Chapter 212: Hibernation
At this moment, Wei Feng has been sailing for more than three months. Because there was a mistake in the acceleration calculation of the spacecraft, the original three-month acceleration plan has not been completed until now. However, this is within the allowable margin of error and will not affect Weifeng's sailing plan.
At this moment, the main engine of the spacecraft has been turned off, and the Xinghai spacecraft has entered inertial sailing mode. This means that the inertia force that has plagued Wei Feng for more than three months has finally disappeared, and Wei Feng can finally stand up straight, instead of standing at an incline like before.
If there are no accidents, the next hundreds of years of voyage will be completely handed over to the artificial intelligence "Ye Luo" to control. If the route deviates due to the existence of space dust clouds or other reasons, Leaf Fall will start the auxiliary engine to correct the ship's course back.
Now, the Xinghai spacecraft is advancing at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per second. Now, Weifeng is 12 billion kilometers away from the sun.
But Wei Feng knew that he had not yet broken the voyage record set by human civilization. More than 20 years ago, an outstanding astronomer in human civilization led his team to sail for a full year on the research ship "Yuanhang", a distance of 50 billion kilometers, and stayed there for more than a month before returning.
To catch up with this record, Weifeng will need to continue sailing for almost five more months. The distance of 50 billion kilometers is an unimaginably large number, but it is still a little insignificant compared to the distance of 4.4 light-years that Wei Feng will sail.
Before Weifeng. The record for human voyages is 50 billion kilometers. Right now. Weifeng has to sail about 42 trillion kilometers. The gap between these two figures seems to be a bit big, and it is a bit unacceptable to jump from 50 billion to 42 trillion all at once, but Wei Feng knows that this is not the case.
If human civilization needs it, human civilization can send a spaceship to sail a distance of 100 billion, or even 1 trillion kilometers. But it doesn't make any sense. Because the outer solar system is really empty, there are no stars here that can arouse the interest of human civilization. It is precisely because of this situation as a prerequisite that such a long voyage from 50 billion to 42 trillion will really happen now.
Although he has not yet caught up with the astronomer. But Wei Feng experienced the same loneliness as the astronomer, if not more. Because the astronomer was not alone, and Wei Feng was the only one in the Xinghai spacecraft at this moment.
Outside the window is the eternal darkness and emptiness, although on a large scale, the material density here is still extremely high, and there are countless outer Neptune objects here, but when it comes to Wei Feng's field of vision, Wei Feng can't see anything.
Not only is it not empty, but even if you advance another trillion kilometers, or even a light year. On a large scale, it is still not empty. All sorts of asteroids, comets. Interstellar dust, star fragments, are everywhere, quietly revolving around the sun in endless darkness and loneliness, like ghosts walking in the dark night, never intersecting with humans.
Although there are many of them, Wei Feng can't see anything.
The last time I got in touch with the earth side was half a month ago, at that time, in order to test the performance of the high-power array antenna, Wei Feng said "hello" to the earth side, and after waiting for nearly a day, he got an "OK" response, other than that, Wei Feng did not speak to anyone again.
Ye Luo said a lot, but Wei Feng knew that the words Ye Luo said were recorded in advance and stored in the database, even if it behaved like a human, it was always just a program.
If there were no accidents, Wei Feng knew that he would not be able to get in touch with the Earth side again for the next hundreds of years. But the leaf falls differently. Every few months or so, Ye Luo would pack and send back to Earth the comprehensive operation status of the Xinghai spacecraft and some data obtained during the voyage, but this job had nothing to do with Wei Feng.
If Wei Feng is willing, of course Wei Feng can record a paragraph and give it to Ye Luo, so that Ye Luo can send his audio and video information to the earth together, but Wei Feng doesn't know who to talk to, so he simply saves this procedure.
The first time to set off was boring. The Xinghai spacecraft is new, and there are no failures that Wei Feng needs to eliminate during the initial period, and there are no scientific research tasks that Wei Feng needs to do. The reason why Wei Feng has been kept awake and not allowed Wei Feng to hibernate is just out of insurance considerations.
Now that the acceleration phase has passed, it's time for Wei Feng to go to hibernation.
