Wang Luoyi is a researcher at the Institute of Optics under the Academy of Human Sciences and lives in Human City with his wife.
As a man who has achieved excellent results in college and successfully entered the Institute of Optics to become a scientist, he has a decent job, is respected, and has a high salary. He is also married to a gentle and beautiful wife. He has always been the envy of his friends.
Object.
But recently, Wang Luoyi often frowns and sighs. The same goes for his wife, who is often depressed.
At a friend's gathering and after drinking some wine, Wang Luoyi spoke out what was on his mind.
"Xiaoying and I both love children. We agreed when we got married that we would start preparing for pregnancy as soon as we got married."
The friends looked at each other.
A friend laughed and said: "Is it because I can't get pregnant? I thought it was nothing serious. I just go to the doctor to see you. If you cooperate well with the treatment, you can get it."
Wang Luoyi has been married to his wife for several years.
Wang Luoyi scolded: "Nonsense, I'm not sick, and neither is Xiaoying!"
"Then what do you want, why are you so worried?"
Wang Luoyi sighed: "That's right, when I think about the fact that the child will be sent to the drum base as soon as he is born, and he will only have a chance to visit once a week, I just can't bear it. It's because of this that the matter of having a child has been delayed.
Come down."
The friends became quiet together. I don’t know how long it took before they felt the same and sighed together.
"Xiaoying wants to have a baby almost crazy. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, I can see her crying secretly. But there is nothing I can do..."
At this stage, human civilization implements a unified social upbringing policy. In order to ensure that children can develop healthily before adulthood, and to improve social efficiency, whether IVF or naturally conceived babies, they must be placed in a drum base or a fire after birth.
Go into the spaceship.
This is an iron law that cannot be violated by anyone. There have been several couples who tried to conceal the fact of pregnancy and wanted to raise their children quietly, but they failed in the end. They were also punished accordingly after being found out.
punishment.
After a while, one of his friends sighed: "Our civilization has not developed to that point yet, there is nothing we can do."
"Alas, my wife and I are in the same situation. We also want children, but, but, alas..."
"Stop talking, stop talking, drink and drink."
A dinner party ended in a dull mood.
As far as Wang Luoyi knows, his situation is not a minority among civilizations. In his own unit alone, there are at least five couples who have postponed their plans to raise children because of this incident. There must be more in the entire society.
.
But everyone knows that there is no way around this.
After a day's work, when he returned home, he saw his frowning wife and felt the slightly deserted home. Wang Luoyi still forced a smile on his face, trying to calm his wife's mood.
After dinner, it was time to rest. The TV was on, and there was constant sound, but neither of them paid attention. One was reading a book, and the other was casually flipping through his phone.
At this moment, a sentence suddenly came from the TV, which attracted the attention of both of them.
"According to the latest announcement from the human government, conditions are now met for the construction of the third-generation roller base. The human government will complete the drawing design within one year and complete the construction and put it into operation within five years. It is reported that the third-generation roller base will
Adopt an urban design and open it to qualified adults. In the future, the human government will build more third-generation roller bases to gradually realize the relocation of humans into space..."
Wang Luoyi and Zhao Ying's breathing became rapid at the same time.
They were keenly aware of the key points of this news.
First of all, the long-term plan of the human government must be the gradual spaceization of mankind. In the future, everyone will move to a space base designed according to urbanization, and Sedna will degenerate into a resource and product base, industrial base
Bases, etc. basically no longer assume the responsibilities of residential and living bases.
From an overall perspective, it is obviously necessary to take this route. In addition to factors such as a more controllable environment and more convenient transfers, there is also the most important point, which is gravity.
Only a space base can create a gravity equivalent to the Earth's level that is most suitable for human survival. And this is the fastest and most effective way to comprehensively increase the average life span of humans.
At this stage, although the supply of meat, eggs, milk, food and other foods can be guaranteed, the average life span of people is only 68 years old, which is even lower than that of the earth in the national era. At the same time, as we get older, various diseases become very common, which seriously affects
Quality of life, while seriously weakening individual productivity.
In recent years, several well-known scientists have unfortunately passed away, which has had a serious impact on the scientific development of mankind.
And this is the reason why Sedna's gravity is too low and is not suitable for human beings to survive for a long time.
I am afraid that this factor is the most fundamental reason why the human government finally decided to build a third-generation roller base.
