Chapter 65: The "Cancer" of Civilization

After closing his eyes, concentrating, imagining, and opening his eyes as usual, Du Jin came back to the world of the blood seal, but at least Du Jin now doesn't have to worry about seeing a certain corpse mutant gnawing at him when he opens his eyes, after all, he has left the "Eden" Demon Cave, although I don't know if it is the right choice to come to the warship that he knows nothing about, but at least now, Du Jin does not have to worry about being "in a different place" anytime and anywhere.

When Du Jin opened his eyes for the first time, the slightly noisy voice in the cabin reached his ears, he first looked at Li Mengyan beside him with a little nervousness, but it was very unfortunate that Li Mengyan was not in her place now, and before Du Jin could ask, a slightly playful voice came from the other side of Du Jin's seat:

"Major, she went to talk to the captain of this search and rescue team, and specially asked me to "take care" of you here, Dr. Du Jin, you can rest assured. ”

Du Jin turned his head to look and found that the owner of the voice was McCass, he slowly suppressed the tension in his heart, and replied with some embarrassment:

"Ugh....... Okay, I just found out that she wasn't there, and I was a little worried........

McCasses nodded, at this time, the cabin of the Brown Bear III. heavy armored transport spaceship was not as silent as in the ordinary military aircraft, McCass's guards who survived the catastrophe had become familiar with Xiang Yuan's armed reconnaissance troops, after all, in space, there was no difference between meeting humans and meeting long-lost fellows, at least in the extremely silent and lonely environment in space, the relationship between people had been very close.

But the content of their chat is only about some worthless situations and previous experiences, for the details of those corpse variants, McCas's soldiers are still tight-lipped because they know that this is their return to the Ganymede colony, and Xiang Yuan's soldiers didn't ask much, looking at this peaceful scene, Du Jin's heart finally calmed down, at least there will be no sudden shooting at each other, as long as they can safely reach the huge colony he saw before, He can have a lot of leeway.

Of course, Du Jin is most curious about the colony or its own technology, after all, in the present world, let alone Jupiter, even the moon of the blue star cannot colonize on it, at most, let humans go up to take a look, and then drop the rover to go around the moon to "go around", only the back of the moon hidden in the "shadow", human beings are still a little difficult to actually touch this area, And compared with the Interstellar Federation, the gap is self-evident.

Judging from the current space process that Du Jin has learned, the four closest regions are: near-Earth space, the Moon, the asteroid belt, and Mars.

Basically: Blue Star-Satellite-Space Station: Earth's satellites serve the ground directly, and the space station prepares for colonizing the moon for the purpose of reaching a transit station.

Moon-satellite-space station-base: The moon's satellite is mainly used to contact signals and explore landforms, and the space station is also used as a transit station to contact the Blue Star space station.

There is a thing on the moon called helium-3 that can be used as nuclear fusion fuel, there is very little helium-3 that can be directly used by the blue star, there are many on the moon, and these are transported to the blue star, and the nuclear fusion reactor technology breakthrough, this fuel will be sent to a new type of nuclear power plant, after solving the energy problem, you can develop nuclear-powered rockets, nuclear-powered rockets have greater thrust, which means that people can use larger rockets, and after having a larger large cargo spacecraft, they can carry out deep space space colonization.

Asteroid belt - satellite - space station - mining base: The planetary belt has a large number of resources to explore, where humans can build large space mines to collect asteroid resources and transport them to Earth and Mars.

To sum it up: Moon: Nuclear Fuel-Resource Point, Asteroid: Space Mineral-Resource Point

And the basis of all this is not based on stellar space colonization, all of this is also to prepare for the future space "colonization era", after all, at that time, countries will not only be confined to the territory on the blue star, and interstellar space colonization is impossible to achieve in the current technical scope. Relying on the existing technology and looking forward to the future of technological progress, even if the interplanetary space colonization in the solar system is estimated to take a hundred years of foreshadowing, and this is all under the condition that world peace does not break out into a nuclear war, otherwise everything will be equivalent to a game over.

