The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 552 The Sadness of the Universe, the Spark of Humanity

"What happened to Tanya?"

"Judging from the wreckage, she was crushed by a tsunami shortly after landing on this planet, and she may have died a few minutes or 10 minutes ago."

Chen Kun and Yuan Wei reluctantly walked out of the grief and anger of the technician's sacrifice.

However, the crisis is not over.

Because the tsunami will come again.

They have no time to waste, they must quickly troubleshoot the problem that occurred when they hit the surf, repair and start the engine to escape the planet.

Accompanied by the soundtrack of drums and clock countdown, under the eager anticipation of all the audience in the theater.

A fiery shock wave sent the star seeker out into a tsunami that roared again, passing the peak excitingly.

"call……"

Chen Bo leaned back on the back of the chair, and his wife beside him was also relieved of his strength.

The adventure plot of this water planet is not long, even very short, but the sense of urgency is basically full under the almost one-second-one-day time difference setting.

Coupled with the ghost-like drums and the ticking of the hour hand, the already majestic audio-visual spectacle has been pushed to the point where people can almost generate adrenaline throughout the process.

But the film did not give Chen Bo a chance to breathe.

The hatch of the main control room of Eternity opened slowly.

Chen Kun and Yuan Wei, who had just taken off their helmets, caught the eyes of the astrophysicist staying on the Eternity with graying hair.

Chen Bo opened his mouth wide, as if realizing something.

The silence on the spaceship is like the theater at the moment.

"...how many years?"

"It's been 23 years now... four months and eight days... I can hardly believe you guys are coming back... I've been hibernating most of the time, but it doesn't look like hibernation can stop my metabolism."

Yuan Wei blinked, shook his head, grabbed the hand of the slightly aged astronomer, and looked up into his eyes, which showed incredible fragility.

"It's kind of scary..."

Chen Bo heard his wife's exclamation, and he also fell into unspeakable emotions at this time.

Although the setting of one hour and seven years has been known for a long time, it is still unbelievable and dreamlike at this moment when the time is visualized in front of our eyes.

Being outside the tipping orbit of "Tianlu", Eternity can't send out any information, but can only accept the signal from the earth from the relay detector, including the video from Wang Jinsong.

"Is he still alive?"

Seeing the other party's nod, Yuan Wei closed his eyes with relief.

Chen Kun has already walked into the communication room and closed the privacy curtain.

Chen Bo in front of the screen suddenly realized something—there are also the male protagonist's children and father-in-law.

Chen Kun sat down carefully and slowly, as if the communication screen might bite him.

Information spanning 23 years began to be staged on the big screen one by one.

The 17-year-old son opens the camera.

Chen Kun paused for a moment, greedily looking at the picture in front of him.

"I met another girl, Dad, I think she is my future wife, your daughter-in-law."

The youth held up a photo of himself and a young girl.

"My sister stole grandpa's car and she crashed it, but she's fine...she studies very well..."

Chen Kun leaned back.

Young people in their 20s came to the camera again with excited expressions.

"Dad, I have a surprise for you. You have become a grandfather..."

He is shown on camera with a swaddled baby in his arms.

"I heard that the spaceship you're on is called Mixing. I also named your granddaughter Mixing, and little Xingxing is called grandpa..."

Chen Kun just nodded with a tearful smile.

In front of the screen, Chen Bo's nose started to clog again.

The screen stopped abruptly, and the young man who returned to the camera looked about 40 to [-] years old, with a beard and a mature and haggard face.

"Dad, I haven't talked for a long time, because Xing Xing's... Xing Xing's funeral... just finished, and grandpa passed away last week. We buried him in the backyard, next to Mom and Xing Xing..."

Chen Kun was already sobbing.

But the choking sound is not only coming from the big screen.

Chen Bo kept wiping the corners of his eyes, his vision was sometimes blurred and sometimes clear, and the wife beside him was crying like the hero.

Never before has he been able to perceive so clearly what is vicissitudes of life, what is bad chess, what is white clouds and dogs, and what is the sorrow of the universe.

A few hours is 23 years missed, or even a person's life.

The tyranny of time magic is so powerful.

Chen Bo has been able to confirm that the real concept of this movie is not wormholes or black holes, or exploring alien stars, but time.

Time is the real theme of this movie, just like Zhinian in "Inception".

"You can't hear it at all, I know, all this information is meaningless, you will never come back, I already knew that, so..."

While Chen Kun was shaking his head in tears, the unshaven middle-aged man turned off the camera.

Chen Kun faced the black screen in despair and helplessness, as if he had been abandoned by the world.

until the image reappears on the screen.

A middle-aged woman turned on the camera, and Nini's somewhat rough and haggard face appeared on the big screen.

"Dad, long time no see."

Chen Kun stared at that face and recognized that it was his daughter.

Chen Bo, who was in front of the screen, completely broke his defenses at this moment, holding his daughter sitting on his lap, weeping uncontrollably.

"...today is my birthday...you told me - you told me that when you came back I would be the same age as you were when you left...and today I am the same age as you left... ...so... you should be back."

In the midst of sobs, the camera passes through Nini who is crying on the screen, and turns back to the earth.

Chen Kun's daughter is now a scientist. She also works in the secret base of the space agency. She has become a student of Wang Jinsong, who is becoming more and more aging. She studies the formula of gravity with the old man, who is only in a wheelchair when he is [-] years old.

"For years, we've tried to solve this problem without changing fundamental assumptions about time, which meant that each iterative computation was just an absurd cyclical recursive attempt to prove itself."

