Chapter 1429 Returning After a Century

waiting hall.

Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the seat waiting to board the plane, suddenly felt a piercing pain.

His vision was a little blurry, and the moving figures in the hall were divided into countless ways.

He gritted his teeth and endured it. Just as a drop of cold sweat slipped from his forehead and dripped onto the armrest of the seat, a cold mechanical hand suddenly placed on the back of his hand.

The flexible polyethylene material has no temperature though.

However, it was unexpectedly reassuring.

The pain that went deep into the bone marrow gradually receded. Lu Zhou took a deep breath and drove the uncomfortable feeling away from his body with perseverance, then looked at the bionic man sitting next to him.

"……Thanks."

The bionic man nodded, didn't say anything, just gave him a smile with not too much facial expression, and expressed "I'm here" with simple body language.

As an economical and practical bionic human with "old age" and rough workmanship, this is already the limit of what it can do.

At this moment, Professor Leonard, who was wearing a plaid T-shirt and a leather jacket, strode over.

Didn't notice Lu Zhou's previous unnaturalness, he said bluntly.

"...I helped you contact a museum that is willing to take over the cultural relics. It is in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration you are going to. After hearing that the cultural relics were found near the Gate of Hell, they showed great interest and have already communicated with them. The Tiangong City authorities got in touch and issued a special customs clearance electronic certificate for the cultural relic. I just finished the formalities, and now we can pass through the customs smoothly and bring it onto the spacecraft... Of course, it must be placed in a special box. "

Pan-Asian cooperation bans guns throughout the country.

Even if it is a cultural relic, it must abide by the benzene law.

Lu Zhou said sincerely.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome." Sitting next to Lu Zhou, Professor Leonard shrugged his shoulders, "Just as a repayment for saving your life. Speaking of which, have you thought it through?"

Lu Zhou: "What have you thought about?"

"Your relatives, friends, family members, children, deposits, houses...are all gone, I guess you didn't buy insurance for yourself when you were frozen, you and I believe you are still alive in the whole world. Wait until the disease is cured After that, where do you want to go?"

Counting with his fingers, looking at Lu Zhou who said nothing, Professor Leonard continued, "My suggestion is, if you haven't thought about it, you might as well start by trying to integrate into this society. If you are interested in If you are interested in re-education, I can find a way to help you get an offer from Oxford University, and at least have a degree after you come out. Of course, if you want to work first, I also have a talkative old man in the British Museum My friend, he seemed to have mentioned last time that they are recruiting interns."

Hearing these words, Lu Zhou squinted at him.

This guy.

No wonder he gave up the rifle so generously, and even helped him contact museums that were willing to accept cultural relics.

It turns out that the person who drew the picture is himself...

"No need, let's talk about the future."

Professor Leonard wanted to say something else, but at this moment, the announcement of boarding had already sounded from the overhead broadcaster.

Shrugging his shoulders, he said helplessly.

"Well, whatever you want, I'm just offering you a choice."

They lined up in front of the boarding gate, and the two boarded the long-shuttle shuttle along with the crowd.

Always following Lu Zhou, Professor Leonard faithfully played the role of guide and introduced him.

"...This thing called a shuttle is equivalent to an elevator. We take it to the space station in high orbit, and then take the transport ship from there to the Tianzhou."

"Sky boat?"

"Yes, the space station at East 8 o'clock is also the Pan-Asian cooperation—even the world's largest space station! I think this name should have something to do with your name, maybe it's to commemorate you."

Remember me?

Lu Zhou smiled a little embarrassedly.

Although he still harbored an uneasy feeling about the uncertain future, when he saw the sky city and the surface of Mars that were getting farther away, for some reason, he was more and more looking forward to the return voyage after a century...

...

It took only three days to return from Mars to Earth.

This speed can be described as incredible compared to a century ago.

Before boarding the ship, Lu Zhou observed that there were twelve pairs of engines on the back of the cuboid-shaped transport ship.

That's right, there are twelve pairs, that is, twenty-four. The openings of the black holes are 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 an elongated arc, and the long and narrow starship outside the porthole was like a shooting star gliding towards the sky, galloping towards a dark and cold night...

"We're leaving too, are your seat belts fastened?"

"Of course," Lu Zhou pointed to something hanging on his waist, "It's not the first time I've been on a space shuttle."

As soon as the voice fell, a violent tremor came from behind, followed by a hum of electric current, and the starry sky outside the porthole was elongated as if it had a tail.

Professor Leonard had already closed his mouth, pressing the back of his head nervously against the cushion of the seat.

Seeing this scene, Lu Zhou couldn't help being a little funny.

This guy, tell yourself not to be afraid.

But I was "fearful of flying" first.

Turning his eyes away from him, Lu Zhou noticed a child about seven or eight years old, looking eagerly out of the string window, pointing excitedly at the space station that was fading away outside the window and talking to his mother next to him.

It's like being on a spaceship for the first time...

"Why are there still children here?"

Relieved from the initial tension, Professor Leonard gave Lu Zhou a strange look.

"Isn't this normal? Many newborns on Mars have never been to Earth in their entire lives. Maybe it's the first time even the space station has come up... Why are you curious about this kind of thing?"

