Interstellar Energy Tycoon - Chapter 243

c243 life in a space city

2030, April 5th.

An ordinary day.

But for China, and for the whole world, today is a day of great historical significance.

Humanity’s first space city, ‘Nuwa City’, has been successfully completed. All internal subsystems have been installed, and it took no less than two months to dry it out, and the concentration of harmful gases has been reduced to a minimum.

Today you can officially move in and move in. From then on, you will leave the ground of Azure Star and enter the interstellar space. You will live in the ring-shaped living belt of the space city and become a space immigrant.

The number of the first batch of space immigrants reached as many as 300,000.

There will be a second batch and a third batch later, so that the total number of immigrants will not be less than 1 million, and the maximum capacity can reach 3 million, which is equivalent to accommodating 10,000 people per square kilometer of living area. Although the density is quite high, in Within the carrying capacity of the space city.

But the problem soon came.

Life on Azure Star is not bad now, with perfect infrastructure, rich culture and entertainment, rapid economic development, and many opportunities to make a fortune. Ordinary people can also live a pretty good life through hard work, and the happiness index is increasing every year.

After all, after human beings have acquired massive space resources and unlimited space energy, they have re-entered the era of incremental development. It is no longer a serious involuntary stock fight, the pressure of survival has been greatly reduced, and the level of welfare has been significantly improved.

Coupled with the rapid development of science and technology, the widespread popularization of artificial intelligence, the steady improvement of medical standards, and the improvement of the ecological environment.

Now living on the ground of Azure Star is quite a good thing, especially the more than 1.4 billion people living in Huaguo, who have finally experienced what it means to be rich in material, endless in spiritual entertainment, and completely eradicated in poverty. What is social life like?

All aspects have reached the highest level in the history of five thousand years of civilization.

There are only a hundred or ten people who still want to get rich abroad and have taken action every year. There are even more groups of smugglers from abroad who want to get rich in China. There are tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people. , bringing a very large interception pressure.

The number of young foreign women entering China is said to have exceeded five million. Although it may not completely solve the problem of too many bachelors, it has also played a significant role in alleviating the problem, and it has also brought about an increase in the number of new students, which is beneficial to the future. of sustainable development.

As for the cultural and entertainment activities, they are extremely rich. There are endless dramas and masterpieces, and more than a dozen blockbuster movies are released every year, as well as virtual online games. You can always find spiritual food to fill your spiritual emptiness. People are immersed in happiness all day long, and there are very few places where they are unhappy.

Such a situation.

Going to work and settle in a space city that is a little deserted and not particularly well-equipped, there should not be many people doing this, and there must be very few people who actively apply for immigration, right?

In addition, in order to avoid too many outstanding talents and talents with high salaries, go to space to develop, and avoid a large loss of high-quality population, in fact, many first-tier cities have taken many preventive measures in advance.

For example, lower mortgage rates.

For example, more policies are introduced to make it easier for high-end talents to settle down in big cities and enjoy education, medical care, pension and other welfare guarantees, so that they can more easily experience the convenience of big cities and obtain a sense of happiness and satisfaction. There are so many measures to support, showing sincerity and sincerity.

It can be said that, except for the fact that housing prices cannot be reduced, other places that can reduce the cost of living have been reduced. High-end talents really have no reason to complain. They can stay in big cities for development in a down-to-earth manner. , Don’t always think about changing places.

but……

When the space city ‘Nuwa City’ officially announced that the first batch of space city immigrants could apply for relocation, 800,000 people submitted applications for relocation that day.

After a random lottery, only 300,000 people got through. These people quickly packed their luggage, prepared big bags and small bags, and started to move. The 10 cubic meters of luggage space allocated to each person may not be enough.

Moreover, more than 80% of the 300,000 people in this group are young men and women who originally developed in the first-tier cities. Their departure immediately means that hundreds of thousands or more people will flow out of the first-tier cities.

