Chapter 1: The White Hark
The A.D. year came to an abrupt end in 6814 and was replaced by the ephemeris.
A scarred space battleship, alone among the stars, aimlessly moving forward, not knowing where to go.
This Emperor-class Type III battleship, which is hundreds of kilometers from beginning to end, is the pinnacle of the creation of the earth's civilization more than 600 years ago, and at this moment, this battleship that is enough to destroy the stars is covered with countless scars, large and small, if it is not for the stern of the ship, it still glows with light blue, and even makes people think that it is an abandoned and broken ship.
When the catastrophe came, the eight star destroyers that rushed out of the solar system disintegrated five of them in the artillery fire on the spot, and the remaining three carried more than 1.6 million remaining earthlings in the universe, each went to different star coordinates, and never contacted each other since.
More than 600 years have passed, and more than 840,000 people living in the White Deer Star Destroyer have finally confirmed one thing-their own people, plus this Star Destroyer, are probably the only traces of human civilization that have ever existed.
After the disappearance of the earth, all human beings are travelers in the universe.
Success and defeat have been the same since ancient times......
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A small spaceship, about 100 meters long, is floating in the air, slicing the top of the iceberg with a laser.
The entire planet was covered in ice and snow, and the iceberg that had not melted for thousands of years was like tofu in front of the laser emitted from the bottom of the spaceship, and a straight and clear cut mark appeared.
The snow was collapsing, forming avalanches and making screeching noises, and the top of the iceberg finally couldn't bear it anymore, and fell under the influence of gravity, falling into a huge net that had been laid out for a long time, and the snowflakes were like thunder, expanding in all directions.
Watching this scene from mid-air, it looks extremely spectacular, Lu Kun is listening to music with coffee, wearing a leather overalls, black, which is quite shabby.
The spaceship jolted slightly, but soon returned to stability, and he was still in the mood to say to his companions: "It's not enough to see this kind of snow scene a hundred times, why don't we go out for a walk?" I haven't stepped on land for months, and I always feel that there is something shortcoming. ”
The companion he worked with, named Zhang Fenglai, was fat and bloated, which is a sign of the "poor at the bottom", because after genetic screening, the sperm that may cause obesity are eliminated, or genetic technology is used to make up for the defects, and only the poor will be so sickly fat.
He smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Kun, don't toss me, it's more than 100 degrees below zero outside, what is there to see on this planet, and you see on the radar, there are creatures alive in such a cold place, at least five hundred meters in length, I don't want to die in this kind of ghost place!" ”
"Okay, then let's go back quickly, the water supply has been cut for more than half a month, this time there is no shortage of water, and when I go back, I will take a shower, I can smell the bad smell from me."
Lu Kun, who has black hair and black eyes, and is countless levels higher than Zhang Fenglai, really smells the smell of his body, and has a disgusted expression on his face.
Zhang Fenglai sat on the chair and pressed the return button on the console, the spaceship engine suddenly emitted a strong blue light, turned on the autopilot mode, and flew high into the air, the spire of the iceberg weighing more than 100,000 tons was dragged off the ground little by little in the big net, which shows how strong the power of this small spaceship is!
This is just a transport ship that does not enter the stream, and it has really been successfully pulled into outer space, Lu Kun glanced at the console, all the data are normal, until it will be bumpy when it leaves the atmosphere of this planet, and he also sat in his seat, the cup is still in his hand, and the water surface is slightly rippling.
The conversation continued, and Zhang Fenglai mocked: "It's been so long, why can't you change this kind of temper, you are one of those nobles?" Can you bathe with water all day long?
In our C12 area, it is a question of whether we can drink water, sometimes only the minimum supply, the water for bathing and peeing, is reused and purified to complete the completion of drinking water, and the people in area B never drink it, let alone area A. ”
Lu Kun is the "captain" of the two, knowing is one thing, and listening to others is another.
Thinking of where the water he usually drinks came from, his face began to turn green, and he suddenly interrupted him impatiently: "Okay, okay, you are poor, you are proud, right?" Shut up until you go back, sit tight, I'm going to start accelerating! ”
Zhang Fenglai only knew that Lu Kun's family was bankrupt, and he went down from Area B or Area A to Area C, which represents the slums, whether it was A or B, and he didn't know after knowing each other for two years.
But this does not prevent Zhang Fenglai from liking to listen to him brag, talking about how his family used to be, swimming in the big pool, eating steak until he wanted to vomit and so on.
