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Chapter 1: The Virgin's Chapter

Chapter 2: The Scythe and the Ears of Wheat

Verse 0: End, Being, and Nothingness (Part I)

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On February 11, 2040 AD, the starship Planck departed from Earth for the 122nd voyage of the Blonde Maiden, the constellation Virgo, the planet 70b Virgo.

Forty-eight hours ago, Planck successfully entered the orbital chamber of Virgo 70b, and adjusted its orbital speed at an altitude of about 150 kilometers from its atmosphere, so that its centrifugal force is basically equivalent to the gravitational force of Virgo 70b, so as to enter a stable orbit. Now, all that's left is to wait for the starship to travel closest to the "Illicia" colony on the planet's surface, and then it is time to drop the starship and send the members of the Xenoscience team and their families to their final destination, the Blonde Girl, where they will work and live for the next two years.

The vacuum launch module of the "Planck" starship carries a total of four "Zug" class carrier ships, each of which can accommodate 20 people in addition to the pilot, co-pilot and observer. There are a total of 16 members of the alien scientific research project team and their families, but they were arranged to be sent to the blonde girl star by two star boats, which is for the safety of the project and the future interstellar blueprint of the country. In addition, before landing, Planck will send another starcraft to pass through the most unstable ionosphere in the planet's atmosphere, observe local meteorological conditions, and also explore and escort the project team. The last starship remained inside the starship for backup.

The Orff family of three was divided into Group A, with Gort and his mother, Doppler and his parents, a total of 8 people, and the starboat was led by Gross; The crew of Group B, led by Noah, includes Martha, Eliah, Dietlinde, Dietma and her second daughter, Josephine and her husband and son, also 8 people.

At this moment, the St. GSG soldiers who are in charge of driving the starship are checking the safety measures on the crew's seats one by one, after all, without the protection of the steady-state module, the starlanding process may be extremely bumpy, and most of the family members of the project team have not received relevant training. Wearing a children's version of a white spacesuit, Brana is curious about his current look, but unfortunately there are no mirrors, and his body is fixed to the seat like a roller coaster protective gear, and he can only listen to what the people around him have to say through the intercom equipment inside the helmet for communication between the occupants.

"If you can describe it as a cello piece, Branagh is the most beautiful in the eyes of the famous Saint-Saëns - 'The Swan'."

Oh, we are the "star artist" Mr. Gott, who is inseparable from music, you can't just open your eyes and talk nonsense just because the little girl is your disciple, have you ever seen a swan with such a big head? In Doppler's view, who is accustomed to captive animals, everyone now maintains a uniform and rigid shape, and cannot move, if you have to use Saint-Saëns' cello to describe it, how can it look like a "big birdcage"......

When it was about to depart, the old captain Sebastian walked into the crew room, Colein Mireia thought that he had brought his granddaughter to say goodbye to Branagh, but he didn't expect Garcia to put on a spacesuit and sit down in the innermost empty seat in his row, and soon, the St. GSG soldiers also helped her sort out her equipment.

"I'll come to see you every 30 days. If you miss grandpa, you can video chat with me, and if you get tired of playing in blonde girl, you can always go back to live on the starship. Sebastian was reluctant, but Garcia put on the helmet and responded, although the grandfather in front of him couldn't hear clearly, but the other crew members couldn't help laughing: "I'm not around in the future, you better keep your beard back." Grandpa, who doesn't look like Santa Claus, has become so strange and not cute at all. ”

In the four months since the Planck sailed, Garcia has gradually become accustomed to the new extended family, and the grief she has experienced in the past is no longer so easy to express in words and deeds. Orff naturally doesn't mind his daughter's many confidant young ladies in the future, the only question is, can the old captain really endure the loneliness of a long and boring life on a starship as he did in the past?

Sebastian understood the way Orff looked at him, and borrowed the one-way communication device that St. GSG used to inform the crew during the flight, and apparently engaged in a fierce ideological struggle over this: "Anyway, Garcia needs a home, parents, friends, and a normal life like Earth, instead of staying in a spaceship with me, a strange old man who has nothing to do, drinking coffee, eating cake, and living a dispensable life." ”

"I will leave it to you to teach Garcia in the future. Carl, Belinda ...... "The old captain's earnest remonstrance came from the helmet, and Orff and his wife could only give a thumbs up and gesture in response to their trust in themselves.

