Wandao long distance

Chapter 1029 What Li Qi Did

Annette was born into a civilization that already had the ability to travel through space.

She is doing her history homework.

Each character was transmitted to the device through the brain-computer interface, and once she had finished making the changes, she could send it directly.

Anette wrote about her favorite and best subject, the 'isotopes' brought about by the 'change of eras'.

Since the last era, our fellow races from parallel worlds have brought interstellar technology into civilization.

This is a very strange phenomenon, but it does exist. It seems to have existed since ancient times. This has happened six times in history.

This was also the first time that our ancestors came into contact with that magical 'parallel world'.

At that time, the ruler was a powerful king named Eagle King. His army had flattened the entire continent and could no longer find an opponent.

Then, after a solar eclipse, an army as powerful as the Eagle King emerged on the continent, and the other side... also called itself the 'Eagle King'.

The two armies fought, but as the battle progressed, they were horrified to find that on the opposite side, there were beings "similar" to themselves.

The reason why it is called similar is because those people are not exactly yourself, there is always some difference.

For example, they were wounded in a battle where they had never been wounded before.

Or maybe they are healthier than you, and your scars do not exist on them.

This difference caused great confusion, and the fighting quickly ceased, and scholars on both sides began to discuss their differences.

Then I found that even scholars were extremely similar, and only a few people had not found their own "isotopes".

Homotope, that’s the name they gave it.

This contact soon expanded in scale and the two Eagle Kings began to meet.

The two ambitious monarchs met each other, confirmed the major events in each other's life course, and finally determined that only one person could survive.

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain.

But the winner cannot be decided in a brutal private fight like a beast, but on the battlefield.

So both parties left.

The two armies began their battle.

This battle was so exhilarating and the opponent was so evenly matched. The Eagle King had never encountered such a well-matched opponent in his conquest of the entire continent.

The tactics, strategies, martial arts, and even the technical level of the craftsmen of both sides made rapid progress in such struggles, with the progress in one year being equivalent to that of the past ten years.

The battle lasted for three years.

After three years, the time has finally come to decide the winner.

Both Eagle Kings are full of confidence.

However, this time...

They all found that their opponent had disappeared.

All the isotopes disappeared, and the battle ended in vain.

The Eagle King's pain and regret continued until his old age. He even engraved this incident on his tombstone. Everyone who read it seemed to be able to feel the king's distress.

For example, when Annette was in school, she had to memorize this inscription, and it was very long, so much so that she was as depressed as the Eagle King at that time.

But no matter what, the Eagle King had the opportunity to prove himself, but this was the end result.

But this is the first recorded appearance of a "parallel world" in history.

After that, this will happen once in every era.

The second time was when the second era began, and everyone in the world discovered their other gender.

Yes, the other sex, they saw themselves in their bedrooms with similar life trajectories but completely opposite sex, and this time it also caused great chaos, and in a sense it also led to an increase in the population birth rate, which left a lot of research material for biology.

What exactly is the child born from a person's own birth? This is also a hot topic.

Annette sometimes wonders, if someone who understands her completely suddenly appears in front of her, will he be with her?

But think about it carefully, if there really is such a person, she would probably run away immediately.

This is too scary. She knows me completely and is almost the same as me. Will she fall in love with me? What kind of person would fall in love with me... It's scary just to think about it.

Fortunately, it didn’t last too long, only three years.

Three years later, all the 'selves' disappeared.

This once again caused great unrest, many families were separated, and the things left behind were difficult to deal with, but there is always redundancy in society, and in the end, everything got through smoothly.

Just like this time and time again, people gradually got used to the 'homologues' that appeared at the 'change of eras'.

During the last era change, isotopes appeared that were ahead of the civilized era and had advanced technology.

This contact allowed Anet's civilization to flourish, their technology advanced rapidly, and they established the first united interstellar government established during the civilization's first interstellar expansion period.

In the subsequent space colonization, civilization expanded rapidly. Although no aliens were encountered, a spherical area with the sun of the mother star as the center was established on many ownerless planets. Its territory was: a spherical area composed of galaxies that could be seen with the naked eye in space.

This area is not very large in the universe, but it is actually more than ten light years in size.

Due to the lack of efficient superluminal technology, the expansion of the entire civilization was severely restricted. In order to stabilize the regime and avoid division, the civilization defined its territorial limit within a radius of eleven light years centered on the sun, the parent star.

Through calculations, they concluded that within eleven light years, the heads of government of a civilization can still have basic control over the border areas of the civilization.

If it were larger, the civilization would be unable to connect ends and would eventually collapse and split apart, just as all those empires that grew too large did.

Therefore, eleven light years was defined as the maximum distance that Annett's civilization could currently expand. Within this range, the civilization had expanded by more than one hundred and fifteen settlements.

And Annette happened to live on a satellite of a gas giant planet ten light years away from the capital. This was a colony at the limit of the expansion of civilization.

The civilization controlled these colonies by monopolizing the technology of light-speed spacecraft. Annette often saw huge fleets of spaceships passing through the sky. They were traveling fleets that traveled once a month.

However, she didn't actually have a very deep impression of civilization itself.

