Chapter 245: A Greeting Through Time
Wei Feng had heard many stories of desperate survival, in which the protagonist had to eat many strange and even disgusting things in order to survive, but ...... It wasn't the cruelest time. The cruelest environment is that you don't even have to eat those weird and disgusting things, and in order to survive, you have to start eating your own body. Even if I knew that this was drinking to quench my thirst, I had to continue.
There's nothing on top of an interstellar spaceship that's unnecessary, and since it's on top of it, it must have its own uses. Although Wei Feng didn't know what kind of predicament the huge spaceship had encountered in the first place, which forced it to start devouring itself, Wei Feng could imagine the desperation and cruelty of that situation.
After eating the propulsion, the spacecraft does not have any autonomous navigation capabilities. After eating the communication device, the spacecraft will not be able to communicate over long distances. If you eat the navigation device, the spaceship will not be able to go anywhere, and if you eat the life support device, your life will have to choose to hide in the hibernation pod and never come out again...... It's all a struggle against time.
After a long time, Wei Feng finally discovered it, but that life had died long ago.
After a long battle, it finally lost, and was defeated.
"This is our universe." Wei Feng sighed, "When you can't get food, you can only choose to devour your body, and when your body is also eaten, you can only wait for death in despair." ”
"This universe is what it is, it treats every civilization equally. It's like us. We don't also lose a lot of fuel. So we will never be able to return to the solar system? Ye Luo said.
This sentence made Wei Feng feel gloomy in his heart. Perhaps Ye Luo's emotional program realized the inappropriateness of his words. So Ye Luo continued: "I'm sorry Captain, I shouldn't have mentioned this matter. ”
"It doesn't matter." Wei Fengqiang smiled, "I'm just curious, hundreds of millions of years ago, when this spacecraft chose to start disassembling its hull to maintain the mass of the black hole to maintain the energy supply...... Why didn't they choose to set off towards the solar system or the South Gate system? After all, there will always be a lot of matter in a galaxy, and it shouldn't be difficult to get supplies there. They're not like us, and we can only rely on fusion fuel for power. And they are black hole engines, black holes are not picky eaters, black holes can eat anything. ”
"I don't know much about this either, but I think that the intelligent program must have left a record of the voyage of the ship at that time, and I am restoring this data, and when I restore it, we will probably know why."
"Okay, how long will it take you?" Wei Feng asked.
Ye Luo calculated a little, and then replied, "I found out." The intelligent program seems to want the data it leaves behind to be deciphered by the rest of the civilization, so it uses a very easy to decipher encoding. So, it only took me about three days to get all the data cracked. ”
"Okay, I'll wait for you." Wei Feng nodded.
This is the end of the analysis of this extraterrestrial device. Wei Feng has solved many mysteries and gained many new ones. Among these mysteries, the point that Wei Feng is most concerned about is some things about the South Gate Two Galaxy, after all, the South Gate Two Galaxy is the destination of his voyage, and the situation there is closely related to him. Especially when speculating that the mysterious signal might be related to the dead knot that human civilization is facing at the moment, Wei Feng is more concerned about the situation there.
But these mysteries are destined to be impossible to solve in a short period of time. Wei Feng could only suppress the uneasiness in his heart and slowly waited.
At this moment, Wei Feng has been sailing for more than three hundred years, sailing a distance of more than three light years. At this moment, Weifeng is still about 0.8 light-years away from Proxima Centauri, but there are still more than two light moons between Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri A and B, so it will take more than 100 years for Weifeng to really reach the core of the South Gate II galaxy.
Proxima Centauri is a faint red dwarf star with no planets around it and no larger mass bands around it, so Weifeng did not intend to stay at Proxima Centauri. According to Weifeng's voyage plan, Weifeng will pass by Proxima Centauri from a distance of 5,000 to 600 billion after about 80 years, only make a brief observation of Proxima Centauri, and then go to the core of the galaxy at South Gate 2, that is, Alpha Centauri A and B, and stay on the rocky planet that has been identified.