After Sebastian left, the functions of the "Planck" starship launch module were immediately activated, and the three "Zug" starships were sent to the designated position through the ground slide, and the mechanical arms mounted on the top of the cabin were lowered one after another, and the three sounds before and after the magnetic combination with the outside of the starship also made the occupants inside raise their hearts to their throats.

Although he received similar simulation training at the "Right Law Enforcement" aerospace research base, when everything really came, Doppler still couldn't control the uneasiness in his heart, and couldn't help but look at his parents next to him, and get some comfort from their usual smiling faces. In order to distract everyone, Orff began to talk about "destruction and creation in the universe" in the intercom system, nominally for Branagh and Garcia, but in fact for everyone in the crew, hoping that they could relieve their tension.

"What is the most powerful collision pattern in our impressions and knowledge? Neither the collision of neutrons in nuclear reactors with atomic nuclei, nor the hadron collision of large hadron colliders, but the collision between galactic clouds in the universe, the result of which can give rise to stars. The invisible driver that caused the collision was a force that we are all too familiar with – gravity. Not only can it hold galaxies together, but it can also throw planets out of galaxies......"

"It's like swinging, right?"

"Branagh, don't just interject!"

"Astronomers have observed a pair of twin white dwarfs, as dense as one teaspoon and weighing five tons, separated by only one-fifth the distance between the Earth and the Moon, traveling at high speeds of 1.6 million kilometers per hour orbiting each other in just five minutes. Under the influence of gravity, the two white dwarfs gradually approached, and eventually collided uncontrollably and fused together to form a supernova. It was the most violent explosion in the universe ever seen, and the explosion produced as bright as the entire Milky Way. ”

"Wow......"

"In the vast universe, gravity can be extreme, but it can also be magical. Extreme gravitational pull, capable of destroying everything and even distorting space, is not an exaggeration to call it the 'Fist of Destruction'. And the magical gravitational force is another pair of 'creative hands'. All life on Earth can testify to this. ”

"Why?"

"In fact, the earth we live on was originally devoid of water, do you know?"

"Huh?"

"3.9 billion years ago, gravitational waves caused the orbital resonance of celestial bodies in the solar system, which turned the solar system upside down from the inside out. In the next 100 million years of chaotic orbit, the entire solar system is like a giant shooting range, billions of comets fly from different places to hit the planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are affected by it to varying degrees, and even the surface of the moon has formed a large number of impact craters, which is the so-called 'late heavy bombardment period'. ”

"Before that, the earth was like a super furnace, hot and desolate. However, in the 'late heavy bombardment period', the arrival and impact of one or more ice comets brought valuable water to the earth, lowered the earth's surface temperature, and finally created the cradle of life, the ocean. ”

"So, life on our earth, in the final analysis, comes from the creation of gravity. However, perhaps one day, the strong gravitational pull will also destroy the home we live on, and the earth will return to the dead silence when it was born, or even cease to exist along with the solar system......"

Orff's story was so vivid and interesting that everyone was brought in, and no one even cared about the sudden shaking caused by the opening of the bottom floor of the fully enclosed drop pod and the starship being slowly lowered into space until it separated from the robotic arm.

"However, even if this is the case, at least there will be blonde girl stars in the future of mankind."

"That's right." Gott's conclusion is also one of Orff's wants to express, "The Martian colony that the United States Division and the United Russian Division E are vying to build is too close to the Earth, and if the solar system encounters an accident that causes the destruction of the Earth, it will not be spared." If the gravitational pull of even one of the eight planets changes, the others may change their original orbits, collide with each other, or be thrown out of the solar system. Therefore, it is difficult to implement the air pressure and gravity modification project for Mars, after all, there are too many factors involved, and it is almost impossible to be completely harmless to the earth. ”

"And the Virgo 70b we are about to go to is in a sense similar to another alien colony of the United States Division of E-Liga - Gillis 581c in the constellation of Libra, compared to Mars, its environmental modification is not so risky, after all, even if it fails, it is only a problem here, and it will not have any direct impact on the distant earth."

