…………………… 326. A Life's Mission........................

Five months have passed unconsciously in the lonely interstellar fleet.

During this time, Qiu Yu could no longer remember how many unknown star fields the fleet had sailed through, and even their fleet had passed through a small galaxy without humans.

This galaxy has only about one thousandth the size of the Pandora Galaxy, and the Life Detector has found no life, but Professor Leon has discovered water on one of the planets, and has found some elements necessary to produce life in the water.

He concluded that if no outsiders had disturbed the planet, life would have been born here in 2.3 billion years.

Regarding his inference, Qiu Ci and Xiao Chunshui were silent, neither of them was an expert in studying the origin of life, but they were just accompanying the old man to rest on this planet that seemed to be able to give birth to life.

After that, it was an aimless interstellar voyage, and the eternal clock in Professor Leon's hand was said to have been made by the Great Elder Chu Madman.

There were twelve in total, and Professor Leon's ancestors only brought out five of them, four of which were destroyed in the interstellar explosion, and three of which remained on the Senator at that time.

The Eternal Clock cannot be copied, because its principle and material are all from the Great Elder Chu Madman. It was a combination of Taoism and technology, and even if Utopia was full of talents, it would not be able to make another eternal clock.

Qiu Ci has tried the role of the eternal clock, and it is indeed not at the level that technology can reach. As long as the Eternal Clock is activated, the stars that the fleet passes through will automatically be copied into the body by the Eternal Clock, which is exactly the same, but the form is reduced by hundreds of millions of times.

This is not something that technology can achieve.

If it is used for interstellar warfare, with an eternal clock in hand, who can be the enemy?

Delayed on the planet for about a week, the Black Goat fleet again. Professor Leon carried three boxes of copied notes. Qiu Ji glanced at it and knew that it was a codex left by his ancestors.

There was one of them, which Professor Leon read several times almost every day. The contents are the notes left by the survivors of the first generation of Utopia Freedom Orders. It recorded the shape and general direction of the nebula they were drifting through, and Professor Leon wanted to take advantage of this clue. Rediscover the interstellar routes they came to the three galaxies.

This is a trajectory pursued in the opposite direction, and any small difference can lead to a difference of thousands or even thousands of miles in the entire course. If you're lucky enough to find a mistake, you can take a detour back. Although it will take a lot of time and resources.

If you never find it, you will get farther and farther away from your goal, and then disappear into the vast universe.

Even with an eternal clock in hand, it is a pity that the notes are written down. It is not an objective image material, and it is inevitable that there will be major or minor differences in description. These differences led to the search for utopian freedom. It's almost impossible.

One more point. The universe is not eternal, it is slowly changing at a rate that cannot be observed by humans. Therefore, even if there is no error in the records of the predecessors, the eternal clock is still stuck in the records of thousands of years ago, and the universe in reality is no longer the original universe.

With Professor Leon's wisdom, it is impossible not to know these things, but he still has no hesitation to return to the kingdom of his dreams. It's not just his obsession. It is the obsession of all the descendants of the utopian people who have been left behind for generations. In the face of homesickness that has accumulated for thousands of years, reason and wisdom are as fragile as a thin layer of paper.

Two months later, the Black Goat fleet returned to the small planet where they had stayed before.

The voyage didn't go well, this was the fourth time they had returned to the same place, and if it weren't for the Eternal Clock to help the fleet find exactly where they were, maybe they would have been lost in the unknown stars.

Professor Leon put his glasses on the shelf and carefully read the notes in his notebook, trying to find or deduce the correct trajectory of his predecessors.

Qiu Ci poured a glass of water for him, did not disturb his thoughts, and stood aside with Xiao Chunshui and waited quietly.

Qiu Ji looked at Professor Leon who was focused, his dark brown eyes gradually becoming cloudy, and the wrinkles on his face became deeper and deeper. She wanted to persuade him that it was the alliance that gave birth to him and raised him, but in fact, the alliance was his home. But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.

Everyone has their own beliefs, to a lesser or more severe degree. Outsiders can disagree, but they are not qualified to question, and she is his student and his intended successor, especially not qualified to doubt everything he does, whether it is right or wrong.

After a long time, Professor Leon raised his head from his notes, looked at Qiu Ci and Xiao Chunshui beside him, and said slowly, "Do you know why I haven't started a family?" ”

Qiu Ji shook his head honestly.

Xiao Chunshui thought for a while, looked at him deeply, and said, "Is it because of you that you want to end this road of finding relatives?" ”

"The way to find your family?"

