Chapter 121 Home? Cemetery
Thousands of years have passed since the catastrophe, and the earth has undergone tremendous changes.
The planet that once roared and screamed like an enraged beast, wanting to destroy all the creatures that depended on it, finally calmed down, and the extreme climate during the catastrophe gradually returned to its former mild and regular state. Humans who had lost their history, heritage, and language survived the most difficult period and began to reproduce.
As the population gradually increased, the need for survival also increased, and the struggle for power began to reappear within the human community. The human tribes that once struggled to survive together under the majesty of nature began to split up, and groups of people led their own deployments to leave the tribe, some to the north, some to the south, some to the west, and some to the east. Gradually, the figures of humans were spread all over every plate on the land. But no matter which human tribe split off, they had a very deep memory of the catastrophe. Even after thousands of years, it has been passed down by word of mouth, and the story has become more and more mythical. Gradually, later generations can no longer be sure of the authenticity of those things.
As the climate became milder, the land was covered with various plants. People soon stopped relying solely on hunting to meet their needs. They burned forests to open up farmland, raised docile animals, and made various convenient tools with stones and clay. In the process, they began to get used to walking upright, and their hands became very flexible. Because the winter was no longer so cold, the thick hair covering their bodies began to fade away, and they gradually became like the "humans" that Rong Yuan understood.
When the pressure of survival was no longer so urgent, humans began to try to find back some things that they had lost for thousands of years - such as writing and etiquette. They created writing by describing the appearance of all things, began to circulate the same language in their communication, women's clothes became more ornate, and there was a clear class distinction between the chiefs and the people in the tribe. When wars broke out between tribes, they also turned captured enemies into their slaves.
The people of Yuexin City thought that the time was ripe and they could return to their homes.
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During the thousand years, the survivors on Earth had a hard time surviving, but the people in Yuexin City did not have a completely comfortable life either.
In the final analysis, this comet, originally named Liuyuexing, is not suitable for human survival - it has no water, no air, no arable soil, a disordered magnetic field, a large temperature difference between day and night, and is often hit by meteorites due to the lack of protective atmosphere. The most precious mineral resources have been mined out. All the conditions suitable for living inside Liuyuexing were transformed by humans.
More than a thousand years ago, they had the entire Earth as their backing and abundant resources, and no one ever worried that the Earth's water and air would become depleted because of the little bit of water they transported to Liuyue Star. But humans who have lost this backing and regard Liuyue Star as their last place of survival cannot but consider this problem.
They cancelled all the luxury projects, pulled out and threw away the countless precious flowers that occupied the largest area of Yuexin City, replaced them with edible plants, and tried every means to produce air that sustains life and recycle water. They also strictly restricted the population, and everyone had very strict "air quotas" and "water quotas", etc., and survived with difficulty. Under the dull life and extreme oppression, power changes occurred every few years or at most decades, but no matter who led the city, they had to choose the same governance method as their predecessors in the end - they had no choice.
For more than a thousand years, not only did the human beings on Earth live in ignorance and suffering, but it was also a dark time for the people of Yuexin City. The difference was that after a thousand years, the human population on Earth had grown from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands, while the population of Yuexin City had dropped sharply to less than one-third of the original number.
After waiting for a thousand years, watching the Earth regain its vitality day by day, how could the people of the Moon Heart City still endure? In the center of this city, there is a huge screen that continuously broadcasts the scenes on Earth - due to the existence of the magnetite in the center of the moon, they have sufficient energy to support the operation of various instruments - in the past, it was those tragic scenes that prevented people from being dissatisfied with the rulers, and they endured all kinds of harsh and inhumane regulations in order to survive. Now, it is also these scenes that arouse people's infinite yearning for the Earth.
Just imagine, the air they can breathe freely and the inexhaustible supply of clean water are enough to make them feel that the earth is as beautiful as heaven.
In the holographic image, Rong Yuan was standing on the roof of a house, surrounded by the excited citizens of Yuexin City. They were fanatical, waving their arms and shouting, demanding that the mayor lead everyone "home". In this atmosphere, if the mayor said "no", he would be pulled down and torn into pieces immediately.
The person next to Rong Yuan was standing under the house, but Rong Yuan could only see his shoulders when he looked up. The gravity on the moon's surface was still one-sixth of that on Earth, but the gravity inside the moon's core was offset by the gravity of the moon's crust, making it a microgravity environment. People living here have been increasing in height from generation to generation, and now they are already three or four meters tall. In fact, if they hadn't used drugs to inhibit their growth, it wouldn't be surprising for these people to be ten meters tall.
As expected, the mayor could not go against the common will of all citizens. Perhaps he also wanted to return to Earth. He just proposed to send people to explore the way first. This was also reasonable. People quickly agreed and, at the instruction of the mayor, selected some radical representatives to return to Earth on a spaceship.
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The scene changed, and a small spaceship landed on the ground. Several earthlings in the tribe saw the fireball falling from the sky, screaming "Ahhh" and ran to report to the leader. The moon people on the spaceship ignored these natives who looked like monkeys to them. They got off the spaceship and stepped on the solid ground. The gravity of the earth made them feel as if they were filled with lead, and their bodies were too heavy to move freely, but they were still very excited. Seeing that the measurement data on the instrument were normal, these people took off their helmets and breathed in the air greedily. Some cried with joy, and others raised their heads slightly, feeling the warmth and comfort of the sun shining on their faces.
When Rong Yuan turned around, he saw some natives decorated with animal teeth and feathers running over, standing far away, waving sticks and stones and shouting. The translator couldn't translate what they were shouting, probably just roaring like wild animals to scare them away.
