Chapter 40: The Wreckage of Mercury

It is now ideal to observe the universe and the earth at the same time from the perspective of the Blue Whale 700 sailing. Lying on the front window and looking down, for a moment, Hai Ge was in a trance and had an illusion, thinking that he was a god on the altar. He had never stood at such a high position and looked into the distance, and now the vast and boundless earth fell into his eyes, not only with clear boundaries, but also as a withering desmodium leaf. He thought that if he jumped down from the ship, he would be able to easily pluck the dark green leaf. Shouldn't the earth in memory be as blue and crystal clear as glass beads from any angle?

Haige always remembered what he had found when he first entered the illusion—the yellow and white ribbons he saw looking up at the sky from the wasteland, and certainly not the ribbons of clouds. He had been thinking about asking Chenggong what it was whenever he had the chance, but he was repeatedly interrupted.

But when he came here after a long journey, he didn't think there was any need to ask any more questions, and he had already figured out the answer himself. There is no longer any doubt that the yellow and white ribbons are debris of the sun's rays escaping in a vacuum. The scattered light chips penetrate the earth's atmosphere, melting holes one by one with high temperatures, thus driving away the white clouds and destroying the harmony of the blue sky.

In the long run, the Earth's atmosphere will not be able to withstand the rising temperature of the Sun, and I am afraid that it will dissipate little by little like the atmosphere of Venus, right?

Success seems to have said that if the earth is deprived of the protection of the atmosphere, except for the depths of the earth, there will be nowhere for mankind to escape. Direct ultraviolet rays will kill most plants, and the earth will soon become a desert of yellow sand. And because the air is getting thinner and thinner, sound cannot travel, so it will still be a silent desert world. The only consolation is that the boiling point of the ocean water drops sharply, and soon it boils and evaporates, and the water vapor freezes again when the atmospheric pressure is zero, so that all human beings who have not been sunburned to death after the catastrophe will freeze to death. Of course, this is just an imagination, it is difficult to happen in reality, aerobic organisms should have been extinct due to lack of oxygen before they were frozen to death, and the only bacteria left on the earth at that time were bacteria.

However, the most important thing to worry about now is not the emergence of more and more hollow atmospheres, but the most intractable and urgent crises that are ahead, and if we cannot avoid them as quickly as possible, there is no need to think about the future.

Instead of looking out of the portholes on both sides, through the visor covered with translucent black film on the roof, Hai Ge could see large black boulders forming a group of boulders, hovering in the space facing the spaceship and stationary, like a large group of gray demons guarding the rail traffic artery, waiting to rob the passing spaceship.

"Success, what are those monsters? It seems to be blocking our way! ”

Success had mentioned that there were various threats lurking in the darkness, and Haige estimated that those threats were now in front of him, and he suddenly felt nervous.

Success left him time to think alone, but when he heard his question, he quickly replied: "Sir, those boulders are the remains of Mercury, presumably from the extremely dense inner core of Mercury, because the mass is too large, so it has not been completely swallowed up by the sun, but it is also a matter of time, this channel will soon become empty." ”

"Venus is dead, at least I can still see its remains, but what about Mercury...... It's just falling apart? I can't even see it as it is......"

Haige was so distressed that Hai Ge shrunk his shoulders back in his chair in despair. Yes, even Mercury has been torn apart, crumbling into boulders blocking its orbit. This is not the worst of all, at least there are traces of its existence now, if even the boulder swallows a piece of the sun and turns it into a pencil drawing of the solar system, a large area will have to be erased.

"Mercury and Venus have died one after another, and the next celestial body to be divided by the sun will be the turn of the earth! The only way to avoid doom is to help the Earth escape from its current orbit! ”

Looking at the corpse of Mercury, this strange thought somehow came to Hai Ge's mind, and he hallucinated again, vaguely seeing a person dragging a ball with a net-like thing, and walking forward step by step with difficulty. The ball looked heavy, and the man dragged it with great difficulty, but he didn't stop for a moment, but his back bent more and more......

"What are you thinking, sir?" Success asked, he asked at the right time.

"I ...... I'm thinking, you've mentioned the Weedel Earth Rescue Plan several times. Hai Ge suddenly came back to his senses and replied in a panic.

"Really?" Chenggong shook slightly, "Then do you no longer doubt his kindness now?" ”

"Well...... " Hai Ge quickly regained his composure, shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I'm not sure about this yet, let's talk about it after meeting him." ”

As Chenggong said, the use of the Blue Whale 700 to complete the voyage of the Earth-Moon Tai route was the result of the precise calculation of his brain core, and the spacecraft synthesized by the nanobot algorithm could deal with all kinds of critical scenes so accurately, Hai Ge was very impressed.

The remains of Mercury were mixed into the meteorite swarm, and the meteorite storm erupted in this area on a large scale, and as soon as the spaceship flew into the channel where the original Mercury was located, several pieces of wreckage the size of the hull of the Blue Whale spacecraft swirled and smashed towards the hull of the ship.

Only then did Hai Ge realize that his observation just now was very wrong, those boulders were by no means fixed in the universe, and the reason why he misidentified them was caused by the distance from the meteorite group, the viewing angle, and most importantly, the difference in vision in a vacuum.

When the first boulder flew over, Hai Ge faced it head-on, and when he saw that it was about to smash into the front window, he was so frightened that he couldn't open his eyes, and he didn't dare to come out, just waiting to hear the crisp sound of the front window glass breaking.

However, to his applause, the Blue Whale 700 gently pressed down, and then skillfully bypassed the attack and continued to move forward, as if it was just a drop of rain that had just flown over. The boulder continued to retreat in its path towards the rear of the ship at high speeds, and disappeared from sight in an instant.

How dexterous this spaceship is! While praising the Blue Whale 700, Hai Ge also regretted that the real interstellar civil spacecraft on Earth could not have such a high sensitivity. But to express his inner admiration, he was still reluctant, he didn't want to bow to Weddle like this.

Knowing the advantage of the spaceship he was riding in the meteorite group, Hai Ge was no longer worried, and he didn't make a fuss when the boulder flew again, but only silently saluted them, as if saying goodbye to a deceased friend.

However, it is undeniably a long journey, and the Blue Whale 700, no matter how nimble it is, still walks in the Meteorite Tepee, so its speed is almost halved. In the end, Hai Ge couldn't hold his breath anymore and asked Chenggong: "How long will it take to reach our final destination?" ”