After arriving at the Crisis Group office building, Yan Dong first reported to the person in charge of the organization. The person in charge took him to a large office and told him that this was the institution he was going to work for.
Yan Dong looked at the door of the office. Unlike other offices, there was no sign on this door. The person in charge said:
"This is a secret agency, and all the work here is strictly confidential so as not to cause social unrest. The name of this agency is the Ministry of Monuments."
All the audiences in the heavens and the world have heard this name.
Coincidentally, they all felt strange about this department.
Walking into the office, Yan Dong found that the people here were a little weird.
Some have too long hair, some have no hair; some dress too neatly for these difficult times, some wear nothing but shorts; some look melancholy, some excited.
The audience quickly understood that these people were people who were called artists before the earth dried up.
There are many bizarre models on the long table in the middle, and I can't see what they are used for.
"Welcome, Mr. Ice Sculpture Artist!" After listening to the introduction by the person in charge, the head of the monument department warmly extended his hand to Yan Dong, "You finally have the opportunity to use the inspiration you got from aliens, of course, this We can't use ice as a material, what we want to create is a work that needs to be preserved forever."
"What is this doing?" Yan Dong asked in confusion.
The minister looked at the person in charge and then at Yan Dong, and said, "You don't know yet? We are going to build a monument to mankind!"
Yan Dong looked even more at a loss.
"It's the tombstone of human beings." An artist next to him said that this man had long hair, tattered clothes, and a decadent look. He was very drunk with a bottle of Erguotou in one hand. This thing was left over from the sea. Now Much cheaper than water.
Yan Dong looked around and said, "But... we're not dead yet."
"It's too late to die," said the person in charge. "We should have prepared for the worst, and now is the time to think about it."
The minister nodded and said, "This is the last artistic creation of mankind, and it is also the greatest creation. As an artist, what could be happier than participating in this creation?"
"Actually, it's all superfluous!" The long-haired artist said, waving his wine bottle, "The tombstone is for posterity to pay tribute to. If there is no posterity, how about a bird monument?"
"Pay attention to the name, it's a monument!" The minister corrected it solemnly, then said to Yan Dong with a smile: "That said, the idea he came up with is quite good: he proposes that everyone in the world take out a tooth and use these Teeth can build a monument, and a single word on each tooth is enough to engrave the most detailed history of human civilization."
He pointed to a model that looked like a white pyramid.
"This is a blasphemy to humanity!" shouted another bald artist. "The value of a human being is in his brain, and he will commemorate it with his teeth!"
The long-haired artist took another sip from the bottle: "Teeth... Teeth are easy to preserve!"
Seeing this, the audiences of all the worlds finally understood.
After five consecutive years of dryness, the earth no longer rains and no longer produces water, making human beings close to despair.
Even, they have prepared a tombstone for this...
Most people on Earth seem to have given up.
"But most of them are still alive!" Yan Dong repeated solemnly.
"But how long can we live?" said the long-haired artist, and when he talked about this topic, his articulation became clear again, "There is no water in the sky, the rivers are dry, and it has been three years since agriculture has been completely harvested, and 90% of industries have stopped production. How long can the remaining food and water last?"
"This group of trash," said the bald artist, pointing to the person in charge, "after 5 years of busy work, I haven't been able to get a single piece of ice down from the sky!"
The person in charge just smiled at the accusation of the bald artist: "It's not that simple."
"With the existing technology of mankind, it is not difficult to ditch a piece of ice from orbit, and it is possible to ditch a hundred or even a thousand pieces of ice, but to ditch all the 200,000 pieces of ice orbiting the earth in space, it is completely It's another story."
"If we use traditional means to slow down ice cubes and return them to the atmosphere with rocket engines, we need to create a large number of reusable super-power engines and send them into space. This is a huge technical project, with the current level of human technology. and resource reserves, there are many insurmountable obstacles. For example, if you want to save the earth's ecosystem, if you start now, you need to ditch half of the ice blocks in 4 years, so on average, 25,000 ice cubes will be ditched every year. The rocket fuel needed weighs more than the gasoline that humans consume in a year! But that's not gasoline, it's liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, nitrous oxide, unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine, and the like, the energy it takes to make them and resources, hundreds of times more than gasoline, and that alone makes the whole plan impossible."
The long-haired artist nodded: "So the end is not far away."
Hearing this, the audience in the heavens and the world seems to understand the despair of the earth at this time.
This is the impact that cryogenic artists will bring to the earth after art.
A civilization with a severe water shortage, which makes it impossible for this civilization to survive at all.
Doomsday, catastrophe, all these things have accumulated on the body of all human beings, making them bear a heavy burden.
At this time, Yan Dong suddenly said.
"That's what I came for."
Everyone put down their work and looked at Yan Dong.
"No matter what you call me for, I have my own purpose." He said, pointing to the bulky luggage he brought, "Please take me to the Ocean Recycling Department."
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Yan Dong successfully persuaded the group of artists and asked the person in charge to take him to the Ocean Recycling Department.
The Ocean Recycling Department, as the name suggests, is a department that strives to study how to take down the oceans in the sky for the survival of all human beings.
The atmosphere here is very different from the Monuments Department, everyone is working nervously in front of the computer. In the center of the office is a water dispenser that can be used to fetch water at will. This is the king's treatment, but it is not surprising that these people have all the hopes of mankind concentrated in them.
After meeting the chief engineer of the Ocean Recycling Department, Yan Dong said to him, "I have brought a plan to recycle ice."