Eisen and the astronauts of the "Zhurong" said goodbye to Ai Wenbo and Ai Bin, and said goodbye to "marginal space". They took off from the ice fields of "Planet Nine" in a spacecraft and flew towards Saturn again.
More than half a century has passed since the Voyager 1 probe launched by NASA in September 1977, and it is still traveling among asteroids in the Kuiper belt; since 1950, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort proposed the theory of the Oort cloud
Since its inference, humankind's understanding of it has still remained at the level of hypotheses.
But today, the human spacecraft "Zhurong" is carrying 6 astronauts, flying at super-light speed through the vast space from the Oort Cloud to the Kuiper Belt! Moreover, they are shouldering the great trust of all mankind, carrying
The common idea of the entire solar system civilization!
Eisen sat quietly in his seat, closing his eyes and concentrating. He didn't think about anything and was completely in a state of relaxation. In Death Valley in Kunlun Mountains, Elder Jacob taught him how to empty his mind and control his subjective consciousness. Currently, he is in a state of relaxation.
The situation requires him to do this. He knows that his thoughts can be received by Yushi at any time, but she cannot control her thoughts. Her sensibility will make her think constantly, and when she is about to enter
When the "Cloud Body Brain" is within the consciousness range, any of their thoughts will be revealed in front of it.
Now, humanity's last bargaining chip is firmly sealed in Eisen's mind. Undoubtedly, it will be a super cool "game"!
Ding Yushi sat next to Aisen and kept looking at him secretly. She could no longer receive any thoughts from him at this moment, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep. In her mind, she recalled what Aisen had conveyed to her before setting off.
His final thoughts: Stop thinking about him and clear your memory!
She understood what he meant. However, she found that it was difficult to control herself not to think about him, especially when she couldn't control herself to think about the distant yellow giant star in the direction of Cygnus... So, she
Try to focus her thoughts on the biggest discovery of this trip - "marginal space" and "Planet 9". She thought that if there was still a chance to return to Earth, she must tell Dr. Winnie the secret of the crop circles.
Although Gao Tianjun didn't know what kind of mental interactions Eisen had with Ai Wenbo, Venusians, and Martians on "Planet Nine", and he didn't fully understand what the "space" Eisen mentioned was, Dante
The two idioms that Yushi answered him, "Create something out of nothing, make the tiger fly away from the mountain" seemed to explain everything. However, the super intelligence of the "Cloud Brain" and its super learning ability also made Gao Tianjun wary. If it had received
When it comes to this idea, if it has used the human cultural knowledge it has learned to realize the meaning of these two idioms, then for Eisen and all the astronauts on the "Zhurong", and even for humans and "marginal space"
Said that everyone will face the final "judgment".
The space outside the "Zhurong" began to become clearer, surrounded by stars, just like the night sky seen on the earth. There was a bright star on the side and front, coating the facilities outside the cabin with a light silver. 3D interstellar coordinate display
, that bright star is the sun, and the spacecraft is already approaching the orbit of Saturn.
Eisen slowly opened his eyes and stared at the starry sky outside the cabin. At this moment, his heart was as calm, empty and boundless as the starry sky...
He soon saw the planet in front of him, but it was almost unrecognizable - the original light gray sphere now seemed to have turned into a large "", completely surrounded by "clouds"; surrounding it
The dark red "donut" at the equator also bulges significantly near the equator, almost becoming one with the "donut"!
"Here we go again!" he thought silently in his mind, "we found the star!"
"You can enter!" He immediately heard a voice - this was the voice he had heard many times in the "Cloud Brain". It was not so much a "voice" as what he had received.
An idea message.
"I want to see our two spaceships captured by you first, and the two astronauts on them." Eisen thought.
The hull of the "Zhurong" suddenly shook, and then it was attracted by a strong gravitational force and entered a strange "cloud body".
The astronauts looked at the flickering light outside the spacecraft, filled with tension and curiosity. At this time, Eisen spoke: "This is a three-dimensional space. We will see the completely real 'Fuxi', and we will see Deng."
Kay and Katz.”
"Oh! God!" Yan Shaojun shouted excitedly, with tears in his eyes. "Is Deng Kai still alive?! Aisen, are you telling the truth?!"
The spacecraft passed through the "cloud body" and came to a large frozen satellite. Seeing the familiar textures on the surface of the satellite, especially a few marks that looked like being scratched by tiger claws, the astronauts were almost unanimously surprised.
