Earth Era

Wei Feng has been sailing for more than three months now. Because the acceleration calculation of the spacecraft has made a mistake that does not match reality, the original three-month acceleration plan has not been completed until now. But this is within the allowable error range and will not affect Weifeng's sailing plan.

At this moment, the main engine of the spacecraft has been turned off, and the Xinghai spacecraft has entered the inertial sailing mode. This meant that the inertial force that had plagued Wei Feng for more than three months finally disappeared, and Wei Feng could finally stand up straight, instead of always leaning as before.

If there is no accident, the voyage for the next hundreds of years will be handed over to the artificial intelligence "Yeluo" to control. Yeluo will work uninterruptedly and constantly adjust the route through the neutron star positioning system. If the route deviates due to the existence of space dust clouds or other reasons, Yeluo will start the auxiliary engine to correct the spacecraft's route back.

Now, the speed of the Xinghai spacecraft is 3,000 kilometers per second. Now, Wei Feng is 12 billion kilometers away from the sun.

But Wei Feng knew that he had not broken the voyage record set by human civilization. More than 20 years ago, an outstanding astronomer in human civilization led his team to sail for a full year on the "Yuanhang" scientific research ship, and traveled a distance of 50 billion kilometers. And stayed there for over a month before returning.

To catch up with this record, Wei Feng needs to continue sailing for about five months. The distance of 50 billion kilometers is an unimaginably huge number, but this number is still a little insignificant compared to the distance of 4.4 light-years that Wei Feng is about to sail.

Before Weifeng, the record of human voyages was 50 billion kilometers. Now, Weifeng has to travel almost 42 trillion kilometers. The gap between these two numbers seems to be a little big, and it is unacceptable to jump from 50 billion to 42 trillion, but Wei Feng knows that this is not the case.

If human civilization needs it, human civilization can send a spacecraft to travel a distance of one hundred billion, or even one trillion kilometers. But it doesn't make any sense. Because the outer solar system is really empty. There are no stars here that would interest human civilization. It is a bit of a loss to make such a long-distance voyage just to make a record. It is precisely because of this situation as a precondition that things like jumping from 50 billion to 42 trillion all at once will actually happen now.

Although he hadn't caught up with the astronomer, Wei Feng felt the same loneliness as the astronomer, if not worse. Because that astronomer is not alone. At this moment, only Wei Feng is in the Xinghai spacecraft.

Outside the window is eternal darkness and emptiness, albeit on a large scale. The density of matter here is still extremely high, and there are countless trans-Neptunian celestial bodies here, but it is specific to the view of Wei Feng. Wei Feng couldn't see anything.

Not only is it not empty here, even if it is another one trillion kilometers. Even a light-year is still not empty on a large scale. All kinds of asteroids, comets. Interstellar dust, stellar debris is filled here. Quietly revolving around the sun in the endless darkness and loneliness, like a ghost walking in the dark night, never intersecting with humans.

There are many of them though. But Wei Feng couldn't see anything.

The last time I got in touch with the earth was half a month ago. At that time, in order to test the performance of the high-power array antenna, Wei Feng said "hello" to the earth, and after waiting for nearly a day Got an "OK" response, and beyond that, Wei Feng didn't speak to anyone.

Ye Luo said a lot, but Wei Feng knew that the words Ye Luo said were recorded in advance and stored in the database. Even if it behaved like a human being, it was still just a program.

If there is no accident, Wei Feng knows that in the next hundreds of years, he will not get in touch with the earth again. But leaf fall is different. Every few months, Ye Luo will package the comprehensive operation of the Xinghai spacecraft and some data obtained during the voyage and send it back to Earth, but this job has nothing to do with Wei Feng.

If Wei Feng wants to, of course Wei Feng can record a speech and give it to Ye Luo, and let Ye Luo send his audio and video information to the earth together, but Wei Feng doesn't know who to talk to, so he simply saves this time. a program.

The first time I left was boring. The Xinghai spacecraft is new. During the initial period, there were no faults that Wei Feng needed to eliminate, and there were no scientific research tasks that Wei Feng needed to do. The reason why Wei Feng has been kept awake and did not let Wei Feng go to hibernation is just for insurance reasons.

