"Thanos, are you awake?"

A soft murmur rang in Thanos' ears, and he opened his eyes to find himself in a loose nightgown, sleeping on a large white bed, with a somewhat familiar Titan woman lying beside him.

Who is she?

Thanos' chaotic brain was slightly stuck, and soon, memories began to float, and those vague memory fragments flashed in front of his eyes one after another.

She is her own wife, a childhood sweetheart who grew up together,

Although the two did not give birth to their own children, they adopted two alien little Lori who were displaced by the war.

Just as he was thinking about it, the bedroom door was slammed with a "knock knock", and a crisp and childish laugh sounded outside the door.

The wife smiled at Thanos and whispered outside the door, "Who? ”

A slight childish laugh sounded outside the door, and the wife tidied up her nightgown, walked lightly to the door, opened the door suddenly, and hugged the two little Lori, one blue and one green, who were hiding by the door, into her arms.

"Nebula, Gamora...."

Thanos muttered the two names to himself, and he watched his wife throw her daughters on the bed, tickling each other and laughing, with a confused expression on his face.

A beautiful and gentle wife, a lovely and innocent daughter, this is the harmonious and happy family he has.

The wife, who was teasing the children, seemed to notice something, she smiled and stopped playing with her daughters, patted their butts and told them to wash their faces and brush their teeth,

When my daughter walked into the bathroom, there was a loud voice, "Nebula, you steal my toothbrush again!" The wife turned around and stroked Thanos' ugly and deformed purple face with some concern.

"I'm fine."

Thanos shook his wife's hand and comforted him gently, "It's just that I had a nightmare last night." ”

"What nightmare?"

“.... I don't remember exactly," Thanos touched his chin and said uncertainly, "I'm supposed to be suspended in space, like a transcendent without a protective suit,

Then I condensed a rainbow into a beam of light and threw it at someone, and I can't remember the rest..."

"Is that so," his wife smiled and kissed him on the forehead, "Honey, it's just a dream, you must have been stressed too much lately."

By the way, don't you have something important to do today? Don't be late. ”

"Hmm." Thanos smiled, and the shattered memories in the dream faded into obscurity, "However, if only I could really be a transcendent being who can harness special powers like in my dreams." ”

In the entire Titan planet, there is no genius with supernatural abilities, and Thanos also thought when he was young that he would one day awaken a certain trait, a certain talent.

For example, manipulating magnetic fields, changing temperature, distorting the laws of physics, stopping time, teleporting in space, and no matter how bad it is, the ability to fly freely with wings on your back is also good.

However, fate, the stingy little, did not give Thanos too much preference, and the ugly appearance produced by the genetic mutation is not a special sign that "the sky will descend on the people".

He is just an ordinary man, a mortal in the flesh, and what he faces every day is not a passionate superpower battle, but a boring and mediocre job day after day....

This is also normal, there are always a few geniuses with special destiny in this world,

More people will bury the fantasies of their youth until the years pass, and no one will know about them anymore when they become adults.

Thanos gets up to wash, and after a hearty family breakfast, he drives Nebula and Gamora to a school not far from home.

The word "driving" is interesting, and while everyone else is using autopilot, Thanos still stubbornly chooses to drive manually, in his words, "more reassuring to me." ”

Anti-gravity levitation vehicles, driving on the suspended plank road, the scenery along the way is not very charming, full of high-rise buildings, like a birdcage made of steel, densely imprisoned cages.

Although the Titan government has made a lot of efforts, while ensuring living space, it has asked for more green areas,

However, there are policies and countermeasures, and the executive bureaucrats have "cleverly" laid a layer of vines on the outside of the walls of high-rise buildings, and the green vines that hang down like waterfalls are used as green areas.

Everyone knows that "expanding greenery" is a ridiculous word on Titan, and the ever-expanding population, like straws, accumulates on the back of the aging camel of Titan.

Every inch of space has its use value, every inch of land should not be wasted, only saving, continuous saving, in order to continue the development of the Titan civilization.

With this in mind, Thanos parked his car in the indoor parking lot of a tall building.