He decisively thought that Lu Kun was bragging, water resources were so scarce, and there were still people who used them for swimming? Zhang Fenglai occasionally sighs that his brother Kun is good at everything, but he always likes to blow to the sky.
Before pressing the button, Lu Kun, who knew that the water in his hand had been reused many times, still drank the coffee in his hand with a suffocated face, and as the button was pressed, the speed of the spacecraft increased instantly, and it quickly detached from the atmosphere.
Take a few deep breaths, the spaceship is strong enough, but when you sit in it and experience high-speed flight, especially when you are out of the gravitational pull of the Earth, the taste is not pleasant, and your head is dizzy, and it will take a while to ease up.
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In the distance was a massive battleship.
The three words "White Deer" are written in white paint on the side, which is not only the last layer of protection for mankind, but also the "home" of more than 800,000 people living in the cabin, the earth where the ancestors lived is long gone, the solar system is gone, and even the entire galaxy is about to end.
From a distance, this Emperor-class Star Destroyer, which had fled with the human race for more than 600 years, was only a little bigger, but it was actually more than one hundred and three kilometers long, and it was precisely because it was large enough to be able to feed so many people. Lu Kun clearly knew that it was to be able to leave a fire for mankind, so he designed and built it according to the scale of 500,000 people.
Lu Kun knew many things that Zhang Fenglai didn't know, for example, once Zhang Fenglai asked why he would continue to stay on this Star Destroyer and wander around after encountering so many habitable planets over the years, he didn't tell the other party that there were still other civilizations chasing this spaceship, and if it fell into the hands of the other party, the earth civilization would really end, so he had been on the run for hundreds of years and couldn't settle down.
The White Deer was originally supposed to be called "White Land", but it didn't sound good, so it was finally changed to the word "Deer".
It is true that there is a big swimming pool at home, specifically it should be a lake, for fear of scaring Zhang Fenglai's little heart, so he said that it was a swimming pool.
It's also true that Dunton can eat steak, and the unique livestock farm in the spaceship is Lu Kun's private property, which provides meat ingredients for the entire Star Destroyer.
The supply of meat is too small, and the price is certainly not cheap......
The closer the ice-mining ship got to the White Deer, the more shocked the two became, even though they had seen it countless times, they still felt that the existence of this Star Destroyer was a miracle.
Its strength is not as elegant as its name, it has the strength to destroy planets, and there are as many as four planets destroyed by the White Deer, at the cost of a rapid shortage of various materials, and it is urgent to find a planet with abundant energy supplies for replenishment recently.
During the more than 600 years that mankind has been adrift in the universe, the hull has left countless traces of battle, and the worst one was even the nuclear fusion center engine was broken, making it stay in place for more than 40 years until enough raw materials were found to repair it.
The White Deer is equipped with the third-generation warp engine technology, and the ultimate speed when flying is 600,000 times the speed of light, and it took 12 hours to try, spanning more than 1,100 light years, which is the top technology in the whole universe, and it is precisely because of this that it makes it easier to escape.
Through the glass, Lu Kun could see from the hull of the White Deer Star Destroyer that there was a huge "ring" around the tail near the tail of the ship, whose function was to make the space-time outside the spaceship bend and surround the spaceship, forming a warp bubble.
The space in front and behind the spacecraft can be contracted and expanded, but the spaceship itself is placed in an undistorted space-time bubble, that is to say, only the space-time outside the warp bubble has been distorted, and then superluminal movement has been realized.
Over the years, the top scientists living in the ship have successfully completed many seemingly impossible technological revolutions with the help of the light brain, coupled with the continuous exchange and learning with other civilizations, so that the level of science and technology has been greatly improved compared to when they first left the earth.
Nuclear fusion technology has made many people dissatisfied, but fortunately, the research of "quark fusion" technology is progressing smoothly, as long as it can be successfully realized, it will once again bring the strength of Bailu to a new level, and the possibility of victory in air combat is also greater.
There are also huge empires across countless star fields in the universe, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and in the past hundred years, human beings have joined new forces, and they are not fighting unilaterally......
Approaching the White Deer, in a vacuum, it was much easier to drag that big ice block, Lu Kun unbuckled his seat belt, and he didn't need to worry about the spaceship's autopilot technology.
A red light lit up on the control platform, and then a face suddenly appeared, composed of the light projected by the machine, it was a very old man, and when he opened his mouth, the voice came: "Good job, cut it directly in place later, otherwise it will be troublesome, it is too big to enter the warehouse, we will continue to set off tomorrow, there are enough water resources." ”
This is the supervisor of the two of them, when they were young, they served as the captain of a medium-sized warship "Great Wall", and later transferred to the logistics department to be in charge of water source, don't look at the age as if they are only fifty or sixty years old, but in fact, their real age is four or five times older than their appearance.
