At the Galileo space station, Booker and his colleagues are celebrating his birthday with the earthlings via satellite transmission. Suddenly the signal was cut off and the space station lost contact. After searching anxiously for more than a month, the Galileo Space Research Center finally came to an unconfident conclusion: the space station may have been swept away by an inexplicable space storm.

So, what exactly happened to the space station? What about the experts who are doing scientific research on the space station?

Just as Booker was happily interacting with his daughter and wife at home in Cape Town via satellite, suddenly, a dark shadow covered the space station. Immediately after, the outer monitor suddenly lit up, and a lifeless desert picture of sand dunes everywhere appeared on the screen.

The sun was shining brightly outside, and it was clearly still in the solar system. So, where exactly is the space station? If it were Earth, the space station could not be without a signal. Could it be that the space station has reached other planets in the solar system?

"If you just stay on the space station like this, you're never going to get an answer," Booker said. ”

At this time, the temperature control system showed that the temperature outside was as high as more than 500 degrees. Even the sand dunes seemed to be set on fire, with flames rising from them. Everyone was frightened by what they saw, and no one answered. Probably over-nervous, and after a while all six people on the space station fell asleep groggily.

When Booker woke up, it was already evening outside, and the temperature had dropped to more than fifty degrees.

Booker half-jokingly and half-seriously said, "This is probably the best time to go out for a walk." Shall we go out and have a look? At the current rate, it is possible that the night will drop to more than 500 degrees below zero. ”

Experts and scholars on the space station come from different countries. We didn't get along for a long time, and we didn't know each other very well. Seeing that no one else answered, Booker carefully closed his mouth.

Dante joked, "Aren't we supposed to celebrate?" Celebrate our new students. You see, there's a lot of sunshine here, and the station's circulatory system is working well. Not only are we alive, but we have also come to mysterious places that humans have never set foot in. If everyone could talk, what if they all hummed? ”

"Uh-huh", "um-huh", "um-huh", "uh-huh" The other four people on the space station all made a simple, mechanical sound.

Booker took over and said, "We're probably going to have to deal with this planet for the rest of our lives." We are all engaged in scientific research. There is such a strange world for us to study, and it is estimated that we will live a very fulfilling life in the second half of our lives. ”

Dante and Booker's words eased everyone's nervousness. Booker again offered to go out and have a look. Everyone nodded silently. Dante told Booker to be careful. Booker turned and slipped into the space station exit passage and said, "Goodbye or not, we'll see in a moment." ”

There is a miniature plane at the front of the exit passage of the space station. Booker got into the fuselage and pressed a nearby electric door. The inner door of the passage closes, the outer door opens, and suddenly there is a motor sound, and the plane is sent out of the space station with a probe rod and spreads its wings.

Dante presses the launch button inside the space station. With a whistle, the plane was sent out. In everyone's attention, Booker flew the plane into the unknown sky.

Two hours later, Dante receives Booker's order to return. After a while, Booker piloted the miniature plane and returned to the space station through the docking baton.

As soon as he opened the hatch, Booker said incoherently excitedly, "Guess what I saw?" Ice! Ice! Water is the source of life, there was life here, or is there still life here, do you want to know? Let's unravel the mystery. ”

Booker's words caused a commotion in the space station. After some discussion, it was decided to move the space station to an area with ice and start work again. With their jobs, these top scientific research experts of mankind have finally "come to life".

In the days that followed, the space station successively moved more than 2,000 kilometers northward.

One early morning a month later, the space station was moored on the edge of a frozen sea. At dusk, as the ice receded, everyone saw through the monitor that the space station was parked on top of a north-south mountain range.

Dante steered the drone and flew in the direction of the receding water. An hour later, a city buried beneath a sea of ice was discovered by a drone. There was jubilation inside the space station.

As night falls, the temperature returns to what humans can bear. These experts and scholars from the earth, put on powered spacesuits and walked into this frozen city with great interest. After more than a year of exploration and research, they slowly uncovered all the secrets of the planet from its prosperity to its demise from a mountain-like reservoir......

As expected, this is a planet of the sun known as Mercury. As for whether it is the planet known to the earthlings, there is no way for everyone to know. All we know is that Mercury more than 2 billion years ago was a planet full of life with 70% of its surface covered by oceans. There is a continent of Yuno, which straddles the northern and southern hemispheres, and is the main land mass for the people here.

Mercury's oceans have a strange feature. The northern part of the country is calm and calm, and it is called the Quiet Sea. The southern part of the country is known as the Dead Sea or the Sea of Fury. Because across a boiling ocean. At first, Mercuryians don't know what's going on the other side of Mercury. Later, after the development of seafaring technology, the explorers bypassed the boiling Angry Sea and discovered a large land mass on the other side of Mercury. People named this land Exotic Continent. The area of the Exotic Continent is about one-tenth the size of the Yuno Continent.

When explorers discovered this land from the vast sea. There are countless people who yearn for freedom, with dreams, and flock here from all directions. The foreign land embraces human beings from different regions and different nationalities, and has become the epitome of Mercury's cultural integration.

On April 25, 4724, in the southern part of the continent of Youno, Professor Chuth of the Northern University of the Vanna Alliance, delivered a speech entitled "Mankind Should Develop Healthily under the Guidance of Great Wisdom" at a conference in honor of Moen, the greatest philosopher of mankind. In his speech, he emphasized the role of philosophers in social management, analyzed in detail the shortcomings of today's society, and pointed out the challenges that mankind is about to meet and the direction in which it should develop.

