Eisen followed Aibin to the bottom of a wide gully made of ice and rocks. He immediately saw an artificial detector device placed not far away. He already knew its shape and structure well——
That is the "Summer Solstice"!
"'Summer Solstice'?!" Eisen almost shouted. "Why is it here? Wasn't it captured by the 'Cloud Body'?"
"The 'cloud body' has no interest in it." Ai Bin said. "After Saturn was completely occupied by the 'cloud body', we transferred this detector to Pluto. Because we know that it is very important to you, and we also know that you will come
Looking for it."
"What about the 'Fuxi'? And the later 'Express 1' spacecraft... and Deng Kai, Katz... where are they? Are they also in the 'marginal space'?"
"'Fuxi' and 'Express No. 1' are in another space, and your Deng Kai and Katz are also there. They are all hostages, and we have no way to rescue them at the moment."
"'Hostage'? You mean, 'Yunti' took them as hostages?! How could 'Yunti' have such evil intentions? What do they want to do?"
"'Clouds' don't care about humans, nor do they care about 'marginal space'. They only care about the space for their own survival and evolution. Although they ignore our existence, we are the masters of the solar system after all, and we must protect our home.
In this over-limit confrontation, they have to give us the most basic respect. Therefore, taking human spacecraft and astronauts as 'hostages' not only shows their respect for us, but also reflects their respect for us.
Kind of helpless."
"Ai Bin, the 'cloud bodies' don't seem to know the 'marginal space'. Have they ever entered here?"
"They suddenly appeared in the solar system and did not pass through the Oort cloud. The 'marginal space' had no time to detect them and could not stop them... so we chose to hide them."
"I don't understand...you mean, you didn't interact with them, and they didn't notice you?"
"'Marginal Space' is the highest level of civilization in the solar system, but compared with 'Cloud Body', we are still several levels behind. In front of them, we are as small as you. It's just that we have more awe than you.
, one less conceited.”
Aisen looked at Ai Bin, pondering what he said, and then asked: "You have been trying to contact me before, but why did you say nothing later?"
"Guarding the solar system is the eternal mission of the 'marginal space'. When danger is imminent, we need to remind humans to take precautions. However, humans do not know the existence of 'marginal space', and humanity's current level of technology cannot discover and perceive the borders of this solar system.
Guardian of existence. 'Marginal Space' has tried to contact humans through multiple channels. In the end, only I succeeded with you. And, just as the doubts that have always existed in your mind, I did not directly contact you from the beginning.
Telling the truth, because that will only make others regard you as a madman. I can only tell you the real events that are about to happen again and again, so that others can slowly accept and believe in your superpowers, and then treat you and everyone around you.
We are interested in the events that happened. We originally wanted to prevent you from launching a spacecraft to Saturn, because the 'cloud bodies' were building their information center there at that time. With the help of your spacecraft and detectors, they would easily grasp the nature of human civilization. But we still
You failed to stop you, and after the Fuxi and Summer Solstice were captured by the Cloud Body, you sent Deng Kai and Katz over... We have also had mental interactions with them, and we know them
While looking for the detector, we agreed to help them. In exchange, they handed over the "Xia Zhi" to us, but the "Fuxi", "Express No. 1", as well as Deng Kai and Katz were detained by them.
.The reason why I did not continue to contact you is because you have attracted the attention of the 'Cloud Body', and until the 'marginal space' has not found the correct path, we can only choose to remain silent."
"Then...are Deng Kai and Katz in a high-dimensional space? If they return to the three-dimensional space, will their lives still exist?"
"Life is just a form of energy aggregation in space. We cannot see and perceive how they exist in high-dimensional space, but I believe they can see us! Moreover, when they return to the three-dimensional space, they can still
It exists in its original form.”
Eisen thought for a moment and then asked: "Since you have been silent before, why can we meet this time? Is it voluntary? Or is it a deliberate arrangement by 'Yunti'?"
"I don't know... maybe it's because of you..." Ai Bin didn't say it clearly.
"There is another question. The year before last, during the Arctic Village meteorite fall incident, a 'meteor'-shaped object appeared in the sky. It shattered the meteorite at the last moment before the disaster occurred and saved mankind. Later, when
When we were hit by the "cloud body" storm in Kunlun Mountain, it magically appeared again. I saw it impacting back and forth in the "cloud body" with my own eyes, clearing the "cloud body" and finally saving us. It is the "margin"
Is it a weapon in space? Why didn’t it appear again when the earth suffered a greater disaster?”
