Chapter 425
Chapter 425: Thoughts
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Zhang San looked out at the empty darkness . Meteorite pieces of varying sizes were floating freely, their occasional collisions causing them to split into even smaller pieces . This… was the edge of the New Solar System, the place where all the remnants that didn't form into an actual planets congregated and where comets were formed . This… was a forbidden zone for life .
The general temperature was lower than -220 degree, lowest at -250 degree . In this place of zero vacuum space, exposure would mean fatality . Furthermore, due to the location's long distance from the City of Light Moon, being accidentally deserted would mean certain death .
This was why the progress of the first defense line was delayed until the latter half of the 24th year . The first batch of construction crews consisted of mostly Defense Unit soldiers . According to Guang Zhen, the Defense Unit was a troop that inherited the spirit of humanity that was not afraid of difficulty and sacrifice as long as it would be able to help the progress of humanity . The first set of projects for the first defense line were going to be carried out by Defense Unit using the AI robots to create a temporary stronghold .
This was on the biggest meteorite among the loose cluster . The meteorite was about one-seventh the size of the Light Moon, and the stronghold was built within the meteorite… Naturally, it had to be built underground and not the open way like the City of Light Moon because one, the project would be too large, two, it would be too open to attack . In comparison, having it underground would help with defense .
However, due to the harsh environment, when the first draft of the stronghold was completed, three soldiers were sacrificed due to an accident . They couldn't even retrieve one of their bodies . Due to this incident, Guang Zhen was brought before the military tribunal and his plan of using the Defense Unit soldiers to build the first defense line was thus brought to a close .
In fact, he should have seen this coming . The Defense Unit soldiers consisted of a large amount of western soldiers, and one of the zeitgeists among these soldiers was personal human rights . In the current human government, the group that had the greatest benefit behind the scientists was not the representatives but these soldiers . To put it simply, Guang Zhen wanted to use these soldiers as disposable builders? Impossible!
To prevent Guang Zhen from doing that, the human government shifted a large amount of money and resources to aid in the construction of the first defense line . They also handpicked a large amount of engineers to join the construction crew that would build the first defense line base .
Zhang San was one of the engineers selected . When they were searching for engineers to join the project, he volunteered . His reason wasn't because he loved humanity so much or thought the first defense line was important, no, he did it because after a year of training at the first defense line, he would become a senior engineer assistant, one step closer to being an actual senior engineer . The benefits he would get would be greater than the ones he got now as a new engineer… After all, Zhang San's family still owed a large amount of housing debt . Even though the loan didn't have high interest rates, he wished to clear it as soon as possible . After all, he wished to marry his girlfriend when she graduated from university . It was why he ended up there .
Initially, Zhang San thought the job would be easy . After all, human technology was already so advanced . Even though the conditions there would be harsh, there wouldn't be any threats to his safety . He only needed to suffer through one year and a bright future awaited him . However, when he arrived there, he would understand the true meaning of loneliness, silence, and isolation…
Yes, the overall feeling Zhang San had when he was working there was loneliness, the loneliness of humanity in the greater cosmos, the sense of helplessness and insignificance . He could see the cosmos from the City of Light Moon, but at least then he was surrounded by his family, friends, girlfriend, and the general public to offset the sense of loneliness, but here, that feeling of loneliness was amplified several times over . In fact, it had taken over his mind .
He wished to return, to return to the City of Light Moon, to the company of friends!
This wish continued to get amplified . Zhang San knew that this was some kind of psychological sickness . In fact, he had sought out the help of the stronghold's psychologist and was given prescription drugs, but it was no use . The feeling kept growing, and if not for his own force of will, he would have gone crying to beg for them to send him back to the City of Light Moon .
"There's only six months left, then I will be released from the clutches of this loneliness…"
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