The last human in the universe

Chapter 175 Darkness
Because of the improvement of technology level, when leaving the star system this time, the fleet of human civilization finally no longer "searched" like when it left the solar system, and even needed the gravity of the planet itself for initial acceleration.

This time, relying on the huge thrust provided by the spacecraft engine, the entire fleet directly entered the de-orbit, and began to fly out of the star system.

At this moment, in the main control room of the Yuanhang No. [-] spacecraft, looking at the still bright and dazzling star on the big screen, even with Zhao Changxing's heart, he couldn't help but feel a little ups and downs.

A full 500 years have passed.

There are many people who have passed through the entire period of life in this galaxy.Many people died in this galaxy, and many people were born in this galaxy.

Some lucky people, when they were just born, just caught up with the completion of the initial stage of infrastructure construction, and enjoyed ample material life and a stable social environment. Before the austerity, the whole life has already been passed, passing away normally.

There are also many unlucky people who were already old when they came to this galaxy. They spent the last days of their lives in heavy work, just passed the initial stage of infrastructure construction, and just ushered in stability and abundant supplies. life, but life has come to an end.

There are also people who have just reached adulthood and ushered in the stage of "preparing for a long voyage", and have to dedicate almost the entire time of their young and middle-aged people for a hundred years to this cause.There are also many people who died before they even set sail.

Many people have many destinies.

For Zhao Changxing, these many different destinies and different people constitute the entire civilization.

"On the whole, during the 9352 years of staying in the Rakai 500 galaxy, our civilization has successfully completed its historical mission during this period, laying a solid foundation for the final impact on the third-level civilization.

After this voyage is over, after reaching the Peacock-500 galaxy, the stay time is still set at [-] years.

In the Peacock VI galaxy, we initially plan to increase the population to tens of billions during the peak population period, and when we leave the galaxy 500 years later, the population should be around 60 billion.

The number of tens of billions of people, according to the results of genetic modification at the current stage and future expectations, according to the thinking speed, brain capacity, and utilization efficiency that we humans can achieve by then, already has the strength to truly impact the third-level civilization.Then, in the Peacock VI galaxy, the historical mission of our civilization is to become a third-level civilization, to truly thoroughly understand and master the principles and application technologies of large-scale preparation of antimatter.

......"

At the current stage, human civilization has basically determined the basic physical direction of the third-level civilization, which is the basic material composition of the microcosm, which is deeper than atomic particles and quarks.

After figuring out these things and using them to form a complete system of mathematical and physical formulas, it is truly a third-level civilization.

——In fact, the human civilization at this moment has already fully known what these mathematical and physical formulas are through the scientists of the Moyun Litar civilization.But of course this does not mean that human civilization is already a third-level civilization at this moment.

These things are actually the same in nature as the large-scale production of antimatter technology that human civilization has mastered at this moment, which can only be possessed by the third-level civilization.It's like facing a very complicated and difficult math problem in an exam and getting the answer directly.

Of course, people can directly use this final answer to do something, just like the antimatter technology that humans have used on a large scale, but in comparison, there is no doubt that the thinking and process of solving the problem are more important.

Only by truly mastering this idea and process can we truly master this technology.And what human civilization lacks now is this.

And if you want to master this point, there is no shortcut.People must build one giant particle collider after another that exceeds any era in the past, and collect data through collision experiments that may reach tens of thousands of times; to build more sophisticated dark matter and neutrino telescopes, build Gravitational wave telescopes, conventional optical and radio telescopes, etc., can only be mastered through the process of proposing theories, verifications, corrections, and confirmations bit by bit through thousands of observations.

And all of this will start in the Peacock Six galaxy.

The road ahead is long, but the goal is always clear.

Under such circumstances, the huge fleet of human civilization embarked on a long voyage.

In the acceleration stage of the voyage just started, as expected, a large number of faults flooded in again like a tide.But no matter the quantity or degree, compared to the last time, it is much lower.

Last time, when the Yuanhang spacecraft was at its peak, the number of failures even reached hundreds of thousands.At this moment, several years have passed, and the speed of the fleet has accelerated to more than 2500 kilometers per second compared to the Peacock-1, and the number of failures of a single large passenger and cargo transport spacecraft did not exceed [-] at the time.

