After saying goodbye to Li Zhendong and greeting several friends, Zhang Yuan came to the reporting office and met the teacher who had been away for a long time - Academician Ding.

"Zhang Yuan, count it, we haven't met for a thousand years. In a blink of an eye, you are already an older young man over a thousand years old." Academician Ding was in a good mood and made a small joke.

"teacher……"

Zhang Yuan silently discovered that Academician Ding had become much older and looked like an old man in his seventies or eighties.

Maybe it is because of the frequent awakening. Fortunately, with some longevity medicines in the biological laboratory, I am not as old as before when I was in my seventies or eighties, but I am still in the peak period of my career.

Academician Ding patted his shoulder: "This New Year is mainly for the New Civilization History Conference, which will take three months later. If you have anything to say, you can raise it then."

"By the way, we have read your doctoral thesis. It is not difficult to pass the defense. However, it is just a doctoral degree in the history of new civilizations, which is equivalent to a doctoral degree in science."

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "It should be okay for a doctor of science..."

Another old professor also smiled and said, "I think the psy function you proposed is still very valuable for reference... I have a few more questions to ask you."

Several people discussed for an hour, about academic aspects, and some things that happened on Earth.

Since it is the New Year, it will inevitably be busier. Equipment such as nuclear power plants must be repaired and inspected, and all aspects of the spacecraft will be conducted in all aspects, including communication devices, inventory counting, etc.

"You have just woken up from hibernation and have not fully recovered yet. Let's take a rest for a week."

"Learn about the entire spacecraft and the changes in Earth civilization..."

Zhang Yuan nodded.

Half an hour later, Zhang Yuan returned to his bedroom.

It's time to learn about the latest progress in Earth civilization.

After checking his luggage, he found that his phone was broken and he couldn't turn it on, but the tablet was still usable. He was a little suspicious. Maybe the next time he woke up, he wouldn't even use the tablet. At that time, he could only get a very old-fashioned black and white screen working computer.

Shaking his head, Zhang Yuan sat upright in front of the computer and took a deep breath.

I remember that when he hibernated last time, with Mars as the dividing line, the internal and external political circles of the solar system were in a cold war.

The main reason is the class contradiction caused by the gap between the rich and the poor.

The Cold War is just a way to divert internal conflicts.

He sighed in his heart: "I don't know if it has been resolved now, five hundred years have passed. It is impossible for the Cold War to have been five hundred years, right?"

Click on the oldest report: "Dear Earth Age, colleagues from the Golden Sun, everyone. I am Ding Quan, the president of the Deep Space Foundation..."

The familiar opening remarks give people a very reassuring feeling.

Under the impact of time, the earth's civilization has long changed things and everything familiar gradually disappears. The Deep Space Foundation is already the only trustworthy organization on the earth.

The report reads: "Under the dark clouds of war, internal contradictions are gradually slowing down and populist sentiment is rising."

"I regret to inform you that the Deep Space Foundation belongs to the inner ring political circle of the solar system... We no longer know the various data of the inner ring political circle."

Including economic data, Engel coefficient, Gini index, industrial index, etc., the Deep Space Foundation can only make estimates through various external manifestations.

"But unfortunately, relying on the Cold War to resolve internal conflicts soon led to new problems..."

The first problem is that housing prices on the earth are beginning to collapse.

War is about to break out, and even local wars have broken out on the Martian battlefield. With this risk appetite, housing prices cannot continue to rise, and people only want to hide from Venus and Mercury, which are even more conducive to the fire.

More and more people are starting to sell their houses on Earth and flee to safer Mercury and Venus. Finally one day, house prices begin to collapse.

The collapse was so fast that the government departments had not even reacted to make response decisions. In just one year, rooms in many cities were cut in half.

The collapse of housing prices has turned many people carrying mortgage loans into negative assets overnight.

Since you are all in debt, what mortgage will you pay?

So the group of negative-asset people broke the contract directly and didn't want the house anymore. They patted their butts and ran away from the earth.

The bank is in trouble now, and has no choice but to accept a lot of non-performing assets, and it is impossible to deal with it in such a harsh economic environment.

Coupled with various asset transfers and bank runs, banks began to fail to support them.

As a result, as soon as the bank collapsed, the capital chain was broken, and other industries began to fall one after another...

A tsunami-like financial crisis swept across the earth's political circle and caused a huge blow to the entire economy!

The original Earth political circle relied on Mercury and the Moon's two heavy industrial bases, plus the Earth with a deep foundation, and its economic strength was much stronger than that of the external political circle. However, after a financial baptism, its strength was greatly damaged and both sides reached the same starting line.

Zhang Yuan sighed.

Click on the next report, and the beginning is just a bad news.

"Hello everyone, colleagues of the Earth Age, Golden Sun. I am Ma Tengfei, president of the Deep Space Foundation..."

“…I’m sorry to inform you that due to the economic downturn, the Deep Space Foundation’s budget has been reduced again. We cannot afford the high cost of sending the message next time.”

"terribly sorry."

“We promise that when the funding is sufficient, we will find a way to send the next message.”

“I’m really sorry.”

The president said a lot of "I'm sorry".

It does require huge amounts of funds to send huge amounts of information in units of pb based on light years.

Starting from this report, as time goes by, the interval between the Deep Space Foundation sending messages has begun to grow longer and longer. Now, no one will recall the ambitious Deep Space Plan when the economy is down, and everyone just cares about themselves.

Zhang Yuan didn't know how to describe his mood.

The Deep Space Foundation, this original behemoth, finally headed for its true decline in the midst of wind and rain...

Among the various intermittent reports, we can know that the Cold War lasted for a total of 120 years.

Destruction is always simpler than being built. Various space weapons cannot directly destroy the planet, but they can easily destroy various ecosystems.

For example, in various space cities, a few lasers can cause the air inside to leak, and lasers can't intercept any of them. The huge earth is simply a moving target, and it's too easy to destroy the ozone layer with various weapons, but it can cause major changes to the earth's ecological environment...

Especially various genetic weapons and biological weapons, the cost is very small and the destructive power is huge. It is too easy to kill people on a large scale.

In this tightrope walking situation, governments of all countries maintained restraint with fear and local wars were only carried out on Mars.

Just like the nuclear deterrence at the beginning, when a nuclear bomb is mounted on a launcher, it is the time to have the greatest deterrence. Everyone is fighting for the economy, but they do not want to cause a huge rebound and exterminate themselves.

In this way, 120 years have passed, and no one has completely wiped out one side. With long-term consumption, war-weariness in all regions has become increasingly high.

So, the opportunity for peace finally came slowly...

"Hello everyone, colleagues from Earth Age, Golden Sun. This summer is the year of melting glaciers, and we have ushered in real peace! Thanks to the world, perhaps our civilization can still get out of the trough."

Zhang Yuan was excited.
Chapter completed!