It's okay if you haven't been to the earth in your life.

Lu Zhou couldn't imagine what kind of life that would be.

"...not out of curiosity, it's just my impression that low gravity seems to affect the development of bones."

Professor Leonard: "That's true, but the limit that human bones can withstand is mainly determined by genes, and the environment is only an influencing factor. In the past, it was popular to build some facilities called gravity chambers, which provide approximate gravity through centrifugal force .Mostly drugs are used now, and the effects of low gravity were a problem in the early days of the space age, but not a particularly big problem now."

Can even this kind of thing be solved with medicine?

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

It seems that medicine in this era has really developed to an unimaginable level.

I don't know if cancer, a terminal illness 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 is not too long.

It was also when using the virtual reality access device that Lu Zhou discovered that the online game called Jialan Empire was still in operation, but the operator had changed a few times.

Of course, because he was on the starship, he couldn't connect to the server on the earth, so he could only look at the gray icon and reminisce for a while, then connected to the virtual library, downloaded some study materials and studied up.

In general, his harvest is still quite large.

Although there are no professional academic materials to study here, there are 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 industry and chemical industry are very developed on Mars.

There are not only rich iron ore and titanium resources, but also frozen dry ice seas and methane lakes.

And the most important thing is that the environmental protection policy here is not as strict as on the earth, and fines of tens of millions of credit points are issued at every turn.

Many high-pollution and high-carbon-emission industries have been gradually transferred from Earth to Mars as early as the 1970s.

There is no need to worry about pollution or greenhouse gases here. Rather, some scientists pin their hopes on the greenhouse gases artificially produced by human activities, which can improve the atmospheric environment of Mars and pave the way for the Mars "climate recovery" plan hundreds of years later. .

In short, no matter whether you can achieve it or not, you still have to have a dream.

In recent years, with the continuous development of various industries on Mars, more and more people have begun to regard it as a dream land.

Although many people are discouraged from facing their dreams because of the crime rate and various dangers, there are still many people with the idea of ​​getting rich overnight packed their bags and set foot on this desert.

In addition to the steel and chemical industries mentioned earlier, there is also a gray industry on Mars that attracts the attention of countless people.

That is the excavation of the remains of Martian civilization.

There was a saying a long time ago that the Martian civilization once possessed a technological strength that far surpassed any civilization on Earth. Therefore, all countries encourage the excavation of the remains of Martian civilization, and the funds allocated to relevant research units are also quite sufficient. .

Therefore, in addition to those archaeological teams affiliated to major research institutions, there are also many illegal organizations that wander in the gray area of ​​the law and are also eyeing this cake.

Regardless of whether there are bargaining chips that can reverse the international situation in the Martian ruins, those priceless cultural relics and specimens alone are enough to make them take risks.

In addition to those industries located on the surface of Mars, Mars also plays the role of a material transfer hub, undertaking the task of rough processing and transfer of minerals transported from the asteroid belt.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

As the largest "mineral vein" with the most abundant materials and the easiest to mine in the solar system, many precious resources here have been pegged by people on earth as early as a century ago, but until the middle of the twentieth century, Development on it has only just begun.

The rapid development of Mars colonization is inseparable from the rise of the "asteroid belt economy".

Eighty percent of the spacecraft's materials come from the asteroid belt.

Even the latest space station deployed by the Pan-Asian Cooperation on Mars, almost 90% of the materials used come from ores from the asteroid belt!

The abundance of materials there is evident from this!

However, opposite to the huge benefits, it is also full of various dangers.

Not only the navigation risk caused by meteorite fragments, but also the sky pirates hiding behind the meteorite.

Some powerful air pirates even built pirate bases on the asteroid belt, and through the cover of meteorites, while avoiding the radar searches of patrol ships from various countries, they traded looted supplies with some illegal traders.

"It seems that this is really an era of extreme material affluence and full of opportunities."

"When people are full, they have time to become pirates when they are bored..."

Looking at the research materials in the holographic window, a thoughtful expression appeared on Lu Zhou's face.

Although he didn't directly respond to what Professor Leonard said earlier, it has been lingering in his mind for a while.

In fact, he didn't think about where he should go after he cured the sequelae of cryogenic hibernation.

Maybe wait until you know everything about the earth, save a sum of money, buy a piece of land on Mars, repair the spaceship and go to the center of the galaxy?

Take a look at Tiancang Wushang on the way, what kind of scenery there is.

After all, when he made that choice, he didn't expect to be thrown into such a distant future...

Just when Lu Zhou was worrying about this matter, he suddenly remembered an important matter that he had almost forgotten for a century.

Speaking of which, the treasure on Mars has been found, and it seems that I still haven't received the reward for a system task.

Thinking of this, he slowly closed his eyes, and silently called the system with anxiety.

After so many years, I don't know if the observers have forgotten him.

Fortunately, the kind of thing he feared didn't happen.

From the moment he accepted the three tubes of medicine, his fate was bound together with the void in the dark.

When Lu Zhou opened his eyes again, the long-lost pure white space also caught his eyes.

At the same time, a light blue dialog box loomed in outline.

[Congratulations to the host, the task is completed! 】

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