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"...we must reconfirm this point: in the history of human exploration of the universe, the migration that began in 517 of the Marseille calendar and the great retreat 500 years ago are both milestones. This migration is called the 'Phoenix Route' It is our brothers and sisters who ushered in a new era, bringing new hope from the other side of the universe.

In fact, although there were less than a hundred migrants when the '517 Migration' occurred—they had lost their way, parted with their companions, and did not even have any expectation of the end of the journey—but from our point of view today, the migration So significant, like a chain explosion between us and Marseille.Migrants retrace the path of our retreat, the end of their arrival and the beginning of everything. "("A Brief History of New Mankind and the Universe")

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*departure

Jiang Che jumped onto the deck of the ship just before the bell stopped.

"My God!" Heaney waved his big hand, as if he was about to slap him, "I said yesterday that all employees must be here one hour in advance today! Why do you have to wait until the start bell rings every time? ..."

Jiang Che handed him a piece of pie: "Beef and vegetable pie."

The angry brown-haired middle-aged man's expression suddenly softened, and he grabbed the pie.

"Okay, for the sake of the pie, I forgive you once." He asked while eating, "Jiang, it's just a trip, why do you bring such a big suitcase? Is it containing your transformation props?"

Heaney is talking about the plot in the recently popular movie "Black Hunter".He felt that this sentence was very humorous, so he burst out laughing, spraying the minced snow vegetables on Jiang Che's face.

Jiang Che wiped it off angrily: "Don't watch so many popcorn movies!"

Heaney: "What's popcorn?"

Jiang Che ran all the way, panting, unable to chat with him anymore, he just waved at him carelessly, turned around and dragged his luggage into his tool room.He still has two pies in his hand, both are hot and golden, and they are so fragrant that people feel more and more hungry.After changing his clothes, he turned a big bucket upside down on the ground, sat on it and began to eat his breakfast.

In Marseille, neither beef nor pickled vegetables are rare things.They are moderately priced and the output is huge. For Jiang Che, the only drawback is that the taste is not right - it is not the same as the beef and pickled vegetables on earth.

It has been more than 500 years since human beings bid farewell to the earth and migrated to this planet called Marseille.

Located in the Swan-Orion arm of the Milky Way, Marseille itself has three satellites and orbits the star "Alpha".Its volume is three times larger than that of the earth, and its surface is covered with a large amount of liquid water and an atmosphere similar to that of the earth. At the same time, the biological evolution on the planet has begun, and the planet is full of green vegetation and animals living in it. Planets inhabited by humans.

According to records, the first astronauts to land on Marseilles were French.He left the aircraft, stood for a while, and then threw himself on the wet soil of Marseille with great excitement, opened his mouth, and sang "Marseillaise" stammeringly.

The intermittent voice was transmitted back to the earth across a distance of 42.73 light years. At that moment, more than 40 billion people around the world heard his choked up singing at the same time.

In the subsequent global online voting, "Marseille" defeated names such as "Bass", "Halo", "Rolling" and "Iron Man" to become the new name of the planet.

Masai is suitable for human survival, and it is also suitable for farming and grazing.

But the strange thing is that although the plants and animals brought from the earth can survive in Marseille, their appearance has undergone subtle changes, and even the meat quality and taste are quite different from those on the earth.

Therefore, when Jiang Che ate it, he always felt that the beef was not real beef, and the pickled vegetables were not real pickled vegetables.

The pie was made by himself.During his life in Marseille, whenever he has time, Jiang Che must cook by himself.He lives in a small dormitory, sharing public bathrooms and toilets with many young people of similar age, and there is also a kitchen that no one cares about.

When Jiang Che left the dormitory today, due to the rush of time, he couldn't make a better breakfast, so he took the three leftover pies from last night in his hands.The dough of the pie was kneaded by himself, and there were minced beef and pickled vegetables in the stuffing, as well as his own sauce, which was wrapped in dough, flattened, and then thrown into the oil pan for frying.The hot oil gurgled, and tiny oil bubbles appeared on the edge of the dough cake. As they burst, a hot aroma would emerge.

Although it is cold, the aroma is still there when it is slightly heated.The warm and fragrant stuffing is wrapped in the dough, and the savory gravy is full of salty gravy after one bite, and then the beef cubes inside are smacked.Jiang Che didn't mince the beef, the gravy and sauce soaked the beef cubes in the noodles, the marinated pickled cabbage was soft but slightly crispy, once he bit it whole, he was so hungry that he wanted to swallow it immediately, but he was reluctant to take a bite Chew carefully.

