Chapter 1 A blank sheet of paper
"Our human civilization seems to be full of flowers. We can drill through mountains, reclaim land, and control rainfall... Our human civilization seems to be very powerful. But this is just an appearance. The fact is that we are very fragile and very fragile." Li Qi took a sip of wine and slowly said to Zhao Huasheng sitting opposite him.
Li Qi seemed to be thinking about something, but it seemed that there was no. Li Qi's eyes were very ethereal, and his thoughts seemed to have already floated to some faraway place.
Zhao Huasheng has always respected himself very much. As early as his doctoral program, Zhao Huasheng entered the Institute of Stellar Physics, a subsidiary of the Central Academy of Sciences of the Alliance for internship, and at that time he became Li Qi's subordinate. Li Qi's profound attainments in stellar physics have always made Zhao Huasheng admire him.
"Maybe." Zhao Huasheng said, "but human civilization is always growing stronger. I believe that in the near future, we will truly become stronger."
Li Qi sighed, and an unspeakable light flashed through his eyes, as if it was sad and painful.
Li Qi stood up and walked to the window of this high-rise restaurant. Through the window glass, the night view of the bustling city was full of sight. The lights were bright, as if covering the moon in the sky. The road was full of winding dragons of light. Even in this tall building that was hundreds of meters above the ground, it seemed that the noise coming from the ground could be heard.
It was already eleven o'clock, but it was still far from when the city fell asleep.
"This is our civilization." Li Qi opened his arms, as if he wanted to embrace all this in his arms. Li Qi's eyes seemed intoxicated, and his tone began to become like a dream: "This is our powerful and prosperous civilization."
"Brother Li, you are drunk, I'll take you back." Zhao Huasheng walked to Li Qi and whispered.
Li Qi shook his head: "Warson, don't rush back. I have something to say to you today."
Zhao Huasheng was stunned for a moment and sat down again in his seat. He realized that something seemed wrong with Li Qi today.
"Our human civilization has almost changed the entire face of the earth. We naively think we can do everything, but the fact is cruel. Take the earth under our feet for example, how much do we know? On the earth, the deepest is the Mariana Trench, with a depth of about 10,000 meters, and the highest mountain is Mount Everest, with a height of less than 9,000 meters. When our submarine dived into the Mariana Trench, we thought it was an amazing achievement. We exhausted our efforts and drilled a hole that was only eleven kilometers deep on the earth, claiming to have taken a major step... However, the radius of the earth is more than 6,000 kilometers. We have spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to only go deep into the earth for more than 600%... Ninety-nine percent of the places are unknown to us."
"The depth of the earthquake focal level is generally no more than one hundred kilometers. Even the strongest earthquake recorded in the history of the earth is only equivalent to the earth sneezing... No, it is not even a sneezing. At most, it is just a little squirting on the earth. But even so, the result is often the death of hundreds of thousands of humans..."
Li Qi seemed to have some ridicule in his eyes.
Zhao Huasheng knew all the things that Li Qi said. But at this moment, Zhao Huasheng still felt a little uncomfortable when he said it in this tone. The feeling was like a person who thought he was extremely powerful, and his fragility and incompetence were revealed by others in person.
"Humans always say that they are protecting the earth, but why do humans need to protect the earth? Even if the nuclear bombs stored by humans explode at the same time, they destroy only the surface environment of the earth. The impact of these nuclear bombs cannot be transmitted to a hundred kilometers below the ground. After all, humans are just protecting themselves. As for the earth... even if humans try their best to destroy the earth, so what? Can ants destroy mountains?"
"Our entire civilization, all our cities, all our buildings, all our population, our culture, our heritage, our technology... Everything we have is just tiny bacteria attached to the earth. If the earth has its own consciousness, if the earth wants to destroy our human civilization... the earth only needs a sneeze, just a sneeze." Li Qi said.
"Our human literature is clear and insignificant, but our development potential is unlimited." Zhao Huasheng whispered.
Li Qi turned a deaf ear to this, but continued: "This is just an earth. Compared with the entire solar system, what does the earth count? Compared with the Milky Way, what does the sun count? Not to mention the Milky Way-Androme cluster, Virgo super-galaxy cluster, which can be seen in the universe..."
There is a deep sadness in Li Qi's words.
"Let's go back." Li Qi said.
