Cooper choked for a moment, the cornbread that just entered his mouth tasted like chewing wax, his eyes were full of lamentation:

"Murphy, before looking up at the starry sky, we must first be alive..."

In this world, just being alive is hard enough.

Chapter 291

Murphy was still young and couldn't feel the grief in his father's words, but he also instinctively felt that he shouldn't continue on this topic.

"I'm sorry, Dad."

Cooper's mouth pulled a smile: "It's okay, it's not your fault."

The family returned to calm and continued to eat.

Grandpa Donald talked about the parent-teacher meeting at the right time. The two children are now studying in the same school. There will be a parent-teacher meeting today, and the parents are required to appear in person, so his old bones can't help.

Cooper took a breath, nodded and agreed to come down, and when the two children had finished eating, they temporarily put aside the work planned for today, and took them into the car to go to school.

It's just that Cooper with his two children had a childlike innocence on the road, and couldn't help but ran to catch butterflies——

A solar-powered drone from Asia that has been flying in the sky for ten years.

Its solar cells can power the farm.

Captured this thing with a computer, and tied it firmly to the back of the pickup truck, and finally drove the car to the school with difficulty.

Cooper walked into the principal's office alone, and then received bad news.

His son Tom is failing grades and has no hope of going to college.

This is not over yet, Murphy's teacher also reminded him to pay attention to Murphy's behavior, bringing the old version of textbooks to school to pass on to other students, this behavior is not allowed.

Because there are too many "fake news" on it.

For example, the previous moon landing was just a conspiracy out of political needs, but in these old versions of textbooks, it was promoted as a real story...

The successive bad news and blows almost suffocated Cooper. He couldn't even control his temper and quarreled with the principal and the teacher.

Aerospace elites and engineers more than ten years ago are no different from a red-necked farmer today.

But all in vain.

Times are so.

Even as the protagonist, Cooper can't change any facts.

His son Tom has no other choice, the university will not accept him, he can only be a farmer in the future.

As for his daughter Murphy, Cooper directly chose to temporarily suspend her school under impulse...

Things got messed up.

Fortunately, although Murphy complained to him on the way home, everything else went well. He returned home and started to deal with the farm affairs.

It's just that when he approached the cornfield and looked at the green stalks entrained with soil, he would unconsciously think of Tom, thinking that he would be buried in this lush but gloomy cornfield just like himself in the future , I felt bursts of depression in my heart.

Ever since he left the space agency, he has recognized the fact that in order to survive, he can only choose to farm. This is the only way for the whole family to survive. Only in this way can the family not be starved to death in this era.

If there is no accident, he, a former astronaut and engineer, will spend the rest of his life in this cornfield.

He accepted this cruel reality.

But just because he is able to farm the land to live does not mean that he can accept that his children will also farm the land to live in the future...

The already cruel reality has dealt him an even crueler blow now.

Although Tom is indeed a good farmer, he is talented and hardworking in this area.

But no parent really wants their child to spend their entire lives buried in the ground, especially for someone like Cooper, who was once full of exploring spirit.

But no matter how depressed he was, Cooper could not change the established facts...

……

It's getting dark.

In an inconspicuous place in the middle of the mountains, there is a fence.

The fence is so dense that people can't see what it is protecting.

Few people know that there is a super underground base left over from the last century hidden in front of this inconspicuous land.

Fewer people know that this super base has now been transformed into an aerospace research base.

In other words, it is being transformed into a space station.

Dr. Emilia Brand stands in the launch chamber.

In front of her, in the center of the launch room, stands the launch vehicle for the upcoming mission, and a rover spacecraft can be seen above.

The rocket is surrounded by a launch area, and outside the launch area is a close-fitting engineering area, work area, and even a living area.

This is an unprecedented base.

Rocket training, launching, research, and even manufacturing transformation are all completed in this base.

If it weren't for the special construction period of this underground base, which covers a vast area, it really wouldn't be able to fit so many functional areas.

Dr. Brand raised his head and looked around the launch room with melancholy eyes. This is a huge cylindrical space. The rocket was huge in front of her, but it became smaller in front of this even bigger launch room.

swoosh-

There was a voice overhead.

There are workers who are building some buildings that look very special in structure, so special that people feel familiar at first sight, but they can't tell what kind of building it is.

In fact, those buildings are common people's livelihood buildings such as private houses, schools and hospitals.

The reason why people can't tell them apart for a while is because of the construction angle of these buildings.

These buildings under construction are all built with the inner wall of the launch room as the bottom.

That is, the buildings are parallel to the ground.

