endless route.

Chapter 1 1. The Way Out
In 2023, Jinhuai Road, Fuen City.

In autumn, the street looks cool and dry, and a few yellow locust leaves are falling leisurely, piled up in the corner of the old street and basking in the sun, exuding a strange fragrance.

On the side of the street, there was a pawnshop with half-opened roller shutters. A dozen packed boxes were piled up at the door, and the shop was filled with dust, spilling onto the street one by one.

"Cough cough...cough!"

Zheng Yun ran out of the pawn shop with a broom, supported the old pagoda tree, took off his mask, and gasped until the fragrant air washed out the dust in his lungs.

He stood under the tree with a disheveled face, the ash and white mist on his body seemed to float out, and with a slight flick of the broom, there was a big cloud, and passers-by walked around him.

There is really no way.

From the time the shop opened to the present, the dead corners behind the cabinets have probably not been swept once. The dust piled up is thicker than the soles of shoes, and the broom can't sweep it.

"Ashes to ashes to dust."

Zheng Yun patted the soil and looked to the right side of the store. There was a table for refined mechanical watches. The place was always spotless and did not need to be cleaned.

The pawn shop has been in business for 40 years, and it has not done a few serious transactions. On the contrary, it has repaired watches for more than 30 years and created a lot of fame.

That's it.

This will become a hot pot restaurant next month.

The strange and weird things in the business have long been posted on the Internet, all that can be sold are sold, and all the unsalable ones are collected together, and they go back to the basement to eat ashes.

Sell ​​it or not.

Not worth the money.

When he was a child, he visited the shop all the time, and he knew in his heart that if the pawnshop business was good and he could receive good things, he would not repair 30-year-old watches.

And he was reluctant to sell it. The adoptive father didn't leave anything behind, and there weren't many photos. Only these old treasures that had been with him for decades were considered relics.

Hey.

The phone vibrated suddenly.

Zheng Yun took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It was sent by his adoptive mother, saying that he got off work early tonight, so he didn't need to go to the hospital, and he could go home after packing up the pawn shop.

"Got it, Mom."

Zheng Yun replied a voice message.

Adoptive father Jiang Jianguo passed away just half a year ago, and his younger sister Jiang Meng was hospitalized three months ago.

Jiang Meng was very ill.

Treatment cost millions of dollars.

In order to pay for the operation, the family sold everything they could, and the shop was forced to sell, but no one knew how long it would take for her to recover.

Sometimes I also feel in a trance, and the fleeting memories of the past are often tumbling in my mind. During the Chinese New Year, the family was reunited, and suddenly it became like this.

"Misfortunes never come singly."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath, went back to sweep the floor, cleaned the shop, and moved the boxes to the car one by one. It was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

Hit the road in a pickup truck.

While waiting for the traffic light, Zheng Yun looked up, and saw a huge planet occupying one-tenth of the sky floating above his head, glowing in dark blue.

That is TRAPP-D, which is also a terrestrial planet. It looks quite similar to his hometown Earth, but the atmospheric composition is not suitable for human habitation.

And people can't get through.

There is no sea of ​​mist on that planet, and the route is impassable unless a manned rocket is used to fly there.

"If you need money urgently, you can only go to sea."

"Go to other planets to pan for gold."

Zheng Yun held the steering wheel, tapped the plastic buttons with his fingers, looked down at the dazzling taillights of the car ahead, and thought about the private affairs introduced by his college classmates.

Gold diggers have a very long history.

They sailed to other planets by sea route, looking for anything of value in the most inaccessible places, but gold diggers have a very bad reputation, and they will do almost anything for money.

That's exactly what happened.

Whoever has no shortage of money goes out to sea to pan for gold, and one of them might die in various weird places.

There were four brothers in the father's generation of the adoptive father, basically all of them were on that road. In the end, they couldn't even put together two of the whole corpses, and the coffins were all empty.

Last year, his adoptive father took him back to earth to pay respects to his ancestors, and he was still joking at the grave, saying that the paper money was burned somewhere, and that the ancestors had to fly back from outer space to collect the money.

When Zheng Yun heard this, he choked for air, his hands trembled, and the wine bottle almost fell to the ground.

"No, let's go."

"After all, it is the age of great voyages. The fastest way to make money is to go to sea to pan for gold."

Zheng Yun didn't hesitate too much.

Jiang Meng still had to undergo surgery, and he could only sell the house further down, but this old city, which was built in the late Ming Dynasty, had external connections for water, electricity and gas, so it couldn't be sold at a good price.

High housing prices are high enough, but now whoever buys an old house has to save money for a lifetime, and if he wants to buy a new house, he must buy a new house. Buying an old house is not enough to get married and start a family.

