2824 AD, 454 years in the Earth calendar.
A spacecraft landed at the lunar base, and dozens of people disembarked. Each of them looked listless, haggard, and emaciated, standing precariously on the ground, as if they could be blown away by a gust of wind. It was obvious that their lives were in danger.
These are the humans on Earth who dream of traveling to outer space to develop new planets.
Since the beginning of Earth's history, science and technology have developed rapidly, and humans have begun to explore and study outer space, hoping to find a planet with an environment similar to that of Earth that can accommodate human migration.
But this process is difficult.
First, space travel was full of dangers, which took the lives of countless astronauts.
Then, in the 233rd year of the Earth calendar, humans discovered a planet in the Milky Way that was very similar to the Earth's environment and named it Hope.
But Hope proved to be a poorly realized promise. The first pioneers who arrived were unable to adapt to the planet's unfamiliar environment, nor were they immune to the viruses that bred there. The humans sent out for pioneering research fell ill one after another, their vitality rapidly fading.
Even in this technologically advanced age, these unfamiliar, understudied viruses remain untreatable. Fortunately, Earth quickly devised a response. With the rapid pace of technological advancement, even today's untreatable viruses will eventually be conquered.
Thus, the lunar frozen base came into being.
Every year, dozens of researchers with ailments are sent here to sleep in cryostat chambers. This reduces their bodily functions to a minimum, maintaining only basic vital signs. In this environment, their ailments are significantly diminished, allowing them to survive for at least twenty years, allowing future generations to study the virus and discover or extract a cure.
But no one can guarantee such a thing. Therefore, only a few people can walk out of here, and most people can only die silently in this deep sleep.
They can't even see their loved ones again, nor can they be buried on Earth, because the virus is contagious and once it passes through the protective circle of the atmosphere, it is likely to spread on Earth.
So before entering the cryostasis chamber, these people were allowed to talk to their loved ones for the last time.
Among the patients sent to the lunar base was a petite 26-year-old, the youngest of the group. She had been one of the most promising life science researchers at the Greater China Research Institute. But her fate might have changed the moment she volunteered to go to outer space.
Illness and torture had made her extremely thin, her round cheeks sunken, making her originally large eyes seem to take up half her face, which was a bit scary. However, she still had a faint smile on her face, as if she didn't care about her physical condition at all.
She is talking to her father.
The man on the other end of the line was nearly out of control. As the leader of high-tech at the Greater China Research Institute, he could control the computer world with a single gesture, easily creating entire virtual worlds. But even the most powerful could not defeat a natural disaster. All his proud abilities proved useless against his sickly daughter.
The girl, however, smiled and tried to comfort her father, saying that medicine was advancing so rapidly that they would surely find a solution to the virus soon. She hoped that when she woke up, she would still be in her twenties. How wonderful that would be!
"Dad, please don't get old too fast!" she said, "or we won't look like father and daughter anymore."
Then, with this wonderful expectation, she lay down in the freezing chamber and fell into a deep sleep.
But she could never know that, decade after decade, the annoying virus had never been solved. In the freezing chambers around her, some people woke up, and more died, so she was constantly moved down, sleeping in the deepest part of the base.
There are people there who have not been able to wake up after decades. The faint green dot on the life sensor seems to be their last connection with this world.
After the girl fell into a deep sleep, her father put all his energy into his work. At that time, he was secretly in charge of a large project developed by the government. If successful, it would likely change the earth's structure.
He set a time limit of twenty years for himself, and when his daughter woke up, he would give her his work as a gift.
However, perhaps because he had put too much effort into the project, his health suddenly deteriorated when it was nearing completion. He was even unable to take charge of the work and had to hand over all the projects on hand to others.
On the night of leaving the project base, the professor finally wrote a small easter egg and used his authority to send it to the core of the project's main brain "Feitian".
It was just a harmless keepsake, a small gift from him to his daughter. He knew his time was running out and he might not live to see her regain consciousness, so he had to leave her something to let her know that he loved her forever.
After the professor left the base, the new project leader took office, and the main brain Feitian started self-inspection and discovered this little easter egg.
"Redundant data detected, do you want to clear it?"
The newly appointed person in charge casually chose to clear it out.
"Cleared...Self-inspection completed, no abnormalities in all areas. Please enter the command." After a moment, the voice of the flying machine sounded.
But data is the most wonderful thing in the world. No matter how you shred or clean it, you can never completely erase the traces of its existence; there will always be remnants. Just like all kinds of garbage in the human world, whether it is incinerated or degraded, it will eventually become something else, rather than disappearing completely.
Moreover, as long as we are in the world of data, once the main brain is running, various redundant data will be generated anytime and anywhere, which is endless.
Therefore, the Mastermind Feitian's method of clearing data wasn't to completely delete it, but rather to pack it up and store it in a dedicated area. After all, these things wouldn't affect its own operations, so there was no need to pay too much attention to them. At certain times, it would even recycle some data from this "junk" for use.
To it, these are all programmed things.
And the program never makes mistakes.
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