Boundary Convention

Within the GST Group, the descendants of all scientists must be like dragons and phoenixes, which is common sense and a rule.

Before the marriage, the couple should do a comprehensive physical examination to ensure the quality of sperm and eggs, and then put the sperm and eggs in a petri dish for cultivation. At this time, they can choose to carry out a certain degree of genetic optimization to enhance the advantages of their children , to ensure their family's status within the entire company. If the child is deemed not genetically good enough, they can even give up the child and 'make' another one.

When a newborn is born, in addition to a comprehensive physical examination, a future prediction about genes is also required. This is a procedure that only the children of GST internal employees will undergo. After the prediction, the newborn will They are sent to research institutes of different disciplines, and those students without any qualifications will be screened and assigned by lottery (rolling dice). Of course, these selected "lucky ones" will not be taken seriously. Basically, it won’t be long before they will be sent home to study in ordinary schools, because each family has very strict requirements for talents, so the procedure of throwing dice is considered to be only used to stop the mouths of human rights activists .

Six years ago, Mo Hesheng clearly remembered that there was a heavy rain on the night his daughter was born. He received a call from the doctor and rushed from the laboratory to the GST Affiliated Hospital. From birth to death, all GST employees can enjoy all free medical assistance, and the third floor is the baby's training cabin.

He waited anxiously outside the room, and soon a young lady came out.

"Professor Mo, the baby is born, congratulations."

"That's good, that's good, can I go in now?" Mo Hesheng had long since given up on so much, his tight heart finally let go, and now he just wanted to see his child immediately.

"Not yet, uh, there are some things I want to tell you frankly." The woman in front of her suddenly dodged her eyes and said hesitantly.

"Why, what's the child's condition?"

"I'm afraid these words may offend you..."

"It's okay, you and I are both scientific researchers, please tell me!" Although Mo Hesheng was very anxious, he still comforted him patiently.

The woman took out a thick document from behind, handed it in front of Mo Hesheng, and explained: "The child's condition is not very good, or..."

"You mean her body is not healthy?" Mo Hesheng interrupted her.

"No, she is still in good health, but you know the company's system. This is her birth report, which is not ideal."

Mo Hesheng didn't take the document, he stared into the woman's eyes, "Say what you have to say." His tone also lost the previous gentleness.

"She may not be able to enter the institute to study."

"This, how is this possible..."

The man's strong shell seemed to be shattered, and he suddenly became a little helpless. He looked at the door of the room behind the woman, and seemed to have lost the courage to open the door.

"I'm sorry Professor Mok, I don't mean to be offensive, but there may be more other learning environments suitable for your daughter, both ordinary public schools and private schools can accommodate her."

The man seemed to understand what she meant.

"You mean, her brain?"

The woman shook her head, denying Mo Hesheng's guess.

"Sorry Professor Mo, she doesn't suffer from any other pervasive developmental disorders such as Asperger syndrome, Heller syndrome, Rett syndrome, etc. She is very healthy, just..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that she is not smart, or a bit slow. The overall IQ is lower than the average child. Only the memory is a little above the average. The difference is not big. In the prediction of her future, we simulated hundreds of millions of children. One possibility is that her social skills are not bad, and she may have some friends, but her expressive ability is very average, her emotional intelligence is not high, her physical fitness is not good enough, she often catches colds when she was young, and she is prone to myopia, and she is still 79% in middle age. There is a high probability of suffering from heart disease. Although she is 80 years old, she has been unable to undertake high-intensity scientific research work since she was 35 years old. Generally speaking...she may..."

"How might she be?"

Facing the woman's hesitation, Mo Hesheng asked impatiently.

"There is a high probability that she will live an ordinary life, which is not suitable for your successor status. You know, such a child is not what our research institute needs. What we need is a child who wins at the starting line. She is not suitable. Here, it can be said that there is no possibility at all, my suggestion is..."

"What if we carry out postnatal training? Many children are like this." Hearing what she said, Mo Hesheng didn't seem to give up completely. "You and I understand these things, inspired and guided by science..."

