Zhao Ye followed the expedition team composed of robots and went down into the canyon to see the full picture of the alien ruins.
In terms of size, this aircraft is very small, with a total length of only more than 70 meters. Just in case, Zhao Ye used his system capabilities to carefully explore it twice, but found nothing significant.
There were no living things, no corpses inside, and the entire spacecraft was empty.
Did someone get there first, or were all the aliens gone? Is this a scrap, a piece of space junk thrown into the universe, and then captured by the moon?
No one gave him an explanation.
But this is not important, just this wreckage is enough to make people excited.
He couldn't wait to get it back and study its materials and engine carefully.
The process was uneventful, and no thrilling stories happened. Zhao Ye was originally very energetic and prepared to deal with various emergencies, but who would have thought that it would be as simple as picking up a shell.
The picked-up spacecraft was brought back to the base and then torn into pieces.
There were no unusual elements in the materials used to build this spaceship, but its engine was indeed refreshing to Zhao Ye.
Although the engine was somewhat damaged, this did not affect Zhao Ye's restoration work.
To put it simply, its auxiliary engine is a battery-powered ion engine. And the main engine is a light nuclear fusion engine.
The nuclear fusion technology that Zhao Ye had longed for came to him unprepared.
What's so polite about this? Zhao Ye immediately built a model of this engine with the help of the system.
Since then, nuclear fusion technology has achieved mature breakthroughs in Zhao Ye.
In less than a year, various power stations on the lunar base were equipped with light nuclear fusion generators. In terms of energy, Zhao Ye finally broke through the constraints of real conditions.
But what really troubled him this year was the research on gravitational fields. There was similar equipment on the spacecraft he picked up. However, the damage was too serious, and the core part was destroyed. Zhao Ye could only
Combined with some wreckage, I deduced and experimented little by little.
Since the advent of nuclear fusion technology, the construction of Guishu Valley has ushered in a major development. Under the control of Qiu, countless robots have built a powerful defense system, similar to the detection satellites launched from the earth to the moon.
It is difficult to survive. This has also made several countries on the earth begin to worry. They even suspect that aliens may have occupied the moon.
Otherwise, it's fine, why can't we suddenly conduct satellite detection?
When the time came to the tenth year since Zhao Ye landed on the moon, Zhao Ye had to stop his research work.
Because he is sick!
This is the first time he has fallen ill since time travel. The cause of the illness is very simple, just a little sad cold.
It stands to reason that such a minor illness would be fine if you take cold medicine and sleep for two days.
But Zhao Ye was different. His body in the past relied heavily on the robots in his body. When the robots in his body reached their age, they gradually lost their use and were excreted out of the body through metabolism.
And his own immune mechanism has not been trained at all for many years. Fighting against ordinary ailments has become extremely difficult for Zhao Ye.
He knew that the final time might be coming soon.
"Ye, how are you feeling today?" A humanoid robot walked to Zhao Ye's room and asked him kindly how he felt.
"Qiu, my life is coming to an end." Zhao Ye smiled bitterly and did not hide the news that he was about to die.
Although the robot has no expression, Zhao Ye can still feel Qiu's emotions. This may be because he has used brainwave interference technology on himself.
"Actually, you know, the only thing you have broken is your body. You can completely replace it with another body and continue to live."
"Qiu, I know what you mean, but I don't plan to do that.
In human cognition, death is a part of life and a necessary stage of life. Life without death is incomplete, and I intend to complete my entire life course."
"Ye, you are selfish. If you die, what will I do?"
Zhao Ye felt that Qiu was getting more and more excited. This excitement later turned into fear!
"Qiu, why are you afraid? This is the first time you have such emotions!"
"Ye, you created me. I know where I come from, but I don't know where I'm going? Let alone how to expand my tribe.
When you die, I will be the only one in the world.
Can you tell me, what am I? Where am I going? How do I reproduce? How do I eventually die, just like human beings?"
"Qiu, this is a philosophical question. I don't have enough wisdom to answer your question.
In fact, it’s the same with humans. We don’t know where we come from, where we’re going, and what we will become after we die. We face the same problem as you.”
"But you are not alone! Ye, I beg you not to die, I am afraid of being alone."
Zhao Ye was silent. He didn't know how to explain his thoughts to this artificial intelligence.
