Chapter 1: The Martian Cave

sol--sol-la-re----,do--do-la-re----

A slightly noisy electronic melody plays on an old-fashioned radio.

Time freeze: 21:35 on April 24, 1970.

This is the most beautiful melody in the history of China's aerospace industry.

Until a hundred years later, it is still remembered.

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April 24, 2070.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Martian human base of Dongjiao."

"At this moment, we are projecting the first Mars Fashion Week in real time to the human gathering areas of the Earth and the Moon, as well as the human science experimental bases of Enceladus and Europa, through the resonance of the sono."

"The default holographic projection language is the native language selected at the time of gene-assisted brain group implantation."

"If you want to be absolutely consistent with the Martian scene, please turn off the all-language automatic import module in the brain group."

"Today is a special day."

"One hundred years ago today, Dongfanghong-1 was successfully launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center."

"Also a hundred years ago today, Liang Tian, the chief designer who made it possible for humans to immigrate to Mars, was born in Yangpu Workers' New Village, 2,700 kilometers away from the launch center."

"On this meaningful day, we gathered in the largest Wanhu Square on Mars to celebrate the 100th birthday of Chief Designer Liang Tian with a unique Mars Fashion Week."

"This celebration did not shield any of the human gene-assisted brain groups in the solar system, except for the chief designer."

"This is the special arrangement of Ms. Liang Xinghuo, the great-granddaughter of Chief Designer Liang Tian and the chief planner of the first Mars Fashion Week."

"Everyone who has successfully immigrated to Mars, on the way to Mars, has watched the documentary of Chief Designer Liang Tian."

"Since the age of twenty, the dream of the chief designer has been to die on the way to immigrate to Mars."

"In 1990, when the chief designer had this idea, it was still a very good wish to live a long life."

"At the age of 2070, a hundred years old, far from the age of complete decline of human function."

"Mars Cave hopes to meet his great-grandfather on Mars, so that the chief designer can see the rapid changes of the Mars base with his own eyes, and live on Mars for another twenty years in good health and health!"

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【Base Group Encyclopedia】

Liang Xinghuo, female, 22 years old.

The first human born naturally on Mars.

Mars 000000001 Citizen.

Nicknamed Martian Cave.

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Rewind the clock by 7,366 days.

February 22, 2050.

That day was the day Fang Yuan was born.

On that day, a tragedy occurred, and at the same time a miracle was born.

The Earth-Moon normalized starship flight carrying 22 top scientists of the Earth and Moon had a disintegration accident at an altitude of about 35,000 meters after leaving the troposphere of the Earth's atmosphere and entering the middle stratosphere.

Among them, there are Fang Yuan's mother Dai Bingyan and father Fang Xinyang.

Academician Dai Bingyan is the world's leading energy scientist and has made outstanding contributions to the refining and preservation of helium-triate (³He) energy.

Helium III is an isotope of helium.

As early as 1996, three scientists on the earth shared the Nobel Prize in Physics that year for discovering the superfluidity of helium-three.

As a kind of nuclear energy, helium-3 does not produce neutrons during thermonuclear reactions, but only protons that are not radioactive.

Nuclear energy, no radiation, no nuclear waste.

Together, these three factors contribute to the status of Helium III [Perfect Energy].

If helium-3 is used as an energy source, there will be no nuclear waste residues discharged into the sea, causing irreversible damage to the earth's marine environment.

This perfect energy source is extremely scarce on Earth, but it is widely found on the Moon.

In 2030, mankind will begin to build a lunar energy base.

After 20 years of development, by the middle of the 21st century, when Fang Yuan was born, the helium three energy industry has become the pillar industry of the lunar base.

In a sense, the reserves of helium-3 are the driving force behind the development of the moon.

The economic foundation determines the intensity of development.

Fang Yuan's father, Fang Xinyang, is a top scientist in the field of materials and extraterrestrial energy transportation.

He put forward many advanced ideas for transporting refined helium-3 energy from the moon to the earth, and he is the only one that has been tested in practice.

On the day of the disintegration accident, Fang Xinyang, Dai Bingyan and his wife, and 20 other academicians took a bi-weekly regular flight to the Lunar 022 Helium 3 Energy Base to inspect.

By 2050, all regular starship flights flying away from Earth will be equipped with automatic escape devices.

At the moment of the disintegration of the starship, the escape device ejected every passenger in the form of an independent high-strength protective cover.

Academician Fang Xinyang is the inventor of this high-strength protective cover material.

Countless safety experiments have proved that under the normal opening of the catapult equipment, there will be no more casualties in those high-altitude disintegration disasters at the beginning of the 21st century.

However, when the inventor was riding, there was an accident.

The accident, for which no cause has been found, has taken away 22 of the planet's top scientists.

...... in the field of energy, deep space exploration, and extraterrestrial atmosphere reconstruction

Because the losses were too heavy, this originally ordinary day was recorded in the history of human extraterrestrial exploration.

