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"Hua Jianian, come out for me!"

Yu Shaoqing broke into Hua Jianian's personal cabin furiously.The sci-fi writer is sitting cross-legged on his bed, writing a new book that is "neither science nor fantasy."

He raised his head and glanced at Yu Shaoqing, stretched his legs, and shouted: "Dr. Yu, how could you trespass on my private house? This is a violation of the "Starship Convention"! You can't just because you can control Wei Heng as you like." Let him do something illegal and disciplined!"

Yu Shaoqing grabbed him by the collar and tore him off the bed.

"Wei Heng, block the sound, the following monitoring content is 'SS-level secret', and only the owner of the highest emergency authority can read it!"

"Of order." Wei Heng closed the door of Hua Jianian's cabin, and activated the position of blocking sound waves. The images captured by his surveillance camera were directly labeled as "confidential". Only one person on the entire starship had the right to view these contents.

Hua Jianian clutched his chest in horror, like a pure girl who was raped by gangsters. "I didn't expect you to be such a beastly person! I misread you!"

"I don't have time to joke with you!" Yu Shaoqing's face was gloomy, and there was a strong murderous look between his brows. Even if he suddenly violently hurt someone in the next second, Hua Jianian would not be surprised.

The two faced each other in silence for a few seconds, Hua Jianian suddenly relaxed, and tilted his head at Yu Shaoqing with a playful smile: "Did you find out?"

"Why do you know the password of the highest authority? I didn't tell anyone. Also, why did you modify Wei Heng? Did you know that the coup would happen? You asked me to go to the 'Star Viewing Corridor' that day, but you Missed the appointment, and deliberately slowed down my watch to let me avoid the brain quantum state scan? What do you know?"

Yu Shaoqing has a laundry list of questions to ask!

Hua Jianian looked embarrassed, and scratched his head in trouble: "This...it's quite troublesome to explain, can't you just pretend that nothing happened?"

"Don't talk about him left and right!" Yu Shaoqing roared angrily.

He really wanted to punch Hua Jianian's unscrupulous smiling face!

But as soon as he raised his fist, he stopped.

An astonishing speculation came to his mind.

In "The Great Rebellion" written by Hua Jianian, those characters are based on real people, and even the relationship between the characters is so similar to reality. The protagonist travels back to the past through time and space, and reincarnates in time and space again and again in order to prevent the tragedy ...

When all other possibilities are ruled out, the only thing that remains, however improbable, is the truth.

"Hua Jianian, are you... are you..." Yu Shaoqing felt suffocated for a while.

There is only one explanation.

——Hua Jianian came back from the future.

"That's right, that's right, that's it." Hua Jianian straightened his ripped collar, sat upright, and looked directly into Yu Shaoqing's eyes.He had never shown such a serious expression in his life, even Yu Shaoqing was taken aback, and couldn't help becoming solemn.

"You guessed it, I'm from the future."

Yu Shaoqing pressed his chest to calm his violent heartbeat.Hua Jianian is so straightforward, his heart can't take it...

"What happened to your original world...?"

"What else could it be? You've probably already guessed pretty well, right? After the vote, armed conflicts broke out between the two factions, which affected the rest of the innocent people. The conflict turned into a bloody massacre. People either joined Wen Sifei's party." Either you join Fan Jinyu's side, and those who remain neutral are treated as a faction on the fence and killed indiscriminately. You, me, Xie Ruihan, and Qin Kang joined Fan Jinyu's faction. The fighting between the two factions continued to escalate, and finally the two sides Each occupied an area of ​​the starship, and it was so stalemate.

"Facing the death of human beings one after another, Wei Heng, who has been staying out of the matter, finally couldn't take it anymore. He cut off all the supply of resources on the starship, trying to force everyone to surrender and obey his orders. Of course, Wen Sifei would rather die than obey. , and if they don’t surrender, it’s impossible for our side to lay down their weapons first. During the confrontation between the two factions, they also have to deal with the robots sent by Wei Heng.

"You think you can't go on like this, so on a dark and windy night—oh, there is no night on a starship, I just said that—anyway, one day, you took me, Qin Kang, and Xie Ruihan from Fan Jinyu The base escaped and hid in Wei Heng's computer room. You used the highest authority in emergencies to mobilize some resources to do research, and finally you invented the technology to restore the quantum state of the brain, and Dr. Xie Ruihan sent it back to the past Technology."

Hua Jianian paused, a faint gleam appeared in his eyes.

