Li Xin is one of Shen Ran's few friends. Since the two of them can get together, they naturally have similarities and are both the same pitiful children.

Li Xin is sixteen years old this year. His father used to be a colleague of Shen Ran's father, and he was also part of the wave of layoffs. Later, he got into gambling during his confused period, and because he owed loan sharks to gangsters, in the early morning of one day, the body was sanitation Workers found it in a sewer.

Li Xin's mother did not abandon him. She is still alive today. However, she was paralyzed in the lower body due to an accident. Later, she had no choice but to sign a contract with a transportation company and transform herself into a truck in order to raise her child. big truck.

After becoming a big truck for the company, I made more money.

I just can't come to Li Xin's parent-teacher meeting at school.

...

Unlike himself, Li Xin is an optimist. No matter how hard life is, what he sees on the other person's face is a smile full of sunshine.

Several times, when Shen Ran went to Li Xin's house to play, Li Xin openly said that he wanted his mother to take the two of them for a ride. Of course, Shen Ran quickly refused. His second uncle and aunt were both educated people. I think this kind of thing is too weird.

The differences between the two people are also reflected in various aspects.

Including the entrance examination two months later, Li Xin's family will definitely not be able to afford a chip. Li Xin's mock test scores were much worse than his own. But for the future, for the notorious Anode High School, he There is no worry or anxiety.

According to Li Xin, he felt since he was a child that he was not a student. He values ​​loyalty and likes fighting. Yangji High School is not a magical place for him.

"Sixteen years old, third grade in junior high school, afraid of school violence." This is a mantra that Li Xin often talks about, and it is naturally an irony. This guy often suffers from bruises and bruises outside of school.

besides.

When faced with the portal created by Xingneng Technology and the arrival of the colonization era of the Great Star Sea, Li Xin also showed excitement and enthusiasm that was different from Shen Ran.

At the back of the classroom, Shen Ran was sitting on the desk, watching the video on his phone, feeling dazed for a long time.

Li Xin danced beside him, like a passionate speaker.

"Third uncle...what kind of big shot have you become in these years?" After a long time, Shen Ran suppressed the shock in his heart.

Then, he handed the phone to Li Xin and said, "Okay, class will start soon."

"Shen Ran, aren't you excited? People of our generation are really going to see the world outside the solar system." Li Xin was suddenly surprised.

Shen Ran said to himself that the turmoil in his heart just now was far greater than yours.

"So, you and I can be interstellar explorers in the new era and explore the unknown and vast deep space?" Shen Ran asked rhetorically.

Li Xin suddenly felt unhappy, but he had no way to refute, "That's right, the Earth Federation is so stingy that they are only willing to give us a star power stone. We can only watch other people's space adventures on Mars. It's really boring."

Jingle bell bell~

At this time, the school bell rang.

Those students in the classroom who were as motionless as the "zombies" were finally cut out of the brain-computer world, and their faces returned to the expressions that normal people should have.

These days, only hard-working kids like Shen Ran and Li Xin know how to use mobile phones. Most of the other people of the same age have chips installed in their brains, and combined with imaging technology that changes pupils, to put it simply, others don't need to use mobile phones. What tool can you use to access the Internet in your head?

Soon, noisy discussions began, like birds chirping in the woods in the morning.

Starting from the news broadcast last night, Xingneng Technology almost suddenly entered the world of the people of Fire City...

Shen Ran sat in his seat the whole time, watching everything in silence.

After a while, the teacher came in, the expression on his face was also different from before.

"I believe the students also know about the star energy that appeared on the news broadcast last night. Especially this morning, more news about the star energy has been released one after another. It is really fantastic." The teacher was also excited.

But soon, the teacher remembered what the principal had said at the morning meeting, so he could only suppress his mood and began to explain to the children the various things between Mars and the Earth.

In the perception of many people, campus seems to be a simple ivory tower.

In fact, this is not the case. Apart from knowledge, the most important thing about schools is the ruler’s need to consolidate his power.

The teacher talked about three hundred years of history on the stage, planting seeds of injustice and hatred in the story.

The minds of young boys and girls are not in this regard.

Those old sayings and grand narratives are already outdated for them.

"In layman's terms, Mars and the Earth are a pair of brothers. However, after the elder brother went out to work to earn money for his younger brother to go to college, he now wants his younger brother to take care of his aging self, but his younger brother said that he still has to continue to take the postgraduate entrance exams, and also needs My brother continues to work to support himself... This is an extremely selfish and shameless exploitation."

Looking at the absent-minded students in the audience, the teacher seemed fine, but he still felt helpless and sad in his heart.

On the contrary, Shen Ran listened carefully the whole time.

First, he wanted to see the changes in his thinking;

Second, Shen Ran slowly began to feel that he was no longer an insignificant person.

Because of the third uncle's birthday gift, there is only one Star Power Stone in the whole of Mars, and there is actually one in my home. This makes my fate as an ordinary young man seem to be integrated with the general trend of this magnificent era.

"awesome."

After listening to everything the teacher said, Shen Ran sighed inwardly.

Even with the most advanced starship engines and fuel energy, it will take more than 20 days to get from the earth to Mars. The vast distance in time and space has led to the separation of local government and the central government, which is normal in the long history of mankind. but.

But the human ancestors had already thought of this development. Therefore, the first batch of scientists and engineers who landed on Mars lacked one of the most important things - war weapon manufacturing blueprints and raw materials.

This has led to the fact that until now, neither of the two very large cities on Mars has a real military factory.

