Chapter 22: Starry Sky

An ethereal world.

There was no time.

There is no direction.

Mo Yuan, he could clearly hear his own heartbeat, this time, there was no mysterious resonance, it was just the familiar heartbeat that accompanied him to this day.

Every heartbeat reminded Mo Yuan that at this moment, he was the only one in the whole world.

However, Mo Yuan did not feel isolated.

In fact, this has always been the scene that Mo Yuan expected, he was the only one, facing the unknown situation, and not involving others.

Just like the dream when I first connected to the experience system, in the dead of night, as Mr. 302, wandering alone in the anonymous network, facing all kinds of clients, completing the tasks they entrusted, and getting paid accordingly. No partners, no collaborations. Go it alone, do your own thing.

Loneliness, that's just another form of freedom.

I am my own back-up.

"Heh, what am I thinking? It's all meaningless emotion," Mo Yuan laughed at himself, looking up at the dark night sky.

I don't know when, the originally dark night sky revealed a little inky blue, like the wings of a black swan, and that little starlight was the crystal clear water droplets that slipped on the wings.

"Leo Less...... Ursa Major...... At least...... I'm in the Northern Hemisphere. ”

Mo Yuan identified a few common constellations, and temporarily understood his position, although it was very rough, but, after all, it was better than nothing.

Mo Yuan felt a little relieved, and suddenly, the starry sky in front of him made him feel a little strange, and he couldn't even say why for a while.

Is it because the night sky is too perfect to be real, so I feel strange? Perhaps, it's because I'm too sensitive, forget it, keep looking up at the starry sky like this, and my neck is a little sore.

Mo Yuan was about to bow his head, in the night sky, a meteor crossed by, Mo Yuan's eyes instinctively caught the meteor, and his eyes followed it closely until it disappeared in the north.

It was at this moment that Mo Yuan realized the reason for the abnormality.

"Where have you been?" Mo Yuan asked silently in his heart, and at the same time, some old adult things couldn't help but come back to his mind.

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"Polaris is a bright star in the northern part of the sky, very close to the north celestial pole, almost facing the Earth's axis, and its position is almost unchanged from the Earth, and it can be relied on to discern the direction. Due to precession, Polaris is not a permanent star. "The teachers of the academy are projecting in front of the holographic starry sky, explaining the knowledge about the North Star.

"The year 2000 A.D. was α Ursa Minor, and by 14000 A.D. it will be Vega. Every 25,800 years, the North Star cycles. For example, in the era of Magellan's voyage, the North Star was about 3.5 degrees away from the North Celestial Pole, and in 2000 AD, the North Star was closer to the North Celestial Pole, with an angle difference of only 42 minutes, less than 1 degree. The teacher of the academy said as he looked lazily out the window at Mo Yuan.

"Astronomers calculated based on the wobble of the Earth's axis and the gravitational pull of the stars that by 2100 A.D., Polaris would be closest to the North Pole, and it would be only 27 minutes from the North Celestial Pole, less than half a degree. The North Star will then gradually move away from the North Celestial Pole. So......" The teacher suddenly asked Mo Yuan, "Now, what is the angle difference between the North Star and the North Celestial Pole?"

"27:45. Mo Yuan replied calmly, but his head was still looking out the window.

The teacher sighed slightly, turned to the starry sky projection in front of him, and continued to explain the relevant astronomical knowledge.

She also sighed slightly, continued to listen carefully to the teacher's explanation, and took some notes from time to time.

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"Now, it should be 29:55", Mo Yuan silently calculated in his heart, "However, this answer is meaningless." ”

But at this moment, in the northern night sky, the original bright North Star disappeared without a trace.

"To be precise, the entire constellation Ursa Minor is gone. ”

Next to Mo Yuan's ears, it seemed to sound again, the voice of the teacher who always loved to ask him questions, "The position of the constellations, in terms of large-scale time changes, is constantly changing. ”

"So, where am I drifting in time?"

In the flawless night, the starlight from light years away does not give much answer.