With an average life span of only 200 years, it took nearly 1,000 years to send an astronaut to South Gate 2 and back from South Gate 2...... Does that really make any sense?

If it weren't for the Führer's steady push for support and constant appeals for support, the island project would have been put on hold long ago. To this day, Wei Feng still clearly remembers the sonorous words of the Führer in a speech: "Just as hundreds of years ago, when we were not exhausted of fossil energy, we began to seek new energy sources to seek alternatives, and now, although we have not yet felt the urgency of interstellar navigation, we must also begin to seek breakthroughs in this regard." Because the interstellar voyage takes so long that it will be too late for us to feel the urgency before we start researching it. ”

"After a comprehensive study, the Academy of Social Sciences has come to the conclusion that the total number of people that the entire solar system can carry is 500 billion, and if it exceeds 500 billion people, the comfort of survival will be reduced, and the limit carrying capacity is about 800 billion, and if it exceeds 800 billion, some people will freeze to death or starve to death because of lack of resources. And according to the current rate of population growth, our population will reach 800 billion in 700 years at most. By that time...... Where should we go from here? And a war that will engulf the entire solar system to reduce the total population? No, I'm sure no one will be happy to see this outcome. Then there is only one way out for us...... That is, to develop the outer solar system, to seek more resources and planets to support the population of our human civilization. ”

"This universe provides us with an infinite supply of stars and resources, but if only our civilization is in trouble because of its complacency and pleasure...... My fellow citizens, will you not be ashamed? ”

The will of the Führer ultimately triumphed. The Silo Project was eventually implemented. Although this time it was just a spaceship. Alone. But...... As long as a person can be sent to an outer star system and then returned smoothly, it means that one day in the future, human civilization will be able to send 100 million people, or even 10 billion people, to the outer star system.

Let human civilization branch out in countless star systems, and let the footprints of human civilization cover the entire third spiral arm and even the entire galaxy...... This is the real era of interstellar development, and compared with such interstellar development, what is the development of just a few small planets in a solar system?

Wei Feng is proud to be at the forefront of the times, because Wei Feng knows. No matter whether his trip is successful or not, his name will be remembered by history, but at the same time, Wei Feng is a little lonely and afraid in his heart. Because Wei Feng knows that he will be greeted by a lonely trip for nearly a thousand years, even if he finally returns from the South Gate Two Galaxy, because of the gap between the times of the millennium, everything he knows will disappear, his favorite movies, his favorite clothes. The food you like will disappear and evolve into something you can't understand, your own aesthetics. The concept of life, the view of things, etc. will all be outdated, and he has left this era, but his thinking will always stay in this era, which is destined to never be accepted by the new era after a thousand years. Myself...... will become a person who has been abandoned by the times.

This is the price that must be paid to leave a name in history. But Weifeng is ready to pay those costs. Because of Wei Feng's life, all the education Wei Feng received was prepared for this mission. If this mission cannot be carried out, Wei Feng's life will lose all meaning.

Wei Feng and Chu Hai have been training in the Pluto base for thirteen years. During this period of time, Wei Feng, Chu Hai and others learned together about spaceship maintenance, emergency rescue, the relevant knowledge of South Gate 2, and the response methods in the face of various dangerous situations, etc., which are 37 categories and thousands of sub-categories. As Wei Feng expected, in the assessment after assessment, Wei Feng's results have always been far ahead of his classmates.

Wei Feng knows that every "excellent" on his report card means that he is one step closer to the interstellar voyage, and it also means that he is a little closer to the thousand-year-old loneliness. But Wei Feng had no other choice, and Wei Feng's life trajectory was already doomed as early as the rainy afternoon when he was taken out of the orphanage when he was a child. Rather than staying on the earth and overturning all the previous life experiences of more than 30 years and starting all over again, Wei Feng would rather be a person abandoned by the times after enduring this thousand years of loneliness.

After 13 years of intensive training, the "Xinghai" spacecraft, which was used to carry out the island plan, completed the construction of the overall structure. So Wei Feng and the others' training base moved from Pluto to Jupiter's dock. Wei Feng and the others will spend the remaining seven years living on this half-finished Xinghai spaceship, personally participating in the construction of the Xinghai spaceship, so as to familiarize themselves with all aspects of the Xinghai spaceship's structure and learn how to operate the spaceship.

