Chapter 42: Inside the Space City
Not long after the image stood still in the sky, the voice rang out again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"For those who have never been here, I'm in the space city where I'm now, and now the camera is a simulated sky in the space city, how about it, it's very similar to the real sky." Then the screen moved a little distance, and then the man continued to introduce, "Space City is a collection of hundreds of space stations, and its entire construction process took a huge amount of manpower and material resources of the country, and it took a hundred years (local time) to complete the construction. This space city is the crystallization of the wisdom of its predecessors and represents the highest technological level of the country. Now, it has been nearly 50 years since the construction of the Space City, and in these 50 years, it has promoted the development of our country's industry, science and technology, and at the same time slightly alleviated the growing population crisis on the ground. And our attitude has changed from opposition at the beginning, to familiarity later, and now we have even regarded this space city as one of the territories of our country, which has been with us for a long time. In the future, this space city may have to accompany us for a longer time, which is not only a huge wealth left to us by our predecessors, but also a precious heritage that we want to leave to future generations, so I hope that everyone who lives in the space city will protect this space city well, this is our common home. ”
Coughing twice, the voice continued: "The predecessor of the Space City was an experimental space station, and at the beginning, the space station was only less than 100 meters long, and the internal space was very narrow, only enough to accommodate nine astronauts to live and work on it. With the needs of scientific research, the space station has been continuously expanded, and more and more people are working in it, until it reaches the upper limit of mass that can stay in orbit stably, and the number of people that can accommodate it has reached nearly 100, but even this still cannot meet the domestic demand. ”
"In order to meet the growing demand, there is an idea of not having to connect all the modules together, they want to connect several modules together to form a small independent space station, and then deploy multiple of these independent small space stations in space, so that the mass cannot exceed the upper limit, but also continue to expand our space space. In the end, some people simply thought of arranging these small space stations in a fixed area, which not only facilitated the communication between the space stations, but also avoided the trouble caused by the space station being too large, and this idea is the prototype of our current space city. ”
"As this plan continued to be optimized, several large and small space stations began to be built around the original space station, and I don't know when, some people began to call this space station cluster 'Space City', and this plan was naturally called the 'Space City Project'. Of course, it was a bit ridiculous to call it 'Space City' when there were only a few space stations in the beginning, but as the program progressed, more and more space stations were deployed in the area until it reached its current size, and what was originally jokingly called 'Space City' has become the real space city it is today. ”
"In the beginning, the space station was only visited by professionally trained astronauts, and it can be said that everyone who has the privilege of working on the space station is one in a hundred. However, with the expansion of the space station cluster, there are more and more other professionals needed in it, and the model of training a few elites in a few years can no longer meet the needs of the explosive growth of the space station, so the country finally relaxed the restrictions and began to recruit professionals required by various space stations from the society. Although the restrictions on enrollment at that time were extremely strict, at least ordinary people also had the opportunity to go to the space station, with the gradual growth of the number of space stations, this restriction is getting wider and wider, and in the end, as long as an ordinary person wants to work in the space city, he can be directly released, and even the country has opened the space city tourism service, so that ordinary people also have the opportunity to come here to see the style of this space city. ”
After a brief introduction to the history of Space City, the screen began to move down, and the familiar round face reappeared in the camera, "Now let me take those friends who have never seen Space City to see what it is like, of course, this is just a stopby, the main purpose is to investigate the topic I mentioned earlier." ”
The camera began to turn around, and at the beginning of the video, Zhou Xin was very concerned about the surrounding environment, and now he could see it more clearly. The location of this person is a place similar to a square, and in the middle of the square, that is, where the person is now, is a walkway that is only about two meters wide and runs through the entire square. At first glance, this walkway is very straight, and it is paved with one-meter-square floor tiles with patterns of unknown material. When the camera moved to both ends, Zhou Xin estimated that the length of this walkway should be close to 100 meters, which can imagine how huge this space station is. There seemed to be other cabins connected to the end of the walkway, but now the metal doors at both ends were tightly closed, so Zhou Xin didn't know what was behind it.
The camera continues to rotate, and on both sides of the aisle, there are compartments separated by transparent materials, none of which are too large, the small ones may be just over two meters wide, and the large ones are no more than five meters. One by one, they were closely arranged, and with the exception of one or two small aisles, which were inconspicuous, the entire aisle was almost filled with these small compartments.
