The holographic video ended with a powerful shot by the national football player, equalizing the score at the last moment, the commentator held the microphone and jumped on the table and danced, the audience went up the mountain and shouted the tsunami, Wan Kai also followed the dance and the tsunami, he remembered this game all his life, the closest to qualifying in the past hundred years, but unfortunately lost in the battle of life and death with Bhutan.

The holographic projection is turned off, the grandstand stadium is all dissipated, a big drama ends, Cassini stands in the hall quiet, the shocking excitement is followed by the endless indifferent emptiness, the chef lies on the sofa and thinks about life, he silently thinks about whether he can see the national football team successfully qualify in his lifetime.

Scotland is independent, and the national football team is still far away.

It would be nice to have a cigarette at this time.

"Big White?"

"I'm here."

"What do you say a lonely life looks like?" Chef asked.

"Excuse me?" Dabai didn't understand what this meant.

"A lonely life is like a ball." The chef asked himself, "Roll wherever you want." ”

He patted his ass and got up, at this time he was left alone in the hall, Jiang Zi had already gone down to overhaul the Tiefu Tu, I don't know if it was done, Wan Kai went to the infirmary to take a look, and set the amount of the medicine that was given by him, the latter was motionless, and it was rare to sleep so honestly.

The infirmary is next to the hall, on the side is the director's office, opposite is the control room and the archives, and then the front is the warehouse and kitchen, this corridor is the administrative and functional area, the builders of Cassini station probably think that the administrative function of the scientific research station is the most insignificant, so the office and the warehouse kitchen are crowded together, the stationmaster and the cook work together, Wan Kai can still see the full pile of compressed cylinders when he passes by the warehouse, I don't know what it contains.

Cassini Station is always very messy, different people come and go, with different research tasks and tools, and they always leave something in the station when they leave, Wan Kai is one of the team members who has stayed at Cassini Station for the longest time, for Chef, Cassini Station is more like a hostel built on the edge of the world, everyone is passers-by, you watch them come in through the airlock, carrying heavy boxes in their hands, and watch them go out of the airlock, board the ship and never come back.

Sometimes Wankai thinks Cassini Station is a wonderful place, this is Titan, what is Titan? It is the sixth moon of Saturn, and the closest distance from the Earth is 1.2 billion kilometers, and it takes 110 years for an ordinary jetliner to fly such a long distance, and ordinary people will never cross such a long distance in their lifetime, and outside the orbit of Mars, this is the only place where there are human lights.

In the long deep space, this little bit of light is too small, but you can't ignore its existence, Cassini Station is like a small lighthouse in the boundless stormy waves, if there is no lighthouse, then the dark ocean is just a dark ocean, but the appearance of this lighthouse makes everything different, it only has a little light, but it can also make the world appear bright.

It is a symbol.

All the cultural history and technology of mankind are condensed in this symbol.

If Titan and even the entire solar system are just a system of natural evolution and increasing entropy, then the appearance of low-entropy bodies makes this monotonous world suddenly colorful and incredible, even if it is just a flint arrow that has been roughly polished by apes.

Cassini Station is so.

The same goes for black balls.

Unfortunately, Cassini is on the verge of abandonment, and technically it is a failed project - without the recent discovery of black balls and heartbeats, Cassini has been in a state of making ends meet, investing large sums of money and failing to get enough valuable results.

If Cassini Station is really abandoned, where will he Wankai go? The chef can choose to retire and go home to enjoy the blessings, anyway, he can choose to enter the administrative department on the earth to get a position, with his qualifications and experience, it is more than enough to be the director of the office in the deep space exploration department, and in the rest of his life, he can send more cooks out of the earth.

There is no doubt that this universe needs cooks.

As long as humans still have mouths.

"I think I can write a book when I retire, and it's called Titan on the Tip of the Tongue." Wan Kai said, "Describe my experience cooking at Titan. ”

"Then the experience is really lackluster." Dabai said.

"How can it be lackluster?" The chef shook his head, "At first glance, you just don't understand the essence of our traditional Chinese food culture, for example, if I want to write a fried egg, then I can write like this: 'In the early morning, it was just dawn, and the chef Wan Kai, who lived in Room 213 of the living area on the second floor of Cassini Station, had already gotten up and beckoned Dabai into the kitchen together, the fifty-meter corridor was already a short distance for the low-gravity Titan, when the sun rose, he pushed open the kitchen door and came to the clean operation room, today, the chef wanted to make a classic Chinese dish, Try your luck and see if there are any eggs left in the cupboard'. ”

Wan Kai took the elevator downstairs, the brightness of the lights in the corridor slowly increased, there was no sound in the surroundings, it seemed that Jiang Zi had gone to sleep.

Wan Kai pushed open the isolation security door in the corridor, there are two isolation doors in the corridor on the first floor, dividing the entire corridor on the first floor into three sections, usually the isolation door is open, if there is a fire or pressure loss accident, then the isolation door will be quickly locked and closed, in order to prevent the spread to the entire Cassini station.

The P3 laboratory is at the end of the corridor, and it has two isolation doors of its own, and at this moment the black ball is placed in the laboratory, and after the accident in Lou Qi, Jiang Zi closed the laboratory and no longer allowed anyone to enter without permission.

Chef stood outside the door and glanced inside, the P3 lab was black, he could see the glove box, but he couldn't see the black ball.

"Is that ball still there?"

"Yes." Dabai replied.

"But I can't see it."

"Because it barely reflects light." "If I turn up the lights a little bit, then you can see it." ”

As he spoke, the lights in the P3 laboratory slowly brightened, and Wan Kai really saw the pitch-black sphere in the box, he nodded, and motioned for Dabai to turn off the lights.

"There's a question I want to ask you."

"You say."

"What do you think when you look at this black ball alone?" Wan Kai asked, "Do you think it's weird?" ”

Dabai was silent for a few seconds.

"Unfortunately I can't answer that question, I don't think anything about it because I can't generate or understand human emotions."

"Can AI be afraid? Will it be alarmed? ”

"No, it won't."

Wan Kai remembered that during the personnel rotation of Cassini Station in the past, the people who left the station had already left, and the people who came had not yet arrived, so for a long time, the entire Cassini Station was empty, only Dabai was here, this artificial intelligence would conduct regular self-inspections and send back reports on time, in that case, alone on a planet hundreds of millions of kilometers away, what is Dabai doing every day?