The Kuiper Space Exploration Agency is located on the outside of the northwest Kuiper Belt. It is a huge light blue spherical building, covering an area of ​​nearly 10,000 cubic meters. It is very eye-catching among the floating stars in the Kuiper Belt.

Human beings cannot always use their own senses to imagine the appearance of space cities in the Kuiper Belt. This is because the Kuiper Belt is a cold and dark world. There were space cities illuminated by artificial suns 200 to 300 million years ago, but with the Kuiper people

After they began to adopt the technology of no light and shadow, in order to protect and restore the original ecological environment of the Kuiper Belt and prevent light pollution, the Kuiper people also began to ban the artificial sun, causing the Kuiper Belt to disappear from the naked eye and become a dark world.

What is "seeing shadow without light?"

"No light and shadow" means that photon irradiation and reflection are not used to stimulate the "photosensitive membrane" of the human eye. Instead, rays smaller and faster than light are used as the irradiation and reflection medium, and then a high-sensitivity sensor is used to convert the reflected signal into

Photoelectric signals stimulate the human eye, allowing people to directly see the colorful world in the dark using a special built-in electronic image former. Because objects in a dark environment can be seen without the need for visible light irradiation and reflection, it is naturally called shadow seeing without light.

This is completely different from the principle of infrared night vision devices that people on earth often talk about.

Lawrence, director of the Kuiper Space Exploration Agency, is in a very good mood today because yesterday he received a message from Anderson, director of the Outer Space Exploration Agency located in the eastern Oort cloud, and learned that they had successfully penetrated the thick membrane of the solar system.

The floating star layer has reached the south side of the contact point between the solar system and Proxima Centauri (system), and is preparing to use an unmanned flying ball to fly from the floating star space next to the contact point of the solar system shell layer into the floating star space in the outer shell of Proxima Centauri (system).

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Readers may ask, why must we choose the contact point between the shells of two galaxies to cross from one galaxy shell into that galaxy shell?

This is because the system shell is not the hard high-density shell we imagine, but a fluffy shell composed of many floating stars. And the two galaxies are also moving relative to each other.

In this way, if you fly from a place far away from the contact point of two galaxies from the floating stars in the shell of this galaxy to the floating stars in the shell of another galaxy, you need to pass through the space inside and outside the two galaxies, and this space

But it is the space under the gravity of the galactic center. Under the gravitational pull of the three celestial bodies, the flying ball easily breaks away from the gravitational pull of the two galaxies, deflects towards the galactic center, and flies into the space within the galactic galaxy under the gravitational pull of the galactic center. It loses contact and flies over.

Far away and never able to return.

The contact point between two galaxies is the shortest distance in space within the Milky Way. In this way, as long as you master the flight attitude and angle, you can avoid the influence of the gravity of the galactic center and use inertia to jump from the outside of the shell of this galaxy into the shell of that galaxy.

Outside, you can successfully enter the floating stars in the shell layer of another galaxy.

People think this makes sense and is very simple, just like jumping from one roof to another on a two-story building with a distance of more than one meter.

Obviously, this can only be an intuitive imagination of people on earth. Galaxy contacts are not as simple as ordinary people imagine.

Why?

Because the galaxy shell is composed of many floating stars, there are shells with a large distance between them. In this way, the floating stars at the contact point of the two galaxy shells form a huge vortex under the relative motion of the two galaxy shells, and there are also large vortexes nearby.

Generating a powerful gravitational "whirlwind".

In this way, the contact area of ​​the galaxy is also covered with a thick layer of atmosphere, moving with the contact point as the core. When people enter this atmosphere, they will hear a huge and frightening roar.

Sound can propagate in the atmosphere, but such a huge roar cannot be heard in space.

Think about it, if the shell membranes of two galaxies are so connected, how easy would it be to cross from their side into the floating stars in the shell membrane of another galaxy?

It should be understood that the contact point between the two galaxies is not fixed, but moves like a whirlwind on the surface of the shell membranes of the two galaxies. This also increases the risk of crossing the shell membranes of the two galaxies.

Because although the contact point between the shell membranes of the two galaxies regularly moves in one direction, it is also affected by the disturbance of the floating stars in the shell membrane. While moving in one direction, it also swings irregularly from side to side.

In this way, if the contact vortex appears to retreat in the opposite direction when passing by it, the flying ball will be sucked into the shells of the two galaxies and crushed by the floating stars that collide violently in the vortex.

