As the convoy drifted away along the middle of the cornfield, Murphy couldn't help but look back again until the figure of Oliver Sr. completely disappeared at the end of the road.

From now on, they can only keep moving forward, and there is no way back.

Two days later, 48 anti-gravity shuttles, piloted by 100 astronauts, lifted off one after another and entered geosynchronous orbit to rendezvous with the "Eternal Night" spacecraft, which had been completely completed in synchronous orbit.

The role of these shuttles is not only to send astronauts into space, but also to carry out landing missions in future planetary exploration.

In order to adapt to different planetary environments, the surface of the shuttle has a certain streamlined structure, which can fly normally in the atmospheric environment at a maximum of ten standard atmospheres, and can also be used as a submersible to sneak in the deep sea, low-temperature methane lakes and other environments.

Of course, such a sneak can only last one to two hours, after all, the structural strength of the shuttle is relatively limited.

For the next month or so, the Eternal Night spacecraft did not set sail directly, but underwent an overhaul of the entire ship and various supplies and supplies.

With a total mass of more than 30,000 tons, the overall structure of the Eternal Night is equivalent to two rings strung together with a cylindrical Hall thruster.

The large ring is located at the front of the spacecraft and has twelve main cabins, consisting of a command module, four plant modules, a hibernation module, a computer module, a living module, an entertainment module, an astronomical observation module, an electromechanical module, and a communication module.

The command module, as the name suggests, is the command and control core of the Eternal Night spacecraft, and all operational instructions for this ship will be issued by the command module.

Pang Xuelin's station is in the command cabin, which has different units such as the captain's room, the steering room, the radio room, the confidential room, the navigation room, the weapon control room, etc., each unit is responsible for one or two astronauts, of course, most of the operations are completed independently by artificial intelligence, and the astronaut's task is mainly responsible for monitoring the operation of artificial intelligence.

The plant module is the core of the entire spacecraft's life cycle system, on the one hand, it provides Pang Xuelin with fresh vegetables and fruits and other food, and on the other hand, it adjusts the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the spacecraft.

Four plant pods, each of which requires four people to take care of it.

This is the core department of the ship, and every once in a while the overall environment of the plant pod needs to be fine-tuned.

The hibernation chamber is the place where the crew hibernates.

Distant interstellar exploration takes a long time, but the ship can carry limited supplies, so in order to allow the ship to operate for a longer period of time, it is best to put the crew into hibernation during the voyage.

The computer bay, which houses an array of exascale supercomputers and artificial intelligence towers, will not only control the operation of the ship's various nodes and departments, but also provide decision support for future exploration activities.

Needless to say, the living cabin is the place where the crew members live their daily lives.

There are more than 100 rooms in the living cabin, which means that each crew member has his own independent living space. In addition, there is a small infirmary and operating room in the living cabin, equipped with four medical personnel, two multi-functional treatment instruments and a large number of medical supplies, which is enough to ensure the health and life safety of the crew.

The entertainment cabin has a restaurant, bar, cinema, gym, swimming pool, game room and other life and entertainment facilities, which can provide a variety of spices for the boring space life of the crew.

As for the electromechanical cabin and the communication cabin, not to mention, it can be regarded as one of the important core departments in the spacecraft.

In particular, the communication module, in addition to being equipped with traditional deep-space radio communication facilities, also has the ability to use gravitational waves to communicate to the earth through wormholes, but the current means of gravitational wave communication are still quite primitive, and the transmission rate is net 1 percent of radio communication.

As for the last astronomical observation module, a large radio telescope and optical telescope are installed on the outer side of this module.

It can provide various supports for the spacecraft's deep space exploration.

The ship's power compartment is located in a small ring at the rear of the spacecraft, and six molten salt nuclear reactors form a ring power compartment, which is connected to the Hall thruster in the center of the shaft.

The shell of the molten salt nuclear reactor is made of high-strength alloy armor, which can withstand the impact of meteorites with a mass of less than one kilogram and a relative velocity of less than three thousand kilometers per second.

