The last human in the universe

Chapter 101 Sequelae

The Voyager spacecraft is now several billion kilometers away from Sedna, and it is impossible to send supplies from here.It is also impossible to obtain any supplies from the outside world.

It is impossible to get even a single stone.

It is also impossible for the Voyager spacecraft to stop and return at this moment.

Not to mention that it takes a long time to return to the voyage, and the fuel reserve alone is completely insufficient.

Even though ion propulsion is already the most efficient means of propulsion at the current level of technology, the fuel it carries is only enough for one acceleration and deceleration process.

Accelerate when leaving Sedna, decelerate when reaching the Jupiter system, and finally park in the orbit around Jupiter or one of its satellites.

It simply has no fuel for the return trip.

That being the case, there is only one way to deal with it.

Synthetic starch.Rely on starch to overcome the food gap that lasted half a year.

Just like what Zhao Changxing did back then.

In this regard, Zhao Changxing only issued one instruction.

"It's got to be fair."

Voyager spaceship.Seeing the instructions from leader Zhao Changxing billions of kilometers away, Cheng Xuanjia took a deep breath.

Fair, fair, still fair.

"Compatriots. Because of the previous disaster, there has been a gap in our grain reserves for about half a year. But please rest assured that the artificial starch factory has been put into operation urgently, and we are fully capable of producing enough starch to fill these gaps.

Based on Leader Zhao Changxing's instruction that "we must ensure fairness", and after discussion with the crew of the spaceship, I have decided that from now on, everyone in the spaceship will implement a hierarchical dining system.Catering standards will be divided into three grades: special grade, first grade and second grade. "

People who had just been freed from the previous shocking accident and were still a little uneasy and worried received a broadcast from Cheng Xuanjia at this time.

"Superior standards, that is, to maintain the current dietary standards unchanged, the supply of meat, eggs, and milk is sufficient. Persons who can enjoy the special standards are all minors, pregnant and lactating women, and disabled people who have been certified by the hospital as needing nutritional supplements." Patient personnel, meritorious personnel, special staff, etc.

The first-level standard is to reduce the current dietary standard by 30%, and it is necessary to replace food with a part of artificial starch.The personnel to whom the first-level standard applies are spacecraft maintenance personnel, medical personnel, teaching staff, etc.

Level 50, a [-]% cut from current dietary standards.Except for those who enjoy the special and first class, all the rest are applicable to the second class dietary standard.It needs to be pointed out that among all government administrative personnel, floor supervisors and above, including spaceship captains, deputy captains, mechanical supervisors, material supervisors and other spaceship leadership, all apply the second-level standard.

Compatriots, in the face of disasters, we need to help each other even more.The shortage of supplies is only temporary.When we reach our destination, I believe the situation will be improved. "

Leading by example, making all administrative staff enjoy the lowest level of catering standards is the greatest degree of fairness Cheng Xuanjia can do.

When this policy was first implemented, the situation in the Voyager spacecraft was generally stable. After almost a month of implementation, when the Voyager spacecraft sailed up to 1.5 million kilometers again, people really realized that What a wonderful life it was.

Every day is a starchy paste with a bland taste, adding some vegetarian dishes that don't have much oil and water, it is a luxury to eat a piece of meat.Recalling that I even ate meat and only ate lean meat in the past, but secretly threw away the fat meat, people stomped their feet regretfully.

The lowering of dietary standards seems to have taken away people's vitality.There are fewer people on the streets, squares, parks, and even wandering around.

But the emergency drill every three days is indispensable.

During the rehearsal, people would look at the companions around them, and when they saw that they were as weak as themselves, with disheveled faces, they would show a wry smile on their faces.

After the rehearsal was over, a stout man with a painful look on his face screamed whoops and limped into the hospital.

"Doctor, come and show me, I have a headache, ouch, it hurts me to death, help..."

Facing this patient, both doctors and nurses became a little nervous.

Pain in the head is not a minor ailment.Seriously, it may even be fatal.

But after a series of checks, the doctor didn't find anything wrong.

Looking at the patient who was still screaming, the young doctor became anxious.Cold sweat gradually oozes from his forehead, but he still has to take the risk of being scolded and invite the director of the department over.

The director of the department is an old doctor with gray hair.He came over and checked all the test sheets in detail, and he was concerned.

He brought the young doctor full of anxiety to the patient who was still screaming.

After asking some information about the patient as usual, the old doctor smiled and said, "Young man, don't worry, your illness is not a big deal. Last time I just treated a condition similar to yours. It was for this illness The medicine has some side effects and affects the cerebral cortex. You know the cerebral cortex, right? Human consciousness is controlled there."

