Chapter 23 (1/2)
Opal opens the map and reads the notes of the South Gate double star.
The journey from Rembrandt to nammen2 was 43 hours. Mrs. Anta returned to her bedroom to have a rest. Opal and Raymond sat in front of the console. Opal whispered, ”have you ever been to a charity fundraiser? What does she mean? ”
Raymond: No
Opal: what is divorce
Ramon looked at Opal and said a moment later, ”ask her yourself.”
Opal waved his hand and said, ”forget it.”
Ramon squinted and slept in a swivel chair. The maid came out with a wire and said, ”gentlemen, Mrs. Anta would like to have an afternoon tea in the living room.”
Raymond closed his eyes and said, ”please help her.”
The maid turns on a device, the wire unfolds into a disc, floats off the ground, and she shakes the tablecloth aside to lay it on. Take out a hanging lamp from the tool basket on the arm and hang it on the hook of the inner cabin. The light shines on the cabin. Opal watched her behavior curiously all the time and asked, ”this lamp has a good light.”
”This is my hometown, the sunshine of Andromeda stars.” Mrs. Anta came out of her bedroom, sat down at the round table, and said, ”when you are old, you often miss your hometown. In a few years, you'd better go home and live comfortably.”
Madame Anta had changed her dress, and the maid poured hot water into her glass, and the petals floated in it.
”Have a drink?” Asked Madame Anta.
Raymond moved his left hand, indicating that he would not go. Opal himself went over and asked, ”what is divorce?”
Mrs. Anta opened a book in her hand and said slowly, ”divorce is the end of a normal marriage. Marriage is the grave of love, and divorce is a rebirth.”
Opal nodded vaguely. Anta sighed and said, ”now there are not many people in the Republic who are married, and there are fewer and fewer people who are in love.”
”Why?” opal asked
Anta regretfully said: ”the cost is too high, marriage is a life-long thing. In the silver age before the light era, the average life span of human beings was only 80 years. From childhood, marriage only needed to be together for 60 years.”
Opal thought of his life span, perhaps only this short 80 years, not only he, should be the majority of mercenaries.
”The black iron age after the light age.” ”After the development of gene technology, 200 years, 300 years or even longer life expectancy, the long years make people no longer want to maintain a strong marriage. There are more things to do in addition to getting married. The price of marriage is too high. Once you find a spouse, it's very difficult to stay together forever for the next two or three hundred years,” Anta said
She smiles at opal, who suddenly finds that she is still beautiful, with a certain aesthetic feeling of her age.
”You know a lot.” Said opal.
”I am a historian.” Mrs. Anta said, ”you can be your grandmother already.”
Opal thought for a moment and said, ”do you know Azeroth?”
Anta nodded thoughtfully and said, ”I met him when I was a girl. Azeroth is a man of great taste. He makes your mother star...”
”I'm not from Ares,” opal said
Anta nodded and said seriously: ”he likes the retro cultural style, selectively introduces science and technology, and maintains a certain feature of the mercenary country, which has been eroded by science in many galaxies. It's a kind of It's called a product of planetary culture. ”
Opal understood a little, and ractor had mentioned it. He took a sip of tea and asked, ”what's this in your hand?”
”The earliest books.” Anta handed the book to him and said, ”before the light age, the work of a poet in the golden age of the earth, this is a burned edition.”
Like a child, opal flipped over a few pages. Like his report material, it was copied on paper.
Anta looked at Opal and opened the book: ”now the carrier of information in the universe has changed, so have the people. Not many people are willing to patiently experience love. They all take sex as the starting point and buy a dream machine and fantasy movement to fulfill all human desires. To reproduce offspring, you need to submit a few cells to the life gene company, extract a few chromosomes, find the mother, pair, and pay a small fee. Sometimes the government will give you subsidies to help you raise your offspring in order to increase the birth rate. ”
”Well, I know it's a good thing that females don't have to go through childbirth anymore,” opal said
Anta nodded and regretfully said: ”this pattern has resulted in gender equality in the big universe Star Alliance, and homosexual Union has also been recognized, which has promoted the development of the whole era. It also makes the love of the common people die out in the interstellar space. Love and marriage become luxury goods linked with politics and money Only legeson is still singing about love in archaic times. These poems are handed down from the golden age It's been around for a long time... ”
Opal said: ”madam, but there is still love in liexing, such as a guy I know called spanner and his girlfriend...”
Anta smiles and says, ”and my husband, he used to have one.”Opal said, ”well, I don't mean to offend, but it is.”
”I have a book that you can read if you like,” Anta said
The maid went in and brought out a book. It was a theory of interstellar love written by a scholar of the Republic. Opal turned over a few pages, and the writing was a little obscure. ”I love reading this paper book, and I'm not used to the electronic holographic media that you young people use,” Anta said
Opal: what's the main point
”It describes the polarization of love and marriage in the interstellar civilization. In some uncivilized primitive places, it may be born or attracted by the same sex. Until the middle level of society, love gradually disappears, and then to the top of the pyramid, the rich regard it as a kind of entertainment game,” Anta said
Opal nodded slowly, remembering that on B-11, the miners were a group of people separated from the interstellar civilization. Love was everywhere, like one eyed Ugo and his wife.
