35 years of the Xinghai calendar, the home planet Earth.

With the rapid development of human technology, it was already possible to carry out interstellar short-distance travel decades ago, and the curtain of conquest of the sea of stars was lifted in this way.

The development of the new world will always be accompanied by the problem of the distribution of interests, after several concentrated small-scale armed conflicts and large-scale information wars, nearly 200 countries on the earth decided to abandon their previous suspicions and establish a human federation as a community of human interests to jointly develop the boundless universe.

Now, the first phase of the Mars settlement project is nearing completion, and various news programs are constantly reporting the latest conditions on Mars to their compatriots on the home planet.

"At present, about 3 million square kilometers of Mars have been renovated, and various gravity adjustment equipment has gone deep into the ground, and in these 3 million square kilometers, the environment completely simulates the ecological ...... of the earth."

"The fruits of new plants cultivated by botanists on Mars have been tested to meet the standards for human consumption, and some foods have much higher nutrient content than expected......

"Human federal law enforcement recently dismantled an illegal scientific and technological research institute that allegedly participated in the development of a number of prohibited projects, including gene technology, space technology, etc., but law enforcement declined to disclose more information......

A dejected teenager sat on the edge of the bed, stretched out his hand, and the old-fashioned television set in front of him, which was constantly broadcasting various news, was turned off, and the teenager, who had lost the noise, lay on the bed with his head up, and let out a long sigh.

The teenager's name is Zhang Tongtong, who has just graduated from college, and he is unemployed after graduation, and he is worried about his increasingly dry wallet.

Speaking of which, his landing in such a field is inseparable from the Martian immigration plan.

Originally, his parents and his parents were close to each other and ran a highly successful scientific research institution, but more than ten years ago, he was recruited by the federal government to Mars to carry out the first phase of the development project of the Mars Settlement Program.

Moreover, the federal government also classified his parents' research as a top-secret project, and did not allow any contact with the outside world, and Zhang Tongtong's maintenance task was completely attributed to the federal government.

This led to Zhang Tongtong, who was still an adult at the time, becoming the first batch of transplanetary left-behind children in the interstellar era.

Zhang Tongtong remembers that the federal official who picked up his parents at the time told him that if he could one day immigrate to Mars, then he could live with his parents.

Of course, top-secret research projects are still to be kept secret.

"When will we be able to go to Mars?" Zhang Tongtong was lying on the bed, staring at the simulated natural light on the roof, and always felt that the Federation was not very reliable.

I don't know when the federal government will arrange for family immigration, in case I wait for fifty or sixty years, and I can't even catch up with the end of my parents, the joke will be big, so I still have to rely on myself to go to Mars.

But thinking about the price of Martian immigrants, Zhang Tongtong couldn't help but shiver.

It's really a robber who eats and looks in the mirror - the thief looks ugly.

The people who can win the first batch of interstellar immigration qualifications are all rich and wealthy, how can they take their turn to play a small role like themselves, and then think about the low-end jobs with meager salaries to be interviewed tomorrow, Zhang Tongtong felt that his eyes were a little astringent.

Zhang Tongtong rubbed his eyes suspiciously, all the difficulties have come over, so he won't cry when he thinks about it.

Ah, the eyes are really astringent, why don't the tears flow out?

Zhang Tongtong felt as if the moisture in his eyeballs had been drained, and his whole head was dry and painful, which seemed to be a kind of dry pain of a desperate traveler in the desert, a sharp pain of suffocation in the throat of the wind and sand.

Zhang Tongtong staggered out of bed and stumbled towards the faucet, the moist and cool water poured on his head seemed to relieve the dry pain a little.

Call! Damn it!

The surging pain like a wave faded, and Zhang Tongtong recovered from the severe pain, scolded in his heart, and raised his hand to wipe off the remaining water stains on his face.

Well?

Zhang Tongtong, who opened his eyes, felt that the world in his eyes seemed to be different, not the difference with a layer of filters, but the things he saw in front of him, and a strange line of green words appeared above it.

The first thing he saw when he raised his head and opened his eyes was the faucet in front of him, and a small line of green letters hovering above the faucet:

"Faucet, mental power: 0, readable."

What is this?

Zhang Tongtong raised his head in surprise and looked around his room, and all the items in sight were suspended above each with a line of small green letters:

"TV, mental power: 0, readable."

"Bed, mental power: 0, readable."

"Chair, Mental Power: 0, Readable."

……

Mental power? 0？ Reading? What to read?

Zhang Tongtong turned his gaze to the mirror above the faucet, and the top of the mirror also had small green characters written "Glass mirror, spiritual power: 0, readable", but he looked surprised in the mirror, and the green words on the top of his wet head were:

"Zhang Tongtong, mental power: 39/39."

Well? There is no word "previewable", and my mental power is clearly written "39" instead of "0" like tables, chairs and benches, is it because I am a living creature, and tables, chairs and benches are not?

In any case, just give it a try.

Zhang Tongtong couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart, and suspiciously looked at his old-fashioned TV, staring at the line of green characters, his heart moved, thinking about reading, only to see the green words smudged like paint dripping into the clear water, and then his eyes were dark, and a line of simple and desolate big characters slowly appeared in the dark:

"Everything has a lifetime".

There is also a line of words that are a few numbers smaller under this line:

"Television".

Scenes began to appear in front of Zhang Tongtong's eyes, these pictures looked blurry, and when he wanted to look at these pictures carefully, a feeling of dizziness suddenly came from his mind.

Again?

The expected surging pain did not appear, but fainted very crisply.

Zhang Tongtong, who was in a dizziness, felt as if he had a long dream, in which he seemed to have a God's perspective, quietly looking at the picture in front of him.

At the center of the picture is a brand-new television set, which has just come off the assembly line, is being foamed by the packers, packed into cardboard boxes, and transported all the way to the warehouse where the finished TV sets are stacked.

Time seems to be passing quickly, and there are constantly workers coming and going in and out of the warehouse.

Eventually, the packaged TV in the center of the picture was lifted by the workers, and the picture moved as the TV was moved, followed by getting into the car, transporting it, and then moving it to a family and hanging it on the brand new TV wall.

Time seemed to pass faster, and the television set accompanied the family of three for seven or eight years, and the little girl in this family became the big girl, and then the house was sold and replaced by another family to accompany the already somewhat old television set.

The new family seems to have disliked the old TV set, and bought a new ultra-thin TV, which was finally honorably retired and recycled by the merchant at a low price.

The TV began to accumulate dust in the second-hand market, and in the depths of the second-hand market containers, time seemed to freeze, and I don't know how long it had passed, but a young figure appeared in the picture.

Well? Isn't this me?

Zhang Tongtong saw himself appear in the picture, and felt a little novel for a while, only to see that he bargained with the owner of the second-hand market for a while, and then carried the old TV back to the cottage where he lives now.

Time continued to pass, Zhang Tongtong watched himself lying on the bed after watching TV for a while, and suddenly stumbled from the bed to the bathroom washbasin, and then made a move, and finally fainted on his stomach and fell to the ground.

After the TV in the picture and the TV in reality slowly coincided, the picture gradually dimmed until it disappeared, Zhang Tongtong's eyes returned to darkness, and a message appeared in the darkness:

"The end of a lifetime of reading television!"

"Reading the life of an inanimate body, consuming mental power: 0, maximum mental power -1, current mental power 38/38!"

"Reading a TV for a lifetime, you get its ability at random: electromagnetic signal analysis!"