"Are you sure you don't make a testimonial before your first warp flight?"

"If you don't say it, I forgot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Zhou Xin also looked happy, "Wait for me in a while, I'll prepare a 3,000-word testimonial." ”

"Hey, hey—you're not here for real." Spred was a little helpless.

"That's not what you told me to say, I'm not ready to be worthy of the first warp flight of the earth's civilization." Zhou Xin continued to tease Spred.

"No, I'm most afraid of hearing this kind of thing, I'm wrong, I shouldn't have made such a joke with you." Spred was defeated, and he said with a bitter face.

"Haha, just kidding, kidding." Zhou Xin laughed, "Prepare to start flying at warp speed." ”

"Alright, Captain." Spred said helplessly, and then his expression changed, and he ordered solemnly, "Prepare to enter the warp speed flight test, and all units report the situation." ”

"Everything is fine with the energy conversion device, the energy input is normal."

"The warp engine is running at full power."

"Ready to fly at warp speed, flight time-" Spred looked down and thought for a moment, "One minute of flight time, let's see the condition of the engines first." ”

"Ready to go into warp flight, flight time is one minute." One researcher repeated.

"Ready to enter the warp flight, the flight time is set, and the flight preparation countdown."

"Prepare to fly at warp speed, one minute before the flight."

"10 seconds, 9 seconds, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 before the flight, enter the warp speed flight."

During the countdown, Zhou Xin saw that in the external picture displayed on the screen of the command module, the starlight began to gather little by little, and in the process of countdown, the starlight became more and more dense, as if something in the screen was attracting the starlight to gather, and in the last few seconds of the countdown, the dense starlight was densely gathered on the screen, and the originally dim screen actually lit up, reaching the brightness of the lights in the ship. Then, when the researcher shouted to enter the warp flight, the gathered starlight actually disappeared in an instant, and the screen went black, as if the spaceship had flown into another dimension.

Since this was the first flight, Zhou Xin looked at the scene on the screen with great curiosity, and he was surprised when he saw the gathered starlight, and at the moment when the starlight disappeared, he finally came back to his senses from the screen.

The perspective shifted to the outside of the spaceship, and in a place where Zhou Xin couldn't see, in fact, the abnormal situation had already appeared when the warp engine was running at full power. When the engine is running at full power, the space behind the Voyager begins to distort a little, if you can see the outside view of the ship, you can actually see that the starlight is slightly gathered around the warp engine, and if you look closely, the distorted starlight is still shaking slightly at a certain frequency. At the beginning of the countdown, the distorted space centered on the engine slowly expanded, gradually encircling the entire spaceship, so Zhou Xin, who was inside the ship, saw that strange scene.

In the last few seconds of the countdown, the distorted space completely surrounded the spaceship, but the strange thing is that the distorted space is only around the spaceship, and the space inside the spaceship itself is still normal, so Zhou Xin inside the spaceship did not feel anything abnormal. The warped space that surrounded the outside grew thicker and thicker, and in the last second of the countdown, the warped space completely isolated the spaceship from the normal space outside, and the starlight outside disappeared.

We turned our perspective back into the spaceship, and Zhou Xin withdrew his gaze from the screen and looked at Spred on the other screen.

"The warp engine has created an isolation space on the outside, and now the spacecraft has been isolated from the outer space." Spred explained, "Right now, the warp engine is expanding the space at the back of the ship, compressing the space at the front of the ship, and we're flying at warp speed. ”

As soon as Spred finished speaking, Zhou Xin saw that the original dark external monitor lit up, and the gathered starlight appeared on the screen again, just like a movie reversing, the gathered starlight dispersed little by little, and after a while, the starlight finally returned to its original appearance.

On another screen, the curved horizon that had taken up most of the screen had disappeared, replaced by a black sphere the size of a full moon in the middle of the screen. This is the thunder star just now, but because it flew too far, the thunder star in front of him was only the size of a full moon.

"The warp flight is complete, and the spacecraft has exited the warp space." A researcher reports.

"Check the state of the energy conversion device and the warp engine, check where we are now." Spred said.

"Everything is fine with the energy converter, everything is fine with the warp engine." Researcher report.

After a while, another researcher reported: "The location information has been obtained, and we are now 180 million kilometers away from Thunderstar." ”

Zhou Xinli silently calculated and said: "About 10 times the speed of light, this speed is okay, it has reached the second speed of warp." But as soon as Zhou Xin looked up, he saw Spred's frowning expression, "What's the matter, is there anything you are not satisfied with?" It's not all right. ”

"The speed is slower than I expected, when we used it before, our spacecraft could reach 30 times the speed of light, and I originally expected the Voyager to reach 20 times the speed of light, it seems that the excessive space does affect the speed of warp flight." Spred frowned and explained.

"Forget it, I'm content to have this speed, knowing that we could only move at sub-light speeds before." Zhou Xin nodded with satisfaction, but he still asked curiously, "Is this the maximum speed?" ”

"It's just a normal cruise speed, and if you fly with an overload, you should be able to reach 20 times the speed of light in a short time, but it will cause a lot of damage to the engine, and we've never overloaded the engine when we flew before."

"I'm just asking, and I won't use it lightly." Zhou Xin nodded, and then asked, "In this case, the warp engine can be regarded as fully tested, right?" Do you still need to go back to Thunderstar? If we don't go back, we'll just leave. ”

Spred nodded, "The test is complete, and the warp engine can fly normally." As for Lei Xing—" he bowed his head and was silent for a moment, "since we have all completed the relocation of the base, it will only increase our sadness if we don't go back." His voice was a little lost.

