Chapter 392 Tian Zhan

The cooperation between the two groups was something Chen Ming came up with after observing the two projects for some time.

There is no need to say much about the Gaia project.

At present, the existence of negative matter also has a positive effect on the stability of the planet.

It is not just the addition of spatial dimension stability that can be seen from the research report of the negative matter team.

In addition, the negative matter team has confirmed through some simple experiments that people working on the satellite that integrates negative matter can feel a sense of calmness.

It makes people not have too many random thoughts and can concentrate on doing one thing.

Chen Ming himself feels that the negative matter environment is too heavy.

But for ordinary people or some psychics whose perception is not so sensitive, the state of such a planet seems to be just right.

And from confirming the existence of negative matter, or from taking the body of the nightmare of the plane out of the black hole and building the nightmare of the plane space station to date, Chen Ming has not found any problems.

Maybe he really worries too much about negative matter.

If these negative matter are used well, there will be a very good prospect.

If the special existence of these negative substances can be combined with the properties of Gaia, the effect may be very ideal.

That's why Chen Ming had such an idea.

He himself did not participate in the research of negative substances. He promoted this project purely because he felt that it had potential.

Making the planet more special and unique, and bringing some special effects that ordinary planets do not have to people on the planet, this kind of thing is not a loss.

After writing the project plan and the general cooperation plan,

Chen Ming printed a copy and took it to the public space station above the orbit of Gaia by shuttle.

Some research teams that do not need a special working environment are now working here.

All the way to Tian Zhan's office without any obstacles.

When Chen Ming pushed open the door of the office, he happened to see Tian Zhan putting away an opened letter and putting it in the drawer.

Chen Ming didn't care about this. He just looked at the dark circles on Tian Zhan's face and said, "You really need to rest."

"I can still hold on."

When Tian Zhan heard Chen Ming mention this, he changed the subject awkwardly: "Director, what did you come here for today?"

"Well, there is a project I want to ask you if you have any ideas."

"What project?"

Chen Ming deliberately kept it a secret: "I'll tell you about it later."

"I want to ask you about the new project you proposed first?"

"New project? The one about the expansion of Gaia?"

"Yes."

Tian Zhan said awkwardly again: "To be honest, I just had an idea and wrote a paper and started a project to take up a position. If I really want to do it, I definitely can't do it now."

Because this technology is based on climate modification technology, life seeding device technology and Gaia itself, which he and his team are studying.

In short, the plan of this project is to let the life seeding device sow not only organisms that are useful for climate modification, but also Gaia itself.

Expand Gaia's consciousness to other planets, so that other planets can also become Gaia planets.

This is actually the source of inspiration for Chen Ming to fuse negative matter with matter on Gaia to conduct experiments.

But the difficulty of this is not in the same dimension as climate modification or even life seeding.

The former only needs to consider the planet's climate and environment, but seeding Gaia already involves some psychic aspects.

Although it is not too in-depth knowledge of psychic, the difficulty for ordinary people can be imagined.

For example, the ratio of ordinary people to psychic users at the Fanchao Research Institute is about three to one, and this is the top talent recruited from the entire empire.

To keep up with psychics as an ordinary person and conduct research related to psychic, the ability and talent required are not lower than the talent of becoming a psychic.

Both Chen Ming and Tian Zhan are aware of this and the difficulty of this project.

But this project was brought up by Tian Zhan, and Chen Ming is also very interested, so...

"I think it's good and has great potential. Don't you really consider doing it?"

Tian Zhan is still very happy that someone, especially Chen Ming, recognizes his project, but it's still not possible to do it.

He said tactfully: "I really want to do this project, but you also know that I have two projects on hand now."

Chen Ming immediately said: "How can I let you do it now? I just came to ask you if you have any ideas later. I still hope that you can do it later. This looks really good."

"I will definitely do it if I have the chance."

"Okay."

Chen Ming just asked casually, and after asking, it was time to get down to business.

He handed the project file he had just written for the cooperation of the two groups to Tian Zhan, and explained his ideas next to him.

