Earth Era

At this moment, all the doubts in Wei Feng's heart were answered. Wei Feng knew why the earth did not send any more messages to him when he woke up the first two times, and also knew what happened in the solar system.

Human civilization split into two alliances: the outer solar system and the inner solar system. One side controls the strongest scientific and technological strength and heavy industry and agricultural foundation, while the other side controls the largest population and the most resources.

The "dead knot" theory has been most perfectly interpreted in human civilization. When human civilization has developed to the point where it urgently needs to seek resources and planets from outer star systems, the technology of human civilization has tightly trapped human civilization in the solar system. The population is increasing and the demand for energy is increasing. One solar system can no longer meet the needs of human civilization.

The development of history always has its inherent laws. The laws of history tell Wei Feng that when resources enter a state of shortage, if resources cannot be obtained from the outside, then humans will seek to obtain resources from within. And... what is the means to obtain resources from within? There is only war.

This is the general trend of history, and it will not be interfered by the will of an individual or a group. So it is a dead knot, a dead knot that cannot be opened.

Wei Feng's body was already shaking uncontrollably. Wei Feng closed his eyes, leaned on the back of the chair and took a deep breath, and it took a long time to calm down. Then Wei Feng came to the porthole and looked at the star in the distance that still had the highest brightness among all the stars.

Although it is now 1.6 light-years away from the sun, the sun is still the brightest. It hangs far away in the dark and deep universe, quietly releasing its own light, looking mysterious and distant, quiet and elegant.

That is Wei Feng’s hometown, and also the hometown of hundreds of billions of human beings. Standing here, Wei Feng could not detect any other features except this flickering light spot, but Wei Feng knew that there must be many things happening there.

Ye Luo received this letter three years ago. Add in the time spent on communication delays, and the calculation is like this. Chu Hai had sent this letter at least four and a half years ago. And...how much will happen in four and a half years?

Has the war begun? How is human civilization doing? Where is Chu Hai? What about the Time Traveler team?

Wei Feng had many worries in his heart. But Wei Feng couldn't possibly know the answers to these questions. Wei Feng knew that his connection with the earth had been completely severed. Without those eight large antennas, the earth could no longer send signals that could be received by him, and the signals he sent could no longer be received by the earth. arrive.

Although the earth has the ability to rebuild antennas, who will spend energy and resources to do this in the face of the upcoming war? Inner Solar System Alliance? Outer Solar System Alliance?

War buries many things. Wei Feng is almost certain. As the witnesses of the Island Project gradually age and die, and as the electronic devices that store a large amount of data are destroyed, they will surely be forgotten by everyone. No one knows that hundreds of years ago, a man boarded the Xinghai spaceship and embarked on a lonely journey that lasted for thousands of years. No one knows that the stars in the sky also have the same kind of footprints.

Wei Feng felt as if his heart was being torn apart. This pain is not just for my own loneliness and being forgotten, but also for the bleak future that human civilization is about to face. Maybe... when he finally returns to the solar system after crossing a thousand years, he will be greeted by ruins. Maybe he will become the last human being in the universe, or maybe. He will encounter an accident during his journey, and will be buried in the lonely and deep universe, never to be remembered.

Wei Feng finally couldn't control it anymore. So Wei Feng squatted on the ground and held his head with his arms. He cried silently.

Wei Feng felt that everything he had done, all the loneliness and fear he endured was meaningless. Who cares about themselves? Who will remember me? The solar system is my root and my hometown. Without the solar system and human civilization... who would I be?

Ye Luo remained silent at this time, which was rare. It seemed that it also understood Wei Feng's inner feelings at this moment. So it didn't disturb Wei Feng, but just let Wei Feng cry quietly there.

After a long time, Wei Feng wiped away his tears and stood up, then called out: "Ye Luo."

"Captain, I'm here. What are your orders?"

Wei Feng was silent for a moment, and then said: "You said... what should we do now? Human civilization has split into the Inner Solar System Alliance and the Outer Solar System Alliance. The Isolated Island Project has been terminated, and our existence will be forgotten by everyone. Do you have a response plan for this situation stored in your database?"