Because, apart from the firm control over the extraterrestrial colonies' lightspeed spacecraft technology, civilization's intervention in the extraterrestrial colonies is very slight. After all, even a lightspeed spacecraft would take ten years to reach Annette's hometown from the capital. As for other ordinary civilian spacecraft, even the fastest one would take at least two hundred and thirty years to arrive.

But that's not what Annette cared about.

The little girl is looking forward to the 'era change' next year.

Yes, next year.

In her life, there is a rare era change. At this time, the passage from the other world will open, and the homologues from the parallel world will intervene here.

After finishing her homework and submitting it to the system, Annette looked at the "sun" in the sky. The real "sun", that is, the star in this galaxy, looked like a small red dot at this distance. The sun they really saw was a huge gas giant planet that occupied almost half of the sky.

Her hometown is a satellite of this gas giant planet. It has undergone ecological transformation. A huge dome was built in the canyon to protect it from huge storms. The surrounding living environment was changed through chemical means, and people can travel between the satellite cities.

I heard that those creatures living on ordinary rocky planets would be frightened when they first came to this kind of colony.

Because they had never seen such a huge celestial body hanging so calmly in the sky.

The gas giant planet that occupies half of the sky is too spectacular for these people. Many technicians, officials and teachers who came from the mother planet were so scared that they collapsed to the ground.

This is the frontier of civilization, and civilization often calls on people to support this side.

However... the distance measured in light years is still too difficult to cross. Even if those star regions in the heart of civilization come to support, even with hibernation technology, it will take several years to go back and forth. If it starts from the mother planet, it will take ten years. If it is two border towns, it will take at least twenty years.

This is why civilizations must limit their borders. When a territory that nominally belongs to you does not know your manifold, does not understand your thoughts, and does not care about your orders, then the division of civilization is a matter of course.

The radius is ten light years, that’s the limit.

Annette finished all her homework, then she pressed the button on her floating chair and floated into the sky, quietly waiting for her counterpart to come.

There were actually stairs, but she chose to use a floating chair.

Because she couldn't stand up.

If you look closely, you'll notice her feet are somewhat shriveled.

They are an interstellar civilization, but they can't even cure paralysis, and they have only just learned how to reconnect nerves.

This is actually because of the relationship between homotopes.

The technology of light-speed spacecraft and interstellar colonization was transmitted by the isotopes from the previous era, which has led to a very biased development of civilization. Although light-speed spacecraft have been built and considerable achievements have been made in many automated technologies, it is still very backward in biology and medicine.

The most advanced biological technology is probably the hibernation technology developed to cooperate with light-speed spacecraft.

Sitting on the suspended chair, Annette looked at the dim gas giant in the sky.

The scene was so spectacular that you could see a huge storm rising on the surface of the gas giant planet, as if a huge blood-red eye was staring at the ground.

If you are new here and not used to it, you may be scared easily.

Compared with the gaze of the stars, mortals seem so insignificant.

So, when being watched by the stars, it seems as if nothing else matters. In front of the universe, humans are so insignificant.

Annette used to have many dreams, but now they are mostly gone.

After she was diagnosed with a congenital spinal problem, the condition deteriorated rapidly, to the point where she lost sensation in her lower body over the course of several years.

She was actually a girl who loved jumping around, and her dream a long time ago was to become a planetary explorer, holding various instruments and searching for treasures, minerals, and even terrain suitable for building satellite cities in the uninhabited wilderness.

It’s romantic just thinking about it.

Fight with nature, wander in the valleys, roam among the stars, and name the new terrain you explore. If you find a new mountain, name it Mount Arnet.

How good.

However, when she was a child, this was impossible.

She lost her chance to become a planetary explorer.

Annette was not discouraged by this, nor did she complain about her fate. She still attended classes, still rode to and from school normally on a floating chair, and her grades were pretty good.

It’s just... a little regrettable.

So, when she learned that there was an 'isotope', she was thinking...

Doctors say the disease is rare, occurring only once in millions of people.

  Then, her counterpart shouldn't be so unlucky, right?

Maybe she could see herself continuing to jump around.

  Maybe you can see yourself realizing your dream?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel happy.

Even though she herself could never stand up again, what if her self in the parallel world could stand up?

Annette looked forward to it.

The young girl did not understand——

In life, some things are cyclical and will repeat themselves consciously or unconsciously, just like her daily breakfast or like she has to go to school every day.

But some things are one-time. You see the beginning, then you see the end, and you will never see them again in your life.

Many times, people don't notice the difference between the two.

It’s just like the usual breakfast. When the person who made breakfast for you passes away, you will suddenly realize that although it lasted for a long time, it was actually... a one-time thing.

It just started quietly, and I got used to the process, but at the end I suddenly realized that I didn’t have breakfast every day.

The change of eras is cyclical in the long run, but in Annet's life, it is a miracle that only happens once.

She was expecting a miracle.

Soon, a year passed.

Annette saw herself.

Yourself with healthy legs and feet.

That 'self' looked at Annette's floating chair in astonishment.

And Annette was excited to see the other person jumping when he appeared.

The two possibilities collide here, giving rise to more possibilities.

At the same time, such things are repeated almost everywhere in this space and time.

Zoom out.

From Anite to the entire satellite city.

Then to the gas giant planet, and then to the huge star.

Galaxies, galaxy clusters, the observable universe... and even the entire space and time.

Finally, above time and space, one can see... an eye.

(End of this chapter)