I walk in the past, continue the future

Chapter 24 Paradise and Permafrost

At this moment, Mo Ke's voice caught everyone's attention.

Xia Lian raised his head. On the right side of the assembly room was an iron staircase about three or four stories high. At the top of the staircase was a mechanical door, which was already open. Mo Ke was standing on the handrail beside the door, facing them. wave.

They temporarily diverted their attention from the spaceship, walked up the stairs, and entered behind the door.

Behind the door is a place similar to the main control room. In the octagonal space, there are control panels and virtual projection screens all around.

"His Royal Highness, look at this." Mo Ke pointed to one of the projection screens, which was playing an image at the moment.

Like a top-down perspective, he saw the towering peaks, the sprawling mountains, the endless green grass and the buildings on that land.

It was a house with a wooden-reinforced structure, and the streets were paved with stones. On the streets, women in plain clothes were shopping with their children, and animal-drawn carts interspersed among them. It looked a bit like a small town on the edge of Europe in the 67th century.

"What is this? Video or real time?" Xia Lian asked.

Moko looked at Aisha, who was in charge of technical support in the team.

Aisha stepped forward, stretched out her hand and touched the control screen above, and the picture on the screen moved accordingly. The sight began to move from the town, passing over the mountains and rivers, and they saw a relatively prosperous city.

The architecture is beautiful and artistic, and there are some buildings made of high-grade limestone, showing a cathedral-like style. It seems that there should be god worship in this city.

The seven or eight-meter chimney stands on the ground, spewing billowing black smoke and steam spewing. This is a civilization that has initially entered the industry, and everything looks so sad and prosperous.

"Monitoring?" Xia Lian whispered softly.

"They seem to have left a satellite in the orbit of the Evernight Star." Mercury walked up the stairs on one side, and there seemed to be countless data flows projected on her iris.

"Looks like it's still working."

Xia Lian raised her head, her dark blue eyes quietly watching the picture on the screen.

"Just now, those areas should have normal day and night changes, right?"

"Yes." Elsa replied.

"Look at the Yongye District." Xia Lian said.

Elsa nodded, and then began to manipulate the LCD control screen in front of her, and the picture on the projection screen was moving.

Soon, the screen was occupied by a piece of ice and snow, and the sight was full of white snow, thousand-year-old frozen soil, and the storm mixed with ice and snow swept the earth with the power of destroying the dead and the dead. The entire sky was shrouded by a huge "black ball". Arc light scattered from the edge of the sphere illuminates.

There is no life in the entire land, and it is deadly silent.

This is the result of the loss of sunlight. From the data displayed on the satellite, the average surface temperature here is about -40°. Fortunately, the planet is not completely irradiated by the stars. Otherwise, the temperature should reach -68 ° or less.

The cold in this area will undoubtedly affect the area with normal day and night changes, and their winters should be extremely cold.

This is not a planet suitable for human existence, but in this galaxy, it is the only one that can allow humans to survive.

"Anyone?" Xia Lian asked.

"There are no plants, so how can there be people." Carr said, "This land should be permafrost, and it is not suitable for cultivation at all. Where do humans get food?"

"That's not necessarily true." Moko interjected, "I heard that there were genetically modified crops that could be grown in permafrost thousands of years ago."

People in this era basically have no shortage of energy, and can directly use energy to synthesize food. With the current genetic modification technology, as long as there is energy, a small amount of land can grow a huge amount of food.

It's not that there is no good land. Crops like this planted in permafrost are completely unnecessary in this era, and naturally they are forgotten by people.

Xia Lian said at the moment, "On the premise of ensuring genetic diversity, there is a minimum number for a mammal species to reproduce without degeneration.

Anything lower than that would lead to a decrease in the genetic diversity of the descendants after several generations, the degradation of the entire population, and there is also a minimum number for the civilization experiment.

Let's assume that initially they put [-] people on the land."

"Your Highness, there are data records here." Elsa flipped through the computer in the main control room and said, "The total number of people they put in at the beginning was 3000."

Xia Lian nodded and continued: "If you want to last for more than 1000 years or almost 2000 years, the population growth rate must not be negative, otherwise, their end will only perish.