"But Professor Mo, her situation may be relatively rare. You also know how much the coalition government attaches great importance to newborns of family members. Even if there is a possibility, we will not give up a good seedling, but the probability of her becoming a scientist is not even as good as that of a patient. A child with autism." The woman shook her head again, and sincerely persuaded, "If she is allowed to stay here to go to school, she will not learn anything, and she will even lose her ordinary life. We should not go against our fate, sorry."

Mo Hesheng took the document, and a bright red letter was conspicuously printed in the center of the paper. The light blue border and text made it look more eye-catching. This is an extremely humiliating character 'F'.

Mo Hesheng still remembered that the last time he was anxious about this kind of thing was the last exam of his doctoral career. Before that, he had completed the feat of being ranked first in the college for three consecutive years in all exams, and before the last exam, he got an F because he got Chen Yang Qingsheng drunk, and Chen Yang didn't show up at all. .

There are twenty-six Latin letters, and F is not the last of the twenty-six, but here it is the worst symbol. In the rating of this birth report, the letter score on the cover represents a person's future comprehensive ability, including IQ, EQ, physical fitness, and even natural life expectancy, etc., which are judged by making a comprehensive prediction of the newborn through technical means For its future development, the scoring mechanism is from A to F, and in the ABCD level, it is divided into A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, B1, B2...but the F level only has the score of F, Obviously, F represents the bottom layer. If it goes further down, it is congenital mental retardation. All those who want to enter the research institute must have a birth report of at least B3 or above. As for the following people, they can be included in the life department and trained as cleaners in the group. Of course, those who score F are not eligible to enter the research institute.

F, F, F, the letter has never been so painful for a man, he likes many words starting with F, like Fabric, Faery and Fable.

If you look at the whole world, more than 80% of the birth reports of newborns will be printed with an F, but no report will make men feel as distressed as this one. After all, in the coalition government, almost all children are more or less Inherited the talents of their parents.

Mo Hesheng was very opposed to gene optimization in his heart. He thought it was unfair to newborns. In the past, he felt extremely disgusted by this deprivation of human rights, but now... he thought of his deceased wife, maybe Should have heard her opinion earlier.

Ordinary people, his child is just an ordinary person, maybe even a little worse, lower than the average level of ordinary people, because from the various tests, her score should actually be F-.

Mo Hesheng subconsciously took a few steps back, unable to believe the report in his hand. His parents, grandparents, wife, father-in-law and mother-in-law are all top scientific researchers. The mediocrity of this child affects the whole family.

It would be great if this report had written a G or an H, such a thought suddenly flashed in his mind. If... just if, if she is an ugly genetically deformed deformity, if she is a salivating mentally handicapped, even if she is just born with meningitis unfortunately... Then, this is just Just a sad accident. In this group where geniuses are as ordinary as ten steps of grass, ordinary is original sin.

I remember that a long time ago, people at that time did not fully believe in blood lineage theory. At that time, many people still insisted that as long as through unremitting efforts and a little bit of luck, every ordinary person can also have an extraordinary life. Judging from the current situation, this view is undoubtedly superstitious, absurd, and even... very romantic.

When did this point of view disappear?

Just like when he was working normally, after seeing the first observation map, Mo Hesheng would immediately speculate on what might happen in the future. It seems that one picture after another is superimposed on the original image. Slowly, the picture starts to run like a revolving lantern, and the static picture starts to move. What will the star look like in one year, and what will happen in ten years? , What will happen in a hundred years?

But at this moment, Mo Hesheng can only see one ending from this birth report. Her daughter is like a leaf, withered from the branch alone, dehydrated and turned yellow in the soil, and finally twisted and twisted, and gradually rotted.

"I believe you must know our difficulties." The lady in front of her broke the deadlock.

Mo Hesheng leaned against the wall and slowly slid to the ground, the stack of reports he was holding was also scattered all over the floor, and his sobs began to echo in the silent corridor.

After a long silence, Mo Hesheng raised his head, his eyes were no longer bewildered and dazed, and his tone became gentle yet firm again.

"My child, I will not give up, and you know me too."

