The Name of the Rose [Interstellar]

In a star system, the orbits of many planets are mostly in the same plane.The solar system is no exception.With the sun as the center, the projections of the orbits of the eight major planets and other asteroids are all on the ecliptic plane, and only comets shuttle outside this plane.

According to astrodynamics, the less labor-intensive way for a spacecraft to leave the solar system is to fly along the ecliptic plane, which can be accelerated by gravity when passing by various planets.This is the case with the Federal Fleet.

Xue Yuan established a three-dimensional coordinate system on the computer, with the sun as the coordinate origin.On the cosmic scale, any celestial body is just a tiny particle.

Two plane equations + the ecliptic plane, the intersection of the three planes is quickly generated.Xue Yuan calculated its location, and it was around the vicinity of the flagship "Fuxi" in China.

Xue Yuan printed out this picture, recorded the coordinates of the intersection point, and drew a circle on the corresponding space area with a highlighter.

Previous facts have proved that Qi Lian's brain can receive communication signals from the other side of the "wall".But those signals are monotonous and repetitive, and there is no immediacy to interact with them.They should have been emitted from somewhere in the universe a long time ago, traveling at the speed of light, passing through an unknown amount of time, and have just arrived here now.

In "Never Come Dawn", in order to realize instant communication between the Saar star and the earthlings, the brain of the other party needs to be at the "focus of the lens" of the thinking field.

Could this coordinate point be such a "focus"?

In other words, human beings just received a "telegram" from the other party before, and at this coordinate point, they might be able to "talk to the other party on the phone."

Xue Yuan throbbed.This is really a tempting idea, definitely worth taking Qi Lian there to try it out.

But he turned to a bit of a dilemma: the Fuxi is the most important political and economic center of the Eurasian fleet, and the surrounding [-] kilometers are surrounded by a martial law zone, guarded by frigates and destroyers.Only those above the rank of school officer can enter and exit, Xue Yuan is only a captain, and does not have enough authority.

Unexpectedly, Joey solved this problem easily.Hearing Xue Yuan's idea, he immediately said: "I'll handle this matter, just apply for a special pass."

He walks the talk.Not long after, Xue Yuan and Qi Lian boarded a shuttle directly to the Fuxi.

The appearance of Fuxi is not a traditional spaceship shape, but a dumbbell shape.

The spherical cabins on both sides are centrifuges, which provide the main artificial gravity field for the entire China fleet, and there are two frigates, "Yaosun" and "Liyue", on each side.

The dumbbell handle section in the middle is the living and working area.The outer surface of the bulkhead is a mirror as smooth as liquid metal, reflecting the starlight of the entire universe.In the eye-catching place in the middle, its name is marked with Chinese characters, traditional Chinese phonetic symbols and Roman pinyin:

Fuxi number

ㄈㄨㄒㄧㄏㄠ

FUXIHAO

With Fuxi as the axis, within a radius of [-] kilometers around it, there are six large destroyers suspended in a fan shape, namely Chang'an, Luoyang, Daliang, Jinling, Qiantang and Yanjing.

Quite different from the sci-fi appearance, the interior of the Fuxi is full of Chinese style. The images on the LED wall overlap and change, continuously transforming into a river of smoke and rain, rendering a very black color.The background music in the corridor is playing the Guqin song "Pingsha Luoyan", such as the ethereal realm of the light rain of apricot blossoms and the light moon.

What's more interesting is a 4D screen wall, where you can check the "Flower God" of each month.For example, enter April, and a soft female voice will recite "Flower Moon Order": "...April, the king of peonies, the peony is on the stage; the poppy is full, the woody fragrance rises; the cuckoo returns, the dream of tea fragrance." Accompanied by the voice, the graceful posture of the "April Flower God" peony is presented on the screen wall, which is fragrant and refreshing.Those who are interested in flowers can stop here for a few minutes and enjoy twelve months of flowers.

People in various uniforms come and go, like crucian carp crossing a river, but they are all orderly, busy and not chaotic.Blond-haired, blue-eyed members like Xue Yuan with a typical Caucasian appearance can be seen everywhere.