"That is the 'magnetic star' weapon of the Venusian human race in the 'marginal space'. But its energy can only deal with local invaders, and is not enough to deal with large-scale 'cloud bodies'. Kunlun Mountain is the holy land of earth civilization.
It must be protected, and 'Marginal Space' believes that the 'cloud' can be eliminated with the energy of the 'magnetar'. As for the subsequent global 'cloud' disaster, the 'magnetar' cannot continue."
"But... the 'marginal space' is very far away from the earth. How can the 'magnetar' fly there instantly? Could it be faster than the speed of light?"
"Do you remember that the interaction of thoughts between us is not limited by time?" Ai Bin answered with a rhetorical question.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Eisen seems to understand a little bit...
The "Zhurong" floated in the deep sky, like a lone boat floating in the vast sea, with no land or hope in sight. Yan Shaojun and Gao Tianjun could only wait in confusion.
They don't know what to expect in the end...
Although their habitual consciousness feels that time continues to pass, everything in the spacecraft clearly shows that time is still...
"What on earth is that red light spot?" Gao Tianjun said to himself.
"It's a ghost! A ghost with life and consciousness that exists in high-dimensional space!" Lawrence said. "Maybe it is the 'God particle' in the true sense..."
"Mr. Lawrence," Gao Tianjun asked, "when Aisen and I were preparing to enter the Fuxi, you once said that you felt that there seemed to be a sign of life in that space. You called it 'a kind of life'.
"Subjective thoughts originating from life'. Can you still recall the feeling at that time now?"
"That is an idea that is higher than our human level, but it is definitely not a 'cloud body'."
Gao Tianjun thought deeply and said: "After we entered the 'Fuxi' spacecraft, we heard a 'sound' inside, which was emitted by the 'cloud body'. But other than that, we did not see or feel anything else.
Things. However, Eisen disappeared there. Before he disappeared, he had a conversation with the 'voice', mentioned the 'marginal space', and said that that was their unknown... I was thinking, you
If the existence I felt at that time was not a 'cloud body', was it the idea of 'marginal space'?"
"Aisen was taken away by the 'marginal space'?" Ding Yushi's heart was filled with excitement. "Mr. Lawrence, the civilization level of the 'marginal space' is higher than us, and it is also higher than you immortals!"
"May God bless Eisen and us too!" Lawrence crossed his hands on his chest and prayed.
"The space we are in now is very mysterious. It has no time and no information. All the stars we are familiar with are there, but they are so strange..." Yan Shaojun said.
"This is what the universe looks like!" Gao Tianjun said.
"Aisen!" Ding Yushi suddenly screamed, startling everyone, and all eyes were focused on her. She was seen covering her ears with her hands, her mouth wide open, her eyes straight, and she seemed to be struggling.
"It's Aisen! I have received Aisen's thoughts! He is looking for us!" Ding Yushi said excitedly, with tears flashing in her eyes.
Gao Tianjun and Yan Shaojun instinctively glanced at each other, confirming each other's judgment on Ding Yushi's mental state. They believed that her mind at the moment was completely normal.
"What is Aisen talking about?" Gao Tianjun asked.
"He is confirming our coordinates... right ascension 06 hours 16 minutes 28 seconds, declination 05 degrees 33 minutes 15 seconds... distance from the edge of the solar system... 4.5 light years?!"
"What?! How much? 4.5 light years?!" Yan Shaojun simply couldn't believe what he heard.
4.5 light years! This distance means that even light and radio signals take more than 1,600 days to arrive! And this is only the distance from the edge of the solar system!
"Yes, Eisen confirmed that we are now about one-half of the way from the edge of the solar system to Sirius."
"Where is Aisen?" Gao Tianjun asked.
"He's in 'marginal space', on Pluto."
"Pluto? Is Pluto the 'marginal space'?! Or does the scope of 'marginal space' include Pluto?"
"The scope of 'marginal space' is very vast, and Pluto is just one of the planets."
Ding Yushi replied almost instantly. In fact, when she heard the inquiries from other people on the spacecraft, she simultaneously received the reply message from Aisen in her mind. This phenomenon even shocked her.
