The Science Fiction World of Xueba

On the way home, Pang Xuelin stopped by to pick up little Murphy.

The little girl hadn't seen Pang Xuelin for more than two months, she was tired of being in Pang Xuelin's arms and didn't want to come out.

Pang Xuelin simply asked Big Murphy to be the driver, while he sat in the back of the car with his daughter in his arms.

Ninny, do you miss Dad?

think!

Little Murphy was only seven years old, and she was dressed like a doll. Pang Xuelin couldn't help but kissed her, and she couldn't stop giggling because of the stubble on Pang Xuelin's face.

The father and daughter played all the way, and they didn't stop until they got home.

The return of Pang Xuelin made this slightly deserted home quickly become lively.

Especially at night, when she learned that Pang Xuelin had a one-month vacation, Chris even turned over and became the host, turning the months of longing into endless lingering, allowing Pang Xuelin to enjoy the tenderness.

It's just that this girl is destined to be the five scumbags in the war, and after only two rounds, she lay on Pang Xuelin's body and didn't want to move.

Husband, why have you become so powerful recently?

Don't you like it?

Pang Xuelin laughed.

Chris rolled Pang Xuelin's eyes, bit his ear and said, I like it...

Pang Xuelin was agitated by Chris's obsequiousness, and pressed Chris under him again.

It wasn't until Chris was completely exhausted that the two hugged and chatted, and fell asleep without knowing it.

For the next month, Pang Xuelin helped Chris with farm work and housework every day at home.

Their family has planted more than 200 acres of corn fields. Although the peak season of farming has passed, there are still countless jobs to be done every day.

Pang Xuelin felt sorry for Chris, so he simply followed Cooper's example and helped Chris transform the harvesters, seeders, and pesticide spraying drones at home into machines with a certain level of artificial intelligence.

In addition, in this era, both fuel and other energy sources are extremely cheap. Therefore, in this way, Chris's daily work has been relieved a lot.

When the two of them are free, either they drive out for fun, or they take little Murphy out for a picnic, and the family of three enjoy themselves happily.

A month of happy time flies by.

A month later, Pang Xuelin appeared in the conference room of the space agency to participate in a discussion meeting on the latest version of the Lazarus Project.

In the movie, human spaceflight is still maintained at the level of chemical propulsion, coupled with the gravity limitation on the earth, even though the Eternal Night spacecraft has spent a lot of human resources, the entire spacecraft is quite primitive.

Compared with the vast universe, it is like human beings in ancient times, relying on simple canoes, crossing the vast ocean to find new continents.

This kind of risk means that every astronaut participating in the Lazarus project will be close to death.

This time, anti-gravity technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in theory. Coupled with some technologies left over from the shrimp civilization, human beings can basically guarantee that the application of anti-gravity technology from theory to engineering will be completed within three years.

Therefore, after repeated discussions between Pang Xuelin and Brand, the latest Eternal Night spacecraft was launched.

The overall scale has been increased by ten times compared with the original version, and the comfort is even more incomparable.

The latest version of the Eternal Night spacecraft will be built on the ground, and after the construction is completed, it will be lifted into space through the anti-gravity engine.

The spaceship has a circular shape as a whole, and in the center of the circle is a huge Hall thruster, which can provide the spaceship with a thrust of more than one million cattle in space.

The surrounding ring is made up of individual compartments, and each independent compartment has a complete life support device and a small ion propulsion device for attitude maintenance.

From the appearance, this spacecraft is a bit like the smaller navigator space station in the wandering earth world.

The main power of the spacecraft is six molten salt reactors with a total output of more than two gigawatts.

And a lot of nuclear fuel rods.

The crew can independently replace the nuclear fuel in space. Coupled with the hibernation system in the spacecraft, the overall self-sustainability of the Eternal Night spacecraft exceeds two hundred years.

As a result, the number of astronauts in the entire Lazarus program also needs to be greatly increased.

