Chapter 21 5. Happy life

What puzzled Xiaomu was that his parents refused his request to stay with them at night, as if they had reservations at the last moment about whether to push the atmosphere of family reunion to a climax.Xiaomi arranged a hotel for Xiaomu to stay in.She drove him back in an SUV.There is a mosque-style hotel in the city, which is specially built for visiting relatives.At night, Xiaomu was lonely and sleepless.He went to the window and looked out at the city.The heavy pyramid is like a big red lantern.The old people are as light as the gods floating in the wick, they are full of energy, singing songs, roaming in groups.Some are drinking, some are dancing.There are also some old people in the central square giving speeches, talking about current politics, economy and military topics.Loud and clear songs reverberate in the streets and alleys, including folk songs, bel canto, military songs, school songs, and youth songs, and even those that have just become popular in coastal cities have spread here.But the main theme finally returned unanimously to "Story of Time", gathering into a collective chorus.This has been noisy until the early morning before a little rest.Xiaomu thought, parents are also involved, right?What a blessing they are.No wonder, the son was not allowed to live with him, for fear of disturbing their night life.But he felt something was wrong.

Xiaomu called out to the wall of the guest room, and immediately a three-dimensional image was projected.Xiaomi appeared.She changed into a pink miniskirt.Without waiting for Xiaomu to ask questions, she enthusiastically introduced the history of the city to him.According to Xiaomi, at first, nursing homes were set up in various places, but they found that they could not meet the demand.In order to cope with the turbulent tide of population aging, according to the new national land planning, the first independent city, Paradise One, was built in the western desert to receive elderly immigrants.This amounted to a test area, and after experience was gained, more were built.This is done with full consideration, because the elderly care is an extremely complex system engineering.When the number of elderly people reaches a certain value, the society will change qualitatively.At this time, the worlds of the old and the young will gradually divide into two poles, and gradually they will not be able to intersect.Old people are also increasingly unwilling to live with young people.Because half of the elderly are fused in death, the world in their eyes is another scene.This will cause conflict. "However, the most important thing to establish an aging city is that in our thousands of years of culture, there is a tradition of respecting the elderly, which cannot be lost at any time." Xiaomi said, fortunately, there is a vast western desert, otherwise the tradition would not be able to continue .In the age of aging, those small countries with limited size collapsed.There are only a few big countries left in the world.After the old people leave, the young people can do many things with confidence and boldness.If the elderly are present, it will not be so easy and there will be obstacles.Xiaomu wanted to say, no, that's not the case.We are now in the cities on the eastern seaboard, doing nothing, just goofing around, like the walking dead.

Xiaomi didn't care about Xiaomu's mood, and continued: "At least, the war between different generations has been avoided. From the harmony of the big family to the vendetta against each other, this kind of transition will come overnight. Because people are extremely different. Reliable animals. The relationship between parents and offspring is very unstable. It is a rapidly fluctuating interest relationship. The family is just a random combination of material scarcity and will eventually disintegrate. No one can predict what will happen tomorrow. Aging society It is a brand-new and violent social form in the history of human evolution. This is the first time that the shock caused by the transition from slave society to feudal society, from feudal society to capitalist society, and from capitalist society to socialist society is even greater. Big. There's no solid research on what's going to happen. The best thing to do is to isolate. That way the elderly can also be cared for and live out their old age happily."

Xiaomu asked: "How long can my parents live?" "In heaven, through medical engineering control, including the use of micro-robots to clean the body, replace artificial organs, and carry out genetic repairs, the average human life expectancy can reach 500 years or even longer. ""Can they really get everything they want?" "Oh, everything." "Uh, what about that?" "Which one?" "That's it." "You mean sex?" Xiaomi snorted , "Didn't you see that they have great bodies? There's nothing wrong with that. They're even stronger than young people. There's no virtual games in heaven." "It's unexpected." "It's perfect. You can rest assured " Xiaomu thought, parents have worked hard all their lives, and only then have they lived a happy life in heaven.Thinking that this might be his future, he couldn't help looking forward to it.

Xiaomi asked again: "Oh, you are here alone, what else do you need?" The woman's voice became softer, with an unexpected sense of seductiveness.Her two white thighs exposed under the miniskirt seemed to be burning quietly, and her hazy eyes were just like the women in video games that Xiaomu was familiar with.But this is in the western desert, and he is a little acclimatized.He was so tired that he could hardly keep his eyes open. "I don't, I don't need it. You go." He said stiffly. "For so many years, you are the first one to come here." She said goodbye to him as if reluctantly, and her expression turned cold again just before she disappeared.