"Our human civilization seems to be full of flowers, we can carve through mountains, we can reclaim land, we can control rainfall...... Our human civilization seems to be very strong. But this is just the appearance, the truth is that we are fragile, very vulnerable. Li Qi took a sip of wine and slowly said to Zhao Huasheng, who was sitting opposite him.

Richie seemed to be thinking about something, but he didn't. Richie's eyes were very ethereal, and his thoughts seemed to have drifted to some distant place.

For his predecessor, Zhao Huasheng has always been very respectful. As early as the doctoral program, Zhao Huasheng entered the Institute of Stellar Physics under the Central Academy of Sciences of the Alliance for an internship, and became a subordinate of Li Qi at that time. Li Qi's profound knowledge of stellar physics has always made Zhao Huasheng admire.

"Perhaps." Zhao Huasheng said, "But human civilization has always been stronger, and I believe that in the near future, we will be truly strong." ”

Li Qi sighed, and an indescribable brilliance flashed in his eyes, as if it was sadness, and it seemed to be pain.

Richie stood up and walked over to the window of the high-rise restaurant. Through the glass of the window, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the bustling city at night. The lights were shining brightly, and they seemed to cover the moon in the sky. The road was full of long dragons of light that meandered. Even in the midst of this tall building, which is hundreds of meters above the ground, it seems that you can hear the noise coming from the ground.

It was eleven o'clock, but it was far from the time when the city fell asleep.

"This is our civilization." Richie opened his arms as if to embrace it all in his arms. Li Qi's eyes seemed to be intoxicated, and his tone began to become like a dream: "This is our powerful and prosperous civilization. ”

"Brother Li, you're drunk, I'll send you back." Zhao Huasheng walked up to Li Qi and said in a low voice.

Li Qi shook his head: "Watson, don't be in a hurry to go back first." I have something to say to you today. ”

Zhao Huasheng was stunned for a moment and sat down in his seat again. He sensed that something seemed wrong with Richie today.

"Our human civilization has changed the face of almost the entire planet, and we naively think that we are omnipotent, but the truth is cruel. How much do we know about the earth beneath our feet? On the earth, the deepest is the Mariana Trench, the depth is about 10,000 meters, the highest mountain is Mount Everest, the height is less than 9,000 meters, our submarine dived to the Mariana Trench and thought it was a great achievement, we exhausted our efforts, drilled a hole only 11 kilometers deep on the earth, and declared that it was a major step...... However, the radius of the earth is more than 6,000 kilometers, and we have spent huge manpower and material resources to penetrate only more than 600 parts of the earth...... Ninety-nine percent of the place is unknown to us. ”

"The depth of the epicenter of an earthquake is generally no more than 100 kilometers, and even the strongest earthquake recorded in the history of the earth is only equivalent to the earth sneezing compared to the entire earth...... No, not even a sneeze, at most the earth squirmed a little. But even then, the result is often the death of hundreds of thousands of millions of human beings......"

There seemed to be some sarcasm in Richie's eyes.

Zhao Huasheng knew all the things that Li Qi said. But at this moment, when Li Qi said it in this tone, Zhao Huasheng still felt some discomfort in his heart. It feels like a person who thinks he is powerful to be exposed to his fragility and incompetence by someone else.

"Human beings always talk about protecting the earth, but why does the earth need human beings to protect it? Even if the nuclear bombs stored by human beings explode at the same time, they will only destroy the surface environment of the earth, and the effects of these nuclear bombs cannot be transmitted to a hundred kilometers below the ground. At the end of the day, humans are just protecting themselves. As for the earth...... Even if humanity went to great lengths to destroy the Earth, so what? Can ants destroy mountains? ”

"Our whole civilization, all our cities, all our buildings, all our populations, our culture, our heritage, our technology...... Everything we have is just tiny bacteria attached to the earth, if the earth has its own consciousness, if the earth wants to destroy our human civilization...... The Earth only needs to sneeze, just one sneeze. Richie said.

"Our human civilization is indeed very small, but our development potential is unlimited." Zhao Huasheng said in a low voice.

Richie turned a deaf ear to this, but continued: "This is just one Earth, what is the Earth compared to the entire solar system? Compared to the Milky Way, what is the sun? Not to mention the Milky Way-Andromeda Cluster, the Virgo Supercluster, which can be seen in the universe ......"

There was a deep sadness in Rich's words.

"Let's go back." Richie said.

Li Qi was drunk, so Zhao Huasheng drove the car and sent Li Qi home. In the process of taking the elevator upstairs, Li Qi suddenly glanced at Zhao Huasheng with a very indescribable look.

