Chapter 1 The Tired Ant

2100 years.

Ludao, summer night.

The sea breeze of Baicheng Beach brushed the driver's messy hair through the glass window. He lighted a cigarette carelessly, stretched out his hand and asked, "Friend, would you like one?"

Li Kaiyang looked at the dark sea outside the window without turning his head, and said wearily, "No."

The taxi flashed its double flashing lights and was slowly driving on the deserted asphalt road along the coast. The driver stuffed a scratched disc into the old center console, and a sense of the past century came over us: "When you lose your will, you can't help complaining, when you're down and down, you can't help being timid, even if you lose hope, you are drunk every day, you have no soul and body, you are like a scarecrow, life is like waves on the sea, sometimes they rise and sometimes they fall"

Hearing the familiar accent, Li Kaiyang sneered and asked, "Master, are you not afraid that this voice will be heard by aliens?"

These words seemed to hit the driver's pain point. He took a puff of cigarette, cursed non-stop in Hokkien dialect, and finally exhaled a long puff of white smoke, and said in a characteristic flat tongue, "No Did you hear from the newspaper that aliens have a technological level of 2, while humans are only 0.5! What is the concept of 0.5? Ants are 0.1! It’s a lazy way to hide. If you want me to say, each person will have a gun and wait for the aliens. I'll shoot him ass on the day I come."

"It makes sense," Li Kaiyang silently agreed in his heart.

The road around the sea on Ludao is very long, but Li Kaiyang's leisure time is very short. After two songs, a low mountain with a fort appeared in front of the taxi on the left. Rusted into iron pillars, covered with moss, glowing scarlet under the pale moonlight.

"I heard that there is a research institute up here." The driver tapped the brakes, poked his head out halfway, and looked at the mountain curiously. They haven't researched it yet, thanks to the support of the people all over the country, why should I say so much effort, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, let the future generations solve it, can't we live this life well?"

Li Kaiyang put on a yellowed white coat, patted the driver, and said, "Master, I'll take it here."

The driver slammed the brakes to the end, and the family portrait hanging on the rearview mirror swayed twice, spinning in the air.

Li Kaiyang opened the car door, moved his legs out with difficulty, walked to the window of the driver's cab, and handed over 100 yuan, "Master, don't look for it, go back and buy more food for the child."

The driver was taken aback, and quickly pushed the money out, "Don't don't, it's not easy for anyone these days, I won't earn you more, just get as much as you want."

Li Kaiyang stuffed the money into the driver's hand, and looked up at the family portrait on the rearview mirror, "The future generations have things they need to solve, if we don't start this, they will only leave the problems to the future generations, right? .”

The driver was stunned by his question, and when he didn't know how to answer, he saw the badge on his white coat: 'Li Kaiyang, Researcher of the Third Industrial Research Institute of the Ministry of Natural Resources'.

"you are?"

"The rice bucket that eats plain rice on the mountain."

Li Kaiyang patted his slightly bulging belly, and laughed at himself.

"Don't! Don't! I'm joking," the driver quickly retorted, "You take the money back, and I also stopped by to let the air out. The house is too depressing, so I only talk to the passengers. Don't be offended."

Li Kaiyang firmly pressed the driver's hand back, and said, "Food and lodging are provided on the mountain! I don't need the money, I can buy more food for the family, and, if you want me to say, everyone should be like you, master, and should be scolded." , should be listening to music, what are you doing huddled all day long? The sky is falling and there is a tall roof, if you want to smash it, you have to smash it there first, right?"

He pointed to the research institute under the dark night sky.

The Hulishan Fort was originally used as a defense line against foreign invaders 200 years ago. Today, 200 years later, the newly built research institute on the top of the mountain uses another method to resist the invasion of aliens.

For people in the two time and space, there is no difference. The enemies they face are almost dimension-reduced existences.

The driver couldn't continue to decline, and after thanking him a few times quickly, his curiosity surfaced again, "Leader, have you seen that warning monument?"

Li Kaiyang raised his eyebrows, "I've seen it, ten years ago, when I went to the United Nations to give a speech, it appeared in front of me with a bang, you stay away, and further away, hey, yes, it's almost this close. "

The driver was dumbfounded. He didn't expect the little leader to have so many stories, and then he asked questions like a cannonball, "Is it really that big? How tall is it? There is an alien living in it." ? What do aliens look like?"

Li Kaiyang grinned his stubbled mouth, and he was only 30 years old in two years, but his beard grew fast, "The warning monument is not much bigger than the wild graves on the mountain, and I have never met aliens. .”

The driver couldn't help feeling a little hopeless, "A broken monument can disturb the whole world to sleep, this unknown alien may make us into something."

"Did you see this?" Li Kaiyang took out a shiny metal stone from the pocket of his white coat, "It was chiseled from the warning monument, no matter how advanced the alien's technology is, didn't I still make a gap with a screwdriver? Don't worry, it's not that difficult to deal with."

"That's good!" The driver was overjoyed and said, "Leader, this is my phone number, please put it away, and call me next time if you want to go for a ride! It's free!"

Li Kaiyang took the business card, answered it, turned and walked towards the dark mountain road.

He walked this mountain road for three years, with a total of 130 steps, and he could not make a mistake with his eyes closed.

Under the boundless night sky, he felt a little dazed. As the youngest researcher at the Institute of Natural Sciences and the youngest engineering leader in China, he would have lived a brilliant life in the past.

But five years ago, the warning monument that heralds the imminent invasion of aliens came to the earth and broke everything. It quietly appeared in the most heavily guarded United Nations building, and all human beings have been caught in a strange and absurd tragedy since then. Nightmare, what Li Kaiyang can do is to spread his hope in this nightmare.

But in the face of such a huge gap in technology, who will give him hope?
Engineering in the 22nd century has already come to an end. Physics is still studying theories of 100 years ago. Aliens who don’t know where they will come from are like the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of 70 billion people. With 100 years left, or even less time, can humans, a group of ants living in remote corners of the Milky Way, jump out in this short period of time?
Ding ding ding ding.

There was a sudden rush of copper bells on the top of the mountain, and Li Kaiyang ran away reflexively. The ringing of the bell indicated that the progress of the project had gone awry. As the subject leader of the research institute, he had to rush to the scene immediately!
And in his pocket, the round stone glowing with strange metallic light quietly passed through his skin and melted into his body.

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