Loneliness drives people crazy, and madness breeds perversion.
Lin Ke knows that he is lonely, so he doesn't want loneliness to spread to every corner of his "heart". His work is not over yet, so he still has many options to relieve his loneliness.
The large screen in front of it changed with its thoughts. Countless windows unfolded from the middle of the screen like snowflakes, and then gathered to the four sides of the screen. Then a slightly larger audio and video file was opened, and the old and familiar picture began to play.
This is a record of a meeting filmed using outdated technology. Lin Ke's perspective is in the center of the conference room. Both sides of the nearby area are filled with people. Although Lin Ke cannot see their faces, judging from the sparse hair on their heads, they should not be very young at the time. They are generally dressed in the military uniforms of the time, some are wearing suits and Mao suits, and very few are wearing casual clothes. They all have some paper and pens at hand to record the key points of the meeting at any time. The overall color of the conference room is bright red, with the emblem of the community at the top and flags on the two sides below. At the podium in the distance, there is a row of people in simple clothes and serious expressions. The video was not recorded from the beginning of the meeting, so at this time, there is only some unclear background noise in the speakers of the main control room.
Fast forward to the third minute, and the meeting host begins: "Please be quiet. This expanded meeting is about to begin. In principle, these meetings will not be numbered, the content will not be recorded, and participants are not allowed to discuss the meeting or its content with others. However, considering the issue of future references, I recommend using today's date to refer to this meeting. Now, please allow the speakers to speak in order."
The first speaker stood up and saluted three times, neatly, to his left, front, and right. "Comrades, this enlarged meeting, based on the 739th Community Standing Meeting of this year, in accordance with Community People's Congress Basic Law No. 06-001 and the minutes of the 27th internal meeting of the Countermeasures Agency, has designated Community Document No. 2703 as a military project, raising its confidentiality level to 19. The Community Military General Staff will be fully responsible. On behalf of the General Staff, I have the honor of reading out the details of the project.
In the 25th year of the Star Calendar, humanity made its first contact with extraterrestrial artifacts beneath Mars. The Community's Immigration Administration, in collaboration with the newly established Martian Cultural Relics Protection Bureau, excavated and preserved the relevant relics, ultimately uncovering the remains of a massive city covering over 15 million square kilometers. A year later, the Community's Countermeasures Center sealed the site and the individuals involved, but some information was irretrievable. News of the encounter with an alien civilization inevitably impacted society and culture, and public calls for extraterrestrial exploration grew louder, with signs of a new type of extreme expansionism beginning to emerge. The Community's Standing Committee, responding to public opinion and combating the arrogance of illegal prospectors, enacted Document 2703.
"Document No. 2703 is essentially a comprehensive project, encompassing a range of technologies and technical preparations, including advanced fluidless propulsion, advanced ultra-long-range communications, advanced life support, and advanced collection and refining production. This requires the community to mobilize materials, personnel, and technical research on an unprecedented scale. Facts have proven that coordinating resources through small and medium-sized groups or enterprises is incapable of meeting this demand; only the military and Party organizations can accomplish this."
"It took us one year and three months to complete the screening of existing resources. After organizational research, we determined that Document 2703 cannot be implemented in the short term or in the foreseeable future. The Countermeasures Center proposes the implementation of Project North Wind, which will initially preserve a portion of the project's original participants in a hibernating state, and resurrect them in batches in the future to continuously monitor the project's progress. Project North Wind has received support from participants, and the identities of the third batch of hibernators have been confirmed. The transfer order will be issued to all units soon, so please check.
"Please note that, in principle, we allow any comrade to volunteer to participate in the Northern Wind Project. However, our review process is very strict, and those who are not selected may not have any problems with their ideology, willpower, or other aspects.
"Project 2901, which is being executed concurrently with Project Nordly, is also progressing simultaneously. Its location and scale have been largely finalized, and relevant personnel and equipment are being transferred in secret. The core of Project 2901 is the establishment of a forward base at the edge of the solar system, providing the necessary foundation for the next step in the plan.
"To realize the interstellar travel described in Document 2703, the investment must be continuous and the process must be tortuous, but we believe the ending will be beautiful."
The first speaker straightened out his speech, nodded to the conference host, and then sat back in his seat as if he had completed a task.
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