Man of the Future

Foreword—— Lin Shen was awakened by gravity. It is not the light gravity on Mars, which is only one-third of the earth's, but the heavy full gravity that presses the internal organs. He pushed open the hatch of the transport boat, and the smell of earth and grass hit his face. What he saw was a deserted grassland. Looking up, a full moon hung in the sky. Everything is right. Everything was exactly the same as the Earth, the home planet of mankind, in his memory. Except for one detail. In the distance, the city lights flickered in the darkness. There was no chain of lights on the aircraft tracks that he was familiar with, no navigation lights from the outer-atmosphere space station. There was only a low, messy artificial light, like a handful of broken glass scattered on the ground. He heard the sound. It was the sound of a car engine, an internal combustion engine burning gasoline—the kind of sound he had only heard in historical documentaries, low and rough, with a clumsiness and tremor that did not belong to the era in which he lived. Lin Shen suddenly realized something. He subconsciously opened the identity terminal on his wrist and tried to access the community network. A line of prompts that I had never seen before popped up on the screen: [No signal. No community network node detected. Current location: Unknown. He froze. He stood there for a long time without moving. This... Is not the Earth he knows.