Anyway, the war is finally over. But the end doesn't mean the end, it also means many new beginnings.

In front of the Outer Solar System Alliance is a mess that can't be worse. As a result of the war, the total human population has been reduced by more than 70 percent, all heavy industrial planets and bases have been destroyed, space islands have been destroyed, and the two administrative planets Earth and Mars have also been severely damaged, and their ecosystems are not expected to recover for hundreds of years. Resource planets such as Jupiter and Saturn have also been hit hard.

But at this moment, the heart of the head of the Outer Solar System Alliance was full of joy. Because the investigation team has already submitted the results of the investigation into why the "natural disaster" class weapon did not explode on his desk. After perceiving the twists and turns behind this incident, the Führer realized how lucky not only himself, but all the people in the solar system at this moment, the entire human civilization.

Human civilization was once only a little short of destroyed. To the left is heaven, and to the right is hell. And at the most critical moment of the life and death of the entire civilization, the head of the Inner Solar System Alliance, the head of the Cavis Alliance, braved tremendous pressure, with an incomparably strong psychological quality, and an indescribably great consciousness, and made the most correct choice.

Führer Cavis was dead, and in that room, he had been beaten to death by the angry Inner Solar Alliance officials. As the head of the Outer Solar System Alliance, the old man saw the corpse of the head of the Cavis with his own eyes, and it was miserable enough to make the old man feel some palpitations.

The body of the Führer of Cavis was perfectly decorated, and then under the auspices of the old man, it was buried in the most beautiful cemetery on earth, which has always been accessible only to the most illustrious heroes of human civilization.

At this moment, the old man stood in front of the grave of the head of Cavis, looking at the tombstone. The portrait of Führer Cavis with a serious face and an unsmiling face was speechless for a long time.

The old man did not have an entourage by his side, and it was also dusk when the sun was setting. The late autumn wind blew through the cemetery, bringing up some fallen leaves, but also making people feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts. The old man stood like this, and the setting sun stretched his shadow for a long time. It looks like it's full of gloom.

"Hello, Cavis." The old man said, "Our pair of opponents...... It's been a battle for decades. Although you were defeated by my men in the end, I still feel ashamed to face you, yes, I am not as good as you, I admit it. ”

"You're a loser, but you're the ultimate hero. I'm a victor, but I'm just a mortal after all. At a time when hatred and conflict have gone on and on, when even though we are the head of state, we are still involuntary under the coercion of the people and the masses, you have broken through all the obstacles in your heart, your vision has risen from the nation to the height of civilization, and at the last moment you have made a decision that is enough to change our entire civilization. I think...... If I were to stand on your side, I would probably be occupied by hatred and narrow-mindedness. And then make a decision that will make our human civilization doomed, I ...... It's really not as good as you. ”

The old man sighed deeply. Although at the moment. Grand celebrations had been held all over the Outer Solar System Alliance, and almost everyone was reveling, and with this victory, the old man's reputation had risen to almost the top level, but there was no joy in the old man's heart, only frustration and fear. and shame and guilt.

"Now that the matter is over, I can look at the previous things with a relatively calm and objective attitude. It was at this time that I discovered that the war that was going on between us...... How does it feel so meaningless? We all know that wars are triggered by the lack of resources and the constraints of dead knots. But why, in the later period, when the population of our human civilization has been greatly reduced, not only did we not stop the war, but it intensified, and no one felt that something was wrong? The old man muttered to himself, "I didn't even realize that this was wrong, and even what I thought in my heart was to destroy you no matter what the cost......"

That's why I said...... I'm not as good as you......" the old man sighed continuously, "and I feel like a humble ant compared to you." But this reality is such an irony, that I am like an ant to win, and let the great you enter into eternal sleep......"

The old man paced beside the graveyard of Führer Calvis, and his figure became more and more slumped as he walked.

