Earth Era

"Our human civilization seems to be prosperous. We can cut through mountains, reclaim land, and control rainfall... Our human civilization seems to be very powerful. But this is only an appearance. The truth is that we are very fragile, very fragile." Li Qi took a sip of wine and slowly said to Zhao Huasheng, who was sitting opposite him.

Li Qi seemed to be thinking about something, but he didn't seem to have it. Li Qi's eyes were very misty, and his thoughts seemed to have drifted to some distant place.

Zhao Huasheng has always respected his senior. As early as the doctoral course, Zhao Huasheng entered the Institute of Stellar Physics under the Central Academy of Sciences of the Alliance for an internship, and at that time became Li Qi's subordinate. Zhao Huasheng has always admired Li Qi's profound knowledge of stellar physics.

"Perhaps." Zhao Huasheng said, "but human civilization has always been stronger. I believe that in the near future, we will become truly stronger."

Li Qi sighed, and an unspeakable brilliance flashed in his eyes, which seemed to be sadness and pain.

Li Qi stood up and walked to the window of this high-rise restaurant. Through the glass of the window, the night view of the bustling city is unobstructed. The lights were so bright that it seemed to cover the moon in the sky. The road is full of winding dragons of light. Even in this tall building with a height of hundreds of meters above the ground, it seems that the noise from the ground can be heard.

It was already eleven o'clock, but it was far from the time when the city fell asleep.

"This is our civilization." Li Qi opened his arms, as if to embrace all this in his arms. Li Qi's eyes seemed to be fascinated, and his tone began to become like a dream: "This is our powerful and prosperous civilization."

"Brother Li, you're drunk, I'll take you back." Zhao Huasheng walked over to Li Qi and said in a low voice.

Li Qi shook his head: "Watson, don't be in a hurry to go back. I have something to tell you today."

Zhao Huasheng was stunned for a moment, then sat down on the seat again. He noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with Li Qi today.

"Our human civilization has almost changed the face of the entire earth. We naively think that we are omnipotent, but the truth is cruel. Take the earth under our feet, how much do we know? Above the earth, the deepest is Maria The Nahai Trench is about 10,000 meters deep. The highest mountain is Mount Everest, which is less than 9,000 meters high. Our submarine dived into the Mariana Trench and thought it was a great achievement. A hole with a depth of only 11 kilometers was drilled on it, and it was declared that a major step was taken... However, the radius of the earth is more than 6,000 kilometers. It's only one part... Ninety-nine percent of the places are unknown to us."

"The depth of the earthquake's epicenter is generally no more than 100 kilometers. Even the strongest earthquake recorded in the history of the earth is only equivalent to the earth's sneeze compared to the entire earth... No, it's not even a sneeze. At most, the earth squirms a little. But even so, the result is often the death of hundreds of thousands of millions of human beings…”

There seemed to be some mockery in Li Qi's eyes.

Zhao Huasheng knows what Li Qi said. But at this moment, when Li Qi said it in this tone, Zhao Huasheng still felt some discomfort in his heart. It feels like someone who thinks he's incredibly powerful, having his vulnerability and incompetence exposed in person by others.

"Humans always talk about protecting the earth, but why does the earth need to be protected by humans? Even if the nuclear bombs stored by humans explode at the same time, what will be destroyed is only the surface environment of the earth, and the impact of these nuclear bombs cannot be transmitted to the ground below. 100 kilometers away. After all, humans are just protecting themselves. As for the earth...what if humans try to destroy the earth? Can ants destroy mountains?"

"Our entire civilization, all of our cities, all of our buildings, all of our population, our culture, our heritage, our technology... everything we have is just tiny bacteria attached to the earth, if the earth With its own consciousness, if the earth wants to destroy our human civilization... the earth just needs a sneeze, just a sneeze." Li Qi said.

"Our human civilization is indeed very small, but our development potential is unlimited." Zhao Huasheng said in a low voice.

Li Qi turned a deaf ear to this, but continued: "This is just an earth. Compared with the entire solar system, what is the earth worth? Compared with the Milky Way, what is the sun worth? Not to mention the Milky Way-fairy. Galaxy clusters, the Virgo Supercluster, the visible universe…”

There is a deep sadness in Li Qi's words.

"Let's go back." Li Qi said.

Li Qi was drunk, so Zhao Huasheng drove Li Qi home. In the process of taking the elevator upstairs, Li Qi suddenly glanced at Zhao Huasheng with a very indescribable look.

