This matter does make people feel a little desperate, but Zhao Lan is still keenly aware of other possibilities.

Zhao Lan continued: "If we make inferences based on the two principles we determined before, I think there is another possibility, that is, this super alien civilization does not actually affect so many river-level celestial bodies, it only affects our solar system, for example, they have created some kind of super barrier, covering the entire solar system with this barrier, selectively blocking the light of some celestial bodies, in this way, the level of civilization it needs will be reduced a lot, it is expected, It probably takes a K2.3 civilization to do it. Well, at the K2.3 level, the most optimistic estimate is that there is a technological gap between 5,000 and 8,000 years with our current technology. ”

"K2.3? I don't think there's any difference between it and the K6.5 civilization compared to us, it's just a super civilization that we can't imagine and can't fight against. The gap between us is still enough to make us despair, and what we do is still meaningless. ”

"If all of this is really man-made, that is, if there are super alien civilizations involved, what we are doing is really meaningless. However, I think the chances of a super extraterrestrial civilization being involved are very low. Because both K2.3 and K6.5 civilizations belong to the category of super civilizations, even the relatively low-level K2.3 civilizations have the ability to sail thousands of light-year level space, and the K6.5 civilizations may have broken through our universe, facing such a super civilization, an earth, or a solar system...... And what is there to plan for? Zhao Lan said slowly, "I think it's better for us to be down-to-earth and continue to seek explanations from the physical level under the premise of following the two principles proposed before." ”

"We've gone too far." After Zhao Lan finished expressing his opinion, Zhang Hong timely prevented the topic from continuing to deepen, because it was obvious. There is no point in continuing to discuss in depth in the direction of super civilization," I have to admit that the logic that Zhao Lan said has a certain amount of truth. I decided to accept Zhao Lan's suggestion and move the future research direction of our institute closer to finding "chance factors". As for the super-civilized thing, everyone should just treat it as an after-dinner pastime. Don't think too much about this. ”

After the idea of super-civilization was temporarily abandoned, the atmosphere of discussion in the regular meeting was a little more enthusiastic.

"I think we should start looking at the differences between different stars." "Although many distant stars have disappeared from our field of view now, we should not ignore the fact that there are many more stars that are just as far away from us that are still there." If we can't find the cause of the anomaly of the astral disappearance. We might as well find out why more stars are still there. ”

"Maybe those stars that haven't disappeared are just because they haven't been affected and affected by that unknown cause for the time being, and maybe after a while, those stars will also disappear." Another researcher said in a joking tone.

"There's a good chance you're right." Zhao Lan's tone was as serious and serious as ever: "We have to plan for the worst, that is, all the visible stars that exist in the universe may disappear from our field of vision one after another...... In the not-too-distant future, there may not be any more stars in our field of vision, whether they are quasars billions of light-years away. Or Proxima Centauri, which is less than five light-years away, could all be gone. Our skies will be pitch black and monotonous. ”

Zhao Lan's slightly sensational speech made the atmosphere in the conference room fall silent again. After a moment, a researcher forced a smile and said, "Zhao Lan, you're thinking too far away...... We don't have any evidence that the disappearance of the astral anomaly could occur closer to us. ”

"Just because there's no evidence doesn't mean it won't happen." Zhao Lan shook her head gently: "I noticed...... The distance between those anomalous celestial bodies and us is constantly decreasing...... A month ago, the nearest anomalous vanishing object was more than 7 billion light-years away from us, and now more than a month later...... That number has been reduced to less than six billion. ”

"Okay, that's the end of today's regular meeting, let's go back and rest." Without waiting for Zhao Lan to continue to say his words, Zhang Hong interrupted Zhao Lan and then announced the adjournment of the meeting, "Zhao Lan." Are you going back to Earth for your vacation? I wish you a great holiday in advance. ”

The meeting ended in a heavy heart, and the researchers dispersed in twos and threes, but Zhao Lan did not go to the dormitory area, but came to the spacecraft berthing area. Because from today. Zhao Lan has a ten-day vacation, so Zhao Lan plans to drive his small spaceship back to Earth and spend this rare vacation on Earth.