Wei Feng left his seat and came to the porthole of the spaceship again, staring at the endless starry sky outside. After looking at it for a while, Wei Feng said, "Ye Luo, please help me prepare a dinner." ”
Ye Luo replied, "I'm sorry Captain, according to the original plan, you should be ready to hibernate now." And before hibernation, you are not fit to eat. ”
"Really?" Wei Feng sighed and said, "Okay then." ”
Wei Feng gave up his intention to eat, although Wei Feng did feel a little hungry at the moment. After communicating with Ye Luo, Ye Luo began to make some preparations before Wei Feng's hibernation, and Wei Feng came to the entertainment table and casually called up a small game, passing the time a little boringly.
Ye Luo's preparation lasted for more than an hour, and Wei Feng also ended the game between himself and the computer at this time. Wei Feng took off his clothes and went to the hibernation room. There was already a coffin-like device placed there, and the lid had been opened.
Wei Feng lay down, crossed his hands over his chest, and closed his eyes.
"Ye Luo, you can start." Wei Feng said.
"Okay, rest assured, I'll wake you up in ten years' time. For ten years of your slumber, everything about the ship will be controlled by me. Finally, do you need to set emergency wake-up presets? ”
If there is an accident on the spaceship when Wei Feng is sleeping, and Ye Luo can't deal with it by himself, then Ye Luo needs to wake Wei Feng up urgently to face the dilemma. Under normal circumstances, whether to wake up Wei Feng urgently is up to Ye Luo himself, but as the captain, Wei Feng naturally has the authority to modify this condition, and Wei Feng can set some conditions such as "wake me up when I receive an unknown signal", or "wake me up when I encounter a star".
Wei Feng thought for a moment and replied, "There's no need to set it, it's up to you to grasp everything." If you think you need to wake me up, wake me up. ”
"Okay Captain, I see, I wish you a good dream. The countdown to hibernation starts now, three, two, one, zero......"
In the countdown, the hatch of the hibernation cabin slowly closed, and after Ye Luo said the number zero, some powerful anesthetics were first released in the hibernation cabin. The moment he came into contact with these anesthetics, Wei Feng fell unconscious.
Wei Feng passed out in a coma, but Ye Luo's work continued. Even if no one was listening to Ye Luo at the moment, Ye Luo's voice continued to come out: "It has been confirmed that the captain has entered a coma." Begin to release the nutrient solution ......"
The hibernation chamber was gradually filled with light blue liquid, and Wei Feng remained motionless in the hibernation chamber. It wasn't until the hibernation chamber was filled with this liquid that Ye Luo's voice came again: "Prepare to enter minus 260 degrees Celsius refrigeration...... Refrigeration successful. ”
"Turn off the power supply to the lighting system...... The closure was successful. ”
After saying this, all the lighting equipment of the entire Star Ocean spacecraft was turned off. With the exception of a few sensor parts that require visible light as a monitoring condition, the entire ship has been plunged into complete darkness.
"Turn off the temperature control device...... The closure was successful. ”
From this point on, with the exception of some parts that require a constant temperature operating environment, the temperature of each compartment and module of the spacecraft will slowly decrease, eventually falling to the same temperature as the outer cosmic environment.
"Turn off the air circulation...... Recovery of gases...... Succeed. ”
From this point on, all chambers and modules will be restored to a vacuum state, and all gases will be recovered for the next use, except for special needs.
There was no air, and the sound of falling leaves was gone. But Ye Luo's movements still did not stop. If Wei Feng was still awake, Wei Feng would know that in the future, Ye Luo would shut down all the non-core components of the entire spaceship, leaving only some important components such as the central computer, central sensors, radar wave monitoring equipment, and emergency communication equipment.
All of this is based on one purpose, which is to save fuel, to save energy. If these parts had been working, they would not have lasted for a thousand years, not even a hundred years.
From now on, the Starsea spacecraft will be as cold and dark as the empty universe outside. Aside from the fact that it still retains a little warmth in its "heart", it is no longer fundamentally different from the stones in the universe.
It will sail quietly in the cold universe for ten years, and in ten years it will wake up with Weifeng, and of course, it may also be ...... Never be able to wake up. (To be continued......)