Chapter 316 Light Years Beyond
( ) A group of large and small tents were set up outside the camp. Although they were simple, they were enough to keep out the wind and rain. These tents were pulled from the fishbone base, and until the apartment buildings at Camp 27 were built, the residents who were forcibly relocated to the surface could only live here temporarily.
The rows of simple tents formed a sharp contrast with the one hundred metal houses in the middle of the camp, just like a slum and a rich area.
It's funny to say, they also laughed at the immigrants who entered the surface in two batches before, saying that they would not live a comfortable life and insisted on going to the surface to suffer. But now the situation seems to be reversed, and those people they used to laugh at are now people they envy.
After passing through several simple tents, Jiang Chen came to a tent in the corner of the camp, and saw a white-haired old man sitting at the door, as if he was waiting for him.
"Are you Academician Qin?"
Looking at Jiang Chen standing in front of him, the old man smiled kindly and stood up.
"Yes, you must be that Jiang Chen?"
Jiang Chen nodded.
"You don't seem to be in good health."
The old man waved his hand when he heard the words, and said something that surprised Jiang Chen.
"It's okay, I'm a cyborg."
Cyborg? Do cyborgs age too?
Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, but soon returned to normal.
"I heard that you have something important to ask me, is it for this?"
"Of course not." Academician Qin shook his head, "There is just one thing that I want to give to you."
As he spoke, he took out a black sphere the size of a baseball from his pocket.
Looking at that thing, Jiang Chen frowned, he always felt like he had seen this thing somewhere.
Suddenly, his pupils constricted.
"Golden Apple?" Jiang Chen asked softly.
Academician Qin was stunned, then shook his head and said, "Is that what you call this thing? But I'm afraid I will disappoint you, this is just a communicator. It is made based on Dr. Crane's special properties of Crane particles. Communication equipment is used as a 'mobile phone' for interstellar communication.
Of course, the energy of this thing has been exhausted, and all it can provide you is a coordinate. "
Jiang Chen took the black ball. He held it in his hand and looked at it carefully. In appearance it is similar to the one he picked up from the u-235 submarine, but this one is obviously lighter.
Moreover, presumably this thing is the real "Golden Apple", not the copycat version of the "Golden Apple" created by the Third Reich. It's just that this thing is not used for disorderly broadcasting to other timelines, but for cross-distance communication.
"Can this thing... speak to the past?"
I heard Jiang Chen's question. Academician Qin smiled, "It is possible in theory, but just like Schrödinger's cat, even if you yell a word to the past, you can't verify whether someone heard it, let alone whether the person who heard it can hear it." Understood."
"Is that so? I heard that this thing uses brain extract—" Jiang Chen thought to himself.
"That's a myth," Academician Qin laughed. "It is true that the activity of Crane particles can be observed in the brain extract, but how can it be possible to use the human brain to do this?"
Some parallel world. Someone has really done this before... Jiang Chen complained silently in his heart.
Pausing for a moment, Academician Qin looked seriously at Jiang Chen and continued, "To be honest, this thing has lost its function. The reason why I handed it over to you is just to explain a fact to you."
"What fact?" Jiang Chen asked casually, observing the metal ball in his hand.
"It's an experiment."
Jiang Chen stopped his hands and looked at Academician Qin.
"experiment?"
"That's right, the subject of the experiment is to study the regular evolution of the human social structure under conditions of extreme scarcity of resources." Academician Qin calmly stated the astonishing fact.
Jiang Chen looked slightly surprised. Or unbelievable.
But soon he noticed something was wrong.
What a coincidence. Is the government that stupid? This is a civil air defense project, and it was built when the international situation was extremely deteriorating. It shouldn't be difficult to put more spare nuclear fusion batteries, right? It was set for 50 years, but it was forced to start after 20 years. And that Han Junhua. Obviously not just a politician.
However, he never thought that the entire refuge was just a laboratory, and everyone in the refuge was a guinea pig.
"Actually, there was not enough energy from the very beginning. They even chose the benevolent Zhang Qiming as the first shelter director, and the cruel Han Junhua as the second shelter director. Neither of them are suitable candidates for the director, but But it can be used as a typical personality for research.”
"The experimental results will be sent to the Zheng He colony ship a few light-years away through this device."
Experimental discussion is typical. Eliminate distractors and discuss salient parts of the sample.
It's just that it's too cruel for such an experiment to happen on humans.
"Although it's just a small refuge, don't you think it's a microcosm of society?"
"Why are you telling me this?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile as he stuffed the metal ball into his pocket.
He is not a person, and he has nothing to do with the disbanded World United Organization. He is not free enough to worry about people who are light years away.
"I just want to give you an idea. If you are lucky enough to face that choice, I believe you will be able to understand something."
train of thought? that choice?
"Thoughts?" Jiang Chen asked puzzled.
"Yes, I have lived in the shelter as a researcher for 20 years. Apart from the subject I am in charge of, I have been thinking about another issue."
"what is the problem?"
"You've probably heard of reproductive isolation."
It's not some unfathomable concept that even 21st century biology textbooks would mention. Jiang Chen only nodded after recalling a little.
"Due to factors such as geographical isolation, different groups of the same organism reproduce in different habitats. Due to the inability to carry out gene exchange, they undergo natural selection in different environments, and eventually lead to the formation of two completely different species."
Looking at Jiang Chen, Academician Qin nodded approvingly.
"Although there are still some flaws in theory, this is generally the case. In the case of geographical isolation, after tens of thousands of years of evolution, the same species will evolve into two completely different species. Geographical isolation is the premise of reproductive isolation , Then I don’t know if you have considered a possibility. If there is a geographical separation between people due to some factors, what kind of result will it produce?”
"Reproductive isolation?" Jiang Chen was taken aback.
"No, it's ideological isolation." Academician Qin shook his head, throwing out a concept that Jiang Chen had never heard of before.
"Have you noticed that after only 20 years, people who live underground and those who live on the surface have been separated into two types of people. What if it takes 50 years? Or longer."
Jiang Chen had a thoughtful expression on his face, waiting for his explanation.
"Under different environments, civilizations make changes to their own carriers and environments, which is called civilization evolution in sociology. It seems that although ancient people and modern people do not have reproductive isolation, they have inseparable ideological differences. chasm to cross."
"Looking at the deep space several light-years away, did those colony ships flying into space also create some kind of gap with us?"
"From the moment the colony ship accelerates to the speed of the third universe and escapes out of the solar system, they are no longer earthlings. In other words, they have gathered the entire elite of human civilization, and they have evolved into some kind of higher existence .”
"So what? No matter what they evolved into, they're not on Earth anymore." Jiang Chen said indifferently.
Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Academician Qin just smiled.
"What did European colonists bring to the American continent in the 16th century?"
"Kill?"
"No, civilization."
Does it make a difference? Just as Jiang Chen was about to ask this question, he suddenly froze.
Yeah, just because there is no difference...
"The rebirth of civilization is bound to be accompanied by bloody barbarism." Academician Qin said softly.
"You mean...they'll come back?"
"Whether they will return or not, something will be done. And for us 'natives', it will be painful. Blood? It seems that I am afraid it will be more justified." (To be continued.)
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