Earth Era

This matter does make people feel a little desperate, but Zhao Lan is still keenly aware of other possibilities.

Zhao Lan continued: "If we make inferences based on the two principles we have determined before, I think there is another possibility, that is, this super alien civilization does not actually affect so many river system-level celestial bodies. Only our solar system is affected. For example, they have created some kind of super barrier, covering the entire solar system with this barrier, selectively blocking the light of certain celestial bodies. In this case, the level of civilization it requires will be much lower. , It is estimated that it can be done with a k2.3 level civilization. Well, at the k2.3 level, the most optimistic estimate is that there is a technology gap of five thousand to eight thousand years with us now. "

"K2.3 level? I don't think there is any difference between it and k6.5 level civilization compared to us. Anyway, it's a super civilization that we can't imagine and can't fight against. The gap between us is still there. It's enough to make us feel hopeless that what we're doing still doesn't make sense."

"If all this is really caused by human beings, that is, if there are super alien civilizations involved, everything we do is really meaningless. But I think the possibility of super alien civilization participation is very low. Because no matter what Both k2.3 and k6.5 civilizations belong to the category of super civilizations. Even the relatively low-level k2.3 civilizations have the ability to travel 10,000 light-years of space, and the k6.5 civilizations may have surpassed ours. The universe is over, facing such a super civilization, an earth, or a solar system... what is it worth their planning?" Zhao Lan said slowly. "I think it's better for us to keep our feet on the ground and continue to seek explanations from the physical level under the premise of following the two principles proposed earlier."

"We've gone too far." After Zhao Lan expressed his views, Zhang Hong timely prevented the topic from going further. Because obviously, it is meaningless to continue the in-depth discussion in the direction of super civilization, "I have to admit that the logic that Zhao Lan said is reasonable. I decided to accept Zhao Lan's suggestion and study our The future research direction is to find "accidental factors". As for the super civilization, we can treat it as an after-dinner pastime, and we don't need to think too deeply in this regard."

After temporarily abandoning the idea of ​​a super civilization. The discussion atmosphere during the regular meeting resumed a little warmer.

"I think we should start by looking at the differences between different stars," said one researcher. "Although many distant stars have disappeared from our field of view, we should not ignore that there are More stars that are equally far away from us are still staying there. If we can't find the reason for the abnormal disappearance of stars, we might as well investigate. Why are more stars still staying there. "

"Maybe the stars that haven't disappeared are just because they haven't been affected and affected by that unknown cause for the time being. Maybe after a period of time, those stars will also disappear." Another researcher used a joke. said in a tone.

"It's very possible what you said." Zhao Lan's tone was as serious and serious as always: "We have to plan for the worst, that is, all the visible stars that exist in the universe, maybe one by one, all of them. Disappearing from our view... In the not too distant future, there may be no more stars in our view. Whether these stars are quasars billions of light-years away, or just less than five light years away Proxima Centauri in 2018, these stars may all disappear. Our sky will be dark and monotonous."

Zhao Lan's slightly sensational speech made the atmosphere in the conference room silent again. After a moment. A researcher said with a strong smile, "Zhao Lan, you're thinking too far... Now we don't have any evidence to prove that the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of stars occurs in places closer to us."

"No evidence doesn't mean it won't happen." Zhao Lan shook his head gently: "I noticed... the distance between those celestial bodies that disappeared abnormally and us is constantly shortening... A month ago, it was the closest to us. The abnormal disappearance of the celestial body is more than 7 billion light-years away from us, and now after more than a month... this number has been shortened to less than 6 billion. "

"Okay, this is the end of today's regular meeting, everyone should go back to rest." Zhao Lan didn't wait for Zhao Lan to continue to speak his words. Zhang Hong interrupted Zhao Lan and announced the end of the meeting, "Zhao Lan. Are you going back to Earth to spend your vacation? I wish you a happy vacation in advance."

The meeting ended in a heavy mood, and the researchers dispersed in twos and threes. But Zhao Lan did not go to the dormitory area, but came to the spaceship parking area. Since today, Zhao Lan has a ten-day vacation, so Zhao Lan plans to drive his small spaceship back to Earth to spend this rare vacation on Earth.