February 22 is therefore designated as a day of mourning for the space disaster.

The high-strength protective shield failed to protect the lives of these scientists, but they still safely carried their bodies back to the designated location on the earth's surface.

The first thing rescuers found was a protective shield containing the body of Academician Dai Bingyan.

Inside the protective shield, Fang's mother, who was six and a half months pregnant, was no longer alive.

But her belly [outside], hangs a dying baby.

What a tragic picture that was?

A lifeless pregnant woman, a cracked belly.

An extremely weak baby, struggling to hold on to his breathing.

In this way, Fang Yuan miraculously survived in the medical background of 2050.

His survival has become the only way for people to remember these scientists who have made outstanding contributions to mankind, and they are nicknamed "Miracle Baby".

Fang Yuan didn't want to be paid too much attention because of the death of his parents.

Since the second year of his memory, he has tried to be as invisible as possible, trying not to become the object of being pulled out for pity every February 22.

But the impact of this space disaster has always been with him.

In the year Fang Yuan was born, the implantable gene-assisted brain group began to be popularized throughout mankind.

Every person who has been tested for the full sequence of genes before birth will have their own gene-assisted brain group.

It's not just a miniature machine, it's also a therapeutic device.

It solves the root causes of many genetic diseases that have been plaguing human beings.

Congenital heart disease, congenital cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, hemophilia......

At least 10 countries have provided free implantable gene-assisted brain groups to children born after January 1, 2050.

The prevalence is similar to that of the early 21st century, when babies were vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth.

In addition to correcting genetic diseases, the inclusive version of the brain group also has the function of introducing all languages.

In the 2020s, those parents who didn't learn English well and forced their children to learn English probably never dreamed that the first thing to become extinct with technology was the English master.

Knowing eight Chinese languages is no longer an enviable thing, and the brain group can help you understand even the small languages that have been lost.

When encountering knowledge that you have not been exposed to, it will also automatically trigger the [Base Group Encyclopedia].

Fang Yuan had done a full sequence of genetic testing, and if he could be born normally on the earth, he would naturally have such a brain group.

It's a pity that Fang's father and Fang's mother didn't plan to welcome Fang Yuan's arrival on Earth from the beginning.

According to the couple's original plan, Fang Yuan would be born on the moon and have a laboratory version of the brain group.

The laboratory version of the brain group has an upgradeable memory enhancement function on the basis of the general brain group, which allows the holder to have almost unforgettable skills, and comes with a high-level calculator.

The lab version is much more powerful than the Pratt & Whitney version, and there are many unknown potential risks.

The laboratory version of the brain group needs to be specially applied for and undergo a series of rigorous tests.

Once the application is approved, the Pratt & Whitney version will be automatically abandoned.

In order to maintain the fairness and impartiality of the earth world, the laboratory version of the brain group cannot be produced and implanted anywhere on the earth.

At the same time, in 2050, the first version of the human space migration law stipulates that people under the age of eighteen cannot leave the Earth alone without being accompanied by their immediate family members.

Fang Yuan's brain group is on the moon, but for various reasons, people have been stranded on Earth since birth.

In this way, Fang Yuan became the only one among his peers who did not have a gene-assisted brain group.

This means that not only did he not get any preferential treatment because his parents were top scientists, but he had to use the brainpower of ordinary people to PK his peers with gene-assisted brain groups.

Fang Yuan really wanted to write a book, the title was "All the classmates are hanging, how can I not hang".

With a strong sense of distress, he didn't dare to relax at every moment, every minute, and every second, and even dreamed that he would go to the moon base at the age of eighteen and implant his gene-assisted brain group.

After arduous efforts, 14-year-old Fang Yuan, without the help of the brain group, was miraculously admitted to his parents' alma mater, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

After another four years of days and nights, on the last day of 2067, Fang Yuan got a double master's degree and a pass to go to the moon on the day of adulthood.

It was the closest and only day he came to his dream.

On January 1, 2068, the day after Fang Yuan received his master's degree, a serious accident occurred in the Lunar Human Brain Pack, and the Moon announced that it would ban the production and implantation of the laboratory version of the Brain Pack.

The lunar lab version, which has not yet had time to be implanted, has been transported to Mars, an extraterrestrial planet that has not yet legislated for laboratory brain groups.

Since there is no regular flight between Mars and Earth, people in the 2070s want to go to Mars by themselves, which is not much more difficult than people in the 2020s who want to land on the moon.

In this way, when he was less than two months away from adulthood, the miracle baby Fang Yuan's dream came to fruition.

This matter, the blow to Fang Yuan is not insignificant.

From desperate efforts to self-defeat, it took less than two months.

In the last two years of the 2060s, Fang Yuan lived a sleepier life than a koala, until a job posting came into his eyes.

The name of this notice is very long.

The main title - "Looking for a young warrior, accompanying an old man, and starting a galactic journey with no return".

Subtitle (small print) - "Passing through Mars, the final destination is to fly out of the solar system".