"Are you thinking about your colleagues whose lives and deaths are unknown? ……”

Zhou Xin was silent, he took a sip of wine, "Since I participated in astronaut training, I have spent it with them, eight years, we have long been used to living together, for me, they are as important as my family." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info But now-" Zhou Xin looked at the happy Lei Xingren in front of him, and he sighed, "I remember that last year, I had a happy holiday with them like them. ”

"It's going to be fine." Spred reassured, "At least they still have signs of life, and I'll ask Wren to help you tomorrow, maybe I can help." ”

"Thank you then." Zhou Xin smiled at Spred, "You can celebrate the holiday with them here." I'm going to talk to an old friend. ”

Spred wanted to go with him, but Zhou Xin stopped him, and he came to the sleeping pod alone with a bottle of wine.

Walking along the dormancy device one by one, Zhou Xin looked at the familiar faces in the dormant cabin, and had mixed feelings in his heart, every time he stood in front of a dormant device, he would silently recite the name of that person in his heart, and then move on to the next dormant device.

After walking in the hibernation cabin for three hours, Zhou Xin glanced in front of each hibernation device, standing in front of the last hibernation device, Zhou Xin sighed deeply, and then he walked to the door of the hibernation pod and raised the wine glass in his hand, "Brothers and sisters, I don't know if you can hear it now, today is a new Chinese New Year's Eve." In the past year, I have managed to discover an alien civilization, and although this civilization is not doing well now, they are at least a real alien civilization. Now I have obtained a warp engine from this alien civilization, and I am taking them to a new planet for adventure, I hope that the new adventure can have new harvests, I want to get your blessings. At this point, he paused for a moment, then continued, "I wish you could wake up early and share the joy of your trip with me." He drank the wine in his hand, "Okay, let's accompany you here first, I'm still the captain of the ship, and I should go and accompany those thunder stars." With that, he walked out of the sleeping pod.

Back in the hall where he had just celebrated, Zhou Xin found that the Lei Xing people had finished the celebration, and only a few robots were left cleaning up the messy hall, and he casually grabbed a nearby robot and asked, and the robot told Zhou Xin that the celebration had long ended, and everyone was very satisfied with this event. During the event, many people liked to drink, and when they got drunk, the scene became chaotic, and Spred had to stop the event early, leaving only the robot cleaning up the mess.

After understanding that the celebration was not too problematic, Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and then he felt tired all over, the previous two days of preparation activities had exhausted him, and he had just spent a long time in the sleeping cabin, and before he knew it, it was already early in the morning, Zhou Xin returned to his cabin with a full body of tiredness, and fell asleep on the bed without even taking off his clothes......

Within a few days after the Spring Festival, Zhou Xin found that those Thunderstar people were more energetic, and there were more smiles on their faces, even Guresta, who had been silent for a long time, showed a hint of a smile. Zhou Xin felt very strange, so he went to ask Spred.

"Actually, they've been suppressed for a long time." Spred replied, "The fear of the end of the world when they were at the base, although this fear basically disappeared when they got on the ship, but on the ship they were still full of doubts about the unknown future and the unsuitable environment, although they didn't say anything, but I can still see that they still have a trace of distrust in you, the captain, and this event has released the gloom in their hearts." At the very least, they've come to believe in you and recognize your captaincy. ”

"Okay." Zhou Xin scratched his head, "It seems that this time it was a mistake, but overall the result is still good." ”

After solving the doubts in his heart, Zhou Xin wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the Voyager, and he had to leave Spred to deal with the Voyager's report.

More than three months have passed since the Spring Festival, and in these three months, Zhou Xin found that those Lei Xing people were more motivated in addition to work, and they would take the initiative to greet him when they met him.

On this day, Zhou Xin was greeting a thunderstar man in the aisle, and Spred found him.

