Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

Hiding underground was a stopgap measure, and no one could have guessed that we would be forced underground by an alien attack.

Although we have the ability to travel between planets, we do not have the ability to colonize the surrounding planets.

Using current technology, it would take an optimistic estimate of a hundred years to transform the surrounding planets into habitable worlds.

Of course, the technical requirements for building a habitable base on an asteroid are all in place, and it is quite simple.

Hollowing out the ground to build living areas can be said to be an attempt to accumulate experience.

But with the discovery of a large number of underground cavities and some special advantages of building bases underground, we eventually built a large number of underground cities. The time-consuming "Biosphere 3" also appeared underground. It can be said that this is a new world.

Although we encountered many problems at the beginning and even had conflicts with primitive monsters, we finally built these cities and bases without any disputes through communication and reconciliation.

Large cities have sufficient energy supplies. A few meters of ice is enough to sustain a small city for a year. They don't need to worry about energy issues in this regard. However, the underground has not yet achieved complete self-sufficiency in various other supplies.

On the afternoon of the second day after I started working, I entered other cities through the Wanlunyuan system. Although it was impossible to transport large amounts of materials and sophisticated equipment, this transmission device had no effect on the human body.

I don’t know much about Wan Lunyuan, but I have some interest in the history of science. After all, the foundation of our science is rooted in this aspect.

Looking back on the past, as a scientific researcher, I am often surprised, shocked and moved by those great people. This is a kind of happiness and feeling unique to a certain field.

Unfortunately, there are no more all-round talents nowadays. Technological differentiation is becoming more and more severe, and it is no longer possible to know a little bit of everything like before.

The place where I work now seems to be a gathering place for scientific researchers, and surprisingly, many of them know me.

These people come from different nationalities and regions, and range from biology, physics, mathematics, industry, neurology. There are many big names I have heard of and people whose names I have never heard of but who are also very accomplished in their own professions.

We seem to be gathered as a center for underground scientific researchers. As for the object of research...

The technological creations of the aliens shot down by the guardian beasts of the Nongmalts, the aliens' bodies, and the large amounts of copied data are more complex than the data in ten thousand libraries filled with encyclopedias. Our goal is to analyze these things.

I have never seen aliens so far, but when I heard about them, the curiosity aroused by their anger made me feel indescribable curiosity.

Who on earth are these people who destroyed our civilization and our homeland?

——When you actually see them, it’s hard to believe how fragile they are.

Skin that is fragile enough to take one's breath away, joints that are so delicate that they seem to be born to be injured, and heads that are too big to be produced by women.

In the dissected body, they found signs of gene editing, but even so, it seemed as if they were considering something - this body was a typical work of evolution's "elimination of the unfit". Even if it seemed that the operator wanted to work hard for something, there were too many unnecessary things.

We were shocked to find that this civilization was not much different from us in terms of biology. It was not the "universe" that we were worried about and filled with fear and joy at the beginning.

But at the same time, a fire was ignited in my heart.

I felt like I was convulsing and vomiting, and when I saw the true appearance of that thing, I felt an anger that was almost disgusting.

——They are not excellent.

Apart from the head - no, we also have that brain, and our bodies are even better than theirs. They don't have any indisputable advantages or unforgettable excellence in the physical body.

However, it was these creatures that easily ravaged the planet with their terrifying technology.

Why, why, why why why why why why.

Is there anything about them that is better than us? Is there something about them that we cannot match no matter how hard we try? Is there something about them that is so beautiful that it is beyond our knowledge? Is there something about them that is beyond our knowledge that makes us collapse?

——If that’s the case, what qualifications do they have to bully us?

If it was someone who was incomparably better than us, if it was someone who was completely excellent, I wouldn't even be so angry. But after knowing the true face, my heart started beating incredibly fast, and the blood carried the emotion to my whole body.

What an arrogant creature.

What an arrogant civilization.

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The researchers' research is not blocked as before, because there is no need. The planet's political system is more integrated than ever before, and accordingly, there has never been such a refined entrance in modern times.

Thanks to the brutality of the invaders, at least there is no need to worry about the emergence of surrenderists.

The quality of talent gathered in the underground city at this moment is probably unprecedented. We cannot say that there is hope, but we will not and cannot choose to despair.

Although the biological structure of aliens shattered our fantasy about aliens and brought almost no help, other things were so mysterious that they were like the incompleteness of geometry at the beginning of the ancient times. This kind of thing gave us great comfort. I almost forgot everything because of my work.

