Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Terminal.

Sitting in his seat waiting for a boarding ship, he suddenly felt the pain of a drill.

The gaze is a bit tranced, and the overall movement of people in the hall is divided into countless paths.

Tightened his teeth and endured, just as a drop of cold sweat slipped down his forehead and dripped onto the seat armrest, a cold robot suddenly rested on the back of his hand.

That flexible polyethylene material, though without temperature.

However, it was surprisingly reassuring.

Deep into the bone marrow the pain gradually faded away, and the ark took a deep breath, driving the feeling of discomfort away from him with perseverance, and then looked at the biomimetic sitting next to him.

“… thank you. ”

The biomimetic nodded and didn't say anything, just gave him a facial expression that wasn't too rich and expressed “I'm here” in simple body language.

As an "age-old”, rough economically appropriate biomimetic, this is the limit it can reach.

At this point, Professor Leonard, wearing a plaid t-shirt and leather jacket, walked meteorically.

He said bluntly that he had not noticed the previous unnatural nature of the ship.

“… I have contacted a museum willing to take over the artefacts in the Chang Triangle city group you are going to. After hearing that it was an artifact found near Hell's Gate, they showed great interest and have contacted the Tiangong City authorities to issue a special electronic certificate of exit for the artifact. I've just completed the formalities and now we can get through customs and take it to the spacecraft… of course, it has to be in a special box. ”

Pan-Asian cooperation bans guns throughout the territory.

Even cultural objects are subject to the law of xybenzene.

The Ark sincerely said.

“Thanks.”

“You're welcome,” Professor Leonard shrugged his shoulder next to the ark, “in return for your life. Speaking of which, are you ready? ”

Ark: “Think of something. ”

“Your relatives, your friends, your family, your kids, your savings, your house... are gone, I don't think you even bought yourself insurance when you were freezing, and the whole world believes you and I are still alive. Have you thought about going somewhere after you've cured your illness? ”

Turning his fingers around, looking at the silent ark, Professor Leonard continued, "My suggestion is that if you don't think about it, you should start by trying to integrate into this society. If you're interested in re-education, I can find a way to get you an offer from Oxford University that will give you at least one degree. Of course, if you want to get to work first, I have an old friend at the British Museum who talks, as he mentioned last time, who's recruiting interns. ”

When he heard the words, the ark slanted him.

This guy.

No wonder he gave up that rifle so much, and even helped him contact a museum willing to accept cultural relics.

It turns out that this person is the one who...

“No, we'll talk about it later. ”

Professor Leonard wanted to say something else, but by that time, the overhead broadcast had sent the boarding tone.

shrugged his shoulders, he said helplessly.

“Well, whatever, I'm just offering you a choice. ”

Lined up before the gate, the two boarded the shuttle with the crowd.

Always next to the ark, Professor Leonard played a very loyal role as a guide, introducing him.

“… this thing called a shuttle is equivalent to an elevator, and we take it to the space station in high orbit, from where we take the carrier to the Skyboat. ”

“Skyboat? ”

“Yes, the space station in the 8 o'clock eastern section, but also the pan-Asian cooperation - and even the world's largest! I think the name should have something to do with your name, perhaps in memory of you. ”

To commemorate me?

The ark laughed with some embarrassment.

Though there is still a glimmer in his heart about an uncertain future, when he sees the growing sky city and the Mars surface, somehow he is increasingly looking forward to a centuries-old return...

……

It only took three days to get back from Mars.

This speed, for a century ago, is simply incredible.

Before boarding the ship, the ship observed that behind that rectangular carrier, there were twelve pairs of engines.

That's right, twelve pairs, that's twenty-four. The opening of that black hole is embedded at the end of a broad trapezoidal shape.

When those twelve engines were lit together, the entire night sky outside the station seemed lit.

The ark only saw an extended arc, and the narrow starship outside the side window slipped like a meteor towards the sky, heading towards a dark cold night...

“We're leaving, too. Are your seatbelts fastened? ”

“Of course," said the ark, pointing to what was hanging on his waist, "it wasn't my first time on a space shuttle. ”

The voice had just fallen and a violent tremor had come from behind, followed by a buzz of current, and the starry sky outside the starboard window had been stretched out as if it had a tail.

Professor Leonard has shut his mouth and nervously affixed his back head to the cushion of the seat.

Seeing this scene, the ark can't help but be a little funny.

This guy, tell himself not to be afraid.

Fear flies first.

Moving his gaze away from him, the ark noticed a child, about seven or eight years old, staring out the string window, pointing excitedly at the space station outside the window and what his mother next to him was saying.

It's like being on a spaceship for the first time...

“Why are there kids here? ”

From the initial tension, Professor Leonard looked at the ark somewhat strangely.

“Isn't it normal that a lot of newborns on Mars have never been to Earth in their entire lives, and it's not even the first time a space station has come up... how can you be curious about this? ”

I've never been to Earth in my whole life.

The Ark is completely unimaginable, what kind of life it is.

