[BL, MTL] The Future Of A Full-Time Doctor

Extra (04)

The spacecraft has been in near-earth orbit for nearly three hours.

Wu Chenghe looked at the vast universe outside through the porthole. The blue planet was slowly rotating around the huge yellow dwarf, with light yellow clouds circling in the slightly turbid atmosphere, and red spots on the ground looming.

"The probe is back." Jin Xuan walked behind him at some point and put his hands on his shoulders. "The intelligence shows that the shuttle can land in an hour."

"Oh." Wu Chenghe responded softly, and he couldn't tell whether he was looking forward to it or anxious. The unforgettable mother star was outside the window. Although it was more than a thousand years away and no longer had the pure and beautiful color of the past, it still had a fatal attraction to his floating ghost.

"What's the matter?" Jin Xuan noticed that his eyes were a little wrong and asked worriedly, "If you don't want to go down, let's fly around the equator and have a look. The environmental damage of the home planet is too serious. I'm afraid you can't stand it emotionally."

"Oh, no." Wu Chenghe cheered up, "I'm just a little... timid. You know, give me some time to be quiet."

"All right." Jin Xuan rubbed his hair and left the observation cabin to him alone. "I'll get you something to eat. Will the restaurant be in half an hour?"

"Okay."

The observation module returned to quiet, and Wu Chenghe sat in a work chair, adjusting the observatory to find a suitable intervention point through the clouds. Returning to the earth is his long-cherished wish. For Jin Xuan, the distant planet is just a brief introduction in the textbook, but for him, it carries all the memories of his hometown and relatives.

"I'm back."

Two hours later, the all-terrain shuttle flew across the atmosphere to the earth. In the cabin, the holographic screen displays the monitoring results sent back by the probe group in real time: the Asia-Europe 6 is still not suitable for human survival, especially in the East Asian area, the soil desertification, the large area of plants withering, the surface is pervasive with toxic gas, and the rare trace of animals... More than 900 years, the earth has still failed to digest the legacy of human beings. Everything.

Jin Xuan controlled the shuttle to change the channel in the stratosphere, gradually turned to fly parallel to the ground, and then slowly crossed the troposphere in a smooth tangent and hovered five kilometers above the ground.

The northwest desert appeared in front of him. Through the front window, Wu Chenghe saw a large area of yellow sand stretching in his vision. The air was yellow and dirty, mixed with fine sand and gravel. The wind blew by, and the withered camel grass rolled on the sand. The distance within sight is the outline of the Great Wall. The towering tower of Jiayuguan is like an ancient totem, leaving a desolate silhouette in the vast world.

"Is that wall the Great Wall?" Jin Xuan asked.

"Yes, the westernmost starting point of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty." Wu Chenghe replied that the majestic pass in his memory was already a broken wall, and the beacon stood on the weathered shale bedge, as precarious as a bird's nest on the cliff.

"It's really great." Jin Xuan praised that unlike Wu Chenghe, he has no sense of belonging to this planet. He only appreciates ancient relics with the mentality of a traveler. "The probe shows that there is a large-scale urban relic in the southeast. Would you like to go and have a look?"

Wu Chenghe opened the topographic map sent back by the probe and saw that the ruins mentioned by Jin Xuan seemed to be built on the old site of Jiuquan, so he said, "Okay."