He prefers to take out the matter with planetary consciousness from Gaia rather than bring negative matter to Gaia.

Even if the negative matter seems to be no longer dangerous, it is hard to say what will happen when it comes into contact with Gaia.

That's why he wanted Tian Zhan to do this.

Anyway, the main group is still the negative matter group, and the two groups collaborate on things like the Gaia plant.

Tian Xian doesn't need to worry too much, just put a name on it and distribute some materials.

Tian Zhang also heard about the negative material project team mentioned by Chen Ming.

But he has never been to the satellite that has been fused with a huge amount of negative matter, and he does not know the specific situation of the negative matter.

He was actually very interested in Chen Ming's thoughts.

However, he still did not agree: "But I may not be able to take responsibility for the time being, because I may have to ask for a leave from you. I have something to go back to my hometown for something, and then I will have time."

"Personal leave? No problem, it's good."

Tian Xiang did not say anything, and Chen Ming did not dwell on this point.

"You should take advantage of this leave to rest more. When you come back, rest and finish your original work before working on this project."

"I have given you permission to go to the fairy tree. You should go there more when you have nothing to do. Staying next to the tree is also good for your spirit."

Tian Xiang nodded honestly this time. After all, the only thing he could rely on to survive until now was the fairy tree.

"I will issue the leave note to you when the time comes. You can fill in the length yourself."

Chen Ming came here to chat with Tian Xian, to see his attitude, and to ask some questions.

After asking, it’s time for him to leave.

He still has to go to the negative matter project team and ask for their opinions.

Chen Ming moved quickly.

The negative matter project team has quite a few ideas for this new project he proposed.

Both the team leader and the team members were very interested.

After all, Chen Ming's Gaia planet is not open to too many people yet, and the people who can be contacted are only a handful even in his entire territory and entire empire.

The negative matter project had no connection with the planet Gaia before, so of course there was no chance of contact.

However, the team seemed quite disappointed when they learned that Gaia had unilaterally provided them with Gaia plants for testing, but they still did not reject the clever offer.

This project has finally been established. As long as Tian Xian comes back from leave, he can start preliminary research on this new project.

And over there at Tian Xiang.

After Chen Ming left his office.

He planned to take a field trip to a satellite that incorporates a large amount of negative matter to experience the "stable" feeling for himself.

The level of authority that Chen Ming gave to Tian Xiang was quite high, and he could wander around in most places at will.

After all, he is currently the only talent who has moved from a relatively loose department in the empire with an entire department of several hundred people, so he must be treated well.

Even the Minister of Imperial Psychics came over to talk to Chen Ming about this matter before, but in the end he had to find someone to organize a new department.

Tian Xian was also very decisive in his actions.

He immediately took the shuttle boat and ran to the satellite of Gaia on the other side of the wormhole.

And when he set foot on the satellite surface.

A psychological heaviness enveloped him.

Allow him to get rid of some messy thoughts and focus all his attention.

Tian Xiang did not leave the shuttle boat very far, but just walked around for a while.

Then I took out the terminal, opened a research document, and looked at it for a while.

When he focuses on one thing, he can feel that his mental state is more stable.

Sure enough, seeing it once is better than hearing it a hundred times.

After incorporating negative matter, this originally just an ordinary habitable satellite has indeed become a very unique planet.

However, after Tian Huan concentrated for a period of time, he felt that his mind was a little too heavy.

This state of excessive concentration for a long time made him feel a little uncomfortable.

So he took out a small glass jar from his pocket, which contained a small handful of fairy leaves, which Chen Ming allowed to pick.

Tian Xuan took out a leaf from the jar and put it in his mouth. After chewing it for a few times, he felt that the heavy feeling was lighter and his mental state was better.

He nodded slightly and completely understood why Chen Ming would bring up such a project.

Depart from the satellite.

Tian Xiang did not return to the office.

Before he left just now, he had almost packed everything that needed to be packed, and the leave application form had also been drawn up.

