Volume 1 Beyond the Stars Chapter 4 Set Sail

The starry sky is deep and starry.

This is beyond the Kuiper Belt, and the shining point of light in the distance is the star known as the sun that gave birth to human civilization. From here, the sun does not seem to have changed, it is still the same shining star, but the humans who once illuminated it know that the star that gave birth to and reproduces human beings is going to destroy her "masterpiece of life" with their own hands.

Ships, starships, superships, the largest starships ever built by mankind, and three of them in one pull! At this time, three huge starships floated in the starry sky beyond the Kuiper Belt, and their names were spelled together in different color liveries: the Star of America, the Star of Europe, and the Star of Russia.

Three behemoths float silently in space, with no lights, no sound, black like three colorful football balls abandoned in space. On a space scale, these three starships look average, but on a human scale, they are at least 150 kilometers long and 100 kilometers wide, which is larger than any human city! Inside the starship, the lights are dim, and as far as the eye can see, you can only see lengthy corridors, densely packed like ant nests, and the corridors are full of rows of metal drawers, each of which contains a human being in a state of cryonism.

Ten years ago, when humans stepped on the starship, they were told that they needed to cryo-hibernate, and only in this way could all humans be loaded into three starships at once, only in this way could human beings maintain their age and physical function when they arrived at their destination, and only in this way could they cross the distance of 137.842 light years in this vast space without eating or drinking.

Someone must ask, who will pilot the starship when everyone is dormant? Of course, it is autopilot! But it is not exactly, it is impossible to accept that the future and destiny of all mankind are completely handed over to the starship's main control optical brain, after all, no matter how high the intelligence is, it is just a program, and under the trade-off, human beings use virtual reality to realize the control of the entire starship.

To put it simply, although the human body must be frozen and dormant, the mind does not need it, not only is it not needed, but too long cryodormancy will cause great damage to the human mind and spirit, and at least part of the memory will be lost, and the thinking will dissipate and become a vegetative person. The story of being frozen in ice for thousands of years and resurrected is simply nonsense, and it is also a valuable experience that mankind has gained from space exploration in the past. In order to solve this problem, human beings have developed virtual reality technology, that is, before entering cryodormancy, the human mind is guided into a virtual space established by the light brain, just like a virtual game, the mind controls a virtual body to carry out activities, so as to avoid the above problems. Starship pilots, like everyone else, live in a virtual space, where they can command the ship to control the entire ship. Unless the unexpected happens, the dormant body is revived and the mind returns to the body to solve the problem.

Three interstellar giants loaded with everything human beings floated silently, waiting, waiting for a certain moment.

Eurostar, Europa City, this is the virtual space of Eurostar. The city is so big that it can accommodate more than 600 million people, so big that everyone can have their own shelter, and it is so big that all kinds of living facilities are available. The city is also extremely small, as it is only a program that exists within a super-lightbrain host.

Ten years ago, during the half-month pedal period, the vast majority of people at that time chose the hope of life, responded to the "escape operation" of the Human Alliance and boarded the starship, and now they are "living" in this virtual Europa City.

Of course, there are still a very small number of people who choose to stay, and those who choose to stay are those who are fanatical believers in the "Star Shifting God Cult". Needless to say, the reason why the old man stayed, the fanatical believers stayed because they still believed that they would be saved by the "Star Shifting God". But what they didn't know was that Pope Quan Xiuhong, the "Star Shifting God Sect", disguised himself as a starship at the first time. The remaining fanatics, who found their Pope gone, were in a state of confusion, and finally after a heated discussion, they agreed that their Pope had been summoned by the "Star Shifter" and would soon bring an "oracle". Only a handful of people thought of the simplest, most likely correct answer, and then they got in touch with the Alliance Search Team and seized the last chance.

Time, December 31, 1122.

After breakfast, Zhang Wangxi left his new home and walked towards the library. Since the day they left Mars and stepped into the starship, the family has been living in Europa City. There's nothing you have to do here, there's nothing you can't do, it's all up to personal preference, the older ones like to play chess, play cards, twist Yangge, dance square dances, and then fishing, raising flowers, and teasing cats and dogs; Since people left Mars alone, the role of money has completely disappeared, the three starships, the three virtual cities all do not need money, and there is no concept of money, maybe only on the other side of the starry sky will there be such a thing as money again. If you are tired of this kind of life, there is a way, just choose to sleep as deep as your body, but you still have to wake up for a while every few months, and few people do this.