With the current number of on-duty personnel, it can be dealt with completely.

This is the most intuitive impact brought about by the advancement of technology and science.

At this moment, the fleet is more than 9352 billion kilometers away from star 3000 Lakai.At this time, among the 30 space carriers of various classes, the smallest model "Comet" class space carrier finally ran out of fuel.

It is just a strategic delivery vehicle, not an interstellar spacecraft.

But it doesn't matter, there is enough antimatter energy stored in the interstellar spacecraft.Now, it's time for an "air refueling".

In this vast and empty space, a medium-sized transport ship quietly moved away from the Yuanhang No. The "Comet" class space carrier with a clock distance of more than 2000 kilometers.

In the earth age, when the speed of aircraft was generally only at the speed of sound, that is, at a speed of several hundred meters per second, aerial refueling technology was already a top technology that only major countries could master.And now the mid-air refueling is being carried out, and the speed of each spacecraft is thousands of times faster than that of the aircraft at that time.

According to common sense, the technical difficulty should be thousands of times higher than that at that time.However, the person in charge of this operation is just a middle and lower level supervisor.

Not only that, the supervisor wasn't nervous at all, and was even in the mood to casually issue instructions while joking with his colleagues.The person in charge of piloting the spaceship in the medium-sized transport ship was also doing nothing. One of them even operated the spaceship while eating.

Everything seems so random, it seems that this matter is just a small matter.

But... it's really just a small thing.

In space, there has never been an absolute speed.Some are just relative speeds.This is very different from the planetary atmosphere and above the surface.

Compared with Peacock VI, the fleet speed is as high as thousands of kilometers per second.But for different spaceships, the speed of different spaceships is only less than one meter per second, which is slower than the speed of people walking.

With such a slow speed, coupled with the assistance of instruments, I am afraid that even a blind person can easily and happily complete this aerial refueling task.What's more, with the development of genetic modification technology, there are no disabled people such as the blind, the deaf, and the dumb in the current human civilization.

Even if a limb is amputated, stem cell cultivation technology can allow a person to regrow a limb.

The first aerial refueling mission since the fleet set sail was completed without any surprises or risks.

In the future voyage, such aerial refueling will be carried out many, many times, and a huge amount of energy will be transferred from the Yuanhang spacecraft to the space carrier to help them transport the only armed forces of human civilization to new destination.

The long-distance fleet moved forward peacefully in this way, until the light of Lakai 9352 star became dimmer, and until the star of Peacock VI, which is very similar to the sun, became brighter and brighter.

Zhao Changxing can't even count how many interstellar cloud clusters the fleet has passed through, and how many route compensation corrections have been made during this journey.

Life has always been so peaceful, and various affairs in the entire civilization have even reached the point where there is one thing that needs to be reported to him every five days on average.The rest of the matter is too minor, Zhao Changxing doesn't need to know, and the lower-level officials can handle it by themselves.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Changxing once again put most of his energy into his studies.Astronomy, geography, humanities, history, psychology, mathematics, literature, biology, etc., Zhao Changxing learned everything.

Every interstellar voyage will be the best time for Zhao Changxing to improve himself.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of years have passed.One day, among the thousands of stars surrounding the entire fleet, an inconspicuous star suddenly disappeared.

The disappearing star went unnoticed.Because there is no one or instrument looking at it at the moment.Even if you are watching, it does not necessarily mean that someone will pay attention.

The reason is very simple. Many factors, such as flare stars, variable stars, and interstellar clouds, may cause a star to disappear suddenly.

But not long after, another star disappeared.Next, the third, the fourth...

More and more and more and faster.

This incident finally attracted people's attention and was reported to Zhao Changxing.Then, when Zhao Changxing stood in front of the live-action screen, people could no longer see a single star in the entire universe.

This whole process happened in less than 3 hours.

At this moment, the entire universe has returned to pure and thick darkness.In addition to the light emitted by the fleet itself, there is no more light in the up, down, left, and right directions.

(End of this chapter)