Ye Luo's question to Wei Feng about "either return to the solar system or go to the South Gate II" seemed to be a bit headless, but Wei Feng understood the specific meaning of this question in an instant.

The cruel reality once again forced Wei Feng to the edge of the cliff, and did not leave Wei Feng a little room to turn around. That's right, it's really like what Ye Luo said, you can only choose one of the two, and Wei Feng doesn't have any other choice.

Choosing to stay here to repair the damage to stop the fuel leak, the Star Ocean will still have more or less enough fuel, but the navigation equipment will be destroyed by the fire. And without the navigation instrument, Wei Feng would never have been able to reach the South Gate Two Galaxy.

Because there is not a complete vacuum in space. There are still a large number of microscopic particles, and even interstellar dust clouds that stretch for hundreds of billions of kilometers. Although they are completely invisible to the naked eye and cannot be physically felt, they are constantly functioning. The Star Ocean spacecraft will inevitably collide with them while sailing at high speed. In the midst of this constant collision, the course of the Xinghai spacecraft will continue to shift, but for interstellar navigation, the initial one-centimeter orbital deviation may mean an error of 10 billion, or even 100 billion kilometers, when it reaches its destination in the future.

The Star Ocean spacecraft must constantly correct its orbit to ensure the accuracy of its own path. To correct the orbit, it is necessary to use navigation instruments - navigation instruments are a complete set of sophisticated and complete systems, which will continuously observe the radiation intensity and flash frequency changes of dozens of iconic neutron stars in the Milky Way, combined with dynamic star atlases. After careful calculations, you can determine your position. Once you've determined your precise location. You can calculate the exact orbit. Without navigation instruments, the orbit could not be corrected, and the Xinghai spacecraft would not have been able to reach South Gate 2.

Of course, the spaceship has spare navigation instrument accessories, but ...... At this moment, Wei Feng is facing the situation that if the fire is not extinguished, the fire will destroy the navigation instrument - it is a destruction, not a failure of a part, just replace and repair it. There is no way to repair a navigation instrument that has been damaged to this extent.

Meantime. If the navigation instrument is lost, although the Xinghai spacecraft will no longer be able to go to the South Gate II system, it can turn around and return to the solar system on the spot. Because the Xinghai spacecraft flew out of the solar system, Ye Luo was collecting star map data during the voyage all the way, and with these data, even without navigation instruments, Ye Luo could find an alternative way to return to the solar system. Because the remaining journey to the South Gate II galaxy has not yet been completed, and Ye Luo has no navigation data on the second half of the journey, this method can only be used to return to the solar system, but cannot be used to sail to South Gate II.

So. If Wei Feng chooses to stay here to keep fuel, then Wei Feng can only choose to give up the idea of sailing to the south gate II. I had to go back to the solar system.

But...... If Weifeng chooses to extinguish the fire and keep the navigation instruments, the fuel reserves in cabin B will leak at least 70 percent. As a result, the spacecraft will have a serious shortage of fuel reserves, even to the point that the remaining fuel is only enough to slow the spacecraft from 3,000 kilometers per second relative to the Sun to a relative standstill.

At this moment, the Xinghai spacecraft is in inertial navigation, and inertial navigation basically does not consume fuel. This means that if Wei Feng makes this choice, the Xinghai spacecraft can still fly to the South Gate II galaxy under the guidance of navigation instruments, and after reaching the South Gate II galaxy, the spacecraft will still have enough fuel to slow down and enter the South Gate II galaxy, but there will be no fuel to return to the solar system.

It's a matter of either/or, and if you choose one side, you will inevitably lose the other. They are like two girls who love Wei Feng deeply, but they are full of jealousy, either of them resolutely can't stand the existence of the other girl, as long as Wei Feng chooses one of them, the other girl will definitely leave Wei Feng, and there is no possibility of turning back.

The choice is in the hands of Wei Feng. But Wei Feng was really unwilling to make this choice. A moment ago, Wei Feng was still in the deepest hibernation, and at this moment, Wei Feng had to make this decision, and the time had to be fast. Because if Weifeng delays for too long, not only will the fuel leak out, but even the navigation equipment will be burned. At that point, Wei Feng could neither return to the solar system nor go to the South Gate Two Galaxy.

So...... Which one should you choose?

On the one hand, tens of millions of scientific and engineering and logistics personnel, as well as the high expectations of the Time Traveler team, missed this opportunity, human civilization may not be able to take this step of interstellar voyage until extinct. On the other side is ...... Lost forever in the vast expanse of space, he will never be able to return to his homeland for eternity. Wei Feng will truly become a cold stone floating in the universe, never finding a home.