After sending the leave request note to Chen Ming.

Tian Zhang boarded the spacecraft that day and arrived at the headquarters of the Fourteenth Army Corps, and boarded a cruise-class passenger ship of a private aerospace company.

He was silent all the way.

I usually rest in the guest room of the passenger ship. When I have enough rest, I turn on my laptop and terminal to process files, and I hardly do any other actions.

It took him three days on the road to reach his hometown.

Tian Xuan's hometown is not prosperous and not in the edge star field. It is just a very ordinary star field, star region, galaxy and planet.

He changed to several different types of transportation in succession, and finally arrived in a car near the outskirts of a colony on his home planet.

There is a high-end community here, and he has a small single-family villa in the community.

It was just getting dark when Tian Zhang came back, and no light could be seen outside the room.

It happened that the neighbor was going to go out to walk his dog at this time. When he saw Tian Xiang, he took the initiative to say hello: "Old Tian is back."

Although they are just neighbors, the neighbor next door seems to have a hint of respect for Tian Xuan's tone when talking.

"Um."

Tian Xian nodded and said hello. Just as he was about to take the key to open the door, his neighbor reminded him: "Well... my sister-in-law moved some time ago."

Tian Xian stopped inserting the key into the keyhole. He seemed not surprised by this situation, but his expression still became gloomy.

"Where are you going?"

"I don't know either."

"oh."

Tian Zhang said, opened the door and walked into the room.

The neighbor didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing anymore, so he turned around and left.

Walked around the house.

Tian Xian found that there were many things missing from the three bedrooms at home, except those that belonged to him.

Seeing that the ground and almost all the furniture dealers were covered in dust, he could probably guess how long ago the people who lived here left.

He walked into the garage of the villa without hesitation, where there was a shuttle boat.

He boarded the shuttle and drove it towards the other end of the planet after the shuttle started.

Tian Xuan's house belongs to the city, and the place he is about to go to is an area that is almost purely covered by different types of vegetation.

He is going to the country.

Said it was the countryside. In fact, it is an agricultural division specially planned during the planet planning, specializing in the production of various crops and livestock products, supplying food and foreign trade products in this area to the colonies.

The things produced are very basic and the income is not high, so the dope areas on these planets have always been called "countryside" among the people of the empire.

Of course, this countryside is also relative.

There are still high-rise buildings here, and there are still large-scale industrial equipment, but they are not as dense as real urban zoning and industrial zoning.

And there are also full-time farmers here, not just farmers with large amounts of land.

Even planets in prosperous star regions have places like slums. Of course, in galaxies that are not prosperous star regions, there will also be farmers who cannot afford large-scale industrial harvesters.

Anyway, with government protection, if you grow some grain, fruits and vegetables, you will definitely not die of hunger.

After all, the truly cheap food on the market must be food synthesized in factories.

Fruits and vegetables are not luxury goods, but they are certainly more expensive than synthetic foods.

Tian Xuan drove the shuttle boat and looked at the farmland below that was far larger than the earth's age, as well as the harvesters harvesting mature crops in the farmland, and couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic in his eyes.

However, he quickly put away this feeling and drove the shuttle boat to land in a farm.

There is not much people in the farm, only some robots are still working.

However, someone in a building in the farm seemed to have heard the sound of the shuttle boat outside, walked out, and after seeing the style of the shuttle boat clearly, immediately turned around and entered the building, closing the door.

The banging sound of the door easily spread through the night and reached Tian Xiang's ears.

Tian Zhang looked at the door that had just been closed with complicated eyes, and landed the shuttle boat.

After getting off the boat, he straightened his clothes a little and walked towards the building where someone just walked out.

He stood in front of the door, raised his hand and went in to knock on the door.

A cold female voice came from inside: "Get out."

Tian Zhang's raised hand froze there, and his back seemed to be bent.

After a while.

Tian Xiang still did not leave, but looked for the key on himself, inserted it into the keyhole and twisted it.

The door actually opened.

