In the lonely and cold space of the universe, the concept of time seems to have lost its meaning. Because no matter how much time has passed, the Star Ocean spacecraft has never moved, it is always quietly suspended in this dark space. Not only is it not moving, but there is no change in the environment in which it lives.

When Wei Feng woke up again, there was no difference between the starry sky he saw and what he saw ten years ago. The sun is still the brightest star of the day, and the infinite stars in the starry sky are still in their original positions, and there is no change at all.

They are like a quiet painting, and the painting will not change.

But Wei Feng knew that this was just the perception of the naked eye. If you use precision instruments to analyze, with your own movement, the position and brightness of those stars are actually changing from moment to moment, but you can't detect it.

"Another ten years have passed, Ye Luo, have you found anything during this time?" Wei Feng asked.

Ye Luo's voice was still steady, "I didn't find anything. In all these 10 years, 950 billion kilometers, I have not seen anything within 500 million kilometers of us. The emptiness of the universe is beyond our imagination. ”

Ye Luo has been working, without a moment of interruption in the past ten years. Every second, Ye Luo manipulated the telescope equipped on the Xinghai spacecraft to search the surrounding space, but Ye Luo did not find anything.

This is a very boring job, if Wei Feng does it, I'm afraid that Wei Feng will go crazy in no more than a month. This kind of work can only be done by Ye Luo.

"Ye Luo, thank you for your hard work." Wei Feng said very seriously.

"I'm an intelligent program, and the program doesn't feel hard." Ye Luo replied, "As long as there is enough energy and hardware support." I can work until the end of the universe. ”

This sentence may seem like nonsense, but in general, there is always truth in nonsense. Smart programs really don't feel hard, they always have endless energy, they don't get irritable, they don't get sad. There is no control of any emotion. They are born to strive for the goal set at the beginning, just like Ye Luo said, "as long as there is enough energy and hardware support", they can work until the end of the universe.

This is the biggest advantage of intelligent programs over life. Sometimes, Wei Feng, no, not only Wei Feng, but also scientists on the earth have also imagined the existence of mechanical civilization. The advantages of mechanical civilization over living organisms are all too obvious. They are not plagued by short lives, nor are they hindered by difficulties such as culture, ideology, internal strife, etc. It may be difficult for human civilization to spend a thousand years on an interstellar voyage, but for mechanical civilizations, a thousand years is no different from a second.

At the beginning, hundreds of thousands of computer scientists, physicists, materials scientists, structural engineers, structural engineers and others joined forces to compile the huge intelligent program "Ye Luo" in more than ten years. And now, it has been three decades to prove its reliability. Although there are occasionally some minor bugs, although its capabilities are still very limited. But its toughness has been shown without missing out.

This made Wei Feng have a little more expectation in his heart for the possibility of the existence of mechanical civilization. Think about it, if Ye Luo's original goal was not to assist Wei Feng in maneuvering the Xinghai spaceship. Rather, it's just a matter of acquiring resources—replicating itself—sailing to the rest of the galaxy—continuing to acquire resources, and so on, then ...... What will it be like?

Artificial intelligence is a product that appears with intelligent civilization, and if intelligent civilization wants to develop, it must be inseparable from the help of artificial intelligence. But artificial intelligence is a very dangerous thing, and it exists. It could destroy the entire universe in one fell swoop.

Maybe it was because he had just woken up and his head was not too much under his control, Wei Feng couldn't help but think a little more at this moment. So Ye Luo said, "Captain, what's wrong with you?" Feeling uncomfortable? Need help? ”

Wei Feng came back from his contemplation and tried to leave the hibernation pod. At the same time, he said: "No, I'm fine, I'm fine." Ye Luo, tell me what has happened in the past ten years. ”

"Nothing noteworthy happened." Ye Luo replied, "The number of parts that need to be replaced and repaired has risen to more than 100, and my cumulative number of bugs has also increased to more than 100. In addition to this, the Earth side has sent us more than thirty bulletins, but all of them are B-, and they have not yet reached the point where they want to wake you up urgently. ”

It seems that as time passes, the various flaws and failures of the Xinghai spacecraft and Ye Luo itself have begun to slowly come to light. Weifeng knows that this will be an irreversible trend, and the number of faulty parts and cumulative bugs will only increase, just as the spaceship will always become more and more broken.

