2100.

Ludao, summer night.

The sea breeze from Baicheng Beach ruffled the driver's wild hair through the glass window. He lit a cigarette carelessly, stretched out his hand and asked, "Friend, would you like one?"

Li Kaiyang looked out the window at the dark sea without looking back, and said tiredly, "No."

The taxi was driving slowly on the deserted asphalt road along the coast with its double flashers on. The driver stuffed a scratched disc into the old center console, and a sense of the past century hit his face:

"When you lose your ambition, you can't help but feel resentful. When you feel depressed, you can't help but feel scared. Even if you lose hope, you will be drunk every day. You have no soul and body, and you are like a scarecrow. Life can be compared to the waves on the sea. Sometimes it rises and sometimes falls."

Listening to the familiar accent, Li Kaiyang sneered and asked, "Master, aren't you afraid that aliens will hear this voice?"

These words seemed to hit the driver's pain point. He took a puff of cigarette and cursed in Minnan dialect non-stop. Finally, he blew out a long puff of white smoke and said in his unique flat tongue, "No."

Did you hear it from the newspaper? The aliens’ technology level is 2, and humans are only 0.5! What is the concept of 0.5? Ants are 0.1! Hiding is a good idea. If you ask me, just give each person a gun and wait for the aliens.

Shoot him the day he comes."

"It makes sense," Li Kaiyang silently agreed in his heart.

The road around the sea in Ludao is very long, but Li Kaiyang's free time is very short. After two songs, a low mountain with a fort appeared in front of the left side of the taxi. The red cannon on the mountain has been eroded for two hundred years.

It was rusted into iron pillars, covered with moss, and glowed scarlet in the pale moonlight.

Li Kaiyang patted his slightly bulging belly and laughed at himself.

He has walked this mountain road for three years. There are a total of 130 steps. He can't go wrong without closing his eyes.

Under the boundless night sky, he felt a little dazed. As the youngest researcher at the Institute of Natural Science and the youngest leader in engineering disciplines in the country, in the past era, he would have lived a glorious life.

Li Kaiyang firmly pressed the driver's hand back and said, "Food and lodging are included in the mountain! I don't need this money. I can buy more food for my family. Also, if you ask me, everyone should be like you, master. You should scold me."

, when you should be listening to music, why are you cowering all day long? If the sky falls, there will be something tall to hold it up. If you want to hit it, you have to hit it there first, right?"

For people in the two time and space, there is no difference. The enemies they face are almost dimensionally reduced.

"Don't! Don't! I'm just kidding," the driver hurriedly retorted, "You can take the money back. I also stopped by to get some fresh air. I'm too depressed at home, so I talked to the passengers. Don't be surprised."

The Huli Mountain Fort was originally used as a line of defense against foreign invaders two hundred years ago. Today, two hundred years later, the newly built research institute on the top of the mountain uses another method to resist alien invasion.

The driver couldn't help but feel a little desperate, "A broken monument can make people all over the world sleepless. There's no telling what this alien that we haven't seen before will do to us."

Li Kaiyang put on a yellowed white coat, patted the driver and said, "Master, I'll do this."

"That's good!" The driver was overjoyed and said, "Boss, here's my phone number, please keep it and call me next time you want to go for a ride! It's free!"

"I heard there is a research institute up here." The driver clicked on the brakes and stuck half of his head out, looking curiously at the top of the mountain. "They say they are studying how to deal with aliens. They have been studying it for three or four years, and there are even fireworks.

They haven't even studied it yet. Fortunately, the people of the whole country support them so much. Why should they bother to do it? Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Let future generations solve it. Can't we live a good life?"

"The free rice hog on the mountain."

Li Kaiyang grinned and sighed. He had only turned thirty in two years, but his beard had grown rapidly. "The warning monument is not much bigger than the wild graves on the mountain. I have not seen any aliens."

noodle."

The driver was stunned. He didn't expect that the little leader had so many stories. Then he asked a barrage of questions, "Is it really that big? How many floors is it high? There is an alien living in it."

?What do aliens look like?”

He pointed at the research institute under the dark night sky.

Li Kaiyang raised his eyebrows, "I've seen it before, maybe ten years ago, when I went to the United Nations to give a speech, it suddenly appeared in front of me. You stay away, further away, oh, yes, it's almost this close.

"

The driver was stunned by his words. When he didn't know how to answer, he saw the nameplate on his white coat: 'Li Kaiyang, researcher at the Third Industrial Research Institute of the Ministry of Natural Resources.'

The driver was stunned and quickly pushed the money out, "No, no, it's not easy for anyone these days. If I don't make more money from you, you can get as much as you deserve."

The driver braked hard and the family photo hanging on the rearview mirror swayed twice, spinning in the air.

The driver couldn't help but continue to refuse. After thanking him a few times, his curiosity surfaced again, "Boss, have you seen that warning sign?"

"Did you see this?" Li Kaiyang took out a metal-shining stone from the pocket of his white coat. "It was cut from the warning monument. No matter how advanced the aliens' technology is, wasn't there still a gap left by me using a screwdriver?

Don’t worry, it’s not that difficult to deal with.”

Li Kaiyang took the business card, responded, turned and walked towards the dark mountain road.

"You are?"

Li Kaiyang put the money into the driver's hand and raised his head at the family portrait on the rearview mirror, "Future generations have things they need to solve. If we don't take this initiative, they will only leave the problems to future generations, right?

.”

Li Kaiyang opened the car door, struggled to move his legs out, walked to the cab window, and handed over a hundred yuan, "Master, stop looking for it, go back and buy more food for the child."

But five years ago, a warning monument that foreshadowed the invasion of aliens came to the earth, breaking all this. It appeared silently in the most heavily defended United Nations building, and all mankind has since been plunged into a strange and absurd world.

Nightmare, what Li Kaiyang can do is spread his hope in this nightmare.

But in the face of the huge technological gap, who can give him hope?

Engineering in the 22nd century has long come to an end. Physics is even still studying theories from a hundred years ago. Aliens who don’t know where they will come from are hanging over the heads of seven billion people like the Sword of Damocles.

, with one hundred years left, or less, can humans, a group of ants living in remote corners of the galaxy, escape in this short period of time?

Ding ding ding ding.

Suddenly, there was a rapid ringing of a copper bell at the top of the mountain. Li Kaiyang ran away as if on conditioned reflex. The ringing of the bell indicated that something was seriously wrong with the progress of the project. As the subject leader of the institute, he must rush to the scene immediately!

And in his pocket, the round stone glowing with a strange metallic light quietly passed through his skin and melted into his body.

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