Fast forward to 2045, and after a 10-year journey, the White Lotus Princess finally entered the inner boundary line of the Oort cloud, which is 50,000 astronomical units away.

As the spacecraft detected a linear increase in the concentration of stardust around it, the still dutiful Fog Moon activated the ship's wake-up program, and as the bodies of the advance team members reverted from the ice mound state to the living state, they jumped out of the frozen chamber one by one.

"I'm not dreaming!" Qiao Canal felt that he had just fallen asleep, and his mind was shrouded in endless darkness, and he woke up in the blink of an eye, and then looked around, the first batch of 20 advance team members appeared around him lively, and they were already unwilling to be lonely and scurrying around, as if they were a group of monkeys that had been released from the cage.

Suspicion to suspicion, as he looked at the boundless world through the instruments and even with the naked eye, he confirmed that they had indeed arrived at the first stop of their exploration, the Oort Cloud.

His face flushed, he didn't expect them to succeed, 50,000 astronomical units, this place is so far away from the sun, he is afraid of creating a precedent for mankind.

Ignoring anything, he hurriedly began to take pictures, preparing to update his Weibo and express some thanks, which will be preserved as the first log of human exploration of the Oort Cloud as a cultural relic.

Then he calmed down and took on his duties as the deputy head of the exploration department, "Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived in Oort Cloud, and it seems that the surroundings are quiet, so we will have to sail for a while to find a suitable exploration target, and during this time, don't forget the planned mission. ”

"The first is to do recovery training and make up for learning, the years of freezing and weightlessness can make us uncomfortable, and don't forget that in the past 10 years, the company has probably made a lot of technological progress. We cannot afford to be left behind. ”

"Let's complete the first official advance team debriefing newsletter and tell the base camp that the advance team has arrived at its destination without any problems, and the next step will be the official exploration work to learn more about the mysterious Oort Cloud."

"Next, we will collect the surrounding stardust material and analyze the composition and composition. find a way to understand its relevance to the material composition of the solar system; and have to find a few stars, release a moon-class spaceship, go up to explore and even collect samples. ”

Qiao Canal said in an orderly manner, this was the original planned arrangement, and even the previous exploration activities of their exploration department were repeated hundreds of times according to this standard process.

There was a "received" voice on the spot below, and the employees were full of excitement to follow the division of labor, and Qiao Canal finally completed the first organizational speech after waking up, and his face became excited again, thinking for the second time that they had finally arrived at Oort Cloud!

This is since Gagarin. Armstrong, Yang Liwei, Dennis? After Tito, another difficult challenge that humanity has never completed, they have come to the frontier of the solar system that gave birth to humans, and each of them will leave their own name in history, and even write this glory with their own hands.

But he seemed to be overjoyed too soon, forgetting that there was a mental model on the ship.

A few days later. The members of the advance team have completed most of the work according to the plan, and have adapted to the life and loneliness after waking up. At this distance, there is a delay of about 1 year in the dissemination of information, so the latest news is unknowable to them, and they just learned that the East Galaxy Company had fought another big war with the unknown a few years ago, and even the base camp told them not to worry about the unknown.

They then completed the measurement of the surrounding stardust material, and the main material that makes up the Oort cloud is hydrogen. Helium, the two cosmic creation elements, is similar to what was expected, but this time it turns out that cosmologists have inferred that the Oort cloud is indeed one of the inseparable parts of the solar system, and is not captured by the sun.

Observe the stars around you. And to be more clear about their current location, there are a few more clearly marked areas on the map of the galaxy, and when the follow-up support team passes through here in the future, they will not have to explore in a fog, but have a more accurate and clear map guidance.

The most important thing is to find many undiscovered stars that either do not reflect light, are too small, or are in disordered motion, making them difficult to detect. Among them, the largest number of comets is undoubtedly comets, which have been orbiting in the Oort cloud for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years, which are the products of the denser material of the original stardust, and have more exploration value.

So after screening, Qiao Hehe happily selected a comet 150 AU away from them, and when they approached 5 AU, they gradually slowed down, not wanting to let themselves go out so directly at 30,000 km/s, if they accidentally hit something, even the scum would not be left.

"Alright, it's an appetizer to arrive in Oorteyun, don't make any mistakes!" The members of the advance team, dressed in protective suits, stood at the exit of the cabin and waited, when they heard Qiao Canal say this to them.

"Wait a minute!" Misty Moon made a voice, "For the sake of your safety, I will first send an unmanned unit to try to land. ”

Hearing this, the advance team members below were a little anxious, "Miss Wuyue, it's okay, we're all ready to die, if we delay for too long, it will affect the time point when we arrive at Centaur Alpha." ”

"I beg your pardon, I am responsible for my master, and besides, before I left, my master said that your life is very precious, and he does not want to see anyone die."

"But Miss Wuyue, we've really put life and death out of the way for a long time! The team members are still dying, but unfortunately, Joe Canal is theoretically the highest status here, but the mental model has a higher control authority than him.

"Minister Qiao, your wife also instructed me that although the success rate of this exploration is not low, I still have to be optimistic about you, and I will not agree with your reckless approach."

"......" saw Wuyue move out of Sophia, and the rest of the team members were speechless, including Qiao Hehe, who didn't know what to say.

Wuyue didn't explain more, according to her own logic, she gradually sent 3 unmanned aircraft to approach the comet in front, if there was any danger on the comet, she would detect and avoid it at the first time, which could ensure the safety of the advance team to the greatest extent.

"It's close," she muttered, the comet chosen by Joe Canal had not yet approached the Sun and was "developing", so it belonged to the astral kindergarten stage, with a diameter of less than 5 kilometers, and it didn't even have a long comet tail, it was just a pure large stone ball.

"It doesn't look like there's any danger—" she was sure of what she thought, and that would make sure the risk of landing would be much lower, so just in case, she would have to watch for a few more hours.

Again, she said to herself that as more and more data came back, she felt a sense of pride in being the first mental model to explore the Oort Cloud, except that such an idea would never be shared to anyone else.

As for where this hobby of planet development came from, even she can't be sure, maybe it's her innate nature, maybe it's the master's subtlety, or maybe it's out of the love for the master.

In short, she must fulfill her duties and must not let her master down in herself. (To be continued.) )

PS: After thinking about it, it's still two chapters today, and tomorrow's one will wait until the weekend