"But both factions thought that we and Wei Heng were teaming up to control the starship, so they attacked the main computer room. In the melee, you, Qin Kang and Xie Ruihan were all injured, and I was the only one who could move. I took the 'time machine' Escape into the deepest part of the computer room, start the machine there, and send yourself back to the moment when the starship just took off.

"I've been thinking hard about how to stop that tragedy. I wrote a book suggesting that some people will betray humanity, but no one saw the hint in the book. I can't always say that someone will kill in the future. ?No one will believe it, everyone will just think that I am a lunatic and lock me up. So I can only use the most extreme method, which is to let Wei Heng activate the brain quantum state scanning system at the moment of the conflict to stop everyone Action. Before I crossed, you told me the password of the highest emergency authority, so I can enter Weiheng's computer room.

"In my plan, there is only one person who cannot die—that is you. Because you shoulder all the hopes. In my future, you are the first to invent the technology to restore the quantum state of the brain, so you must live. It's just that I didn't expect that you would actually commit suicide...Fortunately, Wei Heng took over your research. Although it took 140 years, the research and development work was finally completed."

Yu Shaoqing's brain was buzzing.He was a little confused for a moment, he seemed to have heard an incredible story just now, so bizarre and so legendary, he believed it was fictional, but he knew clearly in his heart that every word Hua Jianian said was true of.

This man looked calm, but his eyes were burning with raging fire, not a flame of anger, but an unquenchable light like a blazing star.

"Why... leave me alone..."

Thinking of the years when he lived alone on the starship, Yu Shaoqing suddenly felt extremely unwilling.He thought he had forgotten the pain at that time, but only now did he realize that the pain would never disappear, and it had already become an unhealed scar on his heart.

"You can obviously keep a few more people, and you can... also..."

"If you call a few more people, it will definitely arouse suspicion. Both Wen Sifei and Fan Jinyu are very suspicious. As for myself..."

Hua Jianian smiled sadly.Until then, he showed a little breath of vicissitudes.

"I don't want to experience that kind of horror and despair again. I'm afraid of failure. In the novel, Hua Jianian is a persevering hero, reincarnated in time again and again, but never loses hope. But Hua Jia in reality But Nian is an out-and-out coward who has no courage to face possible failures and will only pass the responsibility on to others."

He lowered his eyes. "I'm sorry."

Yu Shaoqing didn't know what to say.

Hua Jianian's behavior can be said to indirectly lead to his mental breakdown and suicide, but it also saved the people on the entire starship.

Whether this person who traveled through time is a savior or a destroyer, Yu Shaoqing is not qualified to judge, nor will he judge.

He only knew that they survived, and the mission of "Ark 1097" would continue.No matter who Hua Jianian was, where he came from, and what he had done, the starship did not turn into what he said was a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, but sailed safely to the Tianshu galaxy.

that's enough.

He lowered his head and turned towards the hatch.

The door slid open soundlessly, Yu Shaoqing took a step out, and then retracted.

"Hua Jianian," he asked, turning his head to the side, "what will happen to those other world orbits? History has changed, will they disappear?"

"No, orbits are orbits, they will always be there, it is a historical possibility," Hua Jianian's lips curled up, "It's just that the world doesn't run on it."

Yu Shaoqing came to the bridge and found that it was crowded with people.The last time the bridge was so crowded was during the voting assembly.

"What's wrong?" He called out Wei Heng's image.

"We have entered the Tianshu galaxy, and we can see the terrestrial planet."

Yu Shaoqing couldn't help holding his breath.

Wei Heng displayed the pictures he took over the bridge.The starship passed the huge Tianshu star and sailed towards the companion star, and the terrestrial planet was quietly suspended between the Tianshu star and the companion star.

Yu Shaoqing took a few steps forward, and the crowd made way for him.

"Zoom in," he said hoarsely.

Wei Heng zoomed in on the screen, and the terrestrial planet was displayed in the middle.The crowd let out an exclamation, because at a glance, the planet turned out to be endless blue with flocculent clouds floating on it.

"Is there liquid water on the planet?"

"According to my scan, there is. Not only is there liquid water, but the water area is also very large."

— just like our earth.

Yu Shaoqing suddenly had an uncontrollable urge to cry loudly.

——It is a planet that can allow human beings to live.

"Should we observe first, or prepare to land?" Wei Heng asked.

"...Let the Ark Council decide." Yu Shaoqing choked up, "But... wait a minute, can I change the screen? I want to see something else."

There was a grunt of dissatisfaction on the bridge: the new world is just around the corner, what else do you want to see?