Seemingly realizing that she could no longer persuade him, the woman sighed, looked at Mo Hesheng and said:

"I admire your behavior of not using genetic optimization very much, but I advise you to give up this child. In the coalition government, the cultivation of offspring is very important, and this is likely to affect your career. However, you You can rest assured that I will abide by the regulations, and the birth report is absolutely private and will not be disclosed to any irrelevant people."

Seeing this, the doctor also squatted down, comforting Mo Hesheng: "It's okay, ordinary schools will still provide opportunities."

"Well, can you promise me one thing, because your father and I are old acquaintances." Mo Hesheng said in a pleading tone.

The doctor seemed to have guessed Mo Hesheng's request, so he quickly refused.

"Professor Mo, you also know that the data of any newborns in the coalition government cannot be modified. We have signed a non-disclosure agreement. This report will not be made public. It is only used for screening. You know what GST requires. child."

"Then what if she becomes smarter in the future?"

"Professor, although this kind of thing is unlikely to happen, I guarantee with my personality that no unrelated people will know the contents of this report. The purpose of this report is only to let parents choose a correct path for their children."

"Her path should not be like this."

At this moment, there was a strange noise outside the window, and the two of them looked out the window at the same time, only to see a sudden strong light shooting into the room, which was extremely dazzling, and Lao Mo felt his pupils constrict instantly and his vision was blurred.

"What is so bright?" Mo Hesheng asked.

"Maybe it's lightning, it hurts my eyes," the doctor beside him rubbed his eyes.

The bright light only flickered for half a second, and then disappeared. Mo Hesheng walked to the window, but nothing happened outside.

"Well, it should be lightning. It's raining so hard outside. Whatever it is, thank you doctor. I'll go first."

"That's fine, the child will stay in the hospital for a few more days, you should go back and rest first."

Mo Hesheng was in no mood to care about other things at this time, he said goodbye to the doctor, turned around and started to drive.

The rain outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, but Mo Hesheng did not choose to take the city rail to go back, but walked slowly on the street alone holding an umbrella. He likes to walk and think on the sidewalk with his head down, which makes him feel peaceful And down-to-earth.

He passed the towering artificial trees, touched their cold metal shells, and imagined that there were growing rings inside. Due to the deterioration of the environment, the natural plants in the city could not survive, and all of them were replaced with special nanomaterials. of imitations. Mo Hesheng is not a sentimental person, but at this time his childhood scene appeared in his mind. He not only misses his childhood, but also holds a longing for the era of his grandparents, which is an era with stories to tell.

Blue walls, gray metal railings, an old-fashioned attic, and a rippling river outside, this is what Mo Hesheng remembered from his hometown. Every holiday, his father would take him back to his hometown, back to In that old house.

He likes to hear his father read the biographies of famous people to him, and he likes to hear his father tell the location and origin of each constellation, but now all of these are gone, and the sky is covered with thick smog. invisible. And the river that raised Mo Hesheng has dried up, and the city built along the river has long since declined. In the third industrial revolution, that coastal city, like many northern industrial cities, did not keep up with the pace of information technology development. The secondary industry was lingering, the population was outflowing, the aging population was serious, and the attractiveness of the city almost disappeared. It almost became built a dead city.

Since the Dunkeld family came to a high position, Director Herman began to carry out drastic reforms. The online virtual community has formed an unprecedentedly large scale. Everyone is addicted to the stimulation brought by the Internet. The deterioration of the environment, Let the virtual world become a refuge for all human beings. People express their opinions, beliefs and doctrines in the virtual community, and then quarrel with each other, never tired of it. Simple, fast, and eye-catching content completely occupies people's lives and controls their emotions. Mo Hesheng felt that he was out of tune with this era, and even became a marginalized person in society. He could only comfort and paralyze himself with "the era is different".

At a glance, there is almost no one on the street, only scattered takeaway boys are riding. Although there are skyscrapers everywhere and advertisements under holographic projections everywhere, the reality is full of a kind of Decadence, a quirky smell. It's as suffocating as the lingering smog that hangs over the city. Many environmental problems have crushed the belief of human beings in building livable cities. People have gradually admitted their incompetence and turned their heads to turn a blind eye to the problems. And the virtual community is like a greedy leech, sucking up the last bones and blood of the city when the city is dying, leaving only a bone made of reinforced concrete.

