"Okay, let's take ten years. If you can complete the reproduction of ZS bacteria within ten years, then I promise you that even if it costs me my life, I will create a three-dimensional space for you."
After a little hesitation, Ou Mengfeng decided to go for it.
Lai Wenming grinned, his serious expression showing a rare youthful vigor, "President Ou, you are too modest. After all, in the previous timeline, you were the one who could make a particle bomb without any technical conditions." Ou Mengfeng waved his
hand unhappily, "Alright, alright, I don't need you to flatter me."
When Lai Wenming turned to leave, Ou Mengfeng suddenly reminded him from behind, "You have read history by yourself, it doesn't matter, it's your own ability. But I have to remind you not to relay your discoveries to other people who don't know about it. The ancient philosopher once said..."
"Okay, okay, I get it. Everyone has their own different, ever-changing destiny. So predicting one's life in advance may not necessarily be a happy thing. Right? Even though I'm only sixteen years old, I understand a lot of things."
"Go ahead."
Ou Mengfeng waved his hands unhappily.
After Lai Wenming left the office, Ou Mengfeng said to himself, "I don't know what height this kid can reach this time."
Although he didn't want to admit it, as the dean, he was actually secretly envious of Lai Wenming's achievements.
He knew very well.
Even if he was not old now and stood at the same starting line as Lai Wenming, he would never be able to catch up with Lai Wenming's height.
Creating a three-dimensional space was already his limit.
But Ou Mengfeng knew that if Lai Wenming succeeded, then ZS bacteria would just be the beginning.
"So the sage was right. People without any perseverance really can't bear this blow."
Ou Mengfeng muttered to himself, closed the book and walked out of the room.
He needs to get some air.
It's sunny outside.
The sun is high.
The garden-style Xingfeng Research Institute is surrounded by green trees, with birds flying through the sky and animals running through the forest.
There are white houses dotting the woods.
When the level of science and technology has reached a new peak in the twenty-sixth century, humans have decorated the earth as if it were ancient times tens of millions of years ago.
Time and space seem to be a subtle reincarnation.
...
"Commander Glennie, we will reach Mathuselah in 72 hours."
A small fleet was sailing slowly in the universe at half the speed of light.
In the command cabin of the New Heartfire, Sumit, dressed in a sleek military uniform, said to Glennie, who was dozing off in the command chair.
Glennie opened his sleepy eyes, "Is that so? Okay, let's implement Plan A."
The so-called Plan A is the most common and conventional development plan formulated by the Imperial Science Department before departure.
The Bonnie Fleet will first build a habitable space station colony around Mathuselah and start a rapid reproduction plan for the species, with the goal of reaching a population of 10 billion within 20 years.
The fleet carried as many as 20 billion frozen embryos.
The missions of the more than one million crew members who came with the fleet included conducting scientific research activities on the spot and building bases.
In the interstellar age, when humans could not master the technology of human body freezing and human life span could never break the threshold of 500 years, the importance of frozen embryos in the process of human colonization and expansion was raised to an unprecedented height.
Humans, who have a short life span and must face birth, aging, illness and death, can only place their hopes on the next generation if they want to occupy more space in the universe.
Of course, some people yearn for immortality. In the 24th century, some resource allocators even invested huge amounts of money and a lot of manpower and material resources to try to find the technology of immortality outside the "Millennium Plan" left by Chen Feng.
Although Chen Feng has long said that immortality is a pipe dream for humans, since it is a dream, there will always be people who will do it.
These people have tried many different methods, anti-aging, mind freezing, human body freezing, mechanized transformation, cloning replacement... and so on, but there is a big problem that can never be solved.
Human thinking cannot be solidified.
Even if someone really successfully transfers the memory of an old man into his cloned brain, the result is that the thinking will collapse within two days, and the replicated human brain will become a pile of meaningless organisms.
There are also people like Chen Feng who try to convert their thinking into quantization and enter the quantum network, but the cruel thing is that the memories of these people are assimilated by data in the quantum network and become the "nutrients" of the stars.
The autonomous consciousness of these people disappears.
Their lives have become an insignificant piece in the vast history of the stars.
Human beings' desire for immortality lasted until the end of the 25th century, when it finally came to an end.
People have completely recognized the reality.
"No one" can live forever.
This is the basic law given to humans by the universe.
Now Glennie seems to be facing the end of his life. Glennie
, who will soon be 180 years old, looks much older than his peers. His hair has fallen out sparsely, his eyes are cloudy, and his cheeks are red from years of alcoholism.
He doesn't look like a fleet commander at all, but rather like a degenerate old man who is despised by others.
Sumit had submitted many reports privately, requesting a change of commander, but all her requests fell on deaf ears and no one responded.
No one refuted her, and no one signed her name.
Sumit was helpless.
It was really frustrating to be the chief of staff.
She could only secretly congratulate herself, thank God, that this voyage was only ten years, otherwise her life would be ruined here.
Sumit: "Mr. Glennie, our voyage is about to reach the end. Is this all you have to say? Execute Plan A? Over?"
Glennie nodded, "Yes. What else do you want to say? Give an impassioned speech?"
Sumit covered his forehead, "I can't believe it. You are the hero who turned the tide during the voyage to Planet K."
Glennie laughed, "Little girl, the universe is so big, of course there are all kinds of wonders. There are many things you can't believe."
"I've read your resume. You used to be..."
"A person who is passionate about life?"
"Yes."
"People change. Well, I remember it was written in Plan A that after the colony is established, you will be transferred to the administrator of the colony, right?"
"Yes."
"Very good, then please use your privilege to prepare a small combat-class spaceship for me."
"What are you going to do?"
"Go where I should go."
Sumit: "..."
On this side of the earth, Lai Wenming was waving goodbye to his many close friends and parents.
In the past ten years, he not only completed the reconstruction of the ZS bacteria, but also completed the theoretical deduction of the pseudo-quantum virus.
Now, he will continue his "dangerous" research in the first complete three-dimensional space in human history built for him by Dean Ou Mengfeng himself. The
three-dimensional space is built in a palm-sized metal sphere.
The characteristics of the metal sphere are 70% similar to those of the core of the Mi tribe.
During Ou Mengfeng's research, the stable unified cohesive force in the core of the Mi tribe provided him with a lot of reference ideas.
The metal sphere will be buried in an unknown asteroid in the Kuiper Belt.
From now on, Lai Wenming will be isolated from the world until he completes all his unfinished business.
Lai Wenming, now 27 years old, has rejected all assistants.
He is thinner than he was ten years ago.
In an era of highly developed nutrition, it is a miracle for Lai Wenming to be as thin as he is.
Watching Lai Wenming board the spaceship, Lai Shengyi walked up, shook hands with his son, patted him on the shoulder, but said nothing.
Lai Wenming's mother looked at him eagerly, "After entering, you must remember to strictly follow the reminders of artificial intelligence, eat on time, and ensure nutrition. If your body collapses first, you won't be able to accomplish anything."
Lai Wenming nodded, "I understand."
Turning around.
The spaceship set sail.
In two completely different places separated by the dome across 190 light years, two people with different destinies unknowingly headed in the same direction.