"Rest assured, Calvis, although the hatred between our two peoples has become almost irresolvable, as long as I live, I will definitely melt this hatred completely. Because we all belong to human civilization...... We share a common ancestor, we share a common culture, and we are almost identical except for the illusory concept of "nation". ”

"Cavis, at this moment, in the name of the head of human civilization, I swear at your grave that I will devote my life's energy to accomplishing the matter of "national integration and elimination of hatred", and if it does not work for ten years, it will be twenty years, and if it does not work for twenty years, it will be thirty years, until I die. Even if I die, I promise that my successor will continue to push for it, and our two peoples will be united again, as they were before the outbreak of war......"

"Rest here, Calvis, your wish will be granted, if you really have a spirit in heaven...... You're bound to see that. The old man said solemnly, bowed deeply to the tombstone of Cavis, and then turned and left. At the moment of turning around, I don't know if it was an illusion or because of the change in light, the old man found that the portrait of Cavis on the tombstone seemed to have a little more "gratified" expression.

In the following years of his reign, the old man fulfilled his promise with his own actions. Many details about the war were revealed to society, and those who preached national hatred were severely punished, and under the guidance of public opinion that "human civilization is one", public opinion began to reverse its direction, and the concepts of unity, cooperation, fraternity, equality, and mutual assistance were once again pursued in society as a whole.

Of course, this is an extremely slow process, and it took more than 100 years to complete this reversal. The old man left office decades ago and died of old age, and the new head of state continues on this path, and the same is true of the next head of state after he also leaves office......

It is only after the loss of peace that people will know how precious it really is. The war is finally over, and large-scale post-disaster reconstruction work is carried out throughout the solar system, people have begun to clean up the ruins of warships and bases left in all corners of the solar system, begun to clean up the interstellar mine clusters left on various planets and around key shipping lanes, began to rebuild cities, began to restore the planet's ecology, and began to build energy bases...... Everything is on track.

Although it is on the right track, the pace is really slow. The new head of state suddenly discovered that although the war was over, and although peace had been restored to the solar system, the population had not grown as rapidly on a large scale as expected. If there is not enough population, there will not be enough labor, there will not be enough people to drive spaceships, there will not be enough people to do scientific research, there will not be enough people to produce industrial goods, there will not be enough people to mine minerals......

It is well known in people's hearts that the solar system cannot be broken without breaking the knot, and the population carrying capacity of the solar system is limited. People are afraid of war, and the outbreak of war is because the population is too large, so people invariably choose to have fewer children or not to have children. But this has brought a series of social problems to human civilization. Some scientists have even pointed out that if the fertility rate cannot be raised to a certain level, human civilization may fall into a serious decline. At that time, human civilization will have to abandon Uranus, Neptune, and some planets further afield, and possibly even shrink its sphere of influence to Jupiter's orbit.

The new Führer was anxious about the matter, but neither think tank could provide the Führer with a perfect solution to the problem. Everyone has made it clear that the development of human civilization must be supported by a sufficient population base, but if we do not break through the dead knot, a sufficient population means a shortage of resources, and a lack of resources means war.

This seems to be another contradictory combination that cannot be broken.

Time has spent more than 100 years in this state of contradiction. Although peace has long been restored to the solar system, human civilization has not exploded again as expected. The solar system is calm at the moment, but this calm is more like a pool of stagnant water, with no hope and no future.

If dying in war is a relatively fierce way of death in a civilization, then the situation at this moment is like boiling a frog in warm water, and the Führer knows that this kind of calm and numbness will gradually erode people's hearts, and when people finally find that the situation is wrong, they probably have no ability to change this situation......

"Is it true that if the knot of death is not broken, the end of civilization is doomed to death?" The Führer muttered, "Either in the war, or after the war...... Numbness? But in that case, does the death of Führer Cavis have any meaning? ”

The Führer fell into a deep confusion.

At this time, at the edge of the distant solar system, a dilapidated small spaceship has quietly arrived...... (To be continued.) )