Volume 1 Beyond the Stars Chapter 2 Ignition

Zhang Wangxi returned to his room, felt that the meal just now was a little salty, poured himself a glass of water, and sat at the table to recall the conversation with his grandfather just now. In fact, he didn't agree with his grandfather's explanation of the investigation report just now, first of all, the report was published when human beings had just been sent to Mars, people were still in a panic, and the possibility of artificial fraud was extremely low; moreover, these hundreds of people lived almost all over the world before coming to Mars, and there were all races, and the age span was also very large, and there was basically no possibility of collusion; finally, and most importantly, their descriptions were surprisingly consistent, and all the interviewees said that the voice they heard was in Chinese, although most of them did not understand Huaxia, but they all understood the meaning of the sentence。 This conclusion came after a multilingual test was conducted on those who did not know the Chinese language.

'Star Shifting God', Huaxia language, could it be that he is also a Chinese person? No, it should be a Chinese god. No, it is also possible that there were the most people in the world who spoke Huaxia at that time. Zhang Wangxi thought of all kinds of possibilities and rejected them one by one, the problem is that there are too few materials to refer to, and there is no way to judge.

Zhang Wangxi shook his head and said to himself: "Forget it, I don't want to, I will go to the library in the future to pay more attention to this information and see if I can find the answer." I really don't understand that no one paid attention to this report at that time, it has been more than a thousand years, and it is too difficult to verify it. ”

Looking at the time, it was not yet 9 o'clock, Zhang Wangxi opened the smart terminal on the table, put on a virtual helmet, and logged in to the most popular virtual game "Interstellar Afterlife". Zhang Wangxi doesn't have much interest in games, he just passes the time when he is bored, but his father Zhang Guangyu is very obsessed with games.

This is not to say that Zhang Guangyu does not want to go out to work to support his family, it is entirely because the current human technology has developed to a very high level, to put it simply, now except for some ancient traditional handicrafts, other hands-on work has been replaced by robots, and a considerable part of the work that uses the brain has been replaced by artificial intelligence. In this era, finding a job is equivalent to entering the affluent class, which currently accounts for only about 15% of the total population. So how do other people live, of course, it is supported by the government, and in this era, even if a person does not have any work, he can live a relatively comfortable life, with a lot of food, clothing, houses, and cars, but he can't be as luxurious as the wealthy class. Zhang Guangyu participated in the league's vocational test at the age of 30 and passed all the assessments, but there were still too many people who passed in the end, and he failed to get a job because he was not selected in the final lottery. Some people will say: Then I want to wait for the next year to take the test, I'm sorry, this kind of opportunity is once in a lifetime.

Soon after, Zhang Guangyu married Feng Xuemei under the arrangement of his father, and later had Zhang Wangxi. Fourteen years ago, when Zhang Wangxi was two years old, Zhang Guangyu and his wife Feng Xuemei wanted to give Zhang Wangxi another brother or sister, but they didn't know that a ban from the alliance stopped their plan to create a villain again. The reasons given by the alliance are quite sufficient and reasonable, and children under the age of fifteen are completely unsuitable for long-term interstellar voyages due to the fact that their bodies have not yet developed under the existing technical conditions, and after the calculations of the alliance scientists, ' The voyage time of the escape plan is about two hundred years, and considering that it will take some time to rebuild the home after arriving at the destination, even if no special circumstances occur, it is also not suitable for raising children, and the last reason is that the carrying capacity of the starship is limited, and one less person can bring more equipment, which is more important in the future without affecting the reproduction of human beings.

In this way, Zhang Wangxi's younger brother or sister is gone, so Zhang Zhiyuan, like many young people, put his excess energy into the game world. After Zhang Wangxi became sensible, Feng Xuemei also joined the game and flew with her lover under the strong pull of her husband, but she didn't even see anyone at dinner today.

It's winter, and it's cold.

Zhang Wangxi was not in the mood to read today, so he left the library early to jog in the suburbs, and stopped until he was slightly sweating, and he felt very warm. Zhang Wangxi looked at the time, it was only four o'clock, and there were still more than three hours before sunrise, go home, it's early, but what can you do if you don't go home?

I looked up at the sky, but I saw that the night sky was vast, the stars were like chess, the light and dark were treacherous, looming for no reason, a waning moon hung obliquely, two lead clouds were difficult to hide, the sky was clear, the wind was slightly cold, and the silver was misty for hundreds of millions of years.

Suddenly remembered the "Astrological Divination Collection" I watched a few days ago, and Zhang Wangxi had the idea of observing the sky under the stars. After stepping around in all directions, he found a small hill not far away, and felt that the view from it must be good, so he walked towards the hill.

