wandering planet

This horror is not specific enough.

It was not born simply because of "Snowflake" or the advanced civilization of the Arlans star field.

It is more like the innate survival and self-preservation functions of creatures that are involuntarily produced in the face of stronger and more deterrent forces-fear makes people avoid certain things, and through this way of avoiding to preserve their lives .

But egrets cannot escape.

They restarted the space station, and the word "evasion" would never be in the mission dictionary.

Among all the known human groups, only the people of Bailu are the closest to the civilization of the Allans star field, so the baptism of fear on them is more frequent and intense.

Over time, they are all used to it, or numb.

"They deliberately displayed 'snow flakes' in front of us, either to shock or to show off," Cicero said. "In any case, his purpose has been achieved. But even so, we cannot leave."

Marseille's resources cannot support the current intensity of development, which is the consensus of mankind since staying in Marseille.

In order to find new resources, countless scientific ships headed for the direction of the Milky Way nuclear bulb.

The existence of the administrator of the Black Sea transfer station and the Phoenix gave the Maasai people a way out to return to Earth.

The restart of the Egret space station allows human beings to come into contact with a higher level of cosmic civilization for the first time, trying to learn from looking up.

Every road cannot be given up, and countless people have gone on to follow each road.There is no retreat, no escape - this is what everyone who embarks on a journey must remind themselves.

"The existence of the Egret space station is a great secret." Cicero led them to the door of the observation room, and the door that had disappeared reappeared, sliding silently, "Not only because of the Arlans star field, but also because of Marseille The survival of its own population also has a lot to do with it.”

He pointed to himself: "I'm a clone, you all know that. In fact, most of the crew on the Egret space station are clones. The rest of them are not, like Bis—"

The woman who brought Jiang Che and others to the observation room walked beside Cicero and smiled back at them.

"—Bis was born on the space station, she is 25 years old this year."

"Station Master, I'm 24 years old."

Cicero quickly corrected: "Okay, 24 years old. As you can imagine, Bisi's parents are both clones."

In the "Great Retreat" plan 500 years ago, the "Gene Survival" plan was divided into two sub-projects, one was the freezing project that Jiang Che participated in, and the second was the creation of the Ovid cloning project.

Originally thought that after arriving in Marseille, this "gene survival" plan could be put on hold temporarily, but the reality quickly gave the decision-maker a slap in the face.

As society gradually stabilized and production resumed, Marseille's living standards quickly returned to the same level as the earth, or even higher.

And then there was a problem that forced the restart of the second category of sub-projects in "Gene Survival": Marseille's fertility rate was too low.

As the part migrated from the earth gradually died, their descendants shifted their focus to improving their own quality of life after learning about human history.

Marseille has many policies to encourage childbearing, but these policies always face a question: Marseille has a population of 5 million, and this 5 million population has already put Marseille's resources in red light. If it continues to increase, the speed of resource depletion will only increase. will continue to accelerate.

This is almost an unsolvable cycle: resources themselves are constantly being depleted, so more deep space exploration is required; deep space exploration requires a large number of science ships, and whether it is manufacturing science ships or driving science ships, a lot of manufacturing is required However, the problem of resource depletion has directly led to a decline in the population's interest in childbearing, which has led to a sharp decrease in the working population, thus restricting the ability to explore deep space.

So while continuing to encourage fertility, they restarted the cloning program.

"Among the clones, there are special finished products with the same background as me, but most of them are ordinary people. They are created, some of them are used for medical treatment, and some of them enter the jobs that are in short supply, becoming the cheapest but most effective workers .”

Cicero goes all the way to explain.

"At that time, the 'Gene Continuation' project preserved many, many genes of people on earth, and it was enough to use these genes to create human clones. I once saw 26 identical women in a manufacturing factory for the shell of a scientific ship , Although they have their own names, they only call each other by code names in the workshop. Because they are afraid that they will not be able to accurately identify who is who, they will have code names stamped on the back of their hands."

Jiang Che glanced at Ovid subconsciously.

Ovid listened very seriously, but his face was not very good.

He may have thought of the countless corpses in that deep pit with the same face as himself.Jiang Che quietly reached out, grabbed his wrist, and gently pulled him towards him.

"Let's not talk about that, talk about something else." Cicero smiled, "I remember you."

He looked at Jiang Che.

Jiang Che was taken aback for a moment: "At that time... it really was you?"

"It's a coincidence that your cryo chamber was actually discovered by people from the Egret space station." Cicero said, "I was the one who woke you up from the chamber at that time. It's just that the existence of Egret is top secret, so in the records , You were discovered by a patrol ship. It seems that you still remember me. After you woke up, our doctor injected you with a balance agent, and you fell asleep soon. The balance agent will disturb your short-term memory. You probably can't remember exactly where you woke up."

