Chapter 39: The Remains of Venus
The vibrant solar system suddenly loses its three-dimensionality and becomes a pencil drawing on white paper, and the elements that make up the picture erase each item with a black eraser, and in the end, all that is left is empty nothingness.
Of course, there is another possibility, as in the original birth process of the sun itself, in order to continue the future generations, the dying red giant star threw a nebula from its belly, and the nebula collapsed partially after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and then a new star appeared......
The empty white paper kept shaking in front of Haige's eyes, and he couldn't push it away even if he pushed it with his hand, until the sound of success sounded, breaking the spell-like illusion.
"The suction emitted by the gravitational field of the U-star black hole is like a poisonous gas spreading in the universe, it does not have explosive power, but it can invisibly kill the target celestial body, the process is slow and cold. You can also think of that suction as a game of snakes that Earthlings love to play, when the Earth is swallowed up by the sun's helium flash, Mars loses this protective barrier and will be accelerated by the lack of atmosphere. If it fails to get out of its current orbit in time and escape to safety, it will follow in the footsteps of the Earth, followed by Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, ......"
"Shut up, don't say any more!"
Haige shouted uncontrollably and stopped his success. Successfully shut up in time, but he couldn't stop, and kept repeating like a pleading: "Don't talk about it anymore......"
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The Blue Whale 700 set sail again, heading at full speed at 350 km/s towards Sun Station, the terminus of the orbital route. This time, he really went to his destination, but Haige's heart seemed to be lost in the earth-moon system where the moon had been lost. The spaceship has flown far away, and the tragic situation of the U star fulcrum is still vivid, and that picture may become a nightmare that he will never get rid of.
For the rest of the voyage, Haige fell silent. He no longer had the heart to babble like before, nor did he dwell on successfully asking those endless questions, and the excitement of traveling the universe was no longer available.
After bidding farewell to Mars, which is still safe, the Blue Whale 700 sailed into the orbit of Venus.
Venus is the closest terrestrial planet to Earth, and whenever the morning on Earth approaches, it rises in the eastern sky, and the earthlings respectfully give it a good name: the Morning Star, which means that it is regarded as a messenger of light. In the evening, it will follow the sun to the western sky, and people will call it "Chang Gung" at that time.
Of the eight loyal fans orbiting the Sun, Venus was the brightest, with an apparent magnitude of -4.4, and Haige should have been able to spot it at a glance when he looked out of the porthole.
Unexpectedly, a scene that happened in the Earth-Moon system was repeated, Hai Ge searched several times with his eyes wide open, but he didn't find the target, but on the navigation screen, the rotating three-dimensional graphics were eye-catching, indicating that the location of Venus was where the spaceship went.
"No, it won't! Could it be that Venus, like the Moon, also flew away from orbit? But it's not a satellite, it's just a planet without a satellite! Hai Ge looked at the screen and scratched her head strangely.
The successful square head shook from side to side, driving the display screen to sway for a while. He shot a thin red light from the ball of his arm, and through the porthole he fell to a position not far away, like a teacher pointing an electronic whip at the teaching content on the blackboard.
"That thing, it's Venus?!" Haige was stunned.
Venus is still in place, but it has changed beyond recognition. What he saw was a dull mass of material, much like a rusty bronze mirror dug out of the catacombs by archaeologists. Due to the deflection of the Sun's orbit and the weakening of the gravitational force, Venus began to gradually deviate from its original orbit, taking on the shape of a flattened rugby ball, which fluctuated slightly almost parallel to the Earth.
Successful faces can always show the cosmic information that Hai Ge urgently needs in time, so that Hai Ge has no need to open his mouth to speak, and start reading the introduction of Venus displayed on the screen.
Venus has a scarcity of oxygen and reacts with crustal material, so it does not find oxygen in its atmosphere. However, this does not mean that the atmosphere is as thin as the surface of Mars, on the contrary, earthlings can only use radio telescopes to see through the clouds and see it from the inside.
Venus is also a planet with many plains, which account for 70% of the total area of the continents. But it has two fairly high plateaus – the Ishta Land to the north and the McVis Range, which is two kilometres higher than the Himalayas on Earth.
However, at this time, the ugly body of Venus that Hai Ge saw had no atmosphere around it at all, and it must have dissipated in the sudden increase in the strong temperature of the sun. And in this U-star black hole's pursuit of the sun, it is estimated that it has turned over many heels, so it is conceivable whether those two highlands can still be called highlands.
The Blue Whale 700 spacecraft is flying at a constant speed along a triangular trajectory.
Haige found that when a person reads quietly, he can absorb the collected knowledge of the universe into his brain faster and more completely, even though the high-energy rays are constantly fighting his thirst for knowledge, preventing knowledge from penetrating into his mind.
After reading the information about Venus, Haige realized that it was the morning star that humans often referred to as the messenger of light, so he longed to see Venus as well. The enslaved "free men" in the wolf's den usually have to get up to practice or work after sleeping for three or four hours at night, so the morning star is also a common star for Haige and Benlong.
Now there is a chance to visit it up close, but it has already slept in the black river of the universe, and its body may turn into meteorites and hit other unlucky celestial bodies, or it may drift forever until it drifts away from the solar system and then out of the galaxy. No, if it encounters a black hole on the way, it will still be sucked into the endless abyss, not only will it be impossible to bring light to the earth again, but it will never see the sun again.
In the cabin of the spaceship, the constant temperature environment is very comfortable, but Hai Ge's heart seems to be tossed in the wind and waves. When the dragon died, his anger was far more than sorrow, he always thought that one day he would avenge the dragon, and then let the tears of nostalgia flow, but after visiting the moon and Venus today, he began to miss them and weep for them.
Passing by Venus, the orbit began to make a second turn after making the first turn on Mars. At this time, the all-encompassing cosmic space seemed empty, and it should have been like a dark background of black flannel with a faint silver luster, flashing a strange red light everywhere, deep or shallow, just like the ancient battlefield after silence treatment, no screams could be heard, only blood light scattered everywhere. Knowing that the killing field full of flesh and blood and corpses is hiding behind the blood, the viewer can only rely on imagination to construct the bloody scene, this suspenseful thriller is far stronger than standing directly on the battlefield.