Zhao Huasheng felt strange in his heart, so he asked, "Brother Li, what's the matter?"

But Li Qi smiled to himself: "Goodbye." After saying these two words, Li Qi walked out of the elevator, opened the door of his room, and then closed the door. Obviously, he did not intend to invite Zhao Huasheng to come in and sit down.

Zhao Huasheng was a little confused. He felt that today's Li Qi seemed very strange, but he couldn't say exactly what was strange. After being stunned for a while before the elevator, Zhao Huasheng shook his head and went home.

It was already twelve o'clock in the evening. Zhao Huasheng finished washing up, but he couldn't fall asleep while lying on the bed. There is always a feeling that something is wrong in the subconscious, there is a feeling that something big is going to happen, but I can't always grasp the clue.

At about two or three o'clock, Zhao Huasheng fell asleep in a daze, but only after four or five hours, Zhao Huasheng opened his eyes.

There is not enough sleep, so Zhao Huasheng still feels very tired at this moment. Under normal circumstances, Zhao Huasheng would not wake up at this time. Because today is the weekend, I am not in a hurry to go to work, and last night, Zhao Huasheng was also ready to sleep in.

Zhao Huasheng was woken up by the cold. It's ridiculous to say, now is July and August, when the sun is burning like fire. At less than five o'clock the sun rises and scatters its light and heat on the tiny planet, rewarming the air that has cooled overnight and finally becomes hot. But today seems a little different.

Zhao Huasheng put on his coat and walked to the window. The weather was clear, there were no clouds in the sky, and there was indeed a huge sun hanging in the sky, but it looked very dim. The sky is not the usual blue color, but mixed with some dim colors in the blue, which looks very depressing.

Zhao Huasheng is a researcher at the Institute of Stellar Physics, and the closest star to the earth is the sun, so it is obvious that Zhao Huasheng's work mainly focuses on the study of the sun, the internal structure of the sun, the composition of matter, the evolution of matter and so on. Today's sun seems very strange, but at the moment Zhao Huasheng didn't think to analyze it with his professional knowledge.

Zhao Huasheng just mumbled, "It seems that today is a cloudy day." Then he returned to the bed, pulled the thin quilt up over his body, and prepared to go back to sleep.

But a sudden knock on the door broke the silence of the morning. Zhao Huasheng was helpless. He only got up and dressed, washed his face, and came to the door. After opening the door, a middle-aged man in a black suit with a cold face stretched out his credentials in front of Zhao Huasheng.

"I'm the first-level agent of the Alliance Security Department. You can call me Mengzhuo." The middle-aged man said coldly: "There are some things that need your cooperation in the investigation, please come with me."

"Lian'an Department? Me?" Zhao Huasheng was a little puzzled. After thinking about it, he didn't seem to have done any other bad things except grabbing a lollipop from a female classmate when he was a child. "What?"

"Please come with me, you'll know when you get there." Meng Zhuo still said coldly.

"Okay." Zhao Huasheng thought about it and finally agreed. So, after half an hour, Zhao Huasheng came to a spacious conference room. Quite beyond Zhao Huasheng's expectations, in this conference room, Zhao Huasheng saw many familiar faces, including colleagues and leaders, and some people Zhao Huasheng could not recognize, but they looked very familiar. After thinking about it for a while, I realized that those people often see them on TV.

Zhao Huasheng was seated in an empty seat. For some reason, everyone in the conference room looked very solemn, and no one had a smile on their faces. And after Zhao Huasheng came in, everyone, including those big figures who often appeared on TV, looked at him with a somewhat inexplicable look.

"Can I ask what happened?" Zhao Huasheng asked.

"This is the only relic left to you by Director Li Qi." Meng Zhuo put a safe in front of Zhao Huasheng. After opening it, Zhao Huasheng saw a blank piece of paper lying quietly inside.

Zhao Huasheng didn't rush to look at the blank piece of paper, but asked in amazement, "Relics? The relics that Brother Li left to me?"

"Yes." Meng Zhuo nodded, "Director Li Qi died late last night, and the preliminary investigation concluded that he committed suicide. At the suicide scene, we found this safe, and this piece of white paper, um, and this piece of paper. It reads: I am leaving, please give this blank piece of paper to Zhao Huasheng. He will answer all your questions."

When Zhao Huasheng hadn't figured out what was going on, an old man with the highest appearance rate on TV knocked on the table and cast his majestic eyes on Zhao Huasheng: "Then, you can now tell us where the sun is. what's wrong?"