As early as the earth age, people had foreseen that in the space age, what defines nations and races will no longer be borders and blood ties, but cultural identity.

No matter which region you are in, you can see races from all over the world, and it is almost impossible to find a person who is not of mixed race. "Nation" has become a vague concept, and only the invisible hand of common culture brings these people of different origins together.

Similar to the "Eternal Corridor" in the Technology Department, there is also a "Road to Ritual and Music" inlaid with brass nameplates in columns. The holographic images display many classics from the pre-Qin period in China.

Beside the "Book of Music", Xue Yuan stopped and said to Qi Lian, "You should read this."

Qi Lian looked at the image of the ancient book, his eyes were full of reverence, as if gazing at a sacred object left by his father.He had heard Xue Yuan talk about his "father"'s past, and he knew the origin behind this seemingly inconspicuous ancient book: on the other side of the Silk Road, in the distant ancient Roman Empire, it escaped from the Qin Dynasty. Fortunately, the torch calamity was preserved in the flames of World War II in Europe, and finally reappeared in the world.

Joey also knew about this incident, and accompanied Qi Lian to stop silently.The destruction of the earth has set back the technological level of human beings by 50 years, and the leap of time and space has come to an end.Human beings can only go to the future, and no one can return to history.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.Time goes by and never returns, leaving the past far away, people have the courage to continue living.If history can be revised, perhaps instead of knowing where to go, standing hesitantly in the torrent of time.

The three of them were preoccupied with "Le" with their own thoughts, and suddenly a thick male voice sounded not far away: "It seems that you are very interested in history."

A burly middle-aged officer walked towards them slowly, with a golden peony embellished on the collar badge of his military uniform representing the rank of admiral. "It's good for young people to be interested in history. If you don't understand history, you can't see the future."

Seeing this person, instead of saluting, Joey took a step back and coldly turned his face to the side.

But the general didn't seem to care about Joey's disrespectful behavior, and just kindly extended his hand to Xue Yuan: "This is not a formal occasion, there is no need to salute. ——Vanya, do you remember me?"

Xue Yuan was taken aback. "Vanya" was "Ivan"'s nickname, and only his mother used to call him that occasionally.

Seeing his stunned expression, the admiral laughed: "I went to your house when you were young, and the borscht made by your mother is delicious."

After his reminder, Xue Yuan remembered that when he was a child, there was indeed a young military officer who had a good relationship with his father and often visited their home. Xue Yuan called him "Uncle Pei".

He gave Xue Yuan a set of exquisite model planes, and said with a smile: "This is not an ordinary plane, it is an aerospace plane. When Vanya grows up, he can fly them, fly and fly, and fly all the way into space. Pick up the stars one by one."

Once, Uncle Pei brought a little boy of the same age as Xue Yuan, named Joshua.He played marbles with Xue Yuan a few times, but he didn't win, and he was still angry when he left.The two agreed to fight again next time, but the boy never came again.

Xue Yuan tried his best to recall the already blurred face, and compared it with the general in front of him, he asked in disbelief, "Are you... Uncle Pei?"

Admiral Pei nodded and pointed at Joey: "This is Joshua, you met once when you were young."

"...What?!" It was Joey who called out this time.His surprised expression was not inferior to Xue Yuan's, it seemed that he didn't know this before.

Admiral Pei took out a document and handed it to Xue Yuan, "Take this to apply for a special pass. Within 48 hours, you can stay anywhere around the Fuxi. ——Oh, except for the space military port, which is a no-fly area, You can only see it from a distance."

He looked at his watch, "Actually, I originally wanted to go with you, but there is a meeting that I must attend soon. Come find me when you come back, I still have something to say to you."

The shuttle set off again, carrying Joey, Xue Yuan, and Qi Lian to the area where the coordinate point was located.

"I didn't mean to hide it from you," Joey explained. "I don't understand Russian, and I don't know that Vanya and Ivan have the same name. Besides, there are so many Russians named Ivan."

For so many years, he only remembered the little blond boy and the unresolved marbles match.

