In the large conference room, the presiding officer of the meeting knocked down the wooden hammer in his hand, and the more than 3,000 delegates present at the same time put their eyes on the rostrum. On the big screen behind the rostrum, the dancing red and green numbers also stopped at the same time. The green number was fixed at 2,935 and the red number was 138.

The presiding officer said: "The vote is over. The "island" plan was approved by the meeting. ”

There was a low buzz in the room, and the delegates were whispering something to each other. Everyone knows the importance of this conference, which, to some extent, will determine the direction of human civilization for centuries, if not thousands of years to come.

Although the average life expectancy of human beings has grown to 200 years today, it is clear that 200 years is still insignificant compared to the time required for the "island" project. Now the participants have decided that they want to carry out the Silosis Project, but it will not be until at least the tenth generation from now on to see the final results of the Silosis Project.

In the entire history of human civilization, mankind has never carried out such a far-reaching and time-consuming project. Whether this plan is useful or not, and whether it can move human civilization forward, will have to be judged by time.

Wei Feng sat in the first row of the conference room. In the past, Wei Feng has always been a staunch supporter of this plan, but now when the Lonely Island Project was officially approved by the meeting, Wei Feng was a little at a loss.

Wei Feng knew that the island plan had been planned for at least ten years. Even, the reason why he was taken out of the orphanage by the government. Give yourself all-round care materially and spiritually. In the process of studying, he constantly hired the most well-known experts and scholars in civilization to be his teachers...... It's all in preparation for the silo plan.

You are the best person to execute the silo plan. Because I don't have parents. No loved ones, no lovers, no children. Everything the government has taught itself is related to the Silo Project, and it ...... It was born for the island plan.

Of course, there are many individuals on the government's shortlist of Silo Initiative Implementers, who, like themselves, have been specially tailored by the government for the Silo Initiative. But time has developed to this day, and their achievements have far left them behind. Therefore, as long as the island plan is approved, then I am 99% sure that I will be selected.

"So...... Are you really going to leave the hometown that gave birth to me and raised me? Wei Feng sighed secretly in his heart.

Wei Feng's thoughts were so chaotic that he didn't hear anything that the presiding officer of the next meeting said. Wei Feng was in a daze until the end of the meeting, and only came to his senses after Chu Hai next to him patted his shoulder.

"It's time to go." Chu Hai said, "It is estimated that the training notice will be issued to us soon." ”

Chu Hai has the same life experience and life experience as Wei Feng, but Chu Hai's grades are not as good as Wei Feng's, so after the implementation of the isolated island plan, Chu Hai will probably take on the ground side. and will not leave the earth.

There are dozens of candidates for the Lonely Island Project, but only Chu Hai and Wei Feng are from the same orphanage. If Wei Feng still has a friend in this world. Then this person could only be Chu Hai.

"Let's go." Wei Feng smiled reluctantly, got up and left the venue with Chu Hai.

Sure enough, just as Chu Hai predicted, three hours after Wei Feng returned to the staff dormitory, a training notice was sent to Wei Feng's portable computer. Chu Hai also received this notice at the same time. So, Wei Feng and Chu Hai, together with the other dozens of candidates, took the rapid carrier spacecraft in the solar system provided by the government, and spent a month to arrive at the deep space exploration training base located on Pluto.

With the continuous development of science and technology, today's human beings have taken their footprints to every corner of the solar system. Not only Pluto, but also more distant Kuiper Belt celestial bodies, such as Eris, Sedna and other stars, have established scientific research bases of various sizes, and there are always people stationed there to carry out scientific research. As the closest large overseas object to the inner solar system, Pluto naturally has a scientific research base, and the scale is very large, with at least 5,000 people stationed here.

In fact, in today's human civilization, Pluto has become a supply station on the path from the inner solar system to overseas celestial bodies, and has a very important strategic location. Ships exploring the Kuiper Belt and beyond will usually make one last resupply at Pluto, and will not set out until they have enough food, water, and fuel.

