The ore loading action was very fast, and the output of this half year did not exceed the maximum carrying capacity of the "Benjamin", and the old captain Jason felt very happy; In recent years, there have been more and more new ships in the transportation industry, and most of them have a carrying capacity of more than 16 million tons of "Benjamin", and the business of old friends has been robbed a lot by these new ships. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jason has been doing this for almost thirty years, and he has traveled almost all over the empire on the Benjamin, and his popularity can be said to be quite good. When he was young, he also formed his own caravan of cargo ships, and at the best of his development, he even had the intention of monopolizing all the ore transportation in the molybdenum mining area.

But, like the protagonists of too many stories, just as Jason's business is booming, a series of unexpected events occur one after another.

In just a few years, his fleet has experienced many accidents, shipwrecks, lost cargo, and crew accidents...... These are all fine, after all, he relies on his connections and the opportunity of the great development of the galaxy empire's frontier, and the harvest is not bad. But it wasn't long before an important technological innovation nearly pushed him to the brink of extinction.

With the successful development of the latest generation of 50-million-ton cargo ships, the transportation industry, which was originally quite profitable, has entered a new era of low-profit competition.

Thinking of this, old Jason's originally good mood was clouded with another layer of haze; He sighed, walked back to the captain's quarters, poured himself a glass of wine, and sat down slowly.

With the mellow aroma of the wine, it slowly slides down the throat, bringing a fiery warmth. His thoughts continued......

With the breakthrough of tens of millions of tons of cargo ships, it has brought about the popularization and price reduction of all kinds of rare mineral resources in the past, and has also triggered a series of scientific and technological breakthroughs.

The most important breakthrough should be the popularization of human transformation technology.

As early as when the Galactic Empire was still a galaxy-level empire, in order to develop and expand its own strength, the fifth generation ruler of the empire, Emperor Qin Ming, ordered the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Military to devote all efforts to research and development of human transformation technology.

This decision was later referred to by historians as the "Rise of the Qin and Ming Dynasty" and was hailed as a major event alongside the official establishment of the empire.

The reason is simple: humans born on Earth are too fragile!! Carbon-based, thermostatic, requires a lot of moisture and oxidation reactions to survive...... In this vast universe, there are simply too few environments that can meet these conditions at the same time.

Therefore, in the early solar system era, the price paid by human beings to step out of the earth can be described in two amazing words; Moreover, for a long time, human space exploration has mainly focused on finding a planet with water, and then trying to modify it, so that it can evolve into a so-called "natural environment" that can allow human beings to survive under a period of artificial intervention.

This direction accounted for the lion's share of the initial investment in space development, and countless resources and manpower were invested in it.

But the universe gave a cold lesson to the aspiring human beings on Earth at that time: Mars, which was first regarded as a model planet for human transformation, quickly became a paradise for countless investors after the official announcement of the successful transformation, and almost all the well-known companies at that time were excited to take a share of the development of Mars.

Just when everyone believed that the great era of space development belonging to mankind was coming, an inconspicuous thing at the beginning completely changed all this.

That year, among the residents of the Mars Development Zone, there was a very strange gastrointestinal disease - cholera, which became epidemic. When the disease first started, it only attracted the attention of some doctors, but it was only treated as an epidemic disease.

But as time passed, the pathogenic bacteria that the doctors were familiar with took on different characteristics from their Earth counterparts.

First of all, the pathogenicity has increased significantly, and the second-level infectious disease that was only transmitted through skin-to-skin contact on the earth has mutated into a virulent infectious disease that can be transmitted through the air and the pathogenicity is significantly improved.

What's more, the Martian base, which was originally extremely complete and convenient, did not play a role in this disease outbreak at all.

What started out as a disease in one or two ecological domes spread to all the domes of Mars in just one week, and then suddenly changed even more severely.

There was a young staff member who had been actively cooperating with the medical clinic's treatment activities since the illness was not serious, and the doctor always believed that he would recover and be discharged from the hospital in the near future.

However, the young man could not get out of the infirmary again, and not only him, but the entire five thousand people in this dome all died in just two days, and none of them were spared!

While all the inhabitants of Mars are facing extinction, the planet is orbiting to its farthest place, more than 300 million kilometers apart. With the most advanced spaceship at that time, it would take a full half a month to fly; So, when the rescue medical team sent from the earth finally arrived, the hellish sight terrified everyone.

After carefully searching and determining that there were no survivors, the rescue ship sent by Earth returned to Earth and finally returned to Earth after a month's flight.

Instead of flowers and applause, the doctors and other members of the rescue team were greeted by heavily armed and armed anti-chemical warfare units wearing the highest level of protective clothing. All the members of the rescue team were immediately sent to a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, far from the international shipping line.

There, they were first quarantined at the highest level and subjected to biochemical sanitize one by one, and then placed under house arrest in small, completely enclosed rooms for observation...... By the time it was officially determined that they were all "harmless", another whole month had passed.

A member of the rescue team was interviewed by the media afterwards, saying: "It was a terrible day that I can't look back on, and we seem to be treated as an outlier by everyone. He paused when he said this: "Of course, it is a routine job to have to undergo quarantine when you come back from a space trip, and I understand that there was a lot of pressure on the authorities at that time, but ...... It was an unbearable month of quarantine, and I think you know what I mean. ”

In fact, what is "more advanced" than the treatment received by the rescue team members is the germ samples they bring back.

The sample was carefully taken to the highest level of isolation room, where the world's top medical experts and scholars used the most rigorous testing methods they could think of to try to find out what kind of mutation had happened to the germ they were already familiar with.

What is puzzling is that when everyone's test report comes out, the only answer is - there is no variation!

Desperate to know the answer, the earthlings once again organized a group of dedicated volunteers to go to Mars and brought back more germ samples for study. But this time, the result was no different from the last time, and the cholera germs brought back from Mars did not mutate.

Most of the elite of the geomedical community, the scientific community, were soon summoned by their own governments to WHO headquarters to work together on the subject.

After a long period of repeated arguments, quarrels, mutual attacks, and abuse...... After that, they finally came to the official and only conclusion: the earth is the only paradise that God has given to humans and other creatures on earth, and only here can humans and other creatures survive in peace; And space development will bring unimaginable dangers to humans and other creatures, and will eventually threaten the survival of all living things on Earth!

As soon as this conclusion was released, it immediately caused an uproar on the earth, and almost all people expressed their opinions and opinions through various channels; After a period of time, two more mainstream views were formed.

The majority of the parties believe that there is enough space for human beings to live on the earth, and that space development should abandon the huge consumption of resources and the gains outweigh the losses, and instead devote themselves to finding a better and peaceful living environment for all mankind...... Wait a minute.

On the other hand, the smaller ones, make it clear that the Earth is indeed capable of providing cradle safety and care for humans and other creatures. But the truly grown up human beings should come out of the cradle and seek a broader and more exciting future, and some of them are more extreme than even offer to set off on a spaceship and never look back.

The coalition government at that time, which chose to favor the side with a larger number of people, announced soon after, that it would suspend all investment in space development projects and completely ban related research in the name of maintaining human security, and violators would be severely punished......

Jason Sr. took another sip and looked up at the terminal on the wall, where the data showed him some time, so he sat back down......

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