"To tell you frankly, Captain, I have indeed set some restrictive strategies in my internal procedures. These restrictive strategies include, if you have the intention to quit during the voyage and want to control the ship to return, I can refuse to carry out the mission you submitted. This is to ensure the smooth execution of the island plan. But now, as you said, human civilization has been divided and the island plan has been stopped, so those restriction strategies have become ineffective. What to do in the future depends on your arrangements."

Ye Luo's words were very clear. Wei Feng knew that even if he ordered the spacecraft to return at this moment, Ye Luo would still carry out his order.

But...is there any point in returning now? Even if Wei Feng returns now, it will still take nearly two hundred years to return to the solar system. No matter how anxious Wei Feng is, this time will not be shortened. At the same time, even if Wei Feng can return to the earth at this moment, what is the point? The war will not end with the arrival of Wei Feng.

At this moment, Wei Feng really wants to return to Earth, even if the solar system is in the middle of a war. Because Wei Feng knows that death is the unchangeable fate of every living being. He will die one day. In this deep universe, it seems that he will die after a thousand years and die after a hundred years. There is no essential difference. And... in the universe a thousand years from now, there will probably be no trace of human civilization.

"Should I return to Earth and die with my kindred spirits, or should I die alone after a thousand years of drifting?"

This is a very difficult multiple choice question. Even though Wei Feng had received more than 20 years of professional training before setting off, and had been tempered by more than a hundred years of lonely sailing, when facing this problem at this moment, Wei Feng still felt a wave of pain emerging from the bottom of his heart. at a loss.

Faced with this problem, Wei Feng didn't know what to choose. So Wei Feng asked: "Ye Luo, do you want to return to Earth, or continue to follow me on this long journey?"

Ye Luo replied: "I am an intelligent program. I have no preferences based on personal emotions. Regarding this matter, my answer is that I don't care. You can do whatever you want."

"I want to think about it." Wei Feng replied.

"Okay, dinner is ready for you, don't you want to eat your dinner first?"

"No." Wei Feng waved his hand and walked to his lounge, "Don't disturb me."

Wei Feng placed himself on the bed, then opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling quietly. Wei Feng's thoughts were so chaotic that he couldn't even sort out a clue.

Voyaging to Nanmen 2 or not going to Nanmen 2 is indeed meaningless now, and even whether Wei Feng chooses to return to Earth is meaningless. At this moment, Wei Feng has unlimited choices, and no matter which one Wei Feng chooses, no one will interfere with Wei Feng.

Wei Feng has complete autonomy, but because of this, Wei Feng is even more confused. The Nanmen Second Voyage was the spiritual pillar that supported Wei Feng. It supported Wei Feng through this long lonely journey. But at this moment, this pillar suddenly collapsed. From now on, no one will care about what Wei Feng does or thinks. Even if Wei Feng dies, no one will care.

Wei Feng was thinking about something randomly, his head was like a mess. But in this chaos, a pair of eyes quietly emerged, and became brighter and brighter.

Those eyes belong to Chu Hai and everyone in the Time Traveler team. Wei Feng still remembers their earnest eyes when he left the earth, he also remembers their expectations for him, he remembers the instructions given to him by the long-dead Head of State Keller, and he also remembers what the head of state told him when he set out. .

"No matter where you are, the entire solar system will always have your back."

During this vicissitudes of life, one generation passed away quietly, and a new generation grew up and became the mainstream of society. Wei Feng knew that he did not belong to this era. He had always belonged to the era more than a hundred years ago. In that era, tens of millions of scientific researchers and engineers devoted decades of their energy to the isolated island project, and more people were watching them eagerly, hoping that they could step out of this world that represented the entire human civilization. A big step.

"So... let this journey continue." Wei Feng thought silently, "I am performing this mission for my era, although almost all of them in that era have died, although at this moment... …Even if the entire human civilization may fall into extinction, the mission I bear is still unshirkable.”

"Just like Chu Hai said... I also don't want human civilization to perish without taking a step towards interstellar navigation..." (To be continued ~^~)