Reality no longer exists.

He sighed again, thinking that if the old man was still alive, he would definitely not let Herman do this. Mo Hesheng felt that he was incompetent, but he was helpless. He was just an intellectual and knew nothing about how to control power. He tried to write to Herman to express his ideas and demands, but Chen Yang tried his best to stop him. Chen Yang said to him, "No matter what you say, the board of directors will think that your ultimate goal is to ask for more funds. If this is the case, then it is better for me to write it. You have the taste of an ancient scholar-bureaucrat. You don't have to worry about it." Mi bows down, but the astronomy department can't, we can't offend Herman."

"Intellectuals are most likely to be dissatisfied with reality, but this is where the value of this group lies." This is what his father said to him, but in today's group, the right to speak has long been left to others, he can only keep himself clean, and then I hope that my descendants can change some things through their own abilities.

But now... Mo Hesheng can only face the reality. He has begun to have a sense of distance from the GST Group, the place where he grew up, the place where he became a scholar and flexed his muscles.

Mo Hesheng thought about it for three full days, and he began to feel a little confused. He began to doubt whether he really wanted to accept this child, and wondered what his wife would do if she was still alive.

However, fate is always full of variables.

That night, Mo Hesheng was about to take a rest. While taking a bath, several missed calls and text messages came from Chen Yang. Mo Hesheng had a premonition of what happened, and hurriedly dialed back. .

"Old Mo, where are you!?" Chen Yang on the other end of the phone spoke anxiously.

"I'm at home, I drank too much last night."

"Oh, what are you thinking about again, let me tell you that something big happened in the group!"

"What happened, speak slowly"

"The group called just now, and the birth reports of hundreds of newborns in the hospital were destroyed!"

"What!? Destroy?"

"Yes, there is a hacker organization on the opposite side. They somehow cracked the security system of our database. The group suspects that there is an insider. The group has organized a special team with the police to investigate."

"When did this happen? I just..." Feeling that something was out of the ordinary, Mo Hesheng swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

"What was it just now, Lao Mo, you should hurry back to the company,"

"Wait a minute, what do they want the birth report to do, the group thinks it's useful! I think it's a prank played by a group of children."

"They didn't take it away. The data of the newborn database cannot be taken away. They hacked into the system and installed a self-destruct program. And the most terrifying thing is that the doctors in the hospital disappeared! The surveillance equipment didn't capture anything, all the The security personnel were sent to the interrogation room."

"Missing? Where is the child, where is my daughter!"

"The child is fine, lying in the petri dish unscathed, didn't you just go to the hospital a few days ago, did you find anything unusual?\

,""No, nothing, uh, yes, nothing."

"It's really a criticism. There are twelve doctors in total. No one is alive or dead. I think the hospital's security system and cameras must have been hacked. The director has already lost his temper. We have to go there quickly."

"I see, I'll go right away."

Mo Hesheng didn't tell Chen Yang what happened that night, because he couldn't figure out what was going on, but his intuition told him that if what Chen Yang said was true, it would undoubtedly be a big deal for his family. good news.

Mo Hesheng was a little flustered with excitement. He hurriedly put on his clothes and drove there, as if he was trying to grab a life-saving straw. He wanted to confirm the news Chen Yang said immediately. This was related to the future of the Mo family. and his ideals. At this time, Mo Hesheng had an undeserved evil thought in his heart. He hoped that the twelve doctors whose lives and deaths were uncertain and the birth report about his daughter would never appear in the world.

This child must become the successor of the Mo family.

"dad!"

A soft cry interrupted Mo Hesheng's memory. All of a sudden, his thoughts returned from that difficult night to the present, six years in a blink of an eye. He took out a cigarette from his pocket. His lungs were not good, and he would only consider smoking a couple of puffs when he was under extreme stress. His gaze—the child was looking up, looking at him expectantly. So he sighed and stuffed the cigarette back into the pocket of his white coat.

"I, I've memorized it..." The person who spoke was Mo Hesheng's daughter, Mo Shixin.

