Chapter 2: The Population Problem

Oliver woke up and slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was a bright little room, and several nurses in white coats were recording something around him.

What happened, he had fainted? Why was he lying in the infirmary? He smelled a pungent smell of sterile water, squinted his eyes and looked around, it was a small infirmary. He should have been sent here after he fainted.

He felt like he had a real dream, dreaming of a group of stars, and dreaming that he had transformed into the sun ... I don't know if it was a dream or something else.

His body was hung with various examination instruments, like what heartbeat monitor, brain wave monitor, etc., and an IV was hung on his arm, and then he looked up at the bottle, which should be glucose nutrition solution.

The two special forces soldiers guarding the door have serious expressions, but the look is still stable, the ship should not be in a state of loss of control.

Seeing this, Oliver finally breathed a sigh of relief. In addition to his head is still a little dizzy, he feels his body is in good condition, and there is no discomfort.

No... whole world seemed to have changed so much in his perception, as if it was clearer, a change he couldn't say.

"Mr. Yu, you're awake!" Seeing Oliver wake up, a young female nurse said joyfully, "The doctor said that you fainted because of overexertion, and you usually need to pay more attention to rest. I'll go get the doctor."

Before she finished, she hurried out, supposedly to find a doctor.

Oliver didn't care about that, jumped up from the bed and pulled the needle out himself. Where was the need for any rest, he felt so good, and besides, he didn't have time to rest.

"Little Li, how long have I been unconscious?" He asked to the special team member at the door.

"Reporting to the captain, ten hours and thirty-six minutes from the time of discovery. Last night, Captain Wade had something for you and found you fainted before he brought you here."

"We conducted a strict secrecy, only a small number of people know about your fainting matter."

Hearing this, Oliver's heart was relieved, he was most afraid that something would happen while he was unconscious. He is now the backbone of the entire ship, if he suddenly collapsed, may cause panic, riots, except for him, no one can be the captain of the Noah.

But fortunately, the time of unconsciousness is the night, should not matter much, Wade work, he is still assured.

Ten hours of rest, this may be the longest rest he's had in a while, he feels energetic as hell!

"Okay, hard work!" Oliver thought about it and added, "You guys go back first, there shouldn't be anything important here please. Oh ... tell the doctor that there's nothing wrong with me."

"Yes!" The two team members saluted again in unison.

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. The doctor's words, "Get some rest," fell on deaf ears.

"Wade, I thought about it, we want to develop and grow the human race, population is a big problem! He said hurriedly as soon as he entered the door.

These words were his heart. The group of stars that Oliver saw while he was in a coma was just over 50,000. His first feeling was that it was too few, too bleak.

Fifty thousand people, what can be done ah, you know the original Earth can be seven billion people.

Agricultural transformation program, Noah program, two big projects down, his first feeling is a serious shortage of population. So little labor force, although the overall quality is very high, but still constrained the development of civilization.

"Captain you're awake!" Wade said with surprise when he saw Oliver enter. He is now the captain of the security team, but still habitually call Oliver "captain".

"By the way, what do you want to see me about?" Oliver asked.

Wade froze, his expression changed for a moment, "Last night, I felt a sun rising from the bottom of my heart, hot hot hot, I do not know whether it is a hallucination or what ... asked the others, also have this similar feeling."

"My first feeling thought of the captain you, and then I looked for it, and found you fainted ... Now people are talking, saying what the Son of God cloud ... believe Calvin more people. "

Wade does not know what to say, he is a firm believer in Marxist materialism, now there will be such a mysterious supernatural phenomenon, feel somehow inexplicable.

"Don't ask me, I don't really know." Oliver was silent for a moment and told the scene he saw while he was unconscious, and the two men looked at each other, both feeling incredulous.

"Maybe ... superhumans still have some untapped potential. I heard that the human brain, there are still a lot of potential good to be developed ... superhumans should be the same." After a good half day, Wade was able to hold out a sentence.