The first problem to overcome in interplanetary colonization in the solar system is the problem of energy and artificial intelligence: after all, breakthroughs in energy and artificial intelligence technology will directly rewrite the growth direction and underlying logic of the human technology tree, and directly lead to breakthroughs in space exploration, philosophy, and machinery.

If controlled fusion technology can be put into practice, it will directly change the current basic model of industrial and agricultural production. At the agricultural level, an unlimited, cheap, and clean supply of energy can directly industrialize agricultural production. Once the problem of unlimited food supply is solved, most of the disputes in the world today will have some kind of technical solution. (Of course, there are many more other aspects of the problem..............)

When there is a solution to the basic problem of human survival, artificial intelligence technology can follow up and solve more derivative problems. Artificial intelligence can replace most of the simple and repetitive tasks and release a large number of young and middle-aged laborers. Because the food problem has been solved, the problem of food and clothing, lust and lust must be kept up in time, otherwise there will be other complex social problems, such as a certain island today.................

With the combination of artificial intelligence technology and unlimited clean energy, outer space exploration and deep space exploration will become an inevitable choice. It is difficult for the human social system to have subversive changes in the short term, so the best carrier for channeling and relocating those social contradictions that will inevitably arise is the development of the solar system, with unlimited clean energy, and with the help of artificial intelligence technology, at least interplanetary exploration and immigration are feasible. New adventures and explorations bring new unknowns and discoveries, as well as new morals and philosophies.

In order to complete the interplanetary voyage in a meaningful time, the power (energy) problem must be solved. In the current scope of science and technology, the commercial popularization of controlled nuclear fusion technology is a prerequisite, when human beings can build colonies in the solar system, it means that the moon, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter's satellite systems, asteroid belts and other regions are widely distributed with long-term self-sustaining human settlements, and there will be regular air routes between the settlements for personnel and material exchanges. This technological capability means that humans can transport thousands or even tens of thousands of tons of payloads from one planet to another in a meaningful amount of time at a time.

Let's assume that if we can complete a one-way flight from Earth to Mars in six months with a spacecraft that can carry 1,500 people and supporting supplies, it means that human technology has changed from quantitative to qualitative, and at least the following technical levels have been upgraded---- that is, it can transport materials from the ground to low earth orbit efficiently, cheaply, and on a large scale.

There is a long-term operation in low-earth orbit and a space station with a considerable scale: from the current development, the Xia country where Du Jin is located in the current world has the ability to build and maintain a space station in low-earth orbit that can operate for a long time, but it has a considerable scale to say, and from the perspective of rocket technology, it is still an inefficient way to launch chemical rocket sports materials into low-earth orbit, and the space elevator is a feasible technical path. But this relies on the invention of new materials.

How to solve the long-term survival of human beings in weightlessness and low gravity environment is also a key breakthrough. Artificial gravity in a zero-gravity environment is also a solution, but it is not possible on other planets, and similarly, the ability to commercially manufacture interplanetary spacecraft engines on a large scale, which is also the basis for the flow of people and materials in space, to be able to depart from the Earth or the Moon and reach other planets in the solar system in a few months, requires an interplanetary spaceship engine, and the ability to build such an engine, even if optimistically estimated, is unlikely to be possible within 50 years.

And the most important thing about colonization is to have a population, and to be able to fool hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to semi-permanently or even permanently leave the life of Blue Star, it needs a grand vision, as well as supporting short-term goals, otherwise these people can live well in Blue Star, why should they abandon their families and careers to adventure on other uncivilized colonial planets?

In short, Du Jin realized more and more clearly that if the human beings in the current world want to enter the era of space colonization, I am afraid it will take a long time, and the gap between the ninth-level civilization that can completely control the planetary resources in the star is only to reach the ninth-level civilization.

In the microscopic aspect, a large number of molecular-level operations can already be carried out, and various molecular-level materials, and even molecular-level robots, can be created. On the macro side, it has been possible to draw a complete map of the solar system, and has begun to approach and explore the sun in the solar system, the main star and the only star itself. The footsteps of civilization have almost traveled all over the entire solar system, and a complete ecological environment suitable for civilization to live on several planets close to the home planet has been established, and people in the civilization have begun to immigrate to space, and they can already live and live on other planets in the solar system.