I heard that language parsing has also received attention, but I have little interest in it and don't even want to pay attention to their results.

I only heard some of them in the excited conversations of friends, and even so, I even wished I had forgotten them.

Of course, I know that this is of great help to us. Just in terms of mathematics, the aliens' advanced mathematics has surpassed the field of relying solely on calculations to apply formulas.

With the analysis of language symbols, it will greatly help us in theoretical mathematics, and these things will sooner or later feed back into applications.

However, I have no desire to learn about aliens.

As long as they remain strangers, there is no need for us to understand each other. This is of course not referring to the technical level. Even a three-year-old child knows the principle of learning from the barbarians to defeat them. I am not stupid enough to reach this level.

......However, even if there is only an astronomical probability, I absolutely do not want the possibility of "empathy" to appear between us.

While eating, I looked at my close friend who was sitting in front of me and dancing with his soup spoon happily. His voice seemed to be transmitted to me through a membrane.

My expression should not be out of control.

During the break, I went to see my mentor.

Communication with the surface is strictly controlled. People like me have no chance of having any contact with it, but correspondingly, teachers have to have contact with it due to work reasons.

I had not expected to hear anything out of the ordinary from the teacher, but to my surprise, I heard something shocking.

"What - give up the outer bases? No, no, even in the outermost part, there are at least 300,000 people. What will they do? We, we can't cram so many people in. What will happen to them?!"

I stammered and tried hard to get the words out.

The voice was paused and stuttered and didn't sound like mine.

"The range of earth-penetrating missiles is enough to attack those bases," the teacher said. "I mean, our technology is enough to do it."

I couldn't hear the ups and downs of the teacher's voice, perhaps because my brain temporarily lost the ability to respond to the outside world.

Yes... yes... there is really no way.

I felt dizzy and wanted to reach out and touch something, but I couldn't touch anything.

If even we can do it - why can't those invaders do it?

"But, but...that's nearly 300,000 lives..."

"The top brass has already decided to make this news public. Most of the people will go to the surface and join up with the resistance forces still on the surface. They will serve as important volunteers for us to obtain intelligence."

The teacher touched his forehead.

“They are honorable people.”

“But…but…”

"Someone has to do this," the teacher called my name, and the sound of my name seemed to reach my ears from somewhere far away. "You have to understand this," he called my name again, "you now have a great responsibility."

"I...why...I have a heavy responsibility."

"Contacting aliens is not an easy task. Perhaps in your opinion, the loss of lives and the destruction of homes are our greatest losses, but that is not the case." The teacher said quietly, "You were born in an ordinary family, but as a scientific researcher, you participated in the 'escape' operation. Your state of mind has changed. You have been trained, and you can find comfort in your sleepless work, but most people are not like this."

“Ah…ah…”

At that moment, I realized something very important.

After I came to the underground base, it seemed that... I had never participated in the lives of the people who were still living.

You can say that time is tight, or that there is no one to rest with me, but I have never relaxed enough to take a look at how people live in the city.

“Dead lives cannot be revived, but new lives can bring hope; destroyed homes cannot be brought back, but new homes will once again hold our thoughts.”

The teacher's voice came clearly into my ears.

"However, the reason why some of the nations that were once on the verge of extinction and the ancient countries that were once cut off are praised as having never been cut off is never because they continue to build majestic wonders on the burned land, but because of the spirits of their ancestors flowing in their minds and souls, which are self-improvement, perseverance, unwillingness, and pride. It is spirit."

——So, what is the spirit of the Nongmalt people now?

I shuddered at my thoughts.

"You are researching basic industries. This special project '341' requires many experts from various fields and is very complicated. However, the incident happened too suddenly. Many elite and experienced scientific researchers died on the surface. We are seriously short of manpower. Even if we divide it into many small projects, it is still difficult to conduct research on these projects."

I remember that you like the history of science very much. The development of our science now has gone through several divergences. If one of the development directions changes, perhaps we will all move towards different civilizations. For example, instead of the beautiful environment we have now, the high-tech, low-life reality that you like in science fiction works will appear. '341' is a crucial divergence for us now, how the Nongmalt people should develop. You are now standing at the divergence point of history. "

It's a long paragraph, but not incomprehensible.

There are numerous examples in history that illustrate the importance of science and technology. The development of science and technology is sufficient to influence the development of history to some extent.

Too powerful technology may cause a nation and its political group to become more aggressive, while other technologies that are too advanced may cause them to become less aggressive.