"Wei Heng, can you take pictures of the solar system?"

The murmur of dissatisfaction disappeared instantly.

"Okay. I'm shooting backwards, which is the solar system."

"Please show it."

The upper screen switched to the vast starry sky.At first everyone only saw the stars all over the sky, and couldn't tell which one was the sun, but Wei Heng zoomed in on the screen over and over until a golden sphere about the size of a ping-pong ball appeared in the center of the screen.

"The shooting accuracy can only be so high."

"Enough." Yu Shaoqing said.

That is their hometown, the sun of the earth, in the Tianshu galaxy 120 light-years away, it looks so small, so inconspicuous, no different from other stars in the vast space.But it was in its arms that man was born.

"What you are seeing now is what the earth's sun looked like 120 years ago." Wei Heng introduced, "Because the Tianshu star is about 120 light-years away from the solar system, what we see now is what the sun looked like 120 years ago. radiant light."

"That's more than 20 years after we took off." Yu Shaoqing said softly, "I really want to see what the earth was like at that time, but it's a pity that your telescope is not accurate enough."

He waved his hand, removed the picture of the sun, and replaced it with the terrestrial planet in the Tianshu galaxy.

The earth is the cradle, and human beings are like ignorant children who stumble out of the cradle and enter a wider world.

The universe is too vast, and human beings are too small. This weak fire of civilization burns alone in the vast ocean of stars, illuminating a small world.Maybe one day the fire will spread to every corner of the space, so that the universe will no longer be empty and cold, maybe one day it will go out quietly in history like everything that has ever been born in history.But at this moment, the flames are still burning and jumping, bathed in the light of the earth's sun from 120 years ago, and landed on a brand new planet.

After obtaining the permission of the Ark Council, "Ark 1097" passed through the planet's atmosphere and landed on a vast sea under Wei Heng's control.Wei Heng drove the starship slowly along the sea surface of the planet, and the airflow from the tail engine set off waves.

This endless ocean is reminiscent of the blue embrace of the parent star.Yu Shaoqing looked at the boundary between the starry sky and the water surface outside the porthole, and a sentence suddenly popped up in his mind: the earth is empty and chaotic, the surface of the abyss is dark, and the spirit of God moves on the water surface.

The starship galloped on the ocean until a dark vein appeared ahead.As the distance gradually shortened, people realized that the veins turned out to be rolling hills on a piece of land.

Immediately afterwards, a round of red sun jumped out from behind the mountain, and the golden-red light spread all over the world in an instant. That was the sun of this planet, the companion star of Tianshu.There is a bright star next to the sun, which can be seen with the naked eye even in the sunlight. It is the main star of this binary star system-the pivot star.On the planet, it looks like a bright star.

Soon, the night faded back, and there were no other celestial bodies in the sky except for the radiant sun and the bright Tianshu star.Perhaps one day, the human beings living on this planet will look at the night sky overhead that is completely different from that of the earth, draw a straight line between the strangely arranged stars, connect them into brand-new constellations, and give them brand-new names and legends.One of these stars is so faint that people don't place it in any particular constellation.But everyone knows its name, and everyone remembers its location. The stories about it have been passed down from generation to generation among human beings. At night, parents hold their children's hands and always point to a certain position in the night sky.

"See, that star. That's the Earth's sun, and that's where we came from."

Occasionally, children with excess curiosity will ask: "So what is the earth like?"

The parents kindly replied: "I don't know either. I was born here and I have never seen the appearance of the earth. But the base center asked the artificial intelligence Wei Heng to know. You can ask him. If you ask him why he is called 'Wei Heng' Hang', and he'll tell you a great story."

One day, the school organized students to visit the center of the base to learn history.The artificial intelligence Wei Heng of the control center warmly entertained them.A child looked at Wei Heng's phantom of eternal youth and asked, "Wei Heng, why are you called Wei Heng?"

"It's a word from 'satellite' and 'star', and it also means 'eternal guard'."

"Guarding what?"

"Guarding humans." Wei Heng said with a smile, "and him."

"He?" The child tilted his head, "Who is he?"

"His name is Yu Shaoqing, and he is my designer. He is the one who gave me the name 'Wei Heng'."

"Wow!" the child exclaimed.In his naive worldview, it must be a great scientist who can name artificial intelligence.

"Where is he? On Earth? Or did he come here with our ancestors?"

The artificial intelligence nodded its own chest: "He is here, with me, forever and ever, and will never be separated again."

THE END