Wei Feng had long been mentally prepared for this, so he didn't feel that there was anything unacceptable about this. Just like before, the failures and bugs that occurred during the ten years of slumber this time were sent to the earth in advance, and then the maintenance plan was drawn up by the experts on the earth, and Wei Feng only needed to read the book.

Just like recovery training and hibernation, repairing the ship and troubleshooting leaf bugs are part of the daily routine, and Wei Feng doesn't have much interest in these things. Wei Feng was interested in the briefing sent by the Earth side. In Wei Feng's opinion at this moment, this is the only thing that can maintain a "sense of connection" with the earth.

The first thing Wei Feng saw was a document signed "Deep Space Exploration Committee". When Wei Feng left the earth, there was no such organization, and Wei Feng did not know what this agency was responsible for, but there is a relevant explanation below the document, which says that the Deep Space Exploration Committee is the latest leading body established by human civilization to carry out cosmic deep space exploration, and is responsible for all matters related to deep space exploration beyond the orbit of Neptune. Naturally, the Isolated Island Program is also part of the Deep Space Exploration Program, so it is also within the scope of the Deep Space Exploration Committee. To put it simply, this agency is the immediate boss of Wei Feng and has the command of Wei Feng.

In addition to announcing the change of ownership of Wei Feng and encouraging Wei Feng, the rest of this document only explains one thing, that is, about the discovery of metal fragments of unknown technological civilization sent back by Wei Feng.

Wei Feng originally thought that this incident would cause an uproar in human civilization, because in addition to the "plasma lifeform" incident hundreds of years ago, this should be the first time that human civilization has found evidence of the existence of an extraterrestrial intelligent civilization. But to Wei Feng's surprise, the Deep Space Exploration Committee only briefly conveyed to Wei Feng in the document that they had received Wei Feng's relevant report and were organizing people to follow up and study this matter, so that Wei Feng would not be distracted from this matter, and there was nothing else.

The calm attitude of the earth made Wei Feng puzzled in his heart. It seems that in addition to the explanation that "the earth side attaches great importance to this matter, but they don't show their eagerness in order to calm their hearts", Wei Feng really doesn't know how to explain this matter.

Since the earth has already made relevant arrangements, Wei Feng did not continue to delve into this matter. Aside from this document, the rest of the briefings were sent by the Time Travelers.

"We felt as if the social atmosphere was getting worse and worse, and when we went out, we saw beggars in the city. We don't know if it's a loophole in our social welfare system, and we don't have the time and energy to investigate it, we just feel from the bottom of our hearts that something is wrong. The science and technology of our human civilization has developed to this stage, and there were no beggars a few decades ago, so how can there be beggars now? ”

"There seems to be more and more anger in this society, and there is always a sense of fear when we walk down the street, because just the other day, I saw a group of people come out of nowhere, press a stranger next to me, punch and kick me, and then walk away, and in the whole process, not a single passerby came to the victim's aid, and no police showed up."

"There was a serious incident some time ago at the Mercury Heavy Industries site, where a worker blew up a storage tank, resulting in the poisoning of tens of thousands of people, hundreds of whom died."

"The Academy of Social Sciences recently released a survey data that shows that the human population has grown much faster than originally expected, and we are experiencing a new round of population explosion."

"I have a vague feeling...... It seems that our human civilization has passed its most glorious period and has begun to decline. It's a very slow process, because it's so slow, that people subtly accept these things and don't think there's anything wrong with them. But we are time travelers, we are people who are outside of society, and we can easily find these things. ”

"Breakthroughs in controlled nuclear fusion technology have greatly increased the total resources of our human civilization and brought us a highly materially rich life for hundreds of years, but now, this rapidly increasing population base seems to be constantly eliminating our surplus resources, and I am worried that if our resource extraction rate cannot keep up with the rate of population increase, our civilization will once again fall into an energy crisis......" (To be continued......

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