Waiting hall.
Lu Zhou, who was sitting in his seat waiting to board the plane, suddenly felt a sharp pain.
His vision was a little blurry. The moving figures in the hall were divided into countless lines.
He clenched his teeth and endured it. A drop of cold sweat slid down from his forehead and dripped on the armrest of the seat. A cold robotic hand suddenly placed on the back of his hand.
The flexible polyethylene material had no temperature.
However, it unexpectedly made people feel a sense of security.
The pain in his bone marrow gradually subsided. Lu Zhou took a deep breath and drove away the uncomfortable feeling from his body with perseverance. He then looked at the robot sitting next to him.
"Thank you."
The robot nodded and didn't say anything. It just gave him a smile that was not too expressive and used simple body language to express "I'm here".
As an "old", rough workmanship, this was already the limit of what it could do.
At this moment, Professor Leonard, wearing a plaid T-shirt and a leather jacket, strode over.
He didn't notice Lu Zhou's previous unnaturalness. He spoke straightforwardly.
"I helped you contact a museum that is willing to take over the cultural relics. It is in the Yangtze River Delta city group you are going to. After hearing that it was a cultural relic found near The Gates of Hell, they showed great interest. They have already contacted the authorities of Tiangong City and issued a special electronic clearance certificate for the cultural relic. I just finished the formalities. Now we can smoothly pass the customs and take it on the spacecraft … Of course, it must be placed in a special box. "
Guns were banned throughout the Pan-Asian Cooperation.
Even cultural relics had to comply with the benzene law.
Lu Zhou said sincerely.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." Sitting next to Lu Zhou, Professor Leonard shrugged his shoulders and said, "Consider it as a repayment for saving my life. Speaking of which, have you thought about it? "
Lu Zhou: "Thought about what?"
"Your relatives, friends, family, children, savings, houses … are all gone. I guess you didn't buy insurance for yourself when you were frozen. In the world, only you and I believe that you are still alive. Have you decided where you want to go after you're cured? "
Professor Leonard counted his fingers and looked at Lu Zhou, who was silent. He continued, "My suggestion is that if you haven't thought about it, you might as well start by trying to integrate into society. If you are interested in re-education, I can try to help you get an offer from Oxford University. You will at least have a degree after you graduate. Of course, if you want to work first, I have an old friend in the British Museum. He mentioned that they are hiring interns. "
Hearing this, Lu Zhou glanced at him.
This fellow.
No wonder he was so generous with the rifle and even helped him contact a museum that was willing to accept the relics.
So, it turns out that they're after me …
"There's no need. Let's talk about the future in the future."
Professor Leonard still wanted to say something, but at this moment, the overhead broadcast had already sounded the boarding prompt.
He shrugged and said helplessly.
"Alright, suit yourself. I'm just giving you a choice."
After lining up in front of the boarding gate, the two of them boarded the shuttle along with the crowd.
Professor Leonard, who had been following Lu Zhou, loyally played the role of a guide and explained to him.
"This thing called the shuttle is equivalent to an elevator. We take it to the space station in high orbit, then from there, we take the transport ship to the Tianzhou."
"Tianzhou?"
"Yes, the space station in the East Area 8. It is also the largest space station in the Pan-Asian Cooperation and the world! I feel that this name should have something to do with your name. Maybe it's in memory of you. "
In memory of me?
Lu Zhou smiled a little embarrassedly.
Although there was still a sense of uneasiness about the uncertain future in his heart, when he saw the Sky City and the Martian surface gradually getting further away, for some reason, he was looking forward to this return trip after a century …
…
It only took three days to return to Earth from Mars.
This speed could be described as incredible a century ago.
Before boarding the ship, Lu Zhou observed that there were a total of twelve pairs of engines behind the cuboid transport ship.
That's right, twelve pairs, that is, twenty-four. The dark openings were inlaid at the end of the wide trapezoid.
When the twelve pairs of engines were lit up together, the entire night sky outside the space station seemed to be lit up.
Lu Zhou only saw a long arc of light. The long and narrow starship outside the porthole was like a meteor sliding into the sky, galloping toward the dark cold night …
"We're about to go too. Have you fastened your seat belts?"
"Of course." Lu Zhou pointed to the thing hanging on his waist. "It's not my first time on a space shuttle."
As soon as he said that, a violent tremor came from behind him, followed by a hum of electric current. The starry sky outside the porthole seemed to have grown a tail.
Professor Leonard had already closed his mouth. He nervously pressed the back of his head against the cushion of the seat.
Seeing this scene, Lu Zhou couldn't help but laugh.
This guy told me not to be afraid.
On the other hand, he was the first to become 'scared of flying'.
Lu Zhou looked away from him. He noticed a child about seven or eight years old looking out of the porthole. He was excitedly pointing at the space station outside the window and talking to his mother next to him.
It was like this was his first time on a spaceship …
"Why is there a child here?"
Professor Leonard looked at Lu Zhou strangely.
"Isn't this normal? Many newborns on Mars have never been to Earth in their lives. Maybe this is their first time on the space station … Why are you curious about this kind of thing?"
Never been to Earth in their lives.
Lu Zhou couldn't imagine what kind of life that was.
