Chapter 1,375 Life (Part 1)

"Lord Gene, the current external temperature is minus 256.7 degrees. Please put on your space suit."

Accompanied by the voice of the mechanical ai3, Gene quietly floated in the space of the insulation layer. He pulled the fixed cable and moved towards the hatch of the spacecraft little by little. Now he had to go out to actually see the situation up, down, left and right. However, Gene didn't want to wear a space suit. This bloated equipment was only used in some tricky situations, and there were only three sets. If it was damaged, it would be a bit troublesome because it would be a bit troublesome to remake it.

Gradually, Gene came to the top, and ai3 reminded again.

"Do you need to activate the weapon, Lord Gene!"

Gene thought for a while and shook his head.

"According to my suggestion, it is better to activate the weapon. In an unknown environment, it is easy to encounter unknown attacks from the outside."

Gene looked at the hatch and did not open it for the time being. From the past to the present, he rarely acted rashly. Before taking action, Gene would consider some details of the action process, especially in such an environment full of unknowns.

It is now 0:49 on April 10.

Gene is still hesitating whether to go out. Gene has thought of countless possibilities. In the great disasters in the past two centuries, the earth may no longer be in the solar system. Although this bold guess has no factual basis, thinking back to the asteroid, most scientists at the time unanimously concluded that this asteroid is more like a manufactured planet than an asteroid.

Many new substances have been discovered on the planet, and most of them are more like synthetic rather than naturally generated according to the test, because natural generation has very obvious standards, the atomic arrangement of the material structure, if it is naturally generated, the atomic structure of these substances must follow certain rules, and if it is synthesized, the atoms of these substances have very obvious traces of third-party processing.

In just seven days, scientists from various countries held meetings every day to display their discoveries and then debate. Finally, as time went by, more and more things were discovered, and everyone felt more and more that this was a spacecraft made by a life form in the universe.

Gene still clearly remembers that on the third day, the daily harmonious discussions turned sour. After a European scientist discovered a special substance named life crystal, all scientists started a discussion around this life crystal, and everyone tried hard to bring this life crystal back to the laboratories inside the spacecraft of each country.

This is the reason why humans have to take such a big risk to board this asteroid that passes by the earth, the real immortality.

In the past, after a small exploration robot landed on this asteroid, scientists discovered that the interior of this incredible life crystal had a large number of multicellular invertebrates living inside the crystal, which completely violated the theory of biology. In repeated robot mining surveys, it was found that the survival time of these invertebrates was unknown. After the robot conducted a large number of experiments, many scientists witnessed the process of these experiments. Many people surprisingly found that the cells of this unknown invertebrate can divide infinitely, and the structure of the cell is very similar to the structure of biological cells on the earth, and the similarity with human cells has reached more than 67%.

Such a value attracted all biologists at that time, because in the eyes of biologists, they saw the possibility of human immortality in the future. Although there were many genetic modification technologies to increase human lifespan and special medicines at that time, the effect could only reach 30% of the maximum human lifespan at most. This number was obtained half a century after the experimental research that began in the early 21st century.

The people who control 99.999999 of the earth's wealth have grown old. Many people don't want to die and want to live. So when these people are old and weak, they invest all their huge wealth in biological genetic technology, hoping to prolong their lives, even if it is one more day, it is worth it.

But 30% is already a critical value. In the middle of the 21st century, a rich man lived to 112 years old and eventually died. This was the most successful research in all aspects of this huge biological gene life extension technology that affected the world. According to the length of the rich man's nda, the technology at that time could determine that he could live to about 86 years old, but in the end the rich man lived to 112 years old, relying on the new biotechnology to increase his lifespan by 30%. Many rich people in the future have not been able to break the 30% limit.

At that time, the whole world was in an extremely delicate situation. The occurrence of many global disasters caused a lot of differences among the originally harmonious human beings. War was the norm for most small countries, and there were usually superpowers behind them to support them.

Everyone is moving forward in the world atmosphere of repairing the plank road in the open but secretly crossing the Chencang. Today's allies are very likely to become tomorrow's enemies. Technology blockades, financial sniping, material monopoly and other problems are already eroding the originally healthy human society.

People in many places don’t even know whether they will be alive tomorrow. With the continuous rise in sea levels and the extinction of large numbers of species, humans seem to have initiated a mass extinction of species themselves. Chaos is spreading around the world. In the face of countless disasters, those close allies in the past have long lost trust in each other.

No country wants to fall behind, but it is in this context that the new material on the asteroid, which is like a dawn in the darkness, has been identified.

When the asteroid was identified, the countries discussed and finally decided to name it. The asteroid named Hope will arrive in 20 years. At that time, scientists all over the world were expressing their opinions.

