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 achieved excellent results in college and successfully entered the Institute of Optics to become a scientist, he has a decent, respected job with a relatively high salary, and is married to a gentle and beautiful wife. He has always been the envy of his friends. Object.
But recently, Wang Luoyi often frowned and sighed. His wife, too, was often unhappy.
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 can just go to the doctor for treatment? 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 right after he is born, and he will only have the opportunity 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 fell silent together. I don't know how long it took before I 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 support policy. In order to ensure that children can develop healthily before adulthood, and to improve social efficiency, both test-tube babies and naturally conceived babies must be placed in the roller base or the Spark spacecraft after birth.
This is an iron law that no one can violate. There have been several couples who tried to hide the fact of pregnancy and wanted to raise their children quietly, but they failed in the end. They were punished accordingly after being found out.
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 the same way. We also want children, but, but, alas..."
"Stop talking, stop talking, drink and drink."
A dinner party ended in dullness.
As far as Wang Luoyi knows, his situation is not rare among civilizations. In my own workplace alone, at least five couples have postponed their plans to raise children because of this incident. There must be more in society as a whole.
But everyone knows that there is no way around this.
After a day's work, when he returned home and saw his frowning wife, feeling 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 sounds kept coming, but neither of them paid attention. One is reading a book, and the other is flipping through his phone casually.
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 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 human beings. In the future, everyone will move to a space base designed according to urbanization, and Sedna will degenerate into a resource and product base, an industrial base, etc., and will basically no longer assume the responsibility of a residential and living base.
From a global perspective, it is clearly necessary to take this route. In addition to factors such as a more controllable environment and easier transfer, 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 human beings.
At this stage, although the supply of meat, eggs, milk, food and other food 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 one gets older, various diseases become very common, seriously affecting the quality of life and seriously weakening the individual's 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 I 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 doesn't care too much about these things. He only paid attention to one thing.
If the third-generation base adopts an urban design plan and is also 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 extremely possible! After all, the most fundamental reason for the unified parenting model at this time 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 the right gravity, then what reason is there to send children away?
This this……
Wang Luoyi slowly turned his head and looked at his wife. Then 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 it is still unclear how the first batch of occupancy qualifications will be allocated, Wang Luoyi has already made up his mind.
No matter what, I have to find 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 in size than the second generation roller base. Its length reaches an astonishing 4 kilometers and its diameter is as high as 1.2 kilometers. Calculated in this way, the usable area inside it 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 capabilities 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 eternal home as humans. 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 enthusiasm - after all, the third-generation roller base is a major matter related to everyone's vital interests. Even if it was not his turn to be eligible to stay at the first base, he would always be eligible for the second and third bases, but he did not predict that people's enthusiasm would be so high.
The drawings and planning were completed within eight months, and subsequent construction took only three and a half years. This is despite the fact that many other major projects were being carried out at the same time, and not many social resources were invested in the construction of the third-generation roller base.
Faced with this situation, Zhao Changxing could only sigh, "Human beings who have inspired their subjective initiative are really terrible."
Zhao Changxing didn't hesitate much when it came to choosing from the eligibility 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. The bereaved families of martyrs who died in the war are a top priority and 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 came down, there were almost more than 10,000 people, nearly 15,000 people. Among the remaining half, scientists from the Academy of Sciences, people who have received awards and commendations from all walks of life, drum base operation and maintenance personnel, and integrated factory staff account for the vast majority. There are only about 1,000 places left, so Zhao Changxing chose to keep them temporarily and prepare to reward those who will be commended in the future.
Wang Luoyi also got this spot because he solved a technical difficulty in deep space scanning of small celestial bodies. Zhao Ying is also qualified because of her outstanding achievements in her field.
When the two held hands, they first took the space elevator to space, and then took the ferry ship to berth in Starry Sky City—the name of the first third-generation roller base—and then truly saw and felt the internal environment of Starry Sky City. Under the same gravity as the earth, the two hugged each other tightly again, with tears of excitement flowing from their eyes.
