Chu Xiaoming, who had just changed his equipment and entered the pressure chamber, was a little undecided. He quietly asked Shen Yinuo: "What should I do?"
Shen Yinuo looked at the dark surveillance screen and said, "Go and take a look."
"good."
…
Su Wanxia, who managed her mood swings well, moved quickly. After taking all the data that needed to be collected, he quickly left the escape cabin.
At the same time as he came out, Chu Xiaoming also arrived nearby.
Su Wanxia was a little surprised when she saw Chu Xiaoming. He asked, "Why did you come with me? Why didn't you stay to protect Sister Yinuo?"
Chu Xiaoming was stunned: "Uh? Don't I care about you?"
Su Wanxia rolled her eyes at Chu Xiaoming and said, "I said it's okay." After that, Su Wanxia manually released the spacecraft's control of the escape capsule.
Seeing the badly damaged escape cabin gradually moving away, Chu Xiaoming asked again: "Are you really okay?"
"Ah? Of course it's okay. What can happen to me?" Su Wanxia said as she picked up Chu Xiaoming and flew to the spaceship.
Chu Xiaoming was doubtful, but seeing that Su Wanxia was unwilling to say anything, he had no choice but to give up.
When the two returned to the spacecraft, Shen Yinuo was waiting in front of the pressure cabin door.
The first thing she asked after seeing Su Wanxia was: "Did you see something?"
Su Wanxia said nothing. He walked up to the assembly table and the robotic arm began to take off his space suit.
"Hey, Wanxia, is there anything you can't say?"
Su Wanxia then said: "It's nothing, it's just that when the door opened, some of the scenes I saw before flashed before my eyes."
Shen Yinuo didn't quite believe it: "Really?"
"Well, of course it's true." Su Wanxia's equipment was changed, and he came over and handed the crystal chip to Shen Yinuo's hand: "Let's go home."
Shen Yinuo looked at Su Wanxia silently, trying to find clues in his eyes, but...he failed.
finally.
The recycling operation has been successfully concluded.
After calibrating the course, the spacecraft began to fly towards the earth.
According to the current speed, if nothing unexpected happens, they will be able to see the moon and the earth with the naked eye in a month.
But now there is another question that is always disturbing.
That is, they still have not been able to contact the Xinghan International Space Station.
…
On the second day after the return flight, the five of them had a short meeting in the restaurant after resting.
The content is mainly about describing and recording what you have seen and heard recently, and planning a response plan for the worst possible scenario.
This "short meeting" was initially planned to last only one hour.
Unexpectedly, by the time Yan Sichen finished telling his story, the day was already over.
So everyone decided to keep the agenda and continue tomorrow.
…
In the evening, Su Wanxia was in her room sorting out the stories everyone told during the short meeting during the day.
Those minimalist stories told by Chu Xiaoming have their own complete flesh and blood, they are vivid and cruel...
But these... Su Wanxia didn't intend to pay too much attention, not because she was not interested, but because there were more urgent problems to be solved than these at the moment.
After sorting it out, there are a lot of keywords and key clues that may be connected in the record files.
After stretching, Chu Xiaoming threw the crystal plate aside, turned on the music player, and took a short nap accompanied by jazz music.
Dimly, he heard the whispers of two people.
In the dark universe, on the edge of hopelessness...
He saw two figures cuddling together, swaying gently to the accompaniment of jazz music.
…
"Dong dong dong."
There was a knock on the door, and Su Wanxia, who woke up, suddenly opened her eyes, and the haze in her heart disappeared.
Opening the door, it was Yan Sichen.
He was holding several cans of beer and some compressed side dishes in his arms.
Su Wanxia was stunned because he didn't feel that she was very familiar with Yan Sichen...
But.
…
"It may be a little abrupt, but we should have been in contact before, and we drank wine at the same place." Yan Sichen poured the wine for Su Wanxia.
Su Wanxia frowned and said, "Really? Why don't I have any impression at all?"
"Yes, yes, that time left a deep impression on me. I remember that you were drinking in a bar with a guy named Natsume, and a beggar girl came over to keep you company. Don't you remember?"
Su Wanxia was startled when she heard the two familiar names. Then she looked at Yan Sichen strangely and said, "I remember this, but are we?"
"Later, the beggar girl drank too much and clamored to sing on stage. You even accompanied her. That's when we had contact." Yan Sichen said with a smile.
"Tsk..." Su Wanxia thought carefully and then suddenly remembered: "Oh! I remember! Were you sitting at the table next to us with a sloppy uncle? When Hanako vomited, your coat was stained.
?”
"haha, yes."
"Oh my God! If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have had any impression at all! Fortunately, we are still colleagues." Su Wanxia said while secretly sighing: 'This world is too small...'
Yan Sichen didn't really care that Su Wanxia didn't remember him. In fact, for most people, unless they left a deep impression, it was impossible to leave much memory with just a one-time encounter.