Not long after visiting Xue's house, Pei Shu, who was still a lieutenant at the time, received a transfer order: his aerospace force was incorporated into the Space Force and would be stationed at the farthest outpost in the solar system's Pluto orbit.Joey's mother was naturally unwilling to let her husband go to such a distant place—at that time, no one expected that the sun would become a red giant in such a short period of time.She thought that at least she could still live on earth with her husband and spend a relatively stable life.

She persuaded Pei Shu to withdraw from the Space Force, but Pei Shu was determined to go.The final outcome is a divorce by agreement.

"I went to England with my mother and changed my mother's surname to 'Joyce'. When the fleet set sail, I was a commoner and qualified to board the ship through the 'Excellent Talent Scheme'. Later I wanted to return to Greater China Work, so it was changed to the current Chinese name.”

Joy took out his ID card and showed it to Xue Yuan, the original name column was filled with JoshuaJoys.The young man in the photo looked a little more youthful and reserved than the current Joey, but the stubbornness and arrogance in his eyes remained unchanged.

"My mother still hated him until she died, thinking that he abandoned his wife and children for his own future. I didn't believe it at first, because my father has always been very kind to me. But..." Joey's fingers turned white, " But until the fleet set sail, he never went to London to find our mother and son. Therefore, I want to hear his confession. I would rather believe that he did not abandon us, but had some last resort reason."

After saying so much in one breath, Joey sighed in relief and didn't say a word again.

After a long silence in the cabin, Xue Yuan suddenly said, "Do you know why I didn't go to Moscow to find my brother?"

Joey raised his head and looked into those ice blue eyes quietly again.There was no usual jerk in those eyes, but a kind of sincerity that went straight to the heart.

But Xue Yuan didn't answer the question he raised just now. "As I said, I still have one last secret. I will tell you when the statute of limitations is established."

The shuttle approached the space military port, the clear starry sky gradually disappeared, and the rectangular formation of interplanetary battleships appeared against the dark space background.The edge of the white hull reflects sunlight like broken diamonds, and the entire formation looks like a black and white chessboard shining in the setting sun.

Xue Yuan closed his eyes.A slight dizziness hit the heart at this moment.Facing these interplanetary warships leading to the future, his thoughts slipped to the past.

In order to restrain Xue Yuan's restless nature, his father forced him to learn chess.Xue Yuan was imprisoned at the table all day long, playing chess and playing chess face to face with his father endlessly, and was not released until evening.The windows of the chess room are facing west, and whenever the sinking sunset slanted into the window lattice, he seemed to be redeemed in the holy light.

All ordinary things will glow with strange brilliance like stars after they are gone forever.This period of time that Xue Yuan hated deeply, has become kinder with each recollection in the future.The black and white checkered chessboard, the orange sunset, and the piano music of Tchaikovsky flowing in the air gradually become a warm and inexplicable feeling in the memory.

The image of his father left in Xue Yuan's memory is always divided: one is a loving wise man, the other is a cruel tyrant, and the other is a pathetic patient.These three images are like celestial bodies in a three-body movement, intertwined with each other to form an unsolvable puzzle, making him unclear which one is the real father in his mind.

Perhaps only the day when I become a father can I truly understand my father's generation.

American writer Auster said a word: Becoming a father means going to the other side of the wall forever.

Because of the family history of mental illness, Xue Yuan decided long ago not to have children.However, since having Qi Lian, he has more or less experienced the feeling of being a father.

He suddenly discovered that he had made a mistake all along.He thought that Qi Lian was born with the mission of saving mankind, but the fact may be the opposite: Qi Lian is the son of mankind and the continuation of mankind.

It is not a father's job to let his children sacrifice for himself.

The opening chapter of "Lolita" reads: Lolita, the light of my life, the fire of my desire, my crime, my soul.

So, Killian, what are you to me?

My water of life, my flower of kindness, my child, my salvation.

The author has something to say: Sorry dears, I have been ill for so long o(>﹏<)o I estimated the recovery time too optimistically, but the reality is not always as optimistic as I am (-ω-;)

Not much to say about the bad things, let me report the progress of this article to my friends: the next chapter finds out the villain, and the next chapter advances to the other side of the "wall".