The planet-integrated shield has been built, spaceships have been created, and people in civilization can get on spaceships, leave the blue star, and go anywhere in the solar system at will, and the maximum speed of the spaceship can reach 1,000 kilometers per second. Civilization began to explore preliminarily, studied the invention of space warships, has mastered the technology of controllable nuclear fission and controllable nuclear fusion, and has been able to initially achieve direct intake of energy from the sun as a star, this civilization period, the fastest aircraft invented can reach a speed of 3000 kilometers per second, has reached one percent of the speed of light, and began to explore the mystery of the speed of light, began to study how to approach the speed of light or even reach the speed of light, and only in this way can civilization be able to carry out a wider range of interstellar voyages in the universe.

This period can be regarded as a civilization that has surpassed the planetary level, and officially stepped into the stellar civilization, various energy weapons, began large-scale research and development, and began to explore how to leave the star system where they are located, so as to enter a larger spatial structure in the universe like the Milky Way. Because civilization has been able to directly develop and utilize the stellar resources on its own star system, the life of people in the civilization will also develop in the direction of energy, virtualization, and interstellarization, and civilization will study a lot of mysteries in energy, and has explored the relationship between science, physics, mathematics, philosophy, and theology.

"Alas, if there is also a "blood moon" formed by the combination of blood marks and corpse variants in the current universe, how can the blue star that has not entered the space age fight against it? ”

Thinking of these hidden dangers, Du Jin felt a chill, he quickly suppressed the thoughts in his heart, otherwise relying only on his own thinking would greatly shake his confidence and determination, and at this time Li Mengyan also opened the alloy hatch before the cabin and the cockpit and walked back, you know, although it is called the cockpit, but its area is not much smaller than the cockpit where Du Jin is, whether it is the crew's rest room, or the washing room, even the entertainment room, there is everything, and there is a small combat command room, In general, this Brown Bear III heavy armored transport spacecraft can fully act as a mobile command center if necessary, but due to its size, the number and accuracy of command compared to the battleship are still insurmountable.

But it is more than enough for Xiang Yuan's armed reconnaissance team, Li Mengyan has already talked to Xiang Yuan, although no one knows the specific content of the conversation, but at this time, Du Jin looked at Li Mengyan's slightly smiling expression, and knew that the conversation between the two seemed to be very smooth, seeing that Du Jin had woken up, Li Mengyan re-seated and said to Du Jin with care:

"It's only been more than ten minutes, Du Jin, have you woken up? Don't take a break for a while? ”

Du Jin shook his head and moved his wrist before responding:

"No, I'm worried about too many things now, but I'll have nightmares, wait until I get to that warship to see the situation, I can't remember my previous relationships and relationships now, I'm afraid everything will have to start again, I have to think about countermeasures quickly!"

Li Mengyan hesitated a little when she heard Du Jin's words, then she looked at the people nearby, and approached Du Jin's ear and hinted in advance:

"Don't worry, at least on the Xunyang that we are about to go to, there are my people there, there will be no risk."

Feeling the heat in his ears, Du Jin's face turned slightly red, he nodded a little hurriedly to indicate that he heard it, fortunately, Li Mengyan was no different from Du Jin in this regard, and did not notice some ambiguity in his behavior just now, and sat up straight, Du Jin waited until the embarrassment on his face was eliminated, and then he turned his head and said to Li Mengyan:

"Will there be interference from the Unified Church and the Federation in that colony near us? Although we escaped from the attack of these corpse mutants, I am afraid that it will also have a great impact on us. ”

Li Mengyan wiped her gun with a sponge-like object with an indifferent expression, she stared at the federal emblem engraved on the butt of the gun for a while, and responded with a hint of indifference:

"Du Jin, what you are talking about should be the Ganymede colony, its governor was previously under the camp of the Xia Kingdom, although the Ganymede colony was openly incorporated into the Federation after that war, but fundamentally, this colony still maintains a certain distance from the Federation, and the Federation is hindered by the huge population and armament of the Ganymede colony, the autonomy here is very high, and it will not be affected by the Federation a lot, as long as we don't know how to provoke, it is still difficult for those politicians in the Federation to find us trouble."

