Chapter 93: Her World (3)
"On July 5th, I hid with my father and mother in the underground fortress, and I hid behind my father and saw the sun in the sky, which became very, very big, very, very red. My father said it was already very cold outside. I asked my father: So, is it snowing?
I love snow the most.
My father was a little distracted and said, "It's falling, I heard that the snow on the surface is more than 100 meters thick."
For some reason, I read some kind of deep grief in my father's expression.
On August 30, the escape plan was initiated. Father said that there were tens of thousands of spaceships carrying Lihuang citizens who had obtained tickets to leave their home planets. My father and mother and I were lucky enough to get on a medium-sized ship. That evening, I looked out of the window of the rest cabin and saw that the deck was full of pilots, ground crew, and soldiers. They were all looking in the direction of their home planet, when the sun was as red as a furnace about to explode, and each of them was flushed red. I watched as they all put their hands on their hearts and shed tears. For some reason, I cried too.
In the early hours of the day, our fleet performed its first time and space jump. In addition to humans, there are half-beasts, giant insects, and dragons in our fleet...... Many races, I've seen for the first time, and before, they lived on different planets than me. We're just in the same Glass Yellow Galaxy.
Mother said that all people are created equal, and every Lihuang person thinks so, so the eligibility for escape is determined by lottery, rather than by the merits of race and genes. Therefore, some non-human races with a low degree of evolution have to get on the boat.
Mother said that the great Lihuang civilization will never fall in her heart.
I think I'll be proud to be a Lihuang person for the rest of my life.
On September 10, while flying through a galaxy, two ships in our fleet were captured by one of the stars due to improper acceleration and slingshot angles, and crashed into the atmosphere. That star is an eternal sea of boiling fire.
On October 8th, we lost 5 more spacecraft, and when they performed the chrono jump, they did not know whether it was the cause of the failure or the gravitational influence of unknown dark matter in the universe, and they did not reach the intended course. My father said they had lost their lives and would never come back.
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On January 3rd, 100 years have passed, and we have been in space for a full 100 years! The original fleet of hundreds of ships was left with a pitiful 33. I'm dying of old age, but I'm lucky. I met the love of my life, Lusa III, on a spaceship, and gave birth to 8 children, 5 boys and 3 girls, all of whom were healthy and lovely, and had excellent combat effectiveness. Although I am a descendant of the famous Li clan and have never fought in space, in the era of interstellar escape, I can be regarded as making an indelible contribution to the reproduction of the race.
My youngest son said that he would take up the pen and continue to write this notebook for me, to record the rest of the fleet's exile, to record this great and sad era.
The glory of Lihuang is forever.
On March 7th, I took over my father's pen and began to record the long journey of the universe. According to the plan made when the fleet set out 100 years ago, we should have arrived at our destination 10 years ago, which was a blue star on a cantilevered arm near 1/8 of the galactic center in the Milky Way. That's our space telescope, the closest habitable planet we can detect. We don't know if there is a civilization on the Blue Star, whether it will welcome us, whether it will destroy us. But to this day, we have not yet reached the Blue Star. I don't know if we'll ever get to the Blue Star.
On August 15th, space travel was very boring, and I didn't know what to write about well. I read the words left by my father, and I felt that he was scribbling a lot of things casually, and there was no logic, so I would like to scribble a little.
As a child, my favorite thing to do was sneak into the captain's command deck and watch them operate the instruments. I especially like to watch them perform jumping missions.
Even in the command cabin without spectators, no matter how long and tired the journey is, the pilots who perform the jump will wear neat military uniforms, stand up straight, and give and transmit orders with a particularly loud voice.
'Engine ready. ’
'Fuel preparation. ’
'Route calibration. ’
'Countdown - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - jump!'
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I stood in the corner of the command module, watching the dazzling white light light light up outside the glass cabin, watching the space be compressed and deformed, and the stars seemed to become within reach. After a brief moment of dizziness and vomiting, the space unfolded again in front of us, and I saw a new bright star......
The stars are above, the great Lord of the universe, may you protect us, the survivors of the yellow color, to arrive at the blue star one day.
Today, October 27th, we learned the very sad news that the fleet that was sailing 200 light-years ahead of us, loaded with the best scientists, Lihuang's vast data on advanced technology and civilization, was captured by a black hole and disappeared.
Lihuang is gone.
I don't want to record anymore.
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On September 14th, I thought that this day would never come, but I did not expect that in my lifetime, before I was about to die of old age, it would come.
We drove into the galaxy where the blue star is located.
The deck was boiling, and everyone was crying bitterly. In our fleet, there are 8 ships left. It is not known whether other fleets will arrive, and how many of them have survived.
My grandson helped me onto the deck, on crutches, and I carefully pricked up my ears to listen to the short waves of communication that the ship was sending to Earth, and they were also broadcasting it to us, and everyone witnessed this exciting moment - if there was a modern civilization in the Blue Star, even if it was only 0.5I, it would be able to give us a response.
'Dear Blue Star, we are a fleet of survivors from the Glass Yellow galaxy 3,000 light-years away, and our galaxy has been destroyed by the forces of the universe. We have had to go through 180 years of space and time-hopping to get here. Our people believe in peace, the rule of law, human rights and morality, and see the Blue Star as their last refuge. We have no intention of competing with you for control and resources of the planet, only for the right of refuge, and are willing to abide by all of the laws of the Blue Star. If anyone receives this signal, please reply immediately, please reply immediately......
The broadcast played three full days and nights of the Blue Star, but we received no response, and we did not find any space defenses above the planet. However, our telescope found traces of civilization and signs of human activity on the surface of the blue star.
This means that we have come to an extremely rudimentary civilized world. They don't even have a thing that can fly into the sky! Can you believe it, one of our chrono jumps can travel tens of light-years, and they're probably still walking on two legs on the surface of the planet! God, do we live in the same universe?