”My genes are not perfect.” ”My mother gave me birth like a primitive planet,” opal said
Finally, the child's spiritual home is a good thing
”Thank you.” ”You are very wise,” opal said
Anta smiles and stops speaking. Opal takes the book and sits down in front of the console and reads it carefully. The author of this book, herocos, mentioned that love is affected by hormones, and then proposed the uniqueness of love for individuals.
Through multi-ethnic observation and analysis, herocos believes that the original code of ”sex love” for the purpose of reproduction has been gradually diluted in human genes. Instead, there is a higher level of love, which is the emotional support between individuals who are attracted to each other regardless of gender, looking for the same kind, and completing the transformation from lonely individuals to accompanying each other.
This kind of love tends to admire and resonate with the deep soul, aiming to accompany each other. In the process, it will also be expressed through the direct means of sex, to show that each other is frank and give up their last reservation.
The influence of science and technology on the primitive feelings of intelligent individuals has reached a higher level. The indifference and friendship of love may lead to the destruction of human race, or the establishment of a new emotional relationship
Opal gave Raymond a look.
He thinks that the book is very reasonable. Recalling his previous life, he does not know what Anta has to miss her mother star. At least, opal himself has no special dependence on the ChiYan galaxy. Maybe it's because she hasn't been a miner.
In those days, he had few real friends, only some workers. Their goal was to save their own money to buy a boat ticket and live a new life. It was not until he arrived at ares that he felt the friendship between the mercenaries. No matter how long he dug the mine or chatted for many days, he could not get back the friendship. He felt the feeling of mutual trust through life and death.
The innkeeper said that he would fall in love with this place one day. Maybe he would never forget the feeling of living and dying together.
Raymond is a good comrade in arms. They fight for the task together
Opal's mind was filled with wild thoughts, and he flipped page after page. The book was very thin. He read it all afternoon, and finally put it on his face and fell asleep.
Six hours later, opal woke up again and heard the maid frying eggs in the warehouse. He even brought a lot of daily necessities. Mrs. Anta was laying the table and said, ”children, eat.”
Raymond yawned, put down his foot on the console and came to eat.
”Madame, do you know the star knight?” Opal suddenly thought of this. Madame Anta bowed her head and cut a piece of steak and said casually, ”yes. The epic heroes of the dark age have become legends, but many stories point to the fact that they do exist
She knows! Opal was shocked. He tried his best not to show it. He asked, ”what kind of a star knight is?”
”Not so much as people.” ”What kind of organization are they?” Mrs. Anta said
”The beginning of the ten thousand years of the light age is the Bronze Age in history, and the legend of the star Temple exists in the dark period after the end of the bronze age.” Mrs. Anta sipped the iris wine and said in a trance: ”this part of history is due to the fact that technology has reached the peak since human beings explored the universe, and robots have become new productivity...”
Raymond stopped and squinted, as if interested in this.
”Do you know the life like body?” Raymond said.
Anta nodded and said, ”some man-made life cloned from human cells and equipped with control chips have been strongly protested by the Star Alliance ethics Association, but the interstellar community insists on adopting this method. After all, robots have no thirst for knowledge, and they can't think sensibly, and the human brain can learn a lot. ”
Opal remembered that lequet had also mentioned this period of history. He asked, ”is it called the intellectual revolution?”
Anta praised: ”in the intellectual revolution, science and technology almost replaced all people's lives at that time. As long as human beings use a spine chip to control artificial life, artificial life controls machinery, and even robots are not needed in the back, so the cost of repair and maintenance is too high. Artificial life is based on genetics and biological cell culture technology, they can be self-sufficient and create wealth, until these quasi life bodies set off a revolution to replace human beings and become the ruler of the food chain of the universe. ””This revolution lasted for nearly a hundred years and plunged human society into a long darkness.”
”They were all destroyed in the end,” opal said
”Yes, the consequences of the revolution were very serious. The interstellar community was divided into Empire and Republic. At this time, some surveillance center sent their emissaries,” Anta said
”They ended the revolution, destroyed all artificial life, and restored the order of the universe to a state of balance between chaos and order.”
”Next, the human race fell into introspection. The whole universe is still in a mess, and then for nearly a thousand years, many valuable historical data have been lost and faults have appeared in the era. Then, with the help of star knights, the interstellar civilization gradually restored order, and the remaining clone lab was eradicated
”Since then, intelligent robots will no longer be developed. Many galaxies have begun to pursue returning to nature, and seeking the coexistence of humanity and technology, which is what we see now. The joint scientific research organization of the universe advocates the coexistence of human nature and progress, and no longer relies on science and technology excessively. ”
”One more thing about the star Knight legend is that the founder of the Empire, the first Leo emperor, mentioned that they came from a place called the star sanctuary. It is said that it is the central axis of the whole universe, but because of the limitation of the expansion coefficient of the universe, the space will show some strange characteristics when it is close to the center point. After leaving the star gate, it is almost impossible to reach by the power system of the spacecraft alone. ”
Raymond, who had been listening quietly, suddenly said, ”now there is a spaceship with its own transition function.”
”Yes, some people have tried to find it in recent years. Although the Republic has not said so on its face, I believe there must be exploration plans linked to it. And the biggest problem is - there's no star map. ” ”Nobody knows where it is,” Anta said. Many people are still adamant that the star Knight does exist. It's not just a legend. ”