Chapter 328 The Real Universal Enterprise
After establishing contact with the fleet two million light-years away, the first thing Li Wenyuan saw was an old spaceship and a local resident who was "scared to death" on the spaceship.
To be precise, he died of sudden cardiac arrest. The physiological scan of this resident showed that the nerves used to control myocardial relaxation were severely stimulated in a short period of time, directly causing the heart to stop beating.
However, this is only a direct inducement. In fact, the scan also showed that this local resident has been engaged in heavy physical work for a long time, and his heart has been overloaded for many years.
There is also an old-fashioned pacemaker on his heart, which has been used for at least 20 years in terms of aging, which shows that this local resident actually knows what is going on in his body.
However, the old pacemaker stopped working about five years ago, and he did not replace it. He may have known about it, but the pressure from all sides finally made him ignore the time bomb on his heart.
The order Li Wenyuan set for this batch of "advance team" spacecraft did not include firing. They just followed the instructions and monitored the "unknown units" approaching them.
What the aborigine thought was the "cannon muzzle" was actually an external scanning device. The so-called "energy gathering" was his illusion. As long as he persisted a little longer, the artificial intelligence on the spaceship would The intelligence will judge him as a "non-threatening target" and launch humanitarian assistance to him the moment it detects that his vital signs have deteriorated sharply.
It's a pity that his body, which had already been overwhelmed, decided to leave like this, and he completely became a lonely soul in space.
Li Wenyuan didn't react too much to this. The passing of an individual is just a trivial point in the vast galaxy. He can also roughly guess the reason why this aborigine chose to approach the battleship. There are still many old spaceships running away in the galaxy. This aborigine did not do what others did, and his gambling mentality became his fatal incentive this time.
After establishing contact with this batch of advance fleets, the entire fleet began to conduct "secret exploration" according to the scheduled plan. A total of more than two hundred "armed scientific research ships" went to galaxies in different directions.
It is said to be an armed scientific research ship, but it should actually be called a "warship equipped with scientific research scanning equipment". Although the ability to detect anomalies and collect data is weaker than that of a specialized scientific research spacecraft, its combat capability has been significantly improved.
This is an improvement made by Li Wenyuan to explore these unknown galaxies. If necessary, he does not want to cause too much commotion.
Simultaneously with the exploration, there is also the extraction of the memories of the aborigines. It is the most convenient way to understand the situation of this galaxy directly from the memories of the aborigines, and the aborigines are obviously also a civilization at least in the interstellar era. species.
So the relevant memory was converted into data and sent to Li Wenyuan, and he also began to investigate possible doubts in this memory, and obtained a preliminary understanding of this galaxy.
However, to his surprise, the memory from this aborigine was too "bland", to the point where he couldn't find any abnormalities, and he couldn't get much useful information.
Although he never expected to find anomalies just by extracting a person's memory, the main purpose was to understand the general situation of the galaxy, but unfortunately, this aborigine's memory didn't even have this part.
[I am a member of the "Miner Clan", number U1E25Z99, U means that we belong to the U1 class, E25 and Z99 represent that our predecessors have received genetic modification for "underground life adaptation" and "extraordinary endurance", the people above said , we were born to mine]
This is the self-recognition of this aborigine. He does not have a name, or the people around him do not have names. They all call each other by code names. Names are only eligible to be owned by those in the upper class.
【Our development is very rapid. It only takes three years from birth to being able to operate mining machines. The foreman told us that this is to allow us to pay back to the company faster】
After this came decades of darkness.
At first, Li Wenyuan even thought that the memory data was wrong. After careful inspection, he found that the aborigine had actually been mining underground since then, and he had never left the ground "from beginning to end".
The chaotic lights and the numbness of life day after day have made this memory tend to be forgotten, only indistinct lights and shadows and the sound of knocking stones in this memory.
[The foreman said that the company has a new welfare policy. As long as we can work underground for 20 years, we can be promoted from U1 to U2. It is said that after reaching this level, we can leave here and go to other places to mine 】
The aborigines in memory seem to be the happiest during this period, and even the color of memory seems to be much brighter.
