Earth Era

Chu Hai’s letter to Wei Feng described: “The energy harvesting instruments manufactured by several major mineral resource companies cover almost the entire atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn. Long-term hydrogen and helium mining has almost changed these two elements. The atmosphere structure of the two planets, every day, heavy-duty carrier ships full of fusion energy leave these two planets and fly to the inner solar system, but the energy demand of Earth and Mars, the life circle of Venus, and the heavy industry base of Mercury is like a bottomless pit. , can’t be filled no matter what. ≥ vertex ≥ point ≥ small ≥ said, x. The survey report of the Ministry of Science and Technology pointed out that the average daily demand for fusion energy for a single Mercury has reached the level of tens of billions of tons, and around Venus The average daily demand for fusion energy in the agricultural belt has exceeded five billion tons.”

"Among the several habitable planets and satellites, the earth is undoubtedly the number one. It has air that can be freely breathed without treatment and has countless beautiful scenery. Therefore, the earth is the first to enter the fully loaded state. State. At present, the total population living on the earth has exceeded 50 billion, and the population of Mars has exceeded 20 billion. In addition to the two most important habitable planets, a large number of people built in the inner solar system Space living islands host 10 billion people."

"These three places gather almost all the elite groups in human civilization. Because of the increase in living costs and the increasingly fierce competition, a large number of civilians and poor people have to migrate to the outer solar system, the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The satellites are all exploited as much as possible to carry as many people as possible. But the farther away from the sun, the worse the living environment. They also undertake the heaviest labor, but the wealth they create is gathered in the inner solar system and cannot be used for improve their living conditions.”

"When the energy output reaches the upper limit, the government will inevitably require priority to ensure the energy needs of the earth, Mars and the space island living circle. And this will further reduce the quality of life of the outer solar system population, which accounts for 70% of the total population. Wei Feng, you know, this has become an irresolvable contradiction, no matter how hard the government tries, it can only ease the contradiction, not eliminate it. This contradiction will explode one day."

"Our solar system has really become an isolated island in this boundless star sea. The resource output in the isolated island is limited, but the population has been increasing. We urgently need to get out of this isolated island and demand a wider continent. Seek more Planets and energy sources, but our technology has never been able to make breakthroughs.”

Wei Feng left the laptop and walked to the porthole of the spacecraft. Looking at the boundless darkness outside the window, Wei Feng felt a sense of loss in his heart.

This result had long been expected by Wei Feng, but when this result really appeared, Wei Feng was still a little unacceptable. It was his hometown after all, and it was the place he would go back to one day.

Standing in front of the porthole for a long time, Wei Feng let out a long sigh, picked up the tool in his hand again, and began to repair the spacecraft.

More than a hundred years have passed. During this period of time, the Xinghai spacecraft did not experience any major failures. The operation of leaf fall is also generally good. It is that the frequency of various small parts damage and bugs is getting higher and higher. This means that Wei Feng has to devote more time and energy to the maintenance of the spacecraft.

After all, this is an old spacecraft that has worked for more than a hundred years... In the solar system, there must be no instrument that has the opportunity to work continuously for a hundred years.

Since passing by that unknown alien civilization device, Wei Feng has never found any possible alien civilization creation. Not only that, but even the natural objects that exist here have not been encountered. This is the area where the Oort cloud is speculated to exist, but the emptiness here is beyond Wei Feng's imagination.

Although Wei Feng did not observe any macroscopic objects here, this does not mean that the existence of the Oort cloud has been overthrown. The estimated total mass of the Oort cloud is not comparable to the mass of the Earth. Spreading these masses into a disk with a total length of more than six light-years, the thinness of the matter here can be imagined. It is also normal not to see anything here.

Wei Feng calmly drove out of the Oort cloud region and left the solar system completely. This was originally a moment of great historical significance, but Wei Feng didn't feel the slightest excitement in his heart, and some was just a deep-rooted loneliness.

The two-way communication delay between here and the earth has been as high as two years, but because of the existence of the large antennas in the solar system, Wei Feng can still maintain contact with the earth. It’s just that this connection is getting weaker and weaker. When they were close at first, Chu Hai and Wei Feng often sent some video files. Later, they could only send audio files. Now, they can only send text messages. .

I am afraid that after further distance, the Xinghai spacecraft will lose the ability to send information to the earth. However, according to calculations, the ability of the Xinghai spacecraft to receive information from the earth will not be lost. Even if it finally reaches the Nanmen two galaxies, the information sent by the earth can also be received by the Xinghai spacecraft.

Another ten years passed, and Wei Feng woke up again as promised. Not as Wei Feng expected, there were still letters sent from Earth. Perhaps the reason is that the government has forgotten the island plan. Over the past few decades, all the letters sent from the earth have been written by the time traveler team. There was no response to some of Weifeng's reports.

Wei Feng thought, the human world has probably forgotten the existence of the Time Traveler team~www.readwn.com~ Being forgotten is not a good feeling, but Wei Feng's heart did not make waves because of it. Because Wei Feng knew that being forgotten was the fate of the time traveler team.

"Wei Feng, I'm sorry to tell you this time it's still bad news. The "dead knot" theory has also been confirmed. Before we leave the solar system, the technology of our human civilization may really have no way to improve."

"I heard that the current government has deliberately taken measures to deal with the dead knot theory, and the head of state intends to concentrate his efforts to promote large-scale exploration of the outer solar system to seek scientific and technological progress. But we are not very optimistic about the prospects of this plan. Because now The internal contradictions of human civilization are already very prominent, and if huge resources are spent on the exploration of the outer solar system, it is easy to cause social unrest. I hope that our human civilization is lucky enough to obtain enough technology before society finally collapses. "

"Well, by the way, it is very likely that many mission instructions will be sent here after a period of time. The scientific research department may want you to do some early space exploration to pave the way for subsequent large-scale operations." (To be continued..)

ps: Today's state is really bad, I really can't write it down, so let's just take a rest for a night, I should be able to recover tomorrow.