Chapter 19: Departure

Europa's probe returns with what neurologists call an "delirium" who never wakes up again, trapped in his own nightmare forever. What did he dream about? What keeps him in a dream? What kind of power can make a person perpetuate and dreaded into a nightmare? The Martians don't know.

That is, Jenny Young didn't know, she didn't even know that the man had come back from Europa, but she had seen the delirium up close, a living specimen of the human brain that neurologists had studied. If it weren't for Zhang Tianhe mentioning it, she wouldn't have thought that such a terrifying symptom might come from an external force.

"It stands to reason that this shouldn't be the case, even if everything else is aside, Europa's magnetic field is not strong enough, and if dreams are related to magnetic fields, it is not strong enough to have such a strong effect on the human brain......," Jenny Young said after thinking for about ten minutes.

"First of all, we don't know the mechanism of dreams, and the relationship between dreams and magnetic fields is a kind of speculation that we have compared Mars and Earth. Secondly, Europa may not be very strong, but there is a big brother not far from it, and the magnetic field is 14 times stronger than the earth......"

"You mean Jupiter......"

"!" Zhang Tianhe suddenly shouted, startling Jenny Yang. "Let me tell you, I'm most afraid of Jupiter in the solar system! The sun is of course supreme, but it has been a kind of care for mankind for thousands of years, but Jupiter! It's so big, and it's so gloomy that I don't feel comfortable flying near it, and I just want to slip away...... Do you know? Dinosaur extinction was an asteroid that flew from Jupiter...... Okay, okay, let's get down to business, but now you don't think Europa has the physical conditions to sink into a nightmare forever? ”

"It's too hard to talk about, because it's hard to have an experiment in neuroscience, and we can't experiment on living people, unless you're sick like the guy who came back from Europa, but there are very few of them. We tried all kinds of ways to stimulate his nerves, but it didn't work, and he never woke up again. At the same time, his brain waves were unusually active. Do you know what that means? ”

"What?"

"It means that his brain is still alive and more active than normal people, but his consciousness has gone somewhere else, a place that we haven't discovered yet, and strictly speaking he lives in another place with more momentum than in reality......"

"Hmph...... These are all unfounded speculations. To this day, human beings know so little about the universe, about the solar system, about the Earth and Mars, and even about ourselves...... Well, we have a conjecture about the origin of the dream and the form it manifests in reality, I think this kind of thing you can't figure it out if you want to break your head, let it go first, the journey of the solar system of the stars has just begun, and then we will slowly verify it. You go and get ready for the landing first, and I'll think about it again. ”

For Zhang Tianhe, or for all people living in this real world, thinking about ideology is ultimately limited by reality, and some laws prevailing in the universe stipulate that human ways of thinking must be limited, such as the irreversibility of time, such as death will eventually come, for example, only after eating, drinking, and being full, people have the energy to think about consciousness, dreams, spirits, and the like, giving people the feeling that no matter how you think, people's brains are still as big as fists, and they can't break through their brains- The brain is locked up.

As for the kind of breakthrough mentioned in ancient movies, saying that people only use 20% of their brains to develop another 80% of people can take off from the ground, that is all people with bad brains who are obscene there, hoping that human beings can inexplicably get breakthrough wisdom...... With all due respect, you can't use it if you're so stupid to give it to you, and you don't even want to play bigger with your own braincase? It's strange that humans are so arrogant...... No, to be precise, it's the arrogance of Westerners, the arrogance of Caucasians, they always feel that they don't get enough, they always want to control unfathomable forces beyond their own abilities, nuclear bombs are one of them, and look at the end...

Now Zhang Tianhe has that feeling, that is, his wisdom is really powerless in the face of these things, but this thing can't trap his thinking, and if he can't understand it, he will put it aside later. He turned on the communicator and stared at Shi Kening to make this landing operation.

There is still a lot to add about the earth, and throughout the millions of years of human history, people's understanding of the earth has been very superficial - and it is also rightfully so, because man is just an animal living on the surface of the earth, just like mites are just a tiny creature living on the skin of man, and there will be no internal organs and all kinds of minds in its worldview. The analogy may be a little emotional, but the reality is so unforgiving. People are only a little more than one meter, but the radius of the earth is more than 6,000 kilometers, if the earth is anthropomorphized, then to say that human beings are mites are exalted to him, isn't it...

