"The 14th day of the ninth month of the eighth year of the perpetual calendar."

"They said that tomorrow should be regarded as the Mid-Autumn Festival, or everyone should reunite."

"I don't care, it's okay for everyone to get together, just like during the Spring Festival."

"But I don't know if it's my delusion, but I always feel like ...... It seems that there are fewer people talking in the big group, fewer people playing games, and fewer people attending events......"

"Is it my delusion?"

Ye Xingxun closed the diary, and after she gave herself an electromagnetic field full body massage, she lay down on the bed and slept.

There was nothing to say that night, and the next day Ye Xingxun went to patrol and maintain after breakfast as usual, and it took three hours to return to the residence, after lunch, she opened the large group to check the information and confirm the location of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, but she was surprised to find that there was no announcement about the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion.

There were only a few people in the entire crowd chatting and talking about games and so on.

Ye Xingxun hesitated for a moment, but still typed in the group: "Didn't you say the Mid-Autumn Festival party?" Is the venue still the lobby of the Spring Festival party? ”

After waiting for a while, someone @ her said: "I don't know, I heard them talk for one night yesterday, and I don't have a definite number, or is there no gathering in the Mid-Autumn Festival this year?" Everyone's own way? ”

Ye Xingxun was surprised, and before she could speak, someone said: "It's okay to go your own way, it's so troublesome to party......"

Soon, a few people in the group started talking about games or something again, as if the Mid-Autumn Festival party didn't matter.

Ye Xingxun always had some inexplicable feelings in her heart, and she couldn't tell if it was sadness or something else, but she also had her own interests, after resting for a while, she caught up with the drama, and recently she was watching a science fiction drama, the plot in which it happened to talk about a human hero who took hundreds of thousands of humans to outer space, and the plot happened to pass the desert planet, a planet that hides terrifying plants.

That night, there was no Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, after dinner, there were more than 4,000 people online in a large group, and it seemed that it was still lively.

"On the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the eighth year of the perpetual calendar."

"There is no Mid-Autumn Festival."

"But it's okay, every time I have a dinner, I'm very tired."

"I guess everyone wants to relax."

“…… I've been feeling a little tired lately. ”

Tired?

Well, a little tired......

Time flies.

The universe is the universe, the four directions are called the universe, and the universe is said to be the universe throughout the ages.

Ten billion years of time, a few years and more than ten years are like a snap of a finger.

Ye Xingxun turned on the shuttle, and she stared at the southeast corner of the space ring, where only the silver-white Dyson cloud structure could be seen.

As the largest man-made structure in this galaxy, the Dyson cloud is the largest light source visible to the naked eye, and no stars can be seen behind this light source, one is light pollution and the other is area occlusion...... The few stars that can twinkle in the brightness of Dyson's clouds are also obscured, such as ...... The shining star.

"One thousand and two hundred and eighty-two years to go......"

"Are you all right?"

Ye Xingxun stretched out her hand and held it in the southeast direction, and after a long time, she withdrew her hand.

"On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the eighteenth year of the perpetual calendar."

"It's the Spring Festival again."

"This year's Spring Festival is a little lonely, and the last time I had a dinner was the last time."

"Aunt Wang has had some problems with her recent language program, and after fixing it with the self-inspection program, Aunt Wang didn't speak for two days."

"My stomach hurt a few days ago."

"Everything is fine, everything is fine."

Day after day, year after year, everything was fine and everything was so peaceful......

There are no waves, no passion, every day patrolling, going home, sleeping, thousands of days just pass, 3,000 days, 5,000 days, 8,000 days, 10,000 days......

When Ye Xingxun looked at the large group in a daze, she suddenly woke up, and there was already an avatar in the large group that was gray and white.

When a person's vital characteristics disappear, the automatic wake-up program will be activated, and then the physical activation will last for 90 days in the interval between mental stimulation, after which the person in the dormant pod will be revived and continue to take over the work of the previous person......

Ye Xingxun looked at the gray-white avatar in a daze, and then she ran to the bedside table like crazy, and she almost fell to the ground halfway.

She took out a diary, and she quickly flipped through the contents of the diary.

"Perpetual Calendar Twenty-Two Years ......"

"Twenty-eight years of the perpetual calendar......"

"The Thirty-first Year ...... of the Perpetual Calendar"

"The Forty-fourth Year ...... of the Perpetual Calendar"

"Perpetual Calendar Fifty-one Years ......"

Ye Xingxun finally turned to the last page of the diary, it was already the previous year, the fifty-third year of the perpetual calendar.

"Now...... Is the perpetual calendar fifty-four years old? ”

Ye Xingxun picked up the diary with trembling hands, and picked up the pen to write slowly on it, when she suddenly found that her arms were full of age spots, thin, and muscle relaxed......

"On the eleventh day of the eighth month of the fifty-fourth year of the perpetual calendar."