Jiang Che really couldn't remember.The only thing he remembered was Cicero's face.That handsome face somewhat similar to Linney's, and the scars on his face.

Linney walked just behind Cicero.Cicero would often smile at him as he spoke back.

Linney knew his nose was sore, and so were his eyes.

If there was no one else here, he would have been crying with Cicero in his arms.

Although he knew that he was just a replica, a replica of his older brother, but if Cicero was really alive, he would definitely look like this after 30 years.

"You are doing a great thing." Pierre sighed behind Linney, "Station Master, you are all heroes."

Cicero looked at him and smiled: "This may also be a meaningless thing."

He pointed overhead.

There was the observation room they had just left.

"We are like ants on the edge of the giant's castle. As long as the giant wants to, it can trample us to death at any time."

Linney asked suddenly: "Did you make the three-dimensional model of the Milky Way? The nuclear bulge, the nuclear bulge of the Milky Way, it still heats up."

Cicero stood still.For the first time after the two had met for so long, he looked at Linney so seriously and intently, and answered his abrupt question.

"I did it, Linney," he said. "When your brother was talking to me, he said that he has a younger brother who is at the age of curiosity about everything in the world. He wants to give him a model of the Milky Way. , but he doesn’t know how to make a more realistic nuclear ball. I helped him complete it, and he likes it very much. Did you receive this gift?”

"He didn't give it to me, but he put it in his room." Having said this, Lin Ni was suddenly stunned.

He realized now that it was indeed his gift.But Cicero thought he was too young to be damaged, so he kept it in his room all the time.

But every time Linney showed interest in the Milky Way model, Cicero always took the trouble to explain it to him.

Not only is Cicero leading Linney's interests, he is also carefully guarding the gifts made by the replicators.

Perhaps in Cicero's mind, this clone who is exactly the same as himself is not a copy, but a complete person worthy of his respect.

They are identical to each other, stripped of all labels, identical on the inside.

"He loves you very much." The middle-aged man in front of him suddenly said, "Linney, he loves you very much. You have a great father and the best brother in the world."

The young Phoenix captain couldn't bear it any longer, and raised his hand to wipe his eyes.

"I know." He said quickly, "Of course I do."

As soon as the words were finished, a sliding door behind Cicero suddenly opened.

Two young men rushed out from inside, their faces were flushed, and they ran away coughing and choking.

The strong and pungent chili smell wafted out from the sliding door, Jiang Che couldn't hold it back, his eyes lit up.

The smell of this chili is very fragrant. It has been a long, long time since he has smelled such an authentic aroma of chili oil.

Biss covered her nose and yelled at the sliding door: "Bai Ye! What are you doing again!"

"Make some chili oil." The woman's voice came from the room inside the sliding door, the tone was very cold, "Don't smell it, you can go."

Song Junxing was still paying attention to Lin Ni a moment ago. At this moment, he suddenly remembered the accusation he saw on the bulletin board, and quickly asked Cicero, "Is this your cook lover?"

Cicero pinched his nose and shouted: "Of course not!!!"

Cicero's rumored object was a buxom, buxom woman with a very pointed chin and cold, pale gray eyes.

Her short hair is very refreshing and simple, and her eyes have no enthusiasm. If the apron on her body is replaced with a combat uniform, no one will doubt her combat effectiveness.

Cicero led everyone into the kitchen. Jiang Che looked around and thought to himself, this place is smaller than the kitchen of the Phoenix, but it can be seen that it is often used, and all the utensils are no longer brand new. There are also traces of oil stains that cannot be washed off on the walls.

"Are you hungry?" Cicero asked them, "This is Baiye, the cook of Egret Space Station, she can make whatever you want..."

"No." Bai Ye interrupted him, "I'm off work."

Cicero looked at the chili oil in front of her: "What is this?"

"Private work, you can buy 500 grams for 200 Mosaic currency." Bai Ye scooped up a spoonful of chili oil and handed it to him, "This is the silver foil pepper native to the planet Apple, do you want to try it?"

Cicero was silent for a moment, then his voice softened: "Bai Ye, as I said before, your price is too expensive."

"Silver foil peppers are so difficult to pick, and I feel sorry for not being so expensive." Bai Ye said, "Besides, you have given me the right to set prices freely for any products sold in the kitchen."

"Darcy cheated me of this right!" Cicero showed a rare tinge of irritation.

Linney had completely recovered his composure. Like everyone else, he listened carefully to the dispute between Cicero and his rumored object, while also carefully looking at the jar of chili oil in front of Bai Ye.

In the jar of red and yellow chili oil, there were actually a lot of shimmering silver debris mixed in.