Earth Era

The darkness and silence wrapped Zhao Lan and the others tightly like ghosts everywhere. There is no sky or earth here, there is nothing, there is only void.

Such an environment can create a lot of stress. Under this kind of mental stress, coupled with the ever-increasing carbon dioxide concentration and decreasing temperature, it is easy for people to have a mental breakdown, or simply fall into a deep sleep and die. At this time, talking and chatting are the best and most economical ways to deal with it. Because to speak, you need to mobilize the brain to organize language and logic, and also activate the brain to supplement the memory block, which is very good for stabilizing the spirit and improving psychological endurance.

After Zhao Lan asked that question, he began to wait quietly. After a while, An Liya replied: "Actually, there is nothing to say... I, the keyboard, and the bald man are all orphans. They grew up in an orphanage, and then the boss took us away and taught us all kinds of knowledge, yes. We did all kinds of training... We naturally formed a team with the boss. The name Adventurer Squad was jokingly chosen later, and it has been called that way."

Anlia's voice was a little stumbling, but it was generally smooth and the logic was clear. This shows that Anlia's condition is not bad. So Zhao Lan turned to Cruise and said, "Bald, you should be about the same age as Anlia Zhou Xiaoming, why do you look so old? Your hair is falling out."

Cruise said angrily: "You ask me, who am I going to ask? If I can find my father and mother, I also want to ask them why they made me like this, so that every girl I like looks like me. It's like looking at a toad."

An Liya sneered at this: "Bald, you are obviously lazy, lack of exercise, smoke and drink heavily, sleep late and stay up late to get like this. Even if you blame your parents, your parents are too wrong."

Zhao Lan wanted to comfort Cruise a few words, but at this time Zhou Xiaoming, who had already passed out in a coma, suddenly moved. Then there was another squeak that seemed meaningless. Zhao Lan's mood became heavier.

This ** also made the maintenance cabin fall into silence again. Thinking of Zhou Xiaoming's situation, several people were full of worries. But there is no way here.

But it is impossible to remain silent like this, and An Liya obviously knows this. So after a moment of silence, An Liya asked, "Zhao Lan. You know a lot about this universe, can you tell me, if no one has come to rescue us, if we keep drifting like this... Where will we end up?"

Zhao Lan thought for a moment, and then replied: "Our current speed has far exceeded the third cosmic speed. This means that the gravity of the solar system can no longer bind us, we will directly leave the solar system, and then sail to the infinite. Starry sky. As for where we're going..."

Zhao Lan thought hard about the voyage route map he learned before departure, made some simple calculations based on the orbital parameters and the relative positions of the stars he knew, and then replied: "We will probably leave the heliosphere in four years. , reaching the heliopause, and passing by Sirius after about 24,000 years, um. Although it is passing by, the distance from Sirius is about one light-year... Later... We will probably reach the Crab Nebula Well, the Crab Nebula is 6,500 light-years away from us, and it will take us more than 15 million years to sail there... It's impossible to estimate how far it is, it's just too far away."

"Can we get out of the galaxy?" Cruise asked immediately.

Zhao Lan thought about it, and then replied: "Probably not, our speed is not enough to break free from the gravitational force of the Milky Way. Even if we can escape from the Milky Way, it will take hundreds of millions of years... to reach the nearest river system. , it will take billions of years.”

"This universe is so **** big." Cruise uttered a foul language without any grace. "Hundreds of millions, billions of years, we only reach from one river system to another. God knows whether the earth still exists at that time, and whether there is any human civilization."

Zhao Lan also sighed softly. Putting his eyes out of the window, although he couldn't see anything, Zhao Lan still looked at it dumbfounded.

The vastness and emptiness of the universe make people feel hopeless from the bottom of their hearts. Compared with this universe, what is the Milky Way? What is the solar system? What is the earth? What's the point of the struggle that I'm doing now and what I've done? Anyway, it's just the life and death of a tiny civilization on top of a speck of dust. What does it matter if it eventually perishes? Anyway, if you exhaust your life's strength, and even exhaust all the wisdom, energy, and time of an entire civilization, you may not be able to understand what happens in this vast universe... What's the point of all this existence?