However, based on the dangers of this plan and the issue of the astronaut training cycle, in the end, the space agency controlled the total number of people on the Eternal Night spacecraft to less than 100.

A lot of work will be handed over to the artificial intelligence in the spacecraft's main control computer.

Due to the expansion of the overall size of the Eternal Night spacecraft, the mission redundancy and various guarantees of the entire spacecraft have increased by more than a hundred times compared to the previous spacecraft.

Originally, the top management of the coalition government was unwilling to invest such a huge amount of resources in the Eternal Night spacecraft, but in the end Pang Xuelin's words made the coalition government suddenly become the biggest supporter of the spacecraft.

His words are: The Eternal Night spacecraft project can pave the way for the future space city plan.

...

After the blight virus spread on the earth, it has become more and more unsuitable for human survival. Therefore, space has become the only way out for human beings.

After a breakthrough in anti-gravity technology, the space city project was also put on the agenda.

But before this, humans have never conducted such a large-scale space project.

Because of this, the Eternal Night spacecraft has become a touchstone for the future space city project.

After realizing this, the human coalition government composed of the three major autonomous regions of North America, East Asia, and Europe provided an astonishing amount of resource support for the Lazarus Project.

Fortunately, Pang Xuelin has a wealth of experience in managing such super-large scientific projects after being tempered in so many sci-fi worlds.

Coupled with his superhuman vision, after only one year of project demonstration and design, the spacecraft officially entered the project implementation stage.

...

Two years later, in a secret base belonging to the space agency, a circular spaceship with a diameter of more than 500 meters stood majestically in front of Pang Xuelin.

The Hall thruster used for the main power system of the spacecraft is a cylindrical structure with a diameter of 50 meters. Therefore, the combination of the ring and the Hall thruster will be carried out in space.

At present, the main structure of the Hall thruster has been launched into space, and through that launch, humans have verified the state and stability of the anti-gravity engine.

Today, the space agency will officially launch the main structure of the Eternal Night spacecraft.

Following the order of the commander-in-chief on site, the steel structure supporting the Eternal Night spacecraft shook slightly, and a faint wave spread.

In an instant, a group of wild geese that had just passed over the spacecraft fell down from the sky like headless flies.

Immediately afterwards, the spaceship floated up silently.

The ion thrusters in the twelve main structure cabins emit a faint blue light, pushing the spacecraft into the sky silently.

The acceleration provided by the auxiliary power system was not great, and it took more than half an hour for the spaceship to slowly disappear into the sky.

At this time, Brand quietly came to Pang Xuelin's side, and said, Pang, if this test goes well, you should start in half a year.

Pang Xuelin nodded, without speaking, his heart became a little heavy unconsciously.

In three years, Pang Xuelin has established a deep relationship with both Chris and Little Murphy.

After parting this time, we don't know when we will see each other again.

Pang, I'll give you half a year's vacation. For the next six months, go and spend time with them.

Thanks!

Pang Xuelin turned his head and glanced at Brand, nodded.

...

On the way home from the test base, Murphy, who had always been lively, became silent a lot.

Brother-in-law, don't we only have half a year?

Almost. Pang Xuelin nodded, and said, In the past six months, you should spend more time with the old man when you go home. In fact, he has always missed you.

I know.

Murphy turned his head to prevent Pang Xuelin from seeing his reddened eye circles.

But when they got home, the two became the same as usual, and Chris and Oliver didn't notice anything unusual.

In three years, little Murphy has grown another head, and has become a slim girl of ten years old.

But still stuck to Pang Xuelin.

Who made Pang Xuelin dote on her the most?

But even though she is a pet, the little girl is well-behaved and cute, and her academic performance in school is also good, she is very likable.

Pang Xuelin even regarded her as the apple of his eye, holding her in his hand for fear of falling, and holding her in his mouth for fear of melting.

In the evening, after the family had dinner, Pang Xuelin finished tutoring little Murphy's homework and returned to the bedroom. Chris had already showered and was wiping her wet hair.