At the end of the speech, Professor Chuss said loudly: "After the problem of survival is solved, human beings should put the first goal of development on the study of life science, and we must attack in many ways to overcome the problem of immortality!" ”

After the lecture spread over the Internet, the Mercuryians mistakenly believed that the professor was trying to let the philosopher run the world and subvert Mercury's people and freedoms. For a time, the abuse against Chus on the Internet was overwhelming.

The scolding is better, saying that he is a platform for the impractical knowledge of philosophy, a clown jumping off the beam, and a pretending to be amazing. is not good, directly compare him with some Internet celebrities, and call him "the professor of so-and-so's sister".

At the end of the speech, as soon as he walked out of the venue, the professor was immediately surrounded by reporters.

A reporter humorously asked: "Professor, human beings are not even sure that they can be completely cured of such a minor disease as prostatic hypertrophy, let alone cancer and AIDS, do you think the direction you said is a reliable direction, and the goal you said is an achievable goal?" ”

The professor knew that it was difficult to reason with unreasonable people, and he didn't bother to answer such boring questions. As he walked, he asked rhetorically, "Are you a reporter in the entertainment era?" ”

The reporter didn't understand what the professor meant, and honestly replied, "I'm a reporter from the Health Times." ”

The professor said with a serious face, "Maybe you have a better future in a different job." ”

"This," the reporter asked with a blanket face, "you haven't answered my question yet?" ”

Someone in the crowd picked up and said, "Professor, you're such a funny scholar." But you really haven't answered his question yet! ”

"Funny isn't the best thing to say about a professor." The professor stopped, looked up at the man, and said, "Do you have to grow wings if you want to fly?" If you want to live forever, do you have to wait until you conquer cancer and AIDS? Perhaps, bypassing the two small stones of cancer and AIDS, the road of life will be wider and smoother? ”

A blonde reporter asked, "If people are still sick and die, how can they talk about immortality?" ”

"Even if people don't die of disease, there will still be death from freezing, starvation, war, and disaster, so don't you have to talk about immortality forever?"

Chus understands that it will be difficult to get out of this encirclement without seriously answering a few questions. He stood up and bravely chose to rise to the challenge.

A reporter asked: "Professor, do you really think that people can live forever?"

The professor replied: "Only with ideals can there be a future, and if human beings do not have the desire to fly, how can they build airplanes?!" ”

"But," the reporter chased after him, "everyone thinks about immortality, but thousands of years have passed, why don't we live to be a hundred years old?" ”

The professor said: "Thousands of years are very short in the long river of history, do you dare to predict what will happen in 10,000 years or even a million years from now? ”

The professor moistened his throat and said, "If we don't do what we could have done in a few hundred or even decades with hard work, because we are afraid of failure, what is the difference between dying of thirst and dying of thirst by the river without fish?" ”

"Thirsty to death by the river without fish" is an allusion to Mercury. It is about a child who was going through a poisonous forest, and his father told him that when he was thirsty, he should pick a river with fish to drink, and the water of a river without fish must be poisonous. Then the boy got lost and did not find a water source for three days. It is also the road of endless heaven, and when he was dying, he suddenly found a very small stream. He tried his best to climb to the stream, but he saw a swarm of tadpoles in the stream, but there was not a single small fish. The boy did not have the courage to drink the water from the stream after watching it for a long time, and finally died in hesitation.

A reporter said confidently: "People will eventually die, and all life will eventually escape the fate of death." This is the law of nature that cannot be violated. As a professor of history, don't you even have this common sense? ”

"Can humans live forever, as human beings standing at the top of the pyramid of life, if you don't explore this question, do you want other animals to tell us the answer?" Speaking of this, the professor said in an aggravated tone: "People will eventually die, and it is not an immutable law. Three hundred years ago, we thought that the rotation of the sun around Mercury was a natural law, and now do you still think so?! ”

There was a sudden silence all around, and no one asked the next question for a while. The professor took the opportunity to squeeze out the crowd and leave.

Suddenly, a voice shouted, "Sister Professor! There was a lot of laughter.

The professor stopped abruptly, scanning the crowd with a knife-like gaze looking for directions to speak. He felt humiliated.

Professors hate the kind of people who attract attention by doing tricks. He angrily said in the direction of his voice: "You sarcastically mock me like this, just like the cult slandered Brough in the first place. It's okay if you laugh at me, but your descendants will be ashamed of you! ”

- Browe was a great scientist who was persecuted by feudal ignorance.

Highlights of the venue, after being disseminated via the Internet. The professor's brilliant speech did not arouse people's interest, but the professor's angry eyes made a deep impression. Some people make it into memes and use it frequently in chats. Without paying attention, Chus became an Internet celebrity.

In the 47th century, although the Mercury society was developed in science and technology, under the constraints of the free economy, because of the excessive development of the financial market and the pursuit of material life, the waste of manpower and material resources was very serious. The wind of speculation has stirred up bubbles in the sky, and with the joint efforts of the whole society, they have merged and relied on each other, forming the most false and chaotic prosperity in human history.

People are working like crazy and having fun at the same time. The application and development of Internet technology has made it possible for all people to enjoy. Humans are playing while walking on the road, in a car, and even when they go to the toilet. There are often people who pay a heavy price for it.

At that time, the online world was still defined as a virtual world. Because there are no strict regulations, online behavior can be irresponsible. The darkest and most difficult side of human nature has been fully released and brought into play in the online world.

In this context, great wisdom is undoubtedly the public enemy of the whole society. It will affect the expansion of capitalists, the performance of politicians, and the mood of ordinary people who are busy and idle. Philosophy has become an almost forgotten discipline, neither valued by society nor accepted by the masses. Human society, on Mercury, which lacks great wisdom, is barbaric and squandering.