Because the body has not fully recovered, I can only guarantee weekly updates for the time being, so I cut off more than half of the outline of the second half, and the main text will probably be completed within [-] words.

What has been cut off is mainly the several rivalry scenes between the fox and the villain. The emotional line between the attack and the villain will not shrink, so please rest assured.The poor villain didn't have time to do anything, so he was picked out by bia chirp, light a wax (=ω=;)

PS The space army is just soy sauce in this article, just showing a small face here, there is no major event.In the future, there will be another article "The Legend of the Deep Space Knight" with the space army as the protagonist (^_^)

☆, Yuanyong

The shuttle began to slow down slowly and stopped in an airspace.

Xue Yuan checked the coordinates on the computer, "We are here, almost here. ——Do you feel anything?"

Qi Lian listened quietly, but there was no sound.

"So, try to say hello to them." Xue Yuan said, "Say 'Hello' in your mind, and see if there is a response."

It worked.The screen in front of Xue Yuan flickered, and suddenly a line of subtitles appeared:

"Hello. I'm glad you took the initiative to contact us and ask me questions."

His attitude was concise and straight to the point, without unnecessary greetings.

Xue Yuan and Joey looked at each other in astonishment.Although I was mentally prepared, I was still a little at a loss when faced with such a weird communication, not sure how to ask the first question.

After thinking for a while, Xue Yuan said to Qi Lian: "Ask him, can he hear us talking?"

Qi Lian raised this question to the other party in his mind.The subtitler quickly replied: "Can't hear you. You and I are not on the same plane, so we can only rely on quantum communication. The particles in the area you are in now have quantum entanglement effects with the particles in my space. So The communication between us is not affected by the speed of light and distance, and it is instantaneous."

Xue Yuan raised a second question: "There are three people on our side, but why can only one of us 'listen' to what you are saying?"

Subtitler gave an answer that made Xue Yuan despise him: "I don't know either."

Maybe because he sensed Xue Yuan's contempt, Mr. Subtitles immediately turned on the group mocking mode: "There are differences between human brains, and only brains with sufficient sensitivity can become receivers."

"........."

"This communication between us and you has existed since the beginning of your birth. Your population has grown rapidly, but only a few people have been able to achieve quantum communication with us. You may also have noticed a fact : On your planet, no matter where the race is, there has been a very special profession called a psychic or a priest. The witches in ancient China, the Pythias in ancient Greece, and the prophets of Christianity are all of this kind People. Their brains are different from ordinary people, and they can directly receive the "Oracle".

"You mean to say that you are gods?"

"For you in ancient times, yes. But now you should understand that we are also advanced intelligent life, but the technical level is much higher than yours. We have been observing you, but the number of direct communications with you is not Not much. The last large-scale communication was 3000 years ago. We arranged a lot of quantum effect points near 30 degrees north latitude, which can communicate with some of you. Later, these people have had an important impact on your spiritual field. Impact."

"You mean the Axial Age?"

(※The Axial Age refers to the period from 800 BC to 200 BC. During this period, human civilizations all over the world made breakthroughs and produced many thinkers, such as Socrates in ancient Greece and Sakyamuni in India. , Confucius in China, etc. The area is concentrated around 30 degrees north latitude)

"Yes, your history calls this period. We did not communicate on a large scale after that, so as not to expose our presence prematurely. The last time we communicated was before the sun erupted, and we contacted one of you by chance. Unfortunately, he didn't believe us. But we persuaded him to record the coordinates of the last quantum effect point in the solar system, which is where you are now."

Xue Yuan was silent.

Joey then asked: "Can you use something to show us a little bit of your technology?"

"Can."

A picture appeared on the screen, less than a bit in size.The pattern is weird, like a hexagonal snowflake.

Joey is no stranger to it.It's called a "Koch snowflake," a fractal pattern he'd seen before in computer class at school, learning about recursive algorithms.

In theory, it can repeat its structure infinitely.However, limited by the resolution, when the structure is complex to a certain extent, the details are lost.