"There are more than 3,000 people on the ground in Xinghanguang, and there are more than 1,000 people in the sky. If this accident hadn't brought us together, we wouldn't have known each other.
The chance of knowing is too small."
"Yeah, I think my memory is pretty good." Su Wanxia smiled and raised her wine glass and said, "But I still feel a little sorry for staining your coat that time. Come on, let me apologize to you on Hanako's behalf."
Yan Sichen also raised his glass and said: "I don't mind about the jacket for a long time. What's more, I really didn't expect Miss Hanako to be able to sing a classic old song so vividly even when she was vomiting like that."
Su Wanxia took a sip of beer and laughed: "Haha, it's quite surprising, but what surprises me even more is your saxophone, brother Chen."
"It's a small interest, just talk about it." Yan Sichen was really modest.
After drinking for three rounds, Su Wanxia asked: "Brother Chen came to see me so late, shouldn't he just be catching up on old times?"
Yan Sichen nodded calmly: "I have something I want to talk to you about."
"Oh? What kind of thing?"
"Brother Wanxia, although I don't know much about others, I can already feel the strong divine aura in your body. You should be very clear about this, right?"
After hearing this, Su Wanxia looked down at her body without changing her expression and then asked with a smile: "Oh? Is there any? I really don't feel much about this."
Seeing that Su Wanxia was pretending to be confused, Yan Sichen spoke more clearly: "Brother Wanxia, Qian Hua and I have been exploring the field created by the transcendent for a long time. We also know a little about divinity, so after hearing
After Miss Huan's words, we quickly felt and awakened our respective divinities, and my divinity is precognition and enlightenment."
"Huh? Real or fake?"
Yan Sichen frowned and said: "Brother Wanxia, whether it's true or not, I feel a strong aura of disaster in you, and these auras foreshadow an extremely terrifying future. Do you want to hear how terrible it is specifically?"
Su Wanxia didn't laugh either. After covering up twice and failing to deceive Yan Sichen, Su Wanxia knew that the other party was not malicious.
He nodded: "Yes, I'm all ears."
Yan Sichen said seriously: "If I guessed correctly, the divinity given to you by the old god you came into contact with should be related to life."
Su Wanxia was silent for a while and then nodded: "Yes."
"Life is the most special form of existence in the universe. Some people once thought that life destroyed the most fundamental harmony of the universe and was the most discordant note on the musical staff. However, as everyone knows, without life, the basic ecology of the earth will no longer exist.
In other words, our earth can be as it is today entirely because of the interaction between life and the basic environment. It is life that transforms and continues its vitality on the basis of the earth, rather than the earth giving life an Eden-like shelter.
, can you understand this?"
"Yeah." Su Wanxia just nodded again.
"But with the intensification of human activities, the stable structure of the original ecosystem has been destructively damaged. This irreversible damage is leading to the end of human society. I don't want to repeat similar things. Anyone who knows nature knows it.
"
"Um."
"So, human beings are faced with two choices. One is to turn the tide and further strengthen their ability to influence the ecological environment; the other is to choose to give up and everyone becomes a sophisticated egoist, just like the primitive tribes millions of years ago.
Everyone simply allocates resources once and then accepts the reality." Speaking of this, Yan Sichen sighed deeply: "Before the blackout era, we followed the second plan. The social system itself has flaws. Smart people
It is too easy to master resources and become a sophisticated egoist. If there were not those ten years of cold winter, our society might have been declared extinct long before entering the year 2100."
"Well..." Su Wanxia just listened and did not express an opinion.
Yan Sichen continued: "Now that we are awake and have decided to try the first plan to lead human civilization to the next level, we must come up with a practical and effective plan, right?"
"Hmm...but what does this have to do with me?" Su Wanxia suddenly asked.
Yan Sichen asked calmly: "Does it really have nothing to do with you?"
Su Wanxia looked at Yan Sichen, but he didn't speak.
After a long time, he poured himself a glass of wine and said, "Well, continue."
"As of now, all major political systems in the world have their own grand blueprints. Take the New United States as an example. They have been working on artificial intelligence and super human projects and have achieved a lot. But you and I should all
Clearly, this is an escape strategy, or another variant of capital's egoism. It has almost no value or meaning to the general public, because they are destined to become a group of poor people abandoned by capital.
, even every day when they work seriously, they do not realize that they have been abandoned by their boss. In contrast, the Firestone Project and the Slice Universe appear more humane, but the Firestone Project and the Slice Universe also exist
Two fatal questions, as a member of the Su family, you should know very well what these two questions I am referring to, right?"
Su Wanxia didn't respond, but he listened carefully and knew exactly what the two questions Yan Sichen mentioned were referring to.
The goal of the Firestone Project is to build 110,000 earth sampling bases around the world within one to two centuries. The goal is to create a true "digital earth" within the core of quantum computing.
Different from the "Digital Earth" that is constructed from historical record data or real-time updated synchronous data to serve the human social system, the Firestone Project wants to create a "Digital Earth" with a "future".
