC027, mankind has lost all communication between the two galaxies IC1101 and IC1166, and the alien civilization that was still communicating with the earth with the quantum channel the day before was completely destroyed in an instant.

In the video provided by the team, you can see the moment when the planet is swallowed: calm, cruel, and disappearing at the edge of the universe in just a moment. No explosions, no screams, the destruction of a civilization is complete.

Countless civilizations, whether they are old, backward, or tyrannical, are so insignificant in the face of the unknown universe.

So why not live in the moment? With this in mind, human beings have not stopped their lives and are moving towards a bound and abrupt end.

"Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Happy New Year!" The fireworks flew into the sky on time, lighting up Union Square as the clock struck midnight, and people danced to the music and enjoyed the night in the square. Children chase and fight, elders talk about the A.D. era, life is still in full swing on this planet where life and death are uncertain.

......

Jianzhou had locked herself in the basement for four days, and the smell of engine oil when Alisa pushed the door open made her quickly switch to fire mode - she just couldn't really feel the pungent smell.

As a prize for the Rising Star Achievement Award of the United Academy of Sciences, Alisa is equipped with a self-growing mind chip that can learn, remember, think, and speak with the help of tens of billions of nanodata networks.

Alisa understands that she is the first pure nano-based robot, but it will also be the last, and with the explosion of quantum technology, nano-spirit networks will become the standard in grassroots and middle-class mechanical societies, where people often use carbon fiber or basic metal materials to form their bodies; The developed quantum transportation and quantum communication technology will be applied to the high-level and even the joint political participation level of the mechanical society to promote the development of the self-derived generation of the mechanical society.

After Alisa was brought home by Chen Jianzhou, she was deeply loved by her wife, Chen Sheng. Jianzhou has been a scientific advisor and project leader all year round, and he has either traveled halfway around the world or even directly to the Celestial Coalition Government, or has been locked in a war room or observatory for several days and months. It is really comfortable to have a "person" to chat with him, and the mother-daughter friendship between Alisa and Chen Sheng was established in the days and months when Chen Jianzhou left home and never sleeped.

As she moved deeper into the basement, the concentration of oil in the air gradually increased, and Alisa couldn't help but tense, awakening the gas exchange system in the entire room, and speeding towards the bottom.

Walking into the room, Alisa saw Jianzhou sitting in front of the white laser interferometer space antenna constantly recording something, it was about AC3000, it was big and bulky, and it was equipped with 2048 groups of rod detectors and laser detectors to detect gravitational waves - no one cares about gravitational waves now, and the universe will return to nothingness in a few years, which is really good and evil - and next to the giant antenna, an oil tank the size of a water tank fell to the ground, and the oil was still bubbling out. Jianzhou continued to research and tinker as if he didn't realize it at all.

Alisa used the crane to remove her right arm, prop up the fuel tank, and turned her head to find Jianzhou looking at her.

"Dad." Alisa's expression system cut out an unpleasant emoji and put it on the display, "If such a big fuel tank collapses, don't say a word, the entire basement is polluted, and you don't have an adaptive helmet, breathing for a while will definitely be life-threatening." ”

Alisa changed her expression back to a normal digital animation, summoned a household robot to clean up, and climbed to Jianzhou's side with a superconducting scaffold, "Why did you come back to see this old antique?" Isn't this a signal receiving antenna, and it won't affect it if you put it in the basement? A machine-synthesized girl's voice echoed through the vast basement, and a tired smile spread across Jianzhou's face.

"Remember the first time humans tried to harvest antimatter?" Jianzhou pulled Alisa to his side and wiped the oil stains from her body.

"Dad, don't mention the kind of wrong command that costs an entire fleet," Alisa searched the database, straightened the rolled up nanocloth beside her, and said angrily, "Everyone knows that the spatial concussion caused by that regular cannon shot destroyed a steam civilization." ”

Jianzhou was stunned, obviously not expecting Alisa to look at the antimatter disaster with such a mentality, he cleared his throat, "That is indeed a mistake of human unilateral energy claim, the antimatter energy drawn by the positive cannon is completely beyond the estimation of all scientists, but that also teaches us a lot, doesn't it?"

"What is it, that humans are always insatiable?" Alisa cut out a piece of nanocloth and placed it on the display, blowing up a nanobubble with an electric current. "Don't forget that nearly 5,000 units in the fleet are mechanical citizens."

Chen Jianzhou looked at Alisa in front of him, she was a cyber adolescent girl, her nano body was glowing with pearl luster, and she could browse the global database in her head, but she was always unwilling to face the world with a mature heart.

"Yes, but that's not what I want to talk to you, you can leave the topic of criticizing human nature and discuss it with Sheng, my idea is that in our universe, energy is necessarily conserved, no matter in any frame of reference, in any system of time."

"But now that the universe has collapsed, every galaxy, every piece of antimatter has disappeared, it is so silent, so imbecile, there is no moment like a flower outside the window, there is no energy shock in the disaster, it is so silently gone, where did the energy in the universe go?"

"Finding a way out of energy, maybe we can prepare a Noah's Ark in advance to keep civilization alive."

"So you're going to run back and look at this big iron bump, trying to find the cosmic ripples that occur when the dying energy of the cosmic space oscillates?" Alisa blew the bubble.

"That's right."

"And what was the result?"

“......”

After a brief moment of silence, Alisa got up and prepared to leave.

"There will be results." Jianzhou just said that, not knowing whether he wanted to reassure Alisa or talk to himself.

Alisa turned her head, lifted the CNC protective cover on her right eye, and took a photo with a small lens, which was transmitted to Chen Jianzhou's bracelet.

"Look at how you've lived."

......

Looking at the back of Alisa leaving, Jianzhou switched the bracelet back to the data platform, and when he looked down, he found that the screen was switched to Liu Yao's big face, and he was so frightened that he trembled.

Liu Yao's hearty laughter penetrated from the end of the screen, wiped the tears from laughter, and lowered his head to ask the camera: "Science is fearless, huh?"

"Get out." Jianzhou cut the dialog box away, and was suddenly switched back again, "You bastards, do you have the legal consciousness to invade other people's privacy at will?"

"You're still talking about antimatter illegally, but we can all hear it." Liu Yao smirked.

The laws of the NC year are always lamented, and humanity's own sins do not allow humanity to discuss, Jianzhou thought.

"What are you looking for me to do?"

"Do something illegal."

"For example?"

"There may be a breakthrough in antimatter, and we need you."

“......”

Jianzhou is stopped.

"You won't necessarily be able to go home this time."

Jianzhou was speechless.

"Oh almost forgot, it's NC030, Happy New Year, scientist."

The dialog box closed by itself, Jianzhou looked at the space antenna beside him, turned off the power, and walked out of the basement.

Chen Sheng saw Jianzhou, didn't know what to do, stood in the living room and looked at him, Alisa heard the movement, also came down from upstairs, and looked at Chen Jianzhou who had just walked out of the basement and had unkempt hair.

Jianzhou stepped forward with a smile and kissed Chen Sheng's forehead and Alisa's display screen respectively, "Happy New Year, love you." ”

(Readers who have questions about the setting, world view, and other content of the work can go to the main episode to find answers.) )