Chapter 16: Du Qian's Awakening
One of the lowest people in Duqianboron's society, who has just been removed from the list of restricted freedoms, has only the ability to obtain the minimum survival needs of his level, and of course the minimum survival needs of the home planet are available everywhere. Du Qian's first moment of freedom was to appeal to the governors, and he did not think that a single mistake would incur such a punishment.
200 years ago, Du Qian, as an astronaut of the home interstellar exploration fleet, embarked on an interstellar voyage with 219 other astronauts to explore the edge of the universe, and the voyage was named Xunya. The ship is also in the shape of a crescent, but it is about a hundred times the size of the shepherd's spaceship. When the voyage sailed out of the first Cook border, it entered another critical area, and soon encountered another Cook border, and so on, but never found the final boundary, and had to declare the failure of the voyage and start to return.
The Cook boundary is the end of a region near the edge of the universe that Cook deduced by postgenerational light has not reached. This area is extremely dark, there is no matter, beyond the boundary is the light of Mr., in short, crossing the boundary is the process of going from black to light, and seeing the light of Mr. found the edge of the universe. Because of the violent and irregularity of the gravitational disturbance at the end of the boundary, the voyage concluded that the end of the Cook boundary was determined.
Epigenetic light is the visible and invisible rays emitted by the inner stars and other stars after the universe is formed. Since the universe is expanding much faster than the speed of light, the Cook boundary and its adjacent areas are a fairly large space. Mr. light is the visible light and super-energy rays that burst out at the moment of the formation of the universe.
According to Cook's boundary theory, there can only be one area near the edge of the universe, but when the Quest sails through the adjacent areas of the edge of the universe where the space of the four regions is rapidly decreasing, it has to return home.
In fact, Cook's boundary theory needs to be perfected, when the two edge adjacent areas are infinitely close, they will reach the real edge of the universe, but they will not continue to sail, but fortunately they will return in time, because once they break through the boundary of the universe, it is like popping a bubble, and the whole universe will collapse instantly, and everything will start all over again.
On the way back to the voyage, the captain of the ship, Captain Cang, was uneventful, showing off his ability to obtain energy and resources to the boron-based astronauts of the lower level in the central living area of the spacecraft. The warehouse manager is a mid-level boron-based person in the Quest flight, responsible for everything in the living module. Nair is just one of dozens of warehouse managers. A group of members who were also idle cheered around Nair. As a low-ranking Du Qian on the spaceship, he passed by this group of idlers, saw this scene, did not want to be humiliated, and glanced at it and was about to leave.
"Du Qian, as long as you can make outstanding contributions, or pray to me for a reward. When you return to your home planet, you will definitely be able to upgrade one level. Nair stopped Du Qian and deliberately laughed at him. Don't look at the low level of the warehouse manager, but he has the right to reward Du Qian, who is one level lower.
It also attracted ridicule from onlookers.
"Commendation is earned, not prayed for. Please distinguish between right and wrong. Du Qian was a little annoyed, but tried to suppress it as much as he could.
"Praying is also fighting. Hmph......" Nair replied.
"This kind of struggle ruins the honor of the explorer!" Du Qian wanted to leave after speaking.
Du Qian's words and his preparation to leave angered Nair.
"It's an order!"
"Garbage Order!" Du Qian, who was even more annoyed, rushed to Nair in one step, glaring at each other.
The crowd of onlookers saw that the situation was not good and persuaded each other. Du Qian then retracted his posture and prepared to leave.
"How dare you threaten the warehouse manager. I'll give you a disciplinary action now. When Nair saw Du Qian leave, he peeled his face.
"You dare to use power for personal gain!" Du Qian rushed back again, this time he didn't care, and directly grabbed Nair's robe and threw him down on the ship's board. Before the onlookers could hold on, they heard a bang, and Nair hit the ship's head first.
Du Qian is burly, Nair is thin, this hand-to-hand fight, how can Nair make a profit.
When Nair got up again, he saw his left forehead, which was broken.
Things ended up alarming Captain Klaas. Du Qian was injured because he hit someone first, and he was restricted from moving around for the rest of the return time.
Returning to the home planet, Du Qian was sentenced to a downgrade due to a brawl during the voyage and a violation of the Home Star Navigation Act. Du Qian was not able to relent, but the appeal was dismissed. During this period, because he did not accept the sentence, he was offensive to the governing authority. Eventually, they were reduced to the lowest level of boron-based people.
has been restricted to freedom for nearly 10 years on the home planet, and Du Qian does not know about it, nor does he care about the changes in the home planet in the past 10 years. In fact, nothing will change, and 10 home star years is too short for boron-based people after all. On the way to another appeal, he finds news about carbon-based experiments everywhere.
He found that carbon-based human beings, although backward in science and technology, are running for a livelihood all the time, but the life of carbon-based people is indeed so full and wonderful, and although the art created by carbon-based people is incomprehensible, it can always be shocked, which deeply touched Du Qian's deepest subconscious.
