Genius Club Chapter 5 The Abandoned Earth (1/4)
Wei Shengjin?
Hearing this thunderous name, memories suddenly came to Lin Xian's mind.
He dares to say
He will definitely never forget such an amazing name in his life.
The first time I saw this name was in my first dream, the first time I met a big-faced cat, the first time I was forcibly dragged to rob a bank, and it was the beginning of everything.
When he used the big-faced cat's C4 bomb to crack the password door using ancient methods, he came to a warehouse with walls inlaid with safes.
Lin Xian remembered clearly that to the right of the safe engraved with his name was the safe engraved with Wei Shengjin's name.
This name really sticks with you forever, and you will never forget it once you see it.
Now, nearly two years have passed.
Lin Xian had long forgotten what name was engraved on the cabinet to the left of his safe.
But the Wei Shengjin on the right is still fresh in his memory.
At the end of the first dream.
Lin Xian, Big-faced Cat, and CC decided to use an industrial weapon, an acetylene gas cutting gun, to violently cut open the safe. At that time, CC was afraid that high-temperature flames would destroy the contents of the safe, so he suggested that instead of directly cutting Lin Xian's safe, start with Try the safe next to it, and then slowly cut through it.
Although this plan ultimately failed due to the space-time butterfly effect of hafnium alloy.
But at that time, the big-faced cat held a roaring acetylene gas cutting gun and really burned Wei Shengjin's safe.
In the second dream, Taimu Bank collapsed, and those safes were transported as garbage to the garbage treatment plant. Wei Shengjin's hafnium alloy safes were among the first batch of garbage trucks to arrive at the garbage station. Lin Xian was also the first to see them. Just saw it.
I really didn't expect that
Such a legendary figure that Lin Xian has longed for, unexpectedly met today, in the fifth dreamland, in the primeval forest 600 years later!
Lin Xian couldn't help but step forward and hold the old man's right hand:
"I have admired my name for a long time!"?
The white-haired old man tilted his head and looked at Lin Xian, examining it carefully:
"Little boy, do we know each other? Have we met before?"
Lin Xian nodded:
"I'll tell you the truth, Uncle Wei. I also have a hafnium alloy safe in Thame Bank. Our cabinets are next to each other. We have been neighbors for hundreds of years."
Wei Shengjin frowned:
"You shouldn't, right? What's your name, young man?"
"Lin Xian."
Lin Xian explained to Wei Shengjin:
"The forest of the woods, the strings of the piano, do you have any impression, sir? My safe should have been deposited much earlier than yours. When Thame Bank was first established, or even before it was established, my safe was already engraved The name is on."
"Lin Xian"
Uncle Wei Shengjin shook his head:
"It's impossible, impossible. Although I have lost my memory, I can't remember the storage of the hafnium alloy safe. But when I went to Thame Bank to set the password, I had already considered the consequences of hibernation and amnesia."
"So I took a photo of the combination wheel early in the morning and put it in my memory diary to remind me after waking up from hibernation to go to Thame Bank and open the safe. The photo clearly shows that my safe is The cabinets on both sides are engraved with foreign names. The one on the left is in English, and the one on the right looks like Russian. Anyway, I’m pretty sure that the safes on my left and right cannot be yours.”
Now, it was Lin Xian's turn to be stunned.
He was sure.
In the first dream, their safes were definitely next to each other.
In the second dream, it’s hard to tell. Because when Lin Xian entered the Taimu Bank warehouse, all the safes had been removed from the cement wall, and the original arrangement was unknown.
As for the third and fourth dreams, he had never been to Thame Bank and didn't know what was going on inside.
Could it be a subtle space-time butterfly effect that caused his and Wei Shengjin's safes to separate?
If you think about it carefully, it is possible.
He recalled a detail
There are no numbers on the safes in either the first dream or the second dream.
There is only a name on the nameplate of each safe, not a number.
But on the safe in the Taimu Bank warehouse that Wang received his own investment and reopened in 2024, for some unknown reason, a number was engraved on it.
On the first day the hafnium alloy safe was delivered, Brother Wang very loyally gave safe No. 66 to himself, with the intention of good luck and success.
Lin Xian held his chin and thought.
Could it be that
The reason why the safes in the first and second dreams were not engraved with numbers was because they were small in number?
Brother Wang said that he didn’t think much about the purpose of founding Taimu Bank in the first place. It was purely a hobby and a childhood dream, and he didn’t want to become bigger and stronger.
His initial plan was just to get dozens or a hundred safes. He didn't want to make too many, so he didn't need to number them.
However, after receiving his own substantial investment and support, and also expanding a series of financial businesses, Wang Ge customized more than 200 of the first batch of hafnium alloy safes.