In short, very little is known about the Earth, the tiny blue planet on which life has lived and evolved for billions of years. With regard to the earth's oceans, human civilization explored less than 5 percent of the oceans in the most glorious era of the earth, that is, only 5 percent of the places in the thin oceans of the earth have been visited. Doesn't that sound cold-blooded? Then listen to this - the deepest part of the Earth's oceans is only more than 11,000 meters, and a small Europa, the ocean above Europa is 300 kilometers deep, that is, 300,000 meters, as far as the ocean is concerned, these four oceans on the earth are not enough to see - it sounds a bit cold, the magic is that there are more than one or two ice balloons like Europa in the solar system, and those big moons of Jupiter and Saturn can be brought out at random, and their water storage is not less than that of the Earth. People always say that water is the source of life, but that's still a bit too arrogant, water is at most the source of human life, and it's a bit funny to use it to limit all life. And this kind of thing is everywhere, it's not magical at all, and it's almost interesting to make it an element of all life.

Zhang Tianhe only said a few necessary words to Shi Kening, raising his vigilance and returning safely, and then he kept watching the team in the panoramic image as they busily prepared, and did not speak to him again. What do men dislike because of this? From ancient times to the present, the most dangerous thing is women, followed by money and power, now there is no money on the star, but there is also the hard currency of points, and the points of reproductive rights Tianhe has always been unconcerned, for him, he can't give birth to him and he is dead set on this thing, and he doesn't want to look at it. But for others, points are equivalent to money, in fact, they are equivalent to power, and this thing has always been taken care of by Shi Kening......

Maybe it's because I'm too sassy on Mars, so fate doesn't let me have children, and I was ruthlessly slapped in the face after I handed over the application for so long...... Zhang Tianhe thought to himself. In fact, if I want to fly the star, they won't give me anything, and if I want to be born, I can't fly the star, and you can't have both. If I am allowed to marry a wife and have children alone and control such an important strategic resource as the star, it will not be fair to others, everything is accounted for, who are you, Buddha? If the Buddha wants to preach, he has to throw away his wife and children......

I don't know if Shi Kening has such insight, if you want to have the same, you have to give up the same, you are in charge of points, you have so much power, and you still want to play with women by the way, there is no such comfortable thing...... If I leave that woman or let you be with her every day, it will be you who will be unlucky in the end, not that woman. One of the most disappointing characteristics of man is the two ends of the first mouse, not long after the star flies, he forgets what he is doing on this trip, we are going to fly out of the solar system, you run to like an unknown woman...... Fuck, rotten wood can't be carved, walls of dung can't be built, and sooner or later he'll have to be shot back to Mars if he doesn't grow like this.

Having said that, Shi Kening didn't actually do anything, he just thought about it for a while, but then again, it's also terrible for an old virgin like him to die and live when he moves his heart, and it may not be a good thing to strangle his thoughts to death so bluntly. In this regard, he can learn from Shulmi, he has been with the female crew of the ship for three days, but he never hurts others, he does not leave any emotional tail, no girl says that he is not good, not considerate enough, not focused enough, he can make every girl feel that he is enjoying life with him, such a man is a man who stands up to the sky, like Shi Kening, who has inexplicably moved his mind to the girl, and he can't tell what he wants to do, the way to deal with feelings is actually the stupidest......

Seeing Shi Kening and them get on the landing craft and head to the earth, Zhang Tianhe has been thinking about this all the time, no one can say clearly about the emotional things, he only knows that as long as he has influence, he will never let Shi Kening meet that woman again. In fact, sending her away was not only for Shi Kening, but also for Zhang Tianhe himself, the woman was the anchor of the fixed boat, and there was no possibility of dragging her to fly to the sea of stars. On Mars, for the sake of his own emotional appeals, he can like a woman as much as he wants, but not on the Star, because for him, as long as the Star lifts off, he has to ensure that he is clear-headed, and women will only make people confused. So although Zhang Tianhe was a famous playboy when he was on Mars, as soon as he got on the Star, he set rules for himself, to cherish life and stay away from women, he decided to maintain a ruthless state on the Star, for him to maintain this state can not be said to be difficult, but it is by no means impossible.

It's a pity that this can't be done for others.

The landing craft projected from the Star's lowest armament layer, and after a brief glide, it began to accelerate, rushing into Earth's atmosphere, and then its front end began to catch fire, rushing down into the Pacific Ocean with billowing white smoke. In essence, the flame at the front end of the landing craft is the earth's air burning, in other words, the earth's atmosphere is to protect human beings, but at the same time to limit human beings, from the earth, she wants you to stay on this planet, not to want you to rush out of the earth, otherwise she should evolve a body for human beings that does not need to breathe.

Zhang Tianhe looked at the landing craft for a while, and then turned his perspective back to Shi Kening. This guy showed a kind of incomprehension on his face, as if he suddenly became ruthless and absent-minded after Athena was sent away, in the past, Zhang Tianhe could always see his inner expression from this face, but now he can't see anything.

One Athena made you like this, and you still have to grow up. Zhang Tianhe thought silently.