Great time travel

Extra Story [-]. The Days of Leaving Wang Qiu
"...The short but wonderful era of great time travel has passed for a long time. The voices and smiles of my former companions have gradually become blurred in my memory. But I can still recall the Nile River and the pyramids in ancient Egypt from time to time. , the peak confrontation of the Avengers against aliens in New York, the doomsday scene of the zombie frenzy sweeping Japan and the United Kingdom, and the mushroom clouds of nuclear explosions that declared the death knell of civilization...

When the time-space gate connecting the fantasy world on the seashore of Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong turned into nothingness under the eyes of everyone, I thought that in the next time, I would bid farewell to cruel destruction and war, and live in a prosperous world from now on. A beautiful new era of prosperity, peace and prosperity.

After all, in the era of great travel that lasted several years, although the people on earth did have some losses and sacrifices, compared with the huge gains, they are nothing worth mentioning.For example, the cold nuclear fusion ark reactor representing infinite energy, the strange alien crops and alien poultry and livestock, and the space battleship MACROSS that can carry tens of thousands of people to the edge of the solar system at a time...

Of course, these benefits must first belong to my motherland, but other human beings on the earth can also share the benefits to a greater or lesser extent.

At the same time, with the advancement of science, technology, economy, and politics around the world, the problems of hunger, plague, and war that have plagued human civilization for thousands of years and threatened human survival and development for a long time have also disappeared in the early years of the 21st century. Gradually there are signs of being suppressed and resolved.

Indeed, the successive terrorist attacks still dominated the news headlines in those years; in Africa and India in those years, thousands of people still died of starvation and disease every year.However, compared with the human society on the whole earth, humanitarian disasters of this scale can only be regarded as special cases at best, and almost all of them should be attributed to human’s own political factors, rather than natural disasters that cannot be resisted by human beings.

Compared with the Great Irish Famine in the [-]th century, the wars that halved the population in ancient Chinese history, the Black Death that broke out again and again in European history, and the great destruction of American Indians in the invasion of whites, all these It can only be regarded as a very gentle little problem.

Specifically, hunger, pestilence, and war, while not completely far away from mankind, have at least changed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable doom to some kind of challenge that human leaders must try to deal with.In the face of these hunger, plagues and wars, human beings can no longer just shrug their shoulders helplessly, thinking that this is the will of God, or praying to a certain god to save themselves, but set up various committees to study countermeasures.

What scientists can do for farmers now has far surpassed God and Buddha.Relying on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, breeding techniques, and genetically modified technologies has enabled agricultural production to exceed the highest expectations of ancient farmers for the gods.Although bacteria are still evolving drug resistance, with the continuous innovation of various types of antibiotics, large-scale plagues other than influenza rarely break out, and the era when humans were helpless in the face of epidemics has passed.The problem of war is the most difficult to solve, but no one can deny that because of the coordination of the United Nations, the human world after World War II is always more peaceful than before World War II.And the trauma caused by the war to society is less than before World War II.Terrorism seems to be a serious problem, but in fact it is nothing more than spreading fear and planning a few shocking violent performances, rather than causing serious real damage.Compared with the Hun army of Attila the Whip of God and the bloodthirsty cavalry of Genghis Khan, the small-scale fights of modern terrorists are no different from clowns.

All in all, due to technical limitations and conflicts of interest, human beings cannot succeed in every challenge, but on the whole, the global trade network in the information age has been able to turn droughts and floods into business opportunities, and can quickly and efficiently Overcome the crisis of food shortage cheaply.Even when entire countries are devastated by wars, earthquakes, or tsunamis, the international community usually succeeds in preventing famines and plagues from spreading too much, preventing starving refugees from eating everything in their path, and keeping the death toll to a relatively small scale. Inside.

As early as when I was still in school, the number of deaths due to overnutrition in the world has far exceeded the number of deaths due to malnutrition, and the number of deaths due to old age has also exceeded the number of deaths due to infectious diseases. patients, more people have died by suicide than have been killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined, all of which are unprecedented.As horrific as terrorist attacks are played out by the media, the reality is that everyone is less likely to die from Ebola or al-Qaeda than from overeating McDonald's.

Of course, as far as the entire planet is concerned, hundreds of millions of people still suffer from hunger every day, but in at least half of the world, even if a person loses a job and has nothing, it is unlikely that he will starve to death.The various welfare relief and job placement provided by the government may not be able to lift him out of poverty, nor can it give him a place to live, but at least he can get enough calories from cheap food to keep him alive.

With the new round of scientific and technological explosions brought to the earth by the era of great travel, especially the promotion of controllable nuclear fusion power generation technology, and the successful exploitation of lunar helium-3 resources, human civilization seems to be about to completely get rid of the shackles of energy issues. To a more beautiful new era.

However, the so-called history is reincarnation again and again. When human beings gradually forget the pain of the past, a new catastrophe will quietly start brewing again... Revolution and the struggle of civilization are still the source of enduring disasters.Advanced science and technology can be used to build homes, and can also be used by human beings to destroy themselves with higher efficiency.The rapid advances in biotechnology allow us to defeat bacteria and viruses, but in the hands of the army and terrorists, it can also make human beings fall into unprecedented and terrible threats.

——Just as we warmly celebrate the expedition of the MACROSS spacecraft to Europa, erecting the five-star red flag on the solid ice cap of this icy satellite and returning triumphantly; just as experts and scholars are optimistic that human beings have left the earth The cradle, entering the age of the universe, is about to embark on the journey of the stars and the sea.A door to hell leading to disaster and destruction has been quietly opened in another 'Europa'..."

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After writing this, Ma Tong suddenly stopped typing, and instead clicked [Save] with the mouse, then moved his hands away from the keyboard, first stretched his arms and stretched his waist, and then looked up at the porthole Looking at the rough sea outside, there was a thoughtful expression on his face.

The passing of these years and the pressure of life have left obvious marks on Ma Tong, turning her from a vigorous, sporty and lively girl into a mature and stable middle-aged young woman with two the mother of the child.

Among the group of professional time travelers who were once incorporated by the state, except for Wang Qiu, who has disappeared without a trace, Ma Tong can be regarded as relatively unreliable.He neither succeeded in transitioning into the political arena to become an official or half-job, nor was he able to start his own business and company.Even most of the assets she accumulated during her adventures in other worlds evaporated without a trace due to a sudden financial crisis and stock market crash.

But even so, relying on the personal connections he managed in the past and the extraordinary experience of seeing different worlds with his own eyes, Ma Tong still has a stable job with a good salary and has become a well-known celebrity. Researcher of private think tank and media columnist.

At the moment, she is working as a reporter, tracking and interviewing an evacuation fleet heading to Europe, and the destination is the port of Lisbon, the capital of the Portuguese Republic.

This is the initial starting point for Europeans to go to the age of great navigation, and it is also the last bastion for Europeans to resist disasters in this nightmare era.

Because, a biochemical crisis sweeping across Europe, and the ensuing war and catastrophe, are spreading crazily across the European countries right now...