Chapter 1: Mysterious Mission
In the future, if a devastating catastrophe occurs on the planet, where will humanity go?
Are there any habitable planets in the vast universe?
3500 A.D.
Special forces soldier Yang Liri is taken into a giant cave by a mysterious figure.
Away from the sun, wow!
Too sci-fi, right?
After a visual inspection, I'm a good one!
With more than 20 floors and dozens of football fields, this is probably the largest indoor building in the world! Even more exaggerated is the layout inside:
There are all kinds of strange machines everywhere!
There are buttons with various lights shining everywhere!
There are large and small displays everywhere!
Everywhere there are people in gray clothes and gray hats who are busy and busy!
The mysterious figure took the day with him, chatting while visiting.
"Ever heard of 'Noah's Ark'?"
Isn't this a story from the Bible? Most people must have heard of it, so they said, "I've heard a little bit." β
The mysterious figure cleared his throat and began to tell the story -
"Noah's Ark is a story from the Bible's Book of Genesis:
Jehovah, the creator of the world, saw that the earth was full of corruption, lawlessness and sinister practices, and he planned to destroy the wicked by floods.
At the same time, he also discovered that there was a good man named Noah among the human race, so he instructed Noah to build an ark and bring his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law, as well as male and female animals and birds.
The ark was built, the flood came, and Noah, his family, and the animals entered the ark.
The flood submerged the highest mountain, and all the creatures on the land died, leaving only Noah's family and the life on the ark alive.
After 220 days, the ark came to a halt near Mount Aare and the floodwaters began to subside.
After another 40 days, the summit of Mount Aare was revealed, and then Noah's family and various animals stepped out of the ark and started a new life. β
After telling the story, the mysterious figure pointed to a large platform opposite and said, "See the blue tarpaulin on the platform?" β
"See."
"Under the tarpaulin is our 'Noah's Ark'."
"'Noah's Ark'? Is humanity about to face a catastrophe? "Liri was taken aback.
"Yes, imminent!"
"Why?" Liri's face was full of doubts.
"It's not your concern!" The mysterious figure was a little displeased.
"And what is our mission?" Leave the day and quickly change the subject.
"Move beyond the stars, far, far away, far from the solar system, and ......" the mysterious figure paused.
"And what? Gone? Liri said unhurriedly and unhurriedly.
"It seems that you have been mentally prepared, but you are not as pessimistic as you think, in the future, the earth or the planet you arrived on will be technologically advanced, and the two sides will still be able to communicate with each other." After all, it's a big deal, so the mysterious person needs to say something comforting.
I thought to myself, I'll go!
That will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey!
The mysterious figure continued: "To let you go beyond the stars is to break away from the mother body of the earth and live and develop independently. β
"After we go, will we still be able to interact with Earth?"
"Dealing with the Earth? How can it be so easy, the distance between a planet outside the solar system and the Earth is measured in light years! β
"Since it is so far away, human life is more than 100 years old at most, how can we get there alive?"
"It's something that scientists think about, I don't understand, but I've heard that two breakthroughs have been made, and humanity can already successfully get there!"
"Which two?" Liri asked.
The mysterious figure thought for a while, felt a little embarrassed to answer, and reluctantly explained:
"The first item is the discovery of wormholes, what does that mean?
In my understanding, it's like a big mountain in the distance, and it takes several hours to get there according to the conventional method, and if you build a bridge and walk in a straight line, it may take a few minutes to get there, and wormholes are such bridges.
If you want to know more professional knowledge, you can search for information on the Internet. β
A few words immediately popped up in Liri's mind:
Einstein, the theory of relativity, time warp, Hawking, black holes......
After making up for a while, he couldn't figure it out, so he asked, "Is it possible that with the use of wormholes, spaceships will soon be able to reach planets outside the solar system?" β
"Relatively speaking, it can be reached very quickly."
"How fast?"
"If you don't use the wormhole, at the speed of the current spaceship, it will take at least tens of thousands of years!"
"Ten thousand years?! What about using wormholes? β
"About a hundred years."
"A hundred years or so? It's still a long time, the world is short, how can you get there alive? "Liri looks confused!
"So, there has to be another technology."
"What technology?"
"Life cryocryology and autoresuscitation techniques. Freezing people, setting up programs, and automatically thawing and resuscitating after decades or hundreds of years can avoid the problem of aging during flights. β
At this point, the question of how to fly out is basically cleared up.
After thinking for a while, another question came again, so he asked, "Since these two technologies are already available, isn't it possible to travel freely between the stars?" Why do we have to go this time and never come back? β
The mysterious figure glanced at Liri and said: "First, it is meaningless, because it takes 100 years for a spacecraft to fly on one side, and 200 years to go back and forth, how meaningful is this kind of exchange?" Second, the economic strength cannot support it! β
"Does this have a lot to do with economic support?" Liri is a little curious.
"Of course it's big! Or even the decisive factor! This time, in order to send more than 20 of you out, I have invested a lot of money in preparation for decades!
Successful relocation requires a lot of investment in aerospace, materials, energy, mechanical technology, information technology, computers, life engineering, and many other aspects.
In particular, in order to achieve breakthroughs in a certain field, repeated scientific experiments are required.
For example, the cost of building this 'Noah's Ark' alone is astronomical! β
Liri thought for a while and said, "Understood, this is a hammer deal!"
Sending our group of people out is over, and we want to send the earthlings up in batches, neither the economic strength nor the necessity, because we go to the extraterrestrial world not to improve human life, but to escape the doom of destruction and preserve the human species and civilization. β
"Yes, that's it!"
"There's one more important question." Liri continued.
"Say it!"
"I've heard that it's very difficult to find a planet suitable for human habitation, especially outside the solar system, but now that the mission has started, have we found it?"
"Of course I did! Just a few days ago, astronomers discovered such a planet and named it 'Wangxing', which means that human beings hope, 'Wangxing' revolves around a star called Alpha Star, which is equivalent to the Earth revolving around the sun. β
After the mysterious figure finished speaking, he immediately handed a list to Liri.
Leave the day to take the list and quickly scan itββ
Yang Liri, male, 22 years old, commander
Zhang Xiaoqi, male, 30 years old, scientist
Bai Bingbing, female, 28 years old, scientist
Wu Wei, male, 29 years old, technician
Yan Yu, female, 24 years old, technician
Gongsun Liang, male, 26 years old, linguist
Shangguan Ting, female, 24 years old, linguist
Jiang Chuan, male, 30 years old, doctor
Ye Jing, female, 24 years old, doctor
Qin Tian, male, 26 years old, musician
Qiu Yue, female, 20 years old, musician
In addition to the above list, 10 people are listed below, all of them are 6-year-olds, half of them are males and females.
After reading the list, in addition to being curious about the tasks performed, there are a few questions that are still difficult to solve:
First, why are the people on the list so young? And there are children?
Second, why is the list organized by occupation?
Third, why is there a man and a woman in every profession?
Fourth, why is there no female commander assigned to my profession?
After reading it, he returned the list to the mysterious person, and the mysterious person said: "You take it yourself, look at it at any time, remember everyone on it, these are the sparks on the 'stargazing'." β
Liri asked, "When will you go?" β
"Soon, though, before we go, there's an important mission!"