"Xia Guo's camp? But didn't the federation eliminate the distinction between countries before it was integrated? ”

Du Jin asked with some shock, in his previous conjecture, since the Federation can integrate so many planets and armies, then the previous probability of the country should have been basically eliminated and it should be in a state of great unification, but Li Mengyan's "revelation" made him suddenly a little "unacceptable", and hearing Du Jin's doubts, Li Mengyan snorted lightly, and then said with regret:

"Du Jin, what you have learned is just the statement announced by the Federation, although the previous war completely crushed the space power of country M and dispersed it into various independent small individuals, but at that time, the strength of the Xia country was also greatly weakened, although the fleets of other countries were also greatly damaged, but they were not without the slightest combat effectiveness, under the desire for power, they picked up the set of the United Security Council that was still in the Blue Star period, hoping to balance the previous military and political strength of all countries, On the surface, it is on the grounds of human development, but in fact they are just trying to make profits in a different way.

At that time, in order to prevent the people and colonies in his star field from accepting the threat of war, the Xia State could only take the pan-Asian camp led by himself and join the United Security Council, which is the predecessor of the current Interstellar Federation, but in order to ensure that his own interests are not encroached, the Xia Kingdom has won a certain degree of autonomy for its colonies, that is, it can retain a certain size of army to ensure security, although after so many years of running-in, those former colonies of the Xia Kingdom have gradually merged into the jurisdiction of the Federation, However, this influence was not eliminated, and some colonies could only be superficially subjugated to the Confederacy, but in actual control were still headed by their respective governors. ”

Listening to Li Mengyan's explanation, Du Jin fell silent, although he felt some "injustice" in the practices of the Xia Kingdom in this world, but put himself in his shoes, after experiencing a war that almost ended the future of mankind, if he was the leader of the Xia Kingdom at that time, he was naturally unwilling to fight for the last homes and lives of his people for power, he could only say that his behavior was worthy of admiration and recognition, but from the later influence, it was not the best result.

And Du Jin suddenly thought of the border colonies that Li Mengyan said before, and then according to Li Mengyan, the Federation was created in chaos, so how could there be spare strength to scatter the footprints of human beings outside the solar system? So he couldn't help but ask again in confusion:

"But weren't those frontier colonies outside the solar system established by the Federation?"

Li Mengyan shook her head, she frowned a little angrily, and explained to Du Jin:

"With the current ability of the Federation, it is okay to suppress internally, but if you want to organize a huge amount of materials for an expedition, it is impossible at that time, those border colonies were established by the Pan-Asian camp led by the Xia Kingdom at the earliest, and at the peak of the Xia Kingdom, it took the Pan-Asian camp to establish many outposts in the galaxies around the solar system, and gradually expanded the scope of the colony by relying on the resources in the solar system, but this brilliance caused the hostility of the greedy demon of the M country, and he united the camp he had established on the Blue Star before, Taking advantage of the fact that the main fleet of the Xia Kingdom and the Pan-Asian camp launched a surprise attack when they were colonizing abroad, and then released the "Trojan Horse", a weapon that almost destroyed human civilization, in short, up to now, the borders of the Federation are far from being comparable to the Pan-Asian camp of the Xia Kingdom at its peak, and many of the border colonies have been abandoned.

Moreover, some low-level alien creatures found in country M through the transformation of space colonization, and then secretly dropped them on those border colonies, and those transformed alien creatures became aggressive beasts, which is why the Federation formed a border legion to clear it. ”

After listening to this, Du Jin only felt that everything that happened in this world was inexplicably familiar, and the M country of this world was still the "tumor" that was afraid of human peace and prosperity for its own interests, and forcibly dragged down and regressed hundreds of years from the pace of the blood seal world, which was still about to completely step out of the solar system.

"What a tumor!"

Coupled with the various behaviors of the current country M, Du Jin is already very sure in his heart that if the human beings in the world want to truly enter the space age of peace and unity, the cancer of country M will not be pulled out, even if the countries on the blue star enter space by technological explosion and competition, sooner or later they will be dragged to the abyss by those politicians of country M at a certain point in time, just like the world of blood marks, considering these, Du Jin's mentality at this time has also changed slightly.