Chapter 13: A World Without Food
Zheng Riqiang hurriedly asked: Are you the one who spoke to me outside?
Hoan said: Yes.
Zheng Riqiang said: Since you can all talk in the air, why do you still come to us?
Huo An said: You are outside, the electromagnetic shielding effect is not so good, not to mention that you have to communicate with your earth, so we can transmit sound through the air. But when you entered the aircraft, the electromagnetic shielding was too strong for us to transmit sound through the air, so we had to come in.
Zheng Riqiang said: If you have nothing to do, you will go to the Three Treasures Palace, do you have anything to do?
Hoan said: Of course! I hope you can give up eating like us Martians?
Zheng Riqiang and Kong Yuemei looked at each other: how can they give up because of their chromophobia?
Huo An said: Everyone foresees that this cave is too small, and people can hide from the first day of the new year but not the fifteenth, because there is no food or drink in it, and it will be a dead end sooner or later for 160 years.
Zheng Riqiang said: 150,000 people live in a cave, which is indeed small and the resources are insufficient.
Luckily, we have a high-tech product: Mars One. After the injection of this potion, the person does not feel hungry. So, we put up a notice at the entrance of the cave:
The person who enters the cave must give up the eating function, do you still continue?
Only after everyone agrees and signs the contract, can you enter the cave.
Some State institutions and staff have survived. But after entering the cave, we injected everyone in the cave with a potion called "Mars One".
After the injection, I will not feel hungry anymore, and the problem of eating and drinking will be solved.
However, we found that people spent more time doing that activity without diet.
That kind of activity had serious consequences, the birth rate of babies increased dramatically, and although there was "Mars One", people did not need to eat, but the population was growing and there was less and less room for survival.
Moreover, due to the widespread desire of people, cases derived from this are endless. Let's make a statistic, the contradictions derived from people, food accounts for 23%, and that kind of thing is 51%!
Suffice it to say that without these two things, most of the conflict between people can be reduced.
So, scientists invented "Mars II" and injected it, so that people would not have any desire and would not reproduce, so that the population of the cave could be kept fairly stable.
The skin also became light blue.
Zheng Riqiang said: If the population keeps dying, won't the population of the cave end up to zero?
Huo An said: No, the technology before we entered the cave has made the average life expectancy reach 170 years (Martian years), and later, we stepped up our research, at present, the life span of Martians has exceeded 1400 years (Martian years), unless they are killed and commit suicide, people basically will not die.
Moreover, we have a special human creation agency that regularly replenishes those who have been executed.
Zheng Riqiang said: You mean that if there is no human intervention, the Martians will live forever?
Hoan said: That's right.
Kong Yuemei is a little interested: No need to eat and drink, immortality?
Hoan said: Yes. This is a skewed achievement.
Zheng Riqiang was silent. Immortality has always been the dream of earthlings.
Like Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu Dongdu to ask for immortal medicine, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty loved pills, and so on.
In 2009, the Russian scientist Anatoly? Bronkov, found an immortal bacterium in the Siberian mammoth.
This bacterium has survived in the soil layer for 3.5 million years.
In 2013, he injected himself with this "immortal bacteria"! Subsequently, a 45-year-old German beauty model Manush also took the initiative to apply for the injection of this "immortal bacteria".
Some say the bold scientist is expected to live to be 160 years old.
I didn't expect the Martians to be as good as the others, far ahead of the earthlings.
Zheng Riqiang said: Immortality, and there can be no food. Looks cool, at what cost?
Huo An said: When people are in need, they often do whatever it takes. When you install a piece of software, the system doesn't pop up from time to time, what permissions do you need? Even though this "need" has nothing to do with the software, we "agreed to continue", is this not an option?
Is it necessary to call permissions such as microphones, contacts, text messages, and photo albums?
Zheng Riqiang was thoughtful.
Huo An said: Now people have nothing to do, sleep all day, travel, play, watch TV, and play chess.
Three months for a game, 17,000 episodes for a soap opera, and a month for a game of chess...... People don't eat, drink, have no desires, and rely on getting an injection every once in a while to solve the problem of food and color.