Now young people want to open up. When big cities are under pressure, they go to newly developed small cities on other planets. As many planets as there are on the endless route, they can go as they say.

They are the only ones who can’t get rid of their family jobs and continue to struggle in big cities. Their income is low and they can’t afford new houses.

And he was worse.

He was short of money, a lot of money.

The time when I was young and playing with Jiang Meng seemed like yesterday, how could the elder brother ignore her.

Back then, his adoptive parents took him home and treated him as his own for so many years, eating, drinking and dressing him was not bad at all, now it's his turn to take care of the family.

Although he is an adopted son, he is also a member of Lao Jiang's family. His adoptive father got sick and couldn't go to sea, and finally died in bed, but in Jiang's family he went against the precepts of his ancestors.

The adoptive father violated the ancestral precepts.

Return it for him.

Every day in the city is like the living dead, the head can be seen at a glance, and life is meaningless, so it's better to go out and fight hard for your family.

Let's go to sea, life or death is destiny.

Zheng Yun raised his head again, looking at the blue star above his head, his thoughts drifted, and there was anticipation in the depths of his eyes.

This is a magical world. Since Zheng He strayed into the fog in the early Ming Dynasty, passed through the fog and entered an alien planet, history officially entered a new chapter.

"In 1405, Zheng He led a fleet of sailors out to sea. On the way back, they encountered pirates who feigned surrender. Thousands of people killed [-] pirates in a sea battle. The leader of the bandits, Chen Zuyi, fled to the East."

"Zheng He pursued and went to the depths of the Eastern Ocean. There was heavy fog on the sea. After passing through the fog in March, it suddenly became clear, but he saw: two rounds of red sun hanging in the sky, and the stars and stars are in confusion."

This is a junior high school text.

It records the first large-scale entry of human beings into the Misty Sea, and tens of thousands of people participated in this crossing.

Since then.

Mankind has entered the age of interstellar navigation.

The Misty Sea is located in the north-central Pacific Ocean, across the ocean from the right side of the Mariana Trench, with an area of ​​400 million square kilometers, shaped like an upside-down triangle.

Just cross the sea of ​​mist.

to enter an alien planet.

Although the historical records are weird and complicated, and unimaginable events often occur, both the East and the West have paid a bloody price in the process of exploration.

However, with the development of science and technology, the essence of the Misty Sea is gradually revealed. It is not an eastern fairyland or a western mystery, but a relic of ancient civilization.

This relic combines the sea of ​​mist on the Pacific Ocean with the sea of ​​mist on other planets light-years away in a seamless spatial splicing.

The Pacific Misty Sea is V-shaped.

The next sea of ​​mist is Λ-shaped.

After countless pieces of triangular fog seas are spliced ​​together, a fog canal similar to VΛVΛVΛV is finally formed.

When the ship passes through the sloping edge of the misty sea from the inside, it will enter the next misty sea, and then sail south or north to escape from the mist and enter the planet.

These planets have common characteristics. They all have oceans mainly composed of liquid water, and most of them have a habitable atmosphere.

At this moment.

The planet he is on is the second planet on the west route of the endless route, and the astronomical distance from the earth is 120 light years.

The route number of this planet is W-02. It was called Xianfu Prefecture in ancient times, but it was renamed Dingyuan Star in modern times.

Fuen City, where he lives, has a population of 400 million. It is a port city built by the Ming Empire in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. There are still a large number of Ming Dynasty ruins until today.

His adoptive father, Jiang Jianguo, set off from the earth more than 40 years ago and drifted on the West Route of the Endless Airway for more than half a month before he came here to open a pawn shop.

All in all.

Countless years ago, an ancient civilization built a long canal across the endless starry sky.With the ocean and water as the carrier, and the livable planet as the port, the wonder of civilization that can use ships to leap and sail between the vast galaxies-the endless route.

Primitive wooden boards, ancient wooden sailing ships, modern steam or gas engine ships, and modern nuclear-powered ships can all sail in it.

Earth is just one stop.

It completely changed the course of the times 600 years ago, and opened a new era of human civilization in the [-]th century - the interstellar version of the Age of Discovery.

The sea is the way out of all troubles.

Going to sea is the hope of all the down and out.

From ancient times to the present, from shipwrecks, pirates, treasures to porcelain, gold panning, slaves, and then to oil, minerals, and seaports, how many people have made a fortune by relying on sea routes.

Until now.

Those legends are still circulating at sea.

The waves never stop, people in the new era have the difficulties of the new era, young people have the downfalls of young people, but hope has never changed.

As long as he is lucky enough, he can earn enough treatment fees by going to sea a few times, enough to treat Jiang Meng...

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