Beneath Deep Space

The result is...a serious shortage of population!

For now, population has become the biggest obstacle!

Regarding the almost unsolvable problem of population, Yu Yifeng really had a headache. He had discussions with various experts, but in fact, no results could be reached.

It takes people to exploit the indigenous lizards, it takes people to mine in the Arctic, and it takes people to explore the ruins of civilization. Where did so many people come from?

Now, more than nine years after the explosion of the earth, the total population of Noah has reached more than 80,000 people, including nearly 30,000 children!

As the new government continues to encourage childbirth and improve social and public welfare, many families have finally given birth to a second child or even a third or fourth child! The population growth rate has almost reached its limit.

Raising children requires energy, and if there are too many children, these families will not encourage them to have more children. Humans cannot give birth to one baby every year like pigs.

The oldest of these children is only eight years old, and they are still in a particularly troublesome stage. The large number of babies has brought a heavy burden on society to support them.

Even if robots are fully popularized today, it is impossible for robots to do all the work. Many children's raising work must be done by humans themselves.

So, these children are holding back a large number of people. If too many people are dispatched to open up wasteland, Noah's society will not be able to run smoothly.

After all, the Noah is the real home of mankind, and its stability must be ensured so that the pioneers at the front can work with peace of mind.

Perhaps one of the pioneers is the father or mother of two or three children. They are fighting here for a better future for the next generation.

Therefore, there must be no accident on the Noah, or even a little safety risk.

Yu Yifeng made careful calculations and found out that he only had... eight thousand at his disposal. Ten thousand at most would be enough!

Really can’t be any more!

More than 10,000 is beyond the capacity of the Noah!

We can't all adults come down to open up wasteland, and just leave a group of children on the Noah, right?

Yu Yifeng sighed, and really missed the time when there were no children... The population of 50,000 was all single, and they could be dispatched at will. One person had enough to eat, and the whole family had no worries.

Now that the total population has increased, the available population has decreased, and there is really no way.

This period of population pain will eventually pass if you endure it. This time may take ten or twenty years. By then the population structure will gradually become more reasonable and everyone will be liberated...

In this way, even though there was a lack of population and a serious lack of motivation, Yu Yifeng gritted his teeth and consulted a large number of experts, held a large number of meetings, and formulated the final plan...

They extracted relatively unimportant positions and used all the available population to their advantage!

The new human civilization has begun the next era of great excavation...

Mining, and mining cities!

With the help of a large number of machines, in just one month, fanatical humans cleared out the underground city buried under the soil.

People can finally pick up trash happily.

This is a real city, not a primitive village of indigenous lizards. It has a variety of buildings and a lot of mechanical remains.

During the excavation process, people even discovered the remains of individuals from this civilization, that is... some fossilized biological bones!

The city covers an area of ​​about 7.6 square kilometers and does not look large. It was built on the extinct volcano below, and can be said to be built on the crater.

It is different from human cities. Only a small part is a surface structure, and most of it is buried deep underground to withstand the severe cold weather of the planet Nyx.

The taboo place mentioned by the lizard was originally the location of the nuclear power plant. It was located on the surface area at the edge of the city and supplied power to the original city.

Because after the nuclear power plant was destroyed by the war, the nuclear waste inside was leaked greatly, so it was continuously exposed to radiation for such a long time...

The city is a three-dimensional structure. The bottom part is about one thousand meters deep. At the bottom, there are various pipeline facilities and mechanical equipment.

Scientists speculate that the small city could use these devices to harness the heat of the entire volcano to power the city.

Of course, this volcano was once a dormant or extinct volcano, and the probability of eruption is not very high. If luck really erupts, these residents will have to use emergency equipment to escape collectively. There are some warning signs of volcanic eruptions, which can bring a certain amount of time to escape.

But now most of the houses inside have collapsed, and the original equipment has been damaged, and the original grand scene cannot be seen.

Many things are fused with mud and stones, making it difficult to distinguish them. Especially the metal in the open air is basically impossible to survive to this day due to the influence of microorganisms and oxygen.

"Based on geological analysis, we believe that this city was built...11 million years ago! The error will not exceed two million years. Therefore, the time before the extinction of the Nyx civilization should also be that era."

A geologist drew the final report from the computer. Looking at the result, he said in shock. This time is too far away for human beings, which is enough to prove that this unknown civilization has declined in endless time.

And what he was holding in his hand was a biological fossil, the skull fossil of the Nyx man!

It is based on these fossils that people can calculate the final conclusion.

Hearing this number, Yu Yifeng was shocked. He had to lament the vicissitudes of the universe... eleven million years!

Eleven million years is simply a time that is unimaginable to humans. On a cosmic scale, it is also a relatively long time...

Eleven million years have passed since the decline of the "Nix Civilization", which is really too long. It is only today that this city has been exposed to the light of day thanks to human excavations.

Eleven million years later, nuclear pollution still exists...which proves how serious the pollution caused by nuclear waste is! (Many radioactive elements in nuclear waste have half-lives of tens of thousands of years, ranging from about 2.1 million years to nearly 500 years. It takes 10 half-lives, or 21 million years, to be completely safe.)

I have to mention that this extinct unknown civilization is called the "Nix Civilization" by humans!

They are the true top of the Knicks' food chain.

The indigenous lizards at the back are called "indigenous lizard civilization". In this way, the two can be easily distinguished.

"Judging from the excavated skull fossils, the Nix civilization and the indigenous lizard civilization below the ground are actually two different species." The geologist explained while leading Yu Yifeng to visit various excavated items. With.

Individuals of the Nyx civilization also look very much like reptiles, but they are larger and stronger than indigenous lizards. They have six legs, an average height of 1.6 meters, and heads as big as humans. There is a two to three meter long pointed tail behind them, which seems to have other functions.

Judging from the fossils, their body structure and extracted DNA are completely different from those of indigenous lizards.

So, the two species are actually different.

The indigenous lizards are probably a native species that evolved after the extinction of the Nyx civilization... Two different intelligent civilizations appeared on one planet!

This is really incredible!

Especially... the living environment of this planet is not very good. Compared with the earth, the creatures here can barely survive.

But...the two intelligent civilizations before and after this are something that makes many smart people extremely afraid. This shows that...wisdom is not uncommon in this universe!

Even civilization is not uncommon!

Some people even speculate that before human civilization, there were also super-ancient civilizations on the earth? And then after they became extinct, humans emerged?

At least, there were indeed clues of ancient civilizations on the previous earth...all kinds of unsolved mysteries.

The universe is really cruel. Since civilizations are not rare...then why are so many civilizations trapped on their own planets? Why is it so difficult to become an interstellar civilization?

It can only explain...

There is a great probability that human beings will face an almost insurmountable filter of life that has not yet been overcome!

Even optimists like Dr. Rimbaud have to admit that there is a high probability that the Great Strainer of Life is in front of mankind...

However, humans still don’t know what this great filter of life is. Perhaps some clues can be found when excavating the ruins of the Nyx civilization...

Human beings are still optimistic for the time being and cannot be frightened by things that have not yet appeared...