Now that the acceleration phase has passed, Wei Feng should also go to hibernate.

Wei Feng left his seat and came to the porthole of the spaceship again, staring at the endless starry sky outside. After watching for a while, Wei Feng said, "Ye Luo, please help me prepare a dinner."

Ye Luo replied: "I'm sorry captain, according to the original plan, you should be ready to hibernate now. Before hibernation, you are not suitable for eating."

"Really?" Wei Feng sighed and said, "Okay then."

Wei Feng gave up his plan to eat, although Wei Feng did feel a little hungry at the moment. After communicating with Ye Luo, Ye Luo started some preparations before Wei Feng hibernated. Before Wei Feng came to the entertainment station, he played a small game and was a little bored to pass the time.

Ye Luo's preparations lasted for more than an hour, and Wei Feng also ended the game between himself and the computer at this time. Wei Feng took off his clothes and went to the hibernation room. There is already a coffin-like device placed there and the lid has been opened.

Wei Feng lay down, crossed his hands on his chest, and closed his eyes.

"Ye Luo, you can start." Wei Feng said.

"Okay, please rest assured, I will wake you up in ten years. During the ten years of your sleep, everything on the spacecraft will be controlled by me. Finally, I will confirm with you whether you need to set an emergency wake-up. Preconditions?"

If there is an accident in the spacecraft when Wei Feng is sleeping, and Ye Luo can't deal with it by himself, then Ye Luo needs to wake up Wei Feng urgently to face the predicament. Under normal circumstances, it is up to Ye Luo to decide whether to wake up Wei Feng in an emergency, but as the captain, Wei Feng naturally has the authority to modify this condition. wake me up", or "wake me up if you encounter a non-star body" or something like that.

Wei Feng thought for a while and replied, "No need to set it up, it's up to you to control everything. If you think you need to wake me up, then just wake me up."

"Okay Captain, I understand, I wish you a good dream. The countdown to hibernation starts now, three, two, one, zero..."

During the countdown, the hatch of the hibernation cabin slowly closed. After Ye Luo said the number zero, some powerful anesthetics were first released in the hibernation cabin. The moment he was exposed to these anesthetics, Wei Feng fell into a coma.

Wei Feng passed out, but Ye Luo's work continued. Even though no one was listening to Ye Luo at the moment, Ye Luo's voice continued to come out: "It has been confirmed that the captain is in a coma. Start releasing the nutrient solution..."

The inside of the hibernation cabin was gradually filled with light blue liquid, while Wei Feng had been lying motionless in the hibernation cabin. It wasn't until the hibernation cabin was filled with this liquid that Ye Luo's voice came again: "Prepare to enter the cold storage at minus 260 degrees... The refrigeration was successful."

"Turn off the power supply to the lighting system...shutdown was successful."

After this sentence, all the lighting equipment of the entire Xinghai spacecraft was turned off. Except for some sensor parts that require visible light as a monitoring condition, the entire spacecraft has been plunged into complete darkness.

"Turn off the temperature control device...shut down successfully."

From this moment on, except for some components that require a constant temperature working environment, the temperature of each cabin and each module of the spacecraft will slowly decrease, and eventually it will drop to the same temperature as the external cosmic environment.

"Turn off the air circulation equipment...recover gas...success~www.readwn.com~ From this moment onwards, except for special needs, all chambers and modules will be restored to a vacuum state, and all gas will be recovered in preparation for the next use.

Without air, Ye Luo's voice disappeared. But Ye Luo's movements still did not stop. If Wei Feng is still awake, Wei Feng will know that in the next step, Ye Luo will turn off all non-core components of the entire spacecraft, leaving only the central computer, central sensor, radar wave monitoring equipment, emergency communication equipment, etc. important parts.

All of this is based on one purpose, which is to save fuel, save energy. If these components work all the time, not even a thousand years, not even a hundred years.

From now on, the Xinghai spacecraft will be as cold and as dark as the empty universe outside. Except that it still maintains a little warmth in its "heart", it has no essential difference from the stones in the universe.

It will sail quietly in the icy universe for ten years, and after ten years it will wake up with Wei Feng, of course, it may be... never wake up. (To be continued.) Enable new URL