The work in the 105 Research Institute is too depressing and dull, and the oppressive feeling of watching the stars disappear one by one always makes people feel heavy without knowing it. Working in such an environment requires necessary means of relieving stress.

Zhao Lan entered the password, opened the door of the berth, and saw the New Sylvia spacecraft quietly parked here. Fortunately, this time Zhao Lan's spaceship did not disappear inexplicably like the last time.

Zhao Lan was quite satisfied with the construction of the new Sylvia spacecraft. Compared with the spaceship in the past, it has a more perfect and beautiful appearance, more powerful power and a more comfortable environment, and its interior and layout are much better than the previous spaceship. With Zhao Lan's economic strength, it is impossible for Zhao Lan to own such a spaceship. So now Zhao Lan is not only not resentful of Li Yunfan who stole his spaceship, but in his heart is a little bit grateful to him.

"This can also be regarded as a blessing in disguise." Zhao Lan thought so.

The spacecraft slowly drove out of the berthing area, left the bright lights, and was constantly expanding, like an observation base of a huge construction site, entering the dark and cold space. The dim shadow of the earth can be seen in the distance, and the sight is a little further away, and you can see the moon, which is much dimmer than the earth, and still looks very bright against the background of the dark starry sky. These two spheres, one large and one small, constitute a quiet and quiet celestial system.

Zhao Lan fixed himself on the seat, then set the sailing parameters, and the New Sylvia spacecraft began to set off towards the earth. The observation base No. 105 at the rear was quickly swallowed up by the darkness and could no longer be detected. Zhao Lan and his own vehicle once again entered a state similar to static caused by the absence of any reference objects.

This period of work is too busy and too depressing. Zhao Lan is not a person who likes to abuse himself. In his spare time, Zhao Lan always relaxes when he can relax, so Zhao Lan is full of expectations for this vacation.

Wei Wei's sense of oppression told Zhao Lan that the Sylvia spacecraft had entered the acceleration stage at this moment. Zhao Lan knew that this sense of oppression would last for a period of time until the spacecraft accelerated to a speed of 130 kilometers per second relative to the earth. After about eight hours of voyage, Zhao Lan will come to Earth Harbor, and then return to Earth along the air-space interaction system on Earth.

Just when Zhao Lan was looking forward to the upcoming vacation, the communication system on the Sylvia spacecraft suddenly received a message from nowhere. Zhao Lan originally thought that this was an unrepentant harasser who didn't know how to find his latest contact information - after those unscrupulous media exposed Zhao Lan's photos and personal identification information, there were many such harassers. There are many, and the ways to strike up a conversation are also strange, which makes Zhao Lan tireless.

Zhao Lan originally just wanted to delete this message directly, but the content of this message caught Zhao Lan's attention.

"This is the Yuanwang spacecraft, the number of the spacecraft is 238909da7. I lost my way because of a malfunction while driving the spacecraft to Jupiter. If you can receive this information, please send my relevant information immediately. Information sent to Adventurer's Rescue Organization~www.readwn.com~ I need help desperately right now."

Obviously, this is a distress message. An adventurer accidentally encountered danger in the process of privately driving a spacecraft to Jupiter, so he sent this message for help.

Although human civilization has established cities on Mars for human civilization to survive, manned landing activities for Jupiter have not been carried out. Because Mars is only more than 50 million kilometers away from the earth, and Jupiter is also more than 600 million kilometers away from the earth, which is obviously not an order of magnitude. In addition, the environment of Jupiter and its satellite system is too complicated and chaotic. In order to ensure everything is safe, although many unmanned probes have reached the Jupiter system, no human has really landed on any one of Jupiter until now. on a satellite.

But there has never been a lack of adventurers in human civilization. These people may be because of their passion, perhaps because they have underestimated the difficulty of landing on the Jupiter system, or just to compete for the title of being the first to land on the Jupiter system. His own personal small spacecraft embarked on a journey to Jupiter.

Obviously, the one who sent the message to Zhao Lan now is such an unlucky ghost. (To be continued)