Chapter 1 Almost fell into a box
Proxima Centauri b is 4.22 light-years away from the Earth, about 40 trillion kilometers, and is the closest planet to the Earth among terrestrial planets.
One day, on the side of Proxima Centauri b facing its star Proxima Centauri, a meteor shower began.
Five thousand extraterrestrial visitors, whose light was much dimmer than ordinary meteors in the past, lined up in ten columns and passed through the atmosphere at high speed.
Then, they slowed down and adjusted their flight direction together, and finally rushed straight into the center of a huge lake at a speed of about Mach 0.1.
"Boom!!!"
Five thousand meteors splashed out five thousand white water splashes, and burst out with a huge roar.
When a large expanse of white water vapor gradually dissipated, five thousand black metal cylinders, each one meter long and 30 centimeters in cross-section diameter, were revealed on the water surface. They were shaped like cannonballs.
Their round bullets point downward, and after floating up, the slightly flat bottom of the bullet is about 50 centimeters from the water surface.
Like a magnetic force, they slowly approached each other, and finally formed an irregular metal formation platform on the water.
As the water rippled due to the breeze, the platform slowly drifted toward the east of the lake. After a few hours, it reached the shore and ran aground on the water near a lush green grassland.
Dozens of land creatures that had just arrived at the lake shore to drink water saw this large strange object approaching the shore, and they all tried to sniff it out.
Suddenly, the bottoms of some "cannonballs" closest to the shore emitted an infrasound wave to the animals.
Those various strange creatures, as big as earth hounds and as small as earth rats, immediately screamed and ran away.
160 solar days (rDay) later, faint sounds of "chichi!" were heard from 2,500 of the above-mentioned "cannonballs".
Next, the "squeaking" sounds in the "cannonball" came and went one after another, and lasted for 100 solar days.
One day, in the center of the bottom of the 2,500 "cannonballs" that made a "squeaking" sound, a black round hatch the size of a human palm opened one after another. Each one was the size of a human thumb on Earth, and was covered with light brown fluff.
Some are sucking milk from a thin white plastic tube, or a young Earth marmoset stretches its body and stretches its head out.
"I am David ***!!!" One of the marmoset children shouted loudly in Earthly English through a wireless microphone with a loudspeaker as thick as a toothpick.
Because the mouth and throat structures are different from those of humans on Earth, the pronunciation produced by this young marmoset is sharp and unpleasant.
The remaining 2,499 young marmosets climbed out of their respective "cannonballs" one after another, stood by the hatch, and all faced David.
David stood outside his cabin, raised his right fist high, and continued to say in that awkward-sounding English: "My compatriots in the advance army, I declare that we successfully set foot on this land! And there were no casualties!!"
"Long live!"
"Long live the people of Earth!!"
Immediately, some of the other marmosets applauded enthusiastically, some waved their hands, and all shouted excitedly in the same ugly English.
David waved his hand to silence everyone and continued: "My order! Each team divides the work and cooperates according to the original plan. We must grow up safely in order to complete the next task."
After 360 solar days, the marmosets have grown to the size of a human palm. They began to wear green digital one-piece camouflage uniforms and black leather boots, looking like small animals in the circus.
Under the command of the Marmoset officer, the Marmoset soldiers began to use various machines to disassemble the five thousand "cannonballs" and transport them to the shore.
Soon, small buildings were built one after another on a gentle grassland about three kilometers away from the shore. The building materials were those "cannonball" shells and stones and wood extracted on the spot.
Eight vertical rectangular yellow wooden watchtowers, five meters high and two meters wide, were built around the camp. Each watchtower was equipped with a black electric remote-controlled machine gun of normal earth size on the top.
On the left side of the camp, there are more than a dozen rows of even larger black solar panels, as well as several white satellite signal receivers and transmitters that look like large pot lids.
After installing satellite receivers and transmitters, this group of marmosets was able to transmit current conditions to the earth through satellite relay.
According to the agreement, the communications corps will send an instant message to the earth every solar day from now on.
Other members of the advance army can also use their computers to connect to satellite signal receivers and transmitters at will, and send emails with video attachments allowed to their families on Earth.
Ten metal cabins were built on the right side of the camp. They were obviously not for marmosets to live in because they looked like rectangular coffins for human children.
More than 300 solar days passed. One day, an odorless white turbid liquid began to flow out from the small openings under the ten cabins, and then the cries of "Wow! Wow!!" were heard from human babies on Earth.
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The marmosets who were busy in the camp began to hear the first cry. Some of them knelt down and kissed the ground with tears in their eyes, while others gave each other high fives or hugged each other in celebration.
David led several marmoset officers and hurriedly came to the first "coffin".
He raised his right hand and entered instructions on the LCD touch screen on the side of the "coffin".
A door on the right side of the display screen opened immediately, and the marmosets gathered around and saw a white human baby boy from Earth who was all wet and had an umbilical cord connected to the top of the "coffin" crying "Wow!"
