The Memoirs of Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 523
"Thanos, are you awake?"

A soft murmur sounded in Thanos' ears. He opened his eyes and found himself wearing a loose nightgown, sleeping on a big white bed, with a somewhat familiar Titan woman lying beside him.

Who is she?
Thanos Chaos' brain was a little stuck, and soon, memories began to surface, and those vague memory fragments flashed before his eyes one by one.

She is his wife, a childhood sweetheart who grew up together,

Although the two did not give birth to their own children, they adopted two little alien lolis who were displaced by the war.

Just as he was thinking, the door of the bedroom was slammed with a "dong dong dong", and there was a burst of crisp and childish laughter outside the door.

The wife smiled at Thanos, and shouted softly outside the door: "Who is it?"

The slight childish laughter of chicken thieves sounded outside the door. The wife adjusted her nightgown, walked lightly to the door, opened the door suddenly, and embraced the two little girls, one blue and one green, who were hiding beside the door. into his arms.

"Nebula, Gamora."

Thanos muttered these two names to himself. He watched his wife throw the daughters on the bed, tickle each other with them, burst into laughter, with a confused expression on his face.

A beautiful and gentle wife, a lovely and innocent daughter, this is the harmonious and happy family he has.

The wife who was teasing the children seemed to have noticed something, she smiled and stopped fighting with the daughters, patted their buttocks and asked them to wash their faces and brush their teeth,

When the daughter walked into the bathroom and there was a noise like "Xingyun, you stole my toothbrush again!", the wife turned around and caressed Thanos' ugly and deformed purple face with some concern.

"I am fine."

Thanos held his wife's hand and comforted him gently: "It's just a nightmare last night."

"What nightmare?"

".I can't remember very clearly," Thanos touched his chin, and said uncertainly: "I should be suspended in space, not wearing protective clothing like an extraordinary person,

Then I condensed a rainbow into a beam and threw it at someone, and I can't remember what happened next."

"Is that so?" His wife smiled and kissed his forehead, "Honey, it's just a dream, you must have been under too much pressure recently.

By the way, don't you have important things to do today?Don't be late. "

"Yeah." Thanos smiled, and the shattered memories in the dream gradually blurred, "However, if only I could really be like the dream, a superhuman who can control special powers."

On the entire planet Titan, there is no genius with supernatural abilities. When Thanos was young, he also thought that one day he would awaken a certain quality, a certain talent.

For example, manipulating the magnetic field, changing the temperature, distorting the laws of physics, stopping time, teleporting through space, no matter how bad it is, the ability to fly freely with wings on its back is also good.

However, fate, this stingy little bitch, didn't give Thanos too much preference. The ugly appearance produced by genetic mutations is not a special sign of "heaven is about to give great responsibility to people".

He is just an ordinary man with a mortal body, and what he faces every day is not a passionate battle of superpowers, but a boring and mediocre job day after day
This is also normal, there are always a few geniuses with special destiny in this world,

More people will bury those fantasies when they were young when they grow up, and no one will know about it until the years go by.

Thanos got up to wash up, and after enjoying a warm family breakfast, he, dressed in suits and leather shoes, drove Xingyun and Gamora to the school not far from home.

The word "drive" is very interesting. When everyone else is using automatic driving, Thanos still stubbornly chooses manual driving. In his words, it "makes me feel more at ease."

The anti-gravity suspension vehicle is driving on the suspended plank road. The scenery along the way is not so charming. There are high-rise buildings everywhere, like birdcages made of steel, densely packed with caged birds.

Although the Titan government has made a lot of efforts, while ensuring the living space, it is required to increase the green area,
However, there are policies and there are countermeasures. The executive bureaucrats "smartly" spread a layer of vines on the outside of the walls of high-rise buildings, and use the green vines that hang down like waterfalls as a green area.

Everyone knows that "expanding greenery" is a ridiculous term on Titan, and the ever-expanding population, like straws, accumulates on the back of Titan's aging camel.

Every inch of space has its use value, and every inch of land should not be wasted. Only thrift and constant thrift can continue the development of Titan civilization.