After the development of genetic repair technology, human life expectancy is getting longer and longer, and the use of this technology costs money, and it is a large amount of money, and only some people in Area B can afford it, which means that the natural life span of the residents of Area C in the slum is about 1780 years at most.
Human life expectancy has been extended, the best sperm and eggs are selected through genetic technology, and artificially modified, parents can choose gender, or choose height and weight, and the children born naturally mean that the third-class citizens on the spaceship can only do some manual work.
The reason why it is third-class is because in addition to second-class genetically modified people, there is also - aristocracy!
They control this spaceship, make all kinds of rules, enjoy the top resources, and even have the conditions to extend their lifespan to three hundred years through cell repair and regeneration technology, after which uncontrollable rapid aging will occur, and it is almost an unsolvable problem to make human beings truly immortal.
But in the universe, there are indeed strange beings with a lifespan of hundreds of thousands of years.
And not limited to the so-called carbon-based life, there are also many silicon-based creatures and other unknown magical life, the universe is far more wonderful than people think, the more you know, the less you will find yourself.
The White Deer spaceship has three floors, the top floor is reserved for the nobles who barely exceed a thousand people, and the rebellion that just happened more than ten years ago was intended to overthrow them, in fact, since the White Deer left the solar system for six hundred and thirty-five years, similar rebellions have occurred more than ten times, large and small, and the final result is a pile of frozen corpses, floating in the endless universe.
The ice-picking boat approached the White Deer, and Zhang Fenglai suddenly shouted: "Look outside, there is a person!" ”
Hearing this, Lu Kun looked in the direction of his finger.
A middle-aged man was thrown out with no protection other than clothing.
His body froze at a rate visible to the naked eye, and his face was frozen apart, and he couldn't even make a sound, or if he did, no one could hear it.
There is no sound in space, so quiet that it makes people frightening, so they die quietly in the universe, there is no tombstone, and the endless starry sky is the best place to bury.
If he's lucky, he'll be captured by a planet in millions of years, and maybe an alien will happen to meet it and be amazed at what kind of creature it is. All in all, when he dies, he will eventually turn into cosmic dust, completely erasing the traces of his existence.
After being sentenced to death by the arbitration court, he was thrown out of the White Deer on the same day, never raising idlers, and every bite of food was precious.
In one of the transparent windows of the massive Star Destroyer, several men dressed in black could be seen standing there, showing no pity on their faces, and quickly left by the windows.
With limited resources and a population of less than one million, the White Deer, which was originally built for war, has now been dismantled with too much equipment to meet the needs of the people on board.
More than 10 years ago, there was a rebellion at the bottom of the floor, and 170,000 people died because of the failure of the oxygen supply system, mainly the poor in Area C. Looking back, many people are secretly glad that the population has decreased, which means that there are more living materials distributed to everyone, education, medical care, and housing, and suddenly they are all relaxed. This was followed by a five-year period of non-pregnancy, with no newborns, turning the population from 1.1 million to 840,000.
"I guess it's the guy who wants to blow up the oxygen supply system after going crazy, and he deserves to die."
Lu Kun's tone was indifferent, he was trapped in this spaceship, he had lived in it since he was a child, and many people had done a lot of terrible things because of their strange personalities, such as the guy in front of him, who was probably the madman who wanted to bring hundreds of people to the funeral in the near future.
"I really deserve it, we will get paid when we go back, and take me to the back of the restaurant to see it."
Zhang Fenglai smiled ambiguously, "behind the restaurant" represents a red light district, Lu Kun often disappears for a day or two, he concluded that this guy must be unable to bear the loneliness and run to find the girl.
Then he said: "Last time, a beautiful girl came to you, and I saw it, is it the little lover you spent money on?"
You can't fool me, although I cover my face, I definitely look like a beautiful girl. It is said that the young master of our captain's family, even aliens dare to go up, he really deserves to be the first son, those beautiful poor people, after he took a fancy to him, he directly let people snatch back their beds, that is a real man! ”
"Nonsense! How did I hear that it was all women who voluntarily posted upside down? Lu Kun's cheeks twitched.
Just as he was about to continue, the spaceship suddenly sounded an alarm!
His eyes were full of shock, and when he looked out, there was a small missile glowing blue light, which was rushing towards this spaceship at great speed!
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