Chapter 2351 Efforts
There are only seven people left in the world, and no one can explain why this happened. Although they have not gone to the mainland to confirm, they can infer from the infinitely silent radio that humans are finished.
So in the face of Duran's question, these smart people have to face the reality, that is, what should they do? Try to have children and reproduce, or hope that the petrified people can recover one day?
In short, they must do something, and they can't continue to live in this muddleheaded way.
To be honest, the two youngest astronauts can't accept the reality and have been trying to escape, but escape is useless, at least in this doomsday environment.
"I believe that humans will be able to untie the petrification one day, I believe it." This is the uncle of the island country, and he does not give up.
"As long as we are here, humanity will not end." The only couple encouraged each other. They are legally married and in their prime, and can have many, many children.
They have actually considered the future, but they only said it now.
"Yes, but I think it's not enough. If humans really reach the critical point of survival, we must play to our own characteristics as tools and spread our best skills. At that time, it will be useful whether the new humans rise or the old humans revive."
What are you good at?
Of course, they, the astronauts, have their own skills. Except for the singers who paid to go to space, the others are engineers. They are elites with strong hands-on ability and good theoretical level. However, their skills need to be coordinated with modern machines. On this deserted island, they can't use their skills.
"The main reason is that this place is too remote. If we land on the mainland, find a city, and have a dozen or twenty babies, we can inherit some technology." Duran also felt it was a pity that the last few people of mankind fell on this deserted island with no birds and shit. There was no machine around, and they had to open up the wasteland with their bare hands. The machines in the city are so old and vacant. If the descendants of astronauts can't go to the land, then modern industrial civilization will end.
"Yes." They also thought so: "But there is only one broken boat on the island, and there is no way to cross the sea. The risk is too great." This is not wrong. Their landing point is far away from the nearest continent. There are only a few people left, and they can't take risks.
"But we won't go. When a few of us die, even if we have many descendants, they won't know how to operate the machine."
Everyone was silent at this point, and the future was bleak.
"Humans are really too small, and they are not worth mentioning in front of the mysterious and unpredictable universe." Only at this moment can we really feel the insignificance of human beings. What about entering the universe? What about scientific discoveries? In the end, it's not a green light that petrifies everything.
"So we can't rely on machines anymore. We must turn our hands into lathes, our eyes into instruments, and let our descendants all become tool people. Only in this way can the miracle of industry be reproduced again." Duran put forward his own ideas.
"You mean to train all the children to be technicians?"
Duran thought that he was talking about tools, but they understood that it was okay to be technicians: "That's about right."
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Even technicians need tools. How can people use their skills with only ten fingers?
"I have my own way, but I have to start with the children. You are just three pairs, so you can try to have children." Duran encouraged them to have children.
The two virgin girls blushed. They were indeed interested in the two bachelors, but they hadn't revealed it yet.
But Duran still said realistically: "If you want to have children, have them sooner. There are no hospitals now, and there is a shortage of doctors and medicines. A cold can wipe out the last human beings. Moreover, there is a shortage of food on the island, which shows that everyone will fall into malnutrition in the future. When the time comes, having another child will be a struggle with the god of death, and it will kill people if it is not handled properly." "Also, we have to collect as much garbage as possible from the sea. These industrial wastes are our treasures. Now you must regret not dumping more garbage into the sea."
"..."This guy is really annoying.
In fact, after Duran appeared, the two bachelors had a sense of crisis, but now they feel that Duran's mouth is really unpleasant, and the sense of crisis is less. It is impossible not to have a sense of crisis, because now it is one carrot and one pit, and there is no possibility of picking and choosing.
Duran did not want to compete with them for the right to mate, but began to live a life of survival on a deserted island. Collecting materials, especially industrial waste, those garbage washed up on the island by the waves have become treasures.
"Everyone collects all the metals and puts them in glass bottles." The island uncle said so, because he believed that the old humans would not end like this. If the old humans have a day to restart, these difficult-to-extract metals may become artifacts to help them.
The return warehouse that fell on the beach was moved to the center of the island to prevent the typhoon from blowing the return warehouse away. These people have also made plans to live on the island forever.
"Children give birth to children, and children's children will give birth to children. The resources on this island are limited, so after a few generations, children will definitely leave the island to find land. We must pass on the way to go to land." As modern people, we must think about the future and plan for the future.
"Not only that, we also need to pass on the knowledge we know through poems, stories and so on." The girls began to collect knowledge and write content such as nursery rhymes so that they can be passed on in the future.
Duran did not live with these six people. He chose to live alone on the other side of the island. After all, masters are independent.
In this way, they spent three years on the island, and three pairs of men and women were successfully paired. Life on the island made them look ten years older. In addition, having children took away the nutrition of women, so women looked much older.
Today, the island was full of sorrow, because the youngest woman was sick. At first, she just coughed, but now she is coughing up blood. It is obviously a lung infection and she is terminally ill.
There is no way to treat people trapped on the deserted island. The woman’s husband cried and shouted that he wanted to go out to sea to find medicine. As long as he found the medicine on the mainland, he could cure his wife.
But the vast ocean, Ye Ye was alone in the boat. Even if he found the mainland by chance, how could he come back? It is better for them to spend the time wasted back and forth.
Finally, death is coming. There are only a few human beings. One less will die. Watching death coming, the remaining astronauts felt that death was so terrible and cruel.
In the steel jungle, they didn’t feel that death would be so powerful, because they had medical institutions, doctors, nurses and antibiotics, but now they were defenseless in the natural environment, just ants in front of the god of death, and a small disease or disaster could take their lives.
Everyone was crying. Things that they didn’t understand before, living under the protection of industrial civilization, now finally understood. They understood why the ancients worshipped wind, rain, thunder and lightning, why they were afraid of poisonous scorpions and beasts, and why human genes were so afraid of green shadows.
Because wild animals like to hide in green shadows to ambush humans, and humans are also best at finding enemies in green shadows.