The subtitler continued: "You can enlarge this bitmap infinitely. One hundred times, one hundred thousand times, 1000 billion times, whatever you want. You will see that its resolution will not be reduced at all, and the details will never be reduced. will not be exhausted."

Joey gave it a try.Indeed, as the other party said, this seemingly ordinary bitmap contains infinite details and can be enlarged infinitely.

"It's really like the monument in "2001: A Space Odyssey." Joey whispered.In Arthur Clarke's novel, humans found a black monument on the moon. No matter how accurate the measurement is, the ratio of the three sides is 1:4:9, showing its geometric formula to humans arrogantly. precision.

"We can put your entire universe into one simple picture without losing any details." The subtitler said, as if he could feel his pride through the screen.

"Did you put that 'wall' in the Oort Nebula?"

The subtitle gentleman quickly replied: "Yes. It is a cosmic membrane, which is in the fourth dimension that you cannot see. When you go to this cosmic membrane, you can escape, but there is a certain price."

"What price?"

"Give up your physical body. You can't take mass to another universe, you have to turn yourself into a quantum state and 'upload' to another universe, just like data transmission. Then you are with us."

The answer was a little shocking.

"Are you also carbon-based life?"

"No. We are neither carbon-based nor silicon-based, but electromagnetic life. The universe we live in can be called cyberspace."

"Has anyone been 'uploaded' in our previous history?"

"Yes. For example, the Mayan civilization and the Inca Empire, you should know. The sudden disappearance of these two civilizations has left you with many unsolved mysteries."

"They were uploaded?"

"Yes. They came to our world. This process was not done all at once, it took many years. During the time we didn't bother to 'receive' them, they tried to do it unilaterally with their own understanding "Upload". Your historians call that process "human sacrifice". For example, the Aztecs, they took out the heart of the sacrifice and offered it to the sun god, because they believed that the heart is the seat of the human soul, Doing so will allow the primordial spirit to return to the sun."

"I've heard of human sacrifice. Can it really be uploaded??"

"Of course not, this is their misunderstanding of the mind uploading technology. Fortunately, they stopped doing it later. In fact, the separation of consciousness from the physical body is only an instant, and the whole process is only a few nanoseconds, far faster than your nerves. The speed at which information is transmitted, so you don't feel anything."

"Do we have to do this?"

"No. We don't want to force you to do anything, the choice is yours."

"But we have no other choice, the 'wall' has blocked our way."

"You have, and you know it yourself. I think some of you may already be doing it. Go back and have a look."

While typing these words on the screen, a long glowing line appeared in the background of the universe in the distance.Because it is too far away, the exact distance cannot be judged.

Joey was surprised: "The wake of the nuclear fusion engine! Did someone start the light speed vehicle? That's forbidden!"

But he immediately noticed another even more shocking fact: the trail of light passed through the artificial light curtain in front of the invisible wall and extended to the other side of the wall.

That is to say, if that is really a nuclear fusion-powered aircraft, then it has successfully broken through the invisible wall at the speed of light and flew into the deep space of the universe.

At this time, the subtitles automatically typed out another sentence:

"I would like to give you a warning from an individual standpoint. There is one thing, please remember: our civilization is the same as yours, there is no pure good and pure evil. Think about the complexity of your own human beings... , our emotions are richer, so we also have more complex morality. Whether our actions are good or evil, and where to go, the choice is in your own hands.

"I repeat: I am only speaking from the standpoint of an ordinary individual, and do not represent the entire civilization behind me. Civilization does not care about good and evil, but only requires survival and expansion."

The meaning of this passage is a bit subtle, and it seems to contain some kind of warning.

Xue Yuan asked the last question: "So, what happens after 'upload'? What will happen to us?"

This time, the chatterbox subtitler gave a very concise answer:

"eternal life."

After that, ta did not respond any more, as if the phone was hung up.

The shuttle returned to Fuxi.

Many people gathered in the square-like hall of thousands of people, the wall became transparent, and people stared at the beam of light in the distance.No one spoke, and the atmosphere was solemn, as if not long ago people watched the earth fall into the sun in silence.

