Mars is the latest settlement developed by the Federation, with a history of less than a hundred years.
On every spacious plain on Mars, there is a very large artificial ecosystem with a diameter of more than ten kilometers. Each ecosystem is home to nearly 20 million people.
There are 20 million people living in a ten-kilometer circle. The density of the population is unimaginable.
There are a hundred ecospheres in total, and each one is simply numbered, from number one to number one hundred. Each one is similar in size, and the total population of Mars reaches two billion.
Among them, ecosphere No. 98 is Emily's residence. She started to pack the things she wanted to carry almost as soon as she got off the line.
It was time to bring the clothes. Emily rushed to the plastic wardrobe, opened it, and took out all the few clothes inside. Each set of clothes was very old, but she still folded them very carefully, only to find that she
There was no suitcase, so I had to put it on the bed temporarily.
After turning around in a circle, Emily secretly yelled 'No!'.
The clothes she was wearing were too dirty and old to be seen in public, so she immediately put on the best set of clean clothes.
There is no way. The water sources on Mars are all artificially produced. Hydrogen and oxygen elements have to be collected in space. The cost of every drop of water is very high and cannot be wasted. Clothes and other things cannot be washed by yourself. They have to be taken outside regularly.
If you go to a small store, they have special dry cleaning machines.
After finishing the clothes, Emily wandered around like a headless fly in her small room of less than ten square meters, trying to see what else she needed to bring.
But after walking around, she found that apart from a few pieces of clothing, a small bed, and a thinking helmet sent by former captain Arthur, she only had some scattered and worthless things left.
Small household items.
There is no Intelligent Brain Butler here. The houses are made of extremely strong polymer materials and then overlapped like building blocks.
There are no hovercars on the streets outside. If you want to go out for a walk, you have to rely on one pair of legs. Compared with the earth, this place is as backward as a primitive society.
It's not that the Federation can't make this place as advanced as Earth. It's just that it doesn't want to build an ecosystem because there is no profit. It's purely to support people and keep them alive.
But such poor material conditions did not make Emily feel much, because she was already used to it. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the entire Martian ecosystem lived the same life as she did.
"Yes, I have to buy a box to put clothes in." This idea came to Emily's mind, but she was worried again.
Although the former captain Arthur said he would pay her salary, he actually found various excuses to deduct all the money every time. After half a year, she did not get a single credit point. Like most people in the ecosystem, they all relied on
You basically don’t need money to live on federal benefits. Although you have opened accounts, most of them are short accounts. Even if they are not empty, the credit points in the account will not exceed four digits.
Emily sighed and sat down again. She looked at her e-wallet habitually. This was a habit she had developed in the past six months. After every mission, she always expected Arthur to be kind and pay some wages.
But every time I am disappointed.
But at this glance, her eyes suddenly widened. The number in the electronic account on the dial was not zero, but an extra one. The one was followed by many zeros. After counting, there were actually four.
There were actually 10,000 more credits in her account!
What's going on?
Emily hurriedly checked the transfer records. She quickly found out that just half an hour ago, the money was transferred from the Thorn Rose Team account. There was a message behind the record. When she clicked it, a gentle male voice came out,
A simple sentence: "The pocket money paid in advance will be returned from the task remuneration later."
With her eyes a little moist and her nose sore, Emily felt that the voice was extremely pleasant. She couldn't help but listen to the repeated words over and over again, but the scenes of the modern century emerged in her mind unconsciously.
At that time, the two of them were working together to renovate the Vulcan ship. Although the other party acted very forcefully, his tone was always the same, gentle and patient, without any impatience or violence.
‘This man is so nice. You must work hard and never live up to his expectations!’ Emily made up her mind.
She didn't buy the box either. She heard that the consumption of the earth was very high. For the sake of the future, she had to save the money.
Emily found a rope, tied the clothes into a bundle, and then carefully packed the Sigan helmet into the packaging box. This helmet was the cheapest one. It was bought for her by Arthur, and of course it was not free.
of.
Then, she sat at the window of the small room, looking up at the sky, waiting for the starship coming from Earth to take her away from here.
After sitting like this for a long time, the starship did not appear, and Emily was not disappointed, because she knew that the starship would not arrive so soon.
When you feel hungry, you open the door and walk down the narrow corridor. It usually takes more than half an hour to walk from here to the food collection point.
The corridor is dimly lit, but you can run into people from time to time. We are all familiar neighbors, and we all go to dinner at this time. When we meet, we chat for a few words.