It was as if he was afraid that he would hurt that slender hand if he tried hard, or he was worried that his anger would burn the delicate flesh on that little hand. This small action made the man's stiff shoulders slightly relieved. After falling down, the fire of ignorance and karma in my heart disappeared together.

"You not only have to memorize it, but also understand that bare back is useless."

"OK, all right."

"Why don't you take a break tonight?"

"I still have a lot of things I haven't memorized!"

Mo Shixin's demeanor is much more mature than that of his peers. He has been more polite than other children since he was a child, and knows how to read people's faces. According to Chen Yang's words, his eyes are full of things, like a little adult. Mo Hesheng sometimes even He wondered if the hospital had made a mistake. His daughter might be excellent, but every time he tutored homework, his daughter's performance shattered his illusions.

Even so, he was quite relieved. Although he did not inherit the talent of the family, he still inherited the advantage of the family's thirst for knowledge. He thought to himself that this kid is really nice, and if he is added with extraordinary talent, he will definitely become an outstanding scholar.

"Okay, take a deep breath, and then carefully recall the library in your heart."

"Yes, Dad."

Mo Shixin opened the test paper, and the first question on one side of the blank paper was a more complicated one than usual: "Please complete the Fourier series of (|sinx|)."

She held her breath and closed her eyes slowly, the rustling of sycamore leaves outside the window and the chirping of birds in the nest accompanied Mo Shixin's ears. Pausing for a moment, a faint smile brushed across her face, she slowly opened her eyes, and the topic jumped up from the paper and appeared in front of her eyes

Suddenly time and space changed, the dark green sycamore leaves outside the window began to turn yellow gradually, the chicks on the treetops quickly flew away from the nest with plump wings, the sun set and the brilliance covered the whole sky, and the sycamore leaves slowly swayed in the cold wind under the gusts of fine snow. Slowly fall off.

Then, cracks began to appear on the ground under Mo Shixin's seat. Like a living thing, the cracks quickly covered the entire room, and the howling hurricane rolled countless papers, passing Mo Shixin's cheeks, and then several huge bookshelves drilled out of the cracks, and the flying papers were instantly arranged on the shelves , Turned into a thick book.

Mo Shixin was in a huge library. There were various books densely packed on the four to five meter high bookshelves, and four copper-colored book ladders leaned against the bookshelves.

After the book lights behind him flickered slightly, the radio sounded in the library,

",,... Please find the master quickly."

Mo Shixin looked at the title in the upper right corner of his field of vision, carefully studied the books placed between the shelf number and the compartment, then stood up and quickly climbed up the book ladder, looking for the location of these books among the bookshelves.

"A side 2 rows of 72 planes, that's it, "Once Upon a Time on Earth (German Edition)"."

Mo Shixin took out the old book and turned it to the back, and the yellowed ISBN code was also revealed. The country code "03" in the first paragraph of the code point was marked there—that is, the first empty answer.

Mo Shixin began to search for the remaining books in sequence, and the answers appeared in sequence "15, 35, 63...".

"It's done! Next question..."

Time passed quickly, Mo Shixin finished answering all the questions, and Mo Hesheng looked at it for a long time.

"Congratulations to the master for finding out all the answers. The library is about to sink, and we will see you next time."

With the end of the broadcast, there was a booming sound all around, the huge bookshelves began to dissipate like particles, the original decoration of the study room began to float up from nothing like a chessboard, the dust cleared away, and Mo Shixin was in the study room again , the scenery outside the house also returned to normal.

"Father, I'm done answering." Mo Shixin was sweating profusely.

"Yes, it seems that you are getting more and more proficient at mastering it," Mo Hesheng said happily in front of him.

"Dad, your 'memory palace' must be better than mine. I heard from my classmate's mother that you can remember the coordinates of thousands of stars."

Mo Hesheng smiled, but didn't answer. He didn't want to tell Shixin the truth. He didn't need a 'memory palace' at all. He could do it with his natural brain power, without any other skills.

In the era when pedagogy, British standard, and syllables were not popularized, it was difficult for people to learn characters, and they could only rely on rote memorization. For example, ancient Egyptian scribes had to rely on human memory Memorize a bunch of abstract and complex pictographs. But smart humans have gradually found a technique, and this technique is the prototype of mnemonics. In the era of Christian rule, European priests and theologians wanted to be able to completely recite the New Testament and the Old Testament as well as various All kinds of religious writings, words and deeds of saints also rely on mnemonics.