Thinking of this, Gene couldn't help but reveal bitterness at the corner of his mouth. There may be some ambiguity at the beginning, but with the public release of the survey results by NAS, there is almost no opposition.

"Unfortunately, Gene, I don't have much time left, I can't see all this, but humans will one day destroy themselves because of their greed, and you who are about to witness all this are also unfortunate!"

Gene still remembers that this was the last sentence of his mentor before he passed away. At that time, the young Gene only thought it should be impossible. Many technology and biomedical companies around the world united and jointly formulated a plan called Saving All Humanity.

In order to implement this plan in a specific way, it is necessary to obtain the consensus of most people, and the consensus also includes countries. In the end, most countries gathered together and decided.

But some of the comments seemed a bit harsh at this time, because there are many sober people, because when new organisms are discovered, unknown bacteria and viruses may also exist. In the first half of the 21st century, a global disaster caused by viruses broke out.

But soon these comments were drowned out by the huge and enthusiastic public opinion, because most companies are claiming, and many scientific authorities are also claiming that this plan signed by various countries will allow everyone to inject this special life-extending vaccine at the price of a can of soda in the future, and some soda companies are also desperately advertising, and even collecting specific codes on certain soda cans can participate in the lottery, and the winners can get priority vaccinations sponsored by these soda companies.

Everyone is looking forward to it, and entertainment to death is the eternal and unchanging subject of this world. No one realizes the danger, because everyone thinks landing on an asteroid is as simple as staying in a space station hotel for one night.

Leaders from all walks of life are supporting this plan and investing in it. In just two years, driven by a lot of voices, countries around the world have established a special Academy of Scientists by the Seine River, with top scientists from all over the world as lecturers, and recruiting young and outstanding scientists from all over the world.

Gene still remembers that he was just 30 years old at that time, and could only be regarded as a lecturer in the field of biology. The reason why he participated in this plan was because of Ellie. At the beginning of this plan, Ellie had suffered a serious accident and was about to die. Gene followed the advice of a friend and froze Ellie before she died.

In order to be able to land on this planet and find a way to revive Ellie, Gene gave it his all, studied day and night, constantly overcame some biological problems, and was finally selected.

The whole world was crazy, and most people made a fuss about this plan in various ways. The world briefly ushered in some peace, because all countries knew that landing on this asteroid was the top priority. Top physicists gathered together and began to construct landing spacecraft for various countries.

Everything is going on in full swing. Although everyone in the academy is classmates on the surface, everyone belongs to their own country behind the scenes.

However, after a long wait, human enthusiasm has been consumed bit by bit, and human technological progress has slowed down because of this huge investment and the plan that concerns the whole world. The economy in many places is not very good. In this period of silence, the world has almost nothing good except the continued deterioration of the ecology and the rising sea level.

But as the year approaches, humans began to cheer again. Everyone is looking forward to the 13 days when the asteroid named Hope will pass by the earth.

Because the news of the discovery of new materials on the asteroid is spreading, everyone is waiting for the moment when this beam of dawn falls on the earth.

Finally, in 2076, the spacecraft carrying human hope was launched at 6 am on January 1st amid cheers from all over the world. Everyone watched this launch journey all night, one by one, the rockets of the world's top scientists were launched. Gene is already over 50 years old, and basically most of the scientists who went up are of this age, and some are even over 70 years old.

Many people don't understand why young and strong people are not sent up there. In fact, this is impossible. Many complex experiments, the use of many high-performance equipment, and a large number of scientific problems such as numerical values, etc., can only make this landing more effective if they are handed over to people who know nothing.

The whole world is watching the program from the universe. In the end, everything is successful. After all the spacecraft successfully entered the space station, the whole world is boiling. From ancient times to now, there has never been anything that can make the whole world cheer. This is the biggest carnival day in the world since the first human race.

Although the asteroid deviated from the date half a month later, all this had been expected by scientists. At the moment of successful landing on the asteroid, April 10, Gene clearly remembered this day, and this day is also a very grand day for most religions in the world.

Many people praised that this was God's will, and God was about to send down light to save humans who had been trapped in darkness for too long.

As soon as Gene logged in, he and his teammates searched for this life crystal as much as possible. Finally, Gene found it. They began to try various methods to conduct experiments. On the sixth day, the experiment was effective. Many cells of experimental animals brought up showed different degrees of self-repair, which was amazing.

Gene did not hesitate at all and decisively injected this life crystal into Ellie. In the process of everyone's contact with these life crystals, Gene even found that he seemed to become younger. The skin that had begun to age exuded vitality. Just when everyone was rejoicing and wondering what it would be like after returning to Earth in a week, the contact was disconnected.