The cave is a sleeping city, and people can only sleep upside down in order to pass the long night, and the longest sleep is 3 years (Martian years), which is unimaginable for earthlings.
Martian scientists have invented a potion called "Mars III", a potion that can put people to sleep for 3 years!
Zheng Riqiang asked: That means, although the people in the cave are more than 1,400 years old, they don't eat, drink, have no desire, and just don't eat and drink?
Huo An said: Isn't that bad? In ancient times on earth, if you enter the palace as a eunuch and be castrated, are there still people who rush to it? What you don't like, not all people don't like.
Zheng Riqiang said: That's the same.
"In order to maintain this function, each person has to get an injection every (Martian) year," Huo An said.
Zheng Riqiang said: This is the purpose of your visit today, right?
Hoan said: Yes. I am the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mars, and I am very grateful that you did not declare the occupation of Mars as directed by Earth, and I hope you will join us.
Confucius said: It seems quite interesting.
Huo An said: If you join the Martian Nation, you can have a lifespan of at least 1400 (Mars) years and more, just like the Martians.
Zheng Riqiang said: The price is no food and no desire?
Hoan said: That's right.
Zheng Riqiang said: Ah, this is too sudden, you let us think about it.
Hoan said, "I invite you to go to the cave."
Zheng Riqiang said: Go to the cave to see? How do we find you?
Huo An said: You go outside and call me, and I will know.
With that, he left.
Huo An didn't want any protection, as if he wasn't afraid of the cold and didn't need oxygen. As soon as he stepped out of the spaceship, he immediately turned into a flying man like a bird, and flew away without a trace.
Back on the ship, the two were silent.
Zheng Riqiang said: It looks beautiful, but when I think about it, I feel that something is wrong.
They provide a life without food and color, live forever, and rely on one injection per year.
Moreover, if we refuse to give us an injection every other year, will we be firmly controlled by refusing to give us an injection if we don't listen to you?
Confucius said: They have to execute "prisoners" every year, are they people who disagree with them?
Zheng Riqiang said: I feel that this is a kind of control. There is a kind of martial arts novel on Earth, which is very similar to the current Mars: the Martians are controlled by the rulers with drugs.
Their injections are a bit like the "Lu Ding Ji" leopard fetal I Ching pills, this medicine can strengthen people's bodies within a year, but if the antidote is not taken at the end of the year, the violent toxicity will come out, and the skin of the whole body will be dripping with blood, which is very painful.
Another example is the life and death talisman of "Tianlong Babu", which is a hidden weapon used by Tianshan Tong, the palace master of the Vulture Palace of the Easy Sect. The middle cannot survive and die.
It is more like the Three Corpse Brain Divine Pill in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", which is a secret weapon used by the Sun Moon Divine Sect to control its elders. Once it is in the brain, the person who takes this medicine will act like a ghost, and even the closest person will bite and eat it.
Confucius Mei shuddered: Don't say it.
Zheng Riqiang said: What do they think?
Kong Yuemei thought about it and said: I don't understand why some people regard controlling others as the joy of life and the goal of life.
Zheng Riqiang said: There is nothing strange, just like many people now regard making money as an extraordinary success.
Kong Yuemei said: The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, some are anti-war backbones, and some are war maniacs.
Zheng Riqiang said: There are also those who are indifferent to fame and fortune. I'm reminded of someone, Tim? Lee, in 1989, he invented the broadband network (WWW), but he chose not to apply for a patent, arguing that more money is not always better.
You know, if he applies for a patent, he can also become the richest man in the world, but Tim firmly refuses.
Sometimes, some of the choices are really puzzling. Such as ***, Zhao Shangzhi, Zhao Yiman, ***, for the sake of national liberation, they face torture and regard death as home.
Zheng Riqiang was thinking about why Huo An would come to visit at this time, and what was his purpose?
I only heard Kong Yuemei shouting in surprise again: Oh no, no, Zheng Riqiang, you come soon, something is wrong.