The home star is a solid planet similar to the earth, and the boron-based people have created underground cities in the 10-kilometer-deep underground of the home planet for interstellar travel, with a total of 160 evenly distributed large-scale dungeons on the home planet, providing everything needed for 12 million boron-based people. Among them, there are more than 1 million boron-based people living in the two cities of Pengmo and Sazhen, and the other boron-based people are basically evenly distributed in other underground cities.
There is no trace of underground life in the dungeon of the boron people, everything is the same as on the ground before, and the boron people have inherited the climate and day and night state of the surface of the previous home planet, and have not changed their living conditions. Except for the two dungeons of Pengmo and Sazhen, which are still full of high-rise buildings, the other dungeons are idyllic.
Du Qian lives in Pengmo City, the administrative center of the home planet, not far from the solemn Governing Hall, the main hall is very inconspicuous compared with the surrounding high-rise buildings, but the building is shaped like an inverted bullet, and further forward is the walking area, Du Qian put the suspension equipment into the size of a golf ball, and put it in the pocket of the pale green robe. From afar, Du Qian saw hundreds of boron people gathering. Du Qian and the crowd of people gathered closer and closer.
"Would you please please contribute an autograph to our rally?" Sana, a boron-based man, grabbed Du Qian.
Du Qian looked back and saw a petite boron-based beauty, Du Qian stopped, and noticed a dynamic picture in Sana's left palm: a female boron-based person was holding a miniature male boron-based person in her arms, and the smaller boron-based person was lying quietly in her arms......
"What is this?" Du Qian was a little confused, because he was consciously like this, so old, no matter how old he was, he hadn't changed in the slightest.
"Do you see the propaganda about carbon-based humans on the road? This is the way of life continuation of carbon-based people, there is life and death. Sana explained.
"As long as you are willing to put your hand in the picture, it means that you support our call." As she spoke, Sana raised her hand to Du Qian's eyes.
"What are you calling for?"
"Of course, it is a call for boron-based people to have the same way of life continuation as carbon-based people, there are new and old, life and death, passed on from generation to generation, every boron-based person will no longer be immutable but full of unknowns, boron-based society needs real fresh boron-based people, and also needs more love between you and me, but not indifferent." Sana explained.
"Oh, what do you mean by life and death?" Du Qian never had a concept of life and death.
"You don't even understand this?" Sana was a little angry, she thought that Du Qian had done it on purpose.
"I really don't understand, I just lifted the restrictions on freedom. It's incomprehensible for a moment. Du Qian explained.
"Okay, then I'll bother with a little more talking. I want you idiot to explain clearly. Sana was helpless, but in order to gain Du Qian's support, she had to become a teacher.
"Tell me what your name is?"
"Du Qian."
"Hello Du Qian, I'm Sana." As she spoke, Sana stretched out her right index finger and put it on the front of Du Qian, because her short stature was a little bit different from Du Qian, Sana had already raised her hand above her head, waiting for Du Qian's response.
Du Qian also stretched out his right index finger and lightly touched the tip of Sana's index finger. It's a special way for strange boron-based people to get to know each other. By touching each other's index fingers, you can get information that the other person is willing to tell you.
Sana passed on the carbon-based way of human life continuation to Du Qian. Du Qian instantly understood what the life and death of carbon-based people were. What is the affection and warmth of carbon-based people.
Du Qian trembled, he seemed to have these in his deep subconscious, and he was not conscious. But he couldn't put it into words.
"Du Qian, can you support us?" Sana asked impatiently.
"Absolutely." Du Qian put his hand on the picture that Sana had prepared.
"Thank you, former explorer." Sana also sensed Du Qian's information from the touch of her index finger just now. Du Qian has never shied away from the past, and he is willing to share his past and glory with strangers.
The 'Explorer' reminded Du Qian of going to appeal again. So he said goodbye to Sana and ran to the hall of the governors.
The ruler asked Du Qian to go back and wait for news.
When Du Qian came out of the hall, the assembly was still there.
Although Du Qian didn't want to wait any longer, what better way was there. Du Qian began to regret his reckless and radical words and deeds, because Du Qian still had dreams of exploration. Now that Zhineng is about to live, if he wants to return to his previous level, Du Qian has little hope other than the success of the appeal.
He walked around the chaotic pedestrian zone. On this day, apart from appealing, Du Qian had nothing to do. In his spare time, he remembered the message that Sana had sent to him, and it always felt so vague and so clear, as if he had experienced it himself.
"Could it be that boron-based people were just deprived of life and death in the same way that carbon-based people lived before?" Du Qian thought a little far.
"I consciously am like this, like this, where did I come from? ......"The more Du Qian thought about it, the more incredible he felt. He decided to contact Sana to see if she had an answer.
Du Qian hurriedly drove the levitator back to the Hall of Governors.
(To be continued)