Chapter 1421

Ding -!

The sound of steel collision wakes the boat from trance.

That's the sound of iron.

When he came back, he was standing in front of a primitive house made of wood and stones and some white fluff, and it was a strange forge beside him that woke him up. Looking up into the distance, you can see the walls built by soil blocks and sticks, as well as the farmland with good momentum.

As general Reinhardt said, the insects learned to walk upright, even to use tools, and developed the rudiments of farming civilization.

Even in his opinion, the way they walk is funny.

Looking at the fenced "pasture" and the fat and bucket like larvae, there was a thoughtful expression on the face of the boat.

At this time, general Reinhardt came to his side and joked.

"What kind of experience is it for tens of thousands of years when you are distracted?"

I heard the banter in that tone, but at this time, the boat had no time to take these into account.

"We How many thousands of years have passed? "

General Reinhardt shrugged.

"You can understand it as fast forward, after all, I can't really let you stay in my memory for tens of thousands of years."

Sweat!

Scared to death!

Lu Zhou thought he had slept for tens of thousands of years!

“……”

Without immediately responding to general Reinhardt's words, the boat looked around for a while, looked at the village at the foot of the mountain for a while, and then continued to say, " We are now in the stone age? "

"A little further than the stone age, they have learned to smelt metals It's probably bronze age. "

"Did you teach them that?"

"No, their brains may be a little smaller, but they are not so stupid that they need my help to build houses and domesticate wild animals."

"But you told me that you" enlightened "them."

"Yes, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it was the stone tablet I left that taught them the characters, and it was because of the appearance of the characters that their knowledge was passed on. Isn't this hanging big enough?"

Just as he was speaking, there was a bleak hum in his original place, and the peace and serenity in the air suddenly touched with a sense of solemnity.

Only a cockroach with its head covered with metal horns rushed out of the forest, under the cover of domesticated flying insects, and rushed towards the village at the foot of the mountain.

Screams came and went, and the cockroaches in the village quickly armed and began to fight.

The two groups of people and horses soon fought together, watching the cockroaches - or Martians - rushing in front of them, and the subconscious cold surged up behind the boat.

Fortunately, general Reinhardt, who was standing next to him, raised his hand and flew to the sky with him without substance. Otherwise, he was not sure if he would vomit.

Overlooking the fire rising from the sky under his feet, as well as the bloody fighting, suddenly there was a kind of illusion in the land boat. At this moment, he was like God.

In fact, he is looking down on the life of civilization from the perspective of God

"Do you feel like an omnipotent God?"

"A little."

"It seems that you gradually realize my feelings," general Reinhardt said with a faint smile. "In fact, any higher civilization will have similar ideas when facing the lower civilization. Sometimes, if you think about it like this, it's estimated that the same is true for those observers looking at us. "

Just as they chatted, the battle at the foot of the mountain was over.

The battle between the two groups of people and horses ended with the victory of the invaders. Those Martians, who were obviously slightly larger, divided the captives into two waves, one wave killed them, and the other wave tied the connection between the carapace and the head with White Velvet ropes.

The winner set up a fire in the middle of the village, lit the fire, danced to please the gods, enjoyed the plundered materials, killed the enemy's livestock, even enjoyed the captives

Looking at the thoughtful boat, general Reinhardt continued without expression.

"This is the first stage of evolution. Civilization and barbarism are making a final struggle. At first, the latter is in the upper hand, but at last, the former is in the upper hand. War is like a catalyst. The Martians in this land began to merge and merge into a whole. In order to manage more people, they changed from tribal system to feudal system, and then through countless reforms, even revolution and destiny, they realized the liberation of productive forces... "

Lu Zhou: "so what kind of role did you play in it?"

"Me?" General rein Hart smiled faintly and continued, "I didn't play any role. When they contacted me again and realized my existence completely, it was already the matter of the electronic age."While general Reinhardt was talking about this, the land under their feet changed again.

I don't know when it started, the low thatched house disappeared, replaced by houses made of red bricks and ground wells made of granite.

Bonfires also collapsed, replaced by chimneys rising from the sky and factories covering hundreds of acres.

A car of finished steel products was transported out of the factory and loaded into the train. With the roar of the whistle, they drove to the distance.

Not far away, a circle of houses rose, the outline of the city began to appear, and quickly spread.

"Is it shocking?"

"Yes..." Looking at what happened on the planet, the boat was silent for a while and said, "just a little bit, I don't understand."

"I don't understand."

"Since Mars civilization is nearly three billion years ahead of us Why don't observer civilizations choose them? Instead, they want to place their hopes on us, who are inferior to Mars civilization in terms of resources and environmental conditions, three billion years later. "

In the view of the land boat, the initial resources of these Martians can be described as a perfect start.

Different from the human civilization that has experienced countless times of small ice age in history, these insects living in the greenhouse have hardly experienced the baptism of natural disasters. Even if the crops fail to harvest in any year, they can get enough food from the forest and underground world with abundant species.

"This question is actually very interesting. With the earth as a reference, will the most fertile land be able to breed the most powerful civilization?"