Time slipped away bit by bit, and the Star Ocean spacecraft became complete day by day. Finally, nine years later—two years longer than scheduled—the Star Ocean spacecraft was built and accepted. Twenty-two years have passed, and the head of state who decided to implement the Isle Plan has long since stepped down, and his successor has stepped down five years ago, and the current head of state is the third head of state since the implementation of the Isle Plan.

The babbling child at the time of the meeting was almost at the end of his school, and the student by that time should have worked and married and had children. In the course of more than twenty years, many have died and many have been born. During this period of time, I don't know how many joys and sorrows have happened, but all of this has nothing to do with Wei Feng Chuhai and others. For many years, the candidates for implementation of the Isolated Island Project such as Wei Feng Chuhai have been living under close surveillance by the government, which strictly prohibits them from having any contact with the outside world, especially with the opposite sex of the same age. For the candidates, affection or love and the like are complete poison.

Because things like family or love can affect the minds of the candidates, they will be shaken in their determination to carry out the task, and this will lead to the failure of the mission. This is inhumane, but it is a necessity in the real world.

That's why all the candidates were selected from the orphanage. Because a "normal person" with a healthy family, a complete social network, friends, relatives, and lovers probably can't accept the consequences of being abandoned by the times.

The Xinghai spacecraft has finally been completed, and all supporting facilities have been built, so the day of departure is not far off. Although Wei Feng was still strictly restricted in his range of movement, he was treated much better in the Jupiter Dockyard Base. Wei Feng can finally sleep comfortably, and then enjoy the life of stretching out his hands and eating to open his mouth. Obviously, this means some guilt on the part of the government to some extent, and Wei Feng knows that the government probably intends to compensate for it in this way.

When the final list was confirmed, Wei Feng saw his name unsurprisingly. Wei Feng had been waiting for this moment for many years, but when it really came, Wei Feng couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

On the day of departure, a lot of people came to the launch base. Not only all the influential media journalists of the whole civilization, but even the Führer himself came here. Wei Feng was dressed in military uniform like a puppet, and then the Führer personally attached an epaulette symbolizing the title of "General" to Wei Feng's shoulder. Many people were talking, many flashes were flashing, and many recording devices were stretched out in front of Wei Feng, but Wei Feng's expression was stiff and he didn't say a word.

Wei Feng knew that at least 100 billion people in the more than 200 billion people of the entire civilization were watching the broadcast at this moment and looking at their faces. Wei Feng tried hard to soften his expression, but Wei Feng's face was already stiff, and he couldn't do this anyway. After working hard for a while, Wei Feng simply gave up this plan.

"Anyway, when I come back, everyone is dead at the moment...... It doesn't matter if they make a good impression or not. Wei Feng thought so.

There are still five hours until the final departure time. At this time, Wei Feng was allowed to spend half an hour alone with a person he wanted to see. Wei Feng thought about it for a long time and couldn't think of who to be alone with, so he simply said Chu Hai's name. Chu Hai was quickly taken into the room, but Wei Feng didn't know what to say.

In the end, it was Chu Hai who spoke first: "Wei Feng, I just received a notice that after you set off for South Gate II, the support work in the solar system will be taken care of by those of us who failed to be selected. ”

Wei Feng smiled stiffly, still not knowing what to say. Chu Hai continued: "We people will adopt the same dormancy arrangement as you. After you hibernat, we will also enter into hibernation, you are awakened every ten years, and we are awakened every ten years. ”

Chu Hai sighed, "That is, when you come back after a thousand years...... We're all alive. By that time...... The only people who have been abandoned by the times are you, but also us. ”

Chu Hai stopped talking, and Wei Feng remained silent. It wasn't until half an hour had passed that Wei Feng stood up, then hugged Chu Hai, and then turned around and left here.

Wei Feng knew that the next time he saw Chu Hai would probably be almost a thousand years later. (To be continued......)

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