Zhao Huasheng felt strange in his heart, so he asked, "Brother Li, what's wrong?" ”

Li Qi smiled to himself: "Goodbye." After saying these two words, Li Qi walked straight out of the elevator, opened the door of his house, and then closed the door. Obviously, he had no intention of inviting Zhao Huasheng to come in and sit down.

Zhao Huasheng was a little confused. He felt that Richie seemed strange today, but he couldn't say what was strange. After being stunned for a while in front of the elevator, Zhao Huasheng shook his head and went home.

It was twelve o'clock in the evening, Zhao Huasheng finished washing, but he couldn't sleep on the bed. Subconsciously, there is always a feeling that something is wrong, as if something big is going to happen, but I always can't grasp the clue.

It was about two or three o'clock when Zhao Huasheng fell asleep in a daze, but only four or five hours later, Zhao Huasheng opened his eyes.

The sleep was not enough, so Zhao Huasheng still felt very tired at the moment. Under normal circumstances, Zhao Huasheng would not wake up at this time. Because today is the weekend, he is not in a hurry to go to work, and last night, Zhao Huasheng was also ready to sleep lazy.

Zhao Huasheng was woken up by freezing. It's ridiculous to say, it's July and August, and it's the time of the sun. The sun rises before five o'clock, spreading its light and heat onto the tiny planet, warming the air that has cooled overnight and eventually becoming hot. But today it seems a little different.

Zhao Huasheng put on his coat and walked to the window. The weather was clear, there were no clouds in the sky, and there was indeed a huge sun hanging over the sky, but it was very dim. The sky is not the usual blue color, but mixed with some dim colors in the blue, which looks very oppressive.

Zhao Huasheng is a researcher at the Institute of Stellar Physics, and the closest star to the earth is the sun, so it is obvious that Zhao Huasheng's work is mainly to study the sun, studying the internal structure of the sun, material composition, material evolution and so on. Today's sun seems very strange, but at this moment, Zhao Huasheng did not think of using his professional knowledge to analyze it.

Zhao Huasheng just muttered: "It seems that today is a cloudy day." Then he went back to bed, pulled up the thin quilt and put it over his body, ready to go back to sleep.

But a hurried knock on the door shattered the silence of the morning. Zhao Huasheng had no choice but to get up and dress, wash his face and come to the door, after opening the door, a middle-aged man in a black suit with a cold face stretched out his documents in front of Zhao Huasheng.

"I'm a first-level agent of the Alliance Security Department, you can call me Mengzhuo." The middle-aged man said coldly: "There are some things that require your cooperation in the investigation, please come with me." ”

"The Ministry of Joint Security? I? Zhao Huasheng was a little inexplicable, thinking about it, he didn't seem to have done anything bad except for snatching a female classmate's lollipop when he was a child, "What's the matter?" ”

"Please come with me, you'll know when you get there." Meng Zhuo still said coldly.

"Okay." Zhao Huasheng thought about it and finally agreed. So, half an hour later, Zhao Huasheng came to a spacious conference room. What Zhao Huasheng expected was that in this conference room, Zhao Huasheng saw many familiar faces, including colleagues, leaders, and some people Zhao Huasheng didn't recognize, but they looked very familiar. After thinking about it for a while, it took me to react, those people themselves often see it on TV.

Zhao Huasheng was arranged in an empty seat and sat down. For some reason, everyone in the conference room looked very solemn, and no one had a smile on their faces. And after Zhao Huasheng came in, including those big people who often appeared on TV, everyone was looking at him with a somewhat inexplicable look.

"May I ask what the hell is going on?" Zhao Huasheng asked.

"This is the only relic that Director Richie left you." Meng Zhuo put a safe in front of Zhao Huasheng, and after opening it, Zhao Huasheng saw a blank piece of paper lying quietly inside.

Zhao Huasheng didn't rush to look at the blank paper, but asked in surprise, "Relic?" The relics that Brother Li left me? ”

"Yes." Meng Zhuo nodded, "Director Li Qi died late last night, and the preliminary investigation concluded that he committed suicide. At the scene of the suicide, we found this safe, as well as this blank piece of paper, well, and this note, which read: I'm leaving, please be sure to give this blank piece of paper to Zhao Huasheng. He will answer all your questions. ”

Before Zhao Huasheng could figure out what was going on, an old man who appeared on TV the most frequently knocked on the table and cast a majestic gaze on Zhao Huasheng: "So, can you tell us what happened to the sun now?" ”