He pushed the door open somewhat unexpectedly.

A woman who looked to be about thirty years old or even younger was sitting at the table in the living room, holding a small pink wooden box in her hands.

When she saw Tian Xuan push the door open and come in, her gentle face changed instantly, and she said to Tian Xuan as coldly as before: "Get out."

"If we haven't seen each other for several years, you might as well treat us as dead."

"...I'm working on a previous project."

Tian Xian hesitated for a while and his explanation seemed a little pale.

This made the woman even more uncomfortable with him: "Who are you doing it for? For yourself?"

Tian Xian opened his mouth, but immediately closed it.

He wanted to talk, wanted to say a lot.

But he didn't know what to say.

He only knows how to write documents, how to write reports, and how to conduct a difficult experiment.

He didn't know how to explain his thoughts to his relatives, the true thoughts hidden in his heart.

He could only continue to speak in a somewhat pale tone: "The project has now taken shape. I am now working under a new big shot. He has helped me a lot."

"The key plants have been found, and the results will be almost within a year at the latest."

The woman's expression changed slightly. It was not the relief of hearing that the results would be available within one year, but an uncontrollable disappointment...and despair.

She didn't see anything in Tian Hua that she hoped for.

"As if you could find any use in researching flowers."

At this time, footsteps suddenly came from upstairs, and a child's voice asked: "Mom? Is dad back?"

Tian Xuan smiled: "Dad is back."

Bang!

Tian Xuan's wife slapped the table and said to the little boy who had just revealed his head upstairs: "Go up and sleep."

"oh."

The little boy hurried upstairs, but he still hid at the corner of the stairs and poked half of his head out to look down carefully.

Tian Zhan's wife pointed her finger at Tian Zhan's nose and scolded: "You...get out!"

Seeing that Tian Zhan did not move, she picked up the pink box she had been stroking just now, rushed to Tian Zhan, pushed him, and pushed him out of the house.

With a trace of tears in her eyes, she made a faint choking voice: "I found something I didn't give you before when I was cleaning the bedroom."

"Take this, go, don't come back, we don't need you."

Tian Zhan shook his head and said: "I can't not come back."

"I would rather you not come back, we can take care of ourselves, we don't need you to worry, you can continue to waste time on your research."

The wife closed the door.

Only Tian Zhan was left standing outside the door holding the box.

Listening to the faint crying coming from the room and the comforting voice of his son coming downstairs, he sighed softly and turned to leave here.

The shuttle did not return to the city, but went to a beautiful place outside the city.

Three days later.

Chen Ming received the news that Tian Zhan wanted to cancel his leave.

After the approval of the cancellation of leave, he took a look at a file on the office computer.

This was the file that he specially investigated the reason for Tian Zhan's leave a few days ago out of curiosity.

It recorded Tian Zhan's identity and background in detail.

It can be seen that Tian Zhan got married when he was very young, but he also divorced when he was also very young.

He and his ex-wife have a son and a daughter.

The son is currently being raised by his ex-wife.

The daughter... died young.

His divorce may also be related to this matter.

Chen Ming has seen many people who pursue work and ignore their families. Tian Zhan's return at this time must be related to his family.

Chen Ming can't intervene in family affairs. He can only try to help as much as he can.

And on Tian Zhan's return spaceship.

He still has one night to reach the legion headquarters.

Before returning to his previous life, he finally mustered up the courage to open the pink box his ex-wife had given him.

Just as his ex-wife had said, this was a relic that her daughter had not found when she died.

It was not until his ex-wife moved and cleaned up the bedroom that she found it.

This was not something his daughter gave to other family members, but something that was left to Tian Zhan alone.

After opening it, a pendant, a letter, and a painting appeared in front of him.

Tian Zhan picked up the emerald green pendant.

He still remembered this.

This was when he was on a business trip a few years ago.

A special gem found on a planet that had undergone climate modification.

It is a unique mineral on the planet that undergoes special changes when it comes into contact with climate modification gases.

It has no practical value, but it is very commemorative.