The standing fusion reactor around me may produce a secondary explosion at any time, the fuel reserves in cabins A and B are still rapidly draining, and in Zone D, the flames are still ruthlessly destroying the irreplaceable navigation equipment for Weifeng, and the situation has really reached a critical moment. But Wei Feng lost his mind at this time. Wei Feng felt that his thoughts seemed to be frozen, and at this moment, Wei Feng couldn't move, couldn't think, couldn't speak, and even forgot to breathe.

It was a cruel thing to make this choice, although Wei Feng had undergone more than twenty years of professional training before leaving, although Wei Feng had been tempered by more than two hundred years of lonely travel, and although Wei Feng thought that his mind had been tenacious enough to be undistorted, Wei Feng still hesitated at this moment.

There are two roads ahead, one is the work of tens of millions of people in vain, and the other is the eternal lonely drift.

"Captain, time is running out. Based on my judgment of your physical condition and the difficulty of the mission, you must make a decision within thirty seconds and start moving quickly. Otherwise, we risk losing both the fuel and the navigation equipment. At this time, Ye Luo's voice reached Wei Feng's ears, allowing Wei Feng's thoughts to resume their operation.

At this moment, Wei Feng's voice was a little hoarse: "Give it to me...... Give me fifteen seconds! Fifteen seconds later, I'll tell you my decision! ”

Wei Feng knew that if he had enough time to do this multiple-choice question, he might not be able to make a decision after thinking for a month or two, or even a year or two. But now, Wei Feng has to make a decision within fifteen seconds.

In the end, which path should you choose?

Time seemed to stand still at this moment. The quiet stars in the distance, the deep darkness of the universe, the white gas that keeps leaking, and the crackling sparks that keep coming out...... All these scenes were frozen in Wei Feng's eyes.

Wei Feng's eyes were a little confused at first, but after a while, they regained their clarity, and then there was a little more madness. Wei Feng's throat made a sound that seemed to be the roar of a beast, the sound was very vague, but Ye Luo clearly heard every word in Wei Feng's roaring words.

"Fuck it! Lao Tzu is a man who stands up to the sky! When you encounter difficulties, you want to run home, that's a bad seed! Bad seeds! ”

"Isn't it the second south gate!! Lao Tzu is determined! I have to go there to see it! It's a big deal, it's a death! When did Lao Tzu ever fear death! ”

The rotation of the ship was slowly slowing down, and the artificial gravity began to fade away. After Wei Feng roared out those two words like a beast, a force came out of his body out of nowhere, which actually made him jump up at once, turned around and ran towards the position of the D area, and the speed was even faster than the usual sprint with all his strength when Wei Feng was healthy.

Wei Feng gritted his teeth tightly, and his face was a little distorted. The low gravity at this moment has created a lot of convenience for Wei Feng's running, making Wei Feng run like flying. Ye Luo also tried to stop Wei Feng at first, asking Wei Feng to choose a way to move forward that could maintain his physical strength, but after seeing Wei Feng so crazy, he didn't stop Wei Feng anymore, but just kept telling Wei Feng the direction of his progress and where to bring what kind of fire extinguishing tools.

Wei Feng finally rushed to Area D, to the area where the navigation equipment was stored. Wei Feng picked up the fire extinguisher and began to spray wildly, one fire extinguisher ran out and replaced the other, and he was spraying frantically here, busy, and never stopped, just like a tireless robot.

The fire here was caused by the explosion that ignited the combustibles of the gas mixed with oxygen, and there was no flammable gas such as hydrogen or methane. Because the gas could not be quickly discharged, Weifeng could only choose the fire extinguishing scheme of extinguishing the open flame.

I don't know how long it took to be busy before Wei Feng extinguished the last open flame. Gas leaks were still ongoing, but Wei Feng didn't have the strength to fix them at the moment.

At this time, Ye Luo's voice once again came into Wei Feng's mind: "Captain, the damage to the navigation equipment is only twenty percent, and it can still be used after repair." Seventy percent of the fuel in compartment B leaked, and because of the reduction in pressure, it had stopped leaking on its own by the time thirty percent of the reserves were left. ”

"You mean...... Are we never going back? Wei Feng asked hoarsely.

"Yes." Ye Luo replied, "We can only continue to the South Gate Two Galaxy, we ...... Never to go back to the solar system. (To be continued......)