"Major Ouyang, is that the wake of the light-speed spacecraft?" Joey asked an officer standing nearby.

Major Ouyang shook his head with a complicated expression: "It's not a spaceship. We launched a tiny probe to conduct an experiment."

Tiny detectors are only the size of a baseball, but they are also macroscopic objects.

What people have been guessing for a long time has been confirmed.When the speed of a macroscopic object is very close to the speed of light, it can, like light, only propagate along the cosmic brane where it originally resides, and "pass through" the invisible wall to continue forward.

But Joey understands why people are not excited, but so silent.

As a technical officer, he knew very well that only a very small number of aircraft in the fleet could reach the speed of light.They can carry less than one ten-thousandth of the population of the entire fleet, but they will use up all of the fleet's existing nuclear fusion fuel.

In other words, once these light-speed vehicles are gone, the remaining fleet will become "dead ships" without power, unable to go anywhere, only waiting to die.

Many people must have thought of the method of breaking through the "wall" at the speed of light, but no one has proposed it for a long time. This is the reason: the cost is too huge.

Moreover, who can guarantee that he will definitely become the lucky one in ten thousand?

Xue Yuan went to Pei Shu's office to report.Joey found an excuse and took Qi Lian back first.He didn't want to talk to Pei Shu much, like a young boy who was having trouble with his father in adolescence.

To Xue Yuan's surprise, Pei Shu was not very surprised after hearing the report.

"Do you know what 'they' look like to me?" Pei Shu said, "Like the gods in Greek mythology. The Greek gods are personal gods, and they are not perfect. I even thought, maybe the true identity of those gods These are the 'correspondents'. They are also ordinary living individuals, so they have those human defects."

Xue Yuan couldn't help imagining following his words: In a big office called "Olympus", many operators were busy answering hotline calls from the earth.Someone is responsible for answering questions about music, art, and medical treatment, and he becomes Apollo, the sun god; someone is responsible for answering questions about emotion and beauty, and she becomes Venus, the goddess of love and beauty...

"Your father once communicated with them." Pei Shu's tone was heavy. "He told me, but I took it as an early delirium symptom of schizophrenia and advised him to seek medical treatment as soon as possible. In this matter, I cannot escape the blame."

Xue Yuan was speechless.Even he didn't believe his own father at the time, so how could he blame others.

"Admiral, do you think we should trust them?" he asked.

Pei Shu waved his hand kindly, "You should call me Uncle Pei. ——I think their attitude is very ambiguous and cannot be simply understood as a kind salvation. That sentence is very interesting, 'Civilization doesn't care about good and evil, only requires Survive and expand.' Perhaps there is something in our civilization that they need, and they want to assimilate it, so they reach out to us. As for our life, it is only an appendage of civilization."

Xue Yuan also felt the same way.When asked the key question "What will happen after uploading", the chattering subtitles suddenly became sparing.This really cannot but make people suspicious, whether ta is hiding any important information.

but……

"eternal life".

No matter what era it is for human beings, this is too tempting a word.

Pei Shu walked back and forth a few steps, his expression suddenly became serious, as if he had made some life-and-death decision.He approached Xue Yuan and grabbed his shoulders with both hands.

"Vanya, what I'm going to say next is very important. It concerns the future of you and Joshua, please listen carefully."

Infected by his emotions, Xue Yuan couldn't help holding his breath, and tensed his posture of standing at attention.

"In the video conference just now, the representatives of the various regions passed a resolution: Use light-speed spacecraft to let some people 'break through', pass through the Oort Nebula, and continue the human journey. As for the rest..." Pei Shu sighed Tone, "All go to the 'wall'. Whether it's a blessing or a curse, we can only resign ourselves to fate."

"........."

"Abandoning more and taking less is against the traditional morality of mankind. But now, for the survival and expansion of civilization, we may have to abandon the traditions of the earth age. The space age has the morality of the space age, which is beyond the reach of human beings before. I imagined it. I remember a story in "Three-Body 3" that discussed this issue."