The 'memory palace', the art of mnemonic monopoly for a time was invented by the culturally privileged religious classes. The user imagines a space in his mind, divides the space into several rooms, and engraves the things that need to be remembered in the room to achieve the effect of memory. Generally speaking, it is best to use the familiar space as his memory palace. A clever way. From the moment Mo Shixin was born, Mo Hesheng began to train her in the memory palace. This is why Mo Shixin, who obviously only has F qualification, can get the entrance examination qualification, but her memory palace is a A library that doesn't exist.

"Dad will give you a vacation tonight, how about we go stargazing together?"

"Okay! I want to see Venus!"

In the evening, the sun on the sea was particularly large under the effect of water vapor. Mo Hesheng took Shixin to stroll on the artificial beach in Bohai Bay as usual, picking up broken glass polished by seawater, and buried it under the gravel. stony coral fragments.

The sun sinks into the deep sea, and the slender crescent rises from the sea level. Mo Hesheng turned on the cold light LED, and set up the telescope to point at Venus, which accompanies the moon. Tonight, Spica (α Virgo) will be performing a chorus with Venus in the starry sky.

Seeing this, Mo Shixin quickly took out the slightly damaged notebook from the side bag, observed Venus through the small window, and drew what he saw on the notebook, filling the small area with shield volcanoes that he could see one by one. in the circle. Through childhood training, Mo Shixin can be said to be handy in the memory and reproduction of images, drawing every detail he sees as much as possible.

While recording everything he saw, Mo Shixin repeated what his father had introduced in the past: "Venus, the second planet in the solar system, we ancients called it Chang Geng and Qiming, and the ancient Romans called it Venus. The atmosphere on Venus is mainly composed of carbon dioxide, which also makes its temperature higher than that of Mercury. Interestingly, the shield volcanoes on Venus are much flatter than those on Earth, but their base diameters are very long. The largest shield volcanoes Base diameter close to Mars' Olympus volcano."

After all, Shixin moved the telescope to look for Mars in the sky, but found that it was no longer where it was last year. Mo Hesheng saw that Shishi searched for nothing, so he got off the beach chair and adjusted the binoculars.

The picture in the window floats past Venus, followed by the Big Dipper in Ursa Major, and after drifting past the constellation Boötes along the crank, the window stops at another protagonist of today——Spica, which is often called α Virgo .

Mo Hesheng said: "Shixin, this is Spica, Spica. It is a blue giant star. The ancient Greeks discovered the precession of our earth through its movement. At the same time, it is the 17th brightest star in the entire sky. Star, the brightest star in Virgo. And Virgo α is actually a binary star system, but the human eye cannot distinguish these two stars whose rotation speed is faster than their revolution. From the perspective of the earth, they are one star, so it becomes what it is now Definition."

"In the universe, are such binary star systems common?"

"Not often."

The sound of the waves gradually became louder, but Mo Shixin remembered everything his father said in the library in his heart.

The sky became darker, the city behind the coast gradually became brightly lit, the orange fog in the sky also began to appear, Venus gradually became blurred, and even Arcturus Alpha Boötes gradually lost its luster.

Looking at the blurred Venus in the record book, countless questions came to Mo Shixin's mind: "Father, I remember you said that Venus began to dim a few years ago, why did Venus become more and more dim? dark?"

Mo Hesheng sighed, "Shixin, do you still remember a book about the plague?" He looked at the night sky and said, "More than ten years ago, humans discovered a substance in the ocean that can stabilize nuclear fusion reactors. —Ore ice. So began to extract seawater and refine this substance..."

Shi Xin listened carefully and kept recording.

