Extra-1: The day of leaving Wang Qiu (I)

“…… It has been a long time since the short but wonderful era of the Great Crossing Age. The voices and smiles of my former companions have gradually blurred in my memory. But I can still think back to the Nile and the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the Avengers' showdown against aliens in New York, the apocalyptic scene of zombie frenzy sweeping through Japan and Britain, and the mushroom clouds of nuclear explosions that proclaimed the death knell of civilization......

When the gate of time and space connecting the fantastic world on the waterfront of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong was reduced to nothingness in front of everyone's eyes, I once thought that in the following time, I would bid farewell to the cruel destruction and war, and live in a beautiful new era of prosperity, peace and prosperity.

After all, in the era of the Great Crossing that lasted for several years, although the earthlings did have some losses and sacrifices, they were simply not worth mentioning compared to the huge gains. For example, the cold nuclear fusion ark reactor, which represents infinite energy, the exotic otherworldly crops and otherworldly poultry and livestock, and the space-time fortress spaceship macRoss, which can carry thousands of people to the edge of the solar system at once......

Of course, these benefits must belong to my homeland first, but other human beings on the planet can also share the benefits to a greater or lesser extent.

At the same time, with the progress of science and technology, economy and politics all over the world, the problems of hunger, plague and war, which have plagued human civilization for thousands of years and threatened the survival and development of mankind for a long time, have gradually shown signs of being suppressed and resolved in the early years of the 21 st century.

Indeed, the successive terrorist attacks continued to dominate the headlines during those years; In Africa and India in those years, thousands of people were dying of starvation and disease every year. However, compared to the human society of the whole planet, a humanitarian catastrophe of this magnitude can be regarded as a special case at best, and almost all of them are due to human political factors rather than natural disasters that cannot be resisted by man.

Compared with the great famine in Ireland in the 19th century, the great war in ancient Chinese history that halved the population at every turn, the Black Death that broke out again and again in European history, and the great destruction of the American Indians in the white invasion, all of this can really be regarded as a very gentle little problem.

Specifically, hunger, plague, and war, while not yet completely far removed from humanity, have at least gone from an incomprehensible and uncontrollable fate to a challenge that human leaders need to address as human leaders grapple with. In the face of these hungers, pestilences, and wars, humanity no longer has to shrug its shoulders helplessly, believing that it is God's will, or asking a god to save itself, but has set up various committees to study countermeasures.

Now scientists are able to do far more for farmers than God and Buddha. Relying on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, breeding technology, and genetically modified technology, agricultural yields exceeded the highest expectations of ancient farmers from the gods. Although germs continue to evolve drug resistance, with the continuous development of various antibiotics, large-scale plagues other than influenza are still rare, and the era of human helplessness in the face of epidemics has become a thing of the past. The problem of war is the most difficult to solve, but no one can deny that because of the efforts and coordination of the United Nations, the human world after World War II will always be more peaceful than before World War II. And the war has brought less trauma to society than before World War II. The problem of terrorism may seem serious, but it is nothing more than fear-mongering and orchestrating a few horrific performances of violence, rather than causing serious and substantial damage. Compared to the Hun army of Attila, the whip of God, and the bloodthirsty iron cavalry of Genghis Khan, the petty fights of modern terrorists are no different from clowns.

All in all, humanity has not been able to succeed in every challenge because of technological limitations and competing interests, but on the whole, global trade networks in the information age have been able to turn droughts and floods into business opportunities, and to overcome food shortages quickly and cheaply. Even if an entire country is devastated by war, earthquake or tsunami, the international community has usually succeeded in avoiding the excessive ravages of famine and plague, preventing hungry displaced people from eating up everything in their path, and keeping the death toll within a relatively small scale.

Even when I was still in school, the number of people dying from overnutrition in the world was far greater than the number of people dying from malnutrition, the number of people dying from old age, the number of people dying from infectious diseases, the number of people dying by suicide and even the number of people killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined. While the terrorist attacks have been portrayed in the media as horrific, the reality is that everyone is less likely to die from an Ebola or al-Qaeda attack than from overeating McDonald's food.

While hundreds of millions of people on the planet are still hungry every day, in at least half of the world's regions, it is unlikely that even if a person has no job and nothing, they are unlikely to starve to death. The various welfare benefits and job placement provided by the government may not lift him out of poverty or give him a place to live, but at least they will allow him to get enough calories from cheap food to keep him alive.

With the new round of science and technology explosion brought to the earth by the era of the Great Travel, especially the promotion of controllable nuclear fusion technology, and the successful exploitation of helium-3 resources on the moon, it seems that human civilization is about to completely get rid of the shackles of energy problems and rush towards a better new era.

However, the so-called history is a cycle of reincarnation, and when mankind gradually forgets the pain of the past, a new catastrophe will begin to brew silently again...... Class divisions, wealth disparities, ******** and civilizational struggles remain the source of enduring disasters. Advanced science and technology can be used to build homes, and humans can also be used to destroy themselves with greater efficiency. Rapid advances in biotechnology have allowed us to defeat bacteria and viruses, but at the hands of militaries and terrorists, we have also been able to expose humanity to unprecedented and terrifying threats.

-- Just as we warmly celebrate the expedition of the macRoss spacecraft to Europa, the erection of the five-star red flag on the solid ice cap of this ice and snow moon, and the triumphant return of experts and scholars who believe that mankind has stepped out of the cradle of the earth and into the cosmic age, and is about to embark on the journey of the sea of stars. A hellish gate to disaster and destruction has been quietly opened in another 'Europa'......"

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Writing this, Ma Tong suddenly stopped typing with a feeling, and instead clicked [Save] with the mouse, then removed his hands from the keyboard, first stretched his arms and stretched his waist, and then looked up at the choppy sea outside the porthole, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

The passage of time and the pressure of life have left obvious traces on Ma Tong's body, making her from a vigorous and sporty lively girl to a mature and stable middle-aged young woman and a mother of two children.

Among the professional traversers who were once incorporated by the state, except for Wang Qiu, who now knows his life and death and has disappeared without a trace, Ma Tong is relatively mixed with the streets. Neither successfully transitioned into politics nor started his own business and company. Even most of the assets she had accumulated during her adventures in the other world had been wiped out by a sudden financial crisis and stock market crash.

But even so, with the connections he has made in the past and the extraordinary experience of seeing other worlds with his own eyes, Ma Tong has now obtained a stable job with a good salary and has become a well-known non-governmental think tank researcher and media columnist.

At the moment, she is working as a journalist, following a fleet of evacuees destined for Europe, with the destination of the port of Lisbon, the capital of the Portuguese Republic.

It was the first starting point for Europeans to move towards the Age of Discovery, and it was also the last bastion of Europeans against disaster in this nightmare era.

Because, a Resident Evil that has swept Europe, and the ensuing war and catastrophe, is spreading wildly in the current Europa countries......

(End of chapter)

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