Earth Era

Anyway, the war is finally over. ↑,. But the end does not mean the end, it also means many new beginnings.

In front of the Outer Solar System Alliance is a mess that can't get any worse. Due to the war, the total human population has decreased by more than 70%, all heavy industry planets and bases have been destroyed, space islands have been destroyed, and the two administrative planets, Earth and Mars, have also been severely damaged. The ecosystem cannot recover for hundreds of years. Resource planets such as Jupiter and Saturn have also been hit hard.

But at this moment, the head of the Outer Solar System Alliance is full of joy. Because the investigation team has submitted the findings of why the "natural disaster" grade weapon did not explode to his desk. After realizing the twists and turns behind this incident, the head of state discovered that not only himself, but all the people in the solar system at this moment, how lucky the entire human civilization is.

Human civilization is only a short distance away from destruction. To the left is heaven, to the right is hell. At the most critical moment of the life and death of the entire civilization, the head of the Inner Solar System Alliance, Kavis, braved enormous pressure, made the most correct choice with incomparably powerful psychological qualities and an indescribable awareness.

The head of Cavius ​​was dead, and in that conference room, he was beaten to death by the angry senior officials of the Inner Solar System Alliance. As the head of the Outer Solar System Alliance, the old man saw the body of the head of Kavis with his own eyes.

The corpse of the head of Cavius ​​was perfectly dressed, and then, under the auspices of the old man, was buried in the most beautiful cemetery on the earth, which has always been only accessible to the most outstanding heroes of human civilization.

At this moment, the old man stood in front of the cemetery of the head of Cavius, looking at the tombstone, the portrait of the head of Cavius ​​with a serious face and unsmiling face was speechless for a long time.

There was no entourage by the old man's side, and it was at dusk when the sun was setting. The wind of late autumn blew through the cemetery, bringing some fallen leaves at the same time. It also made me feel a chill from the bottom of my heart. The old man just stood here, the setting sun pulled his shadow very long, looking full of bleakness.

"Hello, Carvis," the old man said. "Our pair of opponents... have been competing for decades. Although you lost to me in the end, I still feel ashamed when facing you, yes, I am not as good as you. I Admit it."

"You are the loser, but you are the ultimate hero, I am the winner, but I am just a mortal after all. In hatred and conflict, there is no end to death. Even if we are the head of state, we are coerced by the people and the public. When you still couldn't help yourself, you broke through all the obstacles in your heart, your vision rose from the nation to the height of civilization, and at the last moment made a decision that was enough to change our entire civilization. I think... If you do It is I who stand on your position, and I am afraid that hatred and narrow-mindedness will occupy my heart. Then I make a decision that will make our human civilization irreversible, I... I am really not as good as you. "

The old man sighed deeply. Although at this moment, grand celebrations have been launched everywhere in the Outer Solar System Alliance, and almost everyone is revelling. With this victory, the reputation of the old man has risen to the point where it can be said to be the top, but there is nothing in the heart of the old man. Joy, some just depression and fear, as well as shame and guilt.

"Now that the matter is over, I can look at the previous events with a more indifferent and objective attitude. It was at this time. I discovered that the war between us...how does it feel? Is it so meaningless? We all know that the fuse of war is due to the lack of resources and the limitation of dead knots, but why in the later stage. When the population of our human civilization has been greatly reduced, we not only did not stop the war, but instead It's getting worse, and no one feels wrong?" The old man muttered to himself, "Even I didn't even realize it was wrong at the beginning, even what I thought in my heart was that no matter what the cost, destroy you..."

"That's why I said... I'm not as good as you..." The old man sighed continuously. "Compared to you, I feel like a humble ant. But the reality is such an irony that I, like an ant, won the victory, and the great you went to sleep..."

The old man paced continuously beside the cemetery of the head of Cavius, and his figure became more and more stooped during this walk.