"So, what other feelings do you have?"

"Just feel full of energy, nothing else ... looks like it should be a good thing?"

"Since it's not a bad thing, let's leave the specifics to Dr. Roman and the others to study ...," Oliver said, shaking his head.

Wade was a pure soldier, not a scientist, and he was just depressed for a while, then put it behind him.

At this point, Oliver remembered the main thing and said, "Wade, I've been thinking about it, and our population problem is still a big problem. How many people do we have now?"

"51,223 people." Wade was responsible for the security of the entire ship and quickly answered.

"Fifty thousand just out of the top point, alas, too few, how is the population distribution?"

"26,298 males, 24,925 females, average age 28.6 years old. There are no children, no people over 60, and the vast majority are of child-bearing age."

Oliver nodded, which meant that the men and women on the ship were still basically balanced, and the older ones were basically big scientists. The vast majority were young people, which Oliver still liked.

"So, if people try to have children, we can add up to 20,000 young children after a year?"

"That ... should be the theoretical maximum." Wade sweats, "But that's basically impossible! We counted just over a thousand couples and couples in total. Most people don't choose to get pregnant on the moon, so there were very few pregnant women during this time, only 16."

"Besides, Captain, we can't afford to feed so many children in our public facilities."

Sixteen people? That's too few, just too few! 16 people a year, then the human race is still not finished?

Now the population pyramid, all concentrated in one interval section, the top and bottom are unoccupied. Although the labor force is now sufficient, basically do not have to consider supporting the elderly and other things. But what about the future? When this group of people get old, will bring serious risk of aging.

When this group of people die of old age, the population will be less and less, human civilization will not be extinct?

To save for a rainy day, Oliver, as the top leader of the ship, must consider the future days. Therefore, the population is really a big problem ah.

But people are not animals, it is not possible to say born, nor is it possible for the government to specify, two two match a little, and then a child can be born.

Human reproduction, the need for men and women to first generate a spark of love, and then into the bonding period, after the bonding marriage, but also ten months of pregnancy, after the birth, but also the education of the child, but also to raise him up ...

This series of processes, the consumption of energy is very large. Therefore, many young people nowadays do not like to have children because it is really too much trouble.

According to statistics on earth, the more economically developed the region, the lower the fertility rate; the higher the overall quality of people, the lower the desire to have children; the more stressful and busy people are, the more they also want to not have children.

These three, like three mountains on Oliver's heart, because the people in the Noah ship, all in line with these three ...

Oliver headache ah, he really can not think of any particularly good way, family planning, here does not exist, but the reproduction rate is still very low.

"Let's put it this way, let people fall in love first and get married first ... We will also introduce a bill later to encourage childbirth and encourage procreation."

"Yes." Wade replied tongue-in-cheek, in fact, he a soldier, simply do not know how to respond, and can not think of a particularly good way.

"By the way, how's that moon club going?" Oliver asked casually.

"Alas, it's all been turned into a matchmaking platform for us, and it's working pretty well." Wade laughed bitterly: "But when this came out yesterday, it was another clamor to brush the screen, what the sun ah, the son of God la, the phenomenon of personal worship came out again ..."

"I will find Dr. Roman clear study of this matter ..." Oliver shook his head, for superhumans, there are still many secrets have not been unlocked. His heart suddenly moved, if only Perfectin could be used on all people ... all people are stronger and smarter, how good it would be.

As for the phenomenon of personal worship, there are benefits and drawbacks, and it looks like it won't go away for a while. It's not like he can discredit himself, he can only wait for the full reform to be completed and then consider this issue.

"Captain, I suddenly thought of a point!" Wade raised his voice and said, "Our living environment is too poor, living in tin houses, a group of people common toilet, who still think about having children ah!"

"I think, improve the living environment is a very important point ah."

"That's right." Oliver sighed and said, "Next, I want to launch another big project."