Chapter 121 The Man Who Will Either Be Rescued or Prepare to Be Rescued
Chapter 121 A man who is either rescued or prepared to be rescued
Author: Curse Temple Curtain Curtain Wizard
Chapter 121 A man who is either rescued or prepared to be rescued
On Earth, grown-up Murphy and Tom stood in the cornfield, watching the ashes of burned corn billowing with thick smoke.
"Now one-third of the cornfield is gone again." Tom lamented that he had less work to do and his life was getting easier, but it made him more and more anxious: "I will go to Nelson next year.
farm work to make up for these losses.”
"What's wrong with Nelson? We need help." Murphy asked, but Tom didn't answer. He just put his hands in his pockets and walked silently towards the house where his grandfather left him.
In the house he has lived in all his life, and with the company of his family, Tom can temporarily ignore the trouble of having to burn a lot of corn due to blight, resulting in a huge reduction in harvest.
"Cooper, don't waste food." Sister-in-law Louise taught her second child. Although the earth's environment has become worse, this son has survived the most difficult and vulnerable age and is now several years old.
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Looking at Murphy, Louise asked: "Are you staying here tonight? We have basically left your room untouched."
"No, I have to go back." Murphy shook his head: "There are too many memories in the room... I'd better go back to work..."
At this time, after finishing his dinner, little Cooper started to cough as soon as he put his tableware next to the faucet.
Looking at his nephew's cough, Murphy worriedly said to Louise: "I have a friend..." Looking at little Cooper who continued to cough, Murphy continued: "You can check his lungs."
Louise gave a forced smile. There have been many doctors who have asked for help over the years, but let’s not talk about the difficulty of treatment. After the Great Famine, many cutting-edge medical equipment were scrapped and cannot be manufactured now.
Children with the same disease are very common in little Cooper's generation, and the long queues are enough to make her despair.
From the window behind Louise, we could clearly see that the sandstorm was coming again.
"Emilia, I'm sorry." On the Ever Given, Cooper said to little Brand, who had changed into a white coat.
"There is nothing to apologize for. You are just analyzing objectively." Little Brand adjusted the equipment on the Eternal and checked the human embryo storage device: "Unless you want to punish me for the mistakes I made on Miller's planet."
"Indeed, I judge and analyze rationally," Cooper said.
Little Brand said: "Q is the fuel calculated based on the need to return to Earth. If Mann's planet is not suitable for survival, then we have to decide whether to return to Earth or go to Edmonds' planet to implement the plan.
B."
"This means that you have to decide midway whether to light the human fire in the universe or go home to reunite with your children." Little Brand revealed Cooper's little thoughts: "I believe that by that time, you will
He must be very rational and objective."
Cooper didn't refute, this was just retaliation.
The scene turned to Murphy walking anxiously in the hospital.
One man clearly knew Murphy: "He's been looking for you since he woke up, so we contacted you."
Murphy walked into the ICU, and Old Brand was lying on the hospital bed. His thin face made him look in very bad condition.
"Murphy..." Old Brand's voice was very weak.
But Murphy listened carefully: "It's me, I'm here."
"I let everyone down..." Old Brand's eyes were very confused.
"No, you have led us a long way, and we are about to succeed." Murphy wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and looked at the old man in front of him who was also a teacher, friend and elder: "I will take over your work and complete your work.
of research.”
"You... have great faith... for so... for so many years..." Old Brand struggled to speak: "I want you to stick to your faith... I want you to believe... that your father... will definitely come back...
"
"I have always believed it, Professor." Murphy said, looking at Old Brand's cloudy eyes.
But it was precisely because of Murphy's firm belief that Old Brand suffered in his heart: "Forgive me...Murphy...I lied to you..."
Murphy's smile froze, and she vaguely guessed what Old Brand was going to say.
"There's no need for him to come back at all..." Although his throat felt like it was being scraped with a knife, Old Brand still told the truth that chilled Murphy: "We have no hope..."
"But what about plan A?" Murphy asked. She really couldn't immediately hate the old man in front of her who had treated her as her own for more than 20 years: "All of these, all of these people...
And this equation...is it all a lie?"
Old Brand shook his head and cruelly took away the hope of survival from everyone in the interstellar world who was looking at the inventory.
"Does my father know this?" Murphy's heartbeat accelerated and his palms began to sweat: "Did he abandon us in the first place?"
On his deathbed, old Brand looked at the ceiling and used his last strength to recite his favorite poem: "Don't...go...gently..."
"No..." Murphy looked at Old Brand, who had closed his eyes: "You can't leave!"
But old Brand is dead.
[In the interstellar world, some far-sighted farmers only raised their inner passion for a few dozen minutes, and then they discovered that people like themselves had actually been abandoned. The entire earth had been abandoned, and only those embryos and "
"The brave" can survive, even if they narrowly escape death.
They couldn't accept it and wanted to call to cancel the donation.
But soon they realized again.
What's the point?
If there is no turnaround, humanity on earth will inevitably perish. This has nothing to do with the issue of what to eat in the remaining days. There are only a few choices anyway. The more deadly issue is the environmental issue.
In the video, although Tom's first child was not stated clearly, it seems that he was just born and died when his resistance was weakest. Even if his second son passed this stage, he seemed to have suffered from a disease that is difficult for ordinary people.