Thinking this way, Thanos parked the car in the indoor parking lot of a certain high-rise building.

Titan star has eliminated the concept of "rural" a long time ago, and everyone lives in the hive city.

The basic units of all public facilities in the city are inside high-rise buildings—hospitals, schools, police stations, and even automated farms and automated factories are all stuffed into different floors of high-rise buildings.

The high-rise buildings in an area are combined to form an administrative area.

And a piece of administrative district, combined together to form a hive city,
All hive cities together form Titan.

The infrastructure in Hive City is complete, and the vast majority of Titans do not need to step out of the city even in this life.
Apart from being overcrowded, Nest City has almost no shortcomings. Even if there are some imperfections, they are complemented by the continuous development of technology.

The problem of turbidity and stuffiness in the air was solved by a perfect urban ventilation system a hundred years ago;

The scarcity of drinking water was solved 30 years ago by a comprehensive water recycling system;
The problem of lack of sunlight was solved by artificial sunlight generators 150 years ago—the current residents of Titan, no matter whether they live on high or low floors, can be directly illuminated by sufficient and warm sunlight.

After seeing off his daughter, he drove the anti-gravity levitation vehicle out of the building, passed the expressway, and drove to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of Titan Star is a huge and precise giant institution, which is composed of hundreds of small institutions.
It can be roughly divided into Aerospace Flight Department, Technology Department, Planetary Science Department, Space Science Department, Biology and Physics Research Department, Safety and Planning Department, and each department is in charge of different main business areas.

Naturally, such a huge organization cannot be packed into the same high-rise building. In fact, the land area occupied by the Titan Star National Aeronautics and Space Administration is almost equivalent to the total area of ​​several hive cities!
This is almost unimaginable on Titan, where every inch of land is expensive. In recent years, there have been countless voices of criticism, demanding that NASA save land resources and cede part of the living space for public use.

The space agency has been under tremendous pressure from public opinion, especially when the aerospace industry has suffered repeated setbacks. Every employee in the agency is worried, for fear that the department they belong to will be cut off because they can't produce results.

"Good morning, Mr. Thanos."

"Hello."

In the corridor of the headquarters building of the space agency, the passing staff nodded and said hello to Thanos, with a genuine and enthusiastic attitude.

The staff did this not only because Thanos was in a high position and was the chief engineer of the Titan Aerospace Agency, but also because of Thanos' contribution to the aviation industry.

The Titan civilization tried to carry out interstellar colonization to the outside world a long time ago, but the closest suitable planet to them is also so far away on the star map,

Excessive costs, sluggish technology, pressure from public opinion, and disapproval from the upper echelons have delayed the interstellar colonization plan.
Today, the population pressure on Titan is like an exploding barrel full of gunpowder, which may erupt at any time. However, many interstellar colonization plans have stalled, but it seems that there is no way out.

The leaders of Titan believe that instead of pinning their hopes on interstellar colonization, it is better to build a space station on the surface of the planet and transfer part of the population to the space station first.

If the material resources on the surface of Titan are exhausted, then continue to dig below the rock formations, relying on a steady stream of material resources to meet the needs of people's lives, why is it necessary to go to suitable planets thousands of miles away to find What about colonization opportunities?
If Thanos, as the chief engineer, had not insisted on persuading his superiors to continue to support the research and development of the superluminal engine, I am afraid that the interstellar colonization project would have been thrown into the cold palace long ago.
Thinking of this, Thanos couldn't help but clenched the palm of his briefcase. In his bag, there was a very important document.

And his task today is to show this document to his superiors.

Thanos stopped in his tracks. He stood in front of the meeting room door, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.

Inside the door, the members of the Project Management Committee of the Titan Space Agency have arrived and are sitting behind the long oval table.

Deputy Chief Executive, General Counsel, Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Medical and Health Officer
These big men in suits and leather shoes are the heads in charge of the aerospace industry.

"Thanos." Li Ang, who was sitting at the head of the long oval table, or the chief executive of the Titan National Space Agency, smiled and said to Thanos: "Sit down, we will wait for your report."

(End of this chapter)