Beneath Deep Space

Time passes like this month after month...

In the blink of an eye, people have stayed on this planet for two years, and they have obtained more than one billion tons of helium-3, plus a large amount of rare minerals.

After careful consideration, people decided to leave this rich metal planet!

Although there are still many, many, many resources on this planet, human beings can completely eat and wait to die for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years!

But... it seems that there is no need for this. There are already enough resources stored in the Noah, and even the first "Titan" has been built. There is not much sense in continuing to mine.

The human race is indeed quite greedy, but this greed is insignificant in the face of the entire universe.

Nowadays, the group of scientists is ready to take action. They want to explore the distance...

Farther away!

It is impossible to be comfortable. If they wanted to pursue comfort, people would have chosen to stay on the planet Nix. Now that it has become an interstellar civilization and has the ability to travel to the stars, another way of thinking has naturally become people's instinct.

That is...exploring the unknown!

The new human civilization is still very young, not even the first generation has died. They have enough energy and enthusiasm to explore new things in the universe.

The thinking of interstellar civilization is naturally different from that of lower-level civilization.

This difference is like a helicopter and a tricycle...

People with helicopters will naturally want to go higher and farther away, while owners of tricycles may not want to go out of the county...

But now that humans have higher-level spaceships and the ability to truly interstellar navigation, they will naturally want to explore more unknowns.

Especially in the universe, there are universal laws of life, making every planet more colorful. Although most of them are low-level beings, humans can always learn more things soon after leaving low-level civilization.

"Let's go, let's go. It's safer and more comfortable to stay on this planet... but we don't belong here after all."

"Maybe in the future we will have enough ability to come back and transform this metal planet into a real planet-level spacecraft! We can also transform the Nix star!"

"Goodbye, Planet GB131!"

Yu Yifeng stood in the captain's room, threw away all the thoughts in his mind, and gave the final order: "Deep Space! Set sail!"

"Captain orders, Deep Space, set sail!"

"……set sail!"

Familiarity comes once again, and everyone is already familiar with this voyage.

The space elevator had been retracted a few days ago, and the ion engine at the rear sprayed bright flames and quickly broke away from the planet's gravity.

Everything went according to plan, without too many mistakes.

A few days later, the curvature engine began to replace the ion engine, and a thin layer of curvature bubble enveloped the entire Deep Space.

This voyage is more distant than the last one and is also the first long-distance voyage across the stars for mankind.

After a lot of discussion and argumentation, people still chose the planet 6.8 light-years away..."Dige 114"!

In the past two years, astronomical telescopes have observed four more significant bright spots, which were concentrated within one month. Plus 11 less bright suspected light spots...

These light spots also indirectly prove that a tragic nuclear war is indeed breaking out on this planet similar to the Earth!

However, in the next year, humans never detected similar light spots again, as if the war was over...

"Did they also have an energy crisis like the Knicks?" Yu Yifeng thought very doubtfully.

"But DIG 114 is relatively close to the star and has almost inexhaustible stellar energy. It should not be like the Nix civilization... Why?"

To this end, he also held a special meeting to ask everyone if they wanted to change the target location and so on.

The end result is that people still want to run over and check it out!

First, this planet may be similar to the Earth and may be an ideal home for mankind.

Secondly, even if the planet does not meet the requirements, people can still understand the reasons for the outbreak of nuclear war, add knowledge about the sociology of the universe, and collect biological specimens from the planet...

According to the "black" aliens, human knowledge is still too narrow, and even people's thinking is still at the level of lower civilizations.

Disciplines such as sociology and biology must collect enough samples to achieve rapid development. There is no benefit in studying behind closed doors.

After more than a hundred years of research on the Nix Star, people have discovered that the complexity of life is far beyond their imagination. Until now, scientists have still not been able to truly "create" species... Humans can improve and splice things together, but they cannot fabricate them out of thin air.

This reality has to make people feel a little depressed.

L4-level theories such as gene dynamics can only summarize part of the properties of genetic material, not all.

Humans still have a lot to learn and verify!

"The maximum speed of our curvature navigation is about three times the speed of light, so the whole process will take two or three years... Everyone, cheer up and don't make any mistakes!" Yu Yifeng said calmly in the captain's room.

However, the current speed of the spacecraft is not too high, about 0.1 times the speed of light, and it is estimated that it will continue for two or three months.

This speed allows the central computer to quickly restore images of the outside world to conduct reconnaissance of the outside world.

Because... there are too many asteroids in this place, and there is a small chance that they will touch the hull.

Ordinary small meteorites can be smashed with lasers and electromagnetic cannons, and it doesn't matter much even if some small things break into the curvature foam. The kinetic energy of the Deep Space itself is not large and it can withstand the impact of some space junk.

But if you encounter a larger planet, you must avoid it. Collision is one thing, but also because of its huge size, it may break the curvature bubble around the spacecraft.

Just like a soap bubble being broken, if the curvature bubble is invaded by a large amount of material, this membrane may also be broken. At this time, a huge explosion will occur!

Deep Space cannot withstand such a powerful explosion...

Therefore, people can only sail at a lower speed to avoid these asteroids. No matter how fast the speed is, they will not be able to detect the outside world in real time.

In front of him is a gaseous blue planet like Neptune. The atmosphere is mainly hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of methane mixed in it. This methane is one of the reasons why planets appear blue.

There are a large number of meteorites near this gaseous planet, forming a beautiful circular halo.

"It's equivalent to a planetary structure like Neptune with the rings of Saturn. It's very beautiful!"

Perhaps "Planet GB131" was itself a satellite of this gaseous planet. After being hit, it luckily escaped and became an independent planet.

The remaining part of the planet became the planet's halo.

Scientists have calculated the total mass of the meteorite belt, and the overall data is indeed very consistent with this conjecture.

The encounter between Deep Space and the gaseous planet took only a moment. Compared with a planet, 0.1 times the speed of light is still very fast.

Humans have thrown several nuclear-powered music boxes here, which can continue to play for thousands of years.

These music boxes show that humans have been here before, just like "human beings have visited here".

There are still several damaged excavators on GB131, which is equivalent to declaring human sovereignty: the new human civilization is the first to discover this planet!

If we argue with other interstellar civilizations in the future, we will have evidence.

Well, this is all the bad taste of Yu Yifeng and some other scientists. When you come here, you always leave some traces.

Two months later, the spacecraft finally left the main area of ​​the star system. There are more comets in this periphery, but their orbits are not in the direction of human progress, and the probability of collision is extremely low.

Now, it's time to travel at higher speeds.

Yu Yifeng looked at the gravitational wave detection report submitted by the observatory, and after repeatedly confirming that there were no dangerous celestial bodies ahead, he finally issued the final order: "Start the faster-than-light voyage!"

"Captain orders, start faster-than-light sailing mode!"