Chapter 1: Before and After the Disaster
"Ah, where is this? My head hurts. Yu Xing slowly woke up in pain.
Looking at the small sleeping warehouse around him and the starlight outside the small window, Yu Xing, who didn't know how long he had been asleep, remembered something.
"How far am I from Earth now?" was Yu Xing's first question, and it was what he wanted to know the most. He pulled out the tube that injected the nutrient solution from his body, and crawled out of the sleeping chamber with difficulty.
After Yu Xing got up, he thought about it for a long time before he remembered how to walk, he had lost consciousness for too long, and only the consumed nutrient solution maintained his vital function.
He had lost his sense of time and space in the vast universe, and perhaps after the catastrophe that had happened on Earth, time and space had lost their meaning to him......
Since the scientific expedition team discovered a new energy called magic crystal on the bottom of the sea, the development speed of the earth has been getting faster and faster. One gram of magic crystals produces the same amount of energy as 100 kilograms of oil, and no contamination has been found from magic crystals.
As a result, the earth's science and technology have entered a stage of rapid development......
Science and technology have been developing for a hundred years, and the field of astronomy has also developed rapidly.
The world's population began to die in large numbers, and the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and tumors increased rapidly. The fertility rate is less than one-tenth of what it was a hundred years ago.
It turns out that the magic crystal is not pollution-free, but produces a never-before-seen chemical substance called "black atom". The combination of this substance with the body's cells accelerates the aging of the body.
However, it was too late to discover, and humans had already mined and used a large number of magic crystals in the past hundred years. The sea life has long been gone, replaced by base stations and cities.
After the explosion of black atoms, humans are dying faster and faster, and the birth rate is getting lower and lower. Five years on, half of humanity is left.
Go on, extinction is at hand......
In the face of survival, various countries urgently launched the "Space Wanderer" program, using the genetic database to find 100 children around the world and train them for three years of rigorous training. In the end, only five men and five women persevered to the end, and the others died in the harsh training.
They will be divided into five teams and use primitive nuclear energy to randomly send the vehicles carrying them to various corners of the universe.
The "Wanderers" are tasked with exploring the universe, finding advanced civilizations, and finding solutions to the Black Atom. But everyone knows that they have little hope of surviving in the vast universe, but these wanderers are hope, and they may be the last spark of humanity.
Yu Xing was one of the ten wanderers, he didn't know what happened to the other eight, only the girl named Qiao Jiaqing was still lying in the sleeping warehouse next to him.
For this kind of combination of a man and a woman, Yu Xing knew in his heart that this was the last task given to them by human beings - to reproduce human beings.
Yu Xing looked at the thin face in his sleep, and his thoughts went back to when he first entered the wanderer three years ago.
On an uninhabited island, a hundred children between the ages of twelve and fifteen were thrown here, and their job was to survive for ten days on the island, infested with poisonous insects and beasts, and lacking food. There are no rules of the game here, only life or death.
Because humanity is about to face far more cruelty than this, in the vast universe, wanderers have to face a completely unknown civilization. So the first thing a wanderer has to learn is how to survive in an unfamiliar environment.
"Hey, you thin man, stand up, I really don't understand why the gene pool chose a coward like you?" "Get up, fight with us, if you don't dare, hand over the star card, and we'll let you go, haha." "A couple of stout kids were punching and kicking a skinny teenager.
Yu Xing was only a fifteen-year-old student who had been brought here during a classroom lesson. He didn't even have time to say goodbye to his only relative, his sister Yu Yue. The rest of his relatives died in the Black Atom Catastrophe.
"You people are really shameless, what kind of ability is it to bully a child?" This immature voice will be the dawn of Yu Xing's life for many years to come.
"Where did the little girl come from, what are you doing?"
"Haha, he's not a child, he's fifteen, and he's the oldest of the wanderers. ”
"This kind of waste that can't even pass the first level, and going to space is also sending it to death, and he is wasting resources when he comes here. ”
Several children looked at the director of the voice and mocked.
"Well, this kid is fifteen. The little girl was stunned for a moment, and then she held her stomach and laughed.
"Hahaha"
"Have you laughed enough?" asked the "child" curled up on the ground with glaring eyes.
"Ahem, I've covered this "child", you guys stay cool. Qiao Jiaqing said with the style of the eldest sister.
A few children didn't expect a little girl to dare to talk to them like this, and one of them said angrily: "This kid is our target, don't you yellow-haired girl also want to give a star card?"
"Hmph, I don't know how to do it. Qiao Jiaqing jumped next to the person who spoke just now like a little cheetah, and when he didn't react, Qiao Jiaqing's legs were already wrapped around his neck, and the short blade that he took out of nowhere also hit his neck.
A shot is a killer move!
"Let go, leave the star card, and get out" The little girl had no longer the smile just now, and only shouted angrily with murderous intent. The short blade also left a bloody mark on the man's neck.
Where had a few children who had just been twelve or thirteen seen this kind of battle, they left Yu Xing, who was covered in soil, and fled here in a hurry.
Yu Xing struggled to get up, handed a medal in the shape of a five-pointed star to the girl and said, "This is my star card, for you, I don't belong here, I don't want to be a human hero, I don't want to explore the universe, I just want to go back to my sister and go to my school." ”
"Do you know how many people in this rover training camp are crowded and want to come in, but you are thinking about how to get out, I really don't understand you. The girl said helplessly.
"Forget it, Miss Ben is happy today, so I won't accept your star card, but you will have to be my little brother in the future, although you are older than me. The girl reverted to her strange appearance.
Yu Xing glanced at her, put away the star card, and walked into the distance without looking back.
"Hey, the little brother has to follow the big brother, can you have a little bit of the consciousness of the little brother!" the girl stomped her foot. Then he chased down Yu Xing's back.
Three years have passed, and there are now only ten wanderers left from the original hundred.
And in the past three years, humanity has not sat still, and the survivors have set up ice warehouses in their homes. After the wanderers depart, the humans will freeze themselves and enter a state of pause.
"Children, I know that this task is too cruel for you, and I also know that it is easier to die than to survive, and you may just want to spend the rest of your days quietly with your loved ones. ”
"But when you are dying, someone will always stand up, and you have the hope of humanity on your shoulders, and you are the last seed!"
"Your mission is to wander the universe, to find advanced civilizations, and to explore solutions to the black atom. After you are gone, the remaining humans will be frozen in ice, and we will wait for your return from deep sleep. ”
"The Cosmic Wanderer Project has officially begun!"
This is what Yu Xing said to an old man before he entered this boundless darkness, and it is also what Yu Xing will not forget, dare not forget, and cannot forget.
A tremor of the flying machine pulled Yu Xing's thoughts back from his memories. He looked out the window at the near darkness and the few bright lights in the distance, and he didn't know where to go, so he could only control the aircraft to fly towards the little starlight......