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David turned around and ordered a marmoset: "Frank, take nine people to take care of the babies in the other cloning warehouses, feed them, and at the same time inject the souls received some time ago into their bodies according to the number."
Frank Das, commander of Company A of the Combat Support Battalion, nodded, took a deep look at the white boy, and turned to leave.
At this time, a pair of silver robot hands that simulated human hands in the cloning warehouse began to cut the baby's umbilical cord, disinfect it, wash the body, and wrap it in swaddling clothes.
Then, a marmoset soldier used an electric four-wheel trailer to pull a white plastic milk bottle. The left hand of the robot hand swiftly stretched out from the cloning chamber, picked up the bottle, then retracted it and began to feed the white baby formula milk.
After the baby had eaten enough, stopped crying and fell asleep, David continued to operate on the display screen. The robot hand pulled out two slender white wires, one red and one yellow, from the inner wall of the cloning chamber, five millimeters thick and three centimeters long.
Metal tube.
Then, the robot hand attached the tops of the two metal tubes to the baby's fontanel for two seconds, and then quickly retracted them.
After a few seconds, the baby opened his eyes, slowly turned his head to look at the monkeys, and said in a sweet voice: "Which of you is David?"
David stepped forward and hugged the baby's left index finger, and said with tears: "I am David, Joseph, my good brother! Welcome to the new world."
Joseph Harden waved his chubby right hand and said: "Haha, the air here is much fresher than on Earth! None of you are wearing protective clothing, and the radiation is indeed normal. Well...it feels like the gravity is a bit strong."
David said: "Consistent with the pre-analysis, although Proxima b is much closer to Proxima Centauri than between the earth and the sun, first of all, Proxima Centauri is much smaller than the sun. Secondly, the atmosphere here is thicker than that of the earth, and the average thickness does reach 15,000
kilometers, so most of the ultraviolet rays and X-rays are filtered. The gravity here is 14.85N/kg, which is a bit greater than the earth."
Joseph said: "What about mineral resources?"
David said: "Through comparison and analysis, it is found that this place has metal isotopes similar to those on the earth. At the same time, through electrical exploration and chemical exploration, it can be basically determined that there is oil underground not far from the base! In terms of biological evolution, as far as we can see so far
, no intelligent creatures have been found, which is basically consistent with our previous judgment, but..."
Joseph waved his hand and said: "As long as there are no intelligent creatures. That's great. This planet is indeed very suitable for human habitation!"
David asked, "Is everything okay on Earth?"
A strange look flashed in Joseph's eyes, and he said: "Who knows, everything was normal more than four years ago, haha! When our Garden of Eden is built, you can receive the souls of your family from that damn database."
David used his right hand to touch a small metal container containing DNA samples of himself and his wife and children in his left breast pocket, and said, "It's going so well. In another twenty years, no! Fifteen years, or even shorter."
, a great human city will be built here! Before that, I will first enter my newly cloned body. In a few years, I will be able to touch the delicate skin of my beautiful wife, not hers when I left the earth.
That old, rickety body.”
Joseph said: "Haha, I still remember that your wife was the third runner-up of Miss Europe in 2060, and her genes are very good! I am really jealous of you."
David said: "If we wait patiently for a few more years, the headquarters will send the souls of people other than the advance army and scientific researchers to the new world, and then we can be reunited with our respective families."
Joseph said, "You don't have to wait that long, Steve!"
At this time, a marmoset officer beside David took out a black ultra-miniature pistol and pressed it against David's temple.
David suddenly became furious. Although he raised his hands, he still shouted: "Steve, Joseph! Are you crazy?"
Joseph chuckled, and then said: "Now, I am the boss here! Steve, after you lock him up later, you can put the soul that you received a few days ago into the place you stole at that time.
The body of the white baby girl whose DNA was changed. In addition, the rebirth work of the eight scientists I designated before remains unchanged."
David continued to curse: "Damn it, nine scientists, who did you give up? They are all human treasures!"
Joseph said to Steve Smith: "That short, ugly woman who liked to contradict me when she was on Earth, since her body has not been cloned, then delete her data."
David scolded again: "Beast! When did you become so shameless and cruel? It's not that the hard drive has insufficient memory. Vanessa is your student. Keep her well and put her new body in the future when the number of cloning chambers increases.
Isn’t it possible?”
Joseph smiled and said: "Look, you know that Vanessa likes to contradict me. So, I just want to enjoy the pleasure of being a god. If I don't obey, even my students will not get preferential treatment. Besides, her
The backup is still on the earth, isn't it? It's just been frozen, and you can no longer run around in the database world to disgust others. I'm tired, move me to the nursery, and you can go and do your own business."
David continued to shout loudly: "It turns out those rumors were true. I didn't believe it at first! In fact, it was because you had snatched Vanessa's research results that she..."
Before David could finish shouting, Steve waved to his confidants. Some of the marmoset officers and soldiers covered David's mouth, while others lifted him up and dragged him to a row of cabins not far away.
Chapter completed!