Solved lung disease.
Looking around on the lonely earth, they found that there seemed to be no hope.
Among rational people, the most are those who do nothing, and the least are those who are out of control.
But the least part is the noisiest.
They didn't even plan to wait until the inventory video ended before they started venting their despair.
In the three-body world, Zhang Beihai looked at Old Brand with twinkling eyes.
"Hey, this old Brand is a defeatist like you." Da Shi handed over a cigarette out of habit, but Zhang Beihai refused.
Zhang Beihai's eyes were firm: "In the past, the reason why I was a defeatist was because I couldn't see any hope when the Earth faced the Trisolarans. It's different now. We have planet-destroying weapons, and the Trisolarans
Man has also found a way to solve the three-body problem. Our conflicts have been resolved to the greatest extent, and we have even begun cooperation. History, you can clearly see what great changes have taken place on the earth in this short period of time.
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Exhaling a puff of smoke, Da Shi said nonchalantly: "You guys, if you want, you can do something to others even after you die. Who knows what you are thinking in your heart? Alas, it's none of my business. I'm just an errand boy. One day
In the end, I can use the name of wall-facers like you to travel all over the world on a paid basis!"
"We are not wall-facers, Da Shi." Zhang Beihai said: "Luo Ji is the sword holder, and I am just the gatekeeper as Luo Ji's backup means. Times have changed, Da Shi, we and the Trisolaran civilization will eventually move towards a better place.
The vast universe, rather than fighting among ourselves in this one-third of an acre of land."
Da Shi waved his hand: "Okay, okay, what you said is correct. What happened to that project in the end? The project to study the reasons why the hyperspace engine cannot be used. I heard that it is because high-dimensional space does not exist?"
Nodding, Zhang Beihai said: "Yes, it's a pity that the speed of light will be the peak speed we can reach for a long time."
After chatting for a few words, Da Shi felt tired talking to Zhang Beihai and left.
Soon someone knocked on the door and came in, delivering him letters of appointment from the Pan-Universal Observation Department, the Dark Forest Counterattack Research Laboratory, the Earth-Trisolaran Joint Political Cooperation Organization's Outer Civilization Early Warning System, and other departments.
Zhang Beihai's eyes lingered on the calligraphy written by himself on the wall of the office for a while.
"The more you know, the less you know."
This sentence is used to describe the awe of knowledge. In this era of cooperation with the Trisolaran people and the explosion of technology, it is indeed very appropriate. Not only Zhang Beihai, this sentence is also in the hearts and notebooks of many people.
It is written all over the book, and it is undoubtedly the slogan of the times.
But for Zhang Beihai, this sentence has another meaning.
The more civilizations you see, the more dangerous your own civilization is.】
In the video, Murphy was recorded in front of the camera telling little Brand about her father's death.
After expressing regret for Old Brand's death, Murphy turned off the camera.
But her movements paused, and she retracted her right hand. Murphy stared at the camera: "Brand, do you know? Ha...he told you a long time ago...you know, this is all a scam, you guys
We are left here to die, left to suffocate in the sandstorms and lack of oxygen... starve to death..."
But Cooper and others had boarded the Prowler shortly before the video was transmitted to the Eternal and headed for Dr. Mann's planet. No one could see her questioning Little Brand.
The Ranger flew among the clouds, and Cooper did not adopt the same aggressive landing method on this planet as Miller's planet.
Because of this, after hitting the corner of a cloud and discovering that these clouds had been frozen by the extreme cold and were essentially large blocks of ice, Cooper, Little Brand, and Romilly, who were sitting on the Prowler, were frightened for a while.
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If the speed were faster, or if they went directly into the "cloud", they might have to explain it here.
At the same time, the same doubts arose in their hearts.
It's so cold... Is this planet really suitable for human survival?
The prowler found a suitable path among the clouds more cautiously, and landed on the rocky ground covered with frost and snow in the empty space with white top and bottom.
Cooper, wearing a spacesuit, took the lead on walking up a nearby hill and saw the man-made facilities not far away.
And here is the scene in the preview.
A spaceship in the ice and snow.
The three of them circled the facility and found the hatch that was sealed by ice without much effort.
After passing through the airtight chamber, the power supply inside the facility was restarted and the lights turned on.
In this space, which is as big as the living room of an ordinary house, the most eye-catching thing is naturally the sleeping cabin in the middle.
Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with the facility, and Little Brand easily opened the dormant cabin.
The dormant Mann soon woke up. He looked at Cooper. A grown man couldn't control his emotions and started crying.
[The Martian, Mark Watney takes care of the potatoes while looking at the screen.
When he saw the face of the sleeper clearly, he immediately froze in place.
How could I be so virtuous and capable that I would have the opportunity to have a peer from a parallel world appear...
Now, now that he has shown his face in the parallel world, those who are capable on earth will actively discuss the plan to bring him back from Mars!
Mark Watney happily dropped the shovel in his hand, and was as excited as a three-year-old child weighing several dozen pounds, singing and dancing in the shed.
Not only is it possible to return to Earth, but after returning, you can even quit your job as an astronaut. Just by relying on live broadcasts and the like, it is easy enough to make money that you will never have to worry about for the rest of your life!
He understands human beings, so this will definitely happen!】