Absolute nothingness The quiet and dark cosmic space is the best time for contemplation. At this moment, Zhao Lan's thoughts drifted far, far away. Now Zhao Lan even feels that in the past, he really shouldn't be so obedient, so step by step, he really should try everything he can.

This seemingly indulgent idea is not the same as the regret that many things did not come and do on the hydrogen bomb spacecraft before. Now Zhao Lan thinks a little deeper. Because Zhao Lan found that compared with this universe, his life seems to be purely irrelevant and meaningless. All morals, laws, beauty, and emotions are meaningless.

If that's the case...why do you want to pursue other people's admiration, or your own inner satisfaction? Why don't you give up all of this and simply pursue the pleasure of sex? Drunk life and dream death, singing every night?

Reason is telling Zhao Lan that this is wrong, but in this dark and empty universe, Zhao Lan's thoughts are not affected by his own reason at all.

Zhao Lan felt that his breathing was a little short, and his head was a little dizzy, as if he couldn't breathe. At this moment, Zhao Lan suddenly felt the crisis, so he immediately adjusted his mentality, throwing those unreasonable thoughts out of his mind, at the same time calming down and concentrating his spirit, so that he felt a little better.

All of this is completely subconscious, completely relying on the survival instinct to do these things. After sobering up, Zhao Lan remembered the thoughts just now, and couldn't help feeling ironic: "I was thinking about the meaninglessness of everything in my life just now, but when I sensed danger, I immediately resorted to survival. measures to preserve this "meaningless" life and body."

"Perhaps we are relying more on our instincts to live. The instincts of our bodies tell us to avoid danger, to strive for the praise of others, to obtain more social wealth, and to strive for our inner satisfaction and tranquility... Although spiritually I know that all this is meaningless, but after all, the spirit cannot overcome the instinct.”

Anlia's words broke the silence again: "Bald, why are you shaking?"

Cruise shivered and said, "I'm cold."

When Cruise said this, Zhao Lan also felt the bone-chilling chill that was constantly eroding his body.

The maintenance cabin has lost its temperature control system, which means that the temperature in the maintenance cabin is constantly escaping into space in the form of radiation. This is an irreversible process, and Zhao Lan and the others have nothing to do with it either. The only thing that can be prayed for is to get rescue from the military before a few of them are frozen into ice cubes, or poisoned by carbon dioxide.

Zhao Lan glanced at the timer and found that the time was almost up, so he groped for the ends of the threads and connected them. The maintenance cabin immediately returned to light, but after a while, Zhao Lan separated the wires again, and the interior of the maintenance cabin became dark again. Zhao Lan repeated this, and on the sixth time, the simple transformer suddenly burst into flames, and then went out instantly. When Zhao Lan reconnected the wires, the lights stopped moving.

So Zhao Lan said: "The distress signal has been sent, and then wait for rescue."

In fact, there is no definite answer in several people's minds as to whether they can wait until rescue. Because the trajectories of military spacecraft are only obtained by rough manual calculations~www.readwn.com~ This means that errors are likely to occur. It is very likely that the sailing speed of the military spaceship has increased a little or slowed down a little, or the sailing direction has changed a little, and even if the military spaceship has entered the predetermined range according to the calculation, it has not noticed this point at all. The flash thus ignored it... all of this is very likely to happen.

But no one mentioned it. Zhao Lan thought that dying in hope is better than dying in despair.

Zhao Lan is still trying to find a topic to talk to Anlia and Cruise, trying to stay awake in this way, but Zhao Lan feels that even his own brain is starting to have difficulty functioning, and some things that were easy to calculate in the past Data, I think hard now but still can't get the answer. Even the addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers can only be calculated after careful thought.

I don't know how long it has been, I don't know how long it has been drifting. When Cruise and An Liya both fell silent one after another and stopped talking, Zhao Lan also reached the critical line where she fell asleep. Zhao Lan thought that dying without pain seemed like a good choice.

But just when Zhao Lan was about to fall asleep, Zhao Lan suddenly saw a flash of light outside the maintenance cabin. (To be continued.)