Inspired by the old professor's exclamation of fear of time, Nini was inspired, re-examined her research over the years, and questioned Wang Jinsong alertly and confusedly.

Although Wang Jinsong avoided the topic, Chen Bo, who had already wiped away his tears and stopped his tear glands, once again keenly noticed that the wise old man played by Wang Jinsong who had drawn up the entire space program seemed to be hiding something.

Is it actually impossible to study the so-called gravitational formula?
"Stepping into the universe, you must first face the reality that there is nothing in the solar system or on the earth that can help you..."

Yuan Wei watched the video of his father's aging and struggling on the screen.

"You have to face the reality of star travel: that we don't think as individuals, but as a species..."

The only three remaining people on the Eternity could not continue to be immersed in endless sadness.

After digesting and receiving the accumulated information from the earth for 23 years, the three discussed which planet to explore next.

Yuan Wei prefers to go to the planet that has stopped sending messages three years ago, not only because the data information from that planet is better, but also because the astronaut exploring that planet is her boyfriend.

When her father was close to death, she missed her boyfriend more than ever, and out of pure intuition, she thought that the planet where her boyfriend was located was more likely to be a habitable planet.

Chen Kun and the astronomers are more inclined to another planet.

He once led [-] brave and fearless astronauts to explore the planet where the commander of the exploration number on the side of the wormhole is located.

Because the commander is not only the most capable and most experienced of the twelve pioneer astronauts, but also continues to transmit data. Compared with this, the planet where Yuan Wei's boyfriend is located has interrupted data transmission three years ago.

Two to one.

The Eternity decided that the next exploration target was the planet where the commander of the Exploration was located.

From here, the film enters a two-line narrative.

On the one hand, on the earth, the sun is still slowly expanding, and the earth's environment continues to deteriorate. Even in high-latitude Siberia, the increasingly arid and harsh climate has reduced the yield of even genetically modified crops.

Fortunately, humans have developed the technology to artificially synthesize starch, but the rich and colorful food types will not be able to maintain.

Part of the underground city was completed, and humans began to gradually abandon the farmland and cities on the ground, and began to move into the underground city one after another.

The main reason is the extinction of plants and organisms, resulting in a sharp drop in photosynthesis and an irreversible decrease in oxygen content. Even though humans have the technology to generate oxygen by electrolyzing water, the cost and scale cannot match the oxygen production capacity of the original earth's ecosystem. .

The earth's atmosphere is constantly escaping, and human beings with limited resources cannot luxury maintain the oxygen content of the entire atmosphere. They can only move humans into underground cities as much as possible to maintain oxygen content in a limited confined space.

But Chen Kun's son insisted on sticking to his father because he became an astronaut and continued to work on his farmland and planters.

"Even if you move into the dungeon, it's just lingering. What's the need? I don't want to be a mouse that doesn't see the light of day. I don't want to wait for extinction pitifully as a mouse."

In addition to sticking to his father's promise, his ideas can also represent a part of human conservatives.

In the face of the impending crisis of despair, it is true that most human beings choose to continue to linger on, but there are still some human beings who are no longer confused and entangled in the face of desperation.

They use their pride to resist this fucking fate. Since they will die sooner or later, they will face the coming of death with the lifestyle and identity of humans who have been living on the ground for tens of thousands of years, refusing to hide in the cramped underground city, eating Sticky synthetic starch that doesn't look like food.

Cultivate, harvest, persevere, until the end of destiny.

Therefore, Nini, who had a dispute with her brother, broke up with her last relative on earth and was kicked out of the old house.

Nini, who broke up with her brother, received another bad news and hurried back to the underground base of the space agency.

In the ward, Wang Jinsong, who had devoted his whole life to gravitational research and spaceflight, lay dying on the bed.

Nini is beside Wang Jinsong's bed. He is connected to a machine with a tube inserted through his nose, and he is hardly breathing.

"teacher……"

"I'm dying... sorry, you need to know the truth... all these... years, all these people... counting on me..."

"Teacher, you will be fine, and I will definitely finish what you started."

"No." Wang Jinsong looked up into Nini's eyes weakly, and tears welled up in his eyes: "For so many years, I told you to have faith... Believe..."

"I do believe..."

"No, I lied to you..."

Accompanied by the sudden rise of the melody, Nini looked at the old man in confusion.

"Your father...they...have no reason to come back...they can't help us...because the gravitational formula can't be solved..."

Amidst the sudden noisy and surprised discussions in the theater, Chen Bo finally verified his previous guess.

Sure enough, the so-called Plan A is simply a cover, and there is actually only a "Tinder Plan".

But even if his vague guesses were verified, he still couldn't help admiring this old man who had deceived the entire human race.

What kind of torment must this old man have suffered in his heart all these years.

At this time, some images and details from the first half of the movie resurfaced in Chen Bo's mind.

At this moment, he couldn't help applauding the foreshadowing laid by the director.

"Does he know? He knows, right?! Did he abandon me?"

Looking at the excited Nini on the screen, Chen Bo felt sad, for the hero, for the natural moat that separated countless light-years and 23 years of time between them.

But the old man's cloudy eyes seemed to have penetrated the ceiling of the ward, passed through the boundless space and decades of time, and saw the only remaining fire of human beings, Eternity, which was released by him and deceived by him.

"No...don't...gentle...into...that...that...good night..."

The poem that runs through the two films "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" was once again read out intermittently by a dying old man, echoing throughout the auditorium.

And for some reason, he couldn't understand this sentence in "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars". At this moment, at this moment, the answer suddenly appeared in his chest.

(End of this chapter)