The sauce in the stuffing was rich and complex, Jiang Che wiped the sauce from the corner of his mouth with his finger, licking it non-stop.

Because the taste of beef is different from what he is used to, Jiang Che always adds a lot of sauce to the beef filling.The sauce is made from a strange plant that grows on the land of Marseilles. Jiang Che calls it "beef grass" because the juice of this plant will emit the aroma of beef after heating, which is very different from the taste of earth beef. Similar, very strange.

If it is beef from the past, there is no need to use these things to enhance the taste.Jiang Che chewed the pie, full of regrets in his heart: he missed those natural beef gravy, which was thick and sweet, used for bibimbap, and tasted so delicious.

He finished one, sighed comfortably, and prepared to deal with the next one.At this time, Heaney's loud voice sounded outside the door: "Jiang, you should go to the second floor to sweep the floor!"

Jiang Che had no choice but to stuff the pie into the lunch box and walk out with it.

The porpoise-shaped ship that Jiang Che worked on was named "Faust", and it belonged to the Star 18 route of Marseille Star Travel Agency.It is the only interstellar ship that imitates the shape of a dolphin among all ships in Marseille, but because of its rounded and wide shape, it is also the only interstellar ship among all ships that is described as "cute" by the Marseilles.

Faust's passenger capacity is 1000 people, but at this time there are only more than 300 passengers on board.

Passengers carried backpacks uniformly distributed by the Marseille Interstellar Travel Agency, with a round earth printed on them.They are going to play on earth.

The moment of human migration to Marseille is also the moment of evacuation from the earth. One night more than 500 years ago, people were awakened from sleep by a warning: an asteroid out of orbit was coming towards the earth, it was huge and inevitable.

The immature interstellar immigration plan was immediately brought forward.Marseille is the most suitable place to emigrate, but it is a bit far away from the earth. No one can predict how many dangers they will encounter on this voyage.

The last moment came. When more than 100 million lucky people left the earth in a ship, with the help of astronomical telescopes, they could already see the small planet that was gradually approaching.

After two warp jumps, Earth is no longer visible.The mighty fleet passes through countless dangerous asteroid belts, and the number of ships and population is constantly decreasing. They have no time to pay attention to what their hometown will be like behind them.

The asteroid grazed the South Pacific, crashed on the Australian continent, and set off a tsunami that swept the world.It even destroyed the complete space broadcast system around the earth. Due to the distance, the humans on the fleet were unable to learn anything about the earth until they arrived in Marseilles.

More than 500 years have passed, people continued to survive and multiply on the new planet, and established the first transit station in the long distance between Marseille and the earth.The transfer station began to operate soon, sending back information related to the earth one after another.

But the new humans born in Marseille don't care about the affairs of the earth.

What they pay more attention to is how to use Marseille as a base to continue exploring the universe.

Marseille is a fresh planet, but when humans arrived in Marseille, they already had a developed civilization.Developed civilization and technology require a lot of resources and space to support them. In order to allow themselves to survive in Marseille quickly, the pioneers quickly started the construction of the city.Marseille's resources have not yet matured and cannot withstand such a high-intensity development. Only 500 years have passed, and the resource stock has already turned red.

In order to survive and continue civilization, the new humans are keen to explore deeper, and are not interested in the old homeland that has been left behind.

Because of this, the registration time for the earth route developed by Marseille Star Travel Agency lasted for half a year, and in the end even the basic group of 500 people was not enough.

Jiang Che, who was cleaning the ground, heard the captain talking on the radio.

"This voyage is about to begin. I am the captain of 'Faust', Pimi Loris Yayamitz Minda..."

The captain's name is 68 characters long, and by the time he finished reading, Jiang Che had already dragged the ground.

"...We will go through no less than 26 subspace transitions, and finally return to the solar system. In order to fully appreciate the scenery of the solar system, 'Faust' will slow down on the course of the solar system..."

Jiang Che washed the rag, and began to vigorously scrub a trash can in the corridor that was stained with chewing gum.

With such advanced technology, even interstellar travel is possible, why can't all ships be cleaned automatically?He thought angrily, why haven't humans invented chewing gum that doesn't need to be spit out?

