Darkness and silence wrapped Zhao Lan and the others tightly like a ubiquitous ghost. There is no heaven or earth, nothing but nothing.

Such an environment can cause a lot of stress. Under this mental pressure, coupled with the increasing carbon dioxide concentration and the ever-decreasing temperature, it is easy for people to have a nervous breakdown, or simply fall into a deep sleep and die. At such times, talking and chatting is the best and most economical way to cope. Because to speak, it is necessary to mobilize the brain to organize language and logic, and it will also activate the brain to supplement the memory block, which is very good for stabilizing the spirit and improving psychological endurance.

After Zhao Lan asked that question, she began to wait quietly. After a few moments, Anriya replied, "Actually, there is nothing to say...... I, keyboard, and bald, are all orphans, and I grew up in an orphanage, and then the boss took us away, taught us all kinds of knowledge, and did all kinds of training for us...... Naturally, we formed a team with our boss. The name Adventurer Squad was jokingly choked at us, and we've been calling it that way ever since. ”

An Liya's voice was a little stumbling, but overall it was smooth and the logic was clear. This shows that Anriya is in good shape. So Zhao Lan turned to ask Cruise: "Bald, you should be about the same age as An Liya Zhou Xiaoming, why do you look so old?" I'm going to lose my hair. ”

Cruise said stupidly: "You ask me, who shall I ask?" If I could find my father and mother, I would like to ask them why they made me the way I am. Let every girl I like look at me like a toad. ”

An Liya scoffed at this: "Bald, you are clearly lazy." Lack of exercise. Smoking and drinking, sleeping late and staying up late to get like this, even if you blame your parents, your parents are too wronged. ”

Zhao Lan wanted to comfort Cruise, but at this time, Zhou Xiaoming, who had already been unconscious, suddenly moved, and then made a ** sound that seemed meaningless. Zhao Lan's mood became more and more heavy.

This ** also made the maintenance cabin fall silent again. Thinking of Zhou Xiaoming's situation, several people's hearts were full of worry. But there is no way here.

But it is not possible to remain silent like this after all, and An Liya obviously knows this. So after a moment of silence. An Liya opened her mouth and asked: "Zhao Lan, you know more about this universe, can you tell me, if no one has come to rescue us, if we keep drifting like this...... Where do we end up? ”

Zhao Lan thought for a moment, and then replied: "Our current speed has far exceeded the speed of the third universe, which means that the gravitational pull of the solar system can no longer bind us, and we will directly break away from the solar system and sail away to the endless starry sky." As for where we're going......"

Zhao Lan thought hard about the navigation route map she had learned before setting off. According to the orbital parameters, he made a brief calculation based on the relative positions of the stars that he knew. Then he replied, "We will probably break away from the heliosphere in four years, reach the heliopause, and pass Sirius in about 24,000 years, well, even if it does, the distance to Sirius is about a light year...... What's next...... We'll probably get to the Crab Nebula, which is 6,500 light-years away from us, and it will take us more than 15 million years to get there...... No matter how far it is, it is impossible to estimate, the distance is too far. ”

"Can you get out of the galaxy?" Cruise then asked.

Zhao Lan pondered for a moment, and then replied: "Probably not, our speed is not fast enough to break free from the gravitational pull of the Milky Way." Even if we could get out of the Milky Way, it would take hundreds of millions of years...... It takes billions of years to reach the nearest river system. ”

"This universe is so fucking big." Cruise burst out without grace, "Hundreds of millions, billions of years, we have only traveled from one river system to another." God knows if the earth still existed at that time, and whether there was any human civilization. ”

Zhao Lan also sighed softly, and put his eyes out of the window, although he couldn't see anything, Zhao Lan still looked at it stupidly.

The vastness and nothingness of the universe make one feel hopeless from the depths of their hearts. What is the Milky Way compared to this universe? What is the solar system? What is Earth? What is the point of all this struggle that I am waging now, what is the point of all this I have done? Anyway, it's just the life and death of a tiny civilization on top of a speck of dust, so what does it matter if it eventually perishes? Anyway, if you exhaust all the wisdom of your life, all your energy, and all the time of an entire civilization, you may not be able to understand the contingencies of this vast universe...... What is the significance of all this?