Because of the existence of a rapid transportation network in the solar system, the transportation between the major planets and major bases within Pluto is very convenient. Driven by the explosion of science and technology again and again, the fastest speed of the spacecraft built by human civilization has reached an astonishing 2,000 kilometers per second, and under such high speed, it only takes one month to reach Pluto from Earth. For people nowadays, a trip to Neptune or Pluto is probably similar to a trip abroad in the era of the country.

Wei Feng and Chu Hai came to the Pluto base in this way. Weifeng knew that it would take at least twenty years to build a large spaceship to carry out the island project - not counting the process of designing and verifying the spacecraft, because these processes were completed in the previous twenty years, and if these preliminary preparations were included, the construction period of the spacecraft would be at least thirty years.

This spacecraft will take twenty years to build, which means that this training camp here on Pluto will last almost twenty years.

Twenty years to build a spaceship is inconceivable to people today. Thanks to the huge industrial base, the construction of spaceships has long entered the era of assembly line mass manufacturing, and people have become accustomed to submitting orders one month in advance, and the spacecraft will be delivered to them a month later, and it takes twenty years to build a spaceship...... What kind of ship takes so long?

For the answer to this question, Wei Feng knows very well. Because this spaceship is not an ordinary spaceship, it is fundamentally different from all the spaceships in human civilization today. Because those ships are only doing interplanetary voyages within the solar system, and this ship ...... It is a starship.

The fastest spacecraft built by human civilization today can reach speeds of up to 2,000 kilometers per second, while this epoch-making spacecraft that has not yet been built is designed to reach a maximum speed of 3,000 kilometers per second.

The components and spare parts on it must work reliably for more than a thousand years, the fuel stored on it can be used to operate the ship at 70 percent of its total power for 1,200 years, the antennas on it must be extremely sensitive, sensitive enough to detect radio signals sent from four light-years away, and its hull and modules must be reliable and tough enough, because only in this way can the ship survive in all kinds of extreme environments.

It must carry as many tools as possible, because there is no way to receive support from human civilization at the destination of its voyage, and any accidents encountered there must be solved by itself, and its artificial intelligence system must be extremely reliable, because during the voyage, most of the time the astronauts are asleep, and everything in the spacecraft depends on the artificial intelligence system to operate, and it takes hundreds of years to maneuver.

It is such a great ship that spans generations. Even with the scientific and technological strength of human civilization today, it would have taken 20 years to build it, and more than 10 million engineers of all kinds had to be involved. In order to build it, human governments must invest in the next 1.5 percent of the annual economy.

Today, the total population of human civilization has exceeded 200 billion, that is to say, the total wealth created by the hard work of more than 200 billion people in one year is only enough to build 66 such spaceships.

If there is no accident, after twenty years of intensive training, astronaut Wei Feng will take this spacecraft from the solar system to the South Gate Two Galaxy and then return, personally testing the feasibility of interstellar navigation.

The South Gate II galaxy is a triple galaxy in which the larger stars A and B form a binary star system, and the smaller C star, commonly known as Proxima Centauri, orbits stars A and B in a farther orbit. It has been determined that there is a terrestrial planet in the South Gate 23, which is about the same size as Mars. The goal of the first interstellar voyage in the history of human civilization was this planet named "Blue Night Star".

The debate within human civilization over whether to build the spacecraft has been going on for more than a decade, and it is only now that it has been approved by the conference and given the official name of the "Isolated Island" project. Because in this vast galaxy universe, the solar system that has allowed human civilization to thrive and survive is like an island in the sea.

There are many who wonder if this task is necessary. Even at a high speed of 3,000 kilometers per second, it would take more than 430 years to sail from the solar system to the South Gate 2 galaxy, and even if everything goes well, the total time taken by the spacecraft from the solar system to the South Gate 2 galaxy and then from the South Gate 2 galaxy back to the solar system will reach almost 900 years, and the average human life span is only 200 years now. (To be continued......)