Chapter 7: Photon Cannon
Martians dream very little, only some people who are more nervous or who are violently stimulated will dream, and, there is a saying, after leaving the earth, everyone has become a little depressed, maybe joy is the only source of dreams, in short, for Martians, dreams are a process of continuous fading in the past two hundred years. In the first years of Mars, there were neurologists who specialized in this, and then it gradually disappeared, like AI, there is no application value, there is no passion for scientific research - in this respect, AI, like dreams, has one of the annoying things is that you can't completely control it. But in other words, humans still think they can control fusion energy, and look at what happens now...... Therefore, from the perspective of AI, because of its uncontrollability, people are no longer willing to study it, and people only keep the intelligence of the machine within the scope of their control. In terms of dreams, how can you study when no one dreams? So the current situation of Martians today is that no one dreams, and they don't say anything, because it's a ridiculous thing for them, and Martians are pragmatists, and for them, how to live a more comfortable life is more important than metaphysical things - so, on Mars, dreaming is a shameful thing.
However, on the night that the Star arrived on the moon, slowed down, and entered lunar orbit, most of the crew had dreams, and they were all very similar dreams. This point can be basically determined from the later exchanges between Zhang Tianhe, Shi Kening, and Jenny Yang, and this dream is like this:
The Star was driving in a pitch black environment, and there was no light on the entire ship, so everyone could not see anything, but only greet each other in the dark. At this time, everyone heard Zhang Tianhe's voice and asked everyone to rush to the power layer to restart the fusion furnace, but when people rushed to the vicinity of the fusion furnace, they found that the light in the furnace was weakening. Normally, the furnace was as bright as the sun, and it was impossible to look at it directly, but now it slowly dimmed like a candle in the wind, and then it was finally completely extinguished. In the darkness, someone sobbed quietly, and with this slight movement, the Star slammed back as the furnace was completely extinguished, as if it had been pulled back by a merciless hand. Then the sky and the earth cracked, lightning and thunder roared, the stars were disconnected from the middle, the cabin suddenly lost pressure, countless people and the wreckage of the ship were torn apart, everyone immediately fell into space, frozen in ice, and then, these dense human corpses, spaceship wreckage all poured into an extremely dazzling light source (the consciousness in the dream was still "alive") ...... Their bodies were dead, but their consciousness was alive, and they wanted to scream but couldn't, and they could only fall in horror into the dazzling light source that was ten thousand times brighter than their fusion furnace......
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"If you have such dreams when you are close to the earth, then I think this step is the wrong step." Zhang Tianhe crossed his arms and said to Jenny Yang that at this time he had already talked about this dream with Shi Kening and Jenny Yang. The scenes they dreamed of were all similar, the difference was that the characters were in different locations.
"A dream doesn't mean anything." Jenny Young pinched the flesh under her armpit again...... Whether on Mars or on Earth historically, this is a rather frivolous move. "If only I had all the previous information on dream research, I can at least try to find any clues......
"Originally, everything about dreams was a marginal science, and we need you to focus on the study of human consciousness!" Shi Kening opened his mouth at this time.
"How do you know that consciousness and dreams have nothing to do with each other? In ancient times, dreams were thought to be a reflection of consciousness! ”
"If people in ancient times could have done one thing right, we wouldn't be where we are today." Shi Kening said lightly.
"Someone got it right, didn't they? Otherwise, we won't survive......"
"Don't make a noise! Two scumbags... It is impossible to ask every crew member, and we called Shulmi to ask, and if he was as strong-willed as he was to have this dream, then perhaps this dream is indeed universal. ”
On the Star, you can distinguish race and blood by looking at the name, Zhang Tianhe is Chinese, Jenny Yang is yellow and white, but there are a few people you may misunderstand him from the name alone, such as Shulmi. He is usually thought to be a Chinese, but in fact he is of mixed black and white blood, but he is just ...... Anyway, for some reason he would rather use a Chinese name than a white name.
The stars are all young people between twenty and thirty years old, even if people like Zhang Tianhe are old, in addition to their dangerous voyage, they also consider that if they can't come back after finding it outside Neptune, they can also reproduce the next generation of people, and there is another thing, after human beings leave the earth, the lifespan in the usual sense is generally shortened, technology can change organs for a person, but technology can't make a person stay young forever, Mars law is illegal to transplant organs over sixty years old, because you won't be of much use if you change it, It's better to leave it to those who need it more - cosmic life is hard, now Martians no longer pay attention to longevity, but more to quality and useful sixty years of life, people over sixty years old can retire on Mars, the Martian government will support you, the universe will not destroy you anymore, let time destroy you.