Speaking of this, Doppler also thought about interjecting two sentences: "It's better to succeed, I don't want to die outside the earth for no reason." ”

It seems that there are some things that Orff has to explain clearly to the members of his project team in advance: "First of all, as alien scientific researchers, we should regard our mission and contribution to mankind as more important than our own lives. In addition, the E Liande Brigade is not a simple and brutal change to the environment of blonde girl stars. For example, 'Illicia', our future home, has exactly the same gravity as the earth, but because of the addition of an anti-gravity interlayer similar to the West sky land under the colony, it has no substantial effect on the gravitational pull of the planets themselves, and it will not change the inherent orbit of the three planets that rotate eccentrically around the star of 70 Virgo......"

As the sound continued to be heard from the outside of the starship, the violent shaking caused by the passage through the ionosphere of 70b Virgo interrupted Orff's speech, and brought everyone's distant thoughts back to the present landing.

The ionosphere is a part of the ionization region of the planet's atmosphere, and most of the planets with atmospheres have an ionosphere, in which the ionic free energy is converted into the kinetic energy of plasma motion or the fluctuating radiant energy, which makes it usually in an unstable state. Fortunately, according to the information from the previous starship, the weather was good on the flight path to "Ilisia", and now the tremor under the seat is relatively light compared to most of the time.

After getting out of the ionosphere safely, the starship immediately began to accelerate, and the crew inside could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and the rest of the flight was like a plane, except for the fact that there was no porthole and the outside scenery could not be seen a little disappointing, everything else went as expected. In just 20 minutes, the starship had reached the designated position on the flight monitor, and then changed from parallel propulsion to vertical descent, and finally landed smoothly through the exclusive landing channel at the top of the "Illicia" colonial isolation barrier.

Under the guidance of the soldiers of St. GSG, the Orff family, who took off their heavy spacesuits, set foot on the land of a distant alien planet for the first time. Looking up at the sky, the 20-kilometer-radial, 5-kilometer-vertical barrier has its own artificial weather system, and at the moment it happens to be a sunny day created by artificial sunlight, so that the eyes are full of crisp blue, and there is no difference from the earth.

"We ...... Is it really on a blonde girl star? ”

When Doppler arrived, he had read the introduction of Virgo 70b provided to the project team members by the Right Law Enforcement base, and knew that the stars here did not have enough light and the atmosphere was different from that of Earth, which made the planet's sky yellowish-brown. But what he saw now made Doppler completely change his original thoughts: in the next two years, everyone will not work hard in a difficult and oppressive environment, but enjoy a vacation under the familiar blue sky and white clouds!

"Look, Dad, there's a lake over there!"

"Well, make a fishing rod in two days, and Dad will teach you how to fish."

Ever since she met Orff and spent time with her, Colein Mireia had more than once seen her husband's IQ change in seconds in front of his daughter, and even Garcia knew that he was talking without thinking: "Then you must first breed fish in the lake." ”

Belch......

Another starship arrived ten minutes later, and as the oldest member of the trip, Dietma was also incredulous at what he saw. The other members of the team who walked off the star boat immediately afterwards were more or less surprised by this, except for ...... [Eliah], who followed at the back of the line.

Before Gross takes the Alien Research Project team to their residence, there is one more important thing for the entire GSG to do, which is to line up in front of the large cross erected near the landing site to pay tribute to all the soldiers and staff who died in the early development of Virgo 70b. At this moment, everyone prayed silently in their hearts, only [Eliah] put down his backpack, took out a small remote-controlled robot from it, walked straight forward amid the puzzled eyes of the surroundings, and placed it under the cross......