Perhaps in the future, as the number of Taimu Bank customers increases, the second and third batches of hafnium alloy safes will be ordered, right?
“Young man, what’s the size of your hafnium alloy safe?”
Uncle Wei Shengjin asked directly:
"My number is 724, and yours is --\u003e\u003e
How many? "
No wonder
Lin Xian thought to himself that he had indeed guessed correctly, and answered:
"Mine is number 66."
"oh"
Uncle Wei Shengjin suddenly realized:
"Then our safes can't be next to each other. You must have lived in the era when Thame Bank was first established. You must have hibernated not long after buying the safe. Already?"
"Actually, judging from the year of birth, I should call you uncle. You are at least several hundred years older than me. However, there are provisions in the hibernation act. The time passed during hibernation is not counted into the actual age. Age The calculation is based on the actual activity time.”
I see.
Lin Xian wrote down this knowledge point.
It seems that in this era, there is no correspondence between birth date and actual age, and each is discussed separately.
so
Even though Uncle Wei Shengjin was born hundreds of years later than him, he is still his uncle.
Lin Xian had long realized that Uncle Wei Shengjin should have a gun hidden behind his waist.
I almost pulled out a gun on myself just now.
But after a few simple chats, Uncle Wei Shengjin obviously trusted him and his demeanor became relaxed.
Now that you have gained trust, it’s time to inquire about what happened in this future world and the fifth dreamland.
"Uncle Wei, I have something to ask you."
Lin Xian pointed to the dense virgin forest around him:
"Since you came here to look for the hafnium alloy safe of Taimu Bank, you must know that the location here is the original Donghai City of Dragon Kingdom, right? It is a very prosperous international metropolis, but why has it become like this now? What about the buildings in the city? What about the people living in it?”
Uncle Wei Shengjin chuckled and was not surprised by Lin Xian's question:
"It looks like you didn't receive any history education after you woke up, right? Or did you accept it but you didn't believe it? Generally, after we wake up from hibernation, we will get the memory notebooks and memory videos we left behind, and then we have to accept the official education Historical education to understand the development history over the years.”
"Then let me tell you again."
"Everything starts from the great disaster that swept the world in 2400. Before that, the development of the earth had been good. Although many scientific and technological fields had reached bottlenecks and developed slowly, it was enough for ordinary people's lives. ”
"I was born in the year 2373. I contracted an incurable brain disease when I was a teenager, so I slept in a hibernation chamber. When I woke up, it was already the year 2574. I continued to talk about the year 2400. "
"There are many theories about that great disaster. Some say it was caused by the influence of the sun's periodic electromagnetic storms. Some say it was caused by humans' overexploitation of mantle minerals that destroyed the stability of the earth. Some say it was caused by the failure of research on some kind of super weapon. "
"In short, in the year 2400, a super natural disaster broke out. Magma and fire were everywhere. The sky was dark for a long time. Earthquakes and tsunamis occurred frequently. Human civilization was almost destroyed. It is said that the number of survivors was less than the total population. 5 But even with so few humans left, due to resource and survival issues, wars and famines continue, and the whole world is in chaos. "
"There are not hundreds of millions of people left in the first place. After decades of war and chaos, it is really unclear how many people are left in the end. Some say there are only tens of millions left in the world, and others say 10 million. nothing."
Uncle Wei Shengjin was talking about the historical education he had received, but Lin Xian heard something wrong:
"Wait a minute, Uncle Wei, I feel like something is not very logical."
He wondered:
"Let's not talk about the cause of natural disasters. This thing itself is difficult to verify. The key issue is that you said that you entered the hibernation chamber in your teens, that is, before 2400, and when you woke up It’s already 2574 years.”
"I'm not doubting what you said, I just feel like how did you survive the natural disasters of 2400 years in the hibernation cabin, the almost destruction of human civilization, and the decades of war that followed?"
"According to my understanding, after the natural disasters sweeping the world, the world will definitely be in chaos, with constant wars for survival and grabbing the only resources. But things like hibernating cabins should require very professional maintenance and power supply. Fine?"
"With the war in the outside world continuing, can your hibernation cabin still run smoothly for hundreds of years until you wake up?"
"hehe"
Hearing Lin Xian's question, Uncle Wei Shengjin smiled unexpectedly:
"It seems that you really haven't received a history education. Then you should remember where you came to the earth, right? You are right. It is very difficult to survive such monstrous natural disasters and wars. If you can’t even care about the living people, how can anyone care about the hibernating people?”
"After the super disaster of 2400, people hibernating on the earth were either forced to wake up to survive, or died in their sleep. But I was lucky. I don't know whether my parents had foresight or what happened in the middle. In short, , I was on Earth when I went to sleep in the hibernation cabin, but when I woke up, I was already on Mars.”