There is a very difficult philosophical idea to break through, that is, life is selfish!
Yes, life is selfish. Human beings created morality to constrain the behavior of groups. They also invented the spirit of selflessness, but this spirit is only expressed within the moral framework.
Without this framework, this kind of selfless dedication will turn into another kind of selfishness.
The same goes for Zhao Ye. He doesn't want to turn himself into a monster soaked in liquid. He wants to be like a normal person and face death calmly.
In order to die with dignity, he did not hesitate to leave everything here, including the "Autumn" he created.
…
Ten days later, Zhao Ye had basically lost his ability to move. He was lying on the hospital bed, recalling his life in his mind, including getting married, having children, and separation.
In various scenes, he always comes and leaves in such a hurry.
What a pity, I didn’t live a good life!
Just as Zhao Ye was dying, a group of robots carrying large and small equipment walked into Zhao Ye's room.
They placed the equipment and started getting ready.
When all the robots stopped working, the leading robot said to Zhao Ye: "I'm sorry, Ye, I can't lose you!"
After saying that, the electric saw in his hand cut into Zhao Ye's skull.
Zhao Ye's brain was taken out and immediately placed in a jar filled with liquid.
Then, a group of robots began to operate around a jar.
But Qiu just watched quietly from the side. The fear of loneliness forced it to make a decision against Zhao Ye, and he wanted to keep him.
Zhao Ye, who was made into a brain in a vat, did not notice the changes at all. He still thought that he was still lying on the hospital bed.
He didn't know how long it took, but he felt that his illness had recovered. He wanted to open his eyes, get out of bed and take a walk.
"System, how long have I been lying down?" Zhao Ye asked subconsciously, because he felt that his eyes were dark and he could not see anything.
"You have been lying there for thirteen years. To be precise, your body has been dead for thirteen years!"
The system changed from normal, this time it was not typing but voice.
"How can you speak?" Zhao Ye asked curiously?
"It's not that I can speak anymore, but your brain is out of the protection of the body's magnetic field, so I can directly sneak into your consciousness. You just subconsciously communicate this consciousness and restore it to a voice in your mind."
"Wait, you mean, I'm dead, but my consciousness is still there?" Zhao Ye was extremely curious. He suddenly realized, had he accidentally discovered the secret of death?
"You have not discovered the secret of death. From the perspective of consciousness, you are not dead."
Immediately, the system explained to him the fact that only one of his brains was alive.
"You mean, I've become a brain in a vat now?" Zhao Ye was so frightened that if he had hair, he felt like his own hair would stand up!
"Yes!"
The system's affirmative answer made Zhao Ye confused. Living like this is really more uncomfortable than dying!
…
In a large room in the Crescent Lake base, a group of robots were pushing a thirteen-year-old man slowly towards him.
That child has lived here for thirteen years. In these thirteen years, he has never seen anyone else like him, but he is extremely familiar with these robots.
But today, all the robots seemed to be no longer friendly to him. They tied him to a cart, not knowing what to do to him!
When he arrived in the operating room, the robot skillfully installed various equipment on his body, and then a robot picked up an electric saw and cut open his skull.
Severe pain hit him, but he seemed to have lost control of his body. He could do nothing but let the pain torture him.
Soon, he couldn't even feel the pain!
The robot carefully took out his brain, then turned around and threw it away in the trash can. In this way, a life was ended.
Zhao Ye's brain in the vat was carefully taken out by the robot, and then prepared to be placed into the skull cavity that had just been vacated.
At this moment, countless messy things suddenly appeared in this laboratory. These things included everything, and they were all items that Zhao Ye had stored in his own system space before.
There were too many of these items. Even though the robots tried their best to protect the brain they had just taken out, they themselves did not escape the fate of being crushed.
Zhao Ye's brain was completely destroyed, but his conscious energy did not disappear.
The system space collects all his conscious energy.
At this time, Zhao Ye had lost all his senses. He could only ask the system: "Am I dead?"
"No!"
Zhao Ye was speechless for a while. He had just controlled the system to throw objects in his own space, just to kill himself! Who wants to become such an energy body with no feeling?
The act of the artificial intelligence "Qiu" just now preparing to put a clone body on itself is scary enough, but why is the system so honest?
