In the end, Bai Yi's wish to travel to Earth was not fulfilled.
The solar system is the core of the Milky Way's politics, and the entire galaxy is under strict control. Therefore, he couldn't even get close to take a look, and could only observe it from afar through a telescope.
Although it is not clear how many years have passed, from the images Bai Yi saw, the Earth has not changed much.
If we have to say something, it is that the area of the polar ice sheets has become slightly larger, and the overall greening rate has also increased.
Liu Shasha knows more about the evolution of the earth than Bai Yi.
She told Bai Yi that the current permanent population of the Earth is only more than 200 million, of which about 17 million live in residential stations in low-Earth orbit.
The garbage generated by the daily production of people on the surface will also be transported directly to the living station via the space elevator and then towed away by special garbage transport ships.
With external blood transfusion-style supply, human activities will hardly cause additional pollution to the earth.
Coupled with strict environmental control equipment, the environment of the entire earth has always been in a very stable state.
The shuttle switched to secondary jump mode.
The familiar purple-red subspace appeared before Bai Yi once again. The purple that covered the sky and the sun quickly swallowed up people's sight. In this purple space, shuttles could travel at speeds hundreds or even thousands of times the maximum speed of this universe.
"Okay, let's not talk about Earth now. Let's talk about you."
Bai Yi turned off the purple-red telescope screen, leaned lazily on the sofa, put his hands behind his head, and twisted his body to find a comfortable position.
"So why did you appear in the review office and even become Arel's stepmother?"
Liu Shasha walked over to Bai Yi's side and found a sofa to lie down on. However, she also opened the drinks cabinet next to her and took out two bottles of iced soda.
"4 degrees, just the right temperature."
He handed one of the bottles to Bai Yi, who took it.
Judging from Liu Shasha's skillful movements, she was clearly accustomed to these things. The once immature and reserved UN Secretary-General had now become an interstellar secretary.
Such a huge change in identity before and after is amazing.
"That's a long story."
"Then please keep your story short and try to focus on the key points."
Liu Shasha smiled.
"Let me start with Luo Fan's story."
"After we moved last time, the entire civilization was evacuated to a world numbered as Shelter 14. This is a binary star system. The heavier one has a mass similar to Luo Fan and has roughly the same gravity. We call it Star 1."
"Although we were originally assigned to Planet One, that planet is already inhabited by other civilizations. And they arrived much earlier than we did."
"But there's a civilization that looks like cockroaches that can walk upright, each individual standing over two meters tall. And they have hard shells on their backs. Some of them, in particular, have undergone metamorphosis and are even capable of withstanding heavy machine gun bullets on their backs."
Listening to Liu Shasha's description, Bai Yi imagined a large army of cockroaches walking upright. The scene was so beautiful that it gave him chills just thinking about it.
"After a period of development, they have occupied most of the land on Planet 1. So we can only go to the smaller planet, which we call Planet 2."
"The mass of the second star is only 70% of that of its companion star, and its surface gravity is also lower, but these are not insurmountable difficulties. Although the low-gravity environment has caused us considerable trouble, it also makes it easier to construct large structures."
"The problem is, however, that the civilization on Planet 1 has already developed the ability to explore the universe. They use chemical and plasma propulsion rockets to land on Planet 2 and deploy their forces there."
"These troops were not well-armed, and they were mostly armed with light weapons propelled by gunpowder, but they inflicted heavy casualties on us."
"During the migration, our civilization carried almost no weapons. When faced with this sudden enemy, we could only use simple cold weapons to barely resist."
Don't act like you Luofan people are so peace-loving. How dare I let you go on the road with weapons?
Bai Yi complained.
Back then, some of you were not afraid of death and wanted to use a nuclear bomb to blow me up.
"It was an accident."
There was no trace of apology or embarrassment on Liu Shasha's face.
"Anyway, those cockroaches easily overwhelmed our defenses..."
Bai Yi interrupted her.
"So why are the cockroaches attacking you? If what you said is correct, it would be extremely difficult to send that many people up there using only chemical rockets. It would cost a huge amount of money."
Liu Shasha shook her head.
"The Cockroaches have a very strong reproductive capacity, and their existing resources can no longer support their expansion. However, their technology is not enough for long-distance interstellar travel, so advancing to Planet 2 is their only option."
"You sound like you understand them."
"yes."
Liu Shasha glanced at Bai Yi with resentment. Her eyes seemed to say, how can you, who are at the top of the civilization, understand the suffering of us, the lower creatures?
"It does take a lot of people to form an army, but not all of them need to be sent up here."
"What do you mean? They can transform into people out of thin air?"
"Procreation."
Liu Shasha's tone became serious.
"These cockroach people, like real cockroaches, lay eggs and hatch their own offspring. So they just need to fill a big bag of eggs and send a few people up to act as nannies."
"In two months, we will have an army of several thousand people..."
As Liu Shasha told the story in vivid detail, Bai Yi marveled at the wonders of nature from the bottom of his heart.
If all things really have spirits, he wouldn't be surprised if a race made up of mosquitoes appeared one day.
But this kind of race probably doesn't exist. Even if it once existed, it probably doesn't exist now.
In short, the race that Liu Shasha calls cockroach people does have very strong vitality.
Their rockets don't even need additional life support systems. If it weren't for the wind resistance during takeoff, these cockroaches could even lie directly on the rocket shell for short interstellar travel.
But they did not do so without paying a price.
The eggs that are carried into space will undergo some strange mutations after being exposed to cosmic rays.
These mutations cause the offspring to be taller and stronger, but also make them infertile.
It was thanks to this mutation that, although it put considerable pressure on the Luofan defenders in the short term, it weakened the advantages of the cockroach clan on a macro scale.
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