“… not curious, just that, in my impression, low gravity seems to affect bone development. ”

Professor Leonard: "Yes, but the limits that human skeletons can bear are largely genetically determined, and the environment is just an influence factor. Previously, a number of facilities called gravity chambers were built in fashion to provide approximate gravity through centrifugal force. Most drugs are now used, and the effects of low gravity were a problem in the early space age, but it is no longer a particular problem. ”

Can this matter be solved by drugs?

Thinking about it, the mood of the ark can't help but feel some emotion.

It seems that medicine in this day and age has really reached a level that he can't imagine.

I don't know if cancer, which has plagued human civilization for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, has been solved in this era...

……

Because of the virtual reality access device, the three-day trip is not too long.

It was during the use of virtual reality access devices that the Ark discovered that the cyber tour called the Coffee Empire was still in operation, although the operator had already changed a few.

Of course, because he was on a starship, he had no access to the servers on Earth, and he had to look at the gray icon for a while and then connect to the virtual library and download some learning materials to study.

Overall, his gains are still considerable.

Although there's no professional academic material to study here, there's a lot of interesting stuff in this virtual library.

For example, in an academic book describing the colonial economic and social environment, the Ark learned that the steel and chemical industries on Mars were highly developed.

Not only are there abundant iron ore titanium resources, but there are also frozen dry ice seas, methane lakes.

And most importantly, the environmental policy here is not as rigorous as it is on Earth, with bills of tens of millions of credit points.

Many highly polluting, carbon-emitting industries gradually moved from Earth to Mars as early as the 1970s.

There is no need to worry about pollution or about greenhouse gases, but some scientists would rather rely on anthropogenic greenhouse gases manufactured by human activities to improve the atmospheric environment of Mars and pave the way for Mars' "climate recovery” centuries later.

Anyway, whether you can do it or not, you still have dreams.

In recent years, with the development of industries on Mars, more and more people have begun to see it as a place of dreams.

Despite the fact that many people are confronted with dreams because of crime rates and dangers of all kinds, there are still many people with overnight wealthy ideas on their backs who have stepped into the desert.

In addition to the steel and chemical industries mentioned earlier, there is a gray industry on Mars that attracts the attention of countless people.

That is the excavation of the relics of Mars civilization.

It was argued a long time ago that Mars civilization possessed scientific and technological power far beyond any civilization on Earth, so that countries were encouraged to discover the ruins of Mars civilization and that the funds allocated to the relevant research units were considerable.

As a result, in addition to the archaeological teams attached to major research institutions, there are many illegal organizations travelling in the grey areas of the law that have also targeted the cake.

And whether or not there are chips in the ruins of Mars that can reverse the international situation, those monuments and specimens of great value alone are enough to put them at risk.

In addition to those industries located on the surface of Mars, Mars also serves as a material hub for the coarse processing and transit of minerals brought from asteroids.

Speaking of which, I have to mention the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

As the largest “mineral vein” in the solar system, which is the most abundant and easily exploited, there are a number of precious resources that people on Earth have been watching for a century now, but until the middle of the twentieth century, its development had only just begun.

The rapid development of the colonization of Mars is indivisible from the rise of the "asteroid belt economy”.

Eighty percent of the spacecraft is supplied by asteroid belts.

Even the state-of-the-art space station deployed on Mars by Pan-Asian cooperation uses almost 90% of the material originating from ore on the asteroid belt!

The abundance of supplies there is a glimmer!

In contrast to the rich interests, however, there are also a wide variety of dangers.

Not only the navigational risks posed by meteorite debris, but also the air thief hidden behind the meteorite.

Some of the more powerful air thieves have even built pirate bases on asteroid belts and, under the cover of meteorites, have evaded the radar searches of national patrol ships and traded looted goods with some illegal traders.

“It seems that this is a time of great material affluence and opportunity. ”

“People are fed up and held up, and bored and free to go and be pirates...”

Looking at the research in the holographic window, a thoughtful expression appeared on the face of the ark.

Although Professor Leonard did not respond directly to what he said earlier, it has been in his mind for some time.

In fact, he didn't think about where he should go after he had healed the aftermath of frozen sleep.

Maybe when we know everything on Earth, save some money, buy a piece of land on Mars, fix the ship, and go to the center of the galaxy?

Take another look at the sky five along the way, what the scenery is.

After all, when he made that choice, he didn't expect to be thrown into such a distant future...

Just as the Ark was troubled by the matter, he suddenly remembered something that was almost forgotten by him for a century.

Speaking of which, the treasure on Mars is kind of found, and I think I still have a reward for a system mission that I haven't received.

To think of it, he slowly closed his eyes and silently called the system with a groaning mood.

After all these years, I don't know if the observer forgot him.

Fortunately, the kind of thing he was worried about didn't happen.

From the moment he received those three tubes of medicine, his fate was in the middle of nowhere, bound to the void.

When the ark opened its eyes again, the long defiant pure white space also mirrored his curtains.

At the same time, the light blue dialog box appears in a hidden outline.

Congratulations host, complete the task!