Pang Xuelin went up to give his wife a sip, but Chris gave him a blank look. She stuffed the towel into his hand and said, It stinks, give me a bath.

Yes, dear.

After taking a shower, it was a big fight as usual.

At the end of the battle, Chris lay limply on Pang Xuelin's chest and said, Honey, how long are you going to stay when you come back this time?

In the past three years, as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Lazarus project, Pang Xuelin often traveled on business to coordinate the construction of the Eternal Night spacecraft. Chris has become accustomed to the days when Pang Xuelin treats his home as a hotel.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: The past two years have been busy enough, this time I applied for a long leave from the bureau, at least I can stay with you at home for half a year.

Chris's fingers were gently drawing circles on Pang Xuelin's chest, but she couldn't help but hesitate slightly when she heard the words.

What's wrong?

Pang Xuelin lowered his head in surprise.

fine.

Chris lowered her head, her eyes watered and said, Husband, I still want it.

...

If it hadn't been for the global mass extinction caused by the wilt virus, such a life would be like a paradise for Pang Xuelin, accompanied by his wife and children.

But now, the happier these days are, the more tormented Pang Xuelin feels.

He faintly felt that Chris already knew something, but Chris was unwilling to say it, and Pang Xuelin didn't know what to say.

The two carefully maintained the tacit understanding between husband and wife.

Little Murphy, on the other hand, was very happy every day.

Dad spends more and more time with her at home.

In addition to taking her to and from school every day, on weekends, I often take her and grandpa to field picnics, picnics, kite flying, and games with my mother.

Sometimes my aunt also goes there together.

Such a life, in the heart of little Murphy, is like a dream.

However, no matter how happy life is, it will eventually reach the end.

That evening, Pang Xuelin finally received a call from Brand.

After hanging up the phone, Pang Xuelin raised his head, looked at Chris who was busy in the kitchen, opened his mouth, and murmured: Chris, I... have to leave tomorrow...

bang——

The shovel in Chris's hand fell into the pot.

Tears kept rolling down Chris's fair face. Chris wiped her tears with her hands quickly, and tried her best to smile and said, Are you going back to work again? Then I will make... roasted venison at night. , grilled fish steaks, bread with jam, corn salad... Oh, yes, the old man also hid a bottle of red wine in the cellar, I'll take it out later...

Chris tried her best to restrain her emotions, but as she spoke, tears fell like bursting banks.

Chris!

Pang Xuelin couldn't hold back, and stepped forward quickly, holding his wife tightly in his arms.

Woooo...

The tense string in Chris's heart was suddenly broken, and Chris could no longer control her emotions, and she lay in Pang Xuelin's arms and began to cry loudly.

Pang Xuelin just patted his wife on the back lightly, letting his wife's tears soak the clothes on his chest, his eyes were reddish, and he couldn't say a word.

At this time, old Oliver leaned on a cane and walked down the stairs step by step.

Three months ago, when Oliver was going downstairs, he accidentally fell and broke his calf. He has not fully recovered and can only walk with crutches.

Looking at the couple embracing at the kitchen door, Oliver raised his head and let out a long sigh.

At this time, the sound of a car engine came from outside the door.

Feeling relieved, Chris got out of Pang Xuelin's arms, wiped the tears on her face and said, Go and tidy up, don't let your daughter find out that it's abnormal... That girl... That girl is the most pestering you, you know If you leave, she will collapse...

Pang Xuelin nodded and remained silent.

After a while, Big Murphy brought Little Murphy into the house.

dad!

Little Murphy put down his schoolbag, rushed towards Pang Xuelin, and kissed him hard on the face.

baby!

Pang Xuelin held his daughter tightly in his arms, and pressed his daughter's face intimately. After a while, he slowly let go of little Murphy.

Brother-in-law, what's the matter?

Murphy asked.