In that episode, a space battleship, the Bronze Age, escapes the solar system during a battle and returns to Earth to be judged.There is such a paragraph:

〖Judge: Where did the body (of the war dead) go?

Lowinski: Replenish the ship's food stock.

Judge: Who are the eaters?

Lowinski: Everyone.

……

Lowinski: I thought, there must be some discomfort, but there was no big reaction.Oh, and once in the dining room, I heard an officer next to me say: Thank you, Joyner.

Judge: What do you mean?

Lowinski: Lieutenant Karl Joyner was the communications officer on the Quantum, and what he ate seemed to be a part of her.

Judge: How could he know who he was eating?

Lowinski: You know the identification unit, the size of a grain of rice, it's implanted in the left arm, and occasionally you don't take that thing out when you cook it, and when you find it in the plate, the eater can use the body communicator or something to put it on information is read out.

……

Lowensky: Considering the long voyage in the future, leaving so many protein resources in space and not using them is breaking the moral bottom line. 〗

……

Xue Yuan suddenly felt a chill running down his spine.Not because of the depiction of cannibalism in the story, but because he found himself agreeing with it.

Pei Shu's fingers were vigorous: "Vanya, I said these words to you as an elder, and it does not represent the human society behind me. Tell Joshua for me when you go back."

He paused and emphasized his tone: "If you decide to go to the future (※), I will help you board the light speed spaceship at all costs. ——When the fleet set sail, although I had a last resort, I did abandon you .I will not make the same mistake again. There is only so much I can do for you now."

(※When the speed of an object is close to the speed of light, the internal time reference frame of the object is different from that of the outside, and the closer to the speed of light, the greater the gap. For example, a spaceship moves at 99% of the speed of light, and one year on the spaceship is approximately equal to seven years on the earth. If 99.99% speed of light movement, one year on the spacecraft is about 70 years on the earth. Therefore, it can be considered that people moving at the speed of light actually travel through time and space to the future)

When leaving the Fuxi, Xue Yuan stared at the trail that was still glowing slightly.The nuclear fusion wake will remain in space for a long time, like an unhealed scar of light.

From this moment on, human beings have quietly differentiated.Some people will go to the future longer than life, and some people will stay in the past without tomorrow.

Life and death, this and that, all look at each other peacefully through time in the eternal night of the universe.

☆, Yuanyong

In order to board the light-speed spacecraft, the scene of you scrambling over the earth was staged again.A little different from the last time, everyone now considers himself a social elite and an indispensable force for future human beings.So while the number of people competing this time is far fewer than the 90 billion people on Earth, it's as intense as it gets.

But on one thing, almost everyone's opinions are surprisingly unanimous: Qi Lian must not board the light speed spacecraft.

He must be with most people, at least to give those left behind some ethereal psychological comfort, and let them feel that they have not been abandoned.

Joey asked Xue Yuan out for dinner.

"It's nothing, I just want to meet you for a drink." He said, "We have been colleagues for so long, and occasionally contacting each other is considered a work need."

Xue Yuan maintained his usual vigilance: "It can't be a Hongmen banquet, right? I don't fully trust you yet."

"That's right, it's the Hongmen Banquet, and I want to fight you." Joey readily admitted, "The last round of marbles we played back then has not yet been decided. It has been delayed for 20 years, and I have to see you today." It’s impossible to tell.”

The place where the two met was a Chinese restaurant that Joey often went to.

The decoration of the box is elegant and quiet, and the door is particularly unique. It is a garden-style moon door, and a rosewood four-leaf curved screen is placed in front of it. Plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums are painted with fine brushwork on the gauze silk.

This is a very considerate arrangement.Xue Yuan was naturally not happy to be alone with Joey in the claustrophobic room, but the door was open and there was no privacy.The combination of the moon cave door and the screen perfectly solves this dilemma, and it does not seem deliberate at all.

While waiting for the food to be served, Joey took out a box of chess and placed it on the mahogany coffee table beside him.The wooden chessboard with a creamy white background was brand new and looked like it hadn't been used once.

"Why is it chess?" Xue Yuan wondered, "Didn't you say playing marbles before?"

Joy