Although Lawrence was happy with the good news that the engineering team of the Outer Space Exploration Branch had reached the floating star outside the solar system's shell. But after looking at the contact simulation diagram sent by Anderson and listening to the thrilling roar of the contact vortex,

I started to worry.

Anderson proposed to commemorate this historic day by holding an unprecedented scale ceremony to commemorate Kuiper's hard-won moment after more than 600 million years of human struggle.

Lawrence felt that Anderson's suggestion was very good, so he sent invitations to Kuiper's leading figures from all walks of life in advance, allowing them to watch Woodring's contact between the two galaxies through a monitor from an on-site observation deck opened in a safe place in the solar system's envelope.

An experiment from the solar system into the Proxima Centauri system.

At this time, his old friend Qiu Siyuan, who was also one of the ancestors of the Kuipers, sent a message saying that he had brought a group of Tang Dynasty people from the new round of earth civilization and wanted to take them on a sightseeing trip within the outer shell of the solar system.

This stumped Lawrence. He wanted to agree, but he didn't know where to let them arrange it. Although he wanted to let his staff arrange the matter, Qiu Siyuan was an old friend of his, and his original body was also killed 700 million years ago.

Together with Qiu Siyuan and others, they left the earth's continent during the last round of earth civilization, went into space to avoid the apocalypse, and came to the Kuiper Belt to build a city and settle down.

After much deliberation, he finally decided to seek Anderson's opinion first and hear what he thought would be a good way to arrange these humans who came from the new round of earth civilization.

"What's so difficult about this?" Anderson smiled: "Can't we just bring them to our observation point?"

"But they are Earthlings who came from an environment of gravity and biological diversity. They are fundamentally different from us Kuipers who lived in an environment of weightlessness and biological diversity. They cannot watch live experiments on the same stage at all."

"Oh," Anderson suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "I forgot. Well, I asked the Engineering Office of the Outer Space Exploration Branch to urgently renovate the original visiting venue, install a closed transparent cover in the middle of the visiting Taichung, and inside the cover

Install a gravity field. When visiting, let these new round of earthlings sit in a sealed enclosure together with the previous round of earthlings."

Note that Lawrence and Anderson belong to the new generation of Kuipers, that is, humans with larger heads and smaller bodies, grey-brown in a higher civilization.

Regarding Anderson's arrangement, experts from the Kuiper Bioinformatics Research Center immediately sent people to dissuade them after learning about it. The reason was that this arrangement was extremely unsafe.

what?

Because the Kuipers’ visiting sites are three-dimensional, we cannot imagine the Kuipers using the concept of flat living on Earth.

What is a three-dimensional type? In other words, the gathering place of the Kuipers is a spherical space. They are all floating together, which is not easy to imagine for people standing scattered on a flat surface.

However, the problem arises. The viewing platform Anderson made with a glass cover should be in the middle of the spherical visiting field, because the people on earth sit spread out on the flat observation platform inside the cover. In this way, they can

It is appropriate to look at the scenery displayed on the ceiling. And the Kuipers can float around in all directions.

Therefore, the Kuiper Biological Research Center was very angry with Woodring's approach, because without their permission, people on earth who came from a biologically diverse environment (whether they were people from the previous round of earth civilization or the new one) were indiscriminately

Putting people from the Earth-wheeling civilization among the Kuipers is tantamount to planting a bomb among the Kuipers. Once the transparent cover is damaged and the microorganisms leak, a large number of Kuipers will die due to infection.

After listening to the advice of the Kuiper Biological Center, Lawrence had no choice but to ask Anderson to remove the transparent cover, let Qiu Siyuan and the others sit in their own flying balls, and watch from the floating stars through the display in the flying ball the Kuipers' incompetence coming from the experimental site.

The scene of a human flying ball flying between two galaxies.

"It's really making a mountain out of a molehill." Anderson was very dissatisfied with the Kuiper Biological Research Center's obstruction, but because Lawrence asked him to dismantle it, he had to do it.

When Qiu Silin and his personnel entered the site on a specially built spacecraft sent by the Kuiper Space Exploration Bureau, they immediately heard a thrilling roar coming from a distance.

"Did you hear that? This is the sound made by the contact vortex between the shells of two galaxies."

"So, we have arrived at the contact point between the shells of the two galaxies?" Sun Xiaogang said excitedly.
Chapter completed!