"In which direction is the solar system? How can we see it?" Gao Tianjun continued to ask.
"Turn the direction 169 degrees and start the thrusters." Ding Yushi passively relayed Eisen's thoughts, "The solar system is behind the 'Zhurong'..."
"Start the thrusters? This is 4.5 light years! Can we still go back?"
"Aisen said that outside the solar system, time and speed are meaningless. As long as the direction is correct, we can go back. He will guide us!" Ding Yushi's voice was choked when she said the last sentence.
"'Zhurong', thruster ignition! Turn 169 degrees! Go at full speed!" Yan Shaojun decisively gave the command to the AI system. Then, she whispered to Gao Tianjun: "No matter how doubtful you and I are, this
These are our only options at the moment!”
The steering nozzle on the side of the "Zhurong" began to spray continuously, and the starry sky outside the porthole began to gradually rotate.
The astronauts on the spacecraft all stared quietly outside the cabin, with excitement and nervousness intertwined in everyone's hearts. This was the first time in their lives that they crossed a distance of 4.5 light-years and came to the deep space of the universe beyond the solar system.
This was also the first time they felt like lost children in the middle of nowhere who finally heard the call of their family. They really wanted to cry...
After the course adjustment was completed, the main thrust nozzle of the "Zhurong" fired a light blue tail flame backwards, which became longer and longer, like a straight beam of light...
Yan Shaojun couldn't feel the spacecraft moving at all. In her mind, it seemed that a long time had passed, but there was still a dark starry sky in front of her. At this moment, she suddenly thought of Vera's time on the "Kunlun"
I couldn’t help but hum the Russian song I sang:
"You know, how much you want to live and watch the red sunrise.
Live just to love everyone who is with you.
You know, how much I want to live..."
"Nebula found in front of the spacecraft!" Zhang Nan's scream interrupted Yan Shaojun's humming and shocked everyone.
On the monitor, a translucent globular nebula appeared in the starry sky in front of the spacecraft. It was hazy lavender and its brightness was very weak. It was almost difficult to distinguish it against the background of the endless starry sky.
"That's the solar system!" Ding Yushi said, "It's the Oort cloud on the periphery of the solar system!"
"Oort cloud? Does it really exist?!" Yan Shaojun murmured.
The Oort cloud is a hypothesis proposed by Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort in the mid-20th century. He believed that there is a giant cloud of space matter with a diameter of 2 light-years in the outer reaches of the solar system.
It is the farthest frontier of the solar system. In the past hundred years, although humans have been continuously exploring, it has never been able to prove its existence. The Voyager 1 and 2 probes launched by NASA in 1977 have not yet reached it.
The inner edge of the "Zhurong". Now, the astronauts on the "Zhurong" actually saw what it looks like from the outside!
The atmosphere in the cabin suddenly solidified! The astronauts stared intently at the dim cloud. It gradually became larger and clearer in everyone's sight...
"We are still 1 light-year away from the boundary of the Oort Cloud!" Ding Yushi spoke up again.
In front of the spacecraft, the outline of the Oort cloud has filled the astronauts' vision, like a huge frosted glass ball floating in deep space, glowing with a lavender shimmer, mysterious and beautiful...
Behind it, the sky is dotted with stars, vast and boundless...
"This is the Oort cloud! It's so big! It's so big that you can't even see the sun! You can't even see the faintest light!" Gao Tianjun said with emotion.
Occasionally, one after another, long and thin white threads will come out of the darkness and enter the "frosted ball", and soon "melt"...
"What are those things?" Zhang Nan asked.
"Those should be objects from outer space that break into the Oort cloud. Most of them will be absorbed by the Oort cloud, and a small number will form long-period comets orbiting the sun." Yan Shaojun answered.
"The Oort cloud is really like the protective shield of the solar system!" Zhang Nan sighed.
"Eisen told us that the Oort cloud is like a 'Dyson sphere', which is the 'marginal space' of the solar system. It guards the solar system and our home all the time!" Ding Yushi said with great excitement.
"'Dyson sphere'?!" Gao Tianjun was startled, "'marginal space'..."
"I can't believe it is so spectacular and beautiful!" Yan Shaojun relaxed his body and leaned on the back of the chair...