In addition, some weapon systems are also installed in the spacecraft, such as electromagnetic cannons, laser cannons, particle beam cannons and other weapons.

The main function of these weapons is to clear obstacles such as asteroids and meteorites near the spaceship, and if you really encounter an interstellar civilization of the level of the shrimp man civilization, it is no different from a broadsword and spear.

As the captain of the "Eternal Night" spaceship, Pang Xuelin has a lot of work to do.

For example, formulate mission plans, improve various flight logs, and complete the run-in of the whole ship.

Compared with these rookie astronauts in the ship, Pang Xuelin has much more experience in space flight.

In addition to his role as captain, he also plays guest roles as a mechanical engineer, a flight load specialist, and a psychologist, helping the ship and crew prepare for sailing.

A month later, the "Eternal Night" spacecraft, which had successively completed various material supplies and the maintenance of the entire ship, officially began to set sail.

With the command from the ground, the Hall thruster in the center of the ship successfully ignited, spraying a dark blue particle beam to the rear, and the huge hull began to slowly start, overcoming the obstacles caused by the earth's gravity.

In the captain's room, Pang Xuelin was having the last real-time communication with his wife and daughter.

"Chrissy, little Murphy, when I come back, I love you."

During the video call, Chrissy pursed her red lips, hugged her tears, kept calling her father's little Murphy, and nodded heavily.

"Honey, little Murphy and I will always be waiting for you, waiting for you to come home."

Ending the video call, Pang Xuelin stood at the porthole, looking at the blue earth suspended in the deep sky like a sapphire, and sighed.

Ding Dong –

At that moment, the door to the captain's room was opened, and Big Murphy entered.

"Brother-in-law, it's almost time to hibernate."

Murphy had also just finished a video call with Oliver, and his eyes were slightly red.

Pang Xuelin nodded, he changed out of the regular clothes in the spaceship, wearing only a standard T-shirt and shorts, and under the leadership of Murphy, he went to the hibernation cabin.

Originally, according to Pang Xuelin's idea, the hibernation chamber should be decentralised like the Wandering Earth World, and each cabin has certain hibernation safeguards.

Later, during the construction process, the engineers discovered that this would significantly increase energy consumption, hull construction complexity, and manufacturing costs.

Therefore, after intense discussions, they still designed a large hibernation chamber on the side of the living area according to the conventional design.

The hibernation chamber can guarantee the hibernation of up to 200 people at the same time.

The perigee of the Earth to Saturn is 1.28 billion kilometers, and the apogee reaches 1.58 billion kilometers.

If you are in the Dark Forest world, this distance, the spaceship can reach it in a week.

However, the level of technological development of the interstellar world is far from reaching the level of the dark forest world, and although the main power system of the Eternal Night spacecraft can provide a million oxen of thrust for the spacecraft, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the hull of more than 30,000 tons.

As a result, the Eternal Night spacecraft had to accelerate for half a year, then turn off its engines, taxi for a year, and then turn the ship's bow, restart its engines, and slow down.

To this end, Pang Xuelin specially arranged the duty tasks during the flight.

During a normal flight mission, three-quarters of the crew, or seventy-five people, will go into hibernation, and the remaining twenty-five will remain awake and perform duty duties in the spacecraft.

For the next two years, they will rotate every six months, and each will be on duty for six months.

Pang Xuelin and Murphy's flight mission was arranged in the last issue.

Inside the hibernation pod.

The hatch slowly closes under the control of artificial intelligence TASS.

"Dear Captain Pang Xuelin, your hibernation time this time is one year and six months, and the spacecraft will wake you up in February 2050 AD."

With a snort, a burst of white mist spread out from the hibernation warehouse, and Pang Xuelin slowly closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

……

February 2050 AD.

The space is as black as ink.

After more than an hour of cosmic journey, the solar photons swayed on the silver-white hull of the Eternal Night.

Pang Xuelin was in his captain's room, and had just finished watching Chrissy and Little Murphy's video message to him.

Because of the communication channel, Chrissy and Little Murphy can only send back a video message of about five minutes to Pang Xuelin every month.