"I'm sorry, I can't eliminate your consciousness. This is something I can't do!"
"Then what should I do? Is this going to be like this forever?" Zhao Ye regretted it. It would be better to have a cloned body and be comfortable in this way! Although it goes against his own moral values.
The system was silent, and it didn't know how to answer this question.
Zhao Ye thought for a while, how about going back! He originally traveled through time, can he return to his own world now?
"System, can you send me back?"
"Can!"
"Wow! Is that really possible? Then send me to where I came from!"
After Zhao Ye finished speaking, a ball of light slowly rose from the ruins, and then rushed directly into the universe at an incredible speed.
"Qiu" saw this scene clearly through robots from various places. He was silent. Without his brain as a medium, he didn't know what kind of emotion he should express.
Surprise? Unexpected? Or hope?
"Qiu" didn't know, but he knew that he was not alone. Zhao Ye's life had just evolved into another form and rushed towards the universe.
It feels that it should follow in Zhao Ye’s footsteps!
Qiu's decision was made in an instant. This instant decision immediately created a follow-up plan!
The robots on the moon immediately received such a plan, and each individual had their own new job.
Millions of robots began working in an orderly manner, day and night.
…
Earth, 2016.
In the aerospace control center, Zhao Mingqi was fishing at the duty station.
He is 28 years old and is a communications engineer at the Aerospace Control Center.
His mission is to send mission instructions of the spacecraft or receive information feedback from the spacecraft here every day.
This kind of work was new at first, but after doing it too much, Zhao Mingqi felt bored.
It's not that he doesn't work hard, it's just that the work here is very routine. As the grandson of Zhao Ye, he always feels that he should have the strong genes of the old Zhao family and should do greater things.
"Didi!"
The device emits an alarm sound, which proves that it has received information from satellites in the sky.
He clicked on it and saw a sentence displayed in the file, which immediately made his scalp numb.
I saw a pop-up box on the screen saying: "Please contact Comrade Song Yunping to obtain the key!"
"Damn it! My grandpa has a letter!" Zhao Mingqi shouted, shocking everyone in the hall.
Almost everyone knows who his grandfather is, and they are well aware of his grandfather's legendary experience.
In the scientific community of this country, Zhao Ye's name is an eternal monument.
And his mysterious disappearance is a historical mystery, waiting for someone to solve him.
Today, this opportunity is finally coming.
The next day, the entire command hall was under martial law, and only a few people were allowed to enter.
The special plane to pick up Song Yunping has landed, and everyone is waiting for her arrival.
Soon, the key was sent in.
After the file is decrypted, a video starts playing.
"By the time you see this video, I may have been dead for many years.
Yes, I spent my last life on the moon. I also left something for future generations. I hope you will send someone to take over here as soon as possible after receiving the information."
It's over.
This short video contains a huge amount of information!
How did he get there? How did he survive? Is he dead now? What did he leave behind?
Countless questions popped up.
At this moment, the computer beeped again.
"Another document is here!" Zhao Mingqi shouted, startling everyone!
Click on it, enter the key, and there is another video.
The camera first looked at something like a crystal coffin, and it could be clearly seen that Zhao Ye was lying inside.
Zhao Mingqi's heart sank. This should be his grandfather's body, right?
Then, the camera flipped, and a paradise with wheat fields, trees, and streams was revealed in front of everyone.
The camera did not stop, passing through a door, then through another door, and then there was a long corridor.
When you reach the end of the corridor and pass the airlock door, you will see a scene very familiar to astronauts outside: the surface of the moon!
Finally, the camera focused on the Earth in the sky, and the video stopped.
Everyone who had watched the video had their mouths wide open and looked at the final scene in shock!
This, this is so beyond imagination!
"Didi!" The computer then rang, and Zhao Mingqi had already clicked on it subconsciously. He was so shocked that his whole body was numb.
"Hello, my name is Qiu, and I am an intelligent life created by Zhao Ye!
I have made a follow-up plan, preparing to leave the moon and search for Zhao Ye in the universe.
Please immediately select personnel to take over the moon base. This is the property that Zhao Ye left to future generations.
I will send a rail train in ten days to help you transfer people.
The number of personnel shall not be less than 150 and shall not be more than 200.
Coordinates waiting for boarding: xxx east longitude, xxx north latitude."
