Chapter 234: Flash
Perhaps because of too much overdraft, after solving this accident, Wei Feng fell ill. Ye Luo's database stores a lot of medical knowledge and can provide Wei Feng with enough medical advice, but the specific situation can only be grasped by Wei Feng himself.
Hibernation does not restore the body, but worsens it. So Wei Feng woke up this time for a full six months. Healing, repairing the deterioration of physical functions caused by hibernation, exercising, and conducting a large-scale investigation of the Star Ocean spacecraft to eliminate potential dangers are all completed during this time.
Wei Feng no longer cares about the consumption of reserve materials caused by being awake for a long time. The reason is very simple, since it is no longer possible to return to the solar system, the materials that were originally reserved for returning to the sea are free, and these materials are just consumed now, and it is a waste to keep them anyway.
It's just that after this accident, Wei Feng has become a lot more silent. Wei Feng had gazed at the bright stars in the distance countless times, and recalled the days he had spent there countless times, but Wei Feng knew that he would never go back.
The fire was eliminated, the fuel leakage in the B compartment was stopped, and subsequent repairs were less rushed. Although there is still a risk of a secondary explosion of the standing fusion reactor, it is almost completely damaged, and even if it explodes again, it is estimated that it will have no further impact. So Wei Feng put this matter aside for the time being, and after more than a month, his body had recovered a lot, he modified a maintenance instrument that could be remotely operated, and released the huge pressure inside the broken standing fusion reactor. After the danger has been ruled out. Wei Feng began to slowly start cleaning up the ruins of the explosion. Repair broken parts. Repair the ship's broken armor and other aftermath work.
During this time, Wei Feng carried out a total of more than 30 extravehicular walking missions before repairing the damage to the spacecraft's armor with the help of the repair tools carried on the spacecraft, and then it took more than a month to completely clear the ruins and equip it with a new standing fusion reactor, so that the operation of the Xinghai spacecraft could resume normal.
That's where the risks of interstellar travel lie. Although this incident happened very suddenly, it is obviously a small probability event, but on the whole. Such a small probability event is almost inevitable. Just like a person randomly picks an integer from zero to 10,000 of these numbers, the probability of him picking any number is only 1 in 10,000, but the matter of picking a number is bound to happen.
Just like at this moment, among the tens of millions of parts on the Xinghai spacecraft, the probability of a serious accident in any part is only 1 in 10 million, but on the spacecraft as a whole, the probability of serious failure has risen to 70 percent, or even 80 percent.
After all, human energy is limited, and it is impossible to take care of it all. Ye Luo's intelligence is also limited, and it is unable to cope with situations that are too complex. So on a level. Wei Feng can only passively wait for the disaster to come, but cannot make a prediction in advance. And this is cosmic space. If you encounter any accidents here, you can only rely on yourself, so the risks involved in this are self-evident.
Although this accident was very serious, and even caused Wei Feng to be unable to return to the solar system, Wei Feng actually felt a little lucky. After all...... This catastrophe was not so severe as to directly destroy the entire ship, nor did it put Wei Feng into an eternal sleep. To be able to repair it to this extent, it can already be regarded as God's favor.
Time was still slowly passing, and with only two months left of the scheduled six-month sobriety period, Wei Feng began to repair the navigation instruments. After the navigation instrument was repaired, through repositioning, Wei Feng found that in just four months, the deviation between the Xinghai spacecraft and the predetermined orbit was already as high as tens of meters, and if he continued to sail according to this orbit, even if the next navigation trajectory no longer produced errors, he would pass by the two South Gate galaxies tens of billions of kilometers away.
That's why high-precision navigators are important. The requirements for the navigation accuracy of interstellar navigation are tens of thousands of times that of interplanetary navigation.
With all this done, it's time to hibernat. Wei Feng entered the hibernation pod again, and once again fell into a deep sleep. Time continued to pass, and the Star Ocean spacecraft continued its journey, continuing to set off towards the distant star.
"Let's hope I won't be woken up this time...... I hope the Xinghai spacecraft can be a little stronger and can take me all the way to our neighbors......"