Looking at the thinking ship, general Reinhardt continued.

"In fact, Gaia is not the most suitable breeding ground for civilization, although it has the enviable ecological environment for all organic organisms."

"A rich environment means that you can get the basic materials you need to survive without much effort. Although Martians have the same quality of curiosity as you, they don't know what industry is in their culture, let alone the gene of pioneering. And the most deadly, tens of thousands of years of evolution have made them fully adapt to the ecological environment of Gaia, and this kind of picky to nearly harsh living conditions makes it difficult for them to find an acceptable second home in space. "

"Imagine if the earth's ecosystem could hold 20 billion people, or even 30 billion people, and the abundant resources could not be exhausted, would you still want to give up your present good life to explore the world beyond the moon, Mars, or even the solar system?"

"In contrast, it is those harsh and extreme environments that are more likely to breed powerful and aggressive civilizations. You can remember that. You can't use it any day. "

Looking at the boat nodding, general Reinhardt continued.

"As for the time Not to mention that a civilization with a long history may be developed, but the reason for its development must not be because it has a long history. Many seemingly inevitable things, in fact, can not be simply drawn on the equal sign. And I didn't know that until I got to the center of the galaxy

In just a few minutes, the earth under my feet has changed a lot.

The boundless prairie disappeared, the forest boundary continued to shrink, shrink, and finally disappeared on the horizon, engulfed by high-rise reinforced concrete buildings, steel covered almost every corner of the planet.

At this moment, the ship finally understood where the rust all over the surface of Mars came from.

And then there are some strange hematite veins and silicate sedimentary rocks

All of them are the "corpses" of Mars civilized city!

"It's amazing how they finally got there That step? "

Looking at the planet that has almost been completely changed by the artificial object of reinforced concrete, and the neon and countless prosperity in the street, Lu Zhou's eyes can not help but catch a touch of complex feelings.

Although prosperity has not changed the ugly image of Martians in his eyes, so far, he has not seen any signs of decline.

If he had not seen what Mars looks like billions of years later, he would never believe that this powerful civilization did not step on the starry sky, but eventually went to decline

"There are many reasons, even many coincidences."

"Let's leave that aside and make a hypothesis. If cancer cells know that they are expanding endlessly and will eventually die with their host, do you think they will consider proliferating in a relatively mild way? "

The subconscious asked.

"Is that still cancer?"

It seems that he praised the intuition of the land boat. Reinhardt nodded his head and said, "yes, so it is impossible to expect civilization to restrain itself and achieve common prosperity with nature. Just as people's valley will expand if they lack hope, so will the needs of civilization. The only way for civilization to survive is to expand into a more distant world, just like the original fish jumping onto the land. ""However, due to the problem of habitability, the Martian civilization did not take this road in the end, but chose to continue to take. Generally, Gaia's affordability is to meet their needs until They did a stupid thing at last. "

The throat of the boat moved gently.

“…… What a fool. "

"They built a geothermal well, from the bottom of the sea all the way to the mantle, from which they extracted heat and minerals to build and support their city."

"They are crazy..." Lu Zhou was slightly shocked. "Didn't they think about Other ways? "

"Another way? Like controlled fusion? " General Reinhardt smiled. "Don't forget that Mars was formed in only a few hundred million years at this time, including the whole solar system is still very young, but there is not a large amount of deuterium and tritium accumulated in the ocean like the earth."

"It's not that the Martian civilization didn't invent controlled fusion, but it's not the cheapest option for their situation. In contrast, as arthropods, they are more attractive to explore downward. After all, drilling is almost their survival instinct. "

"A large amount of mantle material is pumped to the surface, and the energy in the core is released. In fact, this is a very slow process, including the cooling of the core, including the weakening of the magnetic field. For Martians who have only lived for 20 years, most of them may not feel the change of their environment during their whole life."

"When the core temperature finally falls below a certain threshold and the weak magnetic field can no longer resist the high-energy radiation from the universe, it is too late. They watched in despair as the atmosphere was blown away, their countrymen died of cancer, cities became ghost cities, and they were forced to retreat with all of them from the surface to the underground world. "

"But even in the underground world, there is no place for them. At that time, Mars was like a dying old man, only one death diagnosis was left behind. "

"Before civilization was about to die, they made some efforts For example, the ignition plan and the seeding plan. "

"I've told you about the ignition plan. They asked me for help, hoping to return the heat borrowed from the core of the earth by sending my engine to the earth's mantle circle and detonating the zero energy in the energy module. They sleep a part of their compatriots and take turns waking up to finish the work, but they fail in the end. "

"As for the sowing plan, it's more interesting."

At this point, general Reinhardt smiled.

"It's probably because of the upheaval on Mars, they finally realized their weakness in environmental adaptability, so they cut their genes by gene modification."

"It's just a pity that gene modification is a very sophisticated technology, and they are obviously not mature in this respect, so they can only forcibly improve their habitability at the cost of weakening other parts. The new Martians created in this way are not only mentally handicapped, they can't even accept them. They are their own kind of short and incompetent children. "

"But anyway, it's the only hope for survival, and I'm optimistic that in the billions of years of evolution, if these new Martians woke up their ancestors' genes, wouldn't it be the same as reviving their civilization?"