"Mars?"
Lin Xian listened to this familiar yet unfamiliar vocabulary:
"You mean, before 2400, some humans had already moved to Mars."
"Yes."
Uncle Wei Shengjin nodded:
"Thanks to that man, human civilization can continue normally. Before 2400, people never thought about developing into space. Everyone thought that living on earth was the best. Of course, cold fusion technology was also available at that time. Being stuck at the bottleneck and unable to break through, even if humans want to start interstellar navigation, they don’t have the strength.”
"After so many years, just--\u003e\u003e
There is only one person who has been quietly working hard to build a Mars base and consider a Mars immigration plan. It is said that many people did not trust him back then and thought he was a liar, but he did use technologies that were close to bottlenecks to create a Mars base and Mars immigration. "
"At the same time as the immigration, there was also the hibernating cabin transfer business, which means that the hibernating cabin can be packed into the spacecraft and transported to the Mars base to continue hibernation. It is a bit ridiculous to say that at that time, the hibernating cabin to Mars was much smaller than the hibernating cabin to Mars. There are still many living people who prefer to live on the earth and are not willing to leave the earth.”
"Then the super disaster happened in 2400. After the war, the human race on Mars developed very well and was willing to accept refugees from the earth. There were many round-trip spacecrafts to pick up the remaining humans on the earth. The last immigration plan was in It stopped in 2500, and most of the people on Earth have left. Only a few million people have not left Earth for various reasons.”
"Since then, Earth and Mars have been completely isolated. There is no communication between the two planets except for the Earth-Fire bus that runs every two years."
Lin Xian listened to Wei Shengjin's account of this past event in the solar system.
Halfway through, he thought of the world's richest man who had just been separated for less than 24 hours.
"The person you are talking about who persists in immigration to Mars"
Lin Xian looked at Uncle Wei Shengjin:
"Could it be Elon Jask?"
"Yeah."
When Uncle Wei Shengjin heard this name, his eyes were filled with admiration:
"Look, do you remember it now? It is this savior of human civilization who saved the fire of civilization for mankind in the 2400 disaster without his Mars immigration plan. It is difficult to imagine that after the disaster, human beings will What will civilization become?”
"Continue to multiply and reproduce the past history of human development? Or will we repeat the same mistakes and go to the road of destruction again? No one knows. Anyway, Mars is developing very well now, although technology has also hit a bottleneck, and The issue of energy resources also needs to be solved, but at least there are no problems in normal life. The transformation of the atmosphere has achieved initial results, and everything is steadily improving. "
really.
It's Jask.
Lin Xian was right.
The only person who can persist in the plan to immigrate to Mars for so many years is Jask. But it seems that this plan is not as simple as Jask thinks now. Over the past few hundred years, it must have encountered various bottlenecks, obstacles, and resistance.
Jask has revealed in previous interviews that the Mars immigration plan may be realized in 2060.
But it turned out that it was far from being as optimistic as he thought.
It was not until hundreds of years later that he achieved this goal.
"But, Uncle Wei"
Lin Xian pointed to the dense virgin forest around him:
"Look, no matter how great the impact of the super disaster in 2400 was, more than 200 years have passed, and now in 2624, hasn't the natural environment of the earth been completely restored? Then why didn't Jask and the others not immigrate back from Mars? Woolen cloth?"
"From what you say, the technical problems of controllable nuclear fusion or cold fusion may still not be solved on Mars. And Mars is so small, only one-eighth the size of the Earth, so energy, resources, and even the intensity of sunlight are all problems. How can it be better than the existing earth?"
"And I just heard you say that the atmosphere on Mars needs to be transformed, but the Earth has a natural atmosphere, and all the conditions here are much better than on Mars. Why don't the humans living on Mars move back?"
Uncle Wei Shengjin shook his head and smiled:
"This is a sociological problem."
"For us humans living on Mars, we actually have no feelings for the earth. We feel that Mars is our mother and our hometown."
"There are only two types of people living on Mars today. One is the Martian humans who were born and raised on Mars; the other, just like you and me, is the old earth that hibernated hundreds of years ago. Humanity."
"But when we wake up from hibernation, we have forgotten all our previous memories, and our brains are blank. What feelings do you have for the earth? Apart from knowing that we were born here, there is no sense of reality at all. ”
"Take myself for example. After I woke up from the hibernation cabin on Mars, I have been living on Mars since I received historical education; my wife, children, and grandchildren are also on Mars."
"After so many years, this is the first time I have returned to Earth. In fact, I feel a little strange about returning, because I have no memory of living on Earth, no feelings, and I am very unfamiliar with this place."