But after this, there was a longer sound of knocking on stones, which was so long that even the memory master himself forgot how time passed.
Until a voice in memory appeared:
[Your heart working age has exceeded the theoretical maximum tolerance value. If you want to continue to live, I have two options here. One is to perform a genetic surgery for you, adding a gene numbered "L77", which can make Your life expectancy has been increased by at least twenty years, but this is not cheap, considering your income level... You may also need to sign an additional agreement to work with me for 300 years after death]
【I choose the second one】
This is the voice of the owner of the memory. This memory seems to be very important to him. Even though so much time has passed, he still remembers his choice.
[It's a pity... Then I'll give you a pacemaker. In theory, it can help you live for more than ten years, but there are always various accidents that may make it lose its effect, and you need pay...this number]
After that, there was a short silence, and when the memory appeared again, the aborigine already had his own spaceship.
This is his reward after working in the company for more than 100 years. The company declared him a "model miner" and gave him a bonus: buy this old spaceship with a debt loan from working for the company for another 50 years. .
The owner of the memory signed a debt contract with the company without hesitation. From then on, he changed from a miner working underground to a miner working in space.
He is still mining, but on the asteroid belt.
Here is not much safer than the underground, the old spaceship can't withstand any impact from meteorites, but he still chose this way until not long ago.
He and a group of miners who also work in space discovered a batch of remains of spaceships, which is no different from the sky for those who are equivalent to wandering in space. They are going to recycle this pile of waste to improve their lives.
Even before the arrival of Li Wenyuan's fleet, the aborigine was still thinking about the life of "how much is this alloy plate worth", "how much can that instrument be sold for", "you can have a good meal tonight" trivia.
But everything finally disappeared like a dream bubble as the body reached its limit.
As for the ultimate motivation that made this aborigine not hesitate to take risks to get close, Li Wenyuan checked in his memory for a while, and finally locked on the time when this aborigine left underground for the first time.
The place where he works is a barren planet, the surface is covered with bare rocks and sandstorms, but there are veins of some kind of precious minerals underground.
Because he has worked for 20 years, he can go to another planet with a better environment to mine. However, during the transit, he has been looking at the stars in the universe.
When someone asked him, he said that he never thought that the outside world was so beautiful, even if he died in the arms of these stars, he still felt that this life was worth it.
He violated the company's rules and regulations because of his lack of positive words, and was fined to work for the company for another three months without charge, and he needed to correct his mistakes in his remarks. He announced at the labor conference that he had recognized his mistakes and would do his best for the company. And he didn't stop until he paid off the debt owed by his ancestors.
Although he "recognized his mistake", this thought never stopped, and became more active after he got his first spaceship.
Originally, he had already saved enough to buy the high cost of a vacation, and he could start his interstellar journey, but because the life extension method using a cardiac pacemaker was considered not enough insurance by the company, he might die in space and live. The value has not been created enough, so he is required to pay a full deposit to get this vacation.
However, he is very clear about his own physical condition. If he continues to make money by mining, he may die before he earns enough money for the deposit.
This is the motivation for him to choose to take risks, the instinct to survive, and the desire for dreams. He should have lived in a muddle in mining, and then died in a muddle. hope.
There is hardly much useful information in the memory of this aborigine. The only thing that can help Li Wenyuan is that he confirmed that this galaxy seems to be under the rule of a "universe enterprise".
This is indeed a "universal enterprise" in the true sense. Unlike the giant civilizations in the galaxy, the universal enterprise of this galaxy has completed the monopoly of the entire galaxy, whether it is technology, economy or military strength. The absolute overlord is a veritable "corporate empire".
However, the name of this Huanyu company is very interesting. They call themselves "servants", which made Li Wenyuan curious about their background.
"in addition…"
His gaze returned to the aborigine who died on the dream-chasing road. Thanks to the sudden death, most of the aborigine's body tissues were quite well preserved.
Although due to the delay brought by the distance, before Li Wenyuan made this decision, some permanent necrosis of his brain tissue was inevitable, but this was not a problem for him.
"At least, there will be a group of 'your' 'companions' to continue this dream."
(end of this chapter)