So Tian Zhan took a small piece, made it into a small pendant, and gave it to his daughter.

Tian Zhan showed a painful look on his face and held the pendant tightly in his palm.

After a long time, he finally calmed down and picked up the painting at the bottom of the small box.

This is a painting drawn with crayons.

His daughter used a khaki crayon to smear the lower left part of the drawing paper in a messy way, and used a black crayon to draw spirals on the upper left part.

On the other half of the painting, his daughter used three kinds of green, bright green, and dark green, to neatly fill the lower right corner, while in the upper right corner are stars and azure sky.

In the center of the picture, there is a spaceship spraying something, bringing green back to this planet that is seriously affected by industrial pollution.

He is painted on the porthole of the spaceship.

On the green grass, there is a small person.

Tian Zhan stared at the little person in the painting for a long time and couldn't move his eyes away. His eyes gradually became red, but no tears flowed.

He didn't dare to open the remaining letter at this time.

He could only lie helplessly on the floor in the room alone.

His ex-wife's words kept ringing in his ears: "Who are you doing this for?"

Tian Zhan didn't know who he was doing this for.

He neglected his family because of the climate modification project, so that his daughter could not get the best medical resources.

After his daughter died, he completely gave up the project for a long time.

This further proves that he didn't take the climate modification project seriously at all.

Until later.

With the idea of ​​atonement or some other reason, he restarted the project that his daughter had said she would do with her father.

In this way, all his actions seemed to be just to make himself feel better.

"Dad, what is climate modification?"

Tian Zhan seemed to have returned to eight years ago and heard his daughter's voice.

He responded instinctively: "Look, isn't it green outside? Climate modification is to change many other colored places into this green."

Tian Zhan asked: "Do you remember the past?"

"I remember, the place we lived in before was black, yellow, and there were many bad smells."

"What about now?"

Tian Zhan seemed to see his daughter raise her hands and make a "big" gesture: "Everywhere is green, the teacher said that green is good."

"Yes, this is what Dad is doing."

"Not just here, there are many places where people have black and yellow. Dad wants to make them green."

Climate modification can not only be used on uninhabitable planets to transform those planets into habitable planets.

It can also be used on planets where industrial resources are exploited all year round and where various industrial pollution is serious.

When a planet's resources are fully developed, many people will leave, and many will stay, or may not be able to leave at all.

Climate change can make these people's living environment better.

Just like Tian Xiang himself.

"Then I want it too!"

"What do you want too?"

"I also want to imitate my father!"

"Then you have to study hard now so that you can do the same thing as dad in the future."

"good!"

Tian Xian felt his heart throbbing, and the scene in front of him also changed.

He could see himself traveling back several years, to his younger days before he had a beard.

At that time, he was very high-spirited, and no matter what he did, he had a drive and energy that no one else had.

"The project is being developed in a closed manner and all external communications will be abandoned for the next two months."

"If you have something to do, quit now. If you have nothing to do, work harder!"

Then...it was all gray.

The daughter's body turned up at the morgue.

This is an extremely rare condition.

If he had been there at that time and could have been contacted, relying on his connections, he would have definitely been able to find doctors with sufficient skills elsewhere, but he was not there.

He sat slumped in front of the equipment where the experimental project had been completed, his eyes as silent as death.

Suddenly Tian Xiang woke up from his nightmare.

Although what just happened was just a dream, the reality is the same.

He did not see his daughter for the last time, and all his ex-wife left him was a divorce agreement.

At that time, he was unable to recover, which affected the normal operation of the entire climate change department.

The superiors still valued him and did not remove him from his position.

But this department itself has no future. People are scattered, and sometimes there are only five people in a department.

Until he saw a video.

The video shows his daughter talking to his unfit father about her ideals at the end, and wanting to work with him to bring green to everyone.

As a result, Tian Huan regained his composure and devoted himself to climate change projects like a madman again than before.

He reorganized his manpower, looking for people with lofty ideals and people who had the same aspirations.