"Even if you say that the air here is good, the natural environment is good, but in my mind, this is not my home. I will take the Earth, Fire and Space Bus in two years to go back to Mars to live. By the way, you should also be hibernating from Mars. You woke up and took the Earth Fire Space Bus to come to Earth, right? That’s strange, I haven’t seen you on the bus at all? Could it be that you came on the same bus two years ago?”
Lin Xian did not answer Grandpa Wei Shengjin's question.
He was thinking.
He understood why the Earth-Mars bus only runs once every two years.
Because the Earth and Mars have different orbital periods, although both revolve around the sun, their relative positions are constantly changing.
When the Earth is farthest from Mars, it is 400 million kilometers away; and when the Earth and Mars are closest, they are only 55 million kilometers away; a difference of 8 times.
And this time point when the Earth and Mars are closest only occurs once every two years, which is why the "Earth-Mars Space Bus" only runs once every two years.
From such a "tight" departure record, it is not difficult to see that the level of technology on Mars, especially the level of aerospace technology, is not very high. It is very likely that it is still in the primitive power stage, and no new technology has been produced.
That means that human beings--\u003e\u003e
must not have stepped out of the solar system, but compared with the previous dreams, there is still some progress, at least they have stepped on Mars.
Uncle Wei Shengjin said that the Martians are unwilling to return to Earth to live, and Lin Xian can understand it.
Just like in 2024, if you ask who wants to live on Mars, it is estimated that few people are willing to go. Everyone still regards the Earth as their home and subconsciously prefers the Earth.
The same reason.
The Martians must also prefer Mars. Even if the Earth is better, it is primitive and backward after all. How can it be comfortable to stay on Mars without electricity, network, and advanced transportation?
"Jask, is he still alive now?" Lin Xian asked the question he was concerned about.
Uncle Wei Shengjin shook his head:
"He is gone for a long time. He died decades ago. He took so many hibernation capsules, but he lived for a long time. He was actually more than a hundred years old. This has been mentioned in history education. I found that you didn't listen to it at all."
"But his SpaceT company is still there, and it is also the core organization that controls all operations on Mars. We Martians respect and recognize Jask and SpaceT very much."
"So"
Lin Xian spread his hands and took a deep breath of fresh and natural air. He really felt that he would not leave the Earth even if he was given 50 billion:
"Then there are no humans living on Earth now? ?”
“There are still quite a few.”
Grandpa Wei Shengjin replied:
“Because the Earth and Mars have been isolated for a long time, there is no specific number of people living on Earth, but according to experts’ estimates, it should not exceed 20 million at most, and these people are too scattered on the Earth, and they cannot unite together, and their productivity is low.”
“It is described that the living standard of humans on Earth is about the same as that in the Middle Ages, that is, the 5th and 15th centuries AD. I have no idea about this. We are completely unfamiliar with such a long history. The more detailed historical records all start from 2400.”
Historical records.
Lin Xian heard another key word.
Whether it is the first dream, the second dream, or the third dream, the history is very vague; and it is basically impossible to find detailed historical records before 2300.
This is also one of the few common points in several future worlds.
How did history break?
Lin Xian couldn’t figure out the first few dreams.
But in the fifth dream, Grandpa Wei Shengjin explained very clearly that there were two reasons in total.
1. A super disaster that swept the world and almost destroyed human civilization.
2. Hibernation amnesia, which made people who traveled from the old era have a blank brain and forget everything.
Suddenly, Lin Xian thought of something terrifying.
Is the history told by Grandpa Wei Shengjin really true?
According to him, there are two kinds of humans living on Mars now.
One is the Martian humans who were born and raised on Mars, and they will naturally receive historical education on Mars.
The other is the old Earth humans who have a blank brain after waking up from hibernation, just like Grandpa Wei Shengjin. They also have to receive historical education. It's like a blank piece of paper. Whatever is written on it will be believed.
So
"Grandpa Wei."
Lin Xian looked into Wei Shengjin's eyes:
"Do you believe that the historical education you have received is true?"
"Of course I believe it!"
Wei Shengjin answered as a matter of course:
"Otherwise, how could I survive these hundreds of years of hibernation?"
Lin Xian didn't say a word.
He found that Grandpa Wei Shengjin was still trapped in the vortex of true and false logic. His cognition had been covered and surrounded by the so-called historical education, so that his thoughts could not jump out of this circle at all.
But Lin Xian always felt that what happened in the past few hundred years was far from as simple as Grandpa Wei Shengjin described.
There must be something hidden!
He raised his head and looked at the scorching sun in the sky through the holes in the lush branches.
What secrets are hidden in the fifth dream?
"It seems"
"I can only find a local on Earth and ask!"