Chapter 8 A Small Step Before the Decision That Determines the Fate of Mankind

You are my source of light and my radiation,

The distance can't stop me from thinking about you,

You ask me why I always have tears in my eyes when I face the deep night sky alone,

I turned my back to each other and was silent,

Most of the love in this world is unwanted,

No matter how many mountains and seas oath, no matter how many dreams haunt the soul,

can't withstand the ravages of that time,

Everything eventually becomes a cluster of nebulae.

As far as I'm to you,

Fragile and sad, small and pitiful,

The short life is more like a white horse, with a flick of a finger,

But you can always be incarnated,

Turned into wisps of rays,

Around my heart.

Yes! Take me away! Don't let me live like years on this cold, lonely earth.

This "Lightyear" is a single created by the girl group SSG, and the sales are acceptable. The original meaning of SSG is a solar system girl, and the lead singer is Lin Xuexi. Lin Xuexi was born as a child star, and she was shocked when she debuted, her amazing appearance was praised by netizens as a once-in-a-lifetime encounter, and the last girl who was so touted was Huang Tingting of SNH48, but the height that Lin Xuexi reached was beyond the reach of the latter.

Since founding SSG, Lin Xuexi has conquered the hearts of all fans around the world with her superb singing skills and beautiful voice, and has won almost all important music awards.

Lin Xuexi has amassed an astonishing fortune and countless fans, but she is very unhappy and never will. Busy shuttling through major music festivals and award ceremonies every day, as well as preparing concerts, giving interviews, and hiding from the paparazzi, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and she has been subjected to online violence, and the abuse and slander of netizens once made her think of suicide. Her parents only used her as a tool to make money, never caring, and often accused her of negligence in public, humiliated her, and did not care about the image of a jade girl she had built up with great difficulty, which made her very painful.

And her assistant Wen Xiu, who used to be her classmate in college and her best friend who talks about everything, has completely changed since she became her assistant, and her monthly schedule is full, with no entertainment time and holidays at all, daily press conferences and fan meetings, which overwhelm her, Wen Xiu even often arranges some old men's dinners for her, just because they are the bosses of major music platforms. In Wenxiu's words, it is: entertainment and holidays are the patent of out-of-fashion artists, and we don't need them.

And Lin Xuexi seems to be very strong and assertive on the surface, but in fact, she is a very cowardly girl and does not know how to refuse others. It's hard to imagine how helpless and pathetic she is in her heart every time she appears in front of everyone with radiance, and how depressed and tortured she endures in her heart.

This time, she still chose to escape, despite the opposition of her parents, the opposition of her friends, the opposition of her fans, and the opposition of everyone, and escaped from reality. Even though she knew that this crossing plan was not yet mature, she still wanted to flee, and she would flee until a thousand years later, without looking back.

To her surprise, Wen Xiu, her assistant, did not oppose her as fiercely as everyone else, but followed her and signed her name on the confidentiality agreement of Fermi.

And now, 557 years have passed since she stripped naked and stepped into that coffin-like rigid container, wondering if her future was about to end or start another, her parents, her relatives and friends, and the trolls and keyboard warriors who had maliciously left messages on her homepage and forums, all of which had been wiped out in the long river of history, and it was ridiculous to recall her poor and pathetic negative emotions at that time. What a life! It's not worth it.

Lin Xuexi hummed the song "Light Year", the mood seemed to be good, she stood in the archive room and put the clothes back on her body one by one, it was a set of business-style black suits, which set off her very shrewd and capable, changing her previous pure and classical image, this set of clothes was not her original set, but the base gave her the original style after 557. However, the long black waist-length hair with a deep magical elf color that has fascinated countless fans and fans is a little out of line with the theme.

Then she went to the main control room under the guidance of this senior AI, and made up for the current political and scientific developments that had fallen behind for more than 500 years.

Wow! Did they invent Achilles!

Wow! They built the Solar System Fleet!

Wow! They have built a space station near every planet in the solar system!

Wow! They have established bases on both the Moon, Mars and Europa!

"But...... Is that all? Is that all? I remember that controlled fusion was achieved before I fell asleep, and the technical difficulties of physics, chemistry and biology were all overcome by iron-based superconducting materials at room temperature, nanofibers, somatic cell cloning, quantum entanglement propagation, gravitational sharing, perfect rigid containers and absolute vacuum environments, and the industrialization of super metals. Isn't it natural to realize artificial intelligence, build spaceships, and colonize outer space? Are these people all idiots? More than 500 years have passed, and there has been no fundamental progress in basic science, and I thought I would see artificial wormholes and light-speed spaceships! What a disappointment. "Lin Xuexi is not only an excellent singer, but also an authentic science enthusiast, and the major achievements in the history of science and technology are like a treasure." What about Fermi? Are the labs all shut down? Have you only cared about selling batteries to make money for so many years? ”

Her tone suddenly became stern, as if she were really the president of Fermi, and as the first and only company she had invested in, she had poured a lot of enthusiasm into it, and she did not want the company's operations to become completely commercial.

