Earth Era

Wei Feng has been sailing for more than three months now. Because there was an error in the spacecraft's acceleration calculation that was inconsistent with reality, the originally scheduled three-month acceleration plan has not been completed until now. But this is within the allowable error range and will not affect Wei Feng's navigation plan.

At this moment, the main engine of the spacecraft has been shut down, and the Xinghai spacecraft has entered the inertial navigation mode. This means that the inertial force that has troubled Wei Feng for more than three months has finally disappeared, and Wei Feng can finally stand up straight instead of always standing tilted as before.

If there are no accidents, the voyage of the next hundreds of years will be completely controlled by the artificial intelligence "Ye Luo". Ye Luo will work non-stop, constantly correcting the route through the neutron star positioning system. If the route deviates due to the existence of space dust clouds or other reasons, Ye Luo will start the auxiliary engine to correct the spacecraft's route back.

Now, the forward speed of the Xinghai spacecraft is three thousand kilometers per second. Today, satellite winds are 12 billion kilometers away from the sun.

But Wei Feng knew that he had not yet broken the voyage record set by human civilization. More than 20 years ago, an outstanding astronomer in human civilization led his team to sail for a full year on the scientific research ship "Yuanhang", covering a distance of 50 billion kilometers. And stayed there for more than a month before returning.

To catch up with this record, Wei Feng needs to continue sailing for almost five months. The distance of 50 billion kilometers is an unimaginably huge number, but this number is still a bit insignificant compared to the 4.4 light-year distance that the satellite will sail.

Before Wei Feng, the record of human voyages was 50 billion kilometers. Now, Wei Feng has to travel almost 42 trillion kilometers. The gap between the two numbers seems a bit large, and the sudden jump from 50 billion to 42 trillion is a bit unacceptable, but Wei Feng knows that this is not the case.

If human civilization needs it, it can send a spaceship to travel a distance of 100 billion or even 1 trillion kilometers. But that doesn't make any sense. Because the outer solar system is really too vast. There are no stars here that could arouse the interest of human civilization. To go on such a long voyage just to set a record is really not worth the gain, precisely because of this situation as a prerequisite. A sudden jump from 50 billion to 42 trillion will really happen now.

Although he has not yet caught up with the astronomer, Wei Feng feels the same loneliness as the astronomer, or even more so. Because the astronomer was not alone, and Wei Feng was the only one in the Xinghai spacecraft at this moment.

Outside the window is eternal darkness and emptiness. Although on a large scale, the density of matter here is still extremely high, and countless trans-Neptunian objects exist here. But when it comes to Wei Feng's field of vision, Wei Feng can't see anything.

Not only is it not empty here, even if we move forward another trillion kilometers or even one light year, it will still not be empty on a large scale. All kinds of asteroids, comets, interstellar dust, and star fragments are filled here, quietly rotating around the sun in the endless darkness and loneliness. Like a ghost walking in the dark night, never interacting with humans.

Although there were many of them, Wei Feng could not see any.

The last time I had contact with the earth was half a month ago. At that time, in order to test the performance of the high-power array antenna. Wei Feng said "Hello" to the Earth, and after waiting for nearly a day, he got an "OK" response. Other than that, Wei Feng didn't talk to anyone else.

Ye Luo talked a lot, but Wei Feng knew that what Ye Luo said was recorded in advance and stored in the database. Even if it behaves like a human being, it is still just a program.

If there is no accident, Wei Feng knows. In the next few hundred years, I will never have contact with the earth again. But the leaf falls are different. Every few months or so. Ye Luo will package and send back to Earth the comprehensive operating status of the Xinghai spacecraft's hull and some data obtained during the voyage, but this job has nothing to do with Wei Feng.

If Wei Feng was willing, Wei Feng could of course record a speech and give it to Ye Luo, and let Ye Luo send his audio and video information to the earth together, but Wei Feng didn't know who to talk to, so he simply saved it. A procedure.

The period of time when I first set off was very boring. The Xinghai spacecraft is new. During the initial period, there are no faults that Wei Feng needs to troubleshoot, and there are no scientific research tasks that Wei Feng needs to complete. The reason why Wei Feng has been kept awake and not allowed to hibernate is just for insurance reasons.