Shout out: "Enceladus!"
"Zhurong" seemed to be slowly "placed" on Enceladus by an invisible giant hand. On the horizon, the huge "Zhurong" was covering one third of the sky, and the light reflected by it
Sunlight illuminates the vast ice fields on Enceladus' surface.
About 100 meters away from the landing site of the "Zhurong", there is another spacecraft parked, with a bright five-star red flag pattern on the hull - that is the "Fuxi"!
Yan Shaojun stared closely at the "Fuxi" spacecraft, her heart pounding wildly. She asked Aisen in a low voice: "Aisen, is this real? Are you sure that what we saw is not an illusion?"
"Yes, that is the 'Fuxi'! We are all on Enceladus at the moment!"
"You guys stay here, I'll go and take a look alone!"
Yan Shaojun was about to put on her spacesuit when Aisen stopped her: "Please wait a moment... Captain Yan, Director Gao, we will see another spacecraft!"
Gao Tianjun and Yan Shaojun were surprised when suddenly a shadow came into view, getting bigger and bigger - another huge spaceship landed lightly like a kite and stopped steadily in front of them.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It's the 'Planet Guardian'!" Zhang Nan had sharp eyes and recognized it immediately.
"The 'Planet Guardian' is still alive? Dr. Nelson and the others are alive too?!" Yan Shaojun became excited.
"The 'Zhurong' has resumed video communication with the 'Fuxi' and the 'Planet Guardian'!" Zhang Nan reported, turning on the display on the spacecraft at the same time.
Through the monitor, the crew of the "Zhurong" can clearly see the surprised and surprised eyes of Deng Kai and Katz in the cabin of the "Fuxi", as well as the high-fives of Dr. Nelson and the crew on the "Planet Guardian" as if they were relieved.
.
Yan Shaojun locked the monitor in front of him on the "Fuxi" channel, looked at Deng Kai, his heart surged, and his lips trembled as he spoke.
"Shaojun, Tianjun, why are you here so quickly?!" Deng Kai spoke first.
"Deng Kai, I want to see that thing I gave you before you set off!" Yan Shaojun said with tears. She still couldn't believe everything she saw with her eyes. These days, she has seen too many illusions.
Got it!
Deng Kai understood what she meant, so he reached out and took off a pendant from his collar - an exquisite Hetian jade "safety buckle". He smiled and stretched it out in front of the camera so that his wife could see it more clearly.
Yan Shaojun covered his face with his hands, tears welling up...
Gao Tianjun asked: "Deng Kai, why is there only 'Fuxi' here? Where's 'Express No. 1'?"
"I can't say," Deng Kai hesitated, "The space here is very strange! I was clearly on the 'Express No. 1' at first, but somehow I ended up on the 'Fuxi No.'..."
"Zhang Nan, ask about the situation on the 'Planet Guardian' and the 'Gagarin', see if you can contact them." Yan Shaojun choked and said. At this moment, she still thought of the United Space Fleet first.
Zhang Nan replied that the "Planet Guardian" had just briefly experienced a "black barrier". The crew members are currently in good health and everything on the spacecraft is normal. The "Gagarin" is currently unreachable.
"The Gagarin is still here. They are safe," Eisen said.
"Why can't we contact you?" Yan Shaojun asked.
Aisen didn’t answer…
"Captain Nelson asked if he could return." Zhang Nan reported.
"Ask them to wait a little longer, we need to find the Gagarin." Yan Shaojun wiped away his tears and looked at Aisen, "Tell them that I want to see Deng Kai."
"Please wait a moment, Captain Yan. Please give up any thoughts...the game has begun!" Eisen said.
"Game?!" Yan Shaojun stared at Aisen in confusion. Gao Tianjun secretly waved his hand to her, indicating that she would do as Aisen said. Yan Shaojun immediately understood and told Zhang Nan: "Tell Nielsen and others to be patient.
Wait, we will return together!" Then she looked at Deng Kai affectionately on the monitor and said meaningfully: "Wait a little longer. I will go home with you!"
Eisen once again entered the space filled with dazzling white light. This time he was alone. At this moment, he felt a kind of comfort and comfort that he had never experienced before, just like waking up naturally in his own bed on Sunday morning.
, looking at the bright sunshine outside the window, listening to the crisp birdsong on the branches...
