Chapter 267 Nix Civilization

The result is...a serious shortage of population!

For now, population has become the biggest obstacle!

Regarding the almost unsolvable problem of population, Yu Yifeng really had a headache. He had discussions with various experts, but in fact, no results could be reached.

It takes people to exploit the indigenous lizards, it takes people to mine in the Arctic, and it takes people to explore the ruins of civilization. Where did so many people come from?

Now, more than nine years after the earth exploded, the total population of Noah has reached more than 80,000 people, including nearly 30,000 children!

As the new government continues to encourage childbirth and improve social and public welfare, many families have finally given birth to a second child or even a third or fourth child! The population growth rate has almost reached its limit.

Raising children requires energy, and if there are too many children, these families will not encourage them to have more children. Humans cannot give birth to one baby every year like pigs.

The oldest of these children is only eight years old, and they are still in a particularly troublesome stage. The large number of babies has brought a heavy burden on society to support them.

Even if robots are fully popularized today, it is impossible for robots to do all the work. Many children's raising work must be done by humans themselves.

So, these children are holding back a large number of people. If too many people are dispatched to open up wasteland, Noah's society will not be able to run smoothly.

After all, the Noah is the real home of mankind, and its stability must be ensured so that the pioneers at the front can work with peace of mind.

Perhaps one of the pioneers is the father or mother of two or three children. They are fighting here for a better future for the next generation.

Therefore, there must be no accident on the Noah, or even a little safety risk.

Yu Yifeng made careful calculations and found out that he only had... eight thousand at his disposal. Ten thousand at most would be enough!

Really can’t be any more!

More than 10,000 is beyond the capacity of the Noah!

We can't all adults come down to open up wasteland, and leave only a group of children on the Noah, right?

Yu Yifeng sighed, and really missed the time when there were no children... The population of 50,000 was all single, and they could be dispatched at will. One person had enough to eat, and the whole family had no worries.

Now that the total population has increased, the available population has decreased, and there is really no way.

This period of population pain will eventually pass if you endure it. This may take ten or twenty years. By then the population structure will gradually become more reasonable and everyone will be liberated...

In this way, even though there was a lack of population and a serious lack of motivation, Yu Yifeng gritted his teeth and consulted a large number of experts, held a large number of meetings, and formulated the final plan...

They extracted relatively unimportant positions and used all the available population to their advantage!

The new human civilization has begun the next era of great excavation...

Mining, and mining cities!

With the help of a large number of machines, in just one month, fanatical humans cleared out the underground city buried under the soil.

People can finally pick up trash happily.

This is a real city, not a primitive village of indigenous lizards. It has a variety of buildings and a lot of mechanical remains.

During the excavation process, people even discovered the remains of individuals from this civilization, that is... some fossilized biological bones!

The city covers an area of ​​about 7.6 square kilometers and does not look large. It was built on the extinct volcano below, and can be said to be built on the crater.

It is different from human cities. Only a small part is a surface structure, and most of it is buried deep underground to withstand the severe cold weather of the planet Nyx.

The taboo place mentioned by the lizard was originally the location of the nuclear power plant. It was located on the surface area at the edge of the city and supplied power to the original city.

Because after the nuclear power plant was destroyed by the war, the nuclear waste inside was leaked greatly, so it was continuously exposed to radiation for such a long time...

The city is a three-dimensional structure. The bottom part is about one thousand meters deep. At the bottom, there are various pipeline facilities and mechanical equipment.

Scientists speculate that the small city could use these devices to harness the heat of the entire volcano to power the city.

Of course, this volcano was once a dormant or extinct volcano, and the probability of eruption is not very high. If luck really erupts, these residents will have to use emergency equipment to escape collectively. There are some warning signs of volcanic eruptions, which can bring a certain amount of time to escape.

But now most of the houses inside have collapsed, the original equipment has been damaged, and the original grand scene cannot be seen.

Many things are fused with mud and stones, making it difficult to distinguish them. Especially the metal in the open air is basically impossible to survive to this day due to the action of microorganisms and oxygen.

"Based on geological analysis, we believe that this city was built...11 million years ago! The error will not exceed two million years. Therefore, the time before the extinction of the Nyx civilization should also be that era."

A geologist drew the final report from the computer. Looking at the result, he said in shock. This time is too far away for human beings, which is enough to prove that this unknown civilization has declined in endless time.

And what he was holding in his hand was a biological fossil, the skull fossil of the Nyx man!

It is based on these fossils that people can calculate the final conclusion.

Hearing this number, Yu Yifeng was also shocked. He couldn't help but sigh at the vicissitudes of the universe... 11 million years!

11 million years is simply a time that humans can hardly imagine. On the scale of the universe, it is also a long time...

It has been 11 million years since the decline of the "Niks Civilization". It is really too long. It was not until today that the city was seen again because of human excavation.

11 million years, nuclear pollution still exists... It is enough to prove the pollution of nuclear waste! (Many radioactive elements in nuclear waste have a half-life of tens of thousands of years, the longest is about 2.1 million years, and the shortest is nearly 500 years. It takes 10 half-lives, that is, 21 million years, to be completely safe.)

It must be mentioned that this extinct unknown civilization is called "Niks Civilization" by humans!

They are the real top of the food chain of Nix Star.

And the indigenous lizards behind are called "indigenous lizard civilization". In this way, the two can be easily distinguished.

"From the excavated skull fossils, the Nix civilization and the indigenous lizard civilization under the ground are actually two different species." The geologist explained while leading Yu Yifeng to visit the various excavated items.

The individuals of the Nix civilization also look very much like reptiles, but they are larger and stronger than the indigenous lizards. They have six legs, an average height of 1.6 meters, and a head the size of a human. They have a two or three meter long pointed tail behind them, which seems to have other functions.

And from the fossils, their body structure and the extracted DNA are completely different from those of the indigenous lizards.

So, the two species are actually different.

The indigenous lizards are likely to be native species that evolved after the extinction of the Nix civilization... Two different intelligent civilizations appeared on a planet before and after!

This is really incredible!

Especially... The living environment of this planet is not very good. Compared with the earth, the creatures here can only barely survive.

But... Two intelligent civilizations before and after are something that makes many smart people extremely scared. This shows... Wisdom is not rare in this universe!

Even civilization is not rare!

Some people even speculated that before human civilization, did super ancient civilizations also exist on Earth? And then humans came after they became extinct?

At least, there were indeed traces of ancient civilizations on the Earth in the past... all kinds of unsolved mysteries.

The universe is really cruel. Since civilization is not rare... then why are so many civilizations trapped in their own planets? Why is it so difficult to become an interstellar civilization?

It can only mean...

There is a great probability that humans will face a life filter that has not yet been crossed and is almost insurmountable!

Even an optimist like Dr. Rimbaud has to admit that there is a great probability that the life filter is ahead of humans...

However, humans do not know what this life filter is. Perhaps when digging up the remains of the Nix civilization, some clues can be found...

Humans are still optimistic for the time being and cannot be frightened by something that has not yet appeared...