Although the specific data cannot be calculated due to various factors such as environment and medical care, according to the minimum population growth rate, the number of people that should exist on this land now is in units of [-] million.

But looking at the productivity of this paradise, the limit of the number of people that can exist should be around tens of millions.

Excluding other factors such as natural disasters and plagues, if they want to survive, they must artificially reduce the population.

War is inevitable. "

"But they don't look like there's a war," Mock said.

"Yeah." Xia Lian murmured softly, "There is a problem, where are the rest?"

Everyone present frowned and fell into thought.

"Your Highness." Elsa's voice caught everyone's attention, "I think you should come and see this."

Xia Lian looked at the satellite image of Aisha, and the image at this moment shifted to the junction of the permafrost and the paradise, where he saw a "Great Wall."

As the plains and mountains meander up, like a barrier, dividing the two into two worlds.

In a certain section of the Great Wall, a long procession was marching towards the permafrost through the Great Wall. They wrapped themselves in heavy robes, held torches, and their faces were numb.

From the top-down perspective of Xia Lian and the others, the long stream of people with torches in their hands formed a long flaming dragon, winding and orderly, which looked very shocking.

Mo Ke was a little puzzled, "What is this doing, why is such a large group of people running to the frozen soil?"

"Didn't you find it?" Xia Lian stared at the screen, "Most of the team are old people."

Moke looked at the screen carefully, "It seems to be true."

Then, he frowned, "What does it mean to let the old man go to the frozen soil?"

"Abandon the old."

Oak, who had been silent for a long time, said a word, there were micro-nano bugs, and his limbs were quickly put together by Aisha, and now he has basically recovered.

"A thousand or two hundred years ago, there was a custom in my ethnic group, that is, people over the age of 1000 had to commit suicide, and the corpses were handed over to the livestock for food, which was another way of contributing to the ethnic group.

This practice is known among you humans as abandonment of old age, and was banned after humans brought civilization. "

"How could this be possible." Mo Ke was a little unimaginable, "In that case, the whole society would be in chaos, everyone will grow old, young people will not support the elderly, but the elderly will be discarded, then people will lose. Do you have the motivation to live?"

The brows of the rest of the people also wrinkled slightly. Obviously, this kind of behavior has deeply impacted the ethics of the human beings who have entered the interstellar age.

But in fact, ancient humans did the same thing.

"Productivity determines everything." Xia Lian commented, "Humans are essentially animals, and the instinct of animals is to reproduce.

The basis of all actions is for reproduction and the continuation of the race. When resources cannot be supplied to an ethnic group and the continuation of the race is affected, the ethnic group will find ways to reduce the consumption of resources, and abandoning the elderly is one of the options.

Many animals have similar behaviors of abandoning their old age, or, in other words, supporting their elders, which is also a sign of the advancement of civilization. "

Mercury also said at this moment, "It is inferred from the results that if abandoning the old people can continue the ethnic group, then the war can be avoided and more young people will survive."

"There seems to be more than just old people in this team?" Carl's voice reminded everyone.

They once again focused their attention on the long dragon in the picture, and found that in the crowd, in addition to the elderly, there were also some young men and women.

"Why are there still young people?" Moke said with a frown.

He looked at Xia Lian, "Your Highness, do you know?"

The rest of them couldn't help but look at Xia Lian. During this time, Xia Lian's omnipotent attitude left a deep impression on them.

I always feel that from him, I can always find the answer.

Xia Lian said calmly: "There should be some kind of quantitative indicator in this civilization. When there are not enough old people, it will be the turn of the young people, perhaps the poor, or the bottom of the society who have no talent and have no effect on society. "

"Is it true that no one resists?" Elsa couldn't help asking.

Xia Lian did not reply, but continued to stare at the screen.

Some young people at the end of the team seemed to want to escape, but just after running a distance, a middle-aged man in a white robe landed on their escape path from the sky.

I saw his palm light up, and he waved his hand heavily at those who escaped. The flames appeared around him, shot at those who were about to escape, quickly swallowed them, and burned them directly to ashes.
This hand directly shocked the rest of the people who were about to escape, and returned to the team embarrassed.

Xia Lian's eyes flickered, "It seems that this is the reason."

(End of this chapter)