Shulmi is the armed captain of the Star, he is not yet thirty years old, he has served for fifteen years, and he has had several not-so-honorable combat experiences - although not too many, but if the earthlings don't come to fight, the Martians themselves will fight their own, but they won't mention it again after they finish the fight - Shulmi has participated in several similar repression activities, he and Zhang Tianhe have served on the same ship, this time as the armed captain of the Star.
The gravitational pull of Mars is relatively small, and the Martians have been getting taller and taller for two hundred years, and even then Shulmi is a giant among the Martians, he is two heads taller than the average person. This person looks like he is steely, and as far as Zhang Tianhe knows about him, he belongs to the kind of natural soldier, he doesn't like to use his brain, but he can complete orders very accurately and quickly. For this man, there is no logical or moral question of whether the Star is going to explore the edge of the solar system or just to pee on Earth, and his responsibility is to get the Star safely to the place and get rid of all the ill-intentioned people.
Martians don't like to kill, because there are not many things to kill in the solar system now, Zhang Tianhe thinks deep down in his heart that he doesn't have the tight military logic of Shulmi, so he chose him to be his armed captain.
"Yes, Captain, I had that dream too." Shuermi replied immediately after listening to Zhang Tianhe's words.
"That's it, maybe everyone has a dream like this...... "but what is its trigger?" This is not in accordance with the literature, such mass nightmares are very rare......"
"Will it ...... Is it the people inside the moon who are doing the tricks? Skunin asked.
"Unlikely...... Because there is no point! ”
"Captain, in the 107th year of the Martian calendar, a neurologist once proposed a weapon called the photon cannon, which works as if we are now flying at a speed limit, if we fly too fast, we will be confused, so if a beam of photons hits a person, passively put him in a state of acceleration......" Schulmi said at this time.
"Is there such a weapon?" Zhang Tianhe asked.
"It wasn't developed because the scientist died shortly after. But there is a possibility. ”
"It doesn't make sense...... Shi Kening has always been a little afraid of Shulmi, that is, the kind of literati are afraid of soldiers, at this time he was also thinking about this question, and unconsciously spoke, "If that's the case, isn't it ...... that we bask in the sun every day" He said and stopped talking, because Shulmi turned around and stared at him squarely at this time.
"I can understand this weapon, but I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the situation on our ship now, the Star has a highly sensitive ray monitor, and something like this has been detected earlier. Again, in my understanding, this photon cannon will also consume a lot of energy if it hits one person, let alone a boatload of people. It's just a fight, how can it make everyone have the same dream? This is not scientific...... Jenny Young, what do you say? ”
"I can't say it...... After all, we haven't made much progress in the study of consciousness and dreams......"
"Then we'll put that aside for now. Now there's a question I suspect someone has made a hole in the interior of the moon, Shulmy, you look at these pictures and see if there's any foolproof way to see what the hell is going on......"
Shulmi looked at him with interest in the middle of the picture, Shulmi was younger than Zhang Tianhe, but he seemed to be much older. If you look at it in another twenty years, Zhang Tianhe will be too old, and Shuermi must still be the same as he is now.
"It's one, two, three, four tunnels, and it's actually easy to see if someone is digging it. We plugged up the entrances to Cave 1, 2 and 3, sprayed a little nuclear waste into Tunnel 4, and the people inside came out......" Schulmi said after a long time.
"What if there's already a lot of digging underneath?" Shi Kening asked.
"That's better than us going in recklessly."
"In ancient times, people caught a lot of animals that drilled holes, I think this method works, smoke it first, and then talk about it." Zhang Tianhe said with a grin. "If there is smoke coming out of Cave 4 with a little fire, then at least they have dug this place."
"What if there's really someone down there? If you pour fire into it, you won't ...... them all," Jenny Yang said at this time.
"Don't worry, Commander Shu is measured! Let's do it! Zhang Tianhe twisted his chin, twisted for a long time, and when he turned around, he saw that Jenny Yang was still looking at him intently, so he smiled at her.
"We're not going to really breathe fire into it, that is, to smoke them with a little smoke from a small spaceship, and see what kind of sacred way is in here, and nothing will happen."
"I hope so!" She replied and turned around and went out.
"I've got to go down and see them smoke rabbits!" Zhang Tianhe turned back to Shi Kening and said, "Are you going?" ”
"I'm not going!" Shi Kening replied immediately.