"It's not that I'm curious, it's just that low gravity seems to affect bone development."
Professor Leonard: "That's right, but the limit that human bones can withstand is mainly determined by genes. The environment is only a factor. In the past, it was popular to build facilities called gravity chambers, which provided approximate gravity through centrifugal force. Now most people use drugs. The impact of low gravity was a problem in the early days of the space age, but now it is not a particularly big problem. "
Even this kind of thing can be solved with drugs?
Lu Zhou couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
It seemed that the medicine of this era was really developed to an unimaginable level.
I wonder if cancer, a terminal disease that has plagued human civilization for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, has been solved in this era …
…
Because of the virtual reality access equipment, the three-day trip wasn't too long.
When using the virtual reality access equipment, Lu Zhou discovered that the online game called Calan Empire was still operating, but the operator had changed several times.
Of course, because he was on the starship, there was no way for him to connect to the server on Earth. He could only look at the gray icon for a while, then connect to the virtual library, download some learning materials, and study them.
Overall, his gain was quite big.
Although there were no professional academic materials to study here, there were still many interesting things stored in this virtual library.
For example, in an academic book describing the economic and social environment of the colony, Lu Zhou learned that the steel and chemical industries on Mars were very developed.
Not only were there rich iron and titanium ore resources, but there were also frozen dry ice seas and methane lakes.
And the most important thing was that the environmental protection policies here were not as strict as those on Earth, where fines of tens of millions of credits could be issued easily.
Many industries with high pollution and high carbon emissions had gradually moved from Earth to Mars as early as the 1970s.
There was no need to worry about pollution or greenhouse gases here. Some scientists pinned their hopes on greenhouse gases artificially produced by human activities, which could improve the atmospheric environment of Mars and pave the way for the Mars "climate recovery" plan hundreds of years later.
In short, regardless of whether they could do it or not, they still had to have dreams.
In recent years, with the continuous development of various industries on Mars, more and more people began to regard this place as a dream.
Due to the high crime rate and various dangers, many people flinched in the face of their dreams. However, there were still many people who carried the idea of getting rich overnight and set foot on this desert.
In addition to the steel and chemical industries mentioned earlier, there was also a gray industry on Mars that attracted the attention of countless people.
That was the excavation of the ruins of the Martian civilization.
There was a saying a long time ago that the Martian civilization once had scientific and technological strength far beyond any civilization on Earth. Therefore, countries encouraged the excavation of the ruins of the Martian civilization, and the funds allocated to relevant research units were quite sufficient.
Therefore, in addition to those archaeological teams belonging to major research institutions, there were also many illegal organizations wandering in the gray area of the law.
Regardless of whether there was a bargaining chip in the Martian ruins that could reverse the international situation, the valuable cultural relics and specimens alone were enough for them to take the risk.
In addition to those industries located on the surface of Mars, Mars also played the role of a material transfer hub, undertaking the task of rough processing and transit transportation of minerals transported from the asteroid belt.
Speaking of this, the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter had to be mentioned.
As the largest "mineral vein" with the richest resources in the Solar System and the easiest to mine, there were many precious resources here. People on Earth had been eyeing it since a century ago, but it was not until the middle of the 20th century that the development of it had just begun.
The rapid development of Mars colonization was inseparable from the rise of the "asteroid belt economy".
80% of the materials for spacecraft came from the asteroid belt.
Even the latest space station deployed on Mars by Pan-Asian Cooperation almost 90% of the materials used came from the ores on the asteroid belt!
From this, one could see how rich the resources there were!
However, in contrast to the rich benefits, it was also full of all kinds of dangers.
Not only the navigation risks caused by meteorite fragments, but also the air pirates hiding behind the meteorites.
Some powerful air pirates even built pirate bases on the asteroid belt, and under the cover of meteorites, while avoiding the radar search of the patrol ships of various countries, they traded with some illegal traders.
"It seems that this is really an era of extreme material wealth and opportunities."
"People have nothing better to do, so they have the time to be pirates …"
Looking at the research information in the holographic window, a thoughtful expression appeared on Lu Zhou's face.
Although he did not directly respond to Professor Leonard's words, they had been lingering in his mind during this period of time.
In fact, he had not thought about where he should go after curing the sequelae of frozen dormancy.
Maybe after everything on Earth was settled, he would save a sum of money, buy a piece of land on Mars, repair the spacecraft, and then go to the center of the galaxy?
On the way, he would go to Firmament to see what kind of scenery it was.
After all, when he made that choice, he did not expect to be thrown into such a distant future …
Just when Lu Zhou was worrying about this matter, he suddenly remembered an important thing that he had almost forgotten for a century.
Speaking of which, the treasure on Mars was found, but it seemed that there was still a system mission reward that he had not received yet.
With that in mind, he slowly closed his eyes and silently called out to the system with a perturbed heart.
After so many years, he didn't know if The Observer had forgotten him.
Fortunately, the kind of thing he was worried about did not happen.
From the moment he accepted the three vials of medicine, his fate was bound to the Void in an unseen way.
When Lu Zhou opened his eyes again, the pure white space that he hadn't seen for a long time was reflected in his eyes.
At the same time, the light blue dialog box loomed.
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