Absolute nothingness, quiet, and dark cosmic space is the best time to meditate. At this moment, Zhao Lan's thoughts drifted far, far away. Now Zhao Lan even feels that in the past, he really shouldn't be so well-behaved, so step-by-step, he really should try everything he can try.

This seemingly indulgent thought is not the same as the regret of not coming and doing many things on the hydrogen bomb spaceship. Now Zhao Lan thinks a little deeper. Because Zhao Lan found that compared with this universe, his life seemed to be pure and insignificant, meaningless, and all moral, legal, beautiful, and emotional things were meaningless.

Case...... Why should we pursue the praise of others, or the satisfaction of our own heart? Why not give up all this and simply pursue the pleasures of the flesh? Drunk and dreaming of death, singing every night?

Reason was telling Zhao Lan that this was not right, but in this dark and void cosmic space, Zhao Lan's thoughts were not affected by his reason at all.

Zhao Lan felt that his breathing was a little rapid, and his head was a little dizzy, as if he couldn't breathe. At this moment, Zhao Lan suddenly felt the crisis, so he immediately adjusted his mentality, threw those unprovoked thoughts out of his mind, and at the same time calmed down and condensed his spirit, so that he felt a little better.

All of this is completely subconscious, and these things are done entirely by relying on the instinct of survival. After sobering up, Zhao Lan remembered the thoughts just now, and couldn't help but have a sense of irony in his heart: "I was still thinking that everything in life is meaningless, and when I noticed the danger, I immediately involuntarily took survival measures to maintain this "meaningless" life and body. ”

"Perhaps we are relying more on our instincts to live, and the instincts of our bodies tell us to run away from danger, to strive to gain the praise of others, to strive for more social wealth, and to strive for our own inner satisfaction and peace...... Although the spirit knows that all this is meaningless, the spirit cannot defeat instinct after all. ”

An Liya's words once again broke the silence: "Bald, why are you shaking? ”

Cruise shuddered and said, "I'm cold. ”

As soon as Cruise said this, Zhao Lan also felt that the chill to his bones was constantly eroding his body.

The maintenance chamber has lost its temperature control system, which means that the temperature in the maintenance chamber is constantly escaping into space in the form of radiation. This is an irreversible process, and Zhao Lan and the others are also helpless about it. The only thing to pray for is to get the military to rescue you before a few of you freeze into ice or die of carbon dioxide.

Zhao Lan glanced at the timer and found that the time was almost up, so he groped for the threads and connected them. The maintenance cabin immediately returned to brightness, but after a while, Zhao Lan separated the wires again, and the inside of the maintenance cabin became dark again. Zhao Lan repeated this, and on the sixth time, the simple transformer suddenly burst into flames, and then went out instantly. When Zhao Lan connected the wires again, there was no movement in the lights.

So Zhao Lan said: "The distress signal has been sent, let's wait for rescue." ”

In fact, there is no definite answer in the minds of several people as to whether they can wait for rescue. Because the military spacecraft's orbit is obtained only by rough manual calculations, this means that errors are likely to occur. It is likely that the speed of the military ship has increased or slowed down a little, or the direction of the flight has changed a little, or even if the military ship has entered the predetermined range according to the calculation, it has not noticed the slightest flash of light here and ignored it...... All this is quite possibly something that will happen.

But no one mentioned it. Zhao Lan thought that it was better to die in hope than to die in despair.

Zhao Lan was still trying to find a topic to talk to An Liya and Cruise, trying to stay awake in this way, but Zhao Lan felt that even his brain was starting to have difficulty functioning, and some data that was easy to calculate by mind in the past was still unable to find an answer after thinking hard. Even the addition and subtraction of two digits has to be thought about for a while to figure it out.

I don't know how long it was, I don't know how long it was drifting. When Cruise and An Liya both fell silent one after another and stopped talking, Zhao Lan also reached the critical line of the past coma. Zhao Lan thought that dying in this painless situation seemed to be a good choice.

But just when Zhao Lan was about to fall asleep, Zhao Lan suddenly saw a flash of light outside the maintenance cabin. (To be continued......)