"With this in mind, some people are looking to the earth, your mother planet. Although the earth was still in chaos at that time, they tried to accelerate the evolution of the earth's atmosphere by detonating nuclear weapons, putting acid resistance, nitrogen fixing bacteria and other artificial methods. "

"I don't know if it's within the watchers' plan, or if it's a tolerable error. In a sense, they have made some progress. "

"The new Martians, genetically modified, frozen and dormant, were sent to earth by their compatriots, and those Martians hope that the smaller ones will one day rebuild the glory of Martian civilization."

Looking at the land boat full of shock on his face, and the neon and prosperity on the ground, general Reinhardt's face showed a look of regret and said softly.

"As for the result, you should already know."

"They've spent billions of years, hundreds of millions of kilometers..."

“…… Finally, it's become the cockroach in your eyes. "

……

The earth.

Oxford University, Bodley library.

An old man, nearly sixty years old, bent, was crawling in front of a wooden table, carefully examining the printed manuscript in his hand.

His name is vernal. He is an archaeologist. Although there has been a slight deviation in his research direction in recent decades, there is no difference in essence.

So far, it has been 30 years since that initial trip to Mars.

In the past 30 years, the international community has not given up the excavation of the hell gate, until recently, because of the reduction of funds, it stopped a little.With his authority in the field of Martian archaeology, he went to Mars several times in the past 30 years to investigate the remains of Hellgate, and at the same time to investigate some clues of newly discovered Martian civilization.

And he also changed from a middle-aged man who looked older to a real old man.

By the way, today's space travel is not as simple as usual, but it's not as mysterious as it was 30 years ago. Many newlyweds with a solid family will choose to spend their honeymoon on the moon to experience the wonderful experience of weightlessness.

In addition, scholars like him who insist on using manuscripts and writing papers on paper are few in this era of extremely developed multimedia technology

"Professor, I have brought your manuscript to you," a footsteps came from the door, and a young man with freckles on his face came in, holding a pile of paper and pushing open the door.

As a result, the stack of paper was so high that it blocked his sight that he almost didn't stumble over the chair at the door.

Seeing his carelessness, Professor vernal almost lost his temper and stood up angrily.

"Be careful! You stupid groundhog! This is a precious historical document. "

"But Professor, they are just printed..." With a helpless expression on his face, the young doctor continued, "if you need it, I can go to the printing room to get another copy for you."

"No matter Newton or anyone, the original of any great man is brand new when it is just included in this library. By the way, electronic files have no soul. " He piled up the documents in his hands, and Professor vernal skillfully passed them over in batches and counted them one by one.

To make sure there was no omission, he nodded with satisfaction.

"Good. It's all here."

looks at his tutor with a strange look. The young doctor wants to make complaints about what he has said, but he still says nothing at all.

His tutor stood up, went to the coat rack at the door, picked up a khaki coat and put it on his body, then stood in front of the mirror and straightened his collar.

Looking at the old self in the mirror, there was a trace of nostalgia in his eyes, but it was soon replaced by strong confidence.

Today!

Today!

His research will change history!

Take a deep breath, Professor vernal's voice with a trace of excitement.

It's like singing an old English epic, he said.

"Get ready, Dr Gilbert!"

"Take out the most expensive suit in your closet and iron it until the afternoon report begins."

"The whole world will remember our names forever because of this amazing discovery!"

It's no wonder that the old professor's neuroticism has gone unnoticed. Gilbert glanced at his mouth and muttered to himself.

"Yes, professor."

He is eager to write a paper now.

On whether leaving the earth for a long time will damage the brain

……

Compared with decades of years, a mere afternoon of waiting is just a blink of an eye.

Quietly waiting for the wall clock to come to the right time, Professor vernal came close to the microphone and cleared his throat.

The lecture hall was quiet.

A pair of eyes stopped swinging, Qi Qi looked at the old professor on the platform, waiting for his opening speech.

Report meeting, already started!

"Ladies and gentlemen."

"It's a pleasure for you to participate in my academic report."

"I'm going to announce an important discovery to you --"

"Martians are always around us!"

At the moment when the voice fell, people's faces showed a surprised expression, and the voices of the people were also spread around.

Young people use "are you Martian?" Some people take notes seriously, or laugh and shake their heads.

Looking at the lecture hall, Professor vernal smiled.

Satisfied with the surprise on people's faces, he continued.

"Although it sounds strange..."

"But based on the fossil specimens we found in the Olympus crater and various signs we have observed from other relics, we can preliminarily judge that they belong to Insecta and Blattella It's like a cockroach in America. "

"Maybe the cockroaches we see today are actually the same species as the Martians billions of years ago! Even from the same place! "

"It's all possible!"

The moment when the voice falls.

The whole lecture hall, no matter people or air, was boiling in a flash

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(thanks to the book friend "Mr. stone can speak" and "seventy-eight nine (tail)" for the reward ~ ~ ~ the next chapter is the second volume! (??????)??）