A few moon people smiled at each other. They were nothing on the moon, but they were full of superiority in all aspects in front of these uncivilized earthlings. One of the moon people wanted to show off his power, so he pointed his gun at a big tree next to the natives and fired. With a "pop" sound, the tree, which was as thick as a man's embrace, was broken in half.
The natives were so frightened that they immediately knelt down, lying on the ground and not daring to look up, shouting again and again: "God, please calm down! God, please calm down!" - This time Rong Yuan could understand what they said.
The moon people laughed loudly, feeling very proud. They were about to continue teasing each other when suddenly one of them screamed, covered his face and fell to the ground.
“Aaaaaa——”
A group of moon people screamed one after another, some strangled their necks, some covered their faces, and some grabbed their chests, but they all fell dead in a moment. Only one person reacted in time, put on a helmet and climbed onto the spacecraft as quickly as possible, but as soon as he started the spacecraft, he spit out a mouthful of blood and lay on the operating table without moving. After the spacecraft rose a hundred meters into the air, it suddenly tilted and plunged into the forest in the distance. After a loud bang, black smoke and flames rose.
In the Moon City, all the citizens who watched this action were silent. Everyone's face was pale, and the whole city was terrifyingly dead silent.
The natives, who had been lying on the ground for a long time but could not get any instructions from the gods, raised their heads cautiously and saw that several gods were actually dead. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
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Although the living conditions of the moon people were much worse, they did not abandon various scientific technologies when they fled. In fact, they made great progress in the past thousand years. Soon, the moon people found out that the air, soil and water of the earth were full of ubiquitous bacteria. The earth people and these bacteria evolved together for a long time and adapted well to each other, but these bacteria were deadly to the moon people who had been living in the protective cover.
Moreover, because they have lived underground for thousands of years, their skin is no longer able to withstand sunlight. Once exposed to sunlight, a large number of rashes and red spots will appear on the skin in less than a minute. If they are not treated in time and continue to be exposed to the sun , their lives will soon be taken away.
They have always regarded the Earth as a paradise to which they would return in the future, but they did not know that when they fled the Earth, the Earth completely rejected their return.
——It is no longer their home, but their cemetery.
Thousands of years of waiting did not make the people on the moon despair, but the signal of refusal to accept from the earth made them despair.
There were riots, wars, fighting, and some people even drove their spaceships into suicidal attempts to reach areas on Earth where large tribes gathered.
There were also some people who did not lose hope. They preserved their own strength, and when many people in Yuexin City were enjoying the doomsday carnival and crazy destruction in despair, they seized the power and weapons of the city, killed all the rebels and those who had lost their minds, and established a dictatorship.
Then, they began to capture humans and animals from Earth as experimental subjects, trying to find out the secret of their ability to live safely on Earth and to create a vaccine that could be immune to that bacteria.
During this period, some people wore this space suit and drove spacecraft to the earth to create some "miracles", enjoying the pleasure of being worshipped by the indigenous people, and also asking them to "tribute" some materials they needed. As a result, after several times, a daring emperor refused to buy it at all, not to mention kneeling and paying respects. He even regarded the moon people who suddenly appeared in front of him as monsters and demons, and launched an attack with all his troops. Due to gravity, the moon people actually moved quite slowly on the earth, and they had to rely on advanced weapons and various magical means to shock the limited vision of the earth natives. As a result, they were lured into an ambush by this courageous emperor and launched a surprise attack. That time, the moon people had no time to return to the spacecraft to escape, and after killing and injuring hundreds of people, they were finally chopped into meat sauce.
The emperor was shocked and also found it ridiculous to find these guys who claimed to be gods so vulnerable. The whole world was singing about his bravery and courage, and humans completely lost their awe of the "gods" who came from heaven.
The Moon People launched a thunderous attack. First, they buried all the troops sent by the emperor to conquer neighboring countries at sea. Then they dispatched spaceships to fire laser cannons to kill the emperor in the capital. They also created various natural disasters one after another, causing this originally prosperous country to be either plagued by drought or floods. In just a dozen years, it was completely destroyed, allowing all the ignorant people on Earth to see the consequences of disobeying God.
However, the halo on them was eventually stripped away by the Earthlings. The Moonlings realized that the Earth's terrifying reproductive capacity and ever-increasing population would sooner or later become a threat to them. They could stop it for a while, but unless another catastrophe like the Great Cataclysm occurred, the day when the Earthlings invaded the Moon would eventually come.
Hundreds of years later, a stupid earthling sat on a chair with rockets tied to it, ignited the rockets and tried to fly into the sky. The people on the moon laughed at this scene, unscrupulously mocking the intelligence of these "monkeys". However, when they turned around, they disguised the reconnaissance robots sent to the surface of the moon as stones.
Human beings' desire to fly has never faded, and although slowly, they are indeed regaining their former glory bit by bit, and their pace of development is getting closer and closer to the moon.
The moon people accelerated their experiments. However, there are millions of bacteria in every ton of soil on Earth. Even if only one thousandth of them would pose a threat to the moon people, this is still a very scary number. Moreover, these bacteria are mutating all the time. The moon people have found that it is impossible to develop a vaccine against bacteria. The only hope is to make their bodies or genes become the same as those of earthlings, and then gradually adapt to the environment of the earth.
However, in the process, they thought that it would take at least several hundred years for humans on Earth to land on the moon. Their reckless actions provoked an enemy of unimaginable terrifying power, which led to the destruction of the entire city hundreds of years ahead of schedule.
