He is a human being, from Earth.

He loved the sky, where he had countless dreams.

The brightly lit streets, the confused scenery on the side of the road, and the bustling crowd of people, they are all cranky.

His name is Cactus, a prodigal son, but he is not a prodigal son, but he has the title of a prodigal son. If the girl in the cactus mind had a name, it should be called agave, he thought.

He has always had such a plot, he has a pot of flowers at home, which is a cactus, but the cactus in his house never blooms, so that he thinks it can't bloom. Of these two plants, one is a cactus and the other is an agave.

But at this time, the cactus looked at the street full of people, and he couldn't find a place to rest, and his eyes were tired and fell down when he saw the beautiful woman. By the way, today he didn't come to see a beautiful woman, he came to find someone.

At this time, the cactus squatted in the goldsmith shop and looked out the window, and then set his eyes on the shop. The owner of the goldsmithing shop knew something, although they didn't know him.

"I've been standing for a long time. The gold, silver, and jewels in this gold shop are extremely valuable, but I have no blessing to consume. The cactus muttered to pass the time.

"I remember reading a magazine when I was a kid and there was a main character named Donald Duck. He has all kinds of jewels in his treasury. Gold, silver, or sapphires, emeralds, and rubies, and pearls, were placed in huge chests that were like storehouses for grain, and the largest number of pearls were placed in chests as tall as an entire apartment. ”

"Reading the magazine, it says that after watching the animation for a long time, you can have faith, is my faith just the countless treasures of those big houses?"

"If I had, I'd have sold them all. I'm not a loser, it's just that I'd love to buy a spaceship of my own. Maybe the name is too old-fashioned, if there is a good name, in terms of the scientific name in the book, it should be called a space shuttle. ”

The person the cactus wanted to wait for hadn't come yet, so he could only think of something strange to pass the time.

"Since the advent of the cloned flesh industry on Earth, once a person is nearing the end of his life, he or she can keep his mind and soul stored in a new cloned body, so that life can continue. But such a reincarnation of a flesh spirit requires millions of A.D. coins at a time. It's just that this business is monopolized by a group of large conglomerates that dominate the entire earth, the 'Punk Brothers'. On the contrary, their business is very good, accounting for countless branches in the world. ”

Thinking of this, Cactus reminded him of his previous profession, that is, his career as a manager in a city of books with many readers in a bustling city. But before that, he was an interstellar mercenary who fought across the galaxy.

That is to say, when human beings stepped out of the earth and went to the universe to develop resources, they found out how vast and rich the universe was, and many entrepreneurs did not hesitate to use their family property to trade with interstellar mercenaries for the resources of distant planets, so interstellar mercenaries moved from the past war on land to countless uninhabited but mineral-rich planets in the vast universe.

But suddenly, the man who was waiting for the cactus had arrived at the goldsmith's shop, one of the leaders of the many interstellar professional mercenaries. It's just that what can make the cactus feel more appreciative is that he has a battleship of his own, but this guy has a very nice name for his battleship, called Moon Dance Sky.

When the man arrived at the store, he did not see a cactus, but he looked at a gold necklace a little thicker than his thumb in front of the container with great interest, and it looked like he wanted to buy it.

"Dude, you're here." The cactus stepped forward and greeted the man.

The man came back to his senses, glanced at the cactus, continued to look at the gold necklace in his hand, and then said to the cactus casually: "Yo, you are here, let's go." ”

At this time, although the cacti didn't know where they were going, they still asked, "Is it a mysterious place?" ”

The man said nonchalantly, "It's pretty much the same, but let's follow me quietly." ”

The cactus was a little nervous, and suddenly made a thief's look, followed the man, and walked to an elevator leading to the upper floors of the building in the goldsmith shop.

The man looked at him and said, "You are a thief, take it easy, understand?" ”

So the cactus could only walk slowly after him. Along the way, there were many good-looking girls secretly sending autumn waves to this person, but the cactus found that they were all staring at a large diamond ring with twenty carats in this person's hand.

Then they boarded the elevator, went to the top floor, and went to the rooftop.

At this time, the cactus whispered to himself, "This is the rooftop?" It turned out to be an open-air café. It's night, maybe you can admire the moon, but it's very emotional to drink coffee, and the melodious saxophone music floats in the dim air, making people feel an inexplicable depression. ”

There are a total of twelve tables on the rooftop, each with six seats. But now there are only three strangers sitting at the same coffee table. One of them was holding a cigar, another was drinking coffee, and the other was sipping a glass of wine.

The man walked over to them, greeted them, and beckoned the cactus to come and sit down.

At this moment, the man was handing the three men a few very mellow cigars, while fireworks were being lit downstairs, which turned to bloom over the city.

The cactus wondered, if the inhabitants of the moon could see the beautiful fireworks through the clean atmosphere at this time?

Although the cactus introduced itself to them briefly, the three men just listened and didn't say anything, just nodded shallowly.

But with the mobilization of the fat man, everyone began to chat, and they talked about the changes in the earth and the stars, but not only on the earth, but about the whole galaxy.

The cacti heard from them that, according to an interstellar civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy, the name of the galaxy in which the Earth is located is called the primordial galaxy, that is, Galaxy Zero.

And if this interstellar civilization is translated in Indonesian, it is KoperasiUnitDesa, and Chinese is rural cooperative, so the name of this interstellar civilization is very strange, so the earthlings call it KUD civilization.