"Cavis, don't worry, although the hatred between our two nations has been stagnant to the point of being insoluble, as long as I am still alive, I will definitely dissolve this hatred. Because we belong to human civilization together... …We have a common ancestor, a common culture, and we are almost identical except for the illusory concept of ‘nation’.”

"Kavis, at this moment, in the name of the head of human civilization, I swear before your tomb that I will use my life's energy to complete the matter of "national integration and elimination of hatred". Thirty years, until I die. Even if I die, I promise, my successor will continue to push this matter, and our two peoples will be reunited again, like a war As before..."

"Cavis, you can rest here, your wish will definitely come true, if you really have a spirit in the sky... you will definitely see this." The old man said solemnly, facing Kavis Weiss' tombstone bowed deeply, then turned and left. At the moment of turning around, I don't know if it was an illusion or because of the change of light, the old man found that the portrait of Cavius ​​on the tombstone seemed to have a little more "gratified" expression.

In the following ruling career, the old man fulfilled his promise with his actions. Many details about this war have been disclosed to the society one after another, and those who advocated national hatred were severely punished. After learning about the sacrifices made by President Cavis and the guidance of public opinion that "human civilization is a whole" Under this, public opinion began to reverse the trend, and concepts such as unity, cooperation, fraternity, equality, and mutual assistance were once again pursued by the entire society.

Of course, this is an extremely slow process, and it took more than a hundred years to complete this reversal. The old man left office decades ago and then died of old age. The new head of state continues to move forward along this path. After he also leaves office, the next head of state will do the same...

Only after the peace is lost will people know how precious peace is. The war is finally over, and the large-scale post-disaster reconstruction work has been carried out throughout the solar system. People have begun to clean up the warships and base ruins left in all corners of the solar system, and began to clean up the interstellar mine clusters left in various planets and around key shipping lanes, and began to rebuild cities. Starting to restore the planet's ecology, starting to build an energy base... everything is on the right track.

Although on the right track, the speed is really slow. The new head of state suddenly discovered that although the war has ended and the solar system has returned to peace, the population has not experienced the large-scale rapid growth as expected. If there is not enough population, there will not be enough labor, not enough people to open spaceships, not enough people to do scientific research, not enough people to produce industrial products, not enough people to mine minerals...

People are very clear in their hearts that they cannot break through the solar system without breaking the dead knot, and the population carrying capacity of the solar system is limited. People are afraid of war, and the outbreak of war is because the population is too large, so people invariably choose to have less or no children. But this has brought a series of social problems to human civilization. Some scientists even pointed out that if the fertility rate cannot be raised to a certain level, human civilization may fall into a serious recession. At that time, human civilization will have to abandon Uranus, Neptune, and some planets beyond, and may even shrink its sphere of influence to within the orbit of Jupiter.

The new Führer is anxious about this, but no think tank can provide the Führer with a perfect solution to the problem. Everyone has clearly put forward one point: the development of human civilization must be supported by a sufficient population base, but if the dead end is not broken, a sufficient population means a shortage of resources, and a shortage of resources means that. war.

This seems to be another contradictory combination that cannot be broken~www.readwn.com~ Time has spent more than a hundred years in this contradictory state. Although the solar system has long returned to peace, human civilization has not burst into vitality again as expected. The solar system is calm at the moment, but this calm is more like a backwater, with no hope and no future.

If death in war is a more violent way of death for a civilization, then the situation at the moment is like boiling a frog in warm water. The Führer knows that this kind of calmness and numbness will gradually erode people's hearts. When people finally find that the situation is not right, Probably has no ability to change this situation...

"Isn't the end of civilization destined to be death if the knot of death is not broken?" the head of state murmured, "either die in the war, or die after the war... numbness? But in this case, the death of the head of Cavius Does it make any sense?"

The head of state fell into deep confusion.

At this time, at the edge of the distant solar system, a dilapidated small spacecraft has quietly arrived... (To be continued.)