Now that the acceleration phase has passed, it's time for Wei Feng to hibernate.

Wei Feng left his seat and came to the porthole of the spacecraft again, staring at the endless starry sky outside. After watching for a while, Wei Feng said: "Ye Luo, please prepare a dinner for me."

Ye Luo replied: "I'm sorry, Captain, according to the original plan, you should be preparing to hibernate now. And before hibernation, you are not suitable for eating."

"Really?" Wei Feng sighed and said, "Okay then."

Wei Feng gave up the plan of eating, although Wei Feng did feel a little hungry at this moment. After communicating with Ye Luo, Ye Luo started to make some preparations for Wei Feng before hibernating. Wei Feng came to the entertainment station and casually played a small game to pass the time in a boring way.

Ye Luo's preparations lasted for more than an hour, and Wei Feng also ended the game between himself and the computer at this time. Wei Feng took off his clothes and came to the hibernation room. A coffin-like device had been placed there and the lid had been opened.

Wei Feng lay down, crossed his hands on his chest, and closed his eyes.

"Ye Luo, it's time to start." Wei Feng said.

"Okay, please don't worry, I will wake you up in ten years. During the ten years you sleep, everything about the spacecraft will be controlled by me. One last time, I want to confirm with you whether you need to set up an emergency wake-up Preset conditions?”

If something unexpected happens to the spaceship while Wei Feng is sleeping, and Ye Luo is unable to deal with it on his own, then Ye Luo needs to wake Wei Feng up urgently to face the dilemma. Under normal circumstances, it is up to Ye Luo himself to decide whether to wake up Wei Feng in an emergency, but as the captain, Wei Feng naturally has the authority to modify this condition. Wei Feng can completely set some settings such as "receive an unknown signal and wake up" "Wake me up", or "Wake me up when I encounter an unknown star".

Wei Feng thought for a moment and replied: "No need to set it up, you can control everything. If you think you need to wake me up, then just wake me up."

"Okay Captain, I understand. I wish you a sweet dream. The hibernation countdown starts now, three, two, one, zero..."

During the countdown, the door of the hibernation cabin slowly closed. After Ye Luo said the number zero, some powerful anesthetics were first released into the hibernation cabin. The moment he came into contact with these anesthetics, Wei Feng fell into a coma.

Wei Feng passed out, but Ye Luo's work continued. Even if no one is listening to Ye Luo at this moment, Ye Luo's voice still comes out: "It has been confirmed that the captain has entered a coma. Start releasing nutrient solution..."

The hibernation cabin was gradually filled with light blue liquid, while Wei Feng lay motionless in the hibernation cabin. It wasn't until the hibernation cabin was filled with this liquid that Ye Luo's voice came again: "Preparing to enter the refrigeration at minus 260 degrees... the refrigeration was successful."

"Turn off the power supply to the lighting system... Shutdown successful."

After these words, all the lighting equipment of the entire Xinghai spacecraft was turned off. Except for some sensor parts that require visible light as a monitoring condition, the entire spacecraft has been plunged into complete darkness.

"Turn off the temperature control device... Shutdown successful."

From this moment on, except for some components that require a constant temperature working environment, the temperature of each cabin and module of the spacecraft will slowly decrease, and eventually it will drop to the same temperature as the external space environment.

"Shut down air circulation equipment...recycle gas...successful."

From this point on, except for special needs, all chambers and modules will return to a vacuum state, and all gases will be recycled to prepare for the next use.

Without air, the sound of falling leaves disappears. But Ye Luo's movements still didn't stop. If Wei Feng is still awake, Wei Feng will know that next, Ye Luo will shut down all non-core components of the entire spacecraft, leaving only the central computer, central sensors, radar wave monitoring equipment, emergency communication equipment, etc. Important parts.

All of this is based on one purpose, which is to save fuel and energy. If these parts keep working, they won't last even a hundred years, let alone a thousand years.

From now on, the Xinghai spacecraft will be as cold and dark as the empty universe outside. Except that it still maintains a little warmth in its "heart", it is no longer fundamentally different from the stones in the universe.

It will sail quietly in the cold universe for ten years. After ten years, it will wake up together with Wei Feng. Of course, it may also... never wake up. (To be continued ~^~)