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Machine Epoch: Lawless Origin
121. Martian Cataclysm

121. Martian Cataclysm

On Friday, August 8th, at dusk.

In the open-air cafeteria of Egy Noble University.

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JiiXi sat listlessly in the corner, boredly burying his head in his dinner.

Some students in the open-air cafeteria pointed at JiiXi and whispered:

"Did you see that young man in ancient costume and green clothes with a long braid?"

"Eh, isn't that JiiXi, the number one underachiever?"

"He used to be extremely wealthy, and then suddenly went from rich to poor."

"He is one of the most miserable students in the history of Egy Noble University."

"He was already the number one underachiever, and now his family has gone bankrupt."

"His father went from being a billionaire to a debtor and almost died at sea."

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"His test scores have never passed."

"He couldn't get into an ordinary university, so he paid to get into Egy Noble University."

"Egy Noble University doesn't look at grades, as long as you are willing to pay the tuition, which is $50,000 for one semester."

"$50,000, for the poor, is almost a lifetime's expense."

"Will he transfer to a slum university next semester?

Slum universities don't look at grades either."

"Some slum universities have extremely low tuition fees, only $10,00 for one semester, and you can default if you have no money."

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"On the campus holographic network, someone opened a betting pool, betting that he won't be able to afford the tuition next semester."

"Your news is out of date.

Those who bet that he can't afford the tuition will probably cry until they faint in the toilet."

"Why is that?

Could it be that he suddenly became rich again?"

"This is fate.

Guess how he became rich again?"

"There are thousands of ways to get rich.

How could we guess?"

"I heard that he became a male prostitute and slept with rich women, earning Tens of thousands of dollars a month."

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"So powerful?

Dude, do you have any connections?

Let's go too."

"If you go, you won't make any money."

"If he can do it, why can't we?"

"Go back and look in the mirror and you'll know."

"He is born with the morbid beauty of an ancient noble, which can't be replicated."

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Most of the public service buildings in Utopia are open-air and rarely have roofs.

If there is no necessity, do not add entities.

Utopian architecture is popular with Occam's razor minimalist design.

Buildings of three floors and above are also rare in Utopia.

Utopia is an absolutely safe building, and it is difficult to solve the problem of jumping from buildings of three floors and above.

Historical psychologists named the high-rise buildings of the former society "man-made cliffs".

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According to the "Second Principle of Architecture" (Principle of Safety Building) in Utopia:

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Buildings must be absolutely safe and must meet the requirements: it is impossible to jump off the building.

Or if you jump off the building, you won't die or be seriously injured.

Cliff-shaped buildings are prohibited.

Buildings are subject to the "Third Law of Machines" (Law of Injury).

If a building violates the safety principle, an artificial intelligence system shall not be implanted.

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Suddenly, the whole open-air cafeteria became restless in an instant.

Some students, with their meals only half eaten, dumped the food.

Holding the tableware in their hands, they kept knocking and shouting.

Even some students took off their shirts and ran around the periphery of the open-air cafeteria.

While running, they also screamed.

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There were bursts of loud discussions from the surrounding students:

"Wow, dozens of meteorites, forming a meteorite stream.

Hit Mars at a speed of dozens of kilometers per second.

The smallest meteorite is more than ten meters, and the largest meteorite is several hundred meters."

"The most prosperous dome city in the Mars colony.

The Maass Imperial City, was destroyed and reduced to ruins."

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"Wow! A once-in-a-lifetime astronomical wonder."

"Bullshit astronomical wonder, it must be done by aliens."

"You must have read too many fantasy novels. There are no aliens, but there is the Starry Ark."

"Could it be that the Starry Ark Knights are going to attack the Mars colony?

This is the first interstellar war in human history."

"Is the legendary Star Wars really coming?"

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"The Starry Ark is an eighth-order civilization, and the Mars colony is a seventh-order civilization.

The war between the eighth-order civilization and the seventh-order civilization of mankind may have extremely tragic results."

"The Starry Ark and the Mars colony are both machine original covenant civilizations.

This is a human war between machine original covenant civilizations."

"Utopia is a machine new covenant civilization, and the post-society is a machine old covenant civilization.

The Starry Ark and the Mars colony are even more backward than the post-society."

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JiiXi kept peeking at the holographic images and introductions projected by the students next to him.

Finally understood what was going on.

In the 77th year of the Martian calendar, at dusk in the time of the Maass Empire.

Dozens of meteorites successively attacked the territory of the Maass Capital Family in the Mars colony.

The Maass family launched an interception in a hurry.

The fragments after the meteorite explosion completely destroyed the core dome city of the Maass Empire.

It is also the largest dome city on Mars, the Maass Imperial City.

The casualties and economic losses have not been made public.

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The Maass Empire is the first empire on Mars.

It is also a private empire controlled by the Maass Capital Family.

The Maass family used to be the richest family on the Gaia.

More than 100 years ago, the Maass family immigrated to Mars as a whole.

After that, it naturally became the largest family in the Mars colony.

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JiiXi more or less understood some of the cruel history of Mars immigration.

Of course, he also understood why so many students.

Were gloating over the meteorite stream disaster on Mars.

Although Mars immigration has become history and passed more than 100 years.

But some people on the Gaia, the hatred for the Mars colony is not so easy to eliminate.

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A Martian year is 687 Gaia days, which is equal to 1.88 Gaia years.

The past 77 years on Mars is equal to the past 145 years on the Gaia.

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The surface temperature of Mars is very low.

It takes a very long time to greenhouse Mars to make it suitable for human habitation.

First release greenhouse gases to increase the temperature and the atmosphere.

Then transplant plant and animal species adapted to the Martian environment to slowly transform the Martian ecosystem.

During this long period of time, humans can only live in closed capsule buildings and dome buildings.

If humans leave the closed buildings for a long time, they need to wear space suits or oxygen inhalation devices.

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