A scientific team from a country found an entrance, and scientific teams from many countries wanted to go down to explore. Gene was also very excited because Ellie, who was injected with this life crystal, began to recover from the injuries that were difficult to repair and would lead to death in the past accidents. During the whole process, Gene gave up continuing the research and chose to accompany Ellie.

However, during the long-term contact, Gene discovered the conspiracy of some scientific teams, and finally confirmed it. He wanted to prevent a large number of scientific teams from entering the cave, because the cave was discovered by a scientific team when they landed, but they chose to conceal it deliberately.

In the end, Gene found the source of the conspiracy, and together with several people from other scientific teams, subdued one of the scientists, Li Chu.

"Even if I don't do it, others will do it."

Gene only remembered that after Li Chu finished speaking, he directly detonated some spacecraft. Such external detonation would not cause too much problem. The key lies in the explosion at the top of the cave. It was this explosion that caused the entire asteroid to explode violently.

After just seven days, the carnival humans did not wait for hope, but only saw the light covering the earth and the tsunami caused by sinking into the center of the Pacific Ocean.

"Go back to Earth!"

Gene and the other seven people were extremely lucky at the time. They worked together at the moment of the explosion and escaped when the asteroid exploded on a larger scale.

At that time, other scientists also escaped, but most of the scientists' destination was the space station. Just when several people were hesitant, Ellie, who had woken up, said this.

Gene cried with joy and hugged Ellie, but he also knew that Ellie might have changed and become different from the past.

The asteroid named Hope did not bring hope to all mankind, but brought heavenly punishment. Death and fear are what humans need to face every day, and death will only continue to chase humans and devour humans when they are exhausted.

Everyone is running around in the face of disasters, and many of the remaining countries have not reached a consensus at this time, but are still blaming each other, but they can't even figure out the reason. The powerful people who are eager to calm the chaotic public directly took a video for editing. This video shows the scene of Gene and Li Chu fighting.

And the coin worn by Gene fell and accidentally fell into the core part of a spacecraft, causing an explosion, which led to the explosion. This was a plan failure caused by human error.

However, lies will not work one day, because in the face of ruthless disasters, it is meaningless to say more. Disasters are rapidly destroying human civilization. The sun begins to hide behind the gray clouds day by day and never shows up all day.

Humans no longer care or think about why such a big problem happened. They can only run for their lives, run to high places, hide in the mountains, hide underground. Everything is in complete chaos, and the past human society is completely destroyed.

It has been too ridiculous for twenty years. After temporarily stabilizing, many people look back on this disaster with bitterness and want to laugh. Tragedy is happening every day.

Everyone knows that this planet is no longer safe. Now the safest place is only the sky. After Gene and his friends spent two years on the journey to find their families, they turned to the launch base in Europe and watched the last hope of mankind take off. Gene still remembers the powerlessness and deep despair clearly.

It was already 1 o'clock when he came to his senses again. Gene took out his trouser pocket, but he thought that smoking in this weightless state was asking for trouble.

"Open the hatch after 10 faces."

Gene planned to go out and confirm it himself. Blue particles began to emerge from the surface of Gene's body. The color became darker and darker. A large number of blue scabs soon wrapped Gene's body. He was like a moving sculpture at this time, and his whole body was covered with deep blue scabs like crystal stones.

Creaky

As the hatch opened, a strong suction force directly pulled Gene out. At this time, Gene's exposed eyes were like stones. He could not feel the cold. Under the action of the traction rope, Gene floated above the fireworks spaceship. He looked around. Except for the colorful unknown object that was still approaching, there was only a dark universe with bright spots of light around him.

The reason why we know that thing is matter is that AI3 has detected the gravity from the light spot, which is attracting the spaceship little by little.

Gene couldn't help but doubt his conjecture. Perhaps during the years when the earth was covered, the material surrounding the earth created a magnetic field that moved the earth to other places. If this is true, it will take nearly 200 years. In that time, the earth should have moved to a considerable distance. However, the reason why this idea cannot be confirmed is that Jean cannot see where the earth is now.

Judging from the knowledge Gene has mastered, it may also be the result of magnetic field distortion. Perhaps it is in the magnetic field generated by the three-state mixture of solid, liquid and gas wrapped around the outside of the earth. It has not yet entered the extraterrestrial universe where the sun can be seen, but Jean couldn't figure it out that nothing was detected in this space.

At this time, Gene felt a chill on his skin. He pulled the traction rope and went back. After the hatch was closed, the scabs began to break and disappear. However, they did not completely disappear. Instead, they turned into ice crystals and floated in the air. , Gene returned to the cockpit, ai3 was still investigating.

After calculating with the optical telescope, the colorful object in front of him was about 45,000 kilometers away, Gene was still thinking about it.

