Chapter 229: Good Luck
Wei Feng did not know whether the decision to carry out large-scale exploration of the outer solar system at this stage was right or wrong, Wei Feng only knew that this was the only available way for human civilization to break the dead knot. Perhaps, as Chu Hai said, we can only pray that human civilization will acquire enough technology before it finally collapses.
The long journey continued, and Wei Feng fell into a deep sleep again, and then woke up again.
Outside the window, the starry sky was always the same, and the Star Ocean spacecraft had not changed much except for being a little more worn. Wei Feng's labor tasks are a little more onerous, and at the same time, in addition to performing these routine tasks, Wei Feng has also received many experimental tasks sent by the earth.
Naturally, the Xinghai spacecraft carried many scientific exploration instruments, which were used to prepare for Wei Feng's final arrival in the Nanmen II Galaxy to carry out observation and research on the Nanmen II Galaxy. These instruments are not suitable for conducting research in the open space between the stars, but they can probably be used for a little.
So, according to the instructions of the scientific research manual, Wei Feng, with the assistance of Ye Luo, took out the instruments that had been sealed in the dust for more than a hundred years from the warehouse and began to operate them. This time it was more than five months of busyness. After sending all the experimental data back to Earth, Wei Feng once again fell into a deep sleep.
Wei Feng knew that there must be a steady stream of information transmitted from the earth's side. Now that human civilization is aware of the current crisis, it must not ignore the role that the island plan can play at this moment. This time I will sleep for another ten years, and in the course of these ten years. There must be a lot of signals that will come to you across a communication delay that lasts for more than a year.
But it was very unexpected for Wei Feng. After Wei Feng woke up again this time. Wei Feng did not receive any information from the Earth. Not only is there no government side. Not even the letters sent by the Time Traveler team, which used to be every time, are gone.
This is the first time Wei Feng has encountered this situation since leaving the solar system. Wei Feng didn't know what was going on in the solar system, but Wei Feng knew that something must have happened.
Wei Feng had some faint worries in his heart, but this worry was meaningless - at this moment, Wei Feng was a full 1.6 light years away from the sun, and the communication delay alone was as high as 1.6 years, even if Wei Feng was worried, what could he do?
Wei Feng could only suppress the worries in his heart. The spacecraft was still only repaired and restoratively trained, and after two months, it fell into a deep sleep again.
Another decade passed, and Wei Feng woke up again, then fell asleep again, and woke up again. This time, Wei Feng finally received a letter from the earth. Yes, just one.
The letter was written by Chu Hai. In the letter, Chu Hai wrote: "Wei Feng, my friend. We're sorry, but this is the last time we'll talk to you. ”
"Over the past few decades. There's a lot going on in our solar system. Human governments have led large-scale programs to explore the outer solar system, and as we think, these exploration programs have occupied a huge amount of social wealth, and even affected the vital interests of everyone in civilization. There were many complaints among civilizations, and even the current head of the state, who was in charge of the matter, was assassinated several times. Fortunately, the Führer was not harmed, but this policy could not be implemented. ”
The Führer was forced to step down, and the new Führer abolished all the policies of his predecessor regarding the exploration of the outer solar system, declaring that he would seek a "moderate and acceptable" plan for technological change. But this is of little use, the population continues to increase, and social contradictions continue to grow. ”
"Eventually, the Jupiter system, the largest productive region of human civilization, announced that it would break away from the government of human civilization and form an independent republic of Jupiter, and announced that all external energy supply would be stopped, unless the rest of the planets could be exchanged for sufficient resources. Affected by this, the Saturn system also declared independence and established the Republic of Saturn, and the Neptune system was weaker, they did not declare independence, but remained on the sidelines, but they also quietly stopped the energy supply to the inner solar system. Uranus is still in the hands of human civilization because it is moving to the other side of the sun at this moment, and is far away from the systems of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. ”
