In a blink of an eye, Wang Haifeng has been involved in the work for the 196th year.
The days seem to be the same as before, nothing has changed, and it seems to have changed a lot.
With the rapid increase of population aging, people's work pressure is increasing. In order to accomplish work goals, the retirement age of the elderly had to be extended for several years.
This policy has caused complaints from the public. It is not enough to work a little overtime, and even the retirement time has to be extended. It is really unbearable. After a lifetime of hard work, who doesn't want to retire earlier?
On this day, the two planets approached the perigee of the elliptical orbit again. This is the closest period of time to the neutron star, and the gravitational slingshot effect will be used again to accelerate the planet itself.
In the violent gravitational sea, all surface personnel were evacuated from the planet for safety reasons.
With a population of more than 65 million, the two motherships seemed quite crowded.
Wang Haifeng was allocated a 14-square-meter single room, but he rejected the arrangement of his superiors and chose to live with his family. In short, it is good to save a little space...
It was the first time that so many people were crowded inside the spaceship. The commercial plaza was crowded with people, and various discussions and greetings among acquaintances were intertwined, evolving into the current new human civilization.
Wang Haifeng usually lives in a small town near the construction site, returning to the spaceship about every ten years, and is used to a simple life.
Hearing all kinds of noisy sounds and enjoying the exquisite food, he suddenly felt that this kind of excitement is actually quite good.
"Some people like life in a big city, and some people like life in the country. But most people still like a lively city."
Wang Haifeng saw a very well-dressed old man drinking in a corner restaurant. He was his former leader, a man with a bad temper but very knowledgeable.
Wang Haifeng hurried over and said hello, "Lao Li!"
"Old King!"
Then they chatted with each other.
The man glanced at Wang Haifeng, then looked at the big screen in the restaurant, and sighed: "...Sometimes I think, if this planetary fortress is suddenly swallowed by a neutron star, or other malfunctions occur, our Is it possible not to do this?"
Wang Haifeng laughed loudly: "Of course! If this battle star is really swallowed or torn apart, the Tuos people can't blame us, and the government can only give up."
"In our current state, everyone is patient."
The man shook his head: "Yeah, I want to go back, but I don't want to give it up. After it is swallowed, do we still have the courage to develop a second battle star? Impossible! We have lost this courage ...all our hopes rest on this single battle star!"
"Working nine to ten hours a day, it has been two hundred years! It will continue in the future, until you can't open your eyes! Even people in the 21st century only work eight hours!"
"But... if you don't work, you have to watch the planets collide. Is this a big regression of the times?"
"Regression?" Wang Haifeng said: "Actually, there is no regression. We eat well and wear good clothes. What kind of regression is this? There are times in history when you work hard and can't get enough."
"It's just that I haven't made progress for too long, and I've become a little tired."
The captain in the central square is giving a speech, which seems to encourage everyone: "...we must have hope, this is not the hope of our generation, but the previous generation, the previous generation, the next generation, and the next generation. It's just that We are very lucky, but we are mixed in the middle of bad luck, and we will fight for this for the rest of our lives."
"But this kind of struggle is not meaningless! It exercises our spiritual will... because our real world is just the starting point of our life, and we will also face the future life in the virtual world..."
"This kind of exercise will allow us to face all kinds of temptations calmly, and the probability of passing the extraordinary test will become greater..."
"Fuck the temptation, you know how to talk empty words all day long!" That Mr. Li seemed a little drunk, and spit out some curse words from his mouth.
Whether the captain is telling the truth or not, no one cares.
Criticism of the government has become the new fad.
Some were pensive, while others were drunk and babbling nonsense.
A small number of people are still ambitious and looking forward to the future, but most people have slowly worn out their patience.
Wang Haifeng was silent, not knowing how to describe this feeling. Some people are able to live with the situation, just like himself, who thinks that this kind of life can still make ends meet, so what kind of work is not work?
Others, however, find life unbearable.
There seems to be a growing split in this era, and a small group of people in the distance are cheering, celebrating the completion of the second phase of the big project. However, in the future there will be a third phase of the long project, which will last at least four hundred years.
Some even hid in the corner and cursed in a low voice, scolding the government's original choice, scolding the No. 17 plan chosen by Captain Ke Lai at that time.
Why make the entire project schedule so tight!
They are scolding that the era they were born in is not good, and they have become a generation that was sacrificed.
But no matter what, people have to work so hard, suppress their emotions, and have no other choice...
This is the era!
Suddenly, all the voices of the discussion disappeared. People seemed to have discovered something, and Qi Sensen looked towards the big screen in front of him.
On that colorful planet filled with ion flames, the planetary engine gave out the most violent roar, just like a tractor ejecting black gas when facing the abyss!
At this time, the propulsion of the planetary engine compared to the gravitational force of the neutron star is like the difference between a firefly and a bright moon. It has almost no effect. However, the intelligent computer still sends out the most accurate instructions according to the formula set at the beginning.
What can play a role is only the huge amount of inertia accumulated by the planet for thousands of years, as well as precise calculations.
The earth was trembling, and the planet was roaring, and with the big ice ball behind it, it passed the perihelion quickly.
There was a scream from the crowd!
Some drunken men raised their heads, their emotions were complicated, and they didn't know what they were thinking.
The distance from the big ice ball in the rear to the entire planetary fortress in front was quickly shortened to only 20,000 kilometers under the action of the gravitational slingshot.
This distance is too close, seeing that the two planets are about to collide because of the gravitational attraction between them!
At this moment, suddenly, a block of rock and soil with a mass of a trillion tons was ejected from above the planetary fortress.
The word "ejection" should not be used, but was sucked out alive by the huge gravitational force of the neutron star.
In order to cut this long piece of rock and soil larger than the mountain, tens of thousands of workers spent a full hundred years.
When this piece of rock and soil fell out from above the planet, the planetary fortress seemed to change its direction a little bit for no reason, and the distance from the ice ball behind it was widened again.
Followed by the second, third, fourth...
These ejected pieces of rock and soil will become wandering meteorites, and their orbits are slightly lower, changing the momentum of the entire planet.
They will orbit around the two neutron stars for a long, long time. But in the end, these meteorites will fall on the neutron star and become part of the neutron star after a super explosion.
A total of 16 clods of rock and soil were sucked out by the neutron star's enormous gravity.
Another piece hit the big ice puck behind it, causing a huge impact. The big hockey puck was smashed into a pit, setting off a huge amount of ice flakes.
After going through this, the planetary fortress slightly deflected its own movement direction, passing the big ice puck behind it, and then the two sides diverged completely.
After chasing each other for hundreds of years, the two planets eventually went their separate ways and never saw each other again.
Just like the emotional world of many people, there are very few who can be together forever, and they still have to part in the end.
The whole thrilling process took about 15 days. Every morning when Wang Haifeng wakes up, he will see a lot of people discussing in the central square whether the error in the whole process is within the allowable range of the error tolerance rate.
Some people are sighing, seeing that the whole plan has almost succeeded, the planetary fortress was not swallowed by the neutron star, it survived successfully.