"Honey, little Murphy is doing great in school, she has completed her ninth grade math course on her own and is preparing to self-study high school courses......"

"Husband, yesterday I dreamed of you again, and I dreamed of the scene when you rescued me and little Murphy from the refugee camp."

"Husband, I'm sure you'll be able to find a new home for us......"

"Husband, I love you, I will always wait for you, waiting for you to come home, and our family will be reunited."

……

"Dad, even though you lied to me at the beginning, I still can't hate it, I miss you."

"Today Professor Brand praised me and said that I was a genius."

"Dad, I want to study aerospace in the future, and the teacher at the school said that the space city project is about to start, and everyone will live in space in the future......"

"Dad, I love you, Mom and I miss you so much......"

……

"Chrissy, I've worked hard for you all these years, I love you. I'm still on my way to Mars, we're three-quarters of the way and I'll be online for the next six months. Murphy, you're a dad's pride, and I'm so lucky to have a daughter like you......"

After replying to his wife and daughter, Pang Xuelin ended the video recording.

In a little over an hour, the video will appear in the Lazarus Project command center on Earth.

It will be at least a few days before it is delivered to Chrissy and little Murphy.

This is the biography of the wild goose in the space age.

Then, Pang Xuelin changed into gym clothes and came to the gym for exercise.

He didn't really come to work out to exercise, just to pass the boring time.

After all, after undergoing genetic modification, he has surpassed the pinnacle of human beings in terms of physical fitness and comprehensive ability in all aspects.

It's just that to Pang Xuelin's surprise, after he came to the gym, he saw Murphy sweating on the treadmill.

"Brother-in-law, are you also coming over to exercise?"

Murphy looked at Pang Xuelin in some surprise.

She has never seen Pang Xuelin come to the gym on her own initiative, but every time she takes a physical test, Pang Xuelin is always at the top.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "Come and practice, after lying down for a year and a half, the bones will rust." ”

During the voyage, life inside the Eternal Night spacecraft was relatively boring, except for completing the daily logbook and various equipment checks, most of the time life was dull.

The only time Pang Xuelin had a sense of anticipation was a monthly video call with his wife and daughter.

Although there is a time delay, such a communication gives Pang Xuelin an emotional sustenance in his heart.

Half a year passed in a flash.

The massive Saturn was already in sight beyond the porthole of the spacecraft.

Over the past few years, NASA has conducted several unmanned exploration programs to ensure that the Lazarus program can run smoothly.

Although the main target of the probe is a massive wormhole with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers at a distance of 5 million kilometers from Saturn, NASA has even verified the possibility of using wormholes for gravitational wave communication by allowing unmanned probes to pass through wormholes.

But when human probes pass by Saturn, they will probe Saturn to a certain extent.

Therefore, to some extent, Saturn is the most well-known planet of the solar system.

The beautiful rings of Saturn surround the gas giant, and through the radio telescope, Pang Xuelin can even hear the wonderful sound coming from the interior of Saturn after being demodulated by electromagnetic waves.

It was a faint cry that began to send out to the universe billions of years ago when the solar system was formed.

It's just that Pang Xuelin is destined to pass near this giant planet in a hurry.

Upon arrival at Saturn, all 100 crew members of the Eternal Night were awakened.

Then, after another week of sailing, the huge wormhole was finally in sight.

Compared to the wormhole that Pang Xuelin experienced in the Ninth District World, the wormhole in front of him was at least a hundred times larger, its diameter was more than two hundred kilometers, and through the naked eye, it could be seen that the sun's rays had bent to a certain extent after passing through the space where it was located.

Its location was empty, not even the gravitational pull produced any anomalies, but everyone could sense his presence.

It's like a big mouth from a prehistoric beast, devouring everything in the vast void.

The wormhole in the movie is believed to be the handiwork of a future high-dimensional human civilization.

They can freely travel between the space dimension and the time dimension, and can be called the biggest behind-the-scenes boss in this world.

Pang Xuelin didn't know if the wormhole in front of him was really as described in the movie.