And it will be the next step for mankind to explore the mysteries of the sun, and after decoding the star system array, use the power of all the stars in the universe to achieve true meaning.
Recreating the "universe" is the so-called "slice universe".
However, just in the early stages of the implementation of the "Flintstone Project", the original designers of the plan encountered many problems one after another.
For example, the construction of a sampling base requires astronomical initial investment and subsequent maintenance costs. In addition, the initial design plan for each base presets 100,000 basic positions and at least 3,000 professional positions. To fill these personnel needs,
It also requires a lot of investment in manpower and material resources.
And this is not the most difficult challenge faced by the "Flintstone Project".
The key problem that may really cause the entire plan to fail is that the original designers' estimates of various variables on the earth were too conservative and even naive.
This means that even if all the sampling bases are completed and the first central axis realizes global data collection and calculation, humans may not be able to create the quantum calculation core that allows this "Digital Earth" to operate.
And if the collected data is wasted because it has no use, then there is no need to commission the geometrically rising solar system data and star system array data...
Eventually, the "Flintstone Project" and "Sliced Universe" will be reduced to pure theories. At this time, all the initial investment will be wasted, and the impact of the failure of the plan may also directly lead to the collapse of human society.
The reason why Su Wanxia understood so much was entirely because of his thorough rebuttal to her father, Su Che.
In order to defy her father, Su Wanxia achieved the ultimate in data analysis.
He even concluded that the "Flint Project" and "Sliced Universe" are not completely theoretical concepts. They are still feasible, but they are not feasible based on the current level of human civilization.
Maybe that's all.
In other words, if you want to eat hot pot, you have already thought about what to eat, and you have all the edible ingredients on hand, and all the pots and bowls are ready, but you don’t have the fire, which means it is not feasible.
So... what exactly does Yan Sichen want to say?
Su Wanxia actually understood and understood the purpose of this buddy's late night visit, but...
"Earth...I must go back. What's more, among the five of us, I have the highest chance of survival. You can't stop me at all." Su Wanxia didn't beat around the bush anymore. He did have his own ideas, but
I don't intend to accept anyone's opinion.
Yan Sichen was stunned when he heard this, but then smiled and said: "You misunderstood, I'm not here to stop you, but to help you."
"Help me? The tone of your opening statement didn't sound like you were going to help me." Su Wanxia didn't trust Yan Sichen. He was already used to being alone before he met Chu Xiaoming, so he had no intention of inviting friends to do it together now.
Yan Sichen said: "If my hunch is right, then our home may not exist long ago, so...even if we can return to Earth, you can't do anything."
Su Wanxia's expression turned cold when she heard this: "What do you mean?"
Yan Sichen sighed softly, and then said seriously: "Humanity has been destroyed."
"What?!" Su Wanxia couldn't believe her ears at all, or... he felt that Yan Sichen was talking nonsense.
"You heard me clearly, I won't repeat it. Of course, if you have doubts, you can continue to try to contact the space station... But I think it is impossible for the space station, which has long been turned into space junk, to give us any response." But Yan Sichen did not.
He didn't look like he was joking, his expression was very serious, as if he was stating the facts.
"No...impossible! If the earth has disappeared, why did Qingshui Huan send us home?! You are lying to me!" Su Wanxia still couldn't accept it.
Yan Sichen did not explain. He took a deep breath and said: "Time is indeed a tool. I finally figured it out. What is needed for the progress of civilization is never technology."
After saying that, Yan Sichen stood up and said, "Okay, I won't disturb your rest. If you change your mind, remember to come to me."
With that said, Yan Sichen left.
Su Wanxia was left sitting there blankly alone.
After a long time, Su Wanxia hurriedly opened the door and ran to the cockpit.
The spacecraft in the autopilot state is moving forward at a quarter power at this moment, which is the most stable output power.
But now Su Wanxia could no longer wait. After entering the code, he adjusted the power to three-quarters and drove the spacecraft towards the earth at a speed close to full power.
After the spacecraft engine power is adjusted, the internal changes in the spacecraft are visible to the naked eye.
Before the gravity system returned to normal, the lights inside the spacecraft had dimmed significantly.
Not long after, Chu Xiaoming, who had half washed his hair, stumbled in with his buttocks half naked.
"Holy shit! What happened?! Why did the spacecraft suddenly speed up?"
Su Wanxia, who was sitting in the main driving position, did not look back. He looked calmly at the dark front and said, "I readjusted the speed. We have to get back to Earth as soon as possible."
"Hey? Why? Haven't we contacted the base yet? If we are regarded as intruders, wouldn't we be doomed?" Chu Xiaoming put on his pants and came over.
Su Wanxia said: "The base may no longer exist, and the time point we are at now may be hundreds of years after our accident."
"What what? What hundreds of years later?"
The lights in the cab returned to normal brightness, and the output power of the spacecraft engine also became stable.
Shen Yinuo's hair was wet when she came in. She heard what Su Wanxia just said.
"You mean...our home...may be gone a long time ago?"