Li Qi was drunk, so Zhao Huasheng drove Li Qi home. While taking the elevator upstairs, Li Qi suddenly looked at Zhao Huasheng with a very indescribable look.
Zhao Huasheng was surprised and asked, "Brother Li, what's wrong?"
Li Qi smiled at himself: "Goodbye." After saying these two words, Li Qi walked out of the elevator, opened his door, and closed the door. Obviously, he did not intend to invite Zhao Huasheng in and sit there.
Zhao Huasheng was a little confused. He felt that Li Qi seemed very strange today, but he couldn't say what was strange about it. He was stunned for a while before the elevator, and Zhao Huasheng shook his head and went home.
It was already twelve o'clock in the evening. Zhao Huasheng finished washing up, but he couldn't sleep in bed. He always felt something was wrong in his subconscious mind, and he felt like something was going to happen, but he was always unable to get the clue.
It was about two or three o'clock that Zhao Huasheng fell asleep in a daze, but after only four or five hours, Zhao Huasheng opened his eyes.
Sleep is not enough, so Zhao Huasheng is still very tired at this moment. Under normal circumstances, Zhao Huasheng will not wake up at this time. Because today is the weekend, he is not in a hurry to go to work. Last night, Zhao Huasheng was also ready to sleep in.
Zhao Huasheng was awakened by the cold. It was ridiculous to say that it was July and August, and it was the time when the sun was scorching. It would rise before five o'clock, spreading its light and heat to this small planet, making the air cooled overnight warm and finally become hot. But today seems a little different.
Zhao Huasheng put on his coat and walked to the window. The weather was clear, and there were no clouds in the sky. There was indeed a huge sun hanging above the sky, but it looked very dim. The sky was not the blue color normally, but some dark colors were mixed in the blue, which looked very depressing.
Zhao Huasheng is a researcher at the Institute of Stellar Physics, and the star closest to Earth is the sun, so it is obvious that Zhao Huasheng's work focuses on studying the sun, studying the internal structure, composition of matter, material evolution and other things of the sun. Today's sun seems strange, but Zhao Huasheng did not think of using his own professional knowledge to analyze it.
Zhao Huasheng just muttered: "It seems that today is cloudy." Then he returned to the bed, pulled the thin quilt up and covered it with his body, ready to fall asleep again.
But a rapid knock on the door broke the tranquility of the morning. Zhao Huasheng had no choice but to get up and dress, wash his face and come to the door. After opening the door, a middle-aged man in a black suit and a cold face extended his ID to Zhao Huasheng.
"I am a first-level agent of the Alliance Security Department. You can call me Meng Zhuo." The middle-aged man said coldly: "There are some things that require you to cooperate with the investigation. Please come with me."
"Lian'an Ministry? Me?" Zhao Huasheng was a little confused. After thinking about it, he seemed to have never done anything bad except snatching a female classmate's lollipop when he was a child. "What's the matter?"
"Please come with me, you will know when you arrive." Meng Zhuo said coldly.
"Okay." Zhao Huasheng thought for a while and finally agreed. So, half an hour later, Zhao Huasheng came to a spacious conference room. To Zhao Huasheng expects that in this conference room, Zhao Huasheng saw many familiar faces, including colleagues, leaders, and some people Zhao Huasheng couldn't recognize, but they looked very familiar. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that those people often saw them on TV.
Zhao Huasheng was arranged to sit in an empty seat. For some reason, everyone in the conference room looked very serious, and none of them had a smile on their faces. Moreover, after Zhao Huasheng came in, including those big guys who often appeared on TV, everyone was looking at him with an inexplicable look.
"Can I ask what happened?" Zhao Huasheng asked.
"This is the only relic left to you by Director Li Qi." Meng Zhuo put a safe in front of Zhao Huasheng. After opening it, Zhao Huasheng saw a piece of white paper lying quietly inside.
Zhao Huasheng was not in a hurry to look at the blank paper, but asked in surprise: "Relics? The relics left to me by Brother Li?"
"Yes." Meng Zhuo nodded, "Director Li Qi died late last night. The preliminary investigation concluded that he committed suicide. At the suicide scene, we found this safe and this blank paper. Well, there was also this note, which read: I'm leaving, please be sure to hand this blank paper to Zhao Huasheng. He will answer all your questions."
Chapter completed!