Titans has eliminated the concept of "rural" a long, long time ago, and everyone lives in the nest city.

The basic units of all public facilities in the city are inside high-rise buildings - hospitals, schools, police stations, even automated farms, automated factories... All of these facilities are crammed into different floors of the tall building.

High-rise buildings in an area, combined to form an administrative district,

And an administrative area, combined together to form a nest city,

All of the nests are added together to form the Titans.

The infrastructure in Chaocheng is readily available, and the vast majority of Titans don't even need to step out of the city in this life.

Aside from being overcrowded, Nest City has few drawbacks, and even some of its imperfections are complemented by ever-evolving technology.

The problem of turbidity and stuffiness in the air was solved by a perfect urban ventilation system a hundred years ago;

The scarcity of drinking water was solved by a comprehensive water cycle system 30 years ago;

The lack of sunlight was also solved by artificial sunlight generators one hundred and fifty years ago - the inhabitants of the Titans, no matter how high or low the floors they live in, can be directly illuminated by plenty of warm sunlight.

After dropping off his daughter, he drove the anti-gravity levitation vehicle out of the building and through the high-speed corridor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of Titan is a huge and sophisticated giant agency, composed of hundreds of small institutions.

It can be roughly divided into the Aerospace Flight Department, the Technology Department, the Planetary Science Department, the Space Science Department, the Biology and Physics Research Department, and the Safety and Planning Support Department, each of which is in charge of different main business areas.

With such a huge institution, it is naturally impossible to be crammed into the same high-rise building, in fact, the land area occupied by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of Titan is almost equivalent to the total area of several nest cities!

This is almost unimaginable on the Titan planet, where every inch of land is valuable, and in recent years, there have been countless criticisms, asking the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to save land resources and cede a part of the living space for the use of the people.

The space agency has been under tremendous pressure from public opinion, especially at a time when the space industry has suffered repeated setbacks, and every employee in the bureau is worried that the department to which he belongs will be cut because he cannot make achievements.

"Good morning, Mr. Sanos."

"Hello."

In the corridor of the space agency's headquarters building, passing employees nodded to Thanos with a genuine and enthusiastic attitude.

The staff did this not only because of Thanos' high position as the chief engineer of the Titan Space Agency, but also because of Thanos' contribution to the aviation industry.

The Titan civilization has been trying to colonize the outside world for a long time, but the closest suitable planet to them is also so far away on the star map,

Excessive costs, sluggish technology, the pressure of public opinion, and the lack of support from the upper echelons have made the interstellar colonization plan delay again and again.

Today, the population pressure on Titan is like an exploding barrel filled with gunpowder, which can erupt at any time, and the interstellar colonization project, which has been stalled for a long time, seems to have no way out.

The leaders of Titan believe that instead of pinning their hopes on interstellar colonization, it is better to build a space station on the surface of the planet and transfer a part of the population to the space station first.

If the material resources on the surface of the Titan planet are exhausted, then continue to dig under the rock formation, relying on a steady stream of material resources to meet people's living needs, and why is it necessary to go to a suitable planet thousands of miles away to find colonization opportunities?

If it weren't for Thanos, as the chief engineer, who had been persisting and persuading his superiors to continue to support the development of the faster-than-light engine, I am afraid that the interstellar colonization project would have been thrown into the cold palace a long time ago...

Thinking like this, Thanos couldn't help but clench his palm holding the briefcase, in his bag, containing a crucial document,

And his task today is to show this document to his superiors.

Thanos stopped, he stood in front of the door of the conference room, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.

Inside, the members of the Titan Space Agency's project management committee had arrived and sat behind the long oval table.

Deputy Chief Executive, General Counsel, Chief Security and Mission Assurance Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Healthcare Officer....

These big men in suits and leather shoes are the heads and brains in charge of the aerospace industry.

"Thanos." Leon, who was sitting at the chief of the oval table, or the chief executive of the National Space Administration of Titan, smiled and said to Thanos, "Sit down, we will wait to hear your report." ”