The cactus asked curiously, "Galaxy Zero, meaning that it is a very important galaxy?" If this KUD civilization is very large, perhaps they already know that there are many galaxies inhabited by intelligent civilizations. ”

It was only at this time that one of the three men present said: "This civilization's interstellar army has been stationed on more than 10 million of the 10,000 galaxies in the Andromeda galaxy with intelligent civilizations. ”

Hearing this, the cactus association gave way to something, so he asked them: "Then is this KUD civilization stationed here on Earth?" ”

One of the three men said, "Of course, they're preparing to do that." ”

At this time, a wave of vanity suddenly appeared in the cactus, so he said: "I don't agree with any interstellar civilization stationing on Earth, what's the difference between that and interstellar colonization?" ”

The three men were amused by the little childishness of the cactus, so one of them said, "That's why we, the authorities of the United Earth Force, are also discussing countermeasures, consulting with them peacefully, and stepping up strategic preparations for global armaments." A cutting-edge think tank of 10,000 people and a strategy group of 21 diplomats were formed to deal with the situation. ”

Hearing this, the cactus thought for a while, since they had the strength to colonize so many galaxies, wouldn't it be easy to take the earth? So he told them what he thought.

Everyone was very uncomfortable when they heard this, but they looked like they wanted to cry without tears, as if the end was coming.

The cactus realizes that they will not get into a war and that they may lose the end, but he still thinks that even if they struggle weakly, they still have to fight.

It's just that they saw the cactus's mind and said: "According to the news, in the star field a trillion light years away from our galaxy, there is an interstellar civilization called the Mora Shi Realm, if there is a conflict between the earth civilization and the KUD civilization, then we may have to ask for their help, but I don't know what the price is." ”

After hearing this, the cactus thought, the biggest price is not to let the Mora civilization get some benefits, but in this way, can the interstellar legion of the Mora civilization be able to rush to the earth from such a distant place? So he told the three men in the room and the man who had brought him here.

One of the three men said: "What the Mora Realm needs most is not land, but water, if we need their help in the conflict with the KUD civilization, then once this deal is reached, they may demand two-thirds of the water in the earth's sea, but this is terrible, the earth's biosphere will shrink across the board, and neither animals nor humans can live on the earth." Although our Earth Epoch has now expanded to the entire galaxy, the Earth is our home, and no one is happy that our home has been ruined. ”

"That doesn't seem like a solution, does it?" The cactus said uncomfortably.

At this time, it was late at night, and only a lone lamp flickered faintly. During the late summer and autumn solstice seasons, a mass of mosquitoes surrounds the fluorescent lamp and makes the sound of hitting the lampshade. They chatted for too long and yawned, so the cactus called the waiter and ordered five cups of caron, but the consumption was very expensive.

As they sip their coffee, the cactus reflects on how the earth has changed over the years.

The entire kingdom of the earth has unified its currency, and people call it the Common Era, and a hundred Yuan can be exchanged for one gram of pure gold. Moreover, there has been no financial crisis in the Earth Epoch for centuries, and there is no inflation or deflation, and the economy is very stable. This has created a very developed cutting-edge scientific and technological strength, and has developed a wide range of military science and technology and civilian science and technology.

Not only that, the poets praise this beautiful world, but at the same time they groan in the pain of this world, make those beautiful sounds, and those poems, so that people can temporarily rest in the restlessness and throbbing of the world.

This sky is no longer anyone's sky, it is no longer the sky of a particular person. To be precise, there is a breath of freedom in such a sky. Scientists or artists, military strategists or politicians, industrialists or entrepreneurs, even students and children, they all thrive in the arms of Mother Earth.

The occupations in the Earth world have been subdivided into more than 100,000 occupations, but there is a big gap between the rich and the poor. Cactus is a wanderer, so he doesn't have a profession, all he can do is find what different groups of people want to buy in stores around the galaxy when he is a professional mercenary, and then sell it on consignment.

But today, today's Earth Epochal realm is about to usher in a challenge, the onslaught of a powerful extraterrestrial civilization. No matter what kind of interstellar civilization, they don't want to be colonized by other civilizations, and the earth civilization has not colonized other civilizations since it stepped into the interstellar era, and even if it is a planet with only primitive animals, it is only doing some shallow mining and mining.

Today, there are hundreds of thousands of artificially developed planets on the planets where earthlings have immigrated, and the total earthlings have nearly exceeded 10 trillion. Of course, there are also those aliens who were excited and boldly imagined by children thousands of years A.D., and they also live with them.

At first, the creatures of the extraterrestrial civilizations that came into contact with the earthlings all looked strange, but the earthlings came up with an interesting idea. Using their science and technology, they created human shells, giving ugly-looking creatures the appearance of humans. Of course, they have not found any third-sex creatures until now, that is, those strange creatures, although very different from humans, at least have a male and a female gender.

Thinking back to this, he woke up, the people this person brought him to chat with today can't be creatures of other civilizations, right?

The cactus leaned sideways and asked the man if they were aliens. The man smiled happily and said to the three men, "Hey, my friend Cactus asked me if you were aliens. Look, he hasn't seen what aliens look like. ”

(My words: "This chapter has been revised four times, and it looks pretty good.") ”）