Secondly, another key point is that human governments are trying every means to tap the potential of human society.
After building a large number of second-generation roller bases in the early stage and raising the upper limit of the population of human civilization from 200,000 to 600,000, the human government began to comprehensively improve the residents' average life span and health level from another aspect.
overall social productivity level.
This also seems to mean that the overall threat to human civilization is still relatively large at this moment. Otherwise, the leadership of the civilization and its leader Zhao Changxing should not be so urgent. It’s just that we don’t know what the threat is.
Wang Luoyi, who is quite politically sensitive, analyzed the true intentions of the human government in detail the moment he saw this news.
But actually he didn't care too much about these things. He only paid attention to a little bit.
If the third-generation base adopts an urban design plan and is open to adults, doesn’t that mean... doesn’t it mean that if the people or families living in the third-generation roller base are born?
As for the offspring, they no longer need to be sent to a unified raising base, but can be raised by themselves?
This is very possible! After all, the most fundamental reason for the unified parenting model at the moment is that the gravity of Sedna is too low, and young children need appropriate gravity to grow healthily. And if the place where people work and live has appropriate gravity
, then what reason is there to send the child away?
This this……
Wang Luoyi slowly turned his head and looked at his wife. He saw his wife looking at him at the same time.
"We finally have hope of raising our own children..."
The two hugged each other tightly.
Although he still doesn't know how the first batch of occupancy qualifications will be allocated, Wang Luoyi has already made up his mind.
No matter what, I have to think of a way to get one.
At this moment, the rough drawings of the third-generation roller base have been placed in front of Zhao Changxing.
This new type of roller base is larger than the second generation roller base. Its length reaches an astonishing 4 kilometers and its diameter is as high as 1.2 kilometers. Based on this calculation, its internal usable area is as high as 15 square kilometers.
Various public areas are reserved, such as roads, parks, municipal facilities, public facilities, etc. The area that can be used to build residences is at least about 5 square kilometers.
Without affecting comfort, and taking into account material supply capacity and current engineering capabilities, a new third-generation roller base can support 30,000 people inside.
Based on a family of three, that is 10,000 families.
"Build it, build it. Unless a second Earth can be found, the space base is our forever home. This day will come."
Zhao Changxing sighed in his heart and issued the corresponding order.
The construction of the third-generation roller base is progressing at a speed far exceeding expectations due to people's extraordinary enthusiasm.
Zhao Changxing predicted the existence of this kind of enthusiasm - after all, the third-generation drum base is a major matter related to everyone's vital interests. Even if he is not qualified to stay in the first base, the second and third bases will always be eligible.
Yes, but he didn't predict that people's enthusiasm would be so high.
The drawings and planning were completed within eight months, and the subsequent construction only took three and a half years. This was despite many other major projects being carried out during the same period, and not many social resources were invested in the construction of the third-generation roller base.
under.
Faced with this situation, Zhao Changxing could only sigh, "Human beings who have inspired their subjective initiative are really terrible."
Zhao Changxing did not hesitate too much when choosing the admission qualification list. Obviously, all the personnel who participated in the previous expedition to the Deep Space Star, including their family members, should undoubtedly have this qualification. In the war
Among them, the bereaved families of the fallen martyrs are a top priority who need to be properly accommodated.
Among the rest, many logistics staff who made outstanding contributions to that war also obtained qualifications, as did the first batch of staff stationed on the Deep Space Star and the second batch of personnel.
In addition, there are all those who are still alive and have received medals and awards from human governments and war councils.
Lin Lin finally calculated that there were almost more than 10,000 people, nearly 15,000. Among the remaining half, scientists from the Academy of Sciences, as well as people who have received awards and commendations from all walks of life, roller base operation and maintenance personnel, integrated
The majority of the factory staff took up the majority. There were only about 1,000 places left, and Zhao Changxing chose to keep them temporarily, preparing to reward those who would be commended in the future.
Wang Luoyi also received this quota because he solved a technical difficulty in deep space scanning of small celestial bodies. Zhao Ying also qualified because of her outstanding achievements in her field.
When the two held hands, they first took the space elevator to reach space, and then took the ferry ship to park in Star City - the name of the first third-generation roller base. Then they truly saw the environment inside Star City and felt it.
Under the same gravity as the earth, the two hugged each other tightly again, with tears of excitement flowing from their eyes.