"The first man is gone."

"I think I'm going to be soon, too."

"Our physical fitness, longevity, etc., have been tested in the most scientific way."

"I vaguely remember that the experts told me at that time that our life expectancy was similar, and the difference between the front and back was at most dozens of days."

"That's why we have a batch of screening, just to select the one and a half million people who have a similar lifespan."

"I forgot what the expert said at the time."

"But the general meaning is not to let the old and the new people have too much contact, so as not to cause emotional and temporal confusion."

"Original...... It's been all these years. ”

After Ye Xingxun finished writing these words, she actually gasped slightly.

After locking the diary, Ye Xingxun came to the bathroom, and she looked at herself in the mirror.

A little old lady with all white hair and a wrinkled face.

She didn't know the man in the mirror, just as the man in the mirror looked back at her with a surprised face.

After a long time, Ye Xingxun came to the dining room, and she looked at Aunt Wang and Smoker who were busy.

Their looks are still the same, a middle-aged woman, a young girl, and time has not left any traces on them.

Ye Xingxun called the two of them, and she said, "I guess I'm going to die." ”

Aunt Wang and Lavender had sad expressions on their faces at the right time, but they recovered quickly.

Ye Xingxun didn't know if this sadness was real or because of the procedure, she didn't care anymore, she just reached out and held the hands of the two of them and said: "After I die, there will naturally be a program to locate my bones and relics, but it is very important to have a diary, which needs to be put in the electromagnetic static field, and the password ...... You don't need to set a password, just put it in the space ring important object collection, Aunt Wang, you go and do it yourself, and I will give you the authorization to pass. ”

Aunt Wang nodded, and Ye Xingxun continued: "Thank you for your company for so many years...... After I die, you can go to the smart machine standby room, I authorized you to enter the program standby state, and I also wrote a will, don't worry, I don't know if you understand the meaning of this...... Until the decision-makers salvage me back, you will be my substitutes, and you will have citizenship, you should be, but at least you will not be destroyed, it depends on the decision of the unified government of mankind, and it is likely that you will be in a state of long-term waiting. ”

Ye Xingxun chattered a lot, she didn't even know what she was talking about when she got to the back, she just cried, just holding the hands of the two.

The only death through the ages.

No matter how great the consciousness is, even if you have already done an unknown amount of ideological work.

When one day I suddenly found that I was close to death, the panic was indescribable and inexplicable.

There is a great terror between life and death.

"Let's have a meal."

Ye Xingxun typed in the silent crowd.

No one responded, but Ye Xingxun still kept typing: "@所有人, I said, let's have dinner!" ”

Gradually, someone responded, someone spoke, someone agreed, and someone cheered something.

After more than 20 years, the dinner party was reached again, Ye Xingxun deliberately found a little dress that she liked very much, although she was very strange and ugly to wear now, but she still wore it, which was completely different from the sense of inheritance she had in the past.

When she arrived at the venue, she found that everyone was dressed as if they were dressed in fancy clothes, some men were wearing suits, some were wearing tunics, some were even wearing women's clothes or cos suits, and most of the ladies were dressed gorgeously or young and beautiful.

But everyone here is an old man and an old lady, and they are all in their eighties.

They looked at each other in amazement, and then they both smiled, bitter but happy.

“…… Ma'am, can I ask you for a dance? ”

An old man came to Ye Xingxun, and he bowed slightly.

Ye Xingxun was surprised, looked back and forth, and then said, "Yes...... Me? ”

The old gentleman smiled and stretched out his hand.

Ye Xingxun handed his hand over, and the two came to the center of the venue hand in hand, and slowly danced in the center of the stage with other people.

"Ye Xingxun ......," Ye Xingxun said in a low voice.

"Bai Qiuran." The man was stunned for a moment, and then said.

Ye Xingxun and the man danced a waltz, and above their heads was a large transparent glass, through which they could see the night sky outside and the silver-white Dyson cloud structure.

Under the stars of the universe, a waltz ...... It's as if it's a moment, and it's as if it's eternal.

"You're late, it's better to call me to dance early."

“…… Well, I'm late, so it's nice to call you to dance early. ”

It was the first year of the Spring Festival dinner, and Ye Xingxun remembered in a trance that there was a cramped young man who kept looking at her......

After the song, the two smiled and looked at each other, Bai Qiuran bowed slightly, and Ye Xingxun squatted slightly.

With their hands apart, they each walked towards their seats......

In January of the fifty-fifth year of the perpetual calendar, the last of the first 10,000-year-old maintainers died, and the new 6,000-odd perpetual maintainers all woke up from the hibernation pod.

They saw the large group, saw the chat records on it, saw the messages and belongings given to them by the seniors of the previous batch, and saw the more than 6,000 diaries that were kept in the electromagnetic static field.

The torch of civilization was passed from the first generation to the second generation.