Because the passengers carried by "Faust" this time are on a "homecoming journey", the ship is full of details that allow new humans to experience history: such as human cleaners, such as most likely in the next voyage Green plants that wither quickly, such as a complex kitchen that few people will use, such as a trash can that does not automatically decompose garbage.

"...'Faust' is about to set sail, I wish the passengers a pleasant journey."

Pimi's voice disappeared, and Jiang Che's heart skipped a beat. He quickly supported the wall and stood up straight, looking out through the porthole beside him.

Faust was shaking slightly.

Jiang Che was almost lying on the window.

The send-off ship of the Marseille Star Travel Agency left Marseille at the same time as Faust's departure.Marseille, shrouded in a silver barrier, is slowly moving away from his sight.The silver barrier is released by thesea, Marseille's overall defense system, which can monitor the situation around Marseille in real time and respond immediately.Under the barrier is the place where Jiang Che lived.People were as busy as ever, and a medium-sized ship left the port without attracting anyone's attention.

In Jiang Che's impression, the latest sensational ship departure event was the giant scientific ship that went on a mission to explore the Crab Claw galaxy last month.

He was also crowded in the crowd at that time, watching the silver-white ships leaving the port from a distance.

The ship was huge and rumbled.The people on the radio shouted at the top of their lungs: "Let's go! Our warriors have begun the 124th exploration of the galaxy's nucleus!"

Jiang Che is still not quite used to the tone of the Maasai people's speech, and he doesn't know what the Milky Way nucleus is, so he can't understand it.He turned around and wanted to leave, and then saw the message of Faust's "homecoming journey" in the advertising leaflet under his feet.

He rushed to the travel agency immediately, but was shocked by the group fee for the trip back home.He doesn't have that much money.Members of the travel agency told him that because the "homecoming trip" was too deserted, this might be the last chance to go to Earth with a tourist visa: Marseille Star Travel Agency has decided to suspend the operation of this tourist route.

When Jiang Che was at his wit's end, he happened to see Faust's advertisement for manpower cleaners.

Although Faust was already fully recruited when he rushed to sign up, after verifying Jiang Che's identity, the other party sympathetically agreed to his request of "no money, just let me aboard".

Faust is getting taller.Jiang Che saw that the star Alpha, which was several times larger than the sun, showed a chubby outline.Under its light, there is the silver-white Marseille, the orange-flashing send-off ship, and the distant sky slowly laying out several kinds of blue.

I am going home.Goodbye, Marseilles, he thought.Goodbye, bad beef.

There are six floors in Faust. Except for the storage space on the first floor and the entertainment space on the fourth floor, the remaining four floors are guest rooms.The interior of the ship is modeled after a cruise liner, with a lot of room to move around, so cleaning can be quite laborious.

Jiang Che, who finished the cleaning work on the second floor, just walked up to the third floor, and immediately received a communication from the dispatching station in his earphones.

"Attention all units. Attention all units. According to the urgent announcement of the Marseille Criminal Police Department, among the 16 ships leaving Hong Kong today, there is a high possibility that dangerous people have sneaked in..."

Before Jiang Che could finish listening, Heaney's communication interrupted suddenly, asking him to clean the toilet in room 666 immediately.

Guests in Room 666 complained about the clogged toilet and sewage seeping through the ceiling.Jiang Che hesitated for a moment outside Room 566, put his lunch box on the corridor, took a deep breath, and rushed in wearing a mask.

Fortunately, it's not something hard to look at.It was some plastic wrap that was clogging the toilet.Jiang Che took it out and took a closer look. It turned out that it was a bag of soda crackers that has been sold very hot recently in Marseilles.This biscuit is very similar to the sandwich biscuit he is familiar with. There is a green sugar sauce between the two biscuits, which is dyed by a certain plant juice that Jiang Che can't name.

This stuff is not good.Jiang Che thought to himself, you must have never eaten the vanilla-flavored 3+2 sandwich.

He walked out of Room 666 and was about to report the situation to Heaney, when he lowered his head and found that his lunch box was overturned in the corridor, it was empty, and the only remaining beef and pickled cabbage pie was gone.

The author has something to say:

Jiang Che's identity will be revealed slowly later.And our handsome Mr. Killer is still reciting his lines in the waiting room.

Pickled cabbage is actually potherb mustard.