"So...... As it stands, Earth, Mars, Venus, the space island life sphere, Mercury's heavy industry base, and the Uranus system, which are still under the leadership of human civilization, have united to form the Inner Solar System Alliance. They have the largest elite population of any human civilization, the most powerful armed forces, and the largest base of heavy industry, but they do not have a stable, adequate source of energy. Although Uranus can also provide a lot of energy support, it is too far away from the inner solar system, and the energy quality is low, and the output of Uranus alone is not enough to support the energy needs of the entire inner solar system alliance. ”
"The Jupiter system, the Saturn system, and the Neptune system make up the Outer Solar System Alliance. They have an ample supply of energy and a larger population at the bottom of the society, which is less educated, but more aggressive. They claim that the Outer Solar System Alliance and the Inner Solar System Alliance are equal in status, and that the Outer Solar System Alliance does not have the responsibility to supply energy to the Inner Solar System Alliance, and that they will give priority to using energy output to improve the living conditions of the people within the Alliance, and will export energy to the Inner Solar System Alliance in exchange for the industrial, agricultural and other products they need. ”
"Wei Feng, my friend, do you know what that means? Yes, it means war. As a human orthodox, the Inner Solar System Alliance naturally cannot tolerate the restriction of energy supply by others, and the lack of energy output determines that the Outer Solar System Alliance must seek its own interests. Regarding the competing interests, there is no way for either side to retreat. Whichever side retreats, their people will overthrow that side of the government and seek a government that effectively represents their interests. Since neither side can afford to retreat...... Well, there is only war. ”
"The asteroid belt became the dividing point between the Inner and Outer Solar System Alliances, and this large-scale open space served as a buffer against conflicts. For military purposes, both sides have placed a large number of troops and weapons on the asteroid belt. But...... Eight large antennas from our Silo Project are also located here. They are located closer to the Inner Solar System, so they are under the jurisdiction of the Inner Solar System Alliance. In order to prevent the use of these eight antennas to leak classified information to the Outer Solar System Alliance, the Inner Solar System Alliance government has decided to remove the eight antennas. Our Time Traveler team has worked hard to get this last chance to contact you, and after this time, we will never get in touch again. ”
"Yes, we will never be able to contact each other again, because the Silosis Project will be terminated, we will not be able to hibernate in the future, we will be forcibly integrated into this era, and then live out the rest of our lives for a maximum of more than a hundred years. By the time you read this letter, you have sailed a distance of about six light-years, more than six hundred years before you return to Earth, and by the time you return to Earth, we have been dead for more than five hundred years. ”
"My friend, I feel very sad and sad at this moment. We have been aware of the deterioration of our human civilization many years ago, but we have never been able to interfere with this trend, but can only watch it come to this point. Human civilization is divided, and the next step will be war, and war will inevitably destroy most of our civilization, and when we return to the current population, I am afraid it will be hundreds or even thousands of years later. No, maybe we don't have a chance to recover at all, and this war may directly wipe out our human civilization. ”
"Our human civilization has now mastered too many weapons of destruction, and we even have the ability to have an impact on the sun. And I don't think we're going to be so rational as not to attack the sun when the war breaks out. Once the sun is affected, we will never have a chance again, and our civilization will definitely go extinct. In fact, our team of Time Travelers is not optimistic about the fate of human civilization. We believe that there is an 80 percent chance that this war will wipe out the entire human civilization. ”
"Wei Feng, no one cares about the island plan anymore, now everyone is thinking about war, destroying each other to improve their own resource possession, everyone doesn't know how long they can live, in this case, who cares about us, who cares about you? But Wei Feng, on behalf of all of us who remain in the solar system, I ask you for one thing, you must complete this interstellar voyage, and you must go to the South Gate II system, because we don't want our human civilization to take this step out of the interstellar voyage until it is extinct, and we don't want human civilization to be trapped in the solar system until it is extinct. ”
"This is our small wish, Wei Feng, I ask you to complete this matter with our wishes."
"We are running out of time, the fleet that blows up these antennas will soon arrive, we have to go. So be it, Wei Feng, my friend, goodbye, good luck to you, and good luck to our human civilization. (To be continued......)