"It's been more than eight months since we left Thunderstar." "It's been more than a month since the last time I was out of warp form. In my estimation, we are not far from our destination. ”

By the way, in the past eight months, Zhou Xin and they have not been in a warp state all the time, but quit the warp state every other month to rest for a day or two. The reason for this is, first, to check the state of the warp engine; The second is to fine-tune the direction in which they are headed; The third is to relieve the psychological depression of being in the warp space for a long time. And the last time they exited the warp state, they had already discovered that they were just over a month away from the target planet. After deliberating, they decided to go directly to the target planet next, without stopping in between.

"It's finally almost here." Zhou Xin sighed, "Eight months have passed unconsciously." How long can we get out of warp state? ”

"It's going to take about five hours." "Since we didn't know if there were planets on the periphery of the star, we decided to exit warp at the edge of the star, so that the overmassive planets would not affect our warp space." Once out of warp, we will fly at sub-light speed to the target planet, taking a closer look at the condition of the star system. ”

Zhou Xin nodded in agreement, "Okay, I'll go to the command cabin in a while, and you will inform the news first." ”

Spred nodded and left.

Three hours later, Zhou Xin appeared in the command module, where Spred and a few researchers were busy. In the past few months, the researchers have successfully completed the connection between the warp engine and the Voyager main engine, and they no longer have to stay in the experimental module near the warp engine to use temporary devices to operate the engine, so Zhou Xin called them to the command module and asked the researchers to teach the Voyager how to operate the warp engine.

Zhou Xin, who was sitting in the chair, was a little nervous, because just now Spred told him that the operation to exit the warp state this time would be carried out by the Voyager independently, although he knew that it was difficult for the Voyager to make mistakes as a semi-intelligent program, but after all, it was the first time it operated the warp engine independently, so Zhou Xin was a little worried.

After another hour or so, the busy researchers stopped, and they sat down.

"Are you all ready?" Zhou Xin asked, "It won't be a problem, right?" ”

Spred turned his head and replied, "No, I've simulated the Voyager hundreds of times, and I haven't made a single mistake." This kind of artificial intelligence is really convenient, just teach it once and remember it, you don't need to worry about it at all. ”

Looking at Spred's envious expression, Zhou Xin sighed: "But the shortcomings are also obvious, his learning ability is very strong, but his creativity is seriously insufficient, and it can even be said that there is no at all."

"That's enough, you must know that the most lacking thing on our planet was people before, if there are these artificial intelligence responsible for the complicated repetitive work, we can concentrate on creation. It's just a pity that we didn't create such a convenient tool. Spred said with a slight disappointment.

Just as Zhou Xin was about to comfort Spred, the voice of the Voyager came from the command cabin, "This ship is ready to exit the warp state, and the countdown is 5 minutes before exiting, please get ready." ”

Instead of comforting Spred, Zhou Xin focused all his attention on the screen.

"A minute before exiting...... 10…… 9…… 3…… 2…… 1. Exit the warp state. ”

Zhou Xin once again saw the strange scene of the starlight gathering to dispersing on the screen, "Has it arrived?" Zhou Xin asked after seeing the starlight on the screen.

Spred, who was sitting in his seat, stood up and looked at the information displayed on the screen, and then said, "We have successfully reached the edge of the target star, and there is no mistake in the operation of the Voyager. ”

Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "That's good, let's follow the plan and continue to move forward at the speed of light." ”

Voyager then turned on its main engines and accelerated the ship to sub-light speed, before it reported, "The ship has reached sub-light speed and is expected to reach the target planet in two days." According to the plan, the ship will release a probe to explore this star system during the flight. ”

Zhou Xin nodded, and then said to Spred: "There are two days to come, why don't we guess if there will be life on this planet?" ”

Spred smiled wryly, "I wish there was no life, or at least an environment that wasn't suitable for us to live in." Otherwise, I would have regretted my death. ”

"But I wish there was life, otherwise we would have to run in vain." Zhou Xin said, "And if there is no life here, where should we go, there are so many stars around, we can't just find one and go there." ”

