"You should be well aware that even if you find a suitable planetary belt, people will not be able to build a spaceship that can carry out that plan, let alone take everyone into space."

Looking at the old man, Yanagihara's voice carried a kind of calmness and sincerity, because she knew that what she said was a fact, a fact that no one could avoid.

This made the atmosphere at the table seem a little heavier.

Although Al didn't know what interstellar navigation was and what space was, she still roughly understood what Yanagihara was trying to say.

So, does all this make no sense?

Looking at the food on the plate in front of her, Al lowered her eyes slightly, she rarely felt that Yanagihara was a little cruel, so that she belittled other people's persistence for so many years to be worthless.

However, how could the old man not understand what Yanagihara said.

"Huh." After a moment, the gentle old man must have laughed again, and the wrinkles on his face stretched out, but they were more profound and obvious, as if the years had been harsh on him.

"Yes." The old man nodded lightly: "I understand what you said. ”

"But the problem that people are facing now is no longer the cold on this ice field."

So what are they facing?

The old man knew this, and looking at the old man's gradually sinking eyes, Yanagihara seemed to react.

"There are fewer and fewer resources on the ice sheets, and people simply can't exploit the deep resources, and they don't even know if there are deep resources."

The old man said, lowering his eyes and stirring up a cup of coffee on the table.

"People today have lost so much of their courage to explore, they no longer yearn for the sky, they don't yearn for the ocean, they don't even want anywhere other than a greenhouse. They know that sooner or later the resources will be exhausted and the greenhouses will decay, but most people still dare not choose to resist, but choose to wait for that day to come. ”

"That's the biggest problem people face right now, and no one wants to be that explorer anymore."

"However, human beings need explorers." Raising the coffee in his hand to his lips, the old man raised his head and looked at Yanagihara quietly.

"They are the cornerstone of the progress of civilization, they are the possibility of the continuation of the race, and they are the unknown pioneers of countless greatness."

"So, I want to be one of those explorers."

The old man took a sip of coffee slowly, his expression was leisurely, with a hint of flatness, as if he was just talking about an insignificant matter at this time.

It seems that he did not spend a full thirty years of his life doing a research that has not yielded results until now because of such a fluttering sentence.

Only the full head of white hair was silently recounting what he had gone through so far, and his determination to rest until death.

"I'm going to try to take the first step, maybe it won't make much sense, but it might be a direction, and it will tell people once again about the greatness of our civilization. It will point out a path that will lead to the end of the 'world', and it will connect the stars of the whole sky and turn them into a route for humanity. ”

"I'm going to prove to people that we're a great race, and I'm going to prove to people that we can't stop there, we have a long way to go."

At this point, the old man was silent, and he drank his coffee and began to enjoy his breakfast.

And Yanagihara finally understood what he meant.

What he wants to start is not a human evacuation plan at all, but an era of voyages called interstellar.

What he has to do is not to survive at all, but to conquer.

What a ridiculous idea, when human civilization is even difficult to sustain, there are still people thinking about how to make it reach the stars and carry out a magnificent evolution.

It's like a hungry beggar who is still thinking about how to conquer the world.

It's ridiculous, but it doesn't make people laugh.

Because behind the old man's calm tone, he had spent countless days and nights.

He is using his actions to find the path that people today no longer dare to imagine.

Does this make sense, thinking about Yanagihara's question, the old man put a fruit in his mouth.

Yes, if it could awaken the once fearless race, it would.

At that time, people will be able to proudly say the words of that great man.

I come, I see, I conquer.

This will not be an evacuation, but a voyage that begins for the sake of an expedition.

Once again, humanity will stand beneath the stars, looking up at the end of the universe.

It is undeniable that Aztod was a mild-mannered old man.

But it is also undeniable that he also has a heart that is still surging.

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After breakfast, the old man took Yanagihara and Al to the ecological area on the first floor again.

He was going to introduce their work to the two of them in the next ten days, that is, to take care of these flowers and plants.

"This is a grassy area, mainly planted with some herbaceous plants and low woody plants. There are rootless and pseudo-root areas, where some aquatic plants and parasitic plants are mainly cultivated. There is also a food section that you may be interested in, most of which are some annual and biennial plants, and some perennials. ”

"One of the things you need to pay attention to is the grass and food area. Since I used to take care of this place alone, it was more casual to categorize, so you better familiarize yourself with it later······"

In the aisle of the garden hall, the old man walked in front and familiarly told the two of them about the characteristics of each type of plant and the matters that needed attention.

Yanagihara followed behind him, not listening very attentively, but he could be regarded as listening to something.

Al, on the other hand, looked around, everything here was new to her, and when she learned that there was no danger, she emboldened to follow. Take a look here, smell there, and there is no staff at all.

Fortunately, the old man didn't care about this, and just smiled and led them on.

To be honest, he's quite happy because his life hasn't been so lively in a long time.

This is a lonely and vast ice field, and everyone's encounter is a kind of luck.

He'd always thought so, but sadly, he wasn't usually a very lucky man.