Interlude Reality 01: Above the Moon Chapter 24 Human Relics
"Hmm...it seems a little different from what I remembered."
Looking at the gray ruins of the human colony under the pitch-black sky, Li Lin frowned.
"I remember it wasn't like this when I came here as a kid. There should be more people here, and there's a rocket launch pad over there, and a recorder over here, and there were also remains of a lunar sports car. Why are they all gone now?"
"Because of the large temperature difference on the lunar surface, the management of human colony sites has always been a problem. Therefore, many related facilities have been rebuilt or sold to relevant collectors. Only the main structure of the human colony has not changed. Many modifications and arrangements have been made to other details. And the human mind will always beautify the past to varying degrees, which is a very natural phenomenon."
"Yeah ……"
That may be the case.
Frowning as he looked at the gray building in the distance, Li Lin's original sense of relaxation disappeared without a trace.
It is completely different from the bustling scene when I was a child. It may also be because it is not the peak tourist season. Compared with the glamorous human colony in my memory, the current human colony is more like a dead maggot lying on the gray concrete floor than a respectable site.
The artificial sky that cost a lot of money in the sky didn't even have the most basic camouflage color function turned off to save money and energy. Under the dark sparse crowd of people were taking pictures around the ruins, gesticulating and talking. But if you listen carefully, you can't hear clearly, after all, the distance is still too far. The whole ruins look dilapidated.
Perhaps it had such a dilapidated and run-down feeling from the beginning, because the impression I had of the bustling colonial ruins seemed to be the one I visited with a tour group.
Nowadays, when people talk about famous attractions on the moon, no one mentions the ruins of the first colony. Most people mention Darwin Crater and the Hiero Mine on the far side of the moon. One is a man-made disaster, and the other is a man-made miracle. Both seem to be much more meaningful than this living maggot.
"The first human colony on the moon is also the most unsuccessful colony. Two hundred and thirty years ago, the human race on Earth launched its first foray into space. They misjudged the difficulty of building a base on the moon's surface and recklessly invested a large amount of money in the so-called renewable wall. This eventually led to a radiation leak accident and a large amount of resource waste and loss. Only an underground test mine is still in operation, laying the foundation for the subsequent second phase of construction."
"This base is used to commemorate the stupidity and self-willedness of the original human beings. The daily cost of the natural maintenance device was an astronomical figure even on Earth at that time. The experiment on the automatic recovery wall consumed a lot of money and time but was futile and did not get any good feedback or effect. The overall structural design was not optimized by AI and had many deficiencies and structural distortions. The entire colony covering an area of 43,000 square meters is divided into four main structures, but only one of them can operate normally, and the other structures are all waste."
"The laboratory building was contaminated by high-energy solar rays, and a biochemical leak occurred inside the ecological cabin, causing the entire ecological cabin to be abandoned. The working fluid materials inside the energy cabin are seriously insufficient. The optimistic estimate of the helium-3 inventory on the lunar surface and the internal purification technology, even the nuclear fusion reactor has been shut down several times."
"The entire ruins are remnants of the times. They are hailed as the first and most faltering step in the history of mankind's space exploration. Its failure almost completely cut off mankind's hope of advancing into space. It is now preserved as a memorial just for commemoration."
“…”
Is that so? Are the things that we keep thinking about nothing but the waste of the times?
Looking at the remains that died quietly in the darkness and sunlight, Li Lin walked around the area with some hopelessness.
Then Li Lin, who had been immersed in the memories of the past, had to admit that everything the AI said was probably true. Because the bright and beautiful ruins in his impression had never existed, and probably only existed in his dreams.
The space suit that seemed to be majestic and magnificent was actually full of holes, and the internal partition layer even burst, revealing the densely packed superimposed layers. The technology at that time was not yet at the stage where the simple use of mobile terminals and high-performance molecular materials could meet the needs of space suits. The gap in technology was as huge as that of primitive people and people in the 21st century.
Ansible communicators were not popular, and there were no quality projection devices. The 3D printing machine was even the size of a building, which was comparable to giants and bacteria compared to the current palm-sized ones. Moreover, the functions were not as convenient and fast as the current 3D printers, and there were even many loopholes that could not be explained. The design used a lot of extra things such as beds, wardrobes, and bathrooms to occupy the space that could be used for work and entertainment. Looking at this kind of building, if Li Lin himself had not been pulled down too far, he would probably think it was a place where aliens lived.
When he passed by the bedroom, he happened to pass by a mother and son. The boy didn't seem to have completed the cyborg module. He pointed at the eye-catching big bed in the bedroom and turned to look at his mother with an innocent look on his face.
"Mom, look, what's that big thing with four legs and a cushion over there?"
"That's a bed. People in the lunar colony used to rest there after work."
"Hey, are the people on the moon so rich? They can even sleep in a bed?"
"No, people in the past had to sleep because they had no other choice. It's not like now that they only sleep to show off. Their lives were actually very hard, and they had six to eight hours of sleep every day, which is different from us."
"But isn't it amazing to get six hours of sleep a day?"
"Times are different..."
The mother explained to her child with a wry smile the different meanings of sleep in ancient times and sleep now.
But in the eyes of children, those people in ancient times were undoubtedly wealthy. Each of them could sleep for more than eight hours, which was simply too luxurious to be imagined.
Li Lin, who had been listening for a long time, could only completely put aside the sentimental emotions in his heart. After a quick walk around the area, Li Lin thought for a while and then called O-12 over and directly told him his requests and ideas.