"It's fine." Zhou Xin nodded, "Now that it's been decided, don't be too sad, at least for you there is a future." Zhou Xin comforted.

Seeing that Spred nodded, Zhou Xin was relieved, he took a deep breath, and then ordered: "Then let's leave this planet and go." ”

"The warp engine is recharged and we're ready to get out of here." Spred said, "Target-uh-Captain, where are we targeting?" ”

"Huh?" Zhou Xin scratched his head, "The goal—I don't know." ”

"Huh?" Spred and Zhou Xin stared at each other, "I don't know where I'm going, so where did you tell me to go?" ”

"Uh--no, to match the atmosphere." Zhou Xin was a little embarrassed, "Voyager, is there any place around you that is worth exploring?" ”

"There is not enough information, and this ship cannot give a planet that can be traveled."

"......" Zhou Xin was speechless, "Then what are we doing in such a hurry to leave here." ”

"It's the captain, you're in such a hurry to get out of here." The Voyager made up for it.

Spred hesitated for a moment and asked, "Uh-I want to ask, do you have specific requirements for the planet you're going to?" ”

"Any requirements?" Zhou Xin thought for a while, "First of all, there must be a planet in the habitable zone, otherwise there is no possibility of life and we are going to do it." Secondly, it should not be too far, and the total energy on board is not yet enough to support a long-distance flight. Let me think about the rest. He thought for a moment, then shook his head, "I can't think of anything else for a while." ”

"Well—" Spred looked down for a moment, then looked up and said, "I might have a planet here that meets your requirements." ”

"Oh?" Zhou Xin became curious, "What kind of planet is it?" ”

"This planet is an ordinary yellow dwarf, about 7 light-years away from our parent star, Gao, and it has a very large planet in its habitable zone. How's that, meets your requirements, right? ”

"Sounds good, do you have more specific information?" Zhou Xin asked,

"Wait a minute, I don't remember the more specific information clearly, let me check it." Spred walked in front of one of the screens and operated, and by the way, the host used by the Kilo base was also moved to the Voyager, but because the protocol used by the Voyager was completely different, the host of the Kilo base was still running independently, and the Voyager could not query the information inside. And now Spred is looking up the information of the Kilo host.

After a while, Spred turned his head and said to Zhou Xin: "Okay, I found it, but there is a bit of information." I'll just briefly talk about it. ”

Seeing Zhou Xin nodded, Spred continued: "As I just said, this is an ordinary yellow dwarf, which is about 6.5 billion years old and is in the stable period of starry. There is a very large planet in the habitable zone, estimated to be more than twice the diameter of Thunderstar, with an orbital period of about 410 days and an elliptical orbit. In addition, one or two more planets are estimated to exist outside the habitable zone, but this is speculation and cannot be determined. ”

"Sounds like a good thing, it's a planet worth exploring." Zhou Xin nodded in agreement, "The information is so detailed, it seems that you have spent a long time investigating this planet." ”

Spred said with a slight disappointment, "It's normal to investigate in detail, because this planet was supposed to be the second target of our interstellar travel, but then-" Spred sighed, "and then it was gone, but the planetary data was still in the host." ”

Zhou Xin also sighed: "It's really a pity, since you didn't have the opportunity to go to this planet before, let's go together." ”

At this time, Ralph became excited next to Zhou Xin, "Are you really going to this planet?" It's really good, I've wanted to visit this planet for a long time. ”

Seeing Zhou Xin looking at Ralph with strange eyes, Spred explained: "Originally, Ralph was trained as the second batch of astronauts, with the purpose of going to this planet, but in the end it didn't happen, and she actually complained to me about it a few years ago. ”

"That's not to blame you, you could have used a single vote to veto the proposal to stop exploring, but you actually voted in favor." Ralph complained at Spred.

Spred smiled bitterly: "At that time, even if I rejected this proposal, it would not be long before someone would put forward the same proposal, and even I would be kicked out of the institute, rather than dragging it out indefinitely, it would be better to simply stop the project first, so that I would also have the opportunity to leave the information related to interstellar travel." ”

"Okay, okay, you don't have to explain it to me, I don't know your hardships yet, I don't just complain, and I hug you by the way." Ralph looked angry.

"And then? What happened? Zhou Xin became interested in this topic, "You haven't said this paragraph before." ”

"Actually, I said it, but it wasn't so detailed." Spred continued, "But what I didn't expect was that just a few decades after the decision was made, our planet would be destroyed. If only I had vetoed that proposal at the time, maybe it would have been delayed a little longer. Spred said reproachfully.

"Don't blame yourself too much, no one can predict the future." Zhou Xin comforted, and then he asked, "What about the interstellar travel materials, have they been preserved?" ”

Spred looked at Zhou Xin strangely, "Of course it's saved, otherwise what you're seeing now, as well as the information about the warp engine." Actually, there is also information about our spaceship, but now that we have Voyager, it seems that the information of the spaceship is not useful, so I didn't tell you, and there is also information about our first interstellar trip, which I also have preserved. ”

"That's right." Zhou Xin said embarrassedly, "You can look at other materials when you have time in the future, maybe they have reference value." ”

At this point, Ralph interjected, "Hey, weren't we just talking about which planet we're going to?" Seems to be off topic! ”

"Oh, yes, yes." Zhou Xin came back to his senses, "Anyway, I don't have a suitable planet to go to here, since you proposed to go to this planet, then decide to go here." ”

So, Zhou Xin stood in the command cabin and gave another order: "Then prepare to go, target: an unknown star seven light years away......"