Zhang Wangxi's hobbies are different from ordinary people, he doesn't like games very much, and spends most of his time in the alliance library except for going home to eat and chat with his family, reading the vast ancient books with great interest. A few years later, he shifted his goal to those difficult and difficult ancient Chinese books, and collected all the Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures and subsets of scriptures and histories, anyway, there was time. As one of the few pure descendants of China in this world, he has a strong sense of identity with the content of these books, and at the same time, he has long suspected that the so-called "Star Shifting God" should have anything to do with ancient China, and wants to find some clues from these books, of course, all this is in vain, but the things in those books have been learned. In addition to being disappointed, Zhang Wangxi will also play games on the Internet, but he can't let go of the "doubt" in his heart and still spends most of his time in the library.

Zhang Wangxi looked up at the tall and quaint library in front of him, and was just about to enter the door, when without warning, a voice came from the air: "Attention all residents, please pay attention to all residents! Broadcast an important notice below, broadcast an important notice below! Please all personnel go out of the house before 20:00, and the speaker of the alliance will announce important matters." ”

The sudden sound made Zhang Wangxi smart, and then he heard the content of the broadcast clearly, and looked up, there was nothing unusual in the virtual starry sky, but the voice was still repeating over and over again, and he raised his hand to look at the time, there were still ten minutes before 20:00. Usually all kinds of announcements, notices are only transmitted through the individual terminal, and it is the first time to notify in this way, it seems that something big must have happened, and Zhang Wangxi faintly guessed something, so he turned around and sat on the steps in front of the library and raised his head to wait for the important matters of the speaker.

As the notices were repeated, the deserted streets became lively in an instant, and crowds filled the streets, squares, and parks. Although there were many people, they were not noisy, except for the sound of footsteps and the friction of clothes, few people spoke, and they all looked up at the sky.

A few minutes passed in the blink of an eye, the repeated announcements came to an abrupt end, and all the street lights went out without warning. In the air, the virtual canopy suddenly changed from the perspective of Mars to the perspective of a starship, and a large and bright star occupied the center of the starry sky, which was the sun!

Suddenly, the sun slowly grew larger, rounder, brighter, first to the size of a light bulb, then to the size of a bowl, then to a football, then to a tabletop, and finally to a white canopy, and everyone was in front of their eyes to become a piece of light, and the whole city was as fine as a pure white paradise. Everyone's eyes narrowed due to the bright light, but no one closed them completely, and maybe this was the last look.

The light that shone through the sky lasted only about a minute before fading rapidly, slowly darkening and becoming smaller, and when people's eyesight returned to normal, they found that only a red whirring light was left in the air. Everyone was silent, and gradually some people sobbed, some people wailed, although the tears were virtual, but the mood expressed was extremely sincere, no one said a word, but the sad emotions filled the entire virtual space. It's time to come or it's coming!

In the middle of the night, the scene in the air changed, and the projection of a gray-haired old man appeared in the air. With the support of virtual technology, everyone sees his face.

After a long silence, the gray-haired old man finally spoke: "Fellow citizens, the picture just now is the real-time picture captured by the starship, just more than four hours ago, our sun had a strong eruption predicted by the astronomers of the Alliance, this eruption not only destroyed all the planets in the solar system, but also slowly turned into a red giant star, which can no longer support the reproduction of creatures, let alone the survival of our human beings." It can be said that this sun, which is the mother of our humans, she died. Speaking of this, the gray-haired old man raised his head slightly, gently supported the frame with his right hand, and slowly took a deep breath.

"Each of us has parents and relatives, and they will one day leave us, grief is inevitable, and life has to go on. Our Mother Sun has cared for us for millions of years, and today she is gone, thankfully to the point where we have grown to the point where we can live independently. Here, at the edge of this solar system, we have waited for ten years, not only for that slightest fluke, but also to witness her last moments. ”

Speaking of this, the old man paused, and then said: "I, the First Speaker of the Human Alliance, Peter Rove, solemnly promise on behalf of the Alliance Council: the Human Alliance Council and the starship piloting and maintenance personnel will do their best to lead everyone across the starry sky to that new breeding place. The dead are gone, the living are like this, although we have lost our home planet, we still have relatives and friends. On the road ahead, our entire race must support each other, work together, and become one, so as to make all preparations for the construction of a new homeland in the future!"

Peter Rove looked up and looked around, and everyone saw something called "tenacity" in his eyes.

In the middle of the night, Pyotr Rove said in a loud voice: "Now, I announce: the Star of the Americas, the Star of Europe, and the Star of Russia will leave immediately!"

Pitch black space, floating starships.

Suddenly, the hulls of the three starships lit up one by one, and the tail antimatter engines turned from black to red, and then spit out a long tail flame, and the huge starships were driven by the strong push of several engines, slowly accelerating, accelerating forward, and heading towards the sea of stars.