The young man lying on the hospital bed and screaming was startled when he heard this.

"Doctor, what's the effect of this?"

"Well, it may have a little impact on people's spirits. Tsk tsk, the patient last time was cured, but he became insane. He was taken away by the mental hospital just after he was discharged from the hospital."

"me……"

"Young man, don't worry, the probability is very low, so it doesn't necessarily mean you are unlucky, right? You still have to cooperate with the doctor for treatment. Besides, compared with life, what is mental illness? At worst, you will be locked up in a mental hospital. Take... about such a large amount of medicine, it will get better slowly, and you can always live, right?"

The old doctor gestured, and the young man's eyes straightened.

"Come on, let me prescribe some medicine for you. Li, bring the syringe first."

"I, I...doctor, I suddenly feel all right, I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm leaving first."

"Hey, young man, don't, it's the worst thing to avoid medical treatment, understand? You have a fatal disease... Don't go, stop! Stop him!"

The young man fled.

The young doctor was full of doubts and said, "Director, what's wrong with him? Have you never heard of this kind of encephalopathy?"

"Hmph. He's not sick, but he just wants to pretend to be a seriously ill patient so that he can have some special meals."

"You bastard?" The young doctor's eyes were full of contempt.

"Young man, learn."

"Yes Yes Yes."

Looking at the back of the old doctor, the young doctor was convinced.

In the cafeteria on the fifth floor of the 36th circle, Wang Xiaolong took out his meal from the meal window full of melancholy.

This is a special meal.

The special meal includes an egg, a large bowl of egg drop soup, two steamed buns with a small fried meat, and a chicken drumstick.

Today is Wang Xiaolong's 18th birthday.

It was supposed to be a beautiful day.But remembering that after today, when he becomes an adult, he will no longer be able to eat special meals, but can only eat second-class meals that are mainly starchy and soupy, and Wang Xiaolong's heart is full of sadness.

"Chicken leg, chicken leg, this is the last time I will eat you, you must stay in my stomach for a while..."

After murmuring for a long time, Wang Xiaolong finally made up his mind, took a bite hard, and chewed for a long time, unwilling to swallow it.

He finally finished the chicken legs without giving up the meal.He still kept half of it, intending to wait until tomorrow to eat.

Sure enough, the next day, his treatment was automatically reduced to a second-class meal.Looking at the starchy and oily vegetables in front of him, his heart was full of pain.

Carefully took out the leftover chicken legs from yesterday, smelled it for a long time, but was reluctant to eat it.But in front of him, his buddy who was playing with him suddenly appeared, his eyes lit up, and he walked towards him quickly.

This dude turned 18 a month ago and started eating second-class meals!

What the hell!

He grabbed the drumstick and stuffed it into his mouth.But he saw that buddy almost ran, shouting while running: "Xiaolong! Save some for me! Save some!"

Wang Xiaolong chewed faster again.When the buddy rushed to the front, the chicken leg happened to have only bones left.

The buddies were about to cry, but Wang Xiaolong looked at him contemptuously and snorted coldly.

"In this world, no one can snatch my chicken leg!"

……

Sitting at the table next to it seemed to be a young couple.The husband seems to be a special type of worker and eats a special meal.The wife ate only second class meals.

The husband allocated all the delicious braised pork to his wife, but saw that his wife gave those pieces of meat to her husband.The husband whispered something in his wife's ear, and then he saw his wife gave him a few slaps in a coquettish way.

Then, the wife picked up the meat and put it into the husband's mouth piece by piece, and the husband also picked up a piece of meat and put it into the wife's mouth.

The roots of Wang Xiaolong's ears burned when he saw it, but a wonderful idea came to his mind.

"Maybe, it's time for me to find a girlfriend who can eat special meals..."

After more than a year of implementation of the hierarchical diet system, people with empty stomachs have waited for good news.

At this moment, the distance between Jupiter and Jupiter is only about 10 billion kilometers, and it is time for the spacecraft to slow down!

After another year of deceleration, the spacecraft can enter the Jupiter system and get supplies!

The long second-class meals made Cheng Xuanjia thinner again, but his whole body was still tall and straight like a pine tree.

In the main control room, he gave the command to adjust the posture.

In the vast and empty space, the Voyager spacecraft, which is 7 kilometers long, spent half a month adjusting the attitude of the engines installed in various parts of the hull, and finally completed the attitude adjustment, aligning the stern of the ship with the The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter.

"Start reverse thrust!"

"Yes!"

Bright blue light shot out from the 49 giant ion thrusters again.

From now on, every second that passes, the speed of the Voyager spacecraft will decrease by 2 millimeters.

(End of this chapter)