Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

Then there's the orbit of Saturn.

Titan in the orbit of Saturn,

It is the farthest place that humans, other than detectors, have truly set foot.

A permanent base on Titan,

It is the last place on the route far away from the solar system where humans can survive and live.

Even though it accelerates faster and is smaller in size, the mainstream spacecraft in human society at the moment,

Starting from Earth orbit, it would take more than two or three months to get here, and a round trip would take half a year.

A simple comparison will reveal that only the distance from the orbit of Jupiter to the orbit of Saturn,

It’s about the same distance as Earth to Jupiter.

Therefore, there are not so many personnel stationed at the permanent base on Callo compared to those stationed on closer planets.

Even in this era, there are still around two hundred people.

However, equally unluckily,

When the voyage spacecraft Zhejiang passed through the orbit of Saturn, the permanent bases on Saturn and Titan were still not in the direction of Zhejiang.

In other words, it is normal not to encounter them. In the extremely vast and sparse space, it is a kind of luck to be able to encounter them at close range.

When Zhejiang passed the orbit of Saturn, Titan was about 200 million kilometers away from Zhejiang.

Even if information travels at the speed of light, it will take more than ten minutes for the message sent from the permanent base on Titan to be received by the Star.

And even if the permanent base on Titan can predict the approximate traveling position of the Star in advance through the speed and direction of the Star,

On that day, in order to ensure that the message could be received by the Star, the Titan resident base continued to broadcast and transmit the same message in the general direction for half a day with ultra-high-power communication equipment.

Until I received a reply from the Star.

"Hello Star, this is the farthest off-planet base of the Qiusuo Research Institute with personnel stationed there."

“Wishing you good luck in your exploration and voyage.”

"The Star has been received, thank you."

After Mo Dao replied,

About half an hour passed,

The Star once again received the last message from the permanent base on Titan,

"We have received the message from the Star and have roughly determined your location."

"Please continue moving forward. Our detection base on the Uranus satellite will make final corrections to your course."

Zvezda passed the orbit of Saturn.

…

As the Zvezda passed the orbit of Saturn,

More than three months have passed since the Star.

People who had been paying close attention at the beginning, always paying attention to the trajectory of the Star,

As time goes by, it seems that we no longer discuss this matter day and night.

On the Internet and in real life, other things gradually came to the center of the discussion.

But obviously, it doesn't mean that in just three months, people can really forget the departure of Chief Master Mo.

I don’t say it much anymore, but most people actually still click on the website that publishes the trajectory of the Star from time to time.

Click on any posts or videos about Chief Master Mo and Qiusuo Research Institute,

Basically, you can still see relevant comments that are very close in time.

"...I am a researcher at the Research Institute. When I woke up last night, I was in a trance. I was thinking about why Chief Mo has not shown up recently and whether he will be conducting some key research again."

"I was also wondering yesterday if Chief Master Mo was presiding over any groundbreaking research work."

And the news from the permanent base on Titan came back,

When it was confirmed that the Zvezda had just passed the orbit of Saturn,

The Internet suddenly became lively for a while,

"Commander Mo will go forward to a place that we humans have never been to before."

"I don't know what kind of world that is. At least it means that the boundaries that we humans set foot on have expanded a lot."

"I just don't know why, I'm a little unhappy."

At this moment,

Wherever the Star goes, it already means the boundary that humans have set foot on.

…

On board the Star,

In the past three months, Mo Dao and his wife have lived together.

It didn't seem to be much affected by entering the interior of the Star.

Although the spacecraft has been accelerating, the acceleration process is relatively gentle.

It does not have much impact on the internal space of the spacecraft.

Inside the Star, Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi were living as usual.

Suigu’s subroutine on the spacecraft, plus the intelligent robot controlled by Suigu,

It is enough to complete most of the necessary work on the spacecraft.

Mo Dao and the two of them still work and rest normally according to the time on earth.

In addition to three meals a day,

The two of them were either talking or just in a daze together.

Although there were only two of them on the spaceship,

But for both of them, it never feels boring or boring.

Perhaps the only difference from the ground is

That means looking at the scene outside the spacecraft through the camera equipment or the portholes in the outer structure.

At this time, the feeling of being in a spaceship instead of on the ground becomes particularly concrete.

But most of the time the pictures we see are not that spectacular, but empty and empty.

The universe is extremely empty,

Compared with the space of the solar system itself, the size of these planets in the solar system is like a few grains of floating ash in a lake, and the contrast is even more exaggerated.

On the path of the Star, most of the time, there is nothing.

The earth at this moment is almost impossible to capture with the naked eye.

Even if you can barely see it, it is difficult to intuitively equate that dim light spot with the earth.

Looking at the scene outside the spaceship, Mo Dao occasionally became a little lost in thought.

…

Almost five months have passed since the Star sailed.

The Star finally reached the orbit of Uranus,

At this moment, the Star is continuing to accelerate, and its speed has exceeded that of previous mainstream human interstellar spacecraft.

This time I was lucky.

As the Zvezda passed the orbit of Uranus,

The distance between Uranus and the Star is only over 10 million kilometers.

This is a distance that many people in this era cannot cross in their lifetime,

On an astronomical scale, it is already very close.

On a satellite of Uranus,

There is the farthest detection base of mankind.

Considering that current mainstream starships arrive here from the ground,

It will also take about eight months. This detection base is unmanned.

Mainly used for scientific research.

This will also be the last human creation that the Star can encounter along the way.

Going forward, except for the long-distance probe that is impossible to encounter, and the Star itself,

Mo Dao and I will not be able to see any other traces of human existence during this journey.

That is to say,

Here, Mo Dao and the two will completely break away from human society.

"...The final course correction has been completed for you."

"Have a safe voyage."

On the Uranus satellite, the intelligent detection base follows the ground instructions received in advance.

Another blessing from the human society to the Star and Mo Dao was sent to the Star.

The Star, which has accelerated to a very high speed at this moment,

The speed of passing through the orbit of Uranus is very fast.

The entire brush-off lasted only a short time.

further forward,

As it moves further away from the orbit of Uranus,

The communication between the Star and the ground began to become more and more difficult.

It is no longer just a problem of communication delay. Gradually, the Star and the ground can no longer receive each other's communications stably.

In the last communication that could barely be maintained,

Mo Dao transmitted all kinds of data collected by the Star along the way back to the ground.

Then, contact with the ground was completely lost.

And the ground,

It also gradually lost its position as a star.