"Emily, are you going to eat?"
"Well, what about you, Aunt Marla?"
"Me too. Let's go together."
"OK."
After a while, I met an acquaintance again: "Emily, are you going to eat?"
The questions asked were exactly the same.
"Well, let's go together."
The two people turned into three people, chatting casually. A corner appeared in front of them, and there were a few lines of red fonts on the corner that were very eye-catching.
"Brothers and sisters, unite!"
"Let those federal officials install food delivery pipes, install brains, and distribute thinking helmets for free!"
"They are committing murder! They don't give us hover cars and let us waste our time walking in line to eat. This is naked murder!"
Aunt Mara looked at the handwriting written in blood and said disdainfully: "I think these people are just free and walk every day. How great. Anyway, I am quite satisfied, but it would be better if they had time to entertain their brains."
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Intelligence is not common on Mars, only about one in 10 people has it.
"Yes, yes." Many people agreed. At this time, there were already more than a dozen people on their way to eat.
The group walked for more than half an hour, and when they arrived at the food distribution point, thousands of people had gathered.
Several heavily armed intelligent robots were maintaining order, and thousands of people lined up in an orderly manner, waiting one by one to get food for survival.
Normally, Emily would have to wait in line for at least half an hour, and it would take her nearly two hours to have a meal, which is six hours a day. It was indeed quite boring, but apart from this, there was nothing else.
Kill time.
"Hey, it's nutritional paste again today, when can we make glutinous rice and fragrant rice?" someone complained.
"It will definitely be posted once a week. Just wait, it will happen." Someone laughed.
"I heard that people on earth can choose their own food. They are so happy."
Emily laughed when she heard this. She has the Thinking Helmet Arthur bought, which can connect to the virtual network and know the situation on the earth.
Residents on the earth can choose, but they have to use credit points to buy it. Most people eat exactly like them, and they have to face all kinds of temptations. Compared with the primitive and desireless life on Mars,
I can't tell which situation is better.
Thinking of this, she looked up at the sky again, hoping that a starship would appear above her head. She was already eager to leave this dull, lifeless place.
As if responding to her desire, after a few minutes, someone suddenly shouted: "Look, there are people from the Federation, there are starships in the sky!"
"Hey, I've never been on such a beautiful starship in my life."
"It's really rare to see."
"It's coming towards us."
Emily's heart was beating loudly, her face was red, and her eyes were shining with excitement. She could feel that this must be the person from Thorn Rose.
"Emily, what's wrong with you? Your face is so red, are you sick?" Aunt Mara next to her asked strangely.
"It's because of the starship, aunt, it's coming towards us." Emily's body was trembling a little, she was too excited.
"What's wrong with the starship? Those Earthlings have eyes on their foreheads and are very proud. What does that have to do with us?" Mara dismissed it. She had seen many starships in her life and never stopped.
Pass.
While he was talking, the starship in the sky had arrived nearby and began to slowly descend. The winding window of the starship opened, revealing a familiar face.
At this moment, Emily was so excited that she hugged Aunt Marla next door and whispered: "Auntie, I have to leave."
"Let's go where?"
"Earth!"
There was no need for her to say anything. The starship was suspended ten meters in the air, shooting a transparent beam from the bottom.
The light of water, this is the Higgs field.
The light enveloped Emily's body and lifted her up into the sky.
"I still have something I haven't taken." Emily was happy at first, then became anxious.
"I'll buy it when I go back." A gentle voice came down.
Emily no longer hesitated and waved to Aunt Mara on the ground: "Auntie, I have a helmet in my room for you."
Then she entered the starship, closed the bottom compartment of the starship, accelerated, and left the ecosystem.
Aunt Mara wiped her eyes: "I knew this girl would be successful. This is great."
Then she stopped taking the food and ran back to get her helmet. I heard that it was great for relieving boredom.
In the starship, Sun Ran said with a smile: "Mars is actually not much fun, why not just go back to Earth?"
No one has any objections. Apart from the red desolate scene, there is an ecological circle. I'm tired of seeing it right away.
The starship immediately rushed out of Mars and returned to the only blue planet in the solar system.
The three girls and Emily chatted and became familiar with each other, because they will become comrades in arms in the future.
Sun Ran began to read the information about the Tang Empire passed down to him from the Confucian world.
After a long while, he raised his head and said with a smile: "The Tang Dynasty was such a charming era." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!