This was the last thought that flashed through Wei Feng's mind before he lost consciousness.
It's a one-way trip, with only departures, no returns. Wei Feng didn't know how many tribulations awaited him ahead, nor did he know what kind of situation would greet him, but Wei Feng knew that he could only go all the way, like a pawn who had crossed the river, and could never retreat.
Time turned over and over, the lights in the Xinghai spaceship turned on and off, went out and brightened, Wei Feng woke up and fell asleep, fell asleep and woke up again, decades of time is a long time, but for Wei Feng, it only means a few wakes up.
Fortunately, the Star Ocean spacecraft has not had another serious accident like that one during this time.
The journey is quiet, this is like an isolated paradise holy place, there is only Wei Feng in this world, and the place where Wei Feng's footsteps can step is all this world.
But when I woke up this time, something broke down the isolation from the outside world.
"At your command, Captain, while you are asleep, I have been observing the solar system without interruption. About three years ago, I observed something strange from the solar system, and I think you'll be interested in it. Ye Luo said calmly.
"The ...... of the solar system," Wei Feng silently said this word. I don't know when it started, although when Wei Feng thought of the solar system, the first words that came to his mind would still be words like "hometown", but deep down, the solar system has become a somewhat illusory place, as if it was a strange place left by his childhood, with only some fragmented impressions.
It has been seventy or eighty years since Wei Feng and the solar system were disconnected, and in these seventy or eighty years, Wei Feng has not received any news from the solar system, and although Wei Feng has tried to send a message in the direction of the sun, he has never received a reply. Seventy or eighty years have passed in a blink of an eye, and now, Wei Feng is nearly three light years away from the solar system, and Wei Feng has left the solar system...... It's been three hundred years.
Ye Luo's words evoked some soft places in Wei Feng's heart. Wei Feng asked, "Ye Luo, what kind of information have you observed?" ”
Ye Luo was silent for a moment before saying, "This may not be good news for you. Three years ago, I observed a faint flash of gamma-ray rays from the direction of the solar system through the Gamma-ray Survey Telescope. I have confirmed that the gamma-ray flash was not emitted from the Sun, and it is impossible to determine exactly where it occurred, but it was probably halfway between the orbits of Mars and Saturn. After the first flash I saw, I saw a second flash half a year ago. So captain, you ...... Any idea what that means? ”
Wei Feng nodded lightly.
"Yes, as you think, it means an extremely high burst of energy. Although this gamma-ray flash is so faint that it can only be observed with extremely high-precision instruments, don't forget that it is almost three light-years away from us. We can still observe the distance at an interval of three light years...... Then there is no need to say much about its power. ”
A distance of three light years...... At this distance, even the highest-precision optical telescopes equipped on the Xinghai spacecraft can no longer separate the four planets Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury from the background, but can only be separated from the background by occultation - when the planets orbit between the Sun and the Xinghai spacecraft, the occlusion of the planets will slightly reduce the brightness of the starlight, and by measuring the slight decrease in the luminosity of the sun, the existence of the traveling stars can be deduced, and some data about the planets can be obtained, this observation method is called the occultation method - to observe the planets, but even so, Leaf Fall still observed those gamma ray flashes.
Leaffall can't see the huge planet, but Leaffall can see gamma-ray flashes. The contrast between the two says a lot.
Wei Feng sighed softly, and then said, "If I'm not mistaken, in the future, we will observe more of these flashes, and the intensity of those flashes may be greater than the two flashes you observed...... Bigger and brighter. ”
"I think that a full-scale war between the Inner Solar System Alliance and the Outer Solar System Alliance has begun. They have wielded strategic-grade weapons so powerful that they can even be observed here at our disposal. Ye Luo said quietly, "It seems that the situation is ...... It's really not optimistic. ”
Wei Feng was silent about this. Wei Feng came to the porthole again, looked at the star in the celestial sphere that was no longer bright and abnormal, and thought of many things in his mind.
At this moment, Wei Feng seemed to see the flames of the explosion, and seemed to hear countless roars and cries coming from there. (To be continued......)
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