At this time, Orff learned from Noah that it turned out that [Eliah]'s father was a St. GSG mechanic, and most of the artificial intelligence machines on the blonde girl star came from his skillful hands. It is a pity that Israel's father was very old, and the various environmental conditions of "Elisia" in the early days of construction were far less sound than they are now, so that the sudden cardiovascular disease could not be effectively treated, and before he could return to the "Planck" on the starship, he died on the once extremely desolate land under his feet. The robot under the cross was said to have been designed by Eliah's father to complete his graduation project with him, and Israel had always had it with him.

"It's a painful and happy job for a father to make a machine and a son to take care of it after he dies." Gort borrowed Branagh's violin, played the bowstring, and improvised a piece of "B what U want na B" by Swedish singer Darin Zanyar. What moved [Eliah] even more in the music was that the goddess Dietlinde, who had been ignoring him before, actually came over to comfort him at this moment, and Dietma did not stop her daughter's kind behavior when she saw this.

Doctor,actor,lawyer or a singer

Doctor, actor, lawyer or singer

Why not president be a dreamer

Why not be president, become a man with dreams

You can you can be just the one you wanna be

You can be the person you want to be

Police man,fire fighter or a post man

A police officer, a fireman, or a postman

Why not something like your old man

Why can't it be someone like your father?

You can be just the one you wanna be

You can be the person you want to be if you want to

Each of us is special, but each of us has one thing in common, and that is a dream, and we live for it. You never know what life will bring you because nothing lasts forever, as long as you persevere, for the sake of the team you are with and the cause, I know you can reach the top.

We may think differently, but it really doesn't matter, because we're all on this journey of life. Obsessed with every little thing, those problems are the most important, luxury cars and jewelry, that is not real life.

I know you can get to the top, but first you have to make sure you don't stop......

Orff and his team members watched [Israel] remotely control the cargo robot to unload the material boxes one by one, eliminating the need for personnel to operate during the operation, and he could easily complete it alone. "It seems that as long as you put your ingenuity to good use, it's still great. Your father will be proud of you, and my father will never chase you again. Dietlinde's comment on this beside him made [Eliah] involuntarily smile back in an involuntary heartbeat.

Underneath the living quarters of the project team members is the "Doomsday Shelter", built between the ground and the anti-gravity layer, so that in the event that the outer barrier collapses one day, the colonists can take refuge and wait for rescue. It has enough facilities to ensure basic living and a water recycling system, and the cold room where the food reserves for the past two years are stored, which can be said to be the most critical and important place in the whole "Ilisia".

On the other hand, each family in the project team has a separate three-storey house in the living quarters, built around an artificial lake in the center of the colony, surrounded by green grass and an oak forest not far away. The environment is not beautiful, but it is thoughtful enough that every visitor who sets foot here can feel the care of the colony's creators.

Two hours later, after all the loading and unloading was completed, Doppler proposed a picnic by the lake as a wonderful start to a new life and work, which was immediately applauded and cheered. It was rare for the team members under his command to have such an elegant development, Orff naturally had no opinion, and after the ingredients and drinks were almost ready, he came to the landing field a few hundred meters away, ready to invite Gross and his St. GSG soldiers to participate together.

However, Gross, who was anxiously calculating something on the screen of the Xingzhou console, was not in the mood now, and Noah and the four Saint GSG warriors beside him were also solemn at the moment.

Orff saw that something was wrong, and stepped forward without mentioning any picnics, only asking them what was wrong and why they seemed so nervous. In this regard, Gross, who was covered with beads of sweat on his forehead, did not intend to hide it, but only told the doctor in advance not to tell anyone else for the time being, so as not to affect everyone's current mood and state: "Captain Sebastian just now sent a message that the No. 1 starship that led the way has not returned to the 'Planck' so far. ”

"How could this be...... Orff put down the beer in his hand, and when he heard this, the expression on his face changed sharply, "Didn't the starship fly to 'Ilisia' and return the same way after confirming the nearby weather conditions?" Supposedly long overdue! ”

"That's the plan. But shortly after we landed, contact with Starship 1 was cut off, and at first I thought they were crossing the ionosphere so much that it was too much of a disturbance to send or receive messages. But now it seems that there is a good chance that there was an accident. ”

“Oh,no...”