Pang Xuelin said: I received a call from Brand, and we will report back to the bureau tomorrow...

The expression on Murphy's face froze for a moment.

The dinner was unusually rich, but the atmosphere was somewhat dignified.

Even little Murphy faintly sensed something unusual.

Dad, Mom, what's the matter with you? Did you quarrel?

Just as Pang Xuelin was about to answer, Oliver on the side said: Little Murphy, your father is going back to work tomorrow, and he may be on a business trip for a month or two. Your mother is not happy.

Hee hee, doesn't dad often travel on business? I'm already used to it.

Little Murphy laughed.

Oliver also said with a smile: Yes, yes, Chrissy, look at you, you are too childish, even worse than little Murphy. Pang is not on a business trip once or twice, and he will be back soon .Come on, let's have a toast, and wish our family a happy reunion soon.

cheers!

After dinner, Oliver said, Pang, come to the study with Murphy, I have something to tell you.

Pang Xuelin and Murphy looked at each other, and they followed Oliver upstairs.

When he came to the study, Oliver said, Pang, you and Murphy will go and come back again. You don't know what year and month it will be. The space journey is so difficult and dangerous, and no one knows what lies behind the wormhole on Saturn. The old man There is nothing worth talking about in Oliver's life. What makes me most proud is that I have two outstanding granddaughters. Chrissy is kind-hearted, calm and steady, and Murphy is lively and lovely, with excellent talents. My two granddaughters are both good friends. It's in your hands. From now on, Murphy will follow you. You have to take good care of her. When performing missions...it's best...it's best to arrange some safer missions for her. If she also has an accident, the old man will go to hell in the future , I want to settle accounts with you!

grandfather!

Murphy's eyes were red, and he couldn't help crying.

Pang Xuelin said: Old man, don't worry, even if I die, I won't let anything happen to Murphy.

Old Oliver nodded and said, Okay, dear girl, come to grandpa. Our grandpa and grandson haven't talked properly for a long time. Pang, you can go and accompany Chris.

Old man, I'll go first then.

When Pang Xuelin came out of the study, he saw Chris in Little Murphy's room, helping her with homework.

Pang Xuelin also followed, and the family of three chatted until little Murphy went to bed before the couple quietly exited their daughter's room.

Back in the bedroom, just as Pang Xuelin closed the door, Chris hugged her waist tightly from behind.

Pang Xuelin turned around, and Chris had already kissed her.

After a long time, the two separated panting.

Chris said: Honey, take me into the bathroom and don't sleep at night.

...

Six o'clock the next morning.

Pang Xuelin opened his eyes, and Chris was hugging his arms tightly, sleeping deeply.

Chris persisted until four o'clock in the morning and couldn't hold on any longer, but Pang Xuelin was quite sober.

Outside the house, there was the sound of a car engine.

Pang Xuelin knew that this was the person who came to pick him up and Murphy.

Pang Xuelin gently pulled his arm out of Chris' arms, quietly got out of bed, changed his clothes, then opened the bedroom door, looked back at Chris who was still sleeping, and then quietly closed the door.

What Pang Xuelin didn't know was that the moment the door closed, a line of tears rolled down from the corner of Chris' eyes.

Afterwards, Pang Xuelin quietly came to his daughter's room. Little Murphy was still in a deep sleep, holding a huge teddy bear with a slight smile on his lips.

Pang Xuelin's heart was filled with an unprecedented tenderness. He walked forward slowly, bent down and lightly pecked his daughter's face, and then quietly exited her daughter's room.

When they got downstairs, Murphy was already fully dressed and waiting by the side. Oliver was preparing breakfast for him and Murphy.

The two finished their breakfast and, accompanied by Oliver, walked out of the house.

Murphy stepped forward and hugged old Oliver for a long time before getting into the car.

Pang Xuelin also hugged the old Oliver, and said: The space agency will take care of you and Chris in the future. You must live well, and we will be back soon.

Oliver said, I'll wait!