"This is the most famous street in Space City, his name must have been heard of by everyone who has never been there, it has the same name as Space City, it is called Space Street, and this street is the longest street in the entire Space City, there is no one. It was built on the original space station, the largest in the space city, which had already completed its original mission, and its mission has long since been replaced by a newer, more well-equipped space station. Therefore, the space station has been transformed into an activity place integrating tourism and science popularization, and is the first choice for all companies to travel collectively. This street is a must-visit place for everyone to visit in the space city, and the small shops around the street sell all kinds of space food and all kinds of small goods unique to the space city. The station received a large number of visitors from major companies when it first opened, and some smaller companies did not even have the opportunity to come here, and it is still the first choice for major companies to travel every year. Speaking of which, Atlas added, "Although they don't have any entertainment in their daily lives, each company does group activities once or twice a year, and that's what he should be talking about." ”
After listening to Atlas's explanation, Zhou Xin nodded, and then continued to look at the image on the screen. It can be seen that the space station that the alien said had received a large number of tourists is now a little deserted, and there are hardly any figures on the streets. Even if there are occasional aliens passing by, it is in a hurry, and a few people even trotting past the camera, and it is completely impossible to tell that they are tourists. Many of the rooms on both sides of the street were locked, and only a few shops were still open to welcome customers, and through those closed transparent doors, Zhou Xin saw that only a few items were placed on the counters facing outward, and even a thick layer of dust had accumulated on some empty counters. Even the shops that opened were not open at all, and some aliens who looked like waiters were all sitting on the seats in the shops looking at the terminals in their hands, and a few people even fell asleep on the counters.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Xinli felt a burst of doubt, he really couldn't connect this scene with the reception of a large number of tourists. At this time, the creator of the video seemed to feel a little thirsty, but he ran to several open shops, but was not received by any waiter, and in the end, he had no choice but to boil water in one shop by himself.
At this moment, the alien also seemed a little embarrassed, and he said while looking at the kettle: "Maybe it's because it's not the reception season, so those waiters don't think I'm a tourist, forget it, let me boil the kettle water and then continue to investigate." ”
In less than ten minutes, the water was boiling, and the alien poured the water into his kettle and continued, "Alright, now let's move on." ”
He introduced as he walked forward, "Since the opening of Space City to ordinary people, there are not many people who really take the initiative to apply to work here at the beginning, and most of them are sent by the company. But at some point, there was a sudden explosion of applications from ordinary people, and of course this group of people coming to the space station did greatly alleviate the manpower gap here. However, as time went on, the number of applicants increased instead of decreasing, and even people in their thirties and forties applied to go to the space station, and the government had to raise the restrictions, which caused the number of applicants to fall back again. ”
"But the strange thing is that although the population of the space station has increased, the work efficiency has not increased significantly, and many people who have applied to come to the space station have lost their news for some reason. At the same time, a large number of beggars and unemployed people began to appear in the space station, who did not participate in the daily work of the space station, wandered around all day with nothing to do, and even a large number of beggars appeared to beg for goods from tourists during the tourist season. In this case, although the space city has been cleaned up several times, it still has no effect, and these people still exist in large numbers, and there is even a tendency to change more and more. ”
As soon as he finished saying this, a melodious bell rang from a distance, and according to the law of three long and three short, the bell rang three times and then stopped. As if given some order, the lazy waiters and pedestrians on both sides of the street suddenly became excited when they heard the bell. The waiter, who had been looking at the terminal in his hand seriously, seemed to have obtained some dangerous goods, and immediately threw the terminal in his hand on the counter, and then walked out of the store quickly, hurried towards the end of the street, and the pedestrians who were already in a hurry were faster, and they almost trotted all the way towards the end of the street. At the same time, more people rushed out of the few small roads that Zhou Xin thought was empty, and some of them were neatly dressed, just like the pedestrians on the street before, but most of them were in rags, and even a few people's clothes were broken into strips. What made Zhou Xin feel a little strange was that the others did not react to the appearance of these tattered people, and no one even showed a trace of disgust. All of them, high and low, crowded together and rushed in the same direction of the street, as if they were one step slower when they looked at their faces.
"Oh, it looks like it's time for dinner, and I'll have to hurry too." While speaking, the alien also joined the ranks of the crowd, but at this time, he still performed his duties competently, panting slightly, he explained: "Since it is in the space city, all the daily necessities are distributed regularly and quantitatively, even the food, although the total amount is definitely enough for everyone to eat, but once the meal is exceeded, then even if there is any leftover food, it will not be distributed, okay, I should also go and get my own food, if it exceeds the time, Then I don't have the strength to continue the investigation. ”
After saying this, the screen went black for a while, but after just a dozen seconds, it lit up again, and the alien who appeared in front of the camera had a small bag of items in his hand.
After a few breaths, the alien spoke, "It's okay, I grabbed a piece of food at the last minute, otherwise I would have been hungry for a day." You see, that's the food that's being distributed on the space station. With that, he lifted the bag of items in his hand and put it in front of the camera. The bag of items that appeared on the screen was not very large, about the size of half a shoebox, and he stretched out his other hand to open the box, and in the box, three bags of items were lying quietly inside.
"That's what a day is all about." The alien introduced, "It contains the nutrients that the human body needs in a day, and it is also very convenient to eat, just tear a hole and squeeze it gently." With that, he picked up one of the bags, tore open a slit and shoved it into his mouth.
In less than a minute, he finished the food in the palm-sized bag, and after eating, he looked at the food in the box with a longing glint in his eyes, and after hesitating for a while, he still chose to receive the whole box into his backpack.
"Okay, after eating, let's start the research ......"