"Speed ​​up to that patch of light!"

"I understand, Lord Jean!"

There was a buzzing sound, and tiny flames began to emit from the outside of the fireworks. Then Jean felt a wave of inertia. The person sat down and for a moment, the fixed straps had trapped Jean, and the speed increased to 50,000 in an instant. meters, and the subsequent acceleration increased very quickly. In less than a few seconds, the speed of the fireworks reached 117 kilometers per second.

At this time, a light and shadow panel was already calculating the gravity of the colorful mass of matter in front of him. Jean stared at the values ​​​​quietly. It would only take forty minutes to arrive, but now Jean is still thinking about whether there is any Leaving this planet, or should we say that this planet was really taken away from the solar system by an extraterrestrial package.

Gene closed his eyes, ai3 was still prompting some values, and Ellie's smile appeared in his mind.

"Promise me Gene, no matter what happens, you will never give up!"

Jean opened his eyes with a smile. The worst thought in Jean's mind just for a moment was that he was taken to another galaxy and could not go back at all, but soon Jean laughed, Space travel may be possible in short distances, but it is impossible to achieve long distances.

"It has been determined that Sir Jean has a gravity value of 9.8."

In an instant, Jean laughed, and felt relieved. He should be in the interlayer space where the magnetic field of the package interacts with the earth's magnetic field.

Although gravity cannot explain the complex problems that Jean is encountering now, it is enough to show that Jean is still within the scope of the earth. According to the speed of this fireworks ship, he can leave the earth in 80 seconds, but in fact it only took 63 seconds.

The colorful object in front of him is getting bigger and bigger. Jean is not sure what it is. Gradually, he can see some outlines. The colorful thing in front of him is like an island floating in the sky. Average, but still within the confines of the Earth.

Jean looked at all the values ​​​​on the light and shadow panel. No wonder the detection wave did not respond. This thing was too far away from him. As time passed, Jean could clearly feel that the speed of the spacecraft began to slow down. , the spacecraft has been affected by gravity, and the values ​​in all aspects are beginning to be close to the simulated flight values ​​on the earth.

Jean clearly remembers these values, because they can be used as a reference. Judging by the values ​​of the earth is the standard for knowing whether a place is suitable for human habitation.

This kind of judgment is the most accurate and efficient. At this time, accompanied by a strange breath, Jean felt that his heart beat slightly just now. This feeling made Jean alert.

Time passed by, and you could already see the appearance of the floating island in front of you. It was a colorful island. Through the remote observation equipment, Jean discovered that this was a crystallized island. Jean was shocked to see it. Look at everything in front of you.

The appearance of this island is very similar to the surface of that asteroid. There are luminous crystal objects everywhere, but life only exists in some life crystals.

Jean was extremely happy with this discovery, because everything in front of him was too similar to an asteroid. Every time he got closer, Jean could see it more clearly.

That asteroid was composed of a large number of crystals. According to some information at the time, the overall density of the asteroid was very high, and its mass even exceeded that of the Earth. This is something that many people cannot imagine.

Exploring the memories of the past, Jean felt more and more strange. Only part of the asteroid that exploded at that time should have fallen into the Pacific Ocean, while the rest all turned into light. Those lights did not know why they underwent some changes, and then... It turned into a three-state material of solid, liquid and gas that enveloped the earth, completely blocking out the sun's light.

"Prepare to land! Please be prepared Lord Jean."

Jean nodded and watched as the speed of the spacecraft began to slow down, and the time was only 2:47 in the morning.

The inertia began to decrease, and the inside of the fireworks began to become stable. The speed value on the light and shadow panel was still shrinking. Gradually when the value reached 0, the fireworks stopped, and a white aperture began to appear outside. Enter floating mode.

Gene looked at the world below, which was full of all kinds of colors. It was a large forest and even a lake. However, everything on the island below was colorful, which surprised Gene. At this time, a touch of light blue passed over the sky above the forest below, and the external camera immediately captured the image.

Soon Gene stood up. The gravity system had been released. Gene looked at the thing on the image. It was a bird, but its whole body was made of crystals, and the surface looked very smooth. As one after another of the impact pictures were transmitted back, Gene exclaimed.

"It's a new life!"

"Start landing, Master Gene, please sit down!"

The fireworks began to slowly and evenly descend. Gradually, Gene saw clearly that the whole colorful world was floating with many creatures like jellyfish, as light as gauze. These creatures were of different sizes. The largest ones were even larger than the fireworks, and the smallest ones were like flies and mosquitoes. Moreover, these things were of different colors, and the surface of their bodies emitted different colors of glimmers.

"Compared to going to Mars, perhaps such a discovery is more exciting!"