"That's right, ma'am." The AI's voice without mood fluctuations makes it sound a little humble or arrogant, but it is no different from the previous voice, but Lin Xuexi's identity change makes him have this illusion. "Because Fermi played a crucial role in the rise of China, and at that time, Fermi had laboratories all over the world and research in various disciplines was at the world's leading level, which caused people from all walks of life to have varying degrees of worry and panic. Exploring a larger particle to accelerate a collider and cause space to collapse, or researching electromagnetic waves that can interfere with or invade human brain waves to control all of humanity, but these are all excuses, mainly because they fear that China will suppress them economically and militarily if it becomes more powerful. They have come forward to accuse and slander Fermi of conducting anti-social and anti-human secret experiments, and demand that Fermi disclose the results of the experiments and stop all kinds of illegal experiments. Under tremendous pressure from all walks of life and even within China, Fermi had to close its labs, lay off scientists, reduce the production of particle cells, and even keep the two bases of 'Exploration' and 'Crossing' to a minimum, just to ensure normal operation. For more than 200 years, organizations, groups, and individuals who showed an interest in cutting-edge technology or fundamental physics were suppressed from all sides. At that time, there was a kind of hedonism, or negativism, in society, they believed that since particle fusion was controllable, there was no need for human society to research new technology under the premise that energy would never be scarce, because that might lead to the collapse of particle space, chain dimensionality reduction reaction, human genetic mutation and alien technology coveting and other terrible disasters that could destroy human beings, and the development of human science and technology has reached an unprecedented peak, and human beings can live and reproduce peacefully and peacefully on the earth for generations. For these and other reasons, the progress of earth technology has been extremely slow or even stagnant since 2335 AD. ”

"See, once scientific research is married to politics, it will produce bitter fruits that are difficult for all mankind to swallow, and so-called democracy is another stumbling block that hinders the development of human society." Lin Xuexi's emotions seemed to be a little excited, "Are these people pigs?" Want to live forever on Earth? Life expectancy has increased, the population has increased, what about population density? And when the sun turns into a red giant, the earth will be destroyed as well, or do these guys think that 5 billion years is forever? The pitiful level of technology on the earth makes the aliens laugh and be generous, but they are still complacent and arrogant, what a ridiculous group of people! But fortunately, we have solved the problem of population density with war, and even if aliens come now, they will give up invading Earth because they find it boring to conquer. After Lin Xuexi woke up, she seemed to deliberately not want to repeat her previous life, and repeatedly used a pungent and sharp tone that she had never tried to say when she was an idol, and now she is in power, which makes her have a kind of pride in directing the country.

"In addition, ma'am, the company has not stopped secret experiments before the Great War, and the experimental base is here, because the 'exploration' and 'crossing' bases are the highest top secret of the country, so this is the safest. Under the instruction of Mr. Zou Dufeng, the company's chief consultant, the laboratory has developed a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, and you are now the acting president, with full authority to understand and use these weapons and equipment. AI seems to see that Lin Xuexi is very dissatisfied with Fermi's inaction over the years, and wastes no time in interjecting this sentence, it seems that it is already a very advanced electronic life, able to decide the content of the conversation according to the mood and tone changes of human beings, but there is still a huge gap compared with Achilles.

"Zou Dufeng? Doesn't he hate weapons the most? Why did they agree to develop weapons? As a shareholder of Fermi, Lin Xuexi is naturally no stranger to Zou Dufeng, and she even followed Zou Dufeng for an internship for a period of time. Zou Dufeng is one of the few people she sincerely respected in her previous 22 years of life, even if more than 500 years have passed today, the old man's voice and smile seem to still be in front of her eyes and ears, so that she dare not forget.

"I just hate war, not weapons. These are the original words of Mr. Zou Dufeng, and Mr. Zou Dufeng also said before he fell asleep: "Weapons are always the yardstick for testing the height reached by a civilization." It's hard to get an AI to imitate human speech.

"Wait a minute," Lin Xuexi seemed to feel that she had grasped the point of the matter, "You mean, Zou Dufeng is asleep?" He joined the Crossing Project? ”

"Yes, ma'am, Mr. Zou Dufeng's sleep time is two years and forty-one days later than yours, but his VIP privilege is not higher than yours, do you need to arrange for him to thaw first?"

"Nope! Don't thaw him! Lin Xuexi hurriedly shouted, "And those scientists, no matter what era they joined the crossing plan, don't thaw it first, they are the elite of mankind and the last hope of mankind, now the situation outside is unclear, we can't put all our eggs in one basket." ”

Thawing requires a lot of energy, and the backup energy may be enough for all the subjects here to sleep for a few more decades, but it can only wake up a small number of people if it is used to thaw.

"The top priority now is to figure out the situation outside, and to repair the main energy supply system, give me weapons and a vehicle, I want to go out and do these two things, and if I don't come back in a month, I will leave these people, this, this, and this, and continue to sleep, until one day I receive a higher order or the remaining energy is only enough to thaw them." Lin Xuexi used her slender and slender fingers to keep clicking on the main light curtain, and the names she called were all outstanding scientists of all ages, about a dozen people, and Zou Dufeng was also impressively listed.

"So, what about the rest of the test subjects? In particular, the subjects in the B7 container group are all rich and politicians from all generations. The AI felt that Lin Xuexi's order was not specific enough.

"If I can't come back in a month," Lin Xuexi said expressionlessly.

"Humane destruction."

"Yes, ma'am."