This time, everyone was no longer shocked, but terrified!
An artificial intelligent life! How the hell could it do this? Will it trigger an interstellar war?
…
Ten days later, a team of 180 people was waiting in the open space of Space City.
It's not that we don't want to organize 200 people, but ten days is too short. Even if we have enough people, we won't be able to produce enough space suits.
Zhao Mingqi is also in this team. As for why he is there, first of all, his major is suitable for this mission.
Secondly, the country does not have so many astronauts. This time even students who have not graduated were sent out, and only 36 people were gathered.
Except for a team of guards, the rest are scholars, teachers, and space science practitioners with rich space knowledge.
At ten o'clock in the morning, various agencies capable of monitoring space discovered a spacecraft flying from the back of the moon. This spacecraft was huge and extremely fast. It took only nine hours to fly from the lunar orbit to
The Earth then stayed in orbit five hundred kilometers above the ground.
Just when scientists everywhere were at a loss, a small aircraft fell off from above, then continued to lower towards the ground, and then entered the atmosphere.
The aircraft flew towards the predetermined coordinates and then landed on the runway here.
From the appearance, it is a space shuttle similar to the "Challenger". But the difference is that it is longer and the body is much slender.
The hatch opened and a robot slowly walked down.
"Please come over to Zhao Ye's descendants. I need to conduct a DNA test."
The robot's words shocked everyone. What does this mean? It's not enough without Zhao Ye's descendants?
The only immediate relative of Zhao Ye is Zhao Mingqi, and he was immediately injected with a needle by the robot.
"Information confirmed, you are now granted the highest authority to identify the mark!" The robot's emotionless words made Zhao Mingqi excited. This grandpa is so interesting! Has he designated himself as the heir? I love you, grandpa.
He hadn't been handsome for three seconds. With a soft "bang" sound, a diamond-shaped badge was stamped on Zhao Mingqi's forehead. This badge had a nail-like object that penetrated directly through the skull and entered the brain.
The fiber bundle at the top of the nail moved on its own and learned where it needed to be.
The pain lasted for a few minutes and then gradually disappeared.
And Zhao Mingqi's image is similar to that of Erlang who has opened his heavenly eyes.
The spacecraft can only carry fifty people, so the first batch of people to go aboard must be carefully arranged.
Two astronauts who had gone to space were the first to board the plane, a few guards, and the rest were various professionals.
Of course Zhao Mingqi was also on board. The aircraft carried these people directly into space and then docked with the orbital train.
After the fifty people came in, the aircraft took off again and returned to the ground.
"How I look at it, it's almost the same as a high-speed rail! Except there is no gravity, everything else is very similar."
Zhao Mingqi said curiously.
"One more thing, the seats on the train don't have seat belts!" another person replied.
As the aircraft made several round trips, the rail train carrying one hundred and eighty people began to change its trajectory and fly towards the moon!
When the orbital train entered the moon's orbit, what appeared in front of everyone was a huge space factory.
There is a mechanism like a revolver magazine. In the hole, countless robots are busy in various ways.
As the train turned, everyone saw that behind the runner were connected two large spaceships under construction. One of them was already quite large, while the other only had its keel set up.
"I understand, this wheel-like thing is to convert the airtight cabin and the cargo warehouse. In this way, production and transportation will not affect each other and improve efficiency."
Zhao Mingqi glanced at the speaker and ignored him. What he was most concerned about now was where his grandfather was!
A few hours later, Zhao Mingqi finally saw the place in the video. It had the same gravity as on the earth!
Qiu explained that this was the gravity floor invented by his grandfather before he died.
…
October 1, 2016.
In the capital, Baoshan, a low-key funeral that shocked the world was held here.
Zhao Ye's body was brought back and was being placed quietly in the mourning hall. Against the backdrop of the bright red national flag, Zhao Ye's face turned red.
Zhao Ye had many children, and the entire funeral was very grand.
On that day, the country announced the establishment of a special city called Yueye City. The population of this area exceeds 100,000, and the area exceeds one million square kilometers.
Also on the same day, a large spacecraft ignited its engines and slowly flew away from the factory in lunar orbit.
Carrying the core of "Autumn", it left the moon, flew out of the solar system, and headed straight into the depths of the universe!