Earth Era

Wei Feng felt the same way about what Chu Hai said. If human civilization was at its peak in the previous stage, there is indeed a downward trend now.

Human civilization has already experienced a peak period. The peak period was the era of countries hundreds of years ago. At that time, fossil energy supported the prosperity of human civilization. But the good times didn't last long. With the increase of the total population and the depletion of fossil energy, the peak period passed. It was not until the mastery of controllable nuclear fusion technology that human civilization ushered in a new peak period. But now, the population count is exploding again...

Wei Feng believes that there are two indicators to measure whether human civilization is at its peak, one is the total amount of resources that can be controlled, and the other is the total population. If the total population is constant, the more total resources, the more abundant material per capita. If the total amount of resources is constant, the lower the total population, the more abundant material per capita.

So now there is a key question, is the ratio between the population of human civilization and the total amount of resources that can be controlled really out of balance?

From a macro point of view, the energy in the solar system can actually be regarded as infinite, because Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune contain almost endless hydrogen energy. According to common sense, since human beings Civilization has mastered controllable nuclear fusion technology, then human civilization should no longer be troubled by energy. But don't forget that mining energy also requires costs, and the scale of energy mining cannot be expanded without limit. It always has an upper limit. After reaching this upper limit, it is difficult for human civilization to increase its energy output again. .

At the same time, other restrictions also exist. Such as restrictions on food production, such as restrictions on living area and so on. It is these many restrictions that lead to a limited total population that the entire solar system can carry. After the population reaches a certain level, if you want to keep the per capita material demand from decreasing, then there is only one way out - colonization. Alien.

But if you want to colonize aliens, you will encounter the problem of "dead knot". How to break this deadlock? Wei Feng didn't know.

Just like what Chu Hai said. Time travelers have a unique advantage in watching the trend of human civilization. Through Chu Hai's description. Wei Feng also faintly felt a hint of a crisis brewing. Wei Feng knew that these things appearing in human civilization are just a sign, and it will inevitably continue to develop and become more and more serious. If there has been no technological breakthrough. Then... human civilization may return to chaos, or even war.

This is caused by the development trend of human beings. It does not depend on personal power. Even if there is a genius-like head of state in human civilization, as long as he cannot bring about technological breakthroughs, then he cannot reverse this trend.

Wei Feng let out a long sigh. Quit contemplation. Wei Feng felt that there was already a noose around the neck of human civilization, and it was quietly tightening as time passed. If human civilization could hang itself before the noose. Find a way to open the noose, then human civilization can be reborn, if not found. It can only be like the many alien civilizations that may exist in speculation and have perished before they have left the parent galaxy. Quietly disappeared in this dark and cold universe, until death was unable to send out a cry of its own to the universe.

Wei Feng suddenly moved in his heart. Because at this time, Wei Feng thought of the fragment of the unknown civilization that he discovered by himself.

"This unknown civilization is very likely to have opened a dead knot. It has found a way to travel at high speed, or even faster than the speed of light. If more relics about them can be obtained... Maybe we can find enough technology to save our human civilization from it. ...If that were the case, human civilization would not have to be troubled by this deadlock."

Wei Feng knew that all these ideas about the future destiny of human civilization are just speculations, and no one can verify the authenticity of these ideas except time. Even, apart from Wei Feng, Chu Hai and others, people who normally live in the solar system would not have such an idea. However, the sensitivity of being a time traveler made Wei Feng agree with these speculations in his heart.

"Because we're time travelers, we can detect these trends. You're not, so you can't."

"Since we have detected this trend in advance, as a member of human civilization, we are obliged to do something." Wei Feng thought silently, "I will try my best to search for the remains of alien civilization, and search for their possible The inheritance of science and technology left here, in order to help human civilization open this dead knot as easily as possible, this is what I can do."

"Ye Luo." Wei Feng called out. Ye Luo's unique neutral voice immediately appeared in Wei Feng's ears: "Captain, what are your orders?"