Although there are more than 200 million people living in the first-tier big cities, a mere hundreds of thousands, only one in a thousand, there is no need to feel anxious, but seeing the first batch of 300,000 immigrants, seeing these high-quality The population, without nostalgia, was cheerful, smiling and looking forward to boarding the transport spacecraft, without much reluctance or worry on their faces.

thump~

Many people felt a thump in their hearts, and a lot of questions popped up.

What will happen to housing prices in big cities in the future?

If more and more young people are going to develop in space cities, the moon and Mars, etc., does it mean that the number of people staying in big cities will decrease?

The population has begun to decrease, and the demand has dropped significantly. Where is the logic and rationality behind those high housing prices of 80,000 and 100,000 square meters? Will the prices fall?

Speaking of which, why do you want to live in a space city? What’s so good about it? It’s like a hamster living in a big cage. It’s good to be on the home planet, why can’t I think about it, and cast the wrong vote with my feet?

Yang Hanbin and his girlfriend Yu Ling saw a lot of such questions and noises on the Internet.

morning.

After seeing myself filled with a small container of luggage and items, it was stuffed into the cargo hold of the spacecraft.

Yang Hanbin and his girlfriend Yu Ling followed the team, stepped onto the gangway, entered the passenger cabin inside the spaceship, found their own seats and sat down.

“Honey, we are not going to space tourism this time, but to live and work in a space city. It is estimated that we only have two or three chances to return to Azure Star a year. Most of the time, we can only stay in ‘Nuwa City’, like those Like the astronauts, they stay in space for a long time, even longer than them, thirty years, fifty years, or even die of old age in Nuwa City one day… Are you really willing to go with me? If you regret it, Maybe it’s still too late, after all, we have to face many, many unknown things and things.”

Yang Hanbin looked at the woman beside him and said, she is not very beautiful, he can only say that she has good facial features and a fair figure, she is the kind of woman who makes people feel that she can live a solid life.

“There is nothing to regret about this. I am looking forward to living in the space city. I want to explore more unknowns with you. Even if we will suffer some hardships and face some challenges, I think we can overcome them and create a very Many good memories, embarking on a new trajectory of destiny, my girlfriends may be very different, but who can live better, it is not yet possible to draw a conclusion.”

Yu Ling looked at him with a smile and said.

“We will not regret it. From a human point of view, it is impossible for us to stay on the mother planet forever. The carrying capacity of the blue planet is limited, and the resources are also limited. The boundless space and the uninhabited planets, in the future It will definitely become extremely lively, and more and more human beings will develop and live in space, including the number of space cities, which is estimated to increase to dozens or hundreds. After three or five generations, there may be half of them. Humans develop their lives in places other than the azure star, and even go to other stars to develop, and we are just playing a leading role in this development trend.”

Yang Hanbin analyzed it and came to the conclusion that the space will become more and more lively. The mother star is still too small and has limited carrying capacity. In the future, the space outside the mother star will become more and more exciting and lively.

That is to say, human beings have entered a new era, and a new calendar can be used.

“Well, you are right, the general trend must be like this.”

Girlfriend Yu Ling nodded.

At this time, the announcement in the spaceship sounded:

“The spaceship is about to take off, please sit in your seat and don’t move around.”

“Start taking off!”

“Hoo hoo ~”

The ion engine emits a blue tail flame.

The thousands-ton-class transport spaceship lifted off slowly and continued to accelerate, but it was extremely stable, just like riding an elevator.

soon.

Ten minutes later.

After leaving the atmosphere and entering the space with a dark background, countless stars suddenly appeared brighter and brighter, densely packed, inexhaustible, shocking, and couldn’t help but exclaim.

Immigrants also leaned their heads to the glass windows to watch the space scene outside the window.

“It’s so beautiful~”

“Actually, I have traveled to space several times, but every time I am shocked.”

“Compared to this sky full of stars, we are not even a speck of dust.”