He was both nervous and excited, just like when he was playing hide-and-seek with his brother Ai Bin when he was a child, he hid in a corner that was hard to find, waiting for the game to begin.
"You are a magical and lovely creature." Eisen received this message in his consciousness and felt as if someone was talking next to him. "In your original world, you are a very special one. We will let you return.
Go to your home planet, but first you must fulfill your previous promise."
"Our home planet has now been sealed in darkness and severe cold by you. Even if we can go back, it will be impossible for us to continue to survive. If I fulfill my promise, can you leave the solar system and give humans a free living space?"
"We need to record all the information in this space. This is the law we follow. Your survival and reproduction must be determined by your own laws."
"You are advanced intelligent beings in the universe. For you, the space of the solar system is too small and the energy is limited. You can completely ignore it. Therefore, I give you what you want, and you give us the solar system. It is beneficial to both parties.
.”
"I repeat: your survival and reproduction are determined by your own laws. This is the greatest tolerance we can give you!"
Eisen knew that there was no room for humans in the other party's consciousness, and the last glimmer of hope in his heart had been shattered!
"Give us that star!" The voice was stern.
"It's not in the solar system. I can take you there." Eisen said calmly, "But please first lift the blockade on the sun and let the earth restore sunlight."
After a moment of silence, the voice asked again: "Where is the star?"
A star gradually emerged in Eisen's consciousness - this was the shape of the destroyed alien probe that the Venusians told him - Eisen imagined that the probe was currently surrounding a planet with tumbling oranges on its surface.
The yellow "flaming" star flies like a small black dot...
"Which space is there?" the voice asked.
"Our civilization named it 'S1857'. It is a star hundreds of times larger than the sun, and it carries more than 300 times the energy of the sun. Your detector is there and was accidentally locked by it.
Become its satellite. I will take you there!" Eisen replied.
"S1857" is a yellow giant star in the direction of the constellation Cygnus. It was first discovered in 1857 by a Chinese astronomer named Song in the United States. The radius of "S1857" is about 70 times that of the sun, and its volume is about 350,000 times that of the sun.
But its mass is only 55 times that of the sun, and it is about 120 light-years away from the earth. Through spectral analysis, the star is entering the red giant stage and its volume has begun to expand. However, observations in recent years have found that "S1857" exhibits a strange "
"Variable star" characteristics, sometimes it will become very bright, sometimes it will become very dim, and it has obvious periodic patterns, and the frequency of changes is getting faster and faster.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At first, people suspected that the phenomenon of "S1857" may be due to its own activities such as stellar winds, flares, etc., which cause changes in its brightness, or due to the changes in its surroundings.
It blocks part of the starlight due to the "transit" phenomenon of other celestial bodies. However, this cannot well explain the periodicity of its light and dark changes and the acceleration of its frequency.
In "Planet 9", when Eisen asked the Venusians to help him find a "special space", the Venusians told him the location of the yellow giant star. At that time, Ding Yushi had questioned "S1857" and thought it might be
It's just another "solar system", and its regular changes in brightness are caused by the "transit" of planets. She questions how such a galaxy can meet the definition of "special space". Is it simply moving away from the solar system?
"Yunti" can't come back if he finds out he was deceived?!
However, what the Venusians told Eisen was——
The brightness and frequency of the yellow giant "S1857" changes faster, not because of the planet's "transit", but because there is a devilish celestial body next to it - a black hole! This black hole forms a special side with "S1857"
The twin structures are intertwined with each other, and one side is also fiercely absorbing and swallowing the material and energy of this yellow giant. Viewed from the solar system, when the black hole orbits to the back of "S1857", the star shines normally because it is not blocked
; When the black hole turns in front of the star, it blocks almost all the light from the front of the star, but due to the strong and curved gravitational space around it, part of the light blocked by it is refracted. Due to this rare double
The distance between the body structures continues to shrink, and the gravity continues to increase, causing the rotation speed to become faster. Therefore, although people can observe that the "S1857" star shows regular changes with an increasingly faster frequency, they are unable to discover the black hole around it.
exist.
"The black hole is covered by the star 'S1857' and will not be known to the 'clouds'. As long as the 'clouds' can be led over, they will be swallowed up by the black hole!" Ai Wenbo told Eisen.
This is the last "game" that Eisen leaves for himself and the "Cloud Body Brain"! He wants to take the "Cloud Body" there and use that black hole as their eternal destination!