Many construction workers don't know why so many strange buildings are being built at this time.

Even the worker management who has been here for a long time doesn't know.

"Dr. Brand, I've been wanting to ask this question for a long time, what effect does the 'device' have on the launch of the rocket?"

Brand held a document in his hand, a smile appeared on his beautiful and delicate face:

"What would you think if I said this is a building that won't be used until we get this base into space?"

Management was stunned for a moment.

And Brand didn't say much, he just turned his attention back to the buildings under construction.

In fact, she didn't lie just now.

These buildings were built in advance so that this "space station" can be put into normal use after entering space in the future.

When the launch room is converted into a space station, the inner wall here will become the ground on which human beings live. At that time, the space station is like a horizontal roller in space, constantly rotating in space.

In this way, humans can stand and walk on the inner wall of this huge drum.

This crazy plan was never publicized at the base.

In other words, even if they leaked the plan, people would not believe that such a concrete and steel structure could fly into space.

How can there be such an engine in the world that can push such a large building into space?

Such as that worker management.

He recovered from his confusion, and immediately shook his head and smiled: "You are really humorous."

"This base can fly into space, then I would rather believe that there will be aliens to save the earth..."

Brand looked at him intriguingly, and the corner of his mouth curled up: "Maybe."

Aliens do exist.

Dr. Brand stayed outside for a while, and then walked into a room, which was the room of her father, Professor John Brand, who was also the main person in charge of the entire space station escape plan.

John Brand looks like an old man with a big belly, a little bald, wearing glasses, and doesn't care about his appearance, a typical scientist.

"Dad, is there any new progress in the plan?"

"I saw the spaceship loaded into the rocket outside."

John Brand looked up at his daughter: "No, new astronauts are still being trained, and we haven't found a suitable candidate yet."

"The gravitational equation?"

The old professor spread his hands and said nothing.

Brand fell silent. The gravitational equation in her mouth refers to a research extended from Saturn's black hole.

They started this research shortly after those "aliens" placed the wormhole next to Saturn 48 years ago.

As long as they can solve the equation, they can obtain the mystery of gravity, and the theory derived from it can form new guidelines for science and create new devices to change gravity.

In this way, they can easily send the space station under construction under their feet, as well as countless space stations of the same weight, into space by changing the gravity.

Then these space stations carry the human beings on the earth through the wormhole and go to their new home...

They've always had this idea.

But now decades have passed.

"Dad, will all this really come true?"

Brand couldn't help but feel skeptical. Over the past few decades, there has been little progress in the gravity equation. As time goes by, they can feel the difficulty of this.

"Now the whole world is either in chaos or plagued by famine. We are the only ones left with the ability to explore space, but we have been unable to make any progress..."

She spoke more and more urgently, and she was panting badly.

Old Brand raised his eyebrows, as if he was very dissatisfied with his daughter's attitude: "What are you doubting? We will succeed in the end. Instead of wasting time on meaningless doubts, you might as well do me a favor."

As he said that, Old Brand assigned a task to his daughter to find a certain student.

Brand nodded and left.

She didn't see it, she just went out, behind her——

Her old father, who was full of confidence and fighting spirit all his life, suddenly became gloomy and even desperate...

at the same time.

The sun has risen on the other side of the ocean.

The news that Instructor Yin sent yesterday followed the water he sent, and it has been passed up level by level.

The transfer process didn't stop until Yuan Heguang came here.

"You mean, an organization with unknown origins took the initiative to express its willingness to communicate with us yesterday?" After listening to the assistant's report, the square-faced Yuan Heguang felt a little surprised.

"No other information?"

The assistant shook his head: "They said that they now have a lot of fresh water in their hands, and there is nothing else. They seem unwilling to disclose too much information. We don't know where the water comes from."

On the desk is still the mineral water that Instructor Yin brought yesterday.

Yuan Heguang opened it himself, and then leaned over to smell it. There was no peculiar smell. He flicked the shell of the plastic bottle with his fingers and watched the pure water inside ripple.

"Has the water been sent for testing?"

"delivered."

"What's the situation?" Yuan Heguang sat back on the chair.

"It can be confirmed that this is all mineral water produced through standard industrial processes, and judging from the laboratory tests on the bottles, including the bottles are all new, excluding the possibility of stock."

"Mineral water?"

Yuan Heguang fell into deep thought after listening.

In this day and age, having access to tap water is pretty good.

As for purified water, Yuan Heguang can be sure that there are no factories in China that produce purified water.

Because there is no need anymore.

When people can't even eat enough, will anyone buy tap water?

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