Explorer 2 slowly docked in the outer reaches of Proxima Centauri.

Although Explorer 2 has been in service for nearly 90 years, the years have not left it mottled with vicissitudes, and the hull is still a cool color of space silver gray.

The crew is packing their own salutes, and although there are cleaning robots that often clean them, there are still traces of the crew's lives in the dormitory.

Graffiti on the walls, objects from unknown planets, notes on paper books, strange handmade models, and so on.

……

[Sad as the maple leaves of that late autumn.]

I can't resist the withering of the west wind

A traveler returning to his hometown

Perhaps say goodbye to the wandering ship

No matter how gorgeous the maple leaves are

Eventually, the leaves will fall back to their roots

Today's drift is rotten

It will give birth to new spring buds

- Galaxy 101 January 20, revisit Nagoya. ］

Kobayashi closed his diary and got up to walk through the dry landscape of the temple, a maple leaf falling in an unpredictable trajectory like Schrödinger's cat.

"Maybe it's time for me to return to my roots." Kobayashi gently caught the maple leaf, and the maple leaf was so bright red, burning like a flame.

He let go of the maple leaf and let it return to the cycle of life, and in his more than ninety years of cosmic exploration, Kobayashi has experienced too much.

He's seen:

The moment of the star's death is brilliant

The greed that the black hole devours everything

Magnetar's unreasonable electromagnetism

Also seen:

The primordial chaos of the birth of life

Natural selection in the age of savagery

Homo sapiens drills the torch from generation to generation

I've seen it more:

The virus-ravaged Resident Evil

A hell of despair where nature mighty

The traces of civilization were burned

All of this makes Kobayashi Masayoshi in awe, as long as he has seen all this, he will know the insignificance of human beings.

He has decided to write a book about his more than 90 years of cosmic adventure, and he has even thought of a name, which is called "Roaming Galaxy Story".

……

Fang Haibo did not return to Blue Star because his closest relatives were not in Blue Star.

The cantilever region of Orion, the eighth star cluster, is located 3,760 light-years from the solar system.

Fang Haibo walked out of the quantum teleportation relay station, shook his head and drove a trace of discomfort out of his body, and there was a line of holographic projection characters suspended above the quantum teleportation relay station.

[Black Goat Galaxy Quantum Teleportation Station]

An ordinary and slightly earthy name, it is estimated that it was named by another explorer who can't take a name. He looked at the star map navigation, then casually beckoned an anti-gravity flying saucer and headed towards the spaceport.

The harbor appears deserted, a common phenomenon in the outlying regions, where the total population of the Black Goat system is less than half a million people.

An old Union-class ship was docked in the harbor mooring area, with Public Passenger Ship 002 written on it, and he looked at the passenger ship's itinerary table.

Fangjiabao Star appeared in his eyes, this is a private planet he bought for his family, a natural satellite, with a radius of about 1,400 kilometers.

In fact, there are a lot of private planets in the alliance, but this is also a premise, non-first-level citizens do not sell, after the purchase is not allowed to destructive development, every Blue Star pays the corresponding land tax, and there are a lot of rules and regulations.

Fang Haibo bought the ticket, boarded the spaceship, chose a window seat, and while the spacecraft had not yet entered the flight state, he picked up the can of juice he had just bought in the port and looked at the galaxy quietly.

A typical red dwarf galaxy, the stars appear red, not as dazzling as the sun, the advantage of red dwarfs is that they have a mild temper and live a long life; Not as grumpy as the sun, and a short-lived ghost.

"Is there anything you need, sir?" An alien girl asked in a whisper pushing a food cart.

Fang Haibo glanced at it, and recognized this alien girl multi-race, the Ponti, carbon-based creatures very similar to humans, they were characterized by flame-like red pupils, and they only had three fingers.

"A glass of sugar cane juice and a grilled lamb chop with a servant of black rice."

"Okay, please wait." The alien girl's voice is soft and glutinous, but her hands and feet are very neat.

"You're from the Ponty Hilts, aren't you?"

"Yes, Sir is really well-informed." The girl smiled like a crescent moon.

"I've been exploring the universe a lot, and I'm familiar with all races."

The girl put the grilled lamb chops, black rice, and sugar cane juice on the table one by one, and then said with some envy: "It turns out that Mr. is an explorer." ”

"The life of an adventurer is very boring, and sometimes you may not see anyone else for years."

The girl looked at the surroundings and saw that there were no guests, so she continued to stand aside, and asked curiously, "Is that gentleman here to travel to the Black Goat Galaxy?" By the way, my name is Pang Xiaoye. ”

Fang Haibo took a bite of black rice, then shook his head and said, "I'm not here to travel, but to go home, Fangjiabaoxing is my home." ”

"Oh~" Pang Xiaoye's eyes suddenly popped up with stars: "Is it the Fangjiabao Star in the Big Sheep Star?" I've been there, and there's a very tasty restaurant there, and I like mapo tofu the most. ”

"Really? I'm going to stay here for about half a month when I have time to come and play. ”

"That's embarrassing." Pang Xiaoye's ears were a little hot, but she quickly came to her senses, the two of them were of different races, and it was destined to be impossible.

Although the Coalition has the technology to solve reproductive isolation, the Council is not stupid, and the consequences of this kind of technology are simply unimaginable.

Soon the passenger ship was heading for the planets, and due to the fact that it was flying inside the galaxy, the ship could only travel at 60% of the speed of light.

Fang Haibo ate very slowly, judging from the passengers who took the public passenger spaceship, there were not a few Ponte people here, and there were also some Hein.

Half a day later.

[Passengers, you have arrived at Fangjiabao Star, carry your belongings lightly...... ］

"Brother Fang has arrived at your house." Pang Xiaoye reminded in a low voice.

"Uh...... Thanks for the reminder, goodbye Xiaoye. ”

"Goodbye, Brother Fang." Pang Xiaoye waved at him.

Perhaps it was the cowardice of his hometown, after Fang Haibo stepped off the spaceship, he felt at a loss.

Fangjiabao Star does not have an atmosphere, but there is a crater formed by a meteorite impact on it, and his home is in the crater.

The passenger stop is very simple, with a stop sign and a leveled platform, and there is not even a shed.

Take out an all-purpose capsule and throw it at the sand not far away.

In an instant, an anti-gravity speeding car was formed, and he jumped on it, driving towards the crater not far away, as if he were driving a motorcycle in Blue Star.

Along the way, the anti-gravity car's fusion reactor spews plasma, kicking up puffs of dust on the sand.

As soon as I got close to the crater, I saw the entrance and exit of the sky, and the terrain of this crater is very similar to the scene of a manga in the Common Era, that is, the sand ninja village in Naruto.

There is a plaque hanging above the entrance and exit of the first line of heaven, which reads [Fangjiabao].

After the AI at the door confirmed his identity, he entered the crater, and although it was a private planet, his parents had opened up part of the area to be used as a farmhouse or something.

Unlike the gravel outside the crater, inside the crater is the fragrance of birds and flowers, the forest with towering trees, the crystal clear stream, and the small town like a garden in the south of the Yangtze River.

Everything is like Tao Yuanming's pen, the comfortable paradise.