Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 556 - 553: The Greatest Endeavor

Mr. Fang continued, "In the 21st century, to protect the environment, a certain country abandoned its nuclear industry. A few years later, also in the name of environmental protection and carbon reduction, the same country picked up nuclear industry again. What kind of losses did that cause? You see, the public is so confused, they don’t even know what they are chasing after."

"The main reason is that they don’t know how to plan, they don’t know how to find their own pursuits in the long human life."

Wang Haifeng, who was very old and had experienced a lot, sighed after hearing this.

Indeed, nothing is eternal, and nothing is perfect.

Initial fantasies are always beautiful, but in the end? It is very likely not as imagined; humans are a Short-lived Species, and many human behavior patterns are designed according to the form of the Short-lived Species.

Once, a young couple moved into the community. Every time I happened to see them, I could see the boy uncontrollably squeezing the girl’s hand or face from time to time, obviously very much in love.

The girl would laugh at him and occasionally give him a stern look, just like the love between young people.

"... If they get along well, they should get married. Maybe they could be together in the next life too," I often heard that girl saying to others.

Finding a lifelong partner is every girl’s dream.

Marriage, in this age, slowly became a very sacred thing, many people never get married in their lifetime, like Wang Haifeng who remained single his whole life, but it really doesn’t matter.

Their small room was also the cleanest and most tidy in the entire community. The girl always kept the room neat and orderly.

However, when their two-year lease was up, the boy applied to move out, leaving the girl alone.

Upon hearing about this, Uncle Wang, as a member of the neighborhood committee, had to inquire about the situation.

But the girl just said indifferently to Wang Haifeng, "Uncle Wang, we broke up. I’m pretty fine living alone now."

There are many stories like this in the world, so many that no one cares, not even the girl herself.

It was just a small romance in a long life; feelings are simple, they come quickly and go quickly too. The long life cannot be disturbed by such a small matter.

After a few months, Wang Haifeng visited the house and found it dirty and messy, obviously not tidied up for a long time.

The girl also didn’t seem too spirited, her hair was messy, but it was not really due to the impact of the breakup; it was just her nature.

She would clean up when she had a boyfriend, but without the stimulus of a boyfriend, having lost love, she just reverted to her original state.

Wang Haifeng really wanted to talk to her about taking care of the house, since building houses here wasn’t easy, it was a shared facility for everyone. But he suddenly remembered her social media post when she first rented the place: "Bought a new tablecloth, added two bright cushions on the sofa, even fresh flowers on the desk, looking thriving," probably just like their love at the time, and he held back his words.

Flowers are always a part of the Short-lived Species, people marvel at their beauty when blooming, but no one cares about them when they wither, not knowing the withering time is much longer than the blooming time.

Humans are also a Short-lived Species, so they only care about momentary pleasures, yet do not realize the lengthy mundane life after those pleasures.

Love, passion, many goals produced by human physiological mechanisms, are not long-lasting; the happiness brought by hormones is only for a very brief period, it made this girl temporarily become clean, love doing housework, become better.

But after the love disappeared, the goal disappeared too.

This is exactly the fundamental difference between the Short-lived Species and the Longevity Species; the Short-lived Species control themselves through hormones and cannot last long, as for the Longevity Species... perhaps that’s a different mode.

Wang Haifeng sighed, "Wanting to become another ideological form of the Longevity Species is really... very difficult indeed."

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Time flew by hastily...

I witnessed Big Ice Ball establishing one astronomical observation device after another.

Most of the work above that Planet Fortress was essentially complete.

This incident could not help but bring tears to people’s eyes, they had finished it, truly finished it!

Wang Haifeng, old and frail, was now 480 years old, and at this hoary age, he was surprisingly honored as one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Models of Civilization"!

In fact, he hadn’t done anything, really hadn’t done anything... In such a long life, there weren’t many things that could be frequently recalled, no earth-shattering events, doing similar work every day.

This was just the normal state of an ordinary person, why should he be named one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Models of Civilization"?

In front of the reporters’ interview, in front of the dense crowd, Wang Haifeng was a bit at a loss for words, he couldn’t hear clearly what these young people were so excited about. This kind of thing was also a first for him in his life.

Perhaps, occasionally, people needed some heroic figures as role models? And he had become such a hero.

"Please say something to our generation of young people?"

The microphone was handed to him, standing on the stage were engineers and scientists, not a single government official.

Heroes belong to the people.

Wang Haifeng thought for a long time, his thoughts seemed to return to the huge shock he felt the first time he witnessed a planet exposed from a long distance when he was young.

The endless Planet Engine emitted blazing flames, piercing through the dense haze before his eyes, directly impacting his heart. As long as it did not work, it would collide with the Big Ice Ball behind it!

Some of his classmates were already complaining about the unfairness of future life, and the teacher’s toneless reply, "Do you want to succeed, or fail?"

Plus, an unsolved mystery: What is the greatest endeavor in the world?

At this moment, Wang Haifeng seemed to have found an answer.

The greatest endeavor was about to end.

It’s good, really so good...

Having gone through numerous hardships, and also experienced laughter and tears.

We smoothed out the obstacles ahead,

Attributed the glory to our mother.

The youth we once had stays in ancient times,

The ambition we once had remains in the flattened circular mountain.

To make you stand proud among the forests of the world,

For you, our mother,

To make you stronger,

We persisted.

Countless days and nights,

Some gave up,

Some retreated,

But we persisted relentlessly.

I always believed, I will never stop, I will fight to the end!

Mom, I love you deeply.

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