Wei Feng said: "From now on, I grant you the authority to fine-tune the route. In addition to ensuring the necessary fuel for the outbound and return acceleration and deceleration, you can freely allocate the rest of the fuel. These fuels are used for… …If you find a suspicious target in the distance, you can adjust the course and go to the target for a closer look.”

"At the same time, four detectors are selected and transformed, and then launched into the four directions of the spacecraft, left and right, up and down, so that they maintain a relatively static motion with the spacecraft, so as to expand the detection field of the spacecraft."

The Xinghai spacecraft has a reserve of detectors. These detectors were originally intended to be activated after Weifeng reached the Nanmen Two Galaxy, but now Weifeng has decided to activate them in advance.

"Okay Captain, do you need to report these things to Earth? You have autonomy over these matters, so you can decide for yourself whether you want to report to Earth."

Wei Feng hesitated for a moment, then replied: "Don't report to Earth. This is my personal behavior."

Wei Feng can be sure that the earth side must not agree with his speculation, so he must not agree with these things he has done. That being the case, then it's better not to tell the Earth, anyway, they don't know what they have done here.

"Okay, the transformation of the detector needs you to complete, I don't have this ability." Ye Luo said.

"No problem." Wei Feng agreed immediately.

During the more than 20 years of training, Wei Feng has mastered these skills proficiently. Something like retrofitting a detector is still up to the task. Therefore, in addition to the daily recovery training, replacing damaged parts, and eliminating the bugs accumulated during the operation of Ye Luo, Wei Feng has another job.

The transformation of the probes was completed after a month and a half, so they were launched by Weifeng. Compared with the Xinghai spacecraft, their relative motion speed is very slow, only about ten kilometers per second. It takes about a year and a half to fly to the designated location at such a speed, which seems a long time, but it is nothing to Weifeng. Wei Feng has nothing else, but there is plenty of time.

After reaching the designated position, they will slow down, and then maintain a relatively stationary state with the Xinghai spacecraft. The Xinghai spacecraft is advancing at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per second, and they remain relatively stationary with the spacecraft, that is, they are also advancing at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per second. This is inertial navigation and does not need to consume additional fuel, but the detection instruments equipped on them can expand the field of view of the Xinghai spacecraft several times. In this way, the possibility of discovering the remains of alien civilizations is naturally greatly improved.

"Captain, I will fix the position of the detector in the future. Now, it's time for you to hibernate." One day two months later, Ye Luo calmly issued a hibernation notice to Wei Feng.

"Okay." Wei Feng nodded, and after some preparations, he lay down in the hibernation cabin again.

It was still the same process, and the Xinghai spacecraft once again returned to the icy darkness. What is different from before is that there are four more small but powerful detectors in the four directions of the spacecraft, left and right, up and down, accompanying the Xinghai spacecraft.

Time passed slowly like this, until one day later, the life support system was turned on, the functional systems were turned on, and then the hibernation cabin was turned on, and Wei Feng opened his eyes again.

Every hibernation is like dying and then coming back to life. Every time Wei Feng wakes up, he feels like he has been asleep for as long as 10,000 years. But this time it feels a little different. For some reason, Wei Feng felt that his sleep time seemed to be a little short this time.

"Ye Luo, has ten years passed?" After regaining his ability to think, Wei Feng asked Ye Luo this question~www.readwn.com~ No, Captain, it has only been six years since you last fell asleep time. Ye Luo replied, "The reason why I woke you up in advance is because I encountered an emergency. According to your settings, I do not have the authority to handle this incident by myself. "

"Unexpected situation?" Wei Feng immediately asked, "What happened to you?"

"At a distance of 700 million kilometers from the spaceship in a straight line, and a vertical distance of 400 million kilometers from the channel, I received an unknown signal of unknown meaning." Ye Luo replied calmly, "If we maintain the current route, we will be in about two days and zero. Four hours later, it passed 400 million kilometers from the source. How do you plan to deal with this event?" (To be continued.)

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