According to the original plan, Wei Feng will stay there for a few years to more than ten years, and in this process, Wei Feng may also take a small exploration spacecraft to carry out some interplanetary voyages in the South Gate Two Galaxy, in order to comprehensively and meticulously observe the situation of the entire South Gate Two Galaxy, but now it seems that ...... It seems that Wei Feng can only spend his life in the South Gate Two Galaxy. Because after the Xinghai spacecraft slowed down and finally stayed in the South Gate Two Galaxy, it was only left with fuel for Wei Feng to survive, and there was no longer enough fuel for Wei Feng to leave the South Gate Two Galaxy and return to the solar system.
Wei Feng also thought about the possibility of obtaining fuel replenishment from the South Gate Two Galaxy, but no matter how Wei Feng planned, due to the limitations of the environment and the equipment carried by the spacecraft, this possibility was always very small, and it was basically impossible to succeed.
Wei Feng could only comfort himself like this: "Compared to most of the people who died in the war...... It can probably be regarded as a kind of luck to be able to spend the rest of your life in the quiet South Gate Two Galaxy. ”
During the three days of waiting for Ye Luo to crack the data left by the device's intelligent program, Wei Feng carried out some restorative exercises and carried out some daily maintenance work on the Xinghai spacecraft. In the midst of non-stop busyness, three days passed in a flash. After Wei Feng stepped down from the treadmill, took a shower, and changed into clean clothes, Ye Luo's voice came into Wei Feng's ears: "Captain, I have deciphered all the data that can be deciphered. ”
"Oh, good, bring it to me." Wei Feng sat in his seat and commanded Ye Luo.
So a cart robot drove towards Weifeng, and there was a stack of printed documents on it. Wei Feng picked up the file, pushed the model robot and retreated on its own, not knowing where it went.
Wei Feng didn't care about the whereabouts of the robot pushing the model, but looked directly at this document. The document begins with a striking line: "By the time you read this information, our civilization, including me, may have disappeared from this universe for hundreds of millions of years. We don't know where your civilization comes from, we don't know your history, we don't know your culture, we don't know anything about you, but that doesn't prevent me from crossing the gap of time and bringing you this greeting from the distant past, strange civilization, hello. ”
When he saw this, Wei Feng said casually: "Ye Luo, it seems that your speculation is right. This passage shows that the organism really wants someone to decipher this message, so it deliberately uses the simplest and easiest binary encoding method to decipher. ”
"Yes, Captain, I think so, too." Ye Luo replied.
After having this conversation with Ye Luo, Wei Feng took the document and continued to read it.
"I am very fortunate that this information I left behind can be seen by you, our civilization has carried out a very detailed search of this universe in a long period of development, but perhaps due to the lack of scientific and technological strength, we have never found any signs of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations. This made us wonder if we were the only ones in the universe. Now that you can see this document, it shows that we are not alone in this universe. We are more than happy to share with you everything about our civilization, its origins, its development, its prosperity and its eventual demise. We know that a long time will bury all traces of the existence of our civilization, but I think that since we have appeared in this universe, we have to leave something to show that we once existed, right? ”
"First of all, let's introduce ourselves. We are a technologically colony civilization born on the fourth planet around the following stars, and our civilization has grown enough to travel within the entire star system, but in the end, due to the contradiction between the lack of resources and the ability to navigate, our civilization eventually split up and a large-scale civil war broke out, and at the time of writing, the civil war is over, and although our civilization has not yet perished, I believe that the end of its demise has been predestined, and it is only a matter of time before it will perish. This is the entire life course of our civilization. ”
This document describes in very brief terms the origin and prosperity of a civilization and the end of its eventual demise. Wei Feng couldn't see any emotional description from these words, but Wei Feng knew that the process must be very heroic and thrilling. But here, it's just a few words.
This information is followed by a simple star map logo. The fourth planet around one of the stars is painted a striking red. This is clearly to say that they originated from this planet. Wei Feng checked the star map and immediately recognized the planet.
Just as Wei Feng speculated, the star in the star map is the sun, and the planet painted in striking red is Mars. (To be continued......)
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