Virgo 70b is 1,517 times the size of Earth, and even if it were on Earth, it was possible to find it in a plane crash, let alone the blonde Girl Star who had not yet mapped the entire landscape. Of course, Gross knew this, but from the flight path of Starship 1 and the amount of fuel it carried, he could narrow down and calculate the approximate range of the fall or forced landing, which undoubtedly brought a glimmer of hope to the search and rescue operation: "Dr. Orff, go back and act as if nothing happened." Noah and I each took two soldiers and drove the No. 2 and No. 3 starships to look for them separately. ”

"I will call the medical team to go with you, and if there is a real accident, it will be convenient to treat the injured in time." Orff's kindness, Gross understood, but he couldn't accept it: "No." Your alien research project team has a more important task, and we can solve the matter of St. GSG ourselves. You just need to reassure the team members and not let anything interfere with your future life and work. ”

Gross told Noah and his St. GSG soldiers to get the multi-function timing device on their wrists, remove the fuel needed to return to the Planck, and have only about five hours of flight time left, and whether or not they find the No. 1 starship, they must return to the colony within four hours. Seeing this, Orff didn't want to say anything more, and before getting off the star boat, he suddenly turned around and said to Gross with a serious face: "In four hours, I'll wait for you at the landing site." There is an important question that I must confirm with you personally...... Good luck. ”

In silence, Gross nodded thoughtfully.

The regulation of day and night in the territory of "Illisia" is strictly in accordance with the 24-hour clock on the earth. Soon, the artificial sunlight system in all areas was shut down, and the barrier changed from transparent to a dark color that was nearly black, bringing the colonists their first night to the blonde girl.

[Elia] used more than a dozen freight robots to light up for everyone, turning the lakeside dinner under the sun into a night light party. Accompanied by the sound of the Gort, the crowd rejoiced in drinking, singing, dancing, or playing games, and beer, a scarce resource for the aliens, wiped out a full half of the entire inventory on the first day alone......

Everyone let go of themselves without reservation, only Orff was the team leader, and Colein Mireya could see that he had something on his mind, and although they were entertaining together, they didn't drink alcohol during the whole process.

At the appointed time, Orff, who had sent his wife and daughter back to the room, remained absolutely conscious and came to the landing field alone to wait for Gross's news. The two starships returned on time, and without waiting for the doctor to speak, Gross, who was the first to walk off the starship, shook his head helplessly, and it seemed that he had not found any clues or traces related to the No. 1 starship.

The two looked side by side at the starry night full of artificial atmosphere on the blonde girl's starry star, and after a long while, Orff broke the silence: "Now, which year and month is Earth time, and what day is it?" ”

Gross was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know how to answer, so he subconsciously tucked the special timer device on his wrist into his cuff.

"I think the three Saint GSG soldiers on Star Boat 1 are already very lucky, but at least we should remember the true date of their deaths." Orff's tone and attitude did not blame him at all, but it made Gross feel that there were some things that could no longer be hidden: "Today is ...... 2040 AD, February 11. ”

And so it was.

Unexpectedly, Einstein's "time dilation effect" turned out to be real. Orff did not fail to suspect that the "Planck's" crossing and voyage at sub-light speed would have an impact on the passage of time for the passengers themselves, but the entire "Right Law Enforcement" base did not mention the matter, so that they gradually forgot the doubts in their hearts and did not delve into this issue. It wasn't until he accidentally saw the date display on Gross's wrist a few hours ago that Orff realized that the period of time he had been away from Earth could be far more than three years......

"Until the Virgo 70b's immigration aptitude test begins, the E-Link strictly forbids anyone in the know-how to disclose this secret to anyone, and we, the crew of the St. GSG, and the Planck, have no other choice...... Only commands can be executed. ”

It turned out that Sebastian also knew. Orff closed his eyes and let out a low chuckle, and instead of comforting the people with Gross's explanation, they made it more difficult for him to accept.

"The E-German Brigade has done its best to accommodate the feelings of the project team members, which is the fundamental reason why everyone involved in the program must bring their immediate family members with them."

"I'm sure there were people who said the same thing when you first experienced this?"