Scorpio, a certain red supergiant.

The crimson fireball floated in the black curtain-like void, continuously projecting stellar matter into the cosmic vacuum, and the fiery red rings whipped non-existent enemies like long whips.

Loud, furious.

The red supergiant roared and roared in solitude, never stopping for a moment,

The star system it rules has four planets in ancient times that cannot be traced back to ancient times, but most of the planets have long been swallowed up by the expanding volume of the red supergiant, turned into a wisp of green smoke, and disappeared.

In the entire star system, only the last planet is still holding on.

The last survivor was extremely fortunate that it had been hanging in the outermost part of the star system for hundreds of millions of years, and was the seventh planet in the star system.

Before, because there was not enough light and heat, its surface was covered with thick ice, and it was dead.

That is, until the red supergiant begins to expand, emitting deadly heat along the way, burning the planets it once cared for to ashes.

The third planet once had a relatively developed civilization capable of conducting preliminary space exploration. It's a pity that before they could launch a large-scale exploration of the universe, the red supergiant broke out into an extremely intense stellar activity.

Civilization on the fourth planet came to an end in a century-long period of extreme heat. At the last moment of their lives, they concentrated the power of the entire civilization and launched countless colonial ships to the seventh planet in the star system.

The colony ships headed for their targets, but due to the haste in their preparations, most of the ships crashed, and the surviving colony ships also suffered irreversible damage, and many electronic devices became ineffective.

The survivors wake up from the frozen chambers, the most elite and qualified elites of the old era to rebuild civilization, even in the face of despair.

They set up a base around the ship, gathered all useful materials, struggled to survive on the pale ice fields, and sent out a steady stream of exploration teams to try to find other colony ships.

Technology has irreversibly regressed, the spark of civilization has been erratic due to the extreme cold, and the original story of the colonization team has been left unattended.

It wasn't until 10,000 years later that the red supergiant approached, and the ice sheets melted, gathering into the ocean, revealing the land.

The new civilization began to expand rapidly, they excavated the original colonization ships from all over the world, relied on the remaining technology and biological samples on them, climbed and developed again, and sowed other creatures on this dead planet.

Ten thousand years later, the new civilization's technological level has surpassed that of the old civilization, and their astronomers are stunned to find that the red supergiant has not stopped expanding, and the new parent star will also be scorched under the continuous scorching of the star.

The planets are getting hotter, the oceans are evaporating, the vegetation is drying up, and the new civilization, like its predecessors, is concentrating all its efforts on the cause of interstellar colonization.

It's just that the star system ruled by the red supergiant is too lonely,

The nearest habitable planet in other star systems is at least 4 light-years away.

Without a faster-than-light engine, it would be impossible for a new civilization to escape.

In desperation, new civilizations began to dig caverns underground, build bases, collect supplies and life samples, and build underground space silos.

What they are doing is exactly the same as the old civilization, which, according to astronomers' ingenious calculations, has only about a thousand years left – after which the extraplanetary climate is no longer suitable for launching vehicles.

The underground environment is undoubtedly much harder, and even worse, despair is spreading.

The destruction of the old civilization was made into a religious story, and extreme religious propaganda intensified, and even began to interfere with the al-Qaeda regime and the space industry.

"If destruction is God's will, then we should not resist."

Religious people took power, wreaked havoc on the space industry, persecuted intellectuals,

A handful of rational scientists can only lurk everywhere, secretly spreading the flame of civilization.

As the millennium draws nearer, there is a violent conflict between religious people who have fallen into a self-destructive frenzy and the inheritors of civilization who are trying to escape from a desperate situation.

Eventually, the red supergiant's photothermal reach a tipping point, and the heat began to pour in along the rock formations, spreading panic again.

According to the prophecy of the "prophets" thousands of years ago, the survivors of the underground world will gradually die within a hundred years, and the flame of civilization will be extinguished in the depths of the earth, and no one will know about it again.

For other civilizations in the universe, those people and things are as if they never existed.

In a desperate situation, countless legendary stories that can be sung and cried are staged one by one on the narrow and cramped stage of the underground world.

The continuation of civilization, the righteousness of the race, the secular or not religion, the competition between sensibility and reason, the contemplation of the meaning of life, the noble and the inferior, the wise and the ignorant, the brave and the cowardly,

Everything is vividly interpreted.

Until now, this epic elegy of civilization has been forcibly interrupted.

A group of strange people in strange costumes arrived at the underground base from the surface, down the elevator shaft that had been sealed by religious people.

They quickly subdued the religious fanatics who were intent on annihilating them, and found a leader of rational scientists who could communicate.

"Hello, we are the Alpha Street Police Station of the Scorpio Star District of the Earth Federation, I am the film police of this star area, you can call me Logan."

Wolverine Logan, who was dressed in the uniform of the Earth Federation soldiers, with the assistance of his personal brain, spoke to the survivors in a local accent.

"Huh?"

The leader of the survivors, an eighty-year-old man with kind eyebrows, looked confused.

"Film police, do film police understand?"

Logan chewed his cigar, tugged at his uniform, and explained impatiently: "Our main responsibility is to prevent, stop and investigate illegal and criminal activities, maintain social order, and stop behaviors that endanger social order.

If a low-level civilization in a certain sector falls into an irreversible situation, we will also help as appropriate.

Of course, the rescue process is a rigorous process, and we need to look at the orderliness of your civilization, the morality of your race, and many other factors - and of course, the most important thing is whether you are in line with human aesthetics. ”

The old man was speechless, if we don't look like an earthling, we will be directly ignored by you, right?

Wolverine continued: "Your civilization, in the last era, once launched an artificial satellite to an alien planet, which carried a lot of information about your civilization.

After 10,000 years, the artificial satellite was captured by the automatic watchtower of our Earth Federation, and knowing your existence, the artificial satellite rushed over.

As a result, after 10,000 years, your old civilization has been destroyed, and the new civilization is also in danger, so I, a retired community police officer who is ready to live in this bird not star area, will personally go out to save you from fire and water. ”

"Save?"

The old man suddenly grasped the end of this sentence, grabbed Wolverine's palm with great excitement, and shook it desperately, "Really? Can you really save this planet? ”

"No, I said why are you so rough and in a hurry, little comrade. Don't look at me as just a film policeman, think at the beginning, I also talked and laughed with the federal president, I know how to fight? ”

Logan impatiently spat out a smoke ring, this Wolverine is several laps more than this old man in terms of biological age,

"This planet has entered the scorching orbit of the red supergiant, it has heat stroke, and there is no rescue value, and the above means to make it into a braised bamboo rat, cough, no, it is a scientific research base, used to conduct some dangerous experiments.

Now, if you don't have an opinion, you can sign this demolition compensation payment, and we will give you a new planet of life, as well as the materials you need to re-establish your civilization. ”

Wolverine pulled out a crumpled, alcohol-stained document from his bosom and slapped it on the old man's chest, who was bewildered and at a loss, "... What the hell is this.... What's the situation..."

"Don't you understand?" Logan rolled his eyes, "You're welcome to the demolition!" ”