Professor Leon muttered a repeat in his mouth, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It is more accurate to say that it is not so much a road to find relatives, or a road of no return." ”

He sighed, "I know what you're thinking, do you think I'm doing useless work?" The utopian Liberty Collar has been gone for thousands of years, and where else can it be found? ”

He smiled wryly: "I didn't know that the chance of finding the Utopia Freedom Collar was less than 1 in 10 million, but I couldn't help but go." From the day we were born, we utopian descendants have been burdened with a mission, that is, to find our homeland. The whole value of our existence is to work hard to return to our homeland, even if it is a dream that cannot be realized. ”

Qiu Ci saw that he was a little excited, so he hurriedly took advantage of his breathlessness to feed him medicine, and let him drink two sips of water to calm down his emotions.

Professor Leon paused and continued: "Ever since I was sensible, I have known that this is a point of no return, and the so-called mission is a boulder that oppresses the descendants of Utopia. Many times I would feel out of breath, and whenever I wanted to give up, my father would appear in my dreams, and he would harshly accuse me of betraying the expectations of my ancestors and forgetting the vows I had made before he died......"

Qiu Ci and Xiao Chunshui were silent, no one would know that Professor Leon, who was famous all over the world, turned out to be just a breathless person who was oppressed by a sense of mission.

"So I don't dare to start a family, I am afraid that my sons, my grandchildren, and my descendants will have to bear the same fate as me in every generation. I couldn't resist my father's expectations of me, and I was afraid that before I died, I would ask my children to pursue this point of no return. It's an invisible shackle that has been passed down from generation to generation, you ...... Got it? ”

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Professor Leon babbled for a long time, and finally fell asleep tired. Qiu Ci and Xiao Chunshui gently closed the door, and then sat side by side in front of the observation window of the commercial ship.

Outside the window, the galaxy is brilliant, and the surroundings are silent.

"You say, can we find utopia?" For a long time, Qiu Ci looked at the twinkling stars in the dark blue sky and said. seems to be asking Xiao Chunshui, and seems to be talking to himself.

Xiao Chunshui smiled and said softly: "I don't know why, I have a hunch that we will definitely be able to reach Utopia on this voyage." ”

"Huh?" Qiu Ji turned his head and looked at him in a little surprise.

His eyes reflected the starlight of the entire sky, flickering with a little bit of light, and his eyes were calm and gentle.

Such a gaze made Qiu Ci slightly stunned, she hadn't seen Xiao Chunshui's eyes for a long time. From the moment his identity was revealed, there seemed to be a shadow in his eyes, and she knew that there was pain hidden under the shadow. As a result, she never dared to look at his eyes.

"Why do you think so?" Qiu Ci looked away slightly and asked in a low voice.

Xiao Chunshui smiled slightly and said, "Because you're here?" ”

Qiu Ji looked up and glared at him in confusion.

"Think about it, as long as you're there, what hasn't been successful?" Xiao Chunshui laughed.

"You're superstitious about me?" Qiu Ci couldn't smile bitterly.

"That's not right." Xiao Chunshui shook her head firmly, her right hand gently covered her left hand, and said slowly: "It's just that I think that where you are, there are utopias everywhere." ”

Qiu Ci withdrew his hand and said indignantly: "Nonsense." ”

Xiao Chunshui held her hand again, looked into her eyes, and said seriously: "I'm not talking nonsense, I think, maybe Professor Leon thinks the same way." ”

Qiu Ci was just about to answer, when a shout suddenly came from his mind: "Tut-tut, the flesh is numb to me, girl, d, why didn't you find out that this kid actually had such a duplicitous ability?" Ben-sama underestimated him. ”

His sudden voice perfectly ruined all the atmosphere, and Qiu Zi blurted out angrily: "Aren't you pretending to be dead?" What are you doing crawling out again? ”

Ah Pu has indeed not spoken for a long time, and Qiu Ci has almost forgotten him for a long time, and he has not taken the initiative to speak out since the beginning of the voyage.

"What a conscienceless girl, I've been trying to repair the severely damaged part of the memory chip, maybe it will help you find clues to utopia......"

Qiu Ci interrupted: "Don't you want to find utopia? ”

Ah Choked for a moment, and said hatefully: "Okay, Uncle Ben also wants to take a look at the utopian free collar created by the master, and by the way, see if one or two of those bastards survived." However, that's not the point. ”

Qiu Zi sighed and asked the point: "Then have you fixed it?" Did you find a clue? ”

Ah Pu choked again, and only after a while did he say weakly: "No." ”

"Then why don't you continue to honestly repair the memory chip and run out for what?"

Ah Bao scolded for having no conscience: "If I hadn't sensed the enemy, I wouldn't have been interested in listening to your meaty words." ”

"Enemies?" Qiu Ci caught the point of Ah Gou's words for a moment.

"Yes, the enemy has appeared." Ah Gui smiled: "Maybe the clue has also appeared." ”

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