Chapter Twenty-Nine: I'm Delivering Food on Mars
The latest directive from the Earth Command asked Zheng Riqiang to build a Mars base that can accommodate 1,500 people. Learn about the monetary system of Mars.
Obviously, this is an impossible task. To have such a large base, it is necessary to consult with the Martians, who may have the ability. Moreover, there must be a constant supply of oxygen, water and food, otherwise they will not survive even if they reach Mars.
Unless, like the Martians, they are also a person who does not eat color.
However, now that the Martians are doing everything possible to restore these two functions, will humans be willing?
He thought of Confucius Mei again, with her, there was still a chance to discuss, but now, there was no one to discuss.
In a trance, Zheng Riqiang fell asleep and returned to his hometown, his mother was working in the field, planting seedlings, the water in the field was flashing, he could see clearly, he shouted: Mom, I'm back.
It's just that his mother doesn't seem to be able to hear him. He went to another place disappointed, and saw his father smoking a cigarette, and the smoke was filling, and he was plowing the field, and the sound of the bullwhip breaking through the air was very loud, of course, it was all false, and it did not fall on the ox.
He shouted again: Dad, I'm back.
However, his father did not seem to hear him, and was still plowing the field.
Zheng Riqiang was very disappointed, returned to Mars, picked up the telescope, and looked at the starry sky of the universe.
His soul flew in the sky, he galloped, reached the edge of the universe, wrote "Zheng Riqiang traveled everywhere" there, and came back.
After a while, he shuttled through the colorful streets, which were the streets of Mars: Forest Avenue.
It is said to commemorate the heroes.
The streets are bustling, beautiful, and full of people. He sat on the electric car and watched the countless neon lights flashing on the street, which read: Heaven and Earth Club.
On the streets, many blue Martians (why were Martians blue at that time) walked around with expressionless faces. On the road, cars come and go. In the sky, countless flying objects are flying quickly and silently.
Waiting for a meal at a restaurant (wait, isn't Mars devoid of food?) Where did the restaurant come from? The chef was slow, and he looked helplessly at the distant sky, starry.
Next to it is a newsstand with a wide variety of newspapers and periodicals. He picked up a copy of "Mars Daily", took a cursory look, and saw that the 61st edition had an eye-catching title: Today's Mars Group Completes the 16th Round of Financing.
Zheng Riqiang got on the electric car and started delivering food (strangely, recently, he always dreamed of delivering couriers).
The street sign calendar shows that it is Mars 1048, which is 490 B.C. on Earth.
Drones are a must-have for every food delivery person (at that time, the Titans didn't know how to fly), and they generally used drones to deliver food downstairs. Save yourself the hard work of climbing the stairs.
At that time, the house on Mars would split a special place on the balcony to facilitate the take-off and landing of drones.
It has become the standard configuration of a house, just like the toilet, the air conditioner, and the balcony hanger in the earthling's house.
In Mars, when you are decorating a house, the decorator will ask you: where is the drone?
It was a plan that almost died.
Last spring, Kuaikuai also wanted to launch a "no delivery" delivery program, where takeaway goes directly from the kitchen into the drone and is delivered to the orderer.
This is a very great initiative, the orderer, that is, the customer, as long as they download the app of the food delivery company, and then release the receiving address to the drone.
For this reason, all walks of life rejoiced, from now on there will be no courier brother running a red light, violating traffic rules, at that time, there are only countless drones, buzzing in the sky busy shuttle.
However, the plan was stillborn before it could be launched.
The Mars Food Delivery Association lodged a solemn protest, and the use of machines to deprive workers of jobs has been widely criticized.
Subsequently, the Mars Environmental Protection Association also issued a statement that they cannot tolerate deafening disturbance sounds in the sky when people need to be quiet (the first, second and third generation drones are noisy).
Finally, the competent authorities claimed that the app of the food delivery company was suspected of obtaining unnecessary user information in violation of regulations, and disappeared without being put on the shelves.
In the end, everyone took half a step back, and the food delivery guy was still busy, but drones have also become a standard.
As developers, they vented their anger on the delivery boy, and greatly reduced the delivery time of the takeaway, for example, the original delivery time of an order was 30 minutes, but now it is 16 minutes.
The takeaway guy nominally won, but in fact he worked harder.
Zheng Riqiang rode on the car, the road was bumpy, the road was full of potholes, there were still workers to repair, but I heard that the end of Mars was coming, and all the construction workers went home and waited for death.
Half a year ago, the newspaper said that in six months, a powerful solar flare was approaching, and all 200 million Martians would die.
It also makes sense for the road workers to strike, when is a road not disemboweled, there are always a dozen times a year, municipal, telecommunications, pipeline gas, electricity, endlessly.
Even the landscape trees on the side of the road have barely survived for more than two years, and there are always people who dig them up from time to time and replace them with new species.
Zheng Riqiang's first stop for fast food delivery was an office building in the high-tech development zone.
It's a little spooky and inaccessible, and the average delivery person is reluctant to take orders there.
I heard that the company opened there either for the sake of low rent or to obtain national research funds.
There are more than 100 "high-tech" enterprises of all kinds, some of which are "turning water into oil", some are researching "perpetual motion machines", and some are researching "time and space shuttle".
The person who ordered the food was on the 118th floor, and it was also 10 o'clock in the morning, which was the time when the drone could be used.
Of course, drones are not available anywhere during this time period, not during school classes, which can seriously affect the classroom and cause strong complaints.
He put the takeaway on the drone, delivered it to the customer, and came to a nearby building, which is a very famous IT company wolf totem.
In fact, there are reasons why food delivery people are reluctant to go to the high-tech zone. Due to excessive pressure, in the past three years, four young people jumped from the roof and window of the building and ended their lives.
So, even walking on the side has a bit of an eerie feeling.
In that enterprise that believes in "wolf nature", it is common for the company to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Zheng Riqiang still used a drone to deliver the takeaway, and came to the third food delivery point, which was a film and television company: sister film and television company.
It is often said that if you are lucky, you can meet a beautiful actress at the door or on the road.
If you're lucky, you can get an autograph.
If you're lucky, you can take a photo with a celebrity.
Therefore, many takeaway guys are willing to take orders here.
However, the system will consider it holistically, if you take the order here, you have to match it with the order of the high-tech zone and the IT company wolf totem, this kind of "mix and match" makes many takeaway brothers shy away.
Zheng Riqiang came here to deliver takeaways, not because he liked it here, on the contrary, he was disgusted with the actresses of the sister film and television company.
Because a newspaper broke the news, the actress there has a daily salary of 4 million Martian coins (note, it is per day), that is, a monthly salary of 12 million Martian coins, which is too exciting in front of Martians with an average monthly salary of 6,000 Martian coins.
There are three orders here, and he sent them up with a drone.
Since it also belongs to the high-tech zone, the enterprises in it also have tax incentives and even subsidies, so there are more than 100 film and television companies, such as the very famous Good Luck Film and Television, Tan Film and Television, and so on.
Zheng Riqiang shook his head, looking at the messy row of bicycles on the side of the road, a little dazed.
It was a "bike-sharing" launched by a company, but less than five months later, they retreated, and the local area was struggling with how to park the thousands of bikes.
The screen on the street corner is a video of "Mars' 175th Idol Star Training Camp", and several men wearing heavy makeup are scratching their heads and posing.
Looking at a few artists who were squeezing their eyebrows, he made a decision that would affect his life almost instantly.