"With the passage of time, people found that it was difficult to extract a large amount of this substance, and the fusion reactor built could only stay in the experimental stage. Coincidentally, a businessman who loves science discovered during a scientific research survey that the Antarctic ice There are abundant mineral ice reserves under the cover, and reported the news to Dad’s company. Then the group believed that this was an unprecedented business opportunity. A large amount of mineral ice can be used as energy supply. As long as the mining license is issued, it can seize the market , the group can obtain the world's first-hand mine ice logically, and the subsequent industrial profits are unimaginable. Therefore, without a detailed demonstration of safety and sustainability, the group disregarded the opposition of a large number of our scientists and excessively This material is mined by melting ice. And with that comes a massive rise in sea level."

"So," Mo Shixin immediately took over the conversation and said, "The ancient neurovirus AC0012 was released from the ice cap into the ocean, and patient zero was discovered in Lima, Peru. Survived, people blocked all ports and borders, but forgot that the real carrier was actually ocean currents. Immediately afterwards, the east coast of Australia fell, followed by New Zealand. The cunning virus is beyond people's understanding The way of lurking, along with the early milk products exported from New Zealand and the rising sea level, the virus began to attack all over the world. Excerpted from "An Introduction to Early Modern Epidemiology" author: Heisenberg Green."

"That's right," Mo Hechang sighed. "Although the spread of the disease was finally controlled at a painful price, we lost the entire ocean. Moreover, this is just the beginning of the catastrophe."

"The construction of the artificial sea, the isolation of the original ocean, and the long-term blocking of the virus, don't the three together solve the threat of the virus?" Mo Shixin asked looking at the waves rolling up coral debris in front, "waiting for the virus to disappear It's just a matter of time, isn't it?"

Mo Hesheng sighed: "Shixin, you are wrong. In order to block the virus, people use a large number of fusion reactors to provide energy for them. Mineral ice is also used as a matter of course. Then, people found that the reactor with mineral ice was involved. Orange fog appears, which not only weakens the natural light, but also greatly increases the greenhouse effect. In addition, the haze is accompanied by acid rain, which intensifies the greenhouse effect again. This is the so-called orange sky effect. "

"Father, I understand. The crux of the problem lies in the beginning." Shi Xin's eyes sparkled, "People shouldn't go to Antarctica to mine ice, right?"

"No, the root of the problem lies in..." Speaking of this, Mo Hesheng hesitated, he didn't know whether he should let his daughter know the truth and ugliness of the world prematurely.

"Dad, since you know so much, why don't you stop it? Why can't the scholars..."

"In a few days, Dad's astronomy department will be disbanded," Mo Hesheng smiled at his daughter.

The small glass on the beach collided with the coral debris rolled ashore by the waves and made a small sound, but the sound of the waves drowned it forever.

"Then what will Dad do in the future? Can I still watch the stars with Dad..."

"Of course, this starry sky belongs to each of us."

"But Dad used to say that he wanted to change the world through his research."

Mo Hesheng was silent for a while, not knowing how to face his daughter's question, even though he knew the answer, money and power have always changed the world.

"Knowledge is not enough, you also need to know how to control others." Mo Hesheng patted his daughter's head.

Shi Xin frowned, but didn't answer, she turned her head and continued to look at the faintly visible moon.

Mo Hesheng didn't think much about it. His young daughter probably couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and this sentence didn't stay in Mo Hesheng's memory for long.

That night, Mo Hesheng had a dream. He dreamed that he was on the bottom of the sea, and two strange-looking giant grouper appeared in front of his eyes, a big fish and a small fish. They were swimming aimlessly. Seeing a larger predator suddenly appearing in the distance, it took the small fish away in one gulp. The big fish blushed instantly, its eyes widened, and then let out a strange growl, hurriedly Chased after.

Mo Hesheng was awakened by this dream and felt uncomfortable all over. He walked to the balcony and changed his perspective to the Phoenix constellation again, the galaxy surrounded by strange fog. He thought about what might have happened there, whether there would be Life, will there be civilization, what is their civilization like, and whether the creatures there are watching him like him. Mo Hesheng was intoxicated by it, he forgot what he said to his daughter today, and those complaints about his situation.

Only in this way can he feel a little nourishment for his already shriveled soul squeezed by reality.

But he doesn't know. On the other side of his telescope, in the distance he was looking at, under the mist billions of light years away, a conspiracy related to the survival of the entire galaxy was quietly happening.