The Martian government only has special police and self-defense forces but no army. Without weapons, there is no dignity. Everyone can ridicule the Martian government as a emasculated thing.

"Huh?"

On the podium, the middle-aged female teacher suddenly noticed Shen Ran who was listening carefully.

Then, she thought that he was just a child who couldn't even pass the high school entrance examination, so she stopped paying attention.

At this moment, a bright light flashed on a mechanical part on the right forehead of the middle-aged female teacher.

Her expression changed, and she quickly opened the big screen excitedly, "The Education Bureau has just sent news that the spokesperson of the Mars government is having a public discussion with Professor Hai from the Federal Star Academy on star energy. Students, please watch quietly."

Wow~

The classroom first burst into excited exclamations, and then quickly fell into silence as the picture appeared on the big screen.

The screen was cut in half.

On the left is a Martian government spokesman with the city of fire in the background, and on the right is an old man with a Western face who seems to be sitting at home.

"On behalf of all the people of Fire City and Pear Blossom City, I want to know what kind of energy source Star Energy is? How was it discovered? Is it harmful to the human body?"

The spokesperson of the Mars government raised several key questions as soon as he came up.

At the same time, in the streets and alleys of Huo City, even the high-end business owners were sitting in their offices, watching this formal public discussion.

Shen Ran also held his breath in his seat.

What exactly is Star Energy? The curiosity in his heart is no less than that of anyone else.

After more than thirty seconds of signal transmission,

Only then did the old professor on the right react. He paused and said behind a desk full of books, "It's normal for the people of Mars to be curious and worried about star energy. In the history of human civilization, every time something changes the times, It will cause huge controversy whenever it appears, but time will tell."

"Star energy is a kind of energy stored in star energy stones, which has the function of connecting non-field spaces. As for the nature of this energy, humans have not yet studied it. But we use existing scientific and technological means. , enough to apply star energy to the portal, and it has been successful hundreds of times. Regarding this, the data on successful experiments will be published after the interview."

"As for whether star energy is harmful to the human body? This question is beyond doubt."

"The radiation of star power stones is catastrophic to the human body, exceeding nuclear radiation by several levels. If you don't wear any protective equipment, your whole body is exposed to the radiation of star power stones, even for just a moment. After that, you will still be No survivors were found.”

As soon as this statement came out.

All the people in Fire City were thinking seriously, and no one noticed a certain boy in a classroom at the No. 8 Middle School in the Hi-tech Zone of the Underground City.

"Currently...there are no survivors?" Shen Ran's heart was pounding.

He felt like an alien.

Once exposed, the horrific consequences of being captured by the government for experiments in various science fiction novels and cartoons made him panic.

On the big screen, the negotiation is still in progress.

Professor Hai did not explain how the Federation discovered the Star Energy Stone.

The spokesperson of the Mars government asked again, "Why did the Earth Federation only give Mars one star power stone?"

"This is the first time that Star Energy Technology has entered the Martian city-state. This energy requires a lot of science and technology to provide guarantees. In the future, the Federation will send corresponding talents to the Fire City..." Professor Hai answered calmly.

Although the people on Mars are unwilling to give up, they also understand that the reasons for the Earth Federation are impeccable.

In an area invisible to ordinary people, senior officials in the Martian government were shouting curses.

At this moment, the expression of the Mars government spokesman suddenly changed significantly, and then he said seriously, "The Prime Minister is also paying attention to this scene and just raised a question."

Professor Hai on the other side looked surprised, as if this was an episode outside the normal process.

"Why does the Earth Federation officially call the era brought about by star energy technology the era of colonization of the Great Star Sea?" a spokesperson from the Mars government asked.

In the classroom, Shen Ran's classmates, boys and girls, were completely uninterested in this issue.

"What kind of problem is this? There is definitely more than one civilization in the universe. Once we encounter aliens, there will be no equality, only strength and weakness. Mercy should be something we give to them!"

Li Xin clenched his fists and stared at the screen.

In the past one hundred years, a large number of entertainment works have portrayed aliens as villains. Many movies even have humans conquering a planet, and portray the original inhabitants of that planet as evil, greedy, and stupid beings. .Let human beings, as the invaders, become the saviors, symbolizing the dawn.

People pay more attention to whether the plot is exciting or not, whether the special effects are good or not, and whether the heroine's figure is hot enough, but few are aware of the subtle influence behind it.

A young man like Li Xin doesn't feel anything wrong with the term "Star Sea Colonization" at all. His mind is filled with the desire to explore and conquer the unknown universe and mysterious planets.

This is for the general public. As for the higher-level structures, there is also a set of developments and changes.

opposite.

Professor Hai paused for a long time, and then threw out one universe view after another, which was used as a firm barrier for star sea colonization.

The two sides are now discussing star energy for the public to see, and they will certainly not be dragged into a philosophical debate.

"The Prime Minister does not agree with your current views, Professor Hai. He also said that in your early years, Professor Hai, you published a paper on technology and human destiny. The Prime Minister read it and appreciated your views at that time." Mars government spokesman said.

"Private matters should not occupy everyone's public time." Professor Hai skipped this matter.

"still have a question."

Finally, a spokesperson from the Mars government asked, "What is the non-field space opened by star energy technology? Are there dangers in it? Is future interstellar transmission safe enough?"

Professor Hai replied, "We currently call that space the Deep Blue World. The Deep Blue World is more unknown and mysterious than the real universe. We don't know much about that world. At present, we only use its special space field to walk a path in the universe. Shortcut. This is relatively safe for the time being."
Chapter completed!