The work in the 105 Research Institute is too depressing and dull, and the feeling of oppression of watching the stars disappear one by one will always make people feel heavy unconsciously. Working in such an environment, there is still a need for the necessary means to relieve stress.

Zhao Lan entered the password and opened the berth door. I saw the new Sylvia spaceship quietly moored here. Fortunately, this time Zhao Lan's spaceship did not disappear inexplicably like the last time.

The construction of the new Sylvia spacecraft is still quite satisfactory to Zhao Lan. Compared with the previous spaceship, it has a more perfect and beautiful appearance, more powerful power and more comfortable environment, and the interior and layout are also much stronger than the previous spaceship. With Zhao Lan's economic strength, it is impossible for Zhao Lan to have such a spaceship. So now Zhao Lan not only did not resent Li Yunfan who stole his spaceship, but he was a little grateful to him in his heart.

"It's a blessing in disguise." Zhao Lan thought so.

The spacecraft slowly drove out of the berthing area, leaving the bright lights, and was constantly expanding, like an observation base of a huge construction site, into the dark and cold space. The dim shadow of the Earth can be faintly seen in the distance, and if you deviate a little further, you can see the Moon, which is much dimmer than the Earth and still looks very bright against the background of the dark starry sky. These two spheres, one large and one small, form a quiet and quiet celestial system.

Zhao Lan fixed himself in his seat, then set the sailing parameters, and the new Sylvia spacecraft began to set off towards Earth. The No. 105 Observation Base in the rear was quickly swallowed up by darkness and then unnoticed, and Zhao Lan and his own car once again entered a similar state of stillness caused by the existence of no reference object.

This period of work is too busy and too depressing. Zhao Lan is not a person who likes to be masochistic. In her spare time, Zhao Lan has always relaxed herself when she can relax, so Zhao Lan is full of expectations for this vacation.

A slight sense of oppression told Zhao Lan that the Sylvia spacecraft had entered the acceleration stage at this moment. Zhao Lan knew that this feeling of oppression would continue for a while, until the spacecraft accelerated to a speed of one hundred and thirty kilometers per second relative to the Earth. After about eight hours of sailing, Zhao Lan will come to the Earth Harbor, and then return to Earth along the Earth's space-space interaction system.

Just when Zhao Lan was looking forward to the upcoming holiday, the communication system on the Sylvia spacecraft suddenly received a message from nowhere. Zhao Lan originally thought that this was an unrelenting harasser who didn't know how to find his latest contact information - after those unscrupulous media exposed Zhao Lan's photos and personal identity information, there were many more harassers, and the way of accosting him was also strange, which made Zhao Lan tired of it.

Zhao Lan originally just wanted to delete this information directly, but the content of this information caught Zhao Lan's attention.

"This is the Yuanwang spacecraft, the ship number is 238909DA7, I was lost due to a malfunction during the expedition to Jupiter, if you can receive this information, please send my information to the Adventurer Rescue Organization immediately, I need help now."

Obviously, this is a distress message. An adventurer accidentally encounters danger while piloting a spaceship to Jupiter, so he sends this message for help.

Although human civilization has established cities on Mars that can be used for human civilization to survive, the manned landing on Jupiter has not been carried out. Because Mars is only more than 50 million kilometers away from Earth, and Jupiter is more than 600 million kilometers away from Earth, which is obviously not an order of magnitude. Moreover, the environment of Jupiter and its satellite system is too complex and chaotic, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, so although many unmanned probes have reached the Jupiter system, until now no human beings have actually landed on any of Jupiter's moons.

But there has never been a shortage of adventurers in human civilization. These people may be motivated, or because they underestimated the difficulty of landing on the Jupiter system, or just to compete for the title of the first to land on the Jupiter system, completely ignoring the ban of the human civilization government, secretly set off, and set out on the journey to Jupiter with their own private spaceship.

Obviously, the one who is sending a message to Zhao Lan now is such an unlucky ghost. (To be continued.) )