“I was a little hesitant about immigrating to the space city to develop, and my family members were also persuading me, but now I don’t hesitate, and I don’t regret it anymore. I am sure that my choice is right, no matter what happens on the blue planet. No matter how good the houses, cars, and infrastructure are, the future of mankind is still not on the blue planet. In this vast universe, as long as I work a little harder, I can lay a very good foundation for my descendants, let them To create greater success, we already have the first-mover advantage.”

“That’s right, we went to space to develop for the sake of struggle and the pursuit of class promotion. Although the home planet is good, there are not many opportunities to change the class and change the destiny. We can only be an ordinary screw. I don’t accept such a fate. , plan to give it a good fight.”

“Now we may have a hard life and not many places to enjoy, but this platform is huge and the opportunities are unlimited. As long as we can seize such an opportunity, it may be an unimaginable reward.”

“I just hate that the current medical technology is developing too slowly. I can’t have a long lifespan of five hundred to thousands of years. If I can break the life limit, everyone can live forever. I think, with my own efforts, I can become There is absolutely no problem for the master of a star to own the resources in a star system and turn it into his own private wealth.”

“…”

Another half hour later.

In front of them, a device like a bunch of giant candied haws appeared in front of the passengers.

Connected by a giant central shaft.

At least seven or eight cylinder devices are strung on this big shaft.

The giant ring-shaped cylinder in the middle is obviously the living area of ​​the immigrants. On it, you can see countless villas, office buildings with more than a dozen floors, as well as gymnasiums, large supermarkets, hospitals, schools, highways and other facilities. Everything is there, perfect.

Some of the cylinders next to it are water storage devices, power generation devices, front and rear power systems, and facilities for air purification, agricultural production, and scientific research centers.

Of course, there is also a special space port for transporting spaceships, allowing spaceships of thousands of tons to directly enter the interior of the spaceport.

And this is the first space city “Nuwa City” that has been completed.

soon.

The spaceship entered the airport.

The hatch opens.

In weightlessness.

Passengers put on special shoes with low magnetic force, walk on the metal floor, and use the adsorption capacity of magnets to avoid floating in the air and make it difficult to control their actions.

Then through the elevator passage, the first batch of immigrants and their luggage were sent to the largest residential area in the middle, and they had to enter the special rotating elevator, which was accelerated to the same angular velocity as the living area cylinder before it opened. Elevator, into the living area.

The feet are on slightly loose ground.

Smell the fragrance of grass and trees, mixed with the smell of earth.

Yang Hanbin thinks the taste is very good, like entering a piece of unpolluted nature.

The official guide next to them introduced to them:

“Welcome all kinds of citizens to this brand new big family of Nuwa City. Let me first introduce the basic situation here.”

“First of all, the total weight of Nuwa City is 1.451 billion tons, which is more than 300 million tons heavier than the initial design plan, and the project cost is also slightly overrun, but the purpose is to build a fully functional, extremely safe, and relatively redundant Gao’s perfect city is by no means a project of cutting corners, but a pursuit of perfection at all costs and costs.”

“In the living area we live in, the gravity coefficient is 0.35G, which is slightly stronger than one-third of the ground of Azure Star. A person weighing 100 catties will find himself like a child weighing 35 catties here, and he will feel light and light. , You can jump more than one meter high with a random jump, and you can easily complete a slam dunk, but this is a normal phenomenon, so don’t be surprised, if you don’t get used to it at first, then after three to five days, you will be able to adapt and get used to it.”

“The atmospheric pressure here is 50% of that of Azure Star, which is equivalent to the water pressure at a depth of five meters. It is not impossible to fill in enough air, which is consistent with Azure Star, but it will consume a lot of air and increase the hidden danger of leakage. Of course, the oxygen content we It has increased to 35%, which is almost the same as the ground, and can fully meet the breathing needs of normal people. The content of other pollutants is close to zero, and you can breathe fresh and clean air every day…”