Ralph also said: "I also hope that there is life on this planet, otherwise how boring a lifeless planet would be." ”

Seeing Spred's gradually deteriorating face, Zhou Xin changed the topic, "Forget it, it's not interesting to guess here now, you'll find out in two days." Now it's time to do what to do. ”

……

Two days later, Zhou Xin was in the command module, and an hour later, the Voyager was about to arrive at the target planet. In fact, half a day ago, a new faint bright spot appeared around the target star on the screen, and as the Voyager advanced, this faint bright spot became brighter and brighter, and this bright spot was formed by the light reflected by the star of the target planet.

Half an hour before arriving, the bright spot on the screen began to turn into a spherical object, which was the size of a grain of rice at first, and the shape of the sphere was still hidden in the light, and only instruments could tell that it was a globular star. As the Voyager moved on, the rice-sized object grew little by little, the size of a ping-pong ball. Then there was a warning that the Voyager was slowing down, and the flight speed was reduced to half the speed of light, and after another 10 minutes, the Voyager came to a complete stop. At this time, Zhou Xin saw a basketball-sized planet appear on the screen, half of the planet was illuminated by the light of the star, faintly showing the landform above.

Zhou Xin pointed to the basketball on the screen and said to Spred: "It looks like the geomorphological environment of this planet is not bad, look, this should be land, this is the ocean, but this planet doesn't seem to see an obvious cold zone, and the north and south poles can't be seen." ”

"There's still a little bit of it." Spred pointed to one of the places, which was not large, about a little smaller than a ping-pong ball on a basketball-sized planet, and the place was snow-white, presumably covered with a layer of snow and ice.

Zhou Xin nodded, "It looks like a polar region, but this polar region is a bit small, it looks like the temperature on this planet should be quite hot." Then he asked, "Voyager, has the planet's probe been launched?" We can begin to explore this planet. ”

"The probe has been launched and is expected to reach the planet's synchronous orbit in four hours." The Voyager replied routinely.

Zhou Xin nodded, "I'll leave it to you next, and I'll be notified when there is news." ”

……

Four hours later, Zhou Xin, Spred, Ralph and a few researchers were sitting in the command cabin, and during these four hours, several of them were idle, and they were actually in the command cabin, coughing cough, playing mahjong......

Since Ralph was tired of playing the landlord, Ralph has been pestering Zhou Xin, wanting him to come up with a more interesting game to play, but there is no way to be entangled, Zhou Xin had to come up with a trump card - mahjong. After understanding the rules of the game, Ralph immediately liked the game, and now pesters Zhou Xin and Spred every day when they are idle, and when they are not free, she pulls her little sisters to play together, under the leadership of Ralph, many Thunder people have gradually begun to become obsessed with the game of mahjong.

"It's mushy." Ralph shouted happily, "Come, come, face, one for each person." Since there was no currency system on the ship, Zhou Xin changed the punishment to a sticker note. Now Ralph has two or three notes on his face, Zhou Xin and Spred have seven or eight on their faces, and the worst one is the researcher who was temporarily pulled, his face is covered with notes, and he is almost unable to see the original appearance.

"Can you stop posting it?" Zhou Xin had a bitter face, "I shouldn't have taught you to play mahjong, it's really self-inflicted." ”

"No, no, no, you came up with this rule yourself." Ralph refuses to give up.

Just when Zhou Xin helplessly stuck his head out, Voyager reported, "The probe has reached the planet's synchronous orbit and is sending back planetary surface data." Hearing the news, Zhou Xin was overjoyed, and he tore off the note on his face, "Okay, here's the business, let's stop playing." ”

While Ralph was shouting and cheating, Spred and the grim-looking researcher ripped the note off their faces and stood up, looking at the big screen and waiting for the probe's message, only one robot silently cleaning up the mess they left behind......