Some people's home planet is not a perfectly habitable planet.

There are also people whose hometowns, like Tian Xuan's, are an industrial planet after resources have been developed.

Climate modification technology has very special value to these people.

Relying on the same ideal, Tian Xuan has gathered more and more people, each of whom is worthy of trust.

These people are Tian Xuan’s foundation after re-establishing the Department of Climate Change.

This is also the reason why he promised Chen Ming to keep most of the people when he joined Chen Ming's side.

Tian Xiang returned to the Climate Change Department.

Five days later.

Gaia planet.

As usual, Chen Ming goes to the planet Gaia to see the fairy tree once a week.

I happened to see Tian Xian next to the fairy tree that was now two or two stories high.

His mental state is much better than before.

Chen Ming said hello and said, "I've had a good rest, it's pretty good."

Tian Xian touched the corners of his eyes subconsciously, and indeed did not feel any serious bags or dark circles under his eyes.

He nodded and remained silent.

But Chen Ming didn't want to remain silent. He asked, "Are you worried about anything these days?"

As a psychic, Chen Ming can be said to be very sensitive to the status of people around him.

And Tian Xuan has been in a very bad state since she came back from her last leave.

Although his mental state was better, something seemed wrong about him.

He seemed to have something on his mind.

Tian Xiang opened his mouth.

The knot in his heart still lies in what his ex-wife said to him.

"Who are you doing this for?"

He didn't know whether his purpose was for his daughter or for himself.

He could only reluctantly explain: "I'm just...a little confused."

"What are you confused about?"

"I heard that you are very strict about the people who join you. You must know my background, right?"

"right."

"I was wondering...what am I doing for?"

Chen Ming recalled Tian Xiang's situation and could probably guess what he was confused about.

So he thought about it and said, "I said it a little bit harshly, but you can just curse me in your heart."

"Let me ask you, is the funeral for the living or for the dead?"

"A living person?"

"No, for others it's for the living."

"But for real families, funerals are for the dead."

Chen Ming once had no family, but he does now.

And in the process, he also came into contact with many people who valued their families, such as Bai Quan, and even had a quarrel with Bai Quan over this matter.

Regarding matters related to his relatives, Chen Ming felt that he could still talk a little bit.

Tian Xuan looked at Chen Ming, his eyes still full of confusion.

"I feel like what I'm doing doesn't make sense."

"?"

Chen Ming didn't understand why Tian Xiang suddenly got involved in the three major questions of life, but he didn't know what Tian Xiang said specifically.

"Let me ask you, why did you first do this project?"

"for……"

Tian Xuan wanted to say it, but stopped mid-sentence.

Because he couldn't recall why he went back to work on this project in the first place.

But gradually, he remembered.

He thought of a few people among the dust and pollution in the sky.

And the faces with genuine smiles as the entire planet undergoes climate change.

The confusion in Tian Xuan's eyes gradually dissipated.

Chen Ming felt that Tian Xuan seemed to need some time alone, so he turned around and prepared to leave.

"Just think about it more."

Tian Xuan looked at Chen Ming's back and hesitated several times to say something.

But he still couldn't speak.

Until Chen Ming felt his movements, he turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tian Xian finally asked: "Can you take some samples of the soil under the fairy tree?"

Chen Ming said with an expression that was just for this: "Okay, just don't hurt the roots."

After Chen Ming left.

Tian Xiang did not go to the spacecraft to get tools, but directly started digging out the soil under the trunk of the fairy tree with his hands.

This soil should have been extremely hard nourished by the spiritual energy of the fairy tree.

But Tian Xuan dug up all the soil easily with his hands.

He didn't know why, but he knew what he was going to do.

He took away some soil and quietly buried his daughter's relic, the green gem pendant, under the roots of the tree.

The fairy tree, and the Gaia consciousness that is now shared with the fairy tree, are his hope and the most critical existence to realize his and his daughter's ideals.

It was like a ceremony similar to a funeral.

Let him completely let go and remember the past.