At the top of the mountain, Zhang Wangxi found a big stone leaning on the leeward and sat down, raised his head to carefully identify the stars in the sky, and opened the "smart terminal" on his wrist to find out the star map of the corresponding season.

"The positions of these stars and constellations are a little different from what I saw in that ancient book. Zhang Wangxi muttered to himself while opening the copied electronic version of the ancient books, and it was really the same as what he thought, but it was also right to think about it, the ghost knew that these ancient books were thousands of years ago, and if the starry sky thousands of years ago was exactly the same as now, there would be ghosts.

"What kind of astrological divination, I wasted a few days of time in vain! This is the most basic premise is different, what else can be divined from this?" Zhang Wangxi complained to the sky, and easily deleted the "Astrological Divination Collection" in the "smart terminal": "Waste my memory!"

Sit down again, look and scratch your head, thinking about how to spend the next time, the stars don't need to be studied, maybe you can take a look at the "new sun" of mankind in the future, that is, the star of the galaxy where the planet "Earth II" is located at the target of the "escape plan".

"Hmm...... I've seen it before, which constellation is ......" Zhang Wangxi muttered to himself while looking in the starry sky: "Ursa Minor, the third star under the left front paw, the fifth magnitude of the apparent star...... It's her, and if nothing else, humanity will survive and reproduce under her protection in the future. Zhang Wangxi stared at the tiny bright spot and muttered: "It's so far away, 137.842 light years, it will take nearly 138 years for light to get there, fortunately, human beings have invented antimatter thrusters, fortunately, super giant starships can be built now, fortunately, starships can reach 81% of the speed of sublight, counting acceleration and deceleration, you can get there in about 200 years, what is the limit time of cryo-dormancy?, oh, the official announcement of the Human Alliance says 'theoretically up to 256 years', fortunately, fortunately, fortunately ......"

Looking up at the starry sky, Zhang Wangxi's thoughts drifted farther and farther, and he couldn't help but think about the fate of mankind. Human beings are unlucky, first abandoned to Mars by something they don't know what they don't know, and then they are injured by "abnormal solar radiation", and even the last sun, which has nurtured mankind for millions of years, will turn into death and harvest all life in this star system. Human beings are lucky, the thing that doesn't know what it is "took" the earth but did not exterminate human beings, with his (she, it, they, they, them) ability to move stars and change fights, human beings may not even be ants in his (she, it, they, them, them) eyes, if you need the planet of the earth, just take it away, why put so many people on Mars, and even transform Mars into a suitable human life? In this way, most of the people who disappeared were not killed, but were taken by him (she, it, them, them, them) to some corner of the universe, and are now living happily in the sunshine without radiation. And we, those of us who live on Mars, also have the ability to escape from stellar eruptions.

"Gollum, Gollum", suddenly, a sound interrupted Zhang Wangxi's thinking, and when he turned back to the monkey, he felt that he was hungry.

Letting go of the emotion, Zhang Wangxi shrank his left arm and removed the backpack strap on one side, and then flicked off the backpack behind him with his right shoulder, and took out bread and ham sausage from it, thinking about coaxing his stomach first, and in a moment, a cold wind poured into his neck, and the cold hit his entire upper body from top to bottom.

Zhang Wangxi shuddered, sneezed a few times, and shouted: "It's so cold!" pinched the food in his hand, and sure enough, it was cold and hard, making people unbearable

"It's better to go home first. Zhang Wangxi got up while muttering to himself, but the cold wind seemed to have found a breakthrough when he stood up, and immediately got through the seam of his clothes, and his whole body was cold.

"Oh, I'm going!Why is it so cold!" Zhang Wangxi involuntarily hugged his shoulders, but he forgot that he was sweating from running just now, and it was strange that he was not cold when he stopped and was blown by the cold wind.

"Just make a pile of fire and bake it, just go home for fear that you will not catch a cold, you can also roast bread, ham and sausage and then eat, well, kill two birds with one stone." Zhang Wangxi immediately thought of a countermeasure.

Zhang Wangxi thought of it, it was easy to find the dead grass and leaves in this winter, bend down and pull a circle to get a bunch, and then find some dead branches to put on it, and then find them and light them.

Zhang Wangxi slapped his head and secretly scolded himself for being stupid: I don't smoke either, this is not camping, where did I get a lighter? This is still a fart fire! For a while, all kinds of ways to make fire went through in his head, and it was unrealistic to drill wood for fire, concentrate light, and flint for fire, so it was better to go home and be realistic.

Carrying his backpack, Zhang Wangxi glanced at the firewood that had been piled up just now, and there were words in his mouth: "How good it would be if there was a magician at this time, you could light the fire with